LOCKED: Coronavirus

Aaaaaaand the ice cream truck just rolled down my street.  What a dumbass.

Retail business are now also going to be forced to limit the amount of people allowed in the store at one time. 

posted by wildcats20

Retail business are now also going to be forced to limit the amount of people allowed in the store at one time. 

Costco started doing this. 

We went to Home Depot last weekend and there was a line to get in the store. No social distancing, though, so kinda pointless. We left and went to Lowe's. There was no line to get in. The store wasn't packed but there were a decent number of people inside.

posted by justincredible

We went to Home Depot last weekend and there was a line to get in the store. No social distancing, though, so kinda pointless. We left and went to Lowe's. There was no line to get in. The store wasn't packed but there were a decent number of people inside.

I'd be interested in what the average American knows about all this.  Remember, most Americans consume little to no news.  Most of what most people know probably comes from their FB circles, which is scary.

Anyway, we better really learn from this and get it right.  Because I'm guessing we'll face this again within 20 years, and it could be much much worse.

posted by Automatik

Again, wrong forum.

I didn’t start it.

LOL

A lot of you called them wild conspiracy’s that the disease may have come from a lab, but according to Wapo, scientists haven’t ruled it out. They don’t speculate China making it, but that it leaked out (No idea why there are still paywalls up on Corona stories)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-did-covid-19-begin-its-initial-origin-story-is-shaky/2020/04/02/1475d488-7521-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html

WAPO: "Scientists don’t rule out that an accident at a research laboratory in Wuhan might have spread a deadly bat virus that had been collected for scientific study."

Well, just got word my summer season is cancelled -- ownership decision, not league decision (yet). Thankfully, ownership is committed to paying me. I may have to pick up some other side gigs within their entities.

C'mon job search...

Woke up this morning with a stuffy nose and a mucousy cough.......allergies?

posted by Spock

Woke up this morning with a stuffy nose and a mucousy cough.......allergies?

Nope, COVID. 

posted by Spock

Woke up this morning with a stuffy nose and a mucousy cough.......allergies?

Spring allergies are back for me too. Every damn morning.

I'm in the same boat, allergies are a major PITA right now. I miss the days when they didn't affect me, it's only been an issue the last 5 or so years.

posted by Spock

Woke up this morning with a stuffy nose and a mucousy cough.......allergies?

This COVID vs the flu question is one I didn't understand well.  I thought this video did a pretty good job explaining the differences.  

Here's another simple explanation.

2009 H1N1 - 60 million cases, 12k deaths.

2020 COVID 19 ("reported" as of right now) - 265,506 cases, 6,786 deaths

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=238773

"By this data only three people over the age of 75 without one or more of those diseases has died in NY.  Three.

The only people who should be under "shelter in place" orders are those with one or more of these listed conditions; nobody else has any reason to be so-constrained.  Everyone who has such a condition knows they do."

posted by QuakerOats

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=238773

Again, the issue is less about the mortality rate and more about the hospitalization and ICU rate.  If hospitals get overwhelmed, more people die.  NY says they will run out of ventillators in a few days.

If you go back to business as usual, this will race thru 2/3 of your population and overwhelm your hospitals.  You can be 30 and healthy as an ox - it probably won't kill you, but it still can easily kick your ass and put you on a ventillator.  And if there's a shortage of ventillators, then I guess thoughts and prayers?

You're wasting your time. If it doesn't come from some fringy, Geocities style page it doesn't get read let alone understood.

I have friends on the front lines here. I hear a new story everyday. Anyone who thinks shelter in place isn't necessary is a moron. It's that simple. If it were up to me I'd make it even stricter.

posted by Automatik

I have friends on the front lines here. I hear a new story everyday. Anyone who thinks shelter in place isn't necessary is a moron. It's that simple. If it were up to me I'd make it even stricter.

I was talking to a neighbor the other day, and he said they have a few friends who are nurses who got it....said it was nasty, way worse than the flu.

I'm not scared of getting it, but I don't want to roll the dice on being hospitalized and intubated to recover from it.  I've wished for death struggling with just a bad cold or flu that was nowhere near putting me in the hospital.