Ohioioians ordered to Shelter In Place
https://www.mlive.com/news/2020/03/o...-in-place.html I bet Michigan isn't far behind |
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Is the lockdown over, though, because this appeared in my firehose feeds just now and somebody claimed it was Saitama Super Arena this weekend. http://cellar.org/img/saitamasa.jpg Or - does it mean masks are quite effective when used properly I don't know anything any more |
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So I don't know where that pic came from but I would be shocked to learn it is a recent pic from Japan. Japan is 1 inch away from cancelling the Olympics so this pic would be very hard to explain. |
"somebody claimed" is always likely to be wrong. Thank you sir!
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I see Canada pulled out of the Olympics |
This was the first day (March 08 - two weeks ago) of the current tournament. Article.
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With a heavy heart I called in work this morning. I am benching myself until they can get me a laptop to work from home.
I am observing as strict social distancing as I possibly can - going out for food, medicines and walking the dog - I have to walk carrot - I have no garden to let him in. I can't let him in a garden for most of the day and only take him 1 walk for exercise - every time he needs the toilet, I have to walk him. On top of that he won't do what he needs to do just anywhere - no pavement poos from Carrot. If I don't take him somewhere with grass or a patch of ground set way back from the pavement, he will hold it until he makes himself ill. I dont live in a built up area - but suddenly all the people who usually entertain themselves with socialising and sports and work, are stuck at home and all going for walks to keep themselves sane and entertained. Most people are being considerate and keeping a good distance - some are not. What is really frustrating is when you see a small group of people all walking together, all clearly making a half hearted attempt at social distancing because there's a 1 - 2 foot gap between each person, but they're walking 3 abreast .... I cannot lean any further into this dry stone wall, you fuckwads. I'm altering my route, stepping into drive ways to make room for someone to go past, crossing the road and back again, to ensure I leave 2m - and to make sure that the elderly lady who just came out of her doorway isn't having to make way, or cross the road for me. And then a runner will go by leaving a gap of about 2 feet. yesterday was a nightmare - trying to keep a distance when everyone was out on walks - as families and couples - most trying to leave a good distance and some really considerate sensible people (parents telling their kids to stop and wait so that other people can go down that street with a 2 m gap etc) but just in general very difficult to acheive that distance when so many people are out for non-essential reasons (imo) If I had a a garden for Carrot I would be leaving my house a handful of times a week for absolute essentials like food for myself or dropping stuff to mum's door, or a midnight walk for the dog so he gets a bit of exercise. I would not be out there walking for leisure Bit different for youngsters, difficult for them to get their head around being stuck in doors - I can see why a parent might end up taking them for a walk outside to burn off some of their energy especially if they dont have a garden to play in. Anyone without a compelling reason to be outside should be inside - go outside the minimum amount necessary to continue functioning. And don't walk 3 or 4 abreast down the street or lane - if you are trying to walk together while social distancing from each other, fine - but drop to single file when you see someone coming the other way. These fucking cockwombles are going to force the government to bring in much stricter rules and people like me whose dogs don't have gardens or won't shit without going several hundred meters from their house are going to be faced with a serious problem. Dont just follow the letter, follow the damned spirit - dont go out unless you have to. If you have a decent sized garden, exercise in it, dont go fucking running round the village. If you have teenagers, ground them from non-essential outings - if you have a garden they can exercise in it. If you have small children, limit the amount of outings to once or twice a week, and the rest o fthe time keep them in or in the garden )if you have one) - if you dont have a garden, be very careful where you take them to play and try to avoid the times of day when people are most likely to be trying to buy food or travel to work (those who cannot work from home) - and make sure you have them under sufficient control to ensure a 2m gap from others. People are skirting the rules, trying to show they are following them without actually really taking on board what they mean and why they are there. And that's just my little village and the people who live in but don't usually have a reason to walk around it so much. The situation in the highlands, the dales and the other remote places is even worse. Loads of people traveling to beauty spots or trying to get out to stay in the countryside, in holiday homes and campsites - making it impossible for the residents to social distance and risking total overload of local health services designed for much lower numbers. Selfish bastards. ..... Rant over. |
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K-1 event draws 6,500 in Saitama, despite calls for cancellation Wow - how dumb is that? |
It's like pics we have here then - people are mostly conforming, but once in a while they just go nuts and crowd up. There have been a lot of beach pics where there are crowds because people just have to go.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...herts-52003543
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As DanaC points out in her posts above, there is often a mixture of flexible interpretation of the rules and just plain ignoring them in public spaces.
On the other hand, I went to the local pharmacy to collect Dad's prescription this morning and the maximum number of people permitted inside was five at any one time. However, an informal system of 'one out, one in' had emerged and a queue of people two paces apart was in operation outside. While that worked well, my recent visits to the nearby supermarket didn't find any evidence of an outbreak of common sense or initiative. I queued at the check out leaving the required space from the person in front, but the people behind me were breathing down one another's necks and ultimately mine. Sometimes I despair. Yesterday I had an Email from my mate in Oz. His wife's sister had been staying with them for four weeks and had been due to return to the UK in a few days time.. She was concerned at how fast things were changing in terms of the suspension of international flights etc so re-booked her flight to arrive home yesterday. Qantas charged her an additional £800 ($920) for the privilege. Also my neighbour flew to Oz ten days ago to visit her son and his family with the intention of returning in mid April. I understand that she is more or less stranded out there until the end of May, the resumption of flights permitting, but who knows? At least she won't have to worry about huge hotel bills but it isn't an ideal situation. She did tell me before she went that it would be her last big holiday so I hope that she enjoys it. |
Brits just got the order to stay at home 3 weeks
Philadelphia region just got the stay at home order for 2 weeks today |
Oregon "stay home" order started today, with no defined end-date.
On Saturday, the coast was overrun by tourists, and by Sunday every little town full of retired seniors and maybe one ICU bed had passed their own "DON'T COME HERE" ordinance. So the State-wide order is very welcome. |
The husband of one of the ladies that runs the little outfit I work for owns and runs a grocery store. He is working and staying outside the home for fear of bringing it home. Brutal. They previously stopped the kids from working there. This thing is tearing people apart and yet some folks don't take it seriously at all. She also told me a home bound old-timer in their area recently tested positive. Somebody brought it to him.
Cuomo has a "forward" team for recommendations for turning life back on, but it seems like we're a long damn way from that. Keene Valley NY is in a similar position to Flintlandia. They're begging tourists to stay away. They don't have health facilities for this kind of thing. |
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I hope this permanently cripples the Airbnb trade in our area, we already couldn't afford housing because of predatory land-lording. It only takes one unanticipated event to shine a light on how razor-thin the ice we've been skating on is. |
....Annnd there it is. Shelter in place for Austin.
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graduation cancelled for the boy.
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People are saying that the federal government is already mobilizing specialized units, with state-of-the-art tracking technology, to ensure no isolation violations will be perpetrated by the Easter Bunny.
We're on top of this one. |
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"Enforceable by law." |
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In the same newscast, these figures were reported:
2200 confirmed cases 110 deaths. |
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Maybe we will only have a chocolate Easter. Beer manufacturers and distributors are open. Are chocolate factories and stores open? Read the fine print . |
I found this informative:
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This was also worthy:
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3 hours in the air so is 2m enough? 4 hours on copper so cover every often touched surface with copper foil. 24 hours on cardboard so let those Amazon boxes sit on the porch for a day. 3 days on stainless and plastic so wipe those bad boys with some of that booze you're swigging. |
“Up to” 3 hours.
Truth is, the virus starts “dying” almost immediately. If you looked at a graph of the number of live viruses on a surface after a person sneezes on it, it would look like a graph of the stock market over the last week. The number of living viruses begins plummeting almost immediately. But sure, wash your hands. Don’t lick the pizza box. |
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Arizona still has very few cases, and people are generally acting right, so no lockdowns yet (though bars, restaurants, etc are closed and they are considering assigning times to people for grocery shopping and pharmacies.)
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Perhaps it isn't the time for levity, but the title of this article made me smile.
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The Cellar: This is the dawning of the age of aquariums
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Touch a chicken to spread that chicken grease on your hands. How long does it take your soap to remove that grease? That is how long one must wash hands with that brand soap.
Many soaps are poor. Feel diluted. A test says which soaps will better remove that infectious protein. Many soaps from dispensers really do not clean very well. Nobody is killing a virus. A virus really does not live. That protein must be damaged or it must be removed. Removing (with better and more abrasive soaps) does more. |
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My question is do the folks that have recovered have immunity now?
I've heard yes and no. Went to the drugstore, sign out front that they would bring it out to your car or to home if you felt sick. Table right inside the door with instructions but I didn't get a chance to read them before the girl up front came over gave be a squirt of hand cleaner and ushered me back toward the pharmacy. She, like everyone, was wearing a mask, so I told her I was pretty deaf and read lips. She lifted her mask to apologize. I said gotcha. Fuck CVS, this pharmacy has personality. |
Re-infection: best current information is looking like no, based on early rhesus monkey tests
although the virus is likely to mutate and come back somewhat differently if seasonal and let's just not think about that part of this right now |
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I don’t know if anyone has seen the internet rumours about how the Coronavirus started but I’m sure the accounts of a fuck up in the Wuhan Institute of Virology seems to be a more believable story,( who according to articles I’ve read have been researching this virus since 2016’) than some Fucker eating a bowl of bat soup or something from a seafood market.
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Et tu, Brute?
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@ Be-bop - I don;t think so. And it didn't enter the population via someone eating bat soup. Best current assessment based on gene studies is that it crossed species into bats who then rapidly cross infected each other ( bats immune systems don;t go into fatal meltdowns with the presence of new viruses) then crossed into another species, possibly pangolins who then infected humans,
We don't need a culprit for this - it was always going to happen sooner or later - it does happen periodically and always has (all the great plagues and pandemics are due to viruses jumping species) - what we have is a perfect storm of a disease that is highly contagious, spread through flu like mechanisms, and a global community jumping on planes and thronging city streets |
I read a good case for the Pangolin link.
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The virus won't bother him now because he's dead... and his wife is very close to it. |
They'll probably still send him a stimulus check.
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My friend with RA hasn't been able to get it for a while...
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Yesterday Cuomo had the apex in NY 14-21 days out. They will run out of hospital beds. Cases are currently doubling every 3 days.
You know the terrible kids who are ignoring this? I know one and could have predicted this from year 5. Sometimes parents do a bad job. Flew to Colorado as the news was breaking, flew back into Philly, conned her not boyfriends Dad into picking them up, was refused entry into home, went to her college apartment to party for a couple days, started a road trip to Florida to her Uncles place , he told her not to come, stopped at her aunts place and got chewed out... Both parents have health issues and her Gramma is aged but gotta party. Pete called her on her bullshit and she straight up lied about it. |
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Always look on the bright side of life...
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The Royal family is close, except for King Harry and Queen Megan.
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Waiting in line for the grocery store now. Police are present to make sure everyone behaves. Hoping that if I got here early they might still have some toilet paper on the shelves, but given the number of people still ahead of me, I'm expecting to be disappointed.
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That family is made of strong stuff. Philip will turn 99 this year, he keeps getting hospitalized, but he keeps escaping...... I think the queen might have missed a church service once for a bad cold?
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