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Author Topic: Perspective Tiptree Administrator Member # 844 posted 03-14-2020 04:12 PM                     I urge y'all to take a look at this infographic. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/ -------------------- Tiptree “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson Posts: 13628 | From: Terre Haute, IN | Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged MountainMafia Player Member # 2066 posted 03-14-2020 08:24 PM                    Yeah, but.... Link -------------------- "It's amazing what you can accomplish when nobody cares who gets the credit"....Tubby Smith after winning 1998 National Title. Posts: 4694 | From: Alabama | Registered: Aug 2003  |  IP: Logged rlt4uk Player Member # 3194 posted 03-18-2020 12:46 AM                    Informative reading, thanks to both of you. -------------------- Bleeding Blue in south Alabama. Kentucky born, Kentucky bred,I'll be kentucky until i'm dead! Posts: 9799 | From: enterprise, al 36330 | Registered: Sep 2010  |  IP: Logged PaulCat Player Member # 513 posted 03-18-2020 07:31 AM                    With all the closings and shutdowns, are we as a nation stopping the virus, or just slowing down the inevitable? If the answer is that we're just slowing it down, is that worse for the economy or better? Everything I've read tells me this virus is (for the most part) just lethal to people with underlying health conditions, same as many other viruses that have been around for years. Posts: 10347 | From: Erlanger, Ky. USA | Registered: Mar 2000  |  IP: Logged clydeh Player Member # 7 posted 03-18-2020 08:26 AM                     I have an appointment to see my regular doctor at 10:30 this morning for a follow-up of a myocardial infarction that happened in December. I would usually not be concerned about this, even in the flu season, but all the news and hype has me concerned. I do plan on going to the appointment, but I will not pick up magazines or the Bible in the waiting room to read while I am there. I did have the Asian flu in 1957 when I was in college at Harding College in Arkansas, and had no complications, but many of us were hospitalized because we were living in dorms and had no one to care for us otherwise Posts: 845 | From: Cullman, AL, USA | Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged clydeh Player Member # 7 posted 03-19-2020 02:40 PM                     There were no other patients in his waiting room. He said many people were concerned about the virus and were not coming to see him. Posts: 845 | From: Cullman, AL, USA | Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged MountainMafia Player Member # 2066 posted 03-19-2020 04:30 PM                    Can't say I blame 'em....Doc probably don't either. -------------------- "It's amazing what you can accomplish when nobody cares who gets the credit"....Tubby Smith after winning 1998 National Title. Posts: 4694 | From: Alabama | Registered: Aug 2003  |  IP: Logged handycat Player Member # 2323 posted 03-19-2020 04:41 PM                     Dr Clyde, hope your appointment went well. [ 03-19-2020, 04:42 PM: Message edited by: handycat ] Posts: 5409 | From: decatur ill. | Registered: Feb 2005  |  IP: Logged clydeh Player Member # 7 posted 03-19-2020 07:35 PM                     Thanks, Handycat. He says I am doing well enough, but he just does not want me to do anything much. Posts: 845 | From: Cullman, AL, USA | Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged Tiptree Administrator Member # 844 posted 03-19-2020 10:51 PM                     Good news, Clydeh. My local healthcare group has cancelled most routine appointments, the affiliated hospital has a black quarantine 'testing' tent in the parking lot, and they just confirmed the first case of COVID-19 today. We are preparing for the apocolypse here in Terre Haute, Indiana. -------------------- Tiptree “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson Posts: 13628 | From: Terre Haute, IN | Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged clydeh Player Member # 7 posted 03-20-2020 11:14 AM                     I was a student at Harding College in Arkansas in 1957 when the Asian flu was a big problem. Those of us who got the flu and were living in the dorms were hospitalized because we had no one to care for us. I don't think the United States made such a major reaction as now, but it might have been a good idea. Posts: 845 | From: Cullman, AL, USA | Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged m hamilton Player Member # 127 posted 03-20-2020 06:20 PM                     Clyde, I'm not the greatest mathematician in the world, but that easily puts you up into your 80's? -------------------- The potus is planning 1st major tax hike since '93 in next economic package! I still can't believe some people believed that LIAR!!! Your whole life is determined(by) 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you handle it!!! Posts: 123991 | From: vevay, IN USA | Registered: Sep 1999  |  IP: Logged Old Norm Administrator Member # 1482 posted 03-20-2020 06:42 PM                     I know exactly where Harding College is. When I go trout fishing near Heber Springs, I pass right by there. The town name is Searcy, but unless you pronounce it 'Sircy', the locals look at you like you are from another planet! I used to go 4 or 5 times a year, but since Millie is legally blind and can't drive, I can't leave her alone. I can get her sister or one of our daughters to come stay with her once or twice a year now. I plan on going next month if this danged virus has died down. -------------------- Pray For Our Country! Posts: 36271 | From: Western KY | Registered: Aug 2001  |  IP: Logged ukcatfannfl Player Member # 1425 posted 03-20-2020 06:53 PM                     According to graphics posted elsewhere on tcd, the Asian flu killed up to 1.1 million worldwide.. -------------------- ukcatfannfl Posts: 8771 | From: Inverness, FL | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged clydeh Player Member # 7 posted 03-20-2020 10:24 PM                     I am now eighty and will be eighty-one next month if I am still alive then. Harding is a private school and my parents would usually not have the funds to send me to a private school. However, the tuition at that time was cheap and I did not know why until just recently. Posts: 845 | From: Cullman, AL, USA | Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged Tiptree Administrator Member # 844 posted 03-21-2020 08:28 AM                     I have a former colleague who graduated from Harding. I also know Harding professionally, as they use the software that I also supported in my role at Rose-Hulman (and I still support as a consultant). Very nice college, highly regarded. Why was the tuition cheap, Clydeh? -------------------- Tiptree “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson Posts: 13628 | From: Terre Haute, IN | Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged clydeh Player Member # 7 posted 03-21-2020 10:54 AM                     Tip, I didn't know this information about Harding until a few years ago. I enjoy listening to the Harding chorus and can find them on the internet. One time I searched for the chorus, and when I clicked the name Harding chorus, a site came up entitled "Harding and Elvis". Harding was a very conservative school when I was a student there, and I wondered if the school had been opposed to Elvis in some way. However, when I later read the article, I learned that Harding owned a radio station in Memphis, and they had a young disc jockey and he played a song by Elvis before he was popular. Apparently this created much publicity for the station, and Harding sold it in 1954 for 3 million dollars. That was a huge amount of money at that time, and I assume that Harding used that money to decrease tuition. I now jokingly tell people that Elvis sent me to Harding. Posts: 845 | From: Cullman, AL, USA | Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged Tiptree Administrator Member # 844 posted 03-21-2020 11:31 AM                     Ha! Great story. Yes, a $3M endowment in 1957 invested conservatively could be worth about $2.8B today. That could power a small college for a long, long time. -------------------- Tiptree “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson Posts: 13628 | From: Terre Haute, IN | Registered: Sep 2000  |  IP: Logged MEL Player Member # 141 posted 03-21-2020 07:07 PM                    I hope that disk jockey got a nice raise !!! MEL [ 03-21-2020, 07:07 PM: Message edited by: MEL ] Posts: 2795 | From: Greeley, CO, USA | Registered: Sep 1999  |  IP: Logged clydeh Player Member # 7 posted 03-21-2020 07:40 PM                     I don't know any of the details but he deserved a raise if he was still around. I was surprised when I saw the site "Harding and Elvis" that Harding did not protest or do something negative. I was a fan of Elvis at that time, but I didn't know anything about this history. Posts: 845 | From: Cullman, AL, USA | Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged

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