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Post by Fake Jesus on Mar 30, 2020 6:34:53 GMT -5
Yeah it seems pretty likely that April and May will still be a lockdown period. Nine more weeks takes us to June 1, after 2 weeks of lockdown already in the books. I think that’s a reasonable timeline. I thought May would have been the time to re-evaluate and see where we were but unfortunately looks like the cases are going to get worse in the next 2 weeks. We just have to hope that it peaks relatively soon and then begins to stabilize and decline from there. I have long worked under the assumption that you would see a steady rise during the social distancing based on how long it takes tests to get back. Then with recovery things would slowly drop or flatten. I think you'll see things for a majority of the country start to or at least try to normalize in May. Things are not too bad here. I just really need a hair cut I've resolved to cutting my own hair. It's not like anyone important's going to see it, anyway.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Mar 30, 2020 6:52:47 GMT -5
Commander Shepard with some orders:
Seriously that is sad..
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Post by hassanchop on Mar 30, 2020 7:16:19 GMT -5
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Post by Mecca on Mar 30, 2020 7:26:01 GMT -5
This is the result of people making unwise decisions with their money. Most financial gurus advise people to put away 3-6 months of expenses in an emergency fund. If more people followed that advice they would be in a position of strength right now. Sure some people have legitimate excuses but it's crazy how so many people are unprepared for an emergency situation. That's not easy for most people to pull off, the costs of living have sky rocketed while wages haven't matched.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Mar 30, 2020 7:54:46 GMT -5
I wonder how people who insisted 'this is no worse than the flu, stop overreacting' are feeling about now.
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Post by hassanchop on Mar 30, 2020 7:57:13 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 30, 2020 8:00:24 GMT -5
I wonder how people who insisted 'this is no worse than the flu, stop overreacting' are feeling about now. I've still encountered a few of those people. I've yet to get any kind of answer to the question "Would the flu kill as many people if we enacted lockdowns and social distancing every flu season?" Hell, 90% of the people I know don't even bother getting flu shots. If we treated COVID-19 the same way we treated flu, the fatality numbers would dwarf your average flu season.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Mar 30, 2020 8:09:17 GMT -5
I wonder how people who insisted 'this is no worse than the flu, stop overreacting' are feeling about now. I've still encountered a few of those people. I've yet to get any kind of answer to the question "Would the flu kill as many people if we enacted lockdowns and social distancing every flu season?" Hell, 90% of the people I know don't even bother getting flu shots. If we treated COVID-19 the same way we treated flu, the fatality numbers would dwarf your average flu season. To be fair, I think a lot of people take too lax an approach to flu season. People just have come to accept it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 8:18:17 GMT -5
It's all part of resurrected Shōkō Asahara's doomsday plans!
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Post by Welfare Willis on Mar 30, 2020 8:30:32 GMT -5
Source: I live in Korea. The church in question is Shincheonji. Basically Coronavirus case #31 traveled from the epicenter in China, Wuhan, to the city of Daegu in South Korea and attended services at this church and apparently a wedding ceremony. Now Korea has always had a thing with cults here, but this person basically made it very difficult to contain here. As a result, Daegu is still the hardest-hit area. However, rapid deployment of testing and tracking has helped slow the spread although we tend to average between 70 to 140 new cases daily now. We haven't had a massive lockdown like the US or really any sort of panic buying except for face masks (lots of toilet paper still available). However, I worry that Koreans will get complacent and all it takes is one to screw things up. I've already read stories of a 19-year-old and her mother traveling around Jeju then testing positive and a British man actually breaking quarantine and going to a couple of areas (without a mask). linklink
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Post by KofiMania on Mar 30, 2020 8:42:16 GMT -5
I realize we're in the middle of it now and, quite frankly, not even close to the worst of it. I also concede that it's the right thing to do to keep this virus under some sort of check. However, I'm concerned about the economic impact of the lockdown. I mean in terms of the fact that a lot of small businesses aren't receiving customers and a lot of people just aren't working full-stop. Bills are coming up and I'm not sure what's in this stimulus package will be enough to negate some of those negative effects. Notice I mentioned workers and small businesses, not Wall Street. I'm very sick and tired of them and the media's insistence that our economy lives or dies on whether or not big line go up. People that are out of work because of this can get unemployment through their own state plus up $600 per week from the federal government for up to 4 months with the stimulus package so I don’t think people will struggle too much. Obviously the $1,200 check alone wouldn’t be enough. The higher cost might be health insurance if people that are out of work lost their coverage.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Mar 30, 2020 9:24:46 GMT -5
Well, now I know why Indianapolis is one of the emerging hotspots. My wife sent me two images; one was the cell phones usage at one Florida beach during Spring Break when the FL governor refused to shut down said beaches. The next image was the cellular usage of those cell phones after Spring Break. Indianapolis and the city where I live, Bloomington, seems to be heavily trafficked by those morons. I already knew that had happened to some degree as my son noticed a couple of girls who got interviewed at Spring Break as former high school classmates, but now I know the real amount.
For those that don’t know, I lived in a rare oasis in deep MAGA country. With the amount of open and extremely proud support of Trump here, if ultimately is of no real shock that so, so many of them fully bought into his talk about it being a hoax and that everyone needs to go about business as usual to protect the economy. Now I get to live with the consequences of those actions.
I and my kids have a medical condition that make us particularly vulnerable to this disease. My dad’s health has been pretty rough for years. These morons just might get the lot of us killed because they listened to someone who told them to ignore the experts.
Edit: I know I mentioned a specific politician and what he has said in the past, but I honestly don’t know how to address what is going on here without addressing that elephant in the room. He is intrinsically woven into the fabric of this situation.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 30, 2020 9:41:24 GMT -5
I've still encountered a few of those people. I've yet to get any kind of answer to the question "Would the flu kill as many people if we enacted lockdowns and social distancing every flu season?" Hell, 90% of the people I know don't even bother getting flu shots. If we treated COVID-19 the same way we treated flu, the fatality numbers would dwarf your average flu season. To be fair, I think a lot of people take too lax an approach to flu season. People just have come to accept it. They absolutely do. The flu's generally treated like it's the common cold - people not getting their shots, showing up to work when clearly sick... even the people saying "It's just the flu" about COVID-19 are taking a matter-of-fact, no-big-deal tone about it. I'm hoping this pandemic opens a lot of people's eyes about the spread of viruses.
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Post by Mecca on Mar 30, 2020 10:01:58 GMT -5
To be fair, I think a lot of people take too lax an approach to flu season. People just have come to accept it. They absolutely do. The flu's generally treated like it's the common cold - people not getting their shots, showing up to work when clearly sick... even the people saying "It's just the flu" about COVID-19 are taking a matter-of-fact, no-big-deal tone about it. I'm hoping this pandemic opens a lot of people's eyes about the spread of viruses. I don't get a flu shot cause I've had the flu 1 time in like 15 years, it seems like something I don't need to be wary of.
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Mar 30, 2020 10:19:17 GMT -5
Well, to update from yesterday, my co-worker has all the symptoms and will be missing two weeks of work. The rest of us are to self-monitor for any symptoms. This really sucks.
As I've mentioned, I work in a nursing home, so self-isolating unless I'm actually sick isn't an option. But now I have the issue of, knowing I've potentially been exposed, can I take the risk of going to Dunks in the morning or going to the grocery store to buy stuff for lunch?
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Mar 30, 2020 10:22:11 GMT -5
Well, to update from yesterday, my co-worker has all the symptoms and will be missing two weeks of work. The rest of us are to self-monitor for any symptoms. This really sucks. As I've mentioned, I work in a nursing home, so self-isolating unless I'm actually sick isn't an option. But now I have the issue of, knowing I've potentially been exposed, can I take the risk of going to Dunks in the morning or going to the grocery store to buy stuff for lunch? You will have to be responsible because even though you might not be sick you don't know what you could be carrying and transferring and how their body will react
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Mar 30, 2020 10:44:32 GMT -5
Well, to update from yesterday, my co-worker has all the symptoms and will be missing two weeks of work. The rest of us are to self-monitor for any symptoms. This really sucks. As I've mentioned, I work in a nursing home, so self-isolating unless I'm actually sick isn't an option. But now I have the issue of, knowing I've potentially been exposed, can I take the risk of going to Dunks in the morning or going to the grocery store to buy stuff for lunch? Be cautious. Wear a mask so you dont cough on owt and wear gloves to avoid touching anything and spreading it.
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Post by zrowsdower on Mar 30, 2020 11:01:23 GMT -5
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Mar 30, 2020 11:06:45 GMT -5
Yea, I read that yesterday That's uncalled for and that person should be locked up. I get people are paranoid but you still have to be rational and pushing an old woman at any time isn't rational whatsoever
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Mar 30, 2020 11:09:23 GMT -5
I feel like that had more to do with it than anything. But yeah, crazy and sad case of total ignorance.
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