Impact of the new Coronavirus where you are?

[Guest Nekhyludov]

2 hours ago, FatherOfPugs said:

This isn't the end of the world as some are making it out to be. Unlike some here who think certain folks will be naturally selected out of the gene pool for not believing the mass media hype.

The World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and State and County public health agencies are not media organizations.

What's more important than how ill an individual adult with no underlying health conditions may or may not feel is that we're approaching a tipping point. The pandemic may still be contained and quickly forgotten, or it may become an ongoing, perpetually circulating disease. Those are the options in front of us. There's an enormous amount of future morbidity and mortality, lost productivity, and economic disruption at stake.

2% mortality turns into a very, very large number of deaths relatively quickly. And if those deaths are clustered among children, the elderly, and those with health problems, that doesn't warrant dismissing or ignoring it.

[medzikone]

Our prime minister announced that schools will be closed for at least 2 weeks. They canceled all big events in Poland. Cinemas etc closed. Today we had 31 affected people.

We've already posponed our son's 1st birthday party for a second time. Only because of my grandmother and parents in law. Also after few conversation I had to cancel my farewell party. But of course you can find people who thinks that it's only huge drama. Then I ask them about their oldest family members. Wish you can't see their faces...

[El Presidente]

US to stop all European inbound travel (excluding UK) for 30 days. 

[Ken Gargett]

and tom hanks and his wife have it. 

they are, or very recently were, here in Queensland. 

[ImTripN2]

On 3/9/2020 at 4:07 PM, Duxnutz said:

Venetian and Palazzo was where everyone was, outside of that was pretty sparse. I can report how impressed I was with the measures casinos were taking wiping things down, with lots of staff dedicated to just that task. Escalators, doors, railings and machines - quite impressive and we could do more of this at the airlines. 

People are going to go to LV regardless,. even of the black plague was in full swing, but still the number of visitors will be way down. My BIL took a month leave of absence from his job at the airport just to see how it all shakes out. I feel sorry for the rank and file, this is going to be a huge hit to the tourist industry and will kill a lot of jobs. 

[Ken Gargett]

4 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

and tom hanks and his wife have it. 

they are, or very recently were, here in Queensland. 

apparently they are still here in Qld, on the Gold Coast.

so is that two more to add to the toll of australia or the states?

more seriously, my limited knowledge of film sets is that people are coming and going all the time. i suspect a lot of people who've been in contact with him have moved on to other jobs around the world. 

[KnightsAnole]

NBA just cancelled all games for the rest of the season

[Deeg]

2 minutes ago, KnightsAnole said:

NBA just cancelled all games for the rest of the season

Suspended, not cancelled.  Theoretically.  A member of the Utah Jazz tested positive.

[houdini]

Shits getting real

[helix]

53 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

US to stop all European inbound travel (excluding UK) for 30 days. 

Hmm seems flights from Europe to Canada may quickly become a backdoor through the US land border crossings unless Canada follows suit .

[Doctortrent]

I’m hoarding cigars!

[FOHrty9er]

Can anyone else feel that creeping inevitability?  

[El Presidente]

40 minutes ago, Doctortrent said:

I’m hoarding cigars!

Yes! Fully supportive of that course of action 

[Fuzz]

A friend just told me that at her office, people keep coming by her desk to use her large bottle of hand sanitiser. I told her to get an empty bottle, fill it with KY or Durex lube, and leave it on her desk. After a while, nobody will be stopping by to use her "weird" hand sanitiser.

 

[PaulPower]

I’m hoarding cigars!

I was already hoarding cigars...


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[Ken Gargett]

37 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Yes! Fully supportive of that course of action 

he said hoarding, not buying. 

[El Presidente]

9 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

he said hoarding, not buying. 

He meant both. Trust me 

You are good for plastic bottles, wine and cardboard.  lack of disinfectant has never apparently bothered you in the past. 

[Ken Gargett]

7 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

He meant both. Trust me 

You are good for plastic bottles, wine and cardboard.  lack of disinfectant has never apparently bothered you in the past. 

which is an outrageous falsehood. 

i disinfect everything every time you come near the place. 

[JamesKPolkEsq]

Boy, my assertion looks reaaaaaaal bad in retrospect... 

[Subcomandante]

My fiancé already works from home one day a week. They were notified today that everyone will work from home 2 days a week now and voted on what days. She got an email this evening and was told everyone is working from home 5 days a week. It’s crazy how fast things are changing hourly. And she works for a large Southern California newspaper. So it’s going to effect a lot of people. 

[Deeg]

29 minutes ago, JamesKPolkEsq said:

Boy, my assertion looks reaaaaaaal bad in retrospect... 

I give you credit for being willing to admit it.

[Cubadust]

15 hours ago, FatherOfPugs said:

Went to the YMCA to workout today during my school's spring break. Plenty of people there working out living normally. Went to the gun range yesterday with my father-in-law who is visiting us this week. Range was as busy as could be! Went out to eat with him last night as well, restaurant was fairly busy for a Tuesday night, almost a full place, and it wasn't the weekend. 

The school I work at did tell us to take everything home we would need to teach online classes if need be. Haven't received that notification yet. 

This isn't the end of the world as some are making it out to be. Unlike some here who think certain folks will be naturally selected out of the gene pool for not believing the mass media hype. My father-in-law is a physician, he said the people most at risk are those with compromised immune systems. So, if you are one of those folks, yeah, you probably want to be about as worried of this as the flu. Quite frankly, I think there are a lot of folks who already had it and didn't even know it because it is still cold and flu season!

On the plus side, stocks are on sale right now! 

I don't understand why you're being so stubborn about this, I really don't. You actually think that Italy, the worlds 8th biggest economy with a population of 60 million people is putting the whole country under strickt quarantine just because of some media headlines? Or do you just don't think that putting a whole country  under quarantine is a big deal? You don't think that the fact that the US is stopping all European flights is a big deal? This IS a part of the big deal. The fact that we're closing schools, putting countries, communities, cities and people under quarantine is a big deal. And it's not because we got some killer virus on our hands that's going to wipe us all out, it's because we don't have a cure for it. The share amount of people that can get it is causing the problem.

Ok, so lets say just for argument's sake that this is a nasty flu. The problem is that it is a flu that we can't cure. But we still have to treat people that caught it, right? So we have  to put sick people, people that are sick with something we don't have a cure for, in hospitals that's already filled with people that got compromised immune systems, people that's waiting for operations, cancer patiens, people with diabities, elderly, lung problems or well, just sick in general. Look at it like this. Let's just pretend that the hospital in question is an one room apartment that's filled with already sick people, like 20 of them with compromised immune systems. Now you have to put another 20 in this room, that got a "flu" that we can't cure but have to treat. So now you have 40 people that are sick in a room and it's starting to get pretty crowded. But tomorrow we will have another 20 people knocking on the door. Say like 10 with corona and and 10 that just need regular medical attention. You have to understand that this will be problematic, right? Sure, the ones most at risk are elderly and people with compromised immune systems. So? We shouldn't treat or care for those? And this is just the hospital situation, what about the rest of our communities?

The only "cure" we have right now is to put people and countries in quarantine. That's what's causing the chaos. No one is thinking this virus is going to kill us all, no one think this is the end of the world but there's going to be a damn bumpy ride from now on. And my guess is that it hasn't even started in the US yet, you're not even at "Day 1". But I base this only on population/reported cases and that you haven't started to test the general public yet. It would be nice if you were right, though.

[rcarlson]

57 minutes ago, Cubadust said:

The only "cure" we have right now is to put people and countries in quarantine. That's what's causing the chaos. No one is thinking this virus is going to kill us all, no one think this is the end of the world but there's going to be a damn bumpy ride from now on. And my guess is that it hasn't even started in the US yet, you're not even at "Day 1". But I base this only on population/reported cases and that you haven't started to test the general public yet. It would be nice if you were right, though.

Damn bumpy.  Let's see if we all have the fortitude to overcome the normal human reaction during crises: panic, selfishness, and blame-casting.  Though some aspects of this thread don't evidence it, I think we can.  

[Ryan]

It's getting difficult here.

The Irish government just announced closure of all schools, colleges and childcare facilities from 6pm today until March 29th.

Retail sales way down, layoffs coming very soon. Luxury retail, including cigar sales will be, and are being, hit very hard.

I was talking to an Italian cigar retailer in northern Italy this morning, he doesn't know how he's going to manage.

Also talking to a cigar retailer in Seville, his shop isn't locked down but he's hurting.

Here, any indoor gatherings of more than 100 people not permitted. Same for outdoor gatherings of more than 500.

Church events, mass, funerals, weddings etc. all affected.

All Twitter staff, globally, told to work from home. Google, Amazon, Facebook etc. will follow suit. The European headquarters of all these companies are within 500 metres of my house. The streets are very quiet.

In this part of the world, this is unprecedented. It's the unknown.  

[KnightsAnole]

1 hour ago, Cubadust said:

I don't understand why you're being so stubborn about this, I really don't.

I kind of do- I think. its because people (and I'm not saying fatherofpugs, whom I agree with on many things) have become so skeptical of the media, it has become difficult to discern truth from fiction, or an agenda driven story. Similar to the boy who cried wolf, we are fed such deception, over and over, that finally we don't believe anything from the media anymore. We see now, how dangerous this predicament has become. I'm not saying left or right here, both sides are miserably guilty of this.