One, it’s still the fault of the US, as per the CCP. Two, this will be down the memory hole soon enough, because the CCP does not make mistakes, falsify documents, or cover up pandemic outbreaks.
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Considering that China's numbers for the infected have sat aroun 80k for over a month...yeah, not buying their shyte.
Good to see a US state enact martial law.
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What causing me some angst is the lack of communication about and end game. All we are getting are random dates:Good to see a US state enact martial law.
- School's out til Apr 1
- CA on state lockdown until Apr 13
- Etc Etc Etc
Has anything been communicated in regards to what signifies the "all clear"? I'm having a really hard time with the while duck-and-cover schtick and not having anything on the horizon to say when we get to X, then we can get back to work.
United States Coronavirus: 14,339 Cases and 217 Deaths - Worldometer
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I’ll try and keep my eyes and ears open. I’m not sure how the State is going to enforce such an order, what the exemptions are (folks in my field of work are considered essential services, though my department isn’t what I would call essential), and what “the end” will actually look like.
It’s really confusing with sources spread across a myriad of opinions on how widespread and severe this situation is.
It’s really confusing with sources spread across a myriad of opinions on how widespread and severe this situation is.
It’s partially based off incubation periods (two weeks) and recovery times (two-three weeks). You can’t predict the end of this, and it is a best guess scenario, similar those displaced by war.
Some are calling it a “black swan” event which I disagree with. We know virus and disease pandemics happen. Pandemics are not random events. We know they happen; what is within our control is steps we take to limit the impact. This current situation is correlated with a lack of responsiveness and not being postured to respond.
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Thank you for that response, sir.
You are among a handful of members here whose opinions I've learned to genuinely value.
It looks to be six to eight months here.
Whew...I'm glad I'm not the only one who has dreams of dressing like a nun to have sex with a midget while an 8 ft. long purple salamander masturbates in the corner.
Sharing makes the world a little less lonely.
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Well played!So you started on mefloquine early?
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It's starting to look that way here. Some provinces, like Alberta, cancelled the school year outright and are going to plan for a September start. Federally they were slow to implement anything and now there seems to be more coordination between the different levels of government. But they are still letting decisions be made at the province/territory level, as some don't have confirmed cases yet.
I've seen/heard a bunch of stories of schools/businesses being straight dicks in this. I'm talking keeping schools open until teachers test positive, or not laying off/firing workers and just telling them "no work for 8 weeks" so they can't get unemployment.
Figured I'd share what my university is doing in this.
Right now, the only employees working on campus are essential staff; that's the maintenance crew, health/wellness, upper level administrators, and my cooks. To not have so many people in building, they are scheduling us for 3 days, admin pay two, and then two days off.
As for students; all of our students in the dorms will be out Monday. For those who can't go home(out of state/international) the school is paying to put them up in the student apartments near campus.
Furthermore, the school is has decided to still pay all student staff. We're figuring out each student employee's average hours, and they be paid that biweekly until the end of the semester.
I'm often a bit pessimistic about how much large universities care about staff and students, but this is a huge show of good faith.
Figured I'd share what my university is doing in this.
Right now, the only employees working on campus are essential staff; that's the maintenance crew, health/wellness, upper level administrators, and my cooks. To not have so many people in building, they are scheduling us for 3 days, admin pay two, and then two days off.
As for students; all of our students in the dorms will be out Monday. For those who can't go home(out of state/international) the school is paying to put them up in the student apartments near campus.
Furthermore, the school is has decided to still pay all student staff. We're figuring out each student employee's average hours, and they be paid that biweekly until the end of the semester.
I'm often a bit pessimistic about how much large universities care about staff and students, but this is a huge show of good faith.
Got the emails today from uni, we are shutting down as of next week and in that time the staff will all be redesigning the coursework to start “technology-enabled learning and teaching”...so we are going online. Should be going again by the 30th March. It sucks, but they are just doing what they feel to be right by the students as well as complying with the new government restrictions.
In about 10 days we have gone from just over 100 cases and now sitting at 854 last count. This thing has really taken off here.
Sincere thanks to all our healthcare workers here and everyone here who is facing the dangers of this every day.
In about 10 days we have gone from just over 100 cases and now sitting at 854 last count. This thing has really taken off here.
Sincere thanks to all our healthcare workers here and everyone here who is facing the dangers of this every day.
To add - some of big banks today announced that they are letting people defer their mortgage repayments for up to 6 months if their employment gets affected by this.
This will be a massive load off a lot of people’s shoulders.
This will be a massive load off a lot of people’s shoulders.
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Before anyone gets too excited. Scarecrow is in Australia.
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Study: 17.9% Of People With COVID-19 Coronavirus Had No Symptoms
Interesting that 15 - 20% may be asymptomatic. It has been suspected kids may generally be asymptomatic but this implies a portion of adults are as well. To me this speaks to two important facts:
1. Controlling spread may be very difficult, especially if you feel OK.
2. Lends additional credence to the number of under reporting of cases
3. It can be presumed that serious cases would've resulted in hospitalizations. With that in mind, this may actually be good news from the perspective that it reinforces the belief that 90+% cases are mild; so mild that you may not know you even have the virus (which is a double edge sword, as noted in #1 above).
Interesting that 15 - 20% may be asymptomatic. It has been suspected kids may generally be asymptomatic but this implies a portion of adults are as well. To me this speaks to two important facts:
1. Controlling spread may be very difficult, especially if you feel OK.
2. Lends additional credence to the number of under reporting of cases
3. It can be presumed that serious cases would've resulted in hospitalizations. With that in mind, this may actually be good news from the perspective that it reinforces the belief that 90+% cases are mild; so mild that you may not know you even have the virus (which is a double edge sword, as noted in #1 above).
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Those big, bad banks...
Many are deferring all kinds of debt for up to 90 days for those facing hardship. They'll still accrue interest but may defer payments for a period of time.
This is a good thing.
