Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

dhodo said:
The toilet paper idiots will ruin us all!
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Yup.

I just saw a post on another forum about someone went to Big Lots this morning. They limited the TP to 1 bundle per customer.

A guy watch as the lady in front of him went of the the cash register with 8 12 packs and 4 9 packs of TP. When the cashier said there was a limit of one per customer a heated exchange occurred. The lady was yelling at the cashier. demanding to speak with the store manager. Saying it's her right to buy however much she wants and that the stores legally can't restrict her purchase.

They ended up letter her leave with 3 of each bundle just to ease the situation and get her out of there.
 
Quebec has just decreed as illegal any interior or exterior assembly of any number of people.

With reasonable exceptions, like for those that live in the same house or when someone is providing an essential service at home or elsewhere. It's also ok at stores and at work if required or in public transportation. However, a minimum distance of 2m must be maintained.

But no visiting anymore.

Not clear how it will be enforced but police is already enforcing the order that COVID+ people are supposed to self-quarantine. A few have been denounced and caught and returned home (only warning for now). But they are taking this seriously, which I'm happy about.
 
Memo said:
So my two of my nephews, and my sisters coworker (who all live in Houston) have been diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia... cough, fever, trouble breathing etc.
none of them have been tested due to lack of symptoms...
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Uh, what symptom are they lacking?!

Hope they feel better soon either way!
 
dhodo said:
Uh, what symptom are they lacking?!

Hope they feel better soon either way!
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At this point I believe they’re crossing out all “possible” other things, and having Covid testing done as a last resort... instead of it being the primary thing to check. Which is extremely reckless since my brother in law (son is sick with viral pneumonia) has an auto immune disease...
 
Just checking in.

I need to ask if I’m delusional or balanced.

I’m pretty chill about this compared to many others. I understand it’s serious. I get it. I do what I can to stay safe and to help keep others safe. But I have an essential job so I concentrate on that.

I check the news online twice a day for updates. I’m pretty much resigned to whatever happens..happens. It’s pretty much out of my control. The virus lives in air for hours and on surfaces for days. I can’t cease to breathe (while living) or touching things. I don’t float through space.

That said, I wash my hands in HOT water probably 5x what I did pre virus. I change clothes and shower when I get home from work, along with my morning shower. So my habits have changed.

Statistics show the vast majority of us will survive even if we are infected. The odds are on my side. And if I’m wrong, I have to go sometime.

I am very concerned about the economy for the next couple of years. That will affect everyone. Not everyone will catch COVID19.
 
HiFi Guy said:
I am very concerned about the economy for the next couple of years. That will affect everyone. Not everyone will catch COVID19.
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I generally appreciate your sentiments but I think there's a couple of flaws in logic in this bit. Right now we're at a sort of crux - we can choose to go on with our lives as they were, and a major portion of the population WILL catch COVID, resulting in a lot of deaths and even more people with reduced lung function, or we can choose to hunker down for a year and... I've been sitting here for a minute but can't think of a better way to phrase it past "not have that happen." I don't think most people are put at ease with the concept of catching a disease with a potentially 1-in-25 mortality rate, particularly when they could be personally responsible for giving it to someone they know, padticularly when it's so cleadly leathal to a certain portion of the population. And not everyone will be affected by the economic slowdown in the sense you mean, and if it's a matter of portion of the population COVID and Wall Street probably work out to have the same virulence.

EDIT: And it works out in no-one's favor for hospitals to get maxed out, whether you're going in for routine checkup to chemotherapy.
 
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Phaneronic said:
I generally appreciate your sentiments but I think there's a couple of flaws in logic in this bit. Right now we're at a sort of crux - we can choose to go on with our lives as they were, and a major portion of the population WILL catch COVID, resulting in a lot of deaths and even more people with reduced lung function, or we can choose to hunker down for a year and... I've been sitting here for a minute but can't think of a better way to phrase it past "not have that happen." I don't think most people are put at ease with the concept of catching a disease with a potentially 1-in-25 mortality rate, particularly when they could be personally responsible for giving it to someone they know, padticularly when it's so cleadly leathal to a certain portion of the population. And not everyone will be affected by the economic slowdown in the sense you mean, and if it's a matter of portion of the population COVID and Wall Street probably work out to have the same virulence.
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My life work wise must to go on as normal. If my industry goes down, everyone is fucked. You’ll have nothing in any store. Nothing.

While I’m away from work, I’m usually home. Nothing has changed there. While I’ve met a few people from here IRL, I’m generally quiet and private. I was socially distant long before it was necessary.

Economics? A 20% decline is in line with the Great Depession. I’ll likely be ok financially, but this will affect everyone whether or not they were ill.
 
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