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I went to Total Wine on my lunch break and holy shit was it crowded. A lot of people had shopping carts completely full and I had to wait in line for about 15 minutes. I think people are worried that the liquor stores will be forced to close, but can't you order alcohol online?
As for me I'm not too worried about that because I generally drink much less once winter ends and focus more on getting back in shape.
As for me I'm not too worried about that because I generally drink much less once winter ends and focus more on getting back in shape.
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Governments tell people to distance yourself from others. And what do they do?
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One of our senators is infected and he is asymptomatic. He only found out through a voluntary test. He locked himself in his own room with only the maidservants bringing him food and stuff.
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I already can't distance myself from others because my work isn't going to shut down. Plus I'm in the lowest risk group so what do I care? If I get sick and have to stay home for a while things will almost certainly be fine for me. As for the older folks in the store? That might have been a poor choice on their part, but it's their life to live.iamgoat wrote:Governments tell people to distance yourself from others. And what do they do?
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It's a small private gym. They are not shutting down, they said.Rufus T. Firefly wrote:most sane people don't work out when they're sick - gyms are such a huge germ vector to begin with, you can barely get people to wipe down equipment with a pizza napkin after they're done.....
all the gyms here voluntarily closed for next few weeks. so yeah, hope you have some weights or something at home.
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I understand. I was aiming at all the people going to the grocery stores, crowding them up, creating cesspools of risk getting the virus. It's so backwards and stupidPaste Human wrote:I already can't distance myself from others because my work isn't going to shut down. Plus I'm in the lowest risk group so what do I care? If I get sick and have to stay home for a while things will almost certainly be fine for me. As for the older folks in the store? That might have been a poor choice on their part, but it's their life to live.iamgoat wrote:Governments tell people to distance yourself from others. And what do they do?
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"It's just the flu"
*proceeds to stock pile toilet paper, hand sanitizer and pasta*
"Yeah, no one knows about the Spanish flu though . Humanity has lost the plot yeah "
*proceeds to stock pile toilet paper, hand sanitizer and pasta*
"Yeah, no one knows about the Spanish flu though . Humanity has lost the plot yeah "
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State to state thing. I can only order booze online and go pick it up at a store. Can't have anything delivered especially out of state booze.Paste Human wrote:I went to Total Wine on my lunch break and holy shit was it crowded. A lot of people had shopping carts completely full and I had to wait in line for about 15 minutes. I think people are worried that the liquor stores will be forced to close, but can't you order alcohol online?
As for me I'm not too worried about that because I generally drink much less once winter ends and focus more on getting back in shape.
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incest adventure park is the only state with no reported cases yet
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I think there is still a massive amount of unreported/untested cases out there.
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That's a fact.
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Oh yeah for sure. Confirmed cases in wv this afternoon
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bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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how does it bounce back when no one has been workingjorsh wrote: “That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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She’s likely his pick, a black woman. It’s either her or Stacy Abrams from Georgia. Probably abrams since CA is already Blue.Skinfection wrote:Did you hear Kamala Harris say she wanted to give everyone $500? She's from the bay area, which is more expensive than LA. What a joke.jorsh wrote:(jorsh's preferred insult here) and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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Biden had better not pick her for his VP.
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Didn’t you know Dump is a magical orange wizard and just by wavering his hands in motions and pursing his lips when he talks....BOOM INSTA GREAT ECONOMY AGAIN. JUST SIMPLY TREMENDOUS FOLKS, BELIEVE ME. BEST ECONOMY OF ALL TIME.zim wrote:how does it bounce back when no one has been workingjorsh wrote: “That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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my friends sister who is a college student just lost her college job due to the college going remote for the rest of the semester. her job doesn't come back when the summer starts.
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I just ordered from Nakedwines.com. I think it was six bottles for about $35. So it turns out MN allows it, which is surprising because aside from Utah we probably have the most strict alcohol laws in the U.S. Up until one or two years ago there were no sales on Sunday, and even now stores close at 6PM on that day. Also nothing over 3.2% is sold for carryout outside of liquor stores. And the concentration of liquor stores is tightly regulated, although they're generally not too hard to find.Nick wrote:State to state thing. I can only order booze online and go pick it up at a store. Can't have anything delivered especially out of state booze.Paste Human wrote:I went to Total Wine on my lunch break and holy shit was it crowded. A lot of people had shopping carts completely full and I had to wait in line for about 15 minutes. I think people are worried that the liquor stores will be forced to close, but can't you order alcohol online?
As for me I'm not too worried about that because I generally drink much less once winter ends and focus more on getting back in shape.
I went to Total Wine again on my lunch break and there was about a 30 minute wait to get in because now they limit the number of customers who can be in the store at a time, and now they close at 8PM. Since I only get 30 minutes I had to scrap that plan.
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It also occurred to me that starting to learn a foreign language or reinforcing what you can already grasp could be a worthwhile way to spend some time stuck at home through Skype or whatever. It would also be an interesting way to find out how things are going elsewhere.
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Paste Human wrote:It also occurred to me that starting to learn a foreign language or reinforcing what you can already grasp could be a worthwhile way to spend some time stuck at home through Skype or whatever. It would also be an interesting way to find out how things are going elsewhere.
Feel free to add me on skype
This might actually be a cool way to chat with each other for the folks stuck at home.
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i think you're giving him way more credit than he deserves, he'll pick klobuchar who adds precisely nothing. all three are terrible though!jorsh wrote:She’s likely his pick, a black woman. It’s either her or Stacy Abrams from Georgia. Probably abrams since CA is already Blue.Skinfection wrote:Did you hear Kamala Harris say she wanted to give everyone $500? She's from the bay area, which is more expensive than LA. What a joke.jorsh wrote:(jorsh's preferred insult here) and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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Biden had better not pick her for his VP.
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My money is on himself for vp
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australia and NZ just banned all non-citizens/PR, 100% entry ban
hope that doesn't last long
hope that doesn't last long
more metal
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$500 a month homieSkinfection wrote:Did you hear Kamala Harris say she wanted to give everyone $500? She's from the bay area, which is more expensive than LA. What a joke.jorsh wrote:(jorsh's preferred insult here) and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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Biden had better not pick her for his VP.
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Hogan announced the first Corona related death in maryland late last night.
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are you still moving to texas
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what other assistance does the proposed bill offerSkinfection wrote:Which is still insulting. That's only 1/3 of my rent, and I know people are paying way more than that out here. Not counting other bills. Then there are the people out here with mortgages to consider. Even Mitt Romney is proposing to give people twice what she is.arborist shrub tarkington wrote:$500 a month homieSkinfection wrote:Did you hear Kamala Harris say she wanted to give everyone $500? She's from the bay area, which is more expensive than LA. What a joke.jorsh wrote:(jorsh's preferred insult here) and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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Biden had better not pick her for his VP.
Granted $500 is better than nothing, but so is a handful of rice during famine. They can do better and they know it.
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Thats almost half of my mortgageSkinfection wrote:Which is still insulting. That's only 1/3 of my rent, and I know people are paying way more than that out here. Not counting other bills. Then there are the people out here with mortgages to consider. Even Mitt Romney is proposing to give people twice what she is.arborist shrub tarkington wrote:$500 a month homieSkinfection wrote:Did you hear Kamala Harris say she wanted to give everyone $500? She's from the bay area, which is more expensive than LA. What a joke.jorsh wrote:(jorsh's preferred insult here) and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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Biden had better not pick her for his VP.
Granted $500 is better than nothing, but so is a handful of rice during famine. They can do better and they know it.
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Why are you all talking about $500 when the amount being dished out is $2,000, with an additional $500 for each child in the household?
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First child to test positive for it here was announced a bit ago.
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dude it's $1000 once vs $500 per month for at least a yearSkinfection wrote:I meant in terms of doll hairs. 1k vs $500. As far as I'm aware it's just a monetary stimulus.arborist shrub tarkington wrote:what other assistance does the proposed bill offerSkinfection wrote:Which is still insulting. That's only 1/3 of my rent, and I know people are paying way more than that out here. Not counting other bills. Then there are the people out here with mortgages to consider. Even Mitt Romney is proposing to give people twice what she is.arborist shrub tarkington wrote:$500 a month homieSkinfection wrote:Did you hear Kamala Harris say she wanted to give everyone $500? She's from the bay area, which is more expensive than LA. What a joke.jorsh wrote:(jorsh's preferred insult here) and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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Biden had better not pick her for his VP.
Granted $500 is better than nothing, but so is a handful of rice during famine. They can do better and they know it.
i hear what you're saying about the cost of living but why would you prefer literally six times less money
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also there are at least nine proposed direct cash plans, not one is law yet, everything is hypothetical
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020 ... ecks-bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020 ... ecks-bag of diarrhea inside another, bigger bag of diarrhea
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin reportedly wants cash transfers to every American household in two payments, to go out on April 6 and May 18. The size of the transfers are to be determined and will be “tiered based on income level and family size,” per a Treasury memo that Bloomberg News obtained. Mnuchin on Wednesday specified he wants $1,000 checks per adult and $500 per child.
Senate Democrats, led by Michael Bennet (CO), Cory Booker (NJ), and Sherrod Brown (OH), want $2,000 per American to go out immediately, plus an additional $1,500 in July if the economy is still suffering or if we’re still in a public health emergency, and an additional $1,000 in October if the same conditions apply. The payments would be for people with incomes under $90,000 / $180,000 for couples, and they would be per individual, so a family of four would get $8,000 at first, then $6,000, etc.
House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA) has proposed $2,000 per adult and $1,000 per child monthly checks, financed by the Federal Reserve directly printing money, for the duration of the crisis.
Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT), as part of a much bigger coronavirus relief plan, has proposed universal $2,000 monthly payments per American for the duration of the crisis, with no reduction in benefits for children or means-testing.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) proposed a one-off $1,000 check to every American adult. Romney’s proposal came early in the conversation, which helps account for its relatively small scale.
Sen. jorsh Hawley (R-MO) proposed offering all “families experiencing school closures or financial hardship” a monthly benefit worth $1,288 for a family of four, $1,446 for a family of three, $1,786 for a family of four, and $2,206 for a family of five for the duration of the financial crisis. Single parents making under $50,000 would get the full benefit, as would married parents making under $100,000. The checks would be based on 2018 tax data. Childless households would not qualify.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has proposed $1,000 per adult and $500 per child or elderly/disabled dependent for single people making under $50,000 and couples making under $100,000.
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) have proposed a plan under which “every American adult making up to $130,000 would receive at least $1,000 and up to $2,000 per month for 6 months. Congress could then renew this again for another 6 month period.” That plan, unveiled on Tuesday, is already bolder than their initial plan unveiled last Friday.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has proposed $1,000 per adult, $500 per child payments. Her communications strategist, Jeremy Slevin, told me that the checks would be sent out monthly for the duration of the crisis.
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I would like some of these hypothetical proposed but not law yet dollars.
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Nick wrote:I would like some of these hypothetical proposed but not law yet euros
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in order of both general efficacy and vigorous selfishness i would rank the nine proposals as follows
sanders
waters
omar
ryan / khanna
bennet / booker / brown
getting punched in the face
hawley
getting kicked in the balls and handed a warm wine cooler
mnumbnuts
reliving the entire 2016 election
romney
looking at tim cotton's o-face
cotton
sanders
waters
omar
ryan / khanna
bennet / booker / brown
getting punched in the face
hawley
getting kicked in the balls and handed a warm wine cooler
mnumbnuts
reliving the entire 2016 election
romney
looking at tim cotton's o-face
cotton
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Found out this afternoon that my supervisors wife works with a lady who tested positive this morning along with her child. So naturally I’m sure I’ll get it if it’s not currently festering inside me already. My previous 2 collapsed lungs should have fun with this.
Of course I called my doctors office. I was told to go to the ER because they don’t have the capabilities to test for it. Turns out the ER won’t even see you unless you’re running a temp of 101+ because of the test shortages.
And to rub salt in the wound, because of the news today only my specific department in my office is quarantining starting tomorrow and working from home. Naturally you’d think that would include yours truly but nope, they want me to still go in tomorrow for a full day (8-5) to answer any direct line calls even though he’s having the receptionist at the front forward any calls to his cell. And they know about my 2 collapsed lungs.
I guess it’s like a rookie hazing thing except with weak lungs and probable death instead of a swirly.
Of course I called my doctors office. I was told to go to the ER because they don’t have the capabilities to test for it. Turns out the ER won’t even see you unless you’re running a temp of 101+ because of the test shortages.
And to rub salt in the wound, because of the news today only my specific department in my office is quarantining starting tomorrow and working from home. Naturally you’d think that would include yours truly but nope, they want me to still go in tomorrow for a full day (8-5) to answer any direct line calls even though he’s having the receptionist at the front forward any calls to his cell. And they know about my 2 collapsed lungs.
I guess it’s like a rookie hazing thing except with weak lungs and probable death instead of a swirly.
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for a married couple, it's $250 per personarborist shrub tarkington wrote:$500 a month homieSkinfection wrote:Did you hear Kamala Harris say she wanted to give everyone $500? She's from the bay area, which is more expensive than LA. What a joke.jorsh wrote:(jorsh's preferred insult here) and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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Biden had better not pick her for his VP.
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I was starting to think $500 per person would be absolute ridiculous especially for people unable to work!Hitoshura wrote:for a married couple, it's $250 per personarborist shrub tarkington wrote:$500 a month homieSkinfection wrote:Did you hear Kamala Harris say she wanted to give everyone $500? She's from the bay area, which is more expensive than LA. What a joke.jorsh wrote:(jorsh's preferred insult here) and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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Biden had better not pick her for his VP.
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hey skinno is your governor related to joanna newsom
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that bill isn’t included anywhere else i’ve seen lists of proposals so i have decided to drop it out of my mind like an orange peel on a freewayHitoshura wrote:for a married couple, it's $250 per personarborist shrub tarkington wrote:$500 a month homieSkinfection wrote:Did you hear Kamala Harris say she wanted to give everyone $500? She's from the bay area, which is more expensive than LA. What a joke.jorsh wrote:(jorsh's preferred insult here) and Willard want to give everyone $1,000! Dirty socialists!
I texted this to my cousin who’s a huge trumptard and it and I enjoyed it immensely.
“That is gross and such bullshit. As soon as this bullshit is done the economy and will boom back like a m.otherfucker. It’s going to be cool to watch.”
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Biden had better not pick her for his VP.
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hey ryan
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i thought jorsh and stormy would rank the relief plans with me
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first case confirmed in my town today
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Just tried ordering groceries for delivery but the soonest time available is Thursday night
Doing pickup tomorrow at noon
Doing pickup tomorrow at noon
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I came down with a fever on Wednesday night. Long story short I was ordered by HR to stay home until 72 hours after the symptoms go away, so I'll be back on Monday. I've never had a fever that only lasted 16 hours with no other symptoms, so I have no idea what that was.
I don't really have a strong opinion about what we should and shouldn't be doing, but this op-ed from the NY Times by a Doctor from Yale sounds pretty reasonable (and refreshingly non-partisan) to me:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opin ... ncing.html
It's not terribly long, but here's the abridged version I originally read that focuses on the key points:
I don't really have a strong opinion about what we should and shouldn't be doing, but this op-ed from the NY Times by a Doctor from Yale sounds pretty reasonable (and refreshingly non-partisan) to me:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opin ... ncing.html
It's not terribly long, but here's the abridged version I originally read that focuses on the key points:
The data from South Korea, where tracking the coronavirus has been by far the best to date, indicate that as much as 99 percent of active cases in the general population are “mild” and do not require specific medical treatment. The small percentage of cases that do require such services are highly concentrated among those age 60 and older, and further so the older people are. Other things being equal, those over age 70 appear at three times the mortality risk as those age 60 to 69, and those over age 80 at nearly twice the mortality risk of those age 70 to 79.
These conclusions are corroborated by the data from Wuhan, China, which show a higher death rate, but an almost identical distribution. The higher death rate in China may be real, but is perhaps a result of less widespread testing. South Korea promptly, and uniquely, started testing the apparently healthy population at large, finding the mild and asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 other countries are overlooking. The experience of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which houses a contained, older population, proves the point. The death rate among that insular and uniformly exposed population is roughly 1 percent...
We have, to date, fewer than 200 deaths from the coronavirus in the United States — a small data set from which to draw big conclusions. Still, it is entirely aligned with the data from other countries. The deaths have been mainly clustered among the elderly, those with significant chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease, and those in both groups...
The clustering of complications and death from Covid-19 among the elderly and chronically ill, but not children (there have been only very rare deaths in children), suggests that we could achieve the crucial goals of social distancing — saving lives and not overwhelming our medical system — by preferentially protecting the medically frail and those over age 60, and in particular those over 70 and 80, from exposure.
Why does this matter?
I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned — will be long lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order...
Such is the collateral damage of this diffuse form of warfare, aimed at “flattening” the epidemic curve generally rather than preferentially protecting the especially vulnerable. I believe we may be ineffectively fighting the contagion even as we are causing economic fall down in a giant display of homosexuality.
There is another and much overlooked liability in this approach. If we succeed in slowing the spread of coronavirus from torrent to trickle, then when does the society-wide disruption end? When will it be safe for healthy children and younger teachers to return to school, much less older teachers and teachers with chronic illnesses? When will it be safe for the work force to repopulate the workplace, given that some are in the at-risk group for severe infection?
When would it be safe to visit loved ones in nursing homes or hospitals? When once again might grandparents pick up their grandchildren?
There are many possible answers, but the most likely one is: We just don’t know. We could wait until there’s an effective treatment, a vaccine or transmission rates fall to undetectable levels. But what if those are a year or more away? Then we suffer the full extent of societal disruption the virus might cause for all those months. The costs, not just in money, are staggering to contemplate.
So what is the alternative? Well, we could focus our resources on testing and protecting, in every way possible, all those people the data indicate are especially vulnerable to severe infection: the elderly, people with chronic diseases and the immunologically compromised. Those that test positive could be the first to receive the first approved antivirals. The majority, testing negative, could benefit from every resource we have to shield them from exposure...
If we were to focus on the especially vulnerable, there would be resources to keep them at home, provide them with needed services and coronavirus testing, and direct our medical system to their early care. I would favor proactive rather than reactive testing in this group, and early use of the most promising anti-viral drugs. This cannot be done under current policies, as we spread our relatively few test kits across the expanse of a whole population, made all the more anxious because society has shut down.
This focus on a much smaller portion of the population would allow most of society to return to life as usual and perhaps prevent vast segments of the economy from collapsing. Healthy children could return to school and healthy adults go back to their jobs. Theaters and restaurants could reopen, though we might be wise to avoid very large social gatherings like stadium sporting events and concerts.
So long as we were protecting the truly vulnerable, a sense of calm could be restored to society. Just as important, society as a whole could develop natural herd immunity to the virus. The vast majority of people would develop mild coronavirus infections, while medical resources could focus on those who fell critically ill. Once the wider population had been exposed and, if infected, had recovered and gained natural immunity, the risk to the most vulnerable would fall dramatically.
A pivot right now from trying to protect all people to focusing on the most vulnerable remains entirely plausible. With each passing day, however, it becomes more difficult. The path we are on may well lead to uncontained viral contagion and monumental collateral damage to our society and economy. A more surgical approach is what we need.
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all woefully inadequatearborist shrub tarkington wrote:i thought jorsh and stormy would rank the relief plans with me
bizarre times
the fact that ihe UK tory government's relief policies are far, far to the left of what the democratic leadership is offering is a total fucking disgrace. mcconnell is about to give away trillions in unrestricted bailouts to multinationals and megacorps and the dems are going to acquiesce for a few token scraps for workers, the unemployed, the poor and the vulnerable. the total lack of competence and complete failure to even remotely address the scope of this crisis should discredit the party and its leaders for generations to come.
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The wife and I have been meaning to do it for awhile but finally decided to just get it over with...
we filled out our last will and testament, healthcare directive, and power of attorney and named each other as well as our respective siblings as beneficiaries and executors. Just have to sign and get it notarized. Hopefully we don’t need this shit anytime soon - but figure better to have it then not. When my MIL died she didn’t have a will and while everything was civil it was still a royal pain in the ass trying to figure everything out.
we filled out our last will and testament, healthcare directive, and power of attorney and named each other as well as our respective siblings as beneficiaries and executors. Just have to sign and get it notarized. Hopefully we don’t need this shit anytime soon - but figure better to have it then not. When my MIL died she didn’t have a will and while everything was civil it was still a royal pain in the ass trying to figure everything out.
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Paste Human wrote:I came down with a fever on Wednesday night. Long story short I was ordered by HR to stay home until 72 hours after the symptoms go away, so I'll be back on Monday. I've never had a fever that only lasted 16 hours with no other symptoms, so I have no idea what that was.
I don't really have a strong opinion about what we should and shouldn't be doing, but this op-ed from the NY Times by a Doctor from Yale sounds pretty reasonable (and refreshingly non-partisan) to me:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opin ... ncing.html
It's not terribly long, but here's the abridged version I originally read that focuses on the key points:
Best case scenario perhaps. This was posted yesterday and deaths increased from “just below 200” to 307 today. It’s exponential which is alarming to say the least.