OT: What changes are you and family making to your lifestyle due to coranavirus?

[billybud]

You seem to be defending your posts here a whole lot lately.

mostly from you...

I was curious about the hostility exhibited for a joke post...but , upon reflection, I believe that it was a reflection of P5 anger.

 

[superjohn]

Here is the official list of what's allowed to be open or operating in CT, according to the Department of Economic and Community Development:

Too long to cut and paste

How is that a lockdown/shutdown?

 

[Waquoit]

I strongly suggest you all watch the video Courtesy of TMZ

What, Barstool crashed?

 

[Waquoit]

I would say damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Wrong. Just give people the latest information and don't turn it into a CYA fest. It's not that tough.

 

[Kitaman]

How is that a lockdown/shutdown?

A friend told me that the Dept of Mental Health (and I'm sure others) are issuing letters to their employees that explain their work. Its to show to the police in the event they are stopped. Also instructed to keep their badges in the car. Kinda ominous because it implies a shutdown is coming.

 

[fatlucy]

A friend told me that the Dept of Mental Health (and I'm sure others) are issuing letters to their employees that explain their work. Its to show to the police in the event they are stopped. Also instructed to keep their badges in the car. Kinda ominous because it implies a shutdown is coming.

I would have been given the same notification and I haven't.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Lick down NYC. Saw it in a Batman movie when they poisoned the water supply in Gotham.

Resident Evil predates Batman. Complete with T-Virus

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Those places are essential. What do you do if your hot water heater or fridge needs to be replaced? TV? Washing machine? Just don’t go dick around target licking stuff.

 

[Northbound]

I have a gravely I’ll father who I can not visit and may not ever get to see again. That certainly is the hardest thing for me so far.

Thoughts are with you - inconceivable how difficult that must be.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Pandemic has not made my wife any more decisive or less picky when it comes to choosing take out.

 

[Kitaman]

Those places are essential. What do you do if your hot water heater or fridge needs to be replaced? TV? Washing machine? Just don’t go dick around target licking stuff.

Good question, but even the other stuff. Like a toothache, major cut, or medical situation needing professional attention. Too scared to go to ER, and I'm not sure of doctor's procedures/hours in these times. I assume the millions of clinics are open, but the waiting room could be contaminated. They used to have masks at the check-in counter but masks are cash now, so I guess where a scarf. I wonder can you wait in your car until they're ready to see you.

My wife's back has been aching, with some stomach pain, we have great insurance and normally I would insist on her getting it checked out. But she is stubborn and over cautious (meaning scared), insisting that she'll be fine.

This is really some serious times we are in. Individually, we'll be stronger, smarter and better when this is over.

 

[UConnDad]

Chicago Doctor’s Blunt Speech About COVID-19 Hits Home Across the Country Good video here.

 

[Waquoit]

Old CW: These spring snowfalls are a PITA!
New CW: Doesn't that look nice out there!

 

[87Xfer]

This is an interesting article. Hope the guy is right.
LA Times article

 

[CL82]

mostly from you...

I was curious about the hostility exhibited for a joke post...but , upon reflection, I believe that it was a reflection of P5 anger.

Lol, not so much actually as shown from the posts above.

P5 anger? [chuckle] I guess but maybe if your jokes are consistently falling flat here, maybe rethink your humor attempts?

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

You keep saying this, and I am not sure where you are getting this. The economy will absolutely recover after this. all that matters rightnow is that everyone does their part to stop the spread of this.

I’m not sure how you think people will survive going a year plus without working. A 1000 dollar check?

 

[87Xfer]

I’m not sure how you think people will survive going a year plus without working. A 1000 dollar check?

There's little doubt this will be brutal for a lot of people. But I think the question is how do you see that equating to the entire country "not existing". What the heck are you talking about?

 

[CL82]

I’m not sure how you think people will survive going a year plus without working. A 1000 dollar check?

Unemployment benefits will be extended as well. The $1,000 is a stop gap measure.

 

[methodology]

I’m not sure how you think people will survive going a year plus without working. A 1000 dollar check?

Unemployment benefits will be extended as well. The $1,000 is a stop gap measure.

Theres also an outside chance if the extreme did happen and it shuts down the country for year they freeze the entire economy like Denmark so things and people can still operate and live their daily lives

 

[CL82]

US population = 327,200,000
327,200,000 x .6 (40 to 80% will catch it, call it 60%) = ‭196,320,000‬
196,320,000‬ x 0.014 (overall fatality rate) = ‭2,748,480‬ deaths.

Scary number but not a third of the population. It assumes no vaccine or treatment improvements. We are already hearing about some.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

US population = 327,200,000
327,200,000 x .6 (40 to 80% will catch it, call it 60%) = ‭196,320,000‬
196,320,000‬ x 0.014 (overall fatality rate) = ‭2,748,480‬ deaths.

Scary number but not a third of the population. It assumes no vaccine or treatment improvements. We are already hearing about some.

The BY scientists say any treatment is actually a death sentence. If it hasn’t long been a treatment for a virus that didn’t exist 6 months ago it will kill you.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

This is an interesting article. Hope the guy is right.
LA Times article

This is actually how I feel too. My over the top of the world a Schtick is facetious

 

[HooperScooper]

This is an interesting article. Hope the guy is right.
LA Times article

I hope he's right also. If this is the case why are we causing trillions of dollars of damage to our economy? So many people who lose their jobs are going to be put in a difficult place.

 

[Northbound]

As I expressed earlier and then basically called a jack wagon - it is very possible that mid-summer will be when much is normalized. That mid-summer is probably 10-14 weeks (I get 10 weeks is mid-june and that's not mid-summer but you get the point). Isn't China at about 10 weeks from first case to opening things back up. Is that correct, who knows, but it's real info based on an informed scientist's best guess versus me pulling something out of my hind end. The caveat is always that they worse case scenario continually, but that was the realistic perspective I got from my person.

As everyone knows, this isn't about eradicating, it's about containment and being able to properly treat those infected without crashing the medical infrastructure. This is not coming from my belief - it's coming from somebody I'm close with that is in this deep and is advising the government. I think I'm blessed and cursed to know them because I maybe get more than I want from them.

Economy will be rubbish, but will recover. Government, a combination of State and Federal, will have to be on the hook for unemployment and healthcare until normalcy returns because without those assurances things have a real chance to devolve quickly. The idea that this can't happen is absurd, it can. Will the populace now have the fortitude to be unselfish and not go stir crazy, that remains to be seen, and I personally have my doubts as we've all become accustomed to immediate gratification and almost the exact opposite of self-sacrifice.

I'm supposed to start a new senior level gig Monday and they are still working in office as of last week and I just told them today - I'll be at home even if they aren't. My wife just got treatment for two rare forms of cancer less than a year ago and we're being extremely cautious.

Wacky times.

Sorry for the screed.

 

[jostar1]

Louisiana is now in lockdown.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says his state has the fastest growing cases of coronavirus in the world.

Citing statistics from a University of Louisiana at Lafayette study, Edwards said the growth rate in the state was headed for a steep upward trajectory similar to what Spain and Italy have experienced.

He said Louisiana had the third highest number of cases per capita in the US behind New York and Washington respectively.

As of Monday, the state had 1,172 confirmed cases and 35 deaths as a result of the virus.

He said the figure of confirmed cases had increased from 100 to more than 800 in a week.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Louisiana is now in lockdown.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says his state has the fastest growing cases of coronavirus in the world.

Citing statistics from a University of Louisiana at Lafayette study, Edwards said the growth rate in the state was headed for a steep upward trajectory similar to what Spain and Italy have experienced.

He said Louisiana had the third highest number of cases per capita in the US behind New York and Washington respectively.

As of Monday, the state had 1,172 confirmed cases and 35 deaths as a result of the virus.

He said the figure of confirmed cases had increased from 100 to more than 800 in a week.

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Was it going around during Mardi Gras?

 

[TXHuskyFan]

Louisiana is now in lockdown.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards says his state has the fastest growing cases of coronavirus in the world.

Citing statistics from a University of Louisiana at Lafayette study, Edwards said the growth rate in the state was headed for a steep upward trajectory similar to what Spain and Italy have experienced.

He said Louisiana had the third highest number of cases per capita in the US behind New York and Washington respectively.

As of Monday, the state had 1,172 confirmed cases and 35 deaths as a result of the virus.

He said the figure of confirmed cases had increased from 100 to more than 800 in a week.

Maybe due to Mardi Gras coming in the period between exposure and symptoms? Certainly was not spread much by attending Tulane b-ball games.

 

[tuvent08]

As others have said, I am deeply wary of drawing too many conclusions from China for two reasons:

1) They make up data.

2) They implemented utterly draconian measures that Americans would never tolerate (boarding up people's doors and locking them inside, etc.).

 

[huskysupporter]

I’m not sure how you think people will survive going a year plus without working. A 1000 dollar check?

I am not saying it is not going to be a tough recovery. I’m saying there will be a recovery. There will be a ton of measures taken to help those hit hardest, as there should be.

but saying the economy will never recover is not based on any measurable numbers.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Was it going around during Mardi Gras?

Yes, definitely. Italy, which has over 60,000 Chinese workers in the garment industry, was hit hard in part because so many of them went back to China for Chinese New Year, which was January 24th.