Corona Virus: It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:22 pm

Well, we've been told there's been exposure on our campus, not a direct exposure, but a family member that was exposed, but they're sending all of the people that work in that part of the building home for 2 weeks while they disinfect.

I guess I could handle working at home for a couple of weeks. We'll see if it goes that far.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:28 pm

This shit makes me think of The Stand. Then I think of Blue Oyster Cult and Don't Fear the Reaper. Then I end up with the version from the trailer to the PC game Vampyr.

malchior · Post by **malchior** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:28 pm

NY to deploy National Guard to New Rochelle. This seems more like a typical flu season every day. Cue Trump saying this is an overreaction and a Dem trying to destroy the markets, etc.

rittchard · Post by **rittchard** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:35 pm

I know this was covered earlier but for the love of God can someone please correct the spelling of "Corona" it's driving me nuts!!!!!!

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:37 pm

https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/statu ... 6217009152

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:46 pm

hahahahahaha

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:54 pm

The University where I work has cancelled in-person classes, and will be fully online, with most staff probably working from home where appropriate.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:57 pm

The future has been forced upon us.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:04 pm

Pyperkub wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:54 pm The University where I work has cancelled in-person classes, and will be fully online, with most staff probably working from home where appropriate.

+1, as of today. In person classes *might* resume on 4/6

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:07 pm

Daehawk wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:46 pm hahahahahaha

That tweet is fake.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:07 pm

Daehawk wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:46 pm hahahahahaha

This doesn't look like a real tweet, even adjusting for Trump's standards.

edit: yup.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:08 pm

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:09 pm

pr0ner wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:08 pmBAM!

Yeah, but yours doesn't have a DS9 image, so....

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:11 pm

Read a quote today that college dorms are just stationary cruise ships. Be interesting to see if they close down my daughter's small rural liberal arts college.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:15 pm

Bet the Navy is doing a hell of a lot of testing for service on ships and subs.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:19 pm

hentzau wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:11 pm Read a quote today that college dorms are just stationary cruise ships. Be interesting to see if they close down my daughter's small rural liberal arts college.

Magic 8 ball says "Likely"

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:31 pm

El Guapo wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:09 pm
pr0ner wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:08 pmBAM!
Yeah, but yours doesn't have a DS9 image, so....

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:54 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:41 am Going out and getting water by force is risky no matter how much ammo you have. Water is heavy and awkward to carry. You're better off with a lot of water/water source and a little bit of ammo vs. lot of ammo and little water.

I don't have any ammo, but I have hoarded enough toilet paper to declare myself Lord of the Wasteland.

"WHO RUNS CHARMINTOWN??"

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:59 pm

Shame I couldn't find a picture of Mr. Whipple as Auntie Entity

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:18 pm

Pyperkub wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:54 pm The University where I work has cancelled in-person classes, and will be fully online, with most staff probably working from home where appropriate.

Just got word that the Institute is doing the same thing. Classes are all canceled next week, then will be fully online after spring break. Not unexpected, but still shocking.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:18 pm

Biden and Sanders have now cancelled rallies.

Z-Corn · Post by **Z-Corn** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:25 pm

Daehawk wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:28 pm This shit makes me think of The Stand. Then I think of Blue Oyster Cult and Don't Fear the Reaper. Then I end up with the version from the trailer to the PC game Vampyr.

GODDAMMIT I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE THAT BREATHY VOCALS BULLSHIT WHY DID I CLICK PLAY?

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 6:46 pm

Daehawk wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:28 pm This shit makes me think of The Stand. Then I think of Blue Oyster Cult and Don't Fear the Reaper. Then I end up with the version from the trailer to the PC game Vampyr.

OT: Thanks for pointing out that cover, I kind of liked "The Frighteners" featuring "Don't Fear the Reaper" too.

pr0ner · Post by **pr0ner** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:38 pm

Holman wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:54 pm
LawBeefaroni wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:41 am Going out and getting water by force is risky no matter how much ammo you have. Water is heavy and awkward to carry. You're better off with a lot of water/water source and a little bit of ammo vs. lot of ammo and little water.
I don't have any ammo, but I have hoarded enough toilet paper to declare myself Lord of the Wasteland.

"WHO RUNS CHARMINTOWN??"

I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO. I NEED TP, FOR MY BUNGHOLIO.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 7:44 pm

I kind of liked "The Frighteners" featuring "Don't Fear the Reaper" too.

Great movie.

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:32 pm

First confirmed case in my county and now emergency declared.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 10:27 pm

There appears to be 1, maybe 2 cases in the SEC's DC office, so everyone there is teleworking for now. I assume that it's more or less inevitable that it'll happen in Boston also. I also assume that it's inevitable that someone in my school's community will get it at some point at that'll shut down for awhile. Should be fun.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 11:39 pm

First Dark Zone established in New York.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a one-mile (1.6km) coronavirus "containment zone" around a town north of New York City.

New Rochelle has seen "probably the largest cluster" of US cases, he said.

National Guard troops will be used to clean schools in the town and deliver food to any quarantined individuals.

Mr Cuomo said there would be no travel restrictions in New Rochelle (population 77,000) but large meeting points in the area would be closed.

Schools, gathering places and businesses in the virus hot spot will be closed for two weeks.

Officials will also set up a coronavirus testing facility at a local hospital.

"It is a dramatic action but it is the largest cluster in the country and this is literally a matter of life and death," Mr Cuomo said, adding that numbers of cases were "going up unabated" in New Rochelle.

"You're not containing people. You're containing facilities."

xtreme · Post by **xtreme** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:07 am

I think this corona thing looks like a big lie. In the past, they were inventing such lies to sell drugs and vaccines to the people

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 6:29 am

Pokes the bot.

MonkeyFinger · Post by **MonkeyFinger** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:32 am

Fox Business host Trish Regan: Coronavirus is 'impeachment all over again' As noted, bonkers.

Dogstar · Post by **Dogstar** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:51 am

New paper based on Chinese cases.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 20030593v1

The eye-openers for me were an initial R-naught of 3.86 before containment measures dropped it to .3, and that (if I'm reading it correctly) -- there were an additional 59% of undiagnosed cases floating around out there.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:25 am

MonkeyFinger wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:32 amFox Business host Trish Regan: Coronavirus is 'impeachment all over again' As noted, bonkers.

This is the (il)logical conclusion you have to come to when you keep skewing your views on reality so you don't need to feel like a monster for backing a monster.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:28 am

It is true that the one big upside to the coronavirus is that at this point it will materially lower Trump's chances of reelection, both due to Trump's obviously botched response to it and due to the likely economic impacts. The irony being that an early and vigorous response was both in the nation's best interest and in Trump's own political self-interests, but he was too dumb to realize that.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:13 am

I dont know. The MAGAs aren't the brightest bulbs. Ive seen farmers interviewed that say Trump is making them lose their farms and yet they will vote for him again. Others Ive seen still support him and think he's just peachy perfect the best even after all his stupidity and bungling and lack of caring.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:22 am

Daehawk wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:13 am I dont know. The MAGAs aren't the brightest bulbs. Ive seen farmers interviewed that say Trump is making them lose their farms and yet they will vote for him again. Others Ive seen still support him and think he's just peachy perfect the best even after all his stupidity and bungling and lack of caring.

Trump can't win with just the MAGA faithful. He also needs to win a decent percentage of habitual Republicans and white working class voters who haven't gone full MAGA. If the economy is diving in November 2020 Trump is borderline doomed.

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:23 am

Chinese health authorities and a team from the World Health Organization reported Monday evening that 3,387 health workers in China had been infected with COVID-19, more than 90% of whom were in Hubei province, the outbreak’s ground zero.

The rate of new infections and deaths overall appears to be slowing in China. But the toll on medical workers reflects the harrowing costs of a politically delayed response that overwhelmed Wuhan and surrounding Hubei’s healthcare systems. Hospital staffer were left underprotected, overworked and increasingly vulnerable, even as they became the nexus between a frightened public and a misdirected government.

Doctors and nurses fighting coronavirus in China die of both infection and fatigue

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:41 am

Daehawk wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 6:29 am Pokes the bot.

The Russians found our forum! I'm flattered.

El Guapo · Post by **El Guapo** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:46 am

Kraken wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:41 am
Daehawk wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 6:29 am Pokes the bot.
The Russians found our forum! I'm flattered.

I, for one, think that extending Putin's term in office to 2036 isn't going far enough.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:47 am

MonkeyFinger wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:32 am Fox Business host Trish Regan: Coronavirus is 'impeachment all over again' As noted, bonkers.

You know what's fiendishly clever? Most of the cases so far are in blue states! That was supposed to throw the Republicans off the trail.