Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

Captainfog said:
They've always expected immunity to last somewhere around a year (depending on your initial viral load) because that's what they think happens with SARS. They can't be sure yet though, obviously. The worry for me is people who have a very mild dose or display no symptoms at all have been shown to have lung damage which will put them at a disadvantage if they get exposed again in the future. We're also not sure how long immunity will last for people who were only mildly effected. Given all this uncertainty a cautious approach is surely warranted.
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Yeah...the study/article done showing people that aren't sick enough to get hospitalized die a few days later at home from strokes scares the hell out of me. They are still trying to find out why this is causing clots in the lungs, brain and other parts of the body. Seems like a immune response gone crazy.

This is what happened to the Broadway actor that had to get his leg amputated.

 
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wokeupnew said:
Are you able to do all of your job duties form home? because companies who want to get their offices back together when they're really not needed are misguided. My job will eventually ask people back but I plan on putting that off as long as I can.
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I can only do about 50% of my job from home, so my company letting me stay home has almost felt like charity to be honest. There have been days that I didn't do one thing work related during the day. So I think there's some guilt mixed in for me too. As a purchaser I need to survey my inventory, plus I help out on the shop floor when I'm caught up with other stuff. And I'm the liaison from the field guys to the shop/office when I'm there. With us being only allowed to work a handful of jobs, the demand for inventory wasn't high, once we're full-on again on the 7th it'll change in a big way.

I have a lot of friends who are CAD guys for big-three related companies; they all expect to be working from home for months, maybe even into fall or early winter.


debianlinux said:
Possibly the added sodium and MSG. Most restaurant food is very heavily sodium laden.
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wokeupnew said:
Also, I eat mostly vegetarian but whenever I have takeout food with meat in it, even if it's healthier take out I always feel like crap. I think our diets are used to certain foods and when you come across something foreign it wants to flush it out, pun intended
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I have gone a few years without any drive-thru food (Wendy's, McDonald's etc) so I pretty much think I can't do it now, total system shock.
 
The Today show was talking about the issues related to child care.

States are opening back up and businesses are expecting parents to go back to work. But schools remain closed.

There is not enough childcare available and many families are being forced to make tough decisions, such as one parent having to remain at home and not go back to work. The decision is even tougher for single parents.

For those who do have childcare, due the US having the most expensive childcare in the world, for many the cost of childcare is more than what they bring in each month from their job.

Almost every European nation is providing aid for childcare. The US is not and it hasn't even been considered by law makers.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
It can be very difficult to tell.

I probably shouldn't get into specifics, but I've been tangentially involved with development of drugs that achieve breakthrough therapy status from FDA on the strength of early phase trial results, only to find in later phase confirmatory trials that no actual patient benefit exists. Aside from being a crushing business disappointment, as well as a massive letdown to patients who need medicines that work, it's also bewildering because the science in both cases appeared sound, and yet the conclusions ended up being wildly different. As far as I know, no cause for the discrepancy in results has ever been detected.
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Why does one small trial work but a large trial doesn't? It's got to do with statistics, specifically power (or the amount of people in a study). When you do initial human trials, your main goal is to prove that the medicine will not harm the patient--is the medicine toxic to humans in some way. The first set of trials are mainly to check for toxicity. The second set of trials, statistically speaking, is to make sure that there are enough people in a study to show that the probability of the person recovering wasn't a random fluke and was, in fact, aided in some way by the medication. When a small trial is "promising" it could mean that the drug works, or it could mean that the people you studied just happened to get better on their own--which would confound your study and also is why you do a larger trial. A random one off can really push your numbers into "significant" territory, but if it's not repeated through the larger population of people, then something else, not the drug, is affecting recovery.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Didn't some of those supposed "reinfections" lead to deaths? That wouldn't be explained by false positives, but by false negatives that resulted in people being cleared of the virus when they were actually still sick, right?
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Honest answer? No idea. Separating event from conjecture these days has largely resulted in me turning everything off and drinking beer until motor functions prevent me from holding a glass.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Something I've always heard but never fully understood until I started looking into what it's going to cost me starting next year. Literally going to be 50% more expensive than my monthly mortgage.
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Boston has some of the highest costs for childcare in the country.

Boston is seeing a trend where stay at home mothers are returning. Not because they want to, they want to work, but are being left with no choice. 2/3 of people in the Boston Area have reported that childcare is unavailable or not affordable.

There is not enough Childcare available for the demand, and where it is available it often is not affordable.

For example, my bosses boss says that the cost of their childcare is more than his wife's salary. The cost of childcare for them is more than 50k a year for their 4 kids (they had 1 kid then triplets). They have had to have the discussion as whether or not it's worth his wife working or not. For her, she want's to work so that's what they are doing.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
Boston has some of the highest costs for childcare in the country.

Boston is seeing a trend where stay at home mothers are returning. Not because they want to, they want to work, but are being left with no choice. 2/3 of people in the Boston Area have reported that childcare is unavailable or not affordable.

There is not enough Childcare available for the demand, and where it is available it often is not affordable.

For example, my bosses boss says that the cost of their childcare is more than his wife's salary. The cost of childcare for them is more than 50k a year for their 4 kids (they had 1 kid then triplets). They have had to have the discussion as whether or not it's worth his wife working or not. For her, she want's to work so that's what they are doing.
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Ours is still a little cheaper than my wife's schoolteacher salary after taxes, plus it's actually preschool, so there is inherent value as well.

I'm surprised it's only $50k in Boston, that's probably with a discount because it is 4 kids. That's about what it would be here I think.

My sister is a Montessori teacher in Denver and they charge about $1900 a month. She gets half off for her kid to go there.
 
dhodo said:
Ours is still a little cheaper than my wife's salary after taxes, plus it's actually preschool, so there is inherent value as well.

I'm surprised it's only $50k in Boston, that's probably with a discount because it is 4 kids. That's about what it would be here I think.

My sister is a Montessori teacher in Denver and they charge about $1900 a month. She gets half off for her kid to go there.
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Well, he doesn't live in Boston proper. But the suburbs and has an hour train ride in every morning. I'm sure it would be a lot more in Boston.
 
dhodo said:
Wow, that's awful. Luckily, mine is only more than my mortgage for 2 kids, but it is rough. We will be rich once they start public school.
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Mine was more than my mortgage for two kids (the third was getting services through the school at 3). When they peeled off, it was like I got a second paycheck. When my daughter went to kindergarten, I finally had enough disposable income to start collecting records again.
RenegadeMonster said:
Boston has some of the highest costs for childcare in the country.

Boston is seeing a trend where stay at home mothers are returning. Not because they want to, they want to work, but are being left with no choice. 2/3 of people in the Boston Area have reported that childcare is unavailable or not affordable.

There is not enough Childcare available for the demand, and where it is available it often is not affordable.

For example, my bosses boss says that the cost of their childcare is more than his wife's salary. The cost of childcare for them is more than 50k a year for their 4 kids (they had 1 kid then triplets). They have had to have the discussion as whether or not it's worth his wife working or not. For her, she want's to work so that's what they are doing.
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If we had 4 kids, one of us would have had to stay home. This is going to be very interesting to see as wages continue to stagnate, if we are going to see a return to a parent at home because of the enormous cost of child care. We took a vacation for the first time ever last year because I got a larger bonus. Normally, our vacation fund is taken out by summer camp costs.
 
nolalady said:
Mine was more than my mortgage for two kids (the third was getting services through the school at 3). When they peeled off, it was like I got a second paycheck. When my daughter went to kindergarten, I finally had enough disposable income to start collecting records again.

If we had 4 kids, one of us would have had to stay home. This is going to be very interesting to see as wages continue to stagnate, if we are going to see a return to a parent at home because of the enormous cost of child care. We took a vacation for the first time ever last year because I got a larger bonus. Normally, our vacation fund is taken out by summer camp costs.
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I know for a fact in Boston, that childcare for 1 child is more than people who work low wage jobs make. Not just service related jobs, but production jobs like brewing beer.

At the brewery my sister works at, one of the brewers can only work the night shift, because he says if he works the day shift, the cost of child care for his 1 kid is more than what he would make for the shift worked. His wife works and office job during the day.

And brewing around a 30k to 40k a year job based on experience.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
So I ordered, um, several pounds of dried heirloom beans from Rancho Gordo when this all started, and I've been doing some reading about best cooking methods. One thing I found interesting is that RG says that once their employees have worked there for a while, most of them start to skip pre-soaking beans that they're cooking at home, which as we all know is supposedly one of the important steps for gas reduction. The Rancho Gordo theory is that the problem isn't the beans, it's our digestive systems, and the more of them we eat, the more our bodies will adjust to them. Otherwise, how do we explain cultures where beans are always on the plate? Those people aren't constantly farting. They're not better at soaking beans than we are. So what gives? To your point, maybe we just need to build that tolerance?
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100%. I used to eat a can of black beans every single day. At first I was Farty Arty. Then I wasn't, like at all. If I missed a day or two it was trouble town again. Now that I'm vegetarian I eat so much more fiber it's insane (around 80-100g a day). Now it doesn't matter if I eat beans or not I assume because my gut is full of roughage anyhow.
 
Just got an email from the property management company for my apartment complex.

They said many people have been asking if rent will go down due to current economic situations when they renew. Once again they reminded us that rent is not negotiable.

They say we have already extended everyones lease by 9 months with no rate increases. When you renew you will have the standard 3 to 10 percent increase in your rent as stated by your lease. Probably closer to 3% this year.

Basically are lease states that rent will be increased by a minimum of 3% each time we renew our lease. And by a maximum of 10%.

How is rent always going up by more than inflation and wages sustainable. Especially when the economy is seeing a decline and not growth.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
Just got an email from the property management company for my apartment complex.

They said many people have been asking if rent will go down due to current economic situations when they renew. Once again they reminded us that rent is not negotiable.

They say we have already extended everyones lease by 9 months with no rate increases. When you renew you will have the standard 3 to 10 percent increase in your rent as stated by your lease. Probably closer to 3% this year.

Basically are lease states that rent will be increased by a minimum of 3% each time we renew our lease. And by a maximum of 10%.

How is rent always going up by more than inflation and wages sustainable. Especially when the economy is seeing a decline and not growth.
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landlords are evil.

My last apartment had a small rate increase in it where I'd have been paying 5% more had I resigned the lease. I was paying $1400/month for a tiny 2 bedroom. I didn't like the apartment so I moved. However, once they re-posted the unit on the market, they were now looking to rent it for $1550/month only 12 months after I signed on for $1400. So, landlords don't care if you re-sign because they could probably get more from someone else.
 
wokeupnew said:
landlords are evil.

My last apartment had a small rate increase in it where I'd have been paying 5% more had I resigned the lease. I was paying $1400/month for a tiny 2 bedroom. I didn't like the apartment so I moved. However, once they re-posted the unit on the market, they were now looking to rent it for $1550/month only 12 months after I signed on for $1400. So, landlords don't care if you re-sign because they could probably get more from someone else.
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I posted this on another forum as well.

And the general feedback is "why shouldn't they increase rent"?

If there is demand and they can get a higher rate they absolutely will. And that I'm stupid to think otherwise.

I'm paying a little over $1800 for a single bedroom apartment now. Which is a good rate around here. I can't find cheaper if I move. But also, $1800 is considered "living above my means".

I still can't get over the fact that in Boston any new housing they have built in the last 15 years has studio apartments starting at $4000a month.
 
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