the one tournament...and i vowed to never go to another....i went to ?....summa the ppl there were unkempt icky. So. decide for urself.
iows, if they cant givvit to u ?....then no one can.
How safe is it to go to tournaments right now?
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lfPatriotGames wrote:
As someone else said, everyone reacts differently. I like to think of preventing the spread of the virus as sensible and reasonable. Others call it "panic" and "public menace". I look at it no differently than any other health or safety issue, if someone can and wants to protect themselves, they should.
If suddenly there is a severe drought and a fire becomes more and more likely, some people here would call buying a fire extinguisher "panic". It's only panic if you dont need it. If you need it to put out and prevent the fire from spreading, then it's sensible and reasonable. Everyone is different.
Lol, okay, lots of people are moral relativists, but that just takes the cake.
Everyone thinks that stopping the spread of the virus is sensible and reasonable. That in no way means that any action one may decide to take with that intention is right or reasonable. If someone spreads a rumor that flapping your arms like a bird when approaching someone wards off the virus and people 3 states away from the nearest outbreak start to do it though, that is not sensible, nor reasonable.
Buying a fire extinguisher is a bad analogy, because fire extinguishers are meant for public use and are not in severely short supply at the moment. Morally, It's more like someone in a wildfire area driving to a local firehouse, sneaking in and stealing a firehose while some official is on a loudspeaker outside saying "please don't steal any firehoses, you don't need one for personal use, it won't really help you and will actually harm you and everyone else in your area if everyone has stolen them all when a wildfire comes", then planting themselves at the nearest fire hydrant to their house with a 9mm and telling passersby "back off, I have a right to protect myself and my own interests, it's sensible and reasonable to be afraid for myself and my family".
Everyone *is* different, though, you got that part right.
Mar 3, 2020
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WSama a écrit :
Morphys-Revenge wrote:
WSama wrote:
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
That's what post 142 was pointing out WSama......people who live from paycheck to paycheck just can't afford to get sick. So the're gonna go to work even if they have the flu.
Right, right. I sort of missed it.
I think it's a very serious issue. Perhaps the only solution is to declare a state of emergency and make it mandatory to get a check-up at local designated spots.
I can see it now, tournament directors will have to give on the spot complete physicals to all players and then issue them an all clear card in order to participate in the tourney. That should prove interesting.
I think it would be interesting. A pre-tournament quarantine of sorts. Considering how the death toll just hit 3000, I think a little melodrama could've saved some lives.
It's 3000 death on 83 000 reported cases but there is for sure 4 or 5 times that many because the tests are only starting now in very few country (5 or 6)and the virus is already in the USA since 4 to 6 weeks!.
No test = no reported case and no death from it.
And that is not counting that China and Iran + all the middle east and Africa there their number cannot be trusted.
Quasimorphy wrote:
I can understand people buying some extra supplies, but what i don't understand are people loading up on bottled water. Are they really so scared that they think it will get so bad that it disrupts the water supply? I can't see that happening, but maybe i'm missing something.
Maybe it will run out from the increased hand washing.
sex without kissing, then. It is ok to me
Mar 3, 2020
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congrandolor wrote:
sex without kissing, then. It is ok to me
You don't love her bro. But that's OK.
1e41-0 wrote:
One would think that those getting sick would be smart enough to stay home from a non-vital event like a chess tournament. One would think.
The trouble is that the sick don't know they are sick.
The incubation period is 2 - 3 weeks; that's the most troubling part.
It is in my city now.
HHS clarifies US has about 1% of face masks needed for ‘full-blown’ pandemic...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/hhs-clarifies-us-has-about-1percent-of-face-masks-needed-for-full-blown-pandemic.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/3m-ramps-up-n95-respirator-production-amid-global-coronavirus-outbreak.html
congrandolor wrote:
sex without kissing, then. It is ok to me
says everything about u
"Relax, guys. Worst case scenario, everybody dies. No biggie".......... I can live with that...
Thee_Ghostess_Lola wrote:
congrandolor wrote:
sex without kissing, then. It is ok to me
says everything about u
Maybe Dolores left because of that?😢
Mar 4, 2020
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Just wash your hands and don’t touch your face. Nobody touches their face at a tournament, right?
BlackKaweah wrote:
Just wash your hands and don’t touch your face. Nobody touches their face at a tournament, right?
The average person touches their face once every 3 minutes. So unless you are Donald Trump, who claims to have not touched his face once in weeks (he is incredibly disciplined, you know...he can go without blinking for 7 hours can hold his breath for 22 minutes, all while making the stock market rise single-handed through pure force of will...) assume that you are touching your face everywhere you go.
Mar 4, 2020
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btickler wrote:
BlackKaweah wrote:
Just wash your hands and don’t touch your face. Nobody touches their face at a tournament, right?
The average person touches their face once every 3 minutes. So unless you are Donald Trump, who claims to have not touched his face once in weeks (he is incredibly disciplined, you know...he can go without blinking for 7 hours can hold his breath for 22 minutes, all while making the stock market rise single-handed through pure force of will...) assume that you are touching your face everywhere you go.
He is also a very stable genius.
Everybody will be showing up to tournaments like THIS...
I imagine the biggest risk to public health right now are those individuals who like to hide the fact they're ill. This is one situation where we actually need people to overreact, so to speak.
In many cases they are not hiding it. That's the point. As we are now seeing many people have become infected, and spread it, without even knowing it. My guess is some people have had it, are over it, and never even knew they had it. I think a big part of the confusion is that if it hasn't happened to you, someone you know, or near you then it's not going to happen or it seems far off and not real. In our area it's here. So when we learn new things it heightens awareness. Some people are very put off by this new awareness and want to remain in denial. I just think it makes sense to learn as much as possible and take the precautions necessary. For example, I wouldn't do it, but I totally understand why some people are stockpiling food and bottled water. It's not that they think grocery stores will close or water supplies will be cut. It's because if they have to isolate themselves because they have the virus they dont want to expose other people. I think that's very considerate and commendable.
If only people were so sensible and thoughtful... I don't want to sound pessimistic, but I guess instead they just want to be ready for an apocalypsis. At least many of them.
As someone else said, everyone reacts differently. I like to think of preventing the spread of the virus as sensible and reasonable. Others call it "panic" and "public menace". I look at it no differently than any other health or safety issue, if someone can and wants to protect themselves, they should.
If suddenly there is a severe drought and a fire becomes more and more likely, some people here would call buying a fire extinguisher "panic". It's only panic if you dont need it. If you need it to put out and prevent the fire from spreading, then it's sensible and reasonable. Everyone is different.