CosmoKramer

Restaurants and Bars have lost over $25 Billion in just the past few weeks....many, MANY whom work in the service industry will not be eligible or getting unemployment...many are hard working undocumented and they too also work the farms getting food to our table....What will happen to them? How will they react and survive ? The “stimulus” claims to help small businesses with loans WITH interest to cover 2 months.....but Wall Street/Corporations/Banks are getting essentially a blank check with 0% interest. Rome is burning while the politicians save themselves and their cronies.

Exactly. And the news media’s constant non-stop 24/7 fear porn..err...coverage along with a lot of the gov ads and depressing corporate ads will take a huge toll mentally on many, weak or strong because you can’t avoid it unless you shut it off completely. With estimates of 30-40% US unemployment...how many will resort to violence to get necessities and how many will just give up and harm themselves. Fuck the virus, fuck the non-stop hysteria and fear-mongering from politicians and corporate-run media....we didn’t get here because our ancestors doused themselves and everything in hand sanitizer and false-comfort of distancing themselves from their friends and family during the Black Plague and 1918 flu pandemic....their immune systems are why we are here today. The infected elderly and immune-compromised need to be protected, yes, but if we all sanitizing ourselves physically/social/mentally is far more threatening and dangerous.

Just watched a good segment on my local news about getting back to doing “Victory Gardens” and if you can to grown your own fruits and veggies to hedge this uncertainty then it’s good to get started now. We can prevent any mass chaos if we start educating each other on being more self-sufficient, food/water-wise, energy-wise..even getting back to old school bartering (there are apps). Beyond the normal gas/propain genenrator...I think everyone should get an rechargeable power pack that can supply a good amount of electric power and be charged by exhibiting outlets, and more importantly SOLAR...because, it hedges the issue of any gas supply line constraints.

And not to sound like a alarmist but nothing is too “crazy” to happen anymore....imagine if for some reason the power goes out in rolling blackouts...as well as issues with cell/internet connections.....

I guess if you’re 71 and at the top of the elite food-chain...you only need 7 days of quarantine and you’re all good to go... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52088684

Yeah, not very impressive, bummer.

0.25mm is fine, even 0.5mm is fine, grafts are places between 3-5mm deep so unless to go rough and tear up your scalp you’re unlikely to harm the grafts even now with 0.25/0.5mm.

My takeaway from their blog post was it seemed to give a positive “shout-out” to this forum and how its the only responsible source for honest opinions/reviews...then add that they as a new clinic want to mimic this forums ethic in their clinic.. Interesing enough, I saw their site and this clinic is now the old ASMED clinic where I had my HT...looks like they took over with everything in place once ASMED moved into their new home last year.

While I agree with @Rolandas‘s & Melvin’s comment that you should consult with your clinic first, I would say about 4-6 after an HT should be fine if you are just starting microneedling and using a low caliber needle roller/stamp/pen such as 0.25-0.5mm no more than 1-2 times a week, to just aid in better blood circulation and better absorption of Minoxidil. One thing I noticed is that when I microneedling with my HT I noticed very little scalp pimples of blocked grafts/follicles from sebum or dandruff which was a positive.

Myself personally, I had 2 big growth spurts, months 4-6 then months 8-9 and a slightly a bit more new hair growth here and there in places like my hairline. By the way, your progress looks pretty good for almost 4months, being a good healer likely contributes to being a fast grower IMHO.

I agree with @Melvin-Moderator, the natural hairline framing of your face is important, I have seen lots of cases of guys with very good density (due to 4-5k grafts used up) but bad and unnatural looking hairlines. That, said, I think it looks good and way better than pre-op...could the density be better, honestly yes, with around another 1,000-1,500 spread around in your frontal third it could get you there...but as you yourself said that you seemed to be a slow progressor, so if by month 18-24 you may see slight improvement, I’m 21 months now and finally feel as if the ht hairs are mimicking my native hair that I had. Looking forward to your next update!

Sorry to hear of your condition and situation, I hope you stay healthy! Ive told family and friends weeks before and I believe I’ve mention it on this forum, but if possible please get yourself some easily digestible vitamin C powder or other natural supplements high in vitamin C and antioxidants such at green tea and matcha powder (best source of antioxidants), as I posted, China administered doses of vitamin C intravenously and successfully and now even here in NYC large hospitals are doing the same with success, even the main stream media is now reporting on it. Be well. https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/new-york-hospitals-treating-coronavirus-patients-with-vitamin-c/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=message_app

I see some nice progress to be honest...and in the photos of where you have the hair brushed back it looks like the transplanted hairs a thin compared to you native hairs..which is normal...so you still have more time for them to possibly double in diameter and thickness.

https://ncov2019.live/data

In statistical terms...if 1% of the global population contracted the virus and died, that’s 76,000,000 people...compared to the likely mass global disruption/starvation/violence etc that could reach 20% or more of the global population, some 1.5 Billion people at the least. Current global death toll: 16,500 Its very obvious that those whom think they are thinking rationally, are not.

If this devolves into another Great Depression or worse...it will be the result of inept politicians with the assistance of the media’s hysteria....I don’t give a flying f@ck if anyone gets their feelings hurt at the bluntness of my comments...we are at a breaking point in our collective civilization, I could care less about being “politically correct”.

You are misconstruing my comparison (which now is much much worse than the Y2K panacea), it is not about the actual “harm” but the level of panic and fear the happened and is happening now, stop trying to insinuate anything different, it hurts your credibility. You have to ask yourself...why, in a 1st world and wealthy nation such as Italy that they don’t have their shit together, with almost the world highest population of elderly people that their healthcare system is so ill prepared, yet have highly educated doctors and top medical equipment (and why not more of it)?...Corruption by leaders?...why is this mainly affecting the wealthy Northen part?....why, as it’s common knowledge and stated by the dude in Joe’s podcast above, that many of the population are heavy smokers or were and have dibelitating underlying respiratory conditions, how compared to other surrounding nations such as the Balkins with some old and heavy smokers in population that they are not as hard hit?... As for comparison, India has 1.34 billion people living in very close and packed quarters with also many generations in one home and sadly many slums...and as of current moment their invefection & mortality rate is very very low..waaay lower even compared to other parts of Europe and NYC... You should ask yourself how many people will die from the fear and insanity created as a side effect of this virus!...what will you say when food and necessitie supplies run dry and people get desperate, with no job no income no food, resort to violence to get what they need for their families????? Ask yourself how many of the already living poor will die of starvation???....ask yourself what will you do when you run out of money reserves and food to support your family if lockdowns and shutdowns are still in place for weeks and months as politicians are suggesting??? Ask yourself what will the mental health state of the nations population be after being psychologically beaten down into isolation, darkness, and dispare??...how many may commit suicide or harm their family and friends or stranger because of the mental and financial strain???? Sorry not sorry and bluntly...We are at the cusp of actual doomsday scenario for billions of people to suffer greatly due to the insane panacea over a small percentage that are or could be affected by some virus that will pass and will have a treatment like the others....but you see this as micro level and not the ramafications on the macro.

You make some fair points, some...the thing is we do not know what is true and what is not with China, I do not believe my points are “laughable”...time will show which is more likely the case.

Not really, China will benefit even moreso as they extend their foothold further around the globe, what they loose in export business temporarily is not an issue, and a bearable loss, when they’ve amassed a huge financial/cash/gold/resources war chest, they’re self-sufficient if need be and they will just sit by and wait for all others to collapse then swoop in for the prime opportunity's since the discounts will be rock bottom and the despiration high among the suffering. Theyve borrowed billions yearly from the world bank and at the top of the list, why when they have trillions in cash reserves...because it makes it easy to prevent other nations from borrowing from the development fund. Imagine your wealthy neighbor constantly borrowing money from your bank a zero percent interest to purposely prevent you and others from getting loans to buy homes/business etc. so that their own finance company can lend it to you at high rates that you could not afford. No one has to make sense of my “rationale”...the near future will show what will happen.

As I previously commented on what I had heard about the rationing of healthcare in Italy by their panel of “three wise men” at hospitals..and why the death rates are so high (from this virus or other heath conditions)...well, now it’s being reported as fact and not conspiracy theory. If you are in Italy, don’t leave your elderly loved ones side, ask questions, demand answers, demand accountability and get them and get them to take pure sources of vitamin C/vitamin D/Iron and other immunity boosters if they are not in the hospital as a preventative measure. https://m.jpost.com/International/Israeli-doctor-in-Italy-We-no-longer-help-those-over-60-621856

I’m going to refrain from calling you an idiot...or others that can’t fathom or comprehend what I’ve said because as this insanity keeps unfolding at some point you may realize all is not as what is claimed. I think as those like you whom think what may sound like an impossibility today that when it’s a reality tomorrow (just as everything we’ve seen go down) and you start to suffer from having lost your employment and income and lack food and supplies and easily give up your civil liberties on a silver platter for a false sense of security...then you’ll find yourself in dispair with a lack of meme to find funny.

As PT Barnum once said...”a sucker is born every minute”... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CnmMNdiCz_s

While that’s a hilarious meme...I bet you and the other brainwashed & blinder wearers would have used the same if a month or two ago I would have said that the you and everyone would be in a gov mandated lockdown, not allowed to go to restaurants or bars or gyms or basically anywhere other than your four-walls, and that there would be no jobs or income and a mad rush for toilet paper...funny how that works out.

Lol, what a gullible brainwashed dipshit you are, seriously, absolutely devoid of any kind of independent thought and it’s obvious you’re that type the can follow orders perfectly. Im healthy both mind and body, you on the other hand sound like a weakling and if you were any kind of intelligent you’d know what Darwin said will happen of the weak. People in their 30’s are not now dying you fear mongering dolt.