I don't think everyone is really thinking through the ramifications of shutting everything down for a period of time. What happens when the people that work at the power plant are in quarantine, the people at the water plant and for god's sake the people at the toilet paper plant? Civilization will break down faster than the Lakers winning another championship. Hope you all bought some ammo to go with the toilet paper.

Came here for the title, didn't leave disappointed.

Solid meme's everybody!

This is shutting down NON-essentials...nobody is saying walk away from the nuclear reactor . We need to slow it.

Are pinball factories essentials?

So, I'm leaning that the toilet paper plant might be on the essentials list. Moreso than the nuclear reactors

They better god damn well be! *eyeballs spooky*

/kidding

We can only test ‘muricans with a ‘murican test. Can’t use the German one that’s been available since early Feb. Or the Chinese one that takes 15 minutes to get results, available since late January. Someone explain it to the people who have/ will die because the tests aren’t there to help stop the spread.

Don C

Prediction- Spooky will be the last one to survive.

Pretty sure it's the media or those donkey guys fault. At least I remember being told that repeatedly.

Seriously though, there's new reports stating that the WH is withholding information from the people who actually need it to actually prepare for this. All because 'markets can't go down'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8100959/White-House-told-federal-health-agency-classify-coronavirus-deliberations-sources.html

School is going to give parents info on what to do if we “choose” to keep our kids home later today.

Every pandemic movie/book I’ve checked out—a lot, I love those—always have a room, usually at the CDC filled with people staring at screens and talking to every state, telling them what to do. I wish movie pandemic were happening.

I'm was in a conference call with tradefloor people - and this was just said 'if anyone says this is only going to last another week or so, they don't know what the hell they are talking about'.

That hand sanitizer looks opened, bet they tore this guy apart for that!

I'll give ya $5.00,... I have all the risk of trying to find that ONE buyer...

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As someone that works from home quite a bit (and it sounds like it will be more), the biggest recommendation I can make is video conferencing software. The entire time I'm working, I'm on video conference with my entire team. All day, whether we are discussing something or not. My entire team sees my face all day long, and I see them. At first it feels weird, and to be honest, it almost feels invasive. But after a couple weeks, it feels totally normal. The thing it gives you is communication. There is no substitute for communication with your team.

Events are dropping like flies...
Concert cancellations (Pearl Jam, Madonna)
and now sporting events will play without fans...Golden State game after San Fransisco's 1,000 person maximum declaration and now the NCAA follows suit for the basketball tournaments to be played without fans. My guess is the Euro Cup and all North American based professional sports events are next...

My entire team works from home so it's no change for us. We do not use video conferencing software though. We won't unless forced to. It really is not necessary except in certain work flows where i'm sure it is beneficial. We all work on different projects and there is very little overlap. On top of that some of us are in non stop meetings all day with other teams. It would be a big mess.

Big one coming up here.

https://www.olympic.org/tokyo-2020

I'd rather have the virus than have people staring at a video feed of me all day. I work at home as a developer sometimes. We just e-mail or send a chat message if something needs discussed. If it's urgent, there might be a phone call. Otherwise we go about our business without distractions.

He was joking...regarding having to be on camera all day...

It is affecting F1 auto racing as well...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/11/australian-grand-prix-three-f1-team-members-placed-in-isolation-over-coronavirus-fears

I think they requested covid testing and were denied and in the interim it spread. All this shit is the tests. South Korea has 200,000 tests for fuksake.

Old people won’t be able to handle this well, they don’t handle the seasonal flu well either.

I have a 89 year old grandmother that's fighting COPD, on and off pneumonia....this will be a great spring.

South Korea also has about 50 million people and the USA has about 350 million people.
People keep thinking tiny countries can compare to the 3rd most populace country in the world lol

They ONLY have 200k tests and we are producing over a million right now. So they’re 800k short of the needs of the US.

How could you think 200k would even be enough for 50 million people...?

I didn’t think that. Several factors here, the speed of the testing, the availability of testing. S. Korea doesn’t have 50 million people suspected of having virus, we don’t have 300 million suspected.

We have tested maybe 7000 people. Look at the numbers for korea, taiwan etc. they have their shit together.

If you are in korea, taiwan etc. and have a fever and have traveled sure as shit 1 of those 200,000 tests is available for you.

Here’s what’s happening in the USA. Listen closely, unless you prove you have direct contact with a known covid person YOU WILL NOT GET TESTED. Emergency rooms have people come in with the symptoms, NO TESTS, so what do they do? They test for strep, run mass viral panels, pneumonia....they have to rule out EVERYTHING ELSE and THEN they can “request “ test from CDC.

What I have described is happening in many areas of the Country.

Do you understand ?

The ER’s are sending these people home while they request the test. Doctors refer you to health dept who won’t test unless you fit their narrow definition.

We are sending sick people in to our communities.

Get it?

PS the US said we’d have a million tests at the end of LAST WEEK. They are full of shit. Do not believe it.

Just look in to it a bit, honestly. We tried all day to get a test. It’s impossible.

I can see you prefer fear-mongering and hypochondriac nonsense getting tested when chances are exceptionally high that you DON’T have it.
We only have 1.1k people with the virus and basic hygiene will protect you. However people are stupid and think that when they have cold and flu-like symptoms they obviously have coronavirus.
Did you go to a high-risk place? No? Then stop wasting resources.

Your logic is why hospitals are overwhelmed right now deal with people who don’t need to be there.

Unless you’re elderly you’re better off just staying home and riding out the symptoms, and that’s coming from the infectious disease specialists.

But go ahead and bury your head in the sand and downvote because it’s not what you want to hear. That’s the kind of logic and mass panic that gets us into these dilemmas.

That's why I avoid the doctors with the chance of picking something up I didn't have in the first place and then getting locked away.

If I'm gonna die, I'd rather do it at home.

Why? Think you have the virus? You have to meet certain criteria before being tested.

Read back a few posts. It's already answered.

Italy ordered all businesses other than grocery stores and pharmacies closed. Should we wait until it's that bad here to take action?

Community spread in Rome, GA. He's probably lucky the CDC is just down the road.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/03/11/clay-bentley-georgia-coronavirus-patient-bts-nr-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/

No thanks, got things to do.

It should be like that here within a week or two.

Do you understand how the disease spreads?

We knew about this since January and MARCH 11 we are ramping up our testing?

This is how community spread happens. I think you’re missing the basic logic the disease and epidemiology experts are giving us.

Did you see the government’s lead Doctor on this testify today? Dr. Fauci? Would you believe him?

It’s not fear mongering to state obvious facts. This crap has been allowed to spread. It was in a small area on the west coast and now both Elementary schools in my hood have parents with it.

If a dangerous disease is spreading, wouldn’t you want to test people quickly with symptoms? Wouldn’t that prevent spread?

Dr. Fauci, governments main guy explained this is at least 10x more deadly than the flu.

It should have been like that here two weeks ago, if not four.

Maybe the powers that be secretly want 3-4% of the population to die?

Ok. Do you keep your kids home? Do you keep your spouse home? Do you tell your coworkers? Do you tell your school.

If only there were some way to be sure.....I don’t know, like a TEST!

USA does not believe in slowing down progress or industry. Or anything else that could affect the ability to make money.

Your numbers are correct, but the wording is wrong.

South Korea has TESTED more than 200,000 people. The US has only tested 7,000.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/asia/south-korea-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html

Don’t worry...our government has said it has Millions of tests on the way. Just hold your breath until then.

Clearly we do not have enough tests.

I’m going to shit if we wind up buying them from China.

Well, when it is the people who are collecting SS in the US that are most at risk, they might be thinking it will help the failing SS program.

Thanks. I’m flabbergasted that even this has to be a red vs blue Team War! For Christsakes ALL Grannies are in danger, not just certain ones.

The initials of the person that told that lie are not “US”.

GrannieGate 2020

You don’t need a test Odin! Got your cure right here!

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