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I friend of mine living in the US told me his bus ride to work was almost empty, so was his workplace. So has America gone from "it's just a flu" to "Italian quarantine" in about a week? I guess since Americans are notorious for distrusting their govt, people think this is actually serious and take their own measures?
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There Bias Two posted:That's kinda hosed since not everyone has the luxury of moving with a week notice. Yeah kicking people out of their homes is insane. They’ll presumably now fly home to hang out with their older relatives...
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Mar 10, 2020 15:17
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By the time the barbarians Ottoman took Constantinople, it was a ghost town. Years of Plage emptied the city to the point only a small group of people lived there (only 50.000, from the original 400.000)
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Mar 10, 2020 15:24
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Any tips on how not to touch your loving face all the time? Since I became conscious of it I’ve realised I spend about 90% of each hour playing with my beard or brushing my hair off my face
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Mar 10, 2020 15:25
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There Bias Two posted:That's kinda hosed since not everyone has the luxury of moving with a week notice. They do if they go to Harvard
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Mar 10, 2020 15:25
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I think it was the fall of commerce that killed the Roma empire. Travelling or commerce was very hard with bandits. So people had to live with what they had in the place. Making travelling unsafe killed the Roman empire* *I made this up, but sounds cool
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Mar 10, 2020 15:27
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:I friend of mine living in the US told me his bus ride to work was almost empty, so was his workplace. Well it depends on where he lives for sure. For example in Dallas Texas no one seems to have the Roni madness yet, stores have plenty of poo poo, but my wife’s work was pretty empty. Here it’s a combination of spring break just started and people already sick with the ‘normal’ flu. I’d say probably only 20% of the people not at work are Roni madness. If your friend is in California I’d bet it’s like 99% Roni. I expect Texas to ramp up our Roni measures by the end of the week for sure.
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Mar 10, 2020 15:32
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monkeytennis posted:Any tips on how not to touch your loving face all the time? Since I became conscious of it I’ve realised I spend about 90% of each hour playing with my beard or brushing my hair off my face Shave the beard anyway since it interferes withe the seal on your mask, might as well do the whole head while you've got the razor in your hand, get an early start on that warboy look.
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Mar 10, 2020 15:32
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:So has America gone from "it's just a flu" to "Italian quarantine" in about a week? Only indication that something is going on here in S. Florida is that stores are out of isopropyl alcohol, disinfecting wipes, and the little bottles of antibacterial hand soap.
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Mar 10, 2020 15:37
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What's the situation on the ground in Seattle? I know the hospitals are all full, but are there people still milling about the streets all willy nilly?
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Mar 10, 2020 15:38
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Paul Revere 3000 posted:What's the situation on the ground in Seattle? I know the hospitals are all full, but are there people still milling about the streets all willy nilly? As of Friday downtown Seattle was basically empty of traffic and pedestrians.
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Mar 10, 2020 15:41
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monkeytennis posted:Any tips on how not to touch your loving face all the time? Since I became conscious of it I’ve realised I spend about 90% of each hour playing with my beard or brushing my hair off my face this is how it goes. keep at it for a couple of weeks and you will start to notice when you begin to move your hand up to your face and be able to stop it. awareness of how often you're touching your face is the first step towards not doing it anymore
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Mar 10, 2020 15:52
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monkeytennis posted:Any tips on how not to touch your loving face all the time? Since I became conscious of it I’ve realised I spend about 90% of each hour playing with my beard or brushing my hair off my face 
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Mar 10, 2020 15:54
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monkeytennis posted:Any tips on how not to touch your loving face all the time? Since I became conscious of it I’ve realised I spend about 90% of each hour playing with my beard or brushing my hair off my face shave
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Mar 10, 2020 15:56
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Over/under when the thread title will get changed because it's too morbid?
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Mar 10, 2020 16:02
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I touch my face constantly because I have mild seasonal allergies & I'm thinking about picking up an OTC allergy pill for this season. Normally I just do flonase during the worst of the spring and fall, and it handles the most annoying symptoms, but it doesn't do anything for itchy eyes/cough.
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Mar 10, 2020 16:06
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Captain Beans posted:Well it depends on where he lives for sure. For example in Dallas Texas no one seems to have the Roni madness yet, stores have plenty of poo poo, but my wife’s work was pretty empty. Here it’s a combination of spring break just started and people already sick with the ‘normal’ flu. I’d say probably only 20% of the people not at work are Roni madness. He's in Seattle I think. That might explain it. I didn't realize they were already that much.
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Mar 10, 2020 16:06
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mike12345 posted:Over/under when the thread title will get changed because it's too morbid?
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monkeytennis posted:Any tips on how not to touch your loving face all the time? Since I became conscious of it I’ve realised I spend about 90% of each hour playing with my beard or brushing my hair off my face  
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Mar 10, 2020 16:12
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if you don't wash your hands when you poop, you'll be naturally disinclined to touch the poop with your face
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Mar 10, 2020 16:20
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:I friend of mine living in the US told me his bus ride to work was almost empty, so was his workplace. I wish. I live in one of the more progressive areas of the US, and we have enough ultra-conservative types posting things on social media like 'we don't quarantine over seasonal flu, this is all propaganda!' While I enjoy this, because most of them are also intentionally ignorant far-right types that the world would probably be better without, it makes me sad because of their lack of caution they'll be the first infected and actually be able to get hospital beds. Meanwhile, those of us that took this seriously and eventually get infected from the tiniest slip-up a few weeks/months in will end up in field hospitals while the self-righteous assholes that ended up catching it and spreading it like mad with their lack of caution in the early days will end up recovering first.
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Mar 10, 2020 16:23
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:I friend of mine living in the US told me his bus ride to work was almost empty, so was his workplace. I'm in southern California and it's business as usual here. Traffic is still lovely, and all my 200+ coworkers are showing up every day. The only thing I've noticed is that stores seem to be sold out of disinfecting wipes and hand sanitizer. My buddy went to Costco last weekend and said that they were sold out of bottled water (why? Are people scared their utilities are going to stop working?), toilet paper, hand sanitizer and...eggs 
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Mar 10, 2020 16:30
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monkeytennis posted:Any tips on how not to touch your loving face all the time? Since I became conscious of it I’ve realised I spend about 90% of each hour playing with my beard or brushing my hair off my face remove face and place in dishwasher for safekeeping
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Mar 10, 2020 16:30
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poverty goat posted:if you don't wash your hands when you poop, you'll be naturally disinclined to touch the poop with your face I know two people at work that don't wash their hands after making GBS threads at work, and they constantly touch their own face (and constantly get sick, no wonder).
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Mar 10, 2020 16:34
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Subvisual Haze posted:By June we’re going to need more people on Earth to house all this coronavirus. It's more like as May approaches, and the numbers start to go crazy govts will implement measures to flatten the curve, and so the agony of may will stretch until july, and then by halloween we will all get to go to parties and stuff.
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Mar 10, 2020 16:36
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I know two people at work that don't wash their hands after making GBS threads at work, and they constantly touch their own face (and constantly get sick, no wonder). Sounds like a problem that is soon to resolve itself!
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SpaceGoatFarts posted:I friend of mine living in the US told me his bus ride to work was almost empty, so was his workplace. I went out this weekend (Minnesota, close to the Twin Cities) and definitely noticed a difference. Traffic only seems a bit lighter, but I went to lunch at a restaurant here that's always packed from 11-2 p.m., and there were very few people present. Hand sanitizer and wipes are showing up everywhere, and people are using them. I haven't noticed any supply shortages aside from one particular brand of white rice that is very popular with Asian and Indian families around here. My sister-in-law had to go to three different markets looking for some last weekend and bought a few pounds of it when she finally found some. My husband's workplace is testing its VPN and permitting people to work from home if they ask. edit: apparently there was an exposure in a town next to us so this may be my last post. hail satan, epstein didn't kill himself A Spider Covets fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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Mar 10, 2020 16:40
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Flying Chicago->Boston and this plane is 3/4 empty. No lines at TSA. Kinda creepy, not gonna lie. Still tried to charge people to upgrade seats if they moved though, cause capitalism.
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Mar 10, 2020 16:51
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I got a notice from one of my suppliers that they're limiting in person tours and visits and also moving all applicable employees to WFH where possible. They are in NY, so I'm wondering how long it'll be until I can take a Corona sabbatical.
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Mar 10, 2020 16:59
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Re: face touching - was just having a titter with my colleagues when we realised how much time each day we spend literally head in hands staring at a computer and despairing at the stupidity of some of the other people we work with 
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I work for a large semiconductor company. In the last couple of days most of our engineering sites sent notifications that everyone who can WFH should start doing so immediately. The ones that haven't pulled the trigger yet are expected to soon. Manufacturing is still going strong, but many of those folks work in bunny suits in cleanrooms.
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Hirez posted:I thought there was a goon in this thread who thought he was dying of it etc etc, i skipped a few days and saw he perma'd after going on and on about being an opiate addict or something I think that account was perma'd due to being a re-reg/sex pest, so that was definitely a strange saga. I guess we'll never know what became of the sex pest addict infectee the snow has been poo poo this year!! weird winter. 8 times out of 10 I'm wearing a long sleeve t shirt snowboarding because it's like 60+ degrees in the sun. not sure what that has to do with corona virus but whatever Chief McHeath posted:Coachella isn't cancelling, just rescheduling until October. god I remember a flu I got at a festival, it was known as the Belden Death Flu after the town the festival was in, and it was one of the nastiest and most virulent illnesses I've ever had. A festival is an incredible place to spread a virus, everyone's right up against each other, sharing drinks and drugs, compromising their immune systems, etc. Play fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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Mar 10, 2020 17:22
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Yay, apparently my company's CEO doesn't believe in WFH, so we all keep going into the office
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monkeytennis posted:Re: face touching - was just having a titter with my colleagues when we realised how much time each day we spend literally head in hands staring at a computer and despairing at the stupidity of some of the other people we work with 
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The Glumslinger posted:Yay, apparently my company's CEO doesn't believe in WFH, so we all keep going into the office Get that isolation bubble. Show him he’s not the only one with brain worms.
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The Glumslinger posted:Yay, apparently my company's CEO doesn't believe in WFH, so we all keep going into the office  is too good for some people.
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Genetic diversity data on the outbreak. Screenshot to show the data you can interact with. E: Here's the base URL: https://nextstrain.org/ncov Sten Freak fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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Mar 10, 2020 17:47
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The US political obsession itt is baffling. He's not wearing a mask! He must be a Trump lover! Get im! 
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My local store was completely out of toilet bowl cleaner, between this and the TP shortages I suspect that the Roni has some severe rear end related symptoms.
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Strategic Tea posted:The US political obsession itt is baffling. this doesn't make any sense
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