Covid-19

[Marauder06]

It reached West Point now too.


"The Academy's Superintendent, Lieutenant General Darryl Williams, explained in a letter to the West Point community that cadets and faculty will return at a time to be determined. There is not yet a decision on how the COVID19 situation will affect the graduation of West Point's Class of 2020."

 

[CQB]

This is rich:

“The Islamic Emirate via its Health Commission assures all international health organizations and WHO of its readiness to cooperate and coordinate with them in combating the coronavirus,” said Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban’s spokesman, on Twitter, using the term the group uses to describe itself.

Yeah, until they aren't.

I was a doctor, honest!

 

[Ooh-Rah]

 

[ThunderHorse]

It reached West Point now too.


"The Academy's Superintendent, Lieutenant General Darryl Williams, explained in a letter to the West Point community that cadets and faculty will return at a time to be determined. There is not yet a decision on how the COVID19 situation will affect the graduation of West Point's Class of 2020."

VMI has closed the post completely. The last time a class didn't graduate it was 1864...

 

[RackMaster]

It reached West Point now too.


"The Academy's Superintendent, Lieutenant General Darryl Williams, explained in a letter to the West Point community that cadets and faculty will return at a time to be determined. There is not yet a decision on how the COVID19 situation will affect the graduation of West Point's Class of 2020."

There was a suspected case 3 weeks ago at RMC.

4 Royal Military College cadets in precautionary COVID-19 isolation at CFB Kingston

VMI has closed the post completely. The last time a class didn't graduate it was 1864...

RMC has done the same. Although civilian staff have their union bringing up that cadets are still mass fed in the mess hall. Unless everyone started being fed box lunches, I'm not sure how they could feed so many efficiently and safely.

National Defence union worried over RMC’s continued operations amid coronavirus pandemic

 

[SaintKP]

Currently have 3 of my employees that are plausible for coronavirus. Waiting on test results to come back in the next 5-7 days, so this coming week is looking to get interesting.

One thing I can say is that McDonalds is almost always on the forefront of food safety and sanitation practices, so it'll be interesting to see the follow up actions if it turns out they are infected.

 

[SaintKP]

Well that was fast, store closing early and Deep clean and sanitation to occur effective immediately. Gonna be a long night.

 

[Muppet]

Would be very interesting to see a listing of comorbidities or some other analysis of those patients in U.S. where their condition was serious or resulted death.

Off my head:
-Heart problems such as MI, CHF and so on
-Resp problems such as COPD, asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis
-Diabetics, morbidly obese, sepsis, immunocompromised
-Age, older but, many age ranges are now known

That's off my head....
-Age

 

[ThunderHorse]

Off my head:
-Heart problems such as MI, CHF and so on
-Resp problems such as COPD, asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis
-Diabetics, morbidly obese, sepsis, immunocompromised
-Age, older but, many age ranges are now known

That's off my head....
-Age

TMZ posted this article about a dude who had gone to Disneyworld died of COVID-19. Sucks for him and his family. But like with many of the mortal cases, he had other issues. Listed at the bottom of the article: testicular cancer survivor, asthmatic, and history of bronchitis.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Well that was fast, store closing early and Deep clean and sanitation to occur effective immediately. Gonna be a long night.

You guys going to go “drivethru” only for the duration?

 

[DA SWO]

So gun sales are up 600 percent including ammunition. So gun check, toilet paper check, water check.

The people asking why you have guns are buying guns, LOL and scary at the same time.

This is not good.

China threatens to restrict critical drug exports to U.S.

Fucks them in the ass long term. We'll have to buy via 3rd Party, (costs more) but in the end production WILL shift from China , and their economy will suffer.

But, but, but... Their drugs were cheaper than keeping the manufacturing in the States!

US businesses - you are now learning first hand the concept of consequences. How do you like your brazillion dollars now?

LL

Yep, have a friend who works for Apple, he patiently explaned cost benefit vs oportunity and I asked how they make money not selling products. An old say, don't put all your eggs in one basket.

We should have never been in a position of dependence in the first place. Some hard lessons are going to be learned from this pandemic.

I've made one roll of TP last all week. Tomorrow my twin 16-year old boys come stay for the week...they seem to have contests on who can clog up the toilet the fastest. I may have have to ration out the shit paper.

Buy a couple of MRE's and give them the TP, tell them to learn how to wipe themselves with it.

Could go political or Kung Flu but trigger is flu and the comments are party agnostic.



A Lot of People Are Finding Out You Can’t Just Buy a Gun Online - Omaha Outdoors

But, but, but Gunshow loophole...

An interesting study. I guess I'm fucked.

China COVID-19 study: blood type O are more resistant, type A are more susceptible to infection

Sucks to be me.

 

[DA SWO]

Rumor is LE and the NG are going to be apart of enforcing that order. I’m so glad to live in the People’s Socialist Republic of California. It’s the perfect place for a viral outbreak.

Of course they are. We are losing an Information Operations opportunity to the PRC. This is not the media’s fault; this responsibility lies with the government, DoD, and the public at large to raise the alarm.

The media is gladly repeating the CCP position, I wish they'd judt stick with western medical experts until the crises lessons.
CCP owns some of everything, so I suspect the media is doing what a major stockholder (China) is telling them to say/do.

What causing me some angst is the lack of communication about and end game. All we are getting are random dates:

- 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

This is causing panic and a run on various supplies.

File this in “shit I’d never thought I’d type...”

Coronavirus Makes Taliban Realize They Need Heath Workers Alive Not Dead

I shit you not, this is the actual headline on Reuters.

And ISIS is telling it's folks not to go to Europe, LOL.
Aloha snack bar y'all.

Prepping for COVID?

"People do a lot of weird stuff on deployment. After about four months in Syria, the novel I was writing sort of ended up in a corner that I couldn’t see a way out of. So I said to hell with it and decided to start another project as a palate cleanser. The idea I settled on was: What would it be like to experience the zombie apocalypse from the perspective of someone who was genuinely, properly prepared?"

Is novel another name for case study?

It reached West Point now too.


"The Academy's Superintendent, Lieutenant General Darryl Williams, explained in a letter to the West Point community that cadets and faculty will return at a time to be determined. There is not yet a decision on how the COVID19 situation will affect the graduation of West Point's Class of 2020."

AF BMT is now 10 weeks long, they spend the first two weeks in quarentine, I can't imagine how that is going (co-ed barracks and horny teen agers.)

 

[ThunderHorse]

For whatever reason, the AFL and NRL are going to be the only live sports in the World for a hot minute. Australia is spinning up a professional Domestic competition that will run 10 weeks with their 4 Super Rugby teams and the Western Force. Supposedly New Zealand will do the same.

Talk about Flattening the curve among the peasants, but keeping them entertained.

 

[AWP]

And ISIS is telling it's folks not to go to Europe, LOL.
Aloha snack bar y'all.

You mean you can't "insh'allah" your way out of CV-19? Strange...

 

[SaintKP]

You guys going to go “drivethru” only for the duration?

We had already switched to DT only about 3 weeks ago, before that it was dispensing cups, straws, essentially everything minus filling the customer cups themselves. We had even gotten to where we refused filling any thermoses or refilling coffee. We would provide a new cup and lid.

Interestingly enough even switching to DT only our sales haven't taken that much of a hit relative to everything that's going on. TTM we were cruising at a 25% increase, now with switching to DT only we're currently only at a 17% increase as of this month.

So while we've taken a hit, it's been relatively marginal. Guess people bought all the toilet paper but forgot to get groceries.

 

[AWP]

"Oh boy! Deployment's almost over!"

Slow down...

U.S. Central Command Statement on Quarantine procedures into its Area

TAMPA, Fla., March 20, 2020 —
U.S. Central Command has ordered a stop movement of all forces deploying to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility to either U.S. commands or U.S.-led coalitions and initiated the requirement for a 14-day quarantine at home station prior to deployment. U.S. Central Command will work with U.S. Transportation Command to ensure that deploying forces will also be quarantined in route to their final destination.

 

[BloodStripe]

 

[RustyShackleford]

Thanks brother. It's disconcerting and scary....

I’ve been discussing this aspect of it at work with the other sup and some of the crew. We get overly exposed to everything out there then go home to our families who are supposed to “social distance” themselves to slow the spread.

 

[BuckysBadger24]

I work at Saint Gobain in their Life Sciences branch. The room I work in makes glands, which create a safe barrier for liquid to pass through IV's. They're talking about a contingency if things go on complete lockdown of having us, another room that makes IV tubing, and the room that makes our material living at the company for a minimum of 2 weeks as it's been determined that we cannot shut down under any circumstances, due to the large increase in demand for these parts. The rest of the plant, which mostly makes parts for elective surgery, would be shut down.

I didn't think that would ever be a possibility when I heard it, but with each passing day I'm no longer so sure. Monday should be interesting. Crazy times these are.

 

[GOTWA]

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Jokes on us after all these years...

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