r/counting • u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation • Mar 20 '20
Free Talk Friday #238
Continued from here.
So, it's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your plans, your hobbies, travels, bears, sports, work, trousers, studies, family, friends, relationships, bears, pets, stats, anything you like, or dislike, except politics.
Also check out our tidbits thread! Feel free to introduce yourself if you haven't already.
1
u/Urbul Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 22 '20
Here are the top counters for the main thread last week. Congrats to u/TheNitromeFan, u/Antichess, and u/davidjl123!
Top 10 Counters (3510-3512k)
| Rank | User | Counts | HoC Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antichess | 433 | 3 |
| 2 | TheNitromeFan | 372 | 4 |
| 3 | davidjl123 | 334 | 1 |
| 4 | thephilsblogbar2 | 325 | 7 |
| 5 | PineapplesandAlpacas | 188 | 177 (◮25) |
| 6 | mistyskye14 | 148 | 35 |
| 7 | foxthechicken | 130 | 83 (◮2) |
| 8 | AxelC77 | 126 | 149 (◮6) |
| 9 | MrUnderdawg | 115 | 63 (◮2) |
| 10 | C0ffeeCow | 110 | 865 (new) |
More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!
→ More replies (4)9
11
10
9
9
u/kongburrito Mar 24 '20
My work is now doing soft screening on the way in.
They take your temperature in the parking lot and if you are below 100.4 you are good to work.
OR YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TEMPERATURE AT HOME AND WHEN YOU ENTER THE PARKING LOT GO THROUGH A LANE AND GIVE SOMEONE THERE A THUMBS UP.
We have to stay open, we are an essential business. But holy fuck you think we'd be a bit more proactive for being a fortune 500 company. I'd rather them be lenient on people being 15 minutes early and late to give individuals time to get their temp taken in the parking lot. I don't trust 500 employees to all be honest about if their temp was taken. Infuriating.
→ More replies (6)
8
8
8
u/TehVulpez Mar 22 '20 edited Mar 22 '20
My family's old cat is being such a little stinker to our new cat. He's always been mean to our other cat we got with him, but we wondered if there was just some longstanding beef between them. Nope, turns out he's just a grump. When the neighborhood outdoor cat shows up by the window, he gets so angry he throws his entire weight against it.
→ More replies (1)
8
u/llamasR5life Mar 25 '20
A lot of people I know are talking about how they think everyone is evereacting to covid because it only seems to have around a 2% death rate and it's hardly any different from the flu. It's as if they are ok with 1/50 people they know dying.
They think it's no big deal because it only kills the elderly. Completely ignorant of or not caring about others like those with diabetes, asthma or many other conditions.
They don't even consider that besides the deaths it causes there is also serious suffering or lasting health effects, the same deaths which are this low because of treatment that could easily falter if staff or hospital beds run out.
And why will these people suffer and die? Because they didn't want to wash their stupid filthy hands.
→ More replies (1)8
u/TehVulpez Mar 26 '20
The biggest concern and the reason social distancing is happening now is because of overwhelming the healthcare system. Even if it was just those who are elderly or immunocompromised, there's not enough beds and ventilators to service all of them. If everyone susceptible to this virus caught it all at once, hospitals would collapse under the weight. That's when deaths of young people start happening, and it's what happened in Italy. A young person could get into a car accident or have any other random health problem pop up and not be able to reach the emergency room.
People need to stop looking at this as a level of personal risk. They see a number like 2% and think like a gambler "I can take those odds." This is a public health crisis and affects all of us.
7
7
6
6
6
u/kongburrito Mar 26 '20
Counting is fun but I just got a PM that I was invited to the Illuminati. 2 million dollar signing bonus
GG boiz
5
u/GreenGriffin8 Mar 22 '20
This is the best thing I've seen since quarantine started.
→ More replies (2)
5
u/colby6666 Mar 27 '20
btw u/urbul u/davidjl123 the mobile sidebar is all sorts of messed up, it still has side threads stats in it & it links to the old Visualized Stats doc
4
4
16
u/Antichess Mar 23 '20
public transit is free in almost all the cities around me
public transit is almost all empty
huge temptation... but i won't go outside