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So we're discussing our options and are kind of hosed with the current timeline because we're stuck in Madrid with a rental car that's due back in Barcelona next Friday and likely won't make it back before the Friday travel ban no matter what. Worst case scenario if she's confirmed to be denied entry for two weeks we're considering flying to Mexico (we live in CA) and riding the 14 days out on the cheap. This will likely result in me getting fired from my current job. The main thing we want to avoid is getting separated before this escalates further.
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Tafferling posted:About Ireland... What about the northern border? Will it be a giant clusterfuck or will the virus de facto bring unification? the exemption is for the UK (which northern ireland is part of) and the republic of ireland so it doesnt matter
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foonykins posted:3 Hours in air? Ohhh boy we are so hosed. Gotta watch out for those lingering farts.
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G-III posted:Even though I prepped and could weather this storm I'm panicked over all my loved ones who could likely perish from this pandemic. I’ve got you buddy  I’m in Australia and my parents who are in their 80s are in the UK. We were going to visit them in a May but have postponed it because there’s no way I’m going to risk long haul travel and taking the virus to them. I’m so worried that they will get ill and I won’t be able to be there due to travel restrictions, quarantine etc, so I share your fears and we won’t be the only ones unfortunately. All I can do is FaceTime them and urge them to stay home which is hard.
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szary posted:it's in PLN (1 euro = ~4.2 PLN), but that's the price for whatever's below the checkout conveyor, one frozen pizza is around 2 euro Ah, got it. I was legit concerned that Euros don't have access to cheap frozen pizza 
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James Woods posted:So we're discussing our options and are kind of hosed with the current timeline because we're stuck in Madrid with a rental car that's due back in Barcelona next Friday and likely won't make it back before the Friday travel ban no matter what. Worst case scenario if she's confirmed to be denied entry for two weeks we're considering flying to Mexico (we live in CA) and riding the 14 days out on the cheap. This will likely result in me getting fired from my current job. The main thing we want to avoid is getting separated before this escalates further. If you can get to Tijuana, I'll drive down and smuggle you across the border. We can do that trench coat thing and y'all can sit on my shoulders. Nothing to see here, just a 17 foot tall man swaying around trying to get into USA.
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Given where this comes from, grain of salt, but I went looking for any word on how smokers fared in China/etc, and this was interesting/weird. http://www.ecigarette-research.org/research/index.php/whats-new/2020/278-corona Shocking to absolutely no one, smoking is basically the 'well obviously' go-to for why Chinese men are more likely to get hit by the virus, and why their outcomes are generally worse. The studies looking at the gender divide arent loving around: fatality risk among men was thought to be 2.8%, 1.7% for women, which has been correlated with men being far more likely to smoke. These correlations do not take into account things like age, or profession, so hunting down something like '30-40 year old fatality rate among Chinese men' has been irritating, since that'll be the most accurate barometer for how you'll end up faring as a smoker. That being said: I will laugh for days if huffing lemon cookie clouds somehow prevents me from contracting this after all the EVALI poo poo, but I'm not about to bet my life on it. Old Boot fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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James Woods posted:So we're discussing our options and are kind of hosed with the current timeline because we're stuck in Madrid with a rental car that's due back in Barcelona next Friday and likely won't make it back before the Friday travel ban no matter what. Worst case scenario if she's confirmed to be denied entry for two weeks we're considering flying to Mexico (we live in CA) and riding the 14 days out on the cheap. This will likely result in me getting fired from my current job. The main thing we want to avoid is getting separated before this escalates further. From what I read, green card holders will be allowed, and direct relatives of US citizens as well, but I haven’t seen anything about people on other work visas. I’ve been particularly interested in this because my wife, who is Spanish, even after 3 years of marriage is still waiting to receive a green card, was expecting to have her parents visit us in a little over one month. I’m not confident in how any policy will be followed by the current administration, and an rear end in a top hat customs agent having the authority to gently caress you if he didn’t like the way you look, was already the way it worked anyways, for non-permanent residents.
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Belgium: At the moment the official numbers say we have about 400 infected people. That is 0.0035% of our popolation. I know already 4 people who are infected (3 tested, 1 with severe symptoms and a confirmed infected wife). These 4 people don't interact socially. Bottom line: here is something wrong with the official numbers. They are off by at least a factor 100
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MrOzzy posted:Belgium: It's been spreading for a while and is everywhere. They're simply not doing enough testing to detect it.
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MrOzzy posted:Belgium: I have elderly family in belgium & haven't heard much so I appreciate the update
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MrOzzy posted:Belgium: Great job passing the virus between your friends op
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Edit: nm, info pretty sparse
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Dying of HIV is a small price to pay to keep some boomers alive a little longer
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poverty goat posted:Today is the 1 year anniversary of Trump's last white house press briefing
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Yeah I'm not worried about getting the flu itself. I've been sick before and I'm fairly young and healthy so it wouldn't be a big deal HOWEVER, infecting the older family members would SUCK 
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James Woods posted:So we're discussing our options and are kind of hosed with the current timeline because we're stuck in Madrid with a rental car that's due back in Barcelona next Friday and likely won't make it back before the Friday travel ban no matter what. Worst case scenario if she's confirmed to be denied entry for two weeks we're considering flying to Mexico (we live in CA) and riding the 14 days out on the cheap. This will likely result in me getting fired from my current job. The main thing we want to avoid is getting separated before this escalates further. Just don't return the rental car. Tell them you're dropping it at the Madrid airport and pay whatever the penalty is for not returning it to the right place.
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MrOzzy posted:Belgium:
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Rad-daddio posted:If you can get to Tijuana, I'll drive down and smuggle you across the border. We can do that trench coat thing and y'all can sit on my shoulders. Nothing to see here, just a 17 foot tall man swaying around trying to get into USA. We're considering as a nuclear option flying to Tijuana and trying to make it across the border at 3AM with all the college students and marines. She has a CA driver's license and a valid visa but not a green card. Being an EU citizen her passport wasn't stamped when we flew in through Germany. Presumably we could claim going direct from CA to Mexico then walking back into TJ. That is unless boarder restrictions have gotten more stringent since the last time I was there which I'm sure is highly likely in Trump's America. Last I was there was with a ton of Irish guys I was living with in San Diego and they breezed through no problem. She's fair skinned with red hair and blue eyes so she'd never be mistaken for a Mexican with fake papers. Heteroy posted:From what I read, green card holders will be allowed, and direct relatives of US citizens as well, but I haven’t seen anything about people on other work visas. I’ve been particularly interested in this because my wife, who is Spanish, even after 3 years of marriage is still waiting to receive a green card, was expecting to have her parents visit us in a little over one month. I’m not confident in how any policy will be followed by the current administration, and an rear end in a top hat customs agent having the authority to gently caress you if he didn’t like the way you look, was already the way it worked anyways, for non-permanent residents. I really wish they'd clarify what status visa holders that just happened to be traveling during this shitshow are supposed to do.
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MrOzzy posted:Belgium: Absolutely. They’re not even denying it. Top virologist on national tv said it was between 5 and 10 times the test results, since a lot of people don’t get tested. But like you, I feel it’s a lot more. Not just in Belgium, though. If anything, we still do a lot of testing compared to the US.
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Someone stole all the boxes of medium size gloves from our lab supply room, and all the hand sanitizer from one of the supply rooms on one of the floors. I'm guessing they'll be caught considering all the cameras, and the fact you have to swipe your card to get in and out of rooms.
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Coronavirus Can Live in Patients for Five Weeks After Contagion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/coronavirus-can-live-in-patients-for-five-weeks-after-contagion quote:Patients with the new coronavirus keep the pathogen in their respiratory tract for as long as 37 days, a new study found, suggesting they could remain infectious for many weeks. 
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Fatigued posted:Someone stole all the boxes of medium size gloves from our lab supply room, and all the hand sanitizer from one of the supply rooms on one of the floors. I'm guessing they'll be caught considering all the cameras, and the fact you have to swipe your card to get in and out of rooms. they are already in their bug-out bunker. you should go and steal the large and small sized gloves while you still have the chance
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I am getting so insanely hammered in the butt on the stock market  Why didn't I sell earlier gently caress
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Zzulu posted:I am getting so insanely hammered in the butt on the stock market we have another thread for the world financial collapse, please post in the appropriate thread
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drunkill posted:It was probably your boss taking the supplies home to sell on ebay at a 900% markup This but I'm thinking they are wearing a skii mask, you can see them clearly going into a bathroom and looking around they look directly at the camera even, they come out in a skii mask come back with bottles in hand into the same bathroom. Exit the bathroom without the skii mask but now with a laptop bag that's budging. They take a quick glance around camera clearly catching the face.
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Tafferling posted:About Ireland... What about the northern border? Will it be a giant clusterfuck or will the virus de facto bring unification? Theres three other countries in the same EU yes , schengen no scenario. One's Bulgaria and I forget the other two.
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Splicer posted:Ireland and the UK are both in Trump's "I don't understand the EU and also I have golf courses there" club so there's no change there. Any news source referring to the UK as the sole exception doesn't understand that ROI isn't in the UK. It happens a lot. UK isnt part of the EU any more, so its safe
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Zzulu posted:I am getting so insanely hammered in the butt on the stock market I'm in the process of getting insanely hammered and eating tapas. I may have to check my girlfriend at customs but at least I don't have a fever.
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Zzulu posted:I am getting so insanely hammered in the butt on the stock market come on, it can't be—. https://twitter.com/JoshuaGreen/status/1238096331312369676 OOP. this seems like a hypothetical based on ideal conditions. not aware of any cases spread from the air.
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numberoneposter posted:If the low countries don't get their spring classic bike races they will go ballistic. Theres nothing else there to do. Its flatland and smells like industrial fertilizer. You are quite right about the bike races, not sure about the smell. For some odd reason Belgian people often go to work when they are sick. With paid sick leave a free health care we aren't financially ruined when we become sick, which is quite different from the people living in our old European colonies. We aren't very worried about getting sick and the government isn't really taking drastic measures against spreading, they are just trying to prevent a lot of people getting sick at once which would cause too much strain on our medical services. My daughter has even played "Corona games" at school. They are basically coughing in each others face and licking doorhandles. I advised against it though.
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Sirotan posted:Coronavirus Can Live in Patients for Five Weeks After Contagion There is a lot of 'maybe's in there, so don't take it as rote. Median is roughly 20 days. In other news I have been slow-buying supplies for an inevitable quarantine, and realized I picked up 3 bottles of whiskey. So I guess bring it on little virus, we'll get wasted together. EDIT: Can't they just close the market for a while to keep it from continuing to freefall due to people losing their poo poo, or will that just make things worse? I'm too lazy to Google please explain this to me like I'm seven.
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Old Boot posted:In other news I have been slow-buying supplies for an inevitable quarantine, and realized I picked up 3 bottles of whiskey. So you're prepared for a three day quarantine now?
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QuoProQuid posted:this seems like a hypothetical based on ideal conditions. not aware of any cases spread from the air. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074351/coronavirus-can-travel-twice-far-official-safe-distance-and-stay e: i guess that paper was retracted for unknown reasons 
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Lambert posted:So you're prepared for a three day quarantine now? They're 1.75Ls. So more like 9.
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