Coronavirus Thread

Just did my first groceries shop since it went down. Still super bare shelves and they told me I could only buy one gallon of water. My dogs drink distilled because one had a bladder stone for a bit. We might have to make daily trips for a few days to make sure she's stocked in case of a lockdown order or something.
Maybe you can try distilling water at home?
 
Except his garbage ass brought it into the prison system, which fucking sucks and is a fucking nightmare to deal with.

An inmate sneezes and everyone is sick in two days.
 
On that topic, as long as you aren't a violent offender of any kind and you test negative, you should be released. No country has the resources to deal with a prison full of sick people.
 
On that topic, as long as you aren't a violent offender of any kind and you test negative, you should be released. No country has the resources to deal with a prison full of sick people.
Wiah woah woah, we're already being forced to reevaluate our terrible healthcare system, now you want prison reform too? What do you think this is, some sort of society?
 
Except his garbage ass brought it into the prison system, which fucking sucks and is a fucking nightmare to deal with.

An inmate sneezes and everyone is sick in two days.
I have not stepped into the prison at my office for 2 weeks, worried that I could spread it into the unit. My buzz cut is getting shaggy and I have not had a free meal for days. But I will not go in there for their safety.
 
We just had the first confirmed case in my county. Likely a spring breaking college student. I don't think he/she is physically in the county though. Nobody that I know of has been tested here. Community message boards are full of people complaining about not getting tested.
 
It's been a while since I posted here. Now is as good as a time as any.

Here are my COVID updates, if anyone is interested.

1. Third baby (a boy) was born on 3/15. No nurses or docs had masks due to the shortages. Most docs tried to keep distant which was interesting. Baby and momma are fine and at home. Due to the baby, we missed any grocery shopping, and now we've had a hell of a time getting staples. I am pissed at the hoarders. I am also pissed that grocery chains didn't put limits on shit early on. They made a fuckton of money. Now, I look like a dick for trying to buy a couple weeks worth of groceries.

2. We had my in-laws flight coming in from overseas on the 15th of April, but that is likely going to be cancelled. At this point, we've told them they shouldn't come until things blow over. We may have to eat the airfare.

3. My job will only last as long as supple chains last. If our suppliers shut down, we shut down. Also, I work with a bunch of morons who think I am paranoid about social distancing. I should sneeze on the next fucker that gets within 3 feet of me (joking, kind of). I have accepted a new position at a different company as of Feb 24th. I delayed the start date b/c of the baby. Now they have indefinitely delayed the start date b/c of the virus.

4. They are laying off people left and right at my wife's work. She might be protected since she is on maternity leave, but who knows what happens after.

5. I have volunteered my skills at the local university to help with the testing. Right now they are going a RT-PCR test which I am highly-skilled at. We'll see what happens.

6. My elderly parents came from rural Oklahoma to visit for the baby. Now I worry that they may get the virus while they are here. They would have been low risk if they would have stayed where they were.

Good luck Halforumites. Godspeed.
 
We had been fine. Wife has a sore throat and coughing, which we chalked up to seasonal allergies. Theirs are particularly bad, so flu-like symptoms are not out of the ordinary. Except yesterday they got a 100 degree fever. So we went to the hospital today to see if we could get a test. They ran one, but also requested a chest x-ray and a few other tests. Chest x-ray came back fine and we got the results of a flu test, which was negative. They told us it will be 10 days or so before they have the results, so now we just wait and see.
 
We are essentially a residential hotel, so AFAIK we won't be able to shut down any time soon. So I can't blame COVID-19 for the financial hole I'm in. So I'm basically fucked.
 
We went from 3 cases last Sunday to 56 confirmed as of this morning. The majority are either people who live here and traveled to the mainland recently or visitors from the mainland who developed symptoms while here. The governor passed a law that put everyone coming to the islands into a mandatory 14-day quarantine. Violation of the law is a misdemeanor with a $5k fine and up to a year in jail. But our jails are already incredibly overcrowded, so I see it as more of a deterrent than something enforceable. It also doesn't go into effect until Thursday. The Mayor of Honolulu has just issued a stay home/work from home order starting tomorrow. My department is considered essential, but I can do work from home. However, I found out that the City only has a set number of VPN licenses. Last week Thursday I couldn't get on the network until 3pm because of that. It's a mess already and this is just the tip of the COVID-19 iceberg. It is going to be interesting.
 
Canada has withdrawn from the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

My province just entered a state of emergency. All people who cross our border are to isolate for 14 days. No gatherings above 5 people. No going outside save your neighbourhood or to go to work. Trips to the grocery store, pharmacy are limited to once per week. Our Premier was pissed during his announcement over the level of dumbfuckery many citizens were showing about self distancing and not congregating.
 
There was a small village build for the workers of a refinery that in the end wasn't builded. There were talks about using it to house mild cases of covid19. Tonight, people living near the place burned the village before it can be used.
 
There was a small village build for the workers of a refinery that in the end wasn't builded. There were talks about using it to house mild cases of covid19. Tonight, people living near the place burned the village before it can be used.
Ah yes, the strategy of making sure the infectious are right next to a lot of people, instead of somewhere away from them.

It's like killing black cats during a plague that's transmitted by rat fleas...
 
There was a small village build for the workers of a refinery that in the end wasn't builded. There were talks about using it to house mild cases of covid19. Tonight, people living near the place burned the village before it can be used.
This is the NIMBYest NIMBY I think I've ever heard of.

--Patrick
 

Dave

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Buddy of mine's ex-wife is a respiratory RN. He's very scared. Experts are estimating that up to 20% of medical professionals working on this could lose their lives. And those numbers are based on Italy's. So here it might be worse.
 
Trump looks to be ending social distancing after 15 days

If he does this, I'm pretty sure that's about 400-500.000 EXTRA victims you can just plain put in his name, making him the most deadly weapon Russia has ever unleashed upon the USA.
Seriously. I hope states with good governors will go against him and properly close borders with those states not following the right course.
Yes, my mom was saying this too. That if people aren't going to listen anyways, they might as well go back to work. I'm pretty sure she was crying when she hung up the phone because I always fight with her about things like this. And I don't care if she cries about this.
 
Have you tried explaining to her that the people breaking the rules are just a small % of the people that would be outside and in contact if everyone had to go to work as normal?
 
Dr. Fauci, the guy face palming in Trump's CV19 briefings, and the dude in charge of the task force, seems like a genuine decent human being and excellent doctor trying to do his best in the face of this completely insane administration led by sub-human intelligence possessing man baby.


So of course, the Trumpites are beginning to tear him down.

 
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