WaffleZombie posted:

Hey, what did Hank and Dean ever do to you?

Zero One posted:

Goons have been self-quarantined for decades. Now we will inherit the Earth.

MrOzzy posted:

Heh, flatlined :-D

Hazo posted:

True dark times loom when Disney WORLD shuts down because that’s basically the entire economy of Orlando.

James Woods posted:

On the way to Moscow. All the flight attendants and security staff are swearing under thier breath in Spanish and Russian about how much they hate all travelers and want us all to die since we probably already infected them. I imagine this is common anywhere you travel these days and agree with the poster earlier in the thread that said that the airline workers may likely strike before all flights are canceled for unsafe work conditions. I'll check back once I'm infecting people in the Big Apple.

Mordja posted:

They've figured out why there are so few infections in India.

mike12345 posted:

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1239293055209017346

Ralph Crammed In posted:

I'm going to avoid the playground since schools are shut here, but it's safe to still go on walks, right? As long as we stay away from others.

rear end cobra posted:

dji down 12%

Rubellavator posted:

Stellar advice from my apartment complex

Doug Sisk posted:

He has no symptoms, but got tested?

Stelio Kontos posted:

Statewide ban on bars serving liquor started at 5 lol

Necrosaro posted:

Hopper posted:

Unfortunately people still don't take the social distancing very seriously in Germany, this will probably only change once everybody has a death or severe case in their circle of friends and family.

sweet thursday posted:

Oh, burther

MarcusSA posted:

Maybe this will help?


https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1240957885665939457?s=21

I mean probably not...

Milo and POTUS posted:

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1240840590469869568?s=19

Dixville posted:

So I'm not actually sure if my work is actually supposed to be open right now. I'm a small animal veterinarian in California. I thought that veterinarians were essential but California declared a lockdown for everyone except their 16 essential sectors. When i look at the website the closest thing would be food/agriculture but technically we're not working with livestock so... i don't know, apparently some vet clinics around here have closed. We are still open though. I'm part of a corporation too so we're going by their guidance mostly. We are wearing ppe with pets and only having clients drop off the pets, no exam room appointments. Part of me wonders if this ppe is needed by our medical colleagues and we shouldn't be using it (and should close instead). This is all so crazy

Andrast posted:

A free ämpäri (plastic bucket) is one of the few things that will get finnish people to congregate like that

Hazo posted:

People are already suffering

WaffleZombie posted:

My "some businesses don't get it" story:

I got laid off at the end of December. Last Wednesday, I was offered a job. It's kind of a poo poo job comparatively - just a three month contract, about 40% of my previous salary. I stated filling out the paperwork and I found out that a drug screen was going to be part of the background check. I called my recruiter and basically said, "uh, I've been isolated for a week now and I don't want to go out unless it's absolutely necessary. Any chance they could waive it? There's a pandemic.". Friday afternoon, they passed this response along:


No, you fuckers, my home is the safest place I can be! And I know they're not collecting roni tests there, but I also know that some idiot with symptoms doesn't know that and will just show up.

I know I'm in an extremely privileged position, getting a job offer while so many are getting laid off, but it sucks. When I first agreed to interview for the position two weeks ago, I thought, "eh, it's not great, but it's something to do while I continue looking". But as we've watched the economy crumble since then, I've worried that I have to take this because maybe my other prospects are about to disappear. But if I have to get sick to get the job, well it's a contract, so no sick pay and all I've got to show for it is the roni. As it stands, I'm going to slow walk it as I have until Wednesday. I live in PA, and they're considering a stay at home order to match every other state around us so maybe that will save me.

On a related note, I work in the pharmaceutical industry with clinical drug trials. I'm going to try and put together an effort post tomorrow about my experience working on several vaccine studies.

i am harry posted:

Bing tracker says it took the world 3 days to go from 200,000 infected to 300,000 infected. . .

Fatkraken posted:

iceland rocks, that would be an INCREDIBLE dataset

is there's an antibody test that catches recovered cases? also have they closed the borders? probably one of the easiest countries to do that

Mox Hombre posted:

looks like there are a lot of false positives showing up in the tests, throwing doubt on the number of 50% people being asymptomatic. it did seem weird to me how such a virus would not trigger immune responses in such a large percentage of the people. how else would the body get rid of it then?

tripwood posted:

I was also wondering this today, any science goons can tell us how dumb or not this reasoning is?

PederP posted:

Oh, and one of my wife's relatives (same chronic illness - Lupus) went almost completely blind on one eye from hydroxychloroquine. So if this is going to be given in large doses to the entire human race, stocks in companies making glasses is probably where's it going to be at.

monkeytennis posted:

Boris is on TV. UK locked down, everyone to stay home except for commuting if you can’t work from home, food and medicine shopping as seldom as possible and one period of outdoor exercise per day.

MrQwerty posted:

Lujan-Grisham is about to announce a stay at home order

my HR department is going to debate what that means for me at 10PM this evening when my shift (might) start

Your Moms Ahegao posted:

I should mention that I am young, have no health issues, cook my own food, only drink water, don't smoke, exercise and walk a few miles most days, So its not that the young and healthy get "lesser" symptoms, they are just unlikely to straight up die from them.

Hopes Fall posted:

Not one that came with a built-in lawn bitch. And he still can't legally rent the place, which takes me back to... If he fucks me, I gently caress him.

Spinz posted:

Anything like this probably is
Try tylenol before ibuprofen
Tho I would take nothing as long as I can stand it
Oc ianad but a voracious reader

Do not drink booze or smoke anything

Hadlock posted:

There is a new, substantial study, saying that N95 masks can be stelilized of the virus by cooking @ 160F for 30 min

Less substantial study saying you can sterilize by putting masks outside for 3 hours, rotating every 30 min due to UV from the sun

I don't take responsibility if you die from the roni, but hope this helps

Also, you should be able to decontaminate a mask by taking it out of use for 72 hours, but whatever. Kind of odd that hospitals are "running out" of masks. We leave our groceries in the entry hall for 3 days to disinfect.

edit: apparently a dry rice cooker will heat to ~165F which makes for an easy covid-19 sanitizer

Pistol_Pete posted:

As someone else said: you can always get another job; you can't get a new pair of lungs.

purple death ray posted:

I wouldn't lose my job and I have stocked up to the point that yes I will stop going to the grocery store, at least for a couple of weeks, and I had been doing in-car pick up at the walmart prior to this.

Addtl info is that my direct supervisor has been out for over 2 weeks already & is still waiting to hear the results of the covid-19 test he took last week. Says he's recovering though.

e: like Im not going to the grocery store for a few weeks either way

DeadFatDuckFat posted:

They aren't going to riot. There are also not going to be dead bodies just lying in the street with no one coming to get them wtf

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Home healthcare providers, the lifelines to 12 million vulnerable Americans, are scrambling to decide how to serve patients who show symptoms of coronavirus — and how to ensure that the providers themselves neither catch nor spread it.

N95 masks are prepared to be shipped at the Afya Warehouse, a non-profit medical supply recovery organization, during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Yonkers, New York, U.S. March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Lila Engelbrecht
A Texas-based company operating in 26 states instructed its caregivers to leave the homes of clients who recently traveled from states with “widespread community transmission” or who had contact with anyone screened for coronavirus, regardless of whether that person tested positive, according to an internal directive reviewed by Reuters.

In Ohio, a group representing hundreds of providers warned the governor last week of “a sense of impending doom that things are collapsing.” Companies there said they need financial help and protective gear to continue home care.

And in New York, America’s epicenter of coronavirus cases, trade groups said dozens of caregivers have left their jobs and their patients, hurting efforts to swiftly screen at-risk adults and slow the spread of the virus.

“It’s a hair-on-fire crisis,” said Roger Noyes, spokesman for New York’s Home Care Association.

As hospitals continue to handle an influx of coronavirus cases, patients who need care but are not critically ill are likely to be sent home. If home care providers can’t stay afloat or decline to offer services, those patients will “face a rapid, immediately life-threatening deterioration” of their health, said Al Cardillo, president of the New York group.