COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (11 Viewers)

[saintmdterps]

I took my drivers licenses test in a 69 pontiac tempest with a 3 speed on the column. Parallel parking that thing wasn't fun,but
I managed to pull it off and passed.

My dad made me take my drivers license test in our '74 Mercury Colony Park station wagon, complete with wood-grain sides. Fugly. I thought I'd get to use his Datsun B-210

 

[faceman]

My dad made me take my drivers license test in our '74 Mercury Colony Park station wagon, complete with wood-grain sides. Fugly. I thought I'd get to use his Datsun B-210

The Tempest was my grandfathers car at the time. he traded it in a year later for a 73 Gran Torino wagon with the same wood
panel siding. It got 7 MPG. The gas needle would drop after making a turn lol

 

[saintmdterps]

Think of the discussion like a 1964 Buick Skylark in the mud. You should know that the 1964 Buick Skylark has a limited slip differential where the engine distributes power to the left and the right tires equally. And as anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama will tell you, when you press on the gas, 1 tire spins, and the other tire does nothing. If it helps to visualize, the Buick Skylark would be in metallic mint-green paint.

Get you a rear-end with a locker

 

[SaintRob]

My dad made me take my drivers license test in our '74 Mercury Colony Park station wagon, complete with wood-grain sides. Fugly. I thought I'd get to use his Datsun B-210

'77 Datsun B210 was my first car. Forest Green hatchback with bee hive hubcaps and an 8-Track player. I had to buy a cassette converter for to play cassettes.

 

[brandon8283]

This right here... This is what I am talking about. Too many - "my way or wrong way attitudes".... It makes for the no real meaningful discussion.

Do you believe there’s such thing as right and wrong when it comes to current recommendations for preventing the spread of coronavirus?

Because if you do, then the meaningful discussion you seek necessitates contrasting which methods for prevention are supported by science and which methods are not.

And if you don’t believe there’s a right and wrong on these recommendations, then meaningful discussion necessitates that I, and other posters, point out that you are, in fact, wrong on this topic. Again, only one side is wrong here, and you are on it. There’s nothing about “meaningful discussion” that requires we give equal weight to unequal arguments.

I realize that I’ve given you way too many options to latch on to to obfuscate and twist into “both sides” nonsense, but for the good of this forum, I must point out that you are not a poster anyone should listen to for sound advice. At this point, your misinformation is no better than that of a Russian troll farm.

Normally when dealing with you, I try to keep my answers as concise as possible, with limited opportunities for you to twist my language, but I feel that after that last sequence, your posts deserve to be called out at length and in their entirety as misinformation.

It bears mentioning again that when I typically post in reply to you, I’m very careful in how I write so as to actively avoid giving you opportunities to respond. Your responses actively detract from the meaningful discussion you claim to seek.

Apologies to SBTB. I’ll refrain from posting further on his posts unless they again delve into a disinformation campaign.

 

[saintmdterps]

'77 Datsun B210 was my first car. Forest Green hatchback with bee hive hubcaps and an 8-Track player. I had to buy a cassette converter for to play cassettes.

Yep, that was my dad's, only Navy Blue. 5-speed and he let me put a cassette deck in it.

Sorry for the thread jack but gearheads gotta be gearheads

 

[SaintJ]

I took my drivers licenses test in a 69 pontiac tempest with a 3 speed on the column. Parallel parking that thing wasn't fun,but
I managed to pull it off and passed.

Three on the tree!

 

[J.T.]

Looks like the bad news in Europe is actually accelerating. Even Germany is feeling the strain. (They are a huge canary in the coal mine.)

"Europe set a record this week for new coronavirus infections, overtaking the United States in cases per capita, and a top World Health Organization official warned on Thursday that death rates on the continent this winter could be five times worse than the April peak if people are not strict about masks and social distancing.

The WHO is seeing “exponential increases” in daily cases in Europe, said Hans Kluge, the agency’s director for the continent, noting that at 8,000 deaths a day, covid-19 is now Europe’s fifth-leading cause of death. In just the past 10 days, a million new coronavirus cases have been recorded in Europe, raising the total since the start of the pandemic to 7 million in the WHO’s 53 European member countries." (I believe this story has a typo online, it should be 800 deaths per day. I just caught this, it should not be 8,000, as written in the story.)

"The alarm echoed warnings from London to Latvia that the virus is rapidly spiraling out of control. France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Croatia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic all posted records Thursday. "

" Although Europe’s earlier embrace of shutdowns was held up as a global model for how to rein in the virus, there is little appetite for a repeat of that strategy. " “We cannot afford, economically, to have a second wave with the same consequences that occurred in the spring,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose country on Thursday posted a record 6,638 new infections. “That means we have to do everything we can to keep the infection numbers under control and to trace the contacts.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/covid-europe-records/2020/10/15/0126c256-0ee7-11eb-b404-8d1e675ec701_story.html

" France’s new infections set a 24-hour record, rising above 30,000 for the first time since the start of the epidemic. There were a total of 30,621 new Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, up on Wednesday’s 22,591, taking the cumulative number of cases to 809,684. On Wednesday, the French president Emmanuel Macron ordered a nightly curfew in Paris and eight other big cities where the coronavirus is actively spreading. "

"The UK government’s flagship policy for tackling the coronavirus in England descended into chaos after mayors and MPs from the north-west of the country emphatically rejected being moved into the highest lockdown level and accused ministers of treating the region with contempt."

"Europe has recorded its highest ever weekly number of new Covid-19 cases, the World Health Organization has said, warning that without effective countermeasures daily death rates could reach four or five times their April peak within months."

13,300 new infections in Spain – as it happened

This blog is now closed. We’ve launched a new blog at the link below:

www.theguardian.com

 

[saintmdterps]

We now have 4 positive patients in our facility and one positive staff member. We dodged the bullet for a long time, but I fear the results of Mondays round of testing, which we may have back tomorrow.

 

[StudioSaint]

Apologies to SBTB. I posted this before I saw your post. I will say no more in this particular discussion.

I am not (and never) saying it should stand for all time - If you guys read all my posts - You'd know that.

I've read all of your posts. When you constantly cry "they lied to us," you are either implying that you either don't understand or are ignoring the fact that our knowledge of the virus has changed, therefore changing our recommendations and response to it.

I am pointing out the the reason why so many people have trust issues with what they get from people like Faucci, The CDC, The WHO, USSG, etc.

What you're actually doing is pointing out the excuses that people who refuse to wear masks are using to justify not wearing masks. Most of those people made up their minds about what they would and wouldn't do long before Faucci said anything. Most of those people have been more influenced by what the president has said, than what anyone else has said, including Faucci.

You choosing to wrongly rail against Faucci, as being primarily responsible for the non-wearing mask crowd, betrays and undermines your claims that you haven't taken a side on this issue.

The message has been inconsistent at best, and likely Lies along the way if you are being 100% honest with yourself.

Let's be very clear what you are doing with this statement. You are contextually and passive aggressively accusing anyone, who doesn't agree with your perceptions and opinions, as being dishonest with themselves and therefore others. You either genuinely believe that or you are just using it as a pesonal attack to try to dimiss everyone who disagrees with you, either one will get push back from the people you hurl the accusation at.

And this brow beating here people administer when others are less than willing to follow the fife .... Is unwarranted, or at least questionable.

You know what else is unwarranted? Constantly suggesting that the posters who disagree with you are either being dishonest or they are blindly following other people "like dumb, driven cattle."

People are responding to you in the same tone that you use with them. Live by the browbeating die by the browbeating.

Sanctimonious behavior is neither credible nor convincing. If someone is honestly and sincerely trying to be an informative man to people, they shouldn't shroud themselves in sanctimony. They should also try to avoid citing sources that are known for spreading disinformation. There's a big difference between being a man who shares information and one who pushes disinformation.

 

[Goatman Saint]

Think of the discussion like a 1964 Buick Skylark in the mud. You should know that the 1964 Buick Skylark has a limited slip differential where the engine distributes power to the left and the right tires equally. And as anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama will tell you, when you press on the gas, 1 tire spins, and the other tire does nothing. If it helps to visualize, the Buick Skylark would be in metallic mint-green paint.

Sorry. But you got the wrong series. The 61-63 Pontiac Tempest/Skylark had a corvette independent rear end with the wishbone drivetrain. It was pretty unique and really cutting edge in a lot of ways for the early 60’s.
In 1964, the Chevrolet, Tempest/ Lemans, Skylark, and Cutlass all went to your standard solid axle, rigid driveshaft that stayed the same basic design until rear wheel drive was phased out in the 80s.
Also a limited slip differential distributes the power equally, unlike your example. That’s an open rear end that puts the power to the least resistance. A limited slip will smoke both tires in the higher horsepower engines in the GTO, 4-4-2, GS and SS.
You had your My Cousin Vinnie mixed up and the best female lead ever would be sadly disappointed in you

 

[gboudx]

Sorry. But you got the wrong series. The 61-63 Pontiac Tempest/Skylark had a corvette independent rear end with the wishbone drivetrain. It was pretty unique and really cutting edge in a lot of ways for the early 60’s.
In 1964, the Chevrolet, Tempest/ Lemans, Skylark, and Cutlass all went to your standard solid axle, rigid driveshaft that stayed the same basic design until rear wheel drive was phased out in the 80s.
Also a limited slip differential distributes the power equally, unlike your example. That’s an open rear end that puts the power to the least resistance. A limited slip will smoke both tires in the higher horsepower engines in the GTO, 4-4-2, GS and SS.
You had your My Cousin Vinnie mixed up and the best female lead ever would be sadly disappointed in you

ok you got me. here’s ur cookie.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[Goatman Saint]

ok you got me. here’s ur cookie.

I have a 66 GTO I know these things. And to this day I’d sell my soul for Mona Lisa Vito

 

[faceman]

I have a 66 GTO I know these things. And to this day I’d sell my soul for Mona Lisa Vito

Designed by John Delorean/ Yes that same man who designed the car in the back to the future series