There is a difference with BMW motorcycle people. I have BMW friends and HD friends. All of the BMW people I know are much more careful in this pandemic taking appropriate precautions and none of them thinking it is a hoax. The HD people I know, for the most part, think that any restrictions are an affront to their rights and refuse to mask up wherever they are. I currently own a 2003 HD Super Glide sport and I have owned two other HD's over the last 45 years. I bought the bikes not the life style.
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Originally posted by justjoe View PostMatt
Street: 2011 Ducati Multistrada S :: 2000 Honda VFR @ 39k :: 2002 BMW K1200RS @ 13k ... round 3
Track: 2008 Suzuki GSX-R 750 :: 2008 Honda CBR1000RR
Dirt: Honda CRF450X
IBA #25520 - Iron Butting the Blue Ridge Parkway
If loud pipes save lives, imagine what learning to ride that thing could do.Comment
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I heard of some sad news today.
One of the nurse practitioners I know well, so she got it, and her husband got it. Both recovered. Her mother got it from them? but 2 days later was hospitalized and did not make it.
Its dangerous for us in the health care trade.Chattanooga, TN
Certified Hooligan.
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One of my wife's brothers got it out in Arizona. He's in his mid fifties and was otherwise in good health, No risk factors. Anyway, in the hospital for 2 1/2 weeks and almost put on a respirator (not a good prognostic factor). He received antibody-rich plasma and that turned it around.Last edited by wildbears; 08-30-2020, 05:31 PM.
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Well, I guess one way to look at this is the Wuhan flu and every other virus that's come before it is that it's just one way nature culls the weakest from the world population? So why try to do anything about it? As Cuomo was overheard saying "They're old and going to die anyway." The [pick your poison version] flu kills people every year and though this new flu is a bit more deadly, seems more contagious, and seems to be throwing some interesting complications not seen with the previous flu viruses the point seems to be that well, we weren't wearing masks during flu season for the previous flu so why now? And, are we going to wear these things forever? Are we going to have hand sanitizer in our pocket for the rest of our lives? I agree that this is likely going to be with us for the rest of our lives. People are being born at a faster rate than people are catching the Wuhan Flu. Herd immunity - never going to happen in our lifetime..
Every time you see someone in public wearing a mask, you could look at it a couple of different ways. Hey, there goes another mindless sheep delaying the herd immunity; or, hey, there goes someone who is willing to suffer a slight inconvenience to protect the weakest among us from an early departure from this life - because isn't that what they're doing?
It sure looks to me like this virus, and every one of them that went before, is indeed with us for the rest of our lives. Maybe a vaccine will be effective, or only partially effective, or not permanent so we'll have to get a new flu shot every year? As someone that's never opted for a flu shot I guess my perspective on that is being challenged as well. I'm thinking that, over the next year or two we'll know a lot more about this Wuhan virus than we do now.
The question I'm asking myself is that if wearing a mask out in crowded public places during flu season for the rest of my life will actually save/prolong the lives of weaker people, isn't it something I'd want to do? Or is it OK, for my own convenience, if a few of the weak ones die off. Sure, just one person may not cause any deaths of weak people. But if we all felt that way and then wouldn't we'd be running out of ventilators and ICU beds during flu season like they did in Europe when this first started?
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400k attendees at Sturgis and so far 260 covid cases And 1 covid death attributed to it2022 R1250GS Rallye
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Even one death, is one too many! Someone should have saved that individual from themselves, they've probably been doing dangerously fun shit (like riding motorcycles) their entire lives while LIVING.Originally posted by Karlb View Post
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Street: 2011 Ducati Multistrada S :: 2000 Honda VFR @ 39k :: 2002 BMW K1200RS @ 13k ... round 3
Track: 2008 Suzuki GSX-R 750 :: 2008 Honda CBR1000RR
Dirt: Honda CRF450X
IBA #25520 - Iron Butting the Blue Ridge Parkway
If loud pipes save lives, imagine what learning to ride that thing could do.Comment
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Speaking of riding and Covid .....
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This won't happen to me
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