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The General [Coronavirus] Discussion Thread Mk II
Bogart
Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Given the volume of discussion around this topic, we're gonna be doing things a bit differently until further notice. Instead of one thread, we'll be using two and a half threads.
This should help us have some readable threads, given the current volume of posts.
I'll be using my move posts powers occasionally, to keep things where they belong, so don't be surprised if that happens.
Burrack made a thread for lockdown resources, so you might want to look at that as well.
- An updates and information thread. News about response efforts, updates on the spread of the virus, new resources to keep track of news, political developments directly related to the virus, etc. No rumors, no twitter randos, do your best to make sure it's verified information before posting to this thread.
- A general coronavirus discussion thread. How things are happening in your town, how you're doing, how your family is doing, and other things you don't think go into the updates thread this goes in the general thread.
- The existing chat thread. There are lots of 'fun' or interesting things, posts tangentially related to the disease, cool videos, twitter posts, etc, that aren't news, or really something to discuss. Feel free to post them in the existing chat thread, because it's there for you, even if you don't usually post there. They're not all bad people. It's there, you might as well use it.
This should help us have some readable threads, given the current volume of posts.
I'll be using my move posts powers occasionally, to keep things where they belong, so don't be surprised if that happens.
Burrack made a thread for lockdown resources, so you might want to look at that as well.
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If you were lying you surely wouldn’t say something like that out loud, when it could be easily disproven. But in the age of trump brazen rewriting of history and gaslighting is just the norm
But Jesus Christ that is maddening. Ignorance is no excuse when you have access to experts and the information and just refuse to listen or make the effort.
It’s basically a criminal dereliction of duty if true
The rate of alarmingly corrupt and harmful situations this admin creates in a typical week when we don't have a pandemic on our hands is bad enough. Lately it seems like there is barely time to report on and take in any particular crisis before another just as bad or worse is blowing up across headlines everywhere. The usual moving target and too many escalating horrors assault but now with a virus and election desperations thrown in the mix.
(Sorry that became such a rant)
Well it's 20+20, I'm just saying
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-campaign-tells-surrogates-paint-biden-opposition-coronavirus-war-n1174506 Isn't the opposition in a war against the virus the freaking virus?
Can't find an English source. French maybe?
http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/des-masques-commandes-par-la-france-rachetes-au-pied-des-avions-par-les-americains-01-04-2020-8292483.php
The virus isn't the opposition, it's the battlefield.
Oklahoma's confirmed cases and deaths are on the rise with no peak yet seen, of course. We have finally gotten drive thru testing labs setup but only in 3 specific cities, none in the big ones like okc or Tulsa. What i am curious about is if they can actually get to testing 750k per week nation wide or not, since they mention that physicians can give the tests to their patients but not necessarily report them. It seems like a good environment to under report.
Does anyone actually believe that
I'm so damn exhausted
They won't.
On the contrary, now is the perfect time to push for cuts. After all, the system will soon be so overwhelmed it will be too expensive to operate. If you cut costs now (by reducing coverage and forcing people to die in the street) you can prevent that from happening.
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No. May 25th will be like, Washington state having probably lifted the shelter in place order, but still keeping a cap on gatherings over 50 or 100 people. But our peak here is expected to be April 21. Which means you have at least 6-8 weeks for things to die back down after that.
Back to normal I doubt it, but by then we definitely should have reached the apex and be in steady decline of new cases
Instead we have some states that are barely doing anything and at least two saying churches should just go ahead with Easter services, too much competition for too few supplies, and a federal government who is sabotaging efforts to fix things while pretending things are going great.
I'll consider ourselves lucky to be able to get back to something resembling normal by the end of summer.
Sirens at all hours in NYC right now. In addition to the sirens, for the past few days, there have been helicopters landing and taking off somewhere near me. At all hours. They could be airlifting patients between hospitals to deal with being overloaded or something. I have no idea.
And I'm seeing news reports of people in Florida defying stay at home orders and claiming this is a fake pandemic. What a load of bullshit.
I've started to look forward to the daily 7 PM yell-a-thon where we all yell out our windows and bang pots for the healthcare shift change. Can't even leave my apartment to go for a walk, I'm started to get bored of video games. VIDEO GAMES!
You can still go outside, as long as you maintain distance between yourself and other people
It truly is the end
6.6 Million.
Fuck. And I be it's going to keep rising. I wouldn't be surprised if we hit 10 million soon as more and more companies start feeling the effects.
Prepare for a new round of "We got to start the economy back up!" talk.
Same, the mailroom here at Metlife has had all of maybe 20 packages arrive all of this week and no one is here to sign for them anyway so they're just collecting dust. I could make a killer fort out of them if I wanted.
Only reason we're even here when the rest if tbe buildings are empty is because the mail couriers keep running. So long as they continue to operate, my job is secure.
I don't doubt that a significant amount of the people I assume are working at home were actually just cut instead, which is super shitty.
(My "job" is basically now just reading The Dragon Republic and playing Amimal Crossing on lunch breaks)
Yes, really:
Of course that it was a paranoid lunatic:
I’m woefully ignorant here...a dude with that level of paranoia is able to operate trains?
Also one of my warehouse guys is at home with his girlfriend because she started running a fever last night and has been vomiting. So I'll be covering for him as well it seems.
Both of these people live across the state line in Georgia so credit goes to Brian Kemp for dragging his ass as much as possible.
It is my understanding that to operate a train you tend to be away from home even more than truckers, and often just stranded waiting out in the wilderness for hours/days for a shift swap or repair part.
That's... ambitious.
By traversing about 300 yards without rail underneath him and getting thru shit like a concrete barrier. Dude was not in his right mind, because there's no way he was actually gonna hit that thing and he would have known that if he was.
That’s the natural evolution of the Die Hard series
Doesn't surprise me that so many Americans think this is a hoax or whatever when there's such a cultural streak of political anti-intellectualism and conspiracy theorism in grassroots US politics (and politics in many places, but just cos this guy obvs is in the US etc).
All aboard the crazy train. Paranoid conspiracy theorists come from all walks of life. It's the rare case that someone actually acts on their paranoid fantasies though. Trying to plow a train to hit a US Navy hospital ship in an effort to kill service members, healthcare workers, and patients... man, that does take a very big cake though.
The virus is a weapon, only it's been weaponized by the White House administration to deliberately deny, withhold, and buy out lifesaving PPE and medical supplies right from under "enemy" blue states because their governors and mayors refused to kiss the ring.
That voting eligible constituents in blue states (ie. mostly Democrats, liberals, and minorities) who might catch the coronavirus and die is a feature, not a bug.
Trump and his cronies are just too willfully stupid to realize that Covid-19 doesn't discriminate.