Coronavirus Freakout 16: Escape from New York

Previous thread

Carry on

Thank you OP. Stay safe.

💕 Sylvia, I bet you're always the first one to the party.

And you wash all the dishes before you go to bed.

And of course, you always wash, sanitize & moisturize !

Stay safe vile cunts

Would have been nice to include the freakout poll. Next thread please.

It is so shocking to imagine Broadway will be closed for one month. Company will miss opening on Sondheim’s 90th Birthday.

No Country for Old Men would have been better.

And someone sent me this as well, for some reason:

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Here is the Iranian death pits.

I liked "Brother, Can You Spare A Mask?"

That title got a lot of hits on the old thread.

The death pits make me think of Auschwitz.

I thought that too R12.

Sondheim shouldn't be going to theaters.

I can't breath

Trumps latest PSA

Kenneth Copeland healed viewers of the coronavirus through their televisions last night

so Katie Porter got the CDC head to say yes on free testing for everyone for corona. How quickly can that actually happen?

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They're saying everyone is going to be exposed to it eventually, so I'm thinking it would be good to get it early. Then, I'll be able to take advantage of bargain basement airfare and hotel prices. The world will be my oyster -- if I don't die.

My Whole Foods in White Plains NY was not too busy and had plenty of items on the shelf.

Coronavirus EDM conspiracy thread 🙄

The Atlantic's Amanda Mull:

I think the impulse for many people is to look at things closing down or events cancelling right now as a sign of doom, but for the most part I think it's cause for optimism—someone in charge of something is taking this seriously, and doing what they can to limit interactions.

We might have already been exposed to The Corona.

R21 It's still unclear whether you can catch it again or not

CNN: An American Airlines pilot has tested positive for coronavirus, according to the airline and a second source familiar with the matter.

The pilot is based out of Dallas-Fort Worth, according to the source.

Kenneth Copeland should be sharing a jail cell with Jim Baller.

Miss Gloria Gaynor does her part for public health awareness

The Bishop of our Catholic Diocese granted a special dispensation for anyone who chooses not to attend Mass during this crisis.

I imagine this will become the norm throughout the US, probably throughout the world.

Suspected (but not yet confirmed) first case in Alabama

I called today about my jury duty on 4/1 and was told I would need a doctor's note and to file paperwork to get out of it (I have a chronic condition). I told them I could not get in to see my doctor until late next week and he told me that they would reschedule me in 3 months to give me time to get the paperwork in. Better than nothing I guess, but no signs that Chicago will close their court system for this.

[quote]The death pits make me think of Auschwitz.

Really? They burned the dead at Auschwitz.

Miss Lindsay in on the fainting couch for two weeks or so... if self quarantine after a weekend at... Mar A Lago.

Lie down with dogs...

And if it won't pain you too much, Nancy Pelosi, I'd be much obliged if you'd tell me why you're staring at me. Has my face gone green or something?

The dead from this viral disease need to go straight to crematorium without funeral to not compromise other people or facilities.

There’s angst at the glitzy downtown hotel where Rudy Gobert — the NBA star who tested positive for coronavirus — and his team the Utah Jazz recently stayed when they were in New York.

Insiders tell Page Six that — after learning on Wednesday that Gobert has the illness — staff at The Dominick Hotel in Soho were so perturbed about an apparent lack of concern on the part of the hotel management that some of them called their unions for help.

The team was in town to play the Knicks at Madison Square Garden on March 4th and stayed at the hotel on March 2nd and 3rd.

But the hotel — formerly the Trump Soho — told Page Six Thursday in a statement, “Prior to the team’s March 11 announcement that one of its players tested positive for the novel Coronavirus, The Dominick had published and distributed new operating procedures which addresses precautionary measures and had implemented elevated cleaning practices.”

It added, “We continue to be vigilant in maintaining the highest level of safeguards for the health and well-being of our guests, employees, and visitors.”

Gobert apologized on Thursday for his careless behavior before he knew he had the disease. On Monday — apparently as a way to mock the NBA’s decision to keep reporters six to eight feet from players — Gobert had made a point of touching every reporter’s microphone or recording device during a press conference.

On Thursday he said on Instagram, “I would like to publicly apologize to the people that I may have endangered. At the time, I had no idea I was even infected. I was careless and make no excuse. I hope my story serves as a warning and causes everyone to take this seriously.”

I saw video from Times Square and not many people were out and about.

so sad....

Quarantined couple die of coronavirus two hours apart in Italy

An elderly Italian couple who had been married for 60 years died two hours apart of the coronavirus while under lockdown – and their son is heartbroken that he was not allowed to visit them one last time, according to a report.

Luigi Carrara, 86, and Severa Belotti, 82, were confined to their home in Albino, in the northern province of Bergamo, for eight days without medical help, according to their son Luca Carrara, the Daily Mail reported.

Carrara’s father, a retired bricklayer, was taken to a local hospital on Saturday, while his mother was taken there the following day, the son told the daily Corriere della Sera, the UK news outlet reported.

His parents died on Tuesday – one at 9:15 a.m. and the other at 11 a.m., according to the report.

dubbed the “most expensive speech in history”.

Coverage of how devastating the dotard's work last night was:

Donald Trump, the US president, sparked the chaos when he declared a 30-day ban on flights from Europe, excluding the UK and Ireland in what was dubbed the “most expensive speech in history”. The president’s announcement prompted immediate confusion and he was forced to clarify that the restrictions would apply only to people, not goods.

The CBOE Vix index – Wall Street’s “fear gauge” – hit a post-crisis high.

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, said Mr Trump’s travel lockdown was “stupid beyond even my wildest fantasies” as there are already more than 1,200 US coronavirus cases.

When US trading opened, stocks instantly crashed by enough to trigger “circuit-breakers” for the second time in a week, prompting a 15-minute suspension to trading. As activity restarted, the indices continued to fall, with the benchmark S&P 500 entering bear market territory and ending a record-breaking 11-year run of gains.

Imma just park this here.

This needs to be on one of Bloomberg's billboards yesterday.

Such a sad way to end a long life. Can you imagine surviving almost a century and then being done in by a terrible cold?

I guess I'd rather die of a terrible cold than explosive diarrhea by Ebola.

Thanks to the gals from Frisco; this song has been in my head for two damned days!

"Frisco Frau was a friend of mine."

It's not a "terrible cold," R42.

It shreds your lungs until you drown.

Yes, I know, R45, that's why it kills you. Sorry I wasn't more literal for you.

Escaping NYC as we speak. Feel a little bad that I may be a carrier - though feel fine now.

Today felt very 9-11-ish in NYC despite the sky not being so blue.

I read this in previous thread:

[quote]R591 It's very hard even for well connected and well informed individuals to stay on top of the current news. Very sad that the most susceptible to the disease - the elderly - are also the ones who have more limited and less reliable sources of information.

It would be nice if those of us not wrangling living parents “adopted” a troubled elderly person on their block or in their building, to check in on, explain reliable news to, helped stocked their larders, etc.

Of course, we should all be keeping our eye out for such a person in need, anyway, but maybe the current situation will spark some new May/December friendships?

[quote]R18 so Katie Porter got the CDC head to say yes on free testing for everyone for corona.

I thought this said Katie Perry - -

I am so jealous of you Americans and Europeans. I live in Hong Kong and things are boring. We only have 1-2 new cases per day because everyone knows what to do after SARS. I want some madness in my city.

R49 that was me and that's a lovely idea. My elderly parents are up to date with me but they have a couple of friends that may need checking in on. Thanks!

Caitlin Doughty of Ask a Mortician says corpses of those who've died from a disease are pretty safe. Because they're not going to touch you or cough or sneeze on you.

[italic]R63 I guess I'd rather die of a terrible cold than explosive diarrhea by Ebola.

With Ebola, you bleed from every bodily orifice (eye sockets, etc.) as your insides break down and turn to mush.

Death by diarrhea would be a cakewalk, in comparison.

Oops.

Italicized for EMPHASIS, I guess (???)

[quote]R53 corpses of those who've died from a disease are pretty safe. Because they're not going to touch you or cough or sneeze on you.

But still use a condom, right?

A brief tangent here; but [R205], LaGatta; and [R200], “cereal poster”on the other thread, “Coronavirus Freakout 14: Quarantine of Solace” speculated on who is “Pierre”. This is me at link. Please continue after this respite.

Are you being sarcastic or stupid r33 ?

Everybody seems to be hyper focused on toilet paper. I installed a bidet, so I could care less. The grocery store is stocked up on everything else.

I like to wipe my ass with cottonelle, it's weird that no one has been buying that up. It was even on sale last weekend so I stocked up.

[quote]I like to wipe my ass with cottonelle, it's weird that no one has been buying that up. It was even on sale last weekend so I stocked up.

I ordered a big pack from Amazon. Came next day.

Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line now closed until the end of the month

Cotton Elle is great if you want toilet paper that sheds and collects in bunches in your hole and hole adjacent area. I’d rather use a rag on a stick!

They have started drive through testing in Denver Colorado. You need a doctors note though.

⏳ CORONA TIME 9:30 PM EST

🌎 GLOBAL :

CASES: 134,670

DEATHS: 4,973

CRITICAL: 5,944

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES :

CASES: 1,716

DEATHS: 41

CRITICAL: 10 ?

R65: That last number is total BS!! Someone stopped the information flow...

As re: testing, is it our goal to all go out and get tested. now? It seems like since it’s here, we’d all just get infected perhaps the very next day, after getting a negative result. I mean, are we supposed to get tested WEEKLY? Daily?

Wouldn’t one want to get tested only if one shows symptoms? It seems impractical, otherwise.

Kenneth Copeland and similar charlatans need to be executed. Their followers believe this hocus-pocus (while financing the lavish lifestyles of crooks like Copeland). He is leading people to believe they've been "healed" when, in fact, they're spreading the virus to others.

Seth Meyers:

Trump Addresses the Nation on the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Closer Look

Anybody else think there might be a run on the banks & ATMs?

R49 - noble though that idea is, an inevitable consequence is that a load of DLers will think their hot young neighbours are interested in them.

R70: no.

In aid of what? This isn't a financial crisis, it's a health crisis.

A financial crisis will surely follow, R72. It's inevitable.

Who needs cash in this day and age anyway?

You never know, R74.

R72 ummmm the market just tanked today worse than ‘87 and they pumped $1.5T in and futures are still going down. We’re in a medical and financial crisis.

[quote] R67: Wouldn’t one want to get tested only if one shows symptoms? It seems impractical, otherwise.

I’d like to be tested now because it would put some finality to my worry If I were positive. It would mean no more disinfecting my house. Fear of opening the mail. So forth. I’d self quarantine so as not to spread the virus, but it would actually put my mind at ease. But only if there were tests available as in other countries.

Was the 2009 swine flu pandemic like this? The closings and hysteria I mean. I was too young. Looking at wiki it says up to 1.4 billion people were infected.

[quote]Was the 2009 swine flu pandemic like this?

NO! I don't even remember it, apart from the name.

If you have no symptoms, but get tested and are positive, what difference does that make?

[quote]Was the 2009 swine flu pandemic like this?

Hell no!

R80 so you know for sure to isolate yourself for two weeks

Sophie Trudeau test positive for COVID-19

^*tests*

I got swine flu in 2009. It was the sickest I've ever been. I remember wondering if I was going to survive, but also not having the energy to care. I was 30.

R83 “Trudeau will also stay in isolation for 14 days, but on the advice of his doctors, will not be tested because he has no symptoms.”

These leaders aren’t testing to avoid massive panic with people thinking the government is failing.

I live in a town dominated by a large SUNY, which is being shut down. Students have been told to return home.

My business is going to tank because students make up a large percentage of my clientele. I already spent a chunk of my cash savings for expensive surgery for my dog and post surgical staph infection care - she had to stay at the hospital.

Stressful times. I will need to ask my elderly father for help - I don't want to have to do this, but I won't recover financially until the students return (next fall?).

[quote]If you have no symptoms, but get tested and are positive, what difference does that make?

Well, it helps that person isolate so they do not infect others who might be more at risk. It's also really good for self-absorbed stupid people who wouldn't know the obvious if they met it in the fucking street.

[quote]These leaders aren’t testing to avoid massive panic with people thinking the government is failing.

Not likely the American experience.

R86 I don't understand this. Why would he NOT get tested, even if no symptoms? Not only for peace of mind but also to show the importance of doing it.

Makes no fucking sense.

‘Insane That We're Leaving D.C.’ Sen. Merkley On Break Amid Coronavirus Pandemic | All In | MSNBC

[quote] R70: Anybody else think there might be a run on the banks & ATMs?

Maybe. I did get $200 a couple of weeks or more ago thanks to you all, but I have nothing to spend it on. I pay things online, mostly.

During the 2008 Crash, the government stepped in to guarantee money market funds which were not previously guaranteed. (I think they are no longer guaranteed, btw). If they didn’t do that, it would have been the end of everything. I think we were within days of a total collapse of everything.

A good movie to see is HBO’s “Too Big to Fail”. It describes how a crash can happen, and was entertaining, and educational today.

The regulation after 2008 eliminated the risks of another 2008, Uncle Billys. You're really winding yourselves up with this one. This is a bear (stock) market, not a liquidity or capitalization crisis.

If both Trump and Pence revealed that they were tested and positive, that might mean a brief Pelosi Presidency, and the markets would not like the potential of that, never mind that Trump could keel over from fatness at any time. Too much change, too fast.

Chris Hayes: The Failure Of Coronavirus Comes From The Top | All In | MSNBC

R94, the markets have indicted that they would like a different course of action.

R93 the risk is real. Wheelbarrows for bread? A War precipitated that one, this is very bad. The Fed is gearing up to print money like they’re fucking Oompa Loompas at Willy Wonka’s factory.

I have enough food for 50 or more days. Not that it’s good food, but I have it.

I can isolate, but I do like getting mail. I know, I know, but I still get mail. I don’t really want to sanitize my mail. Maybe a few other things I do that puts me at risk.

If I heard right, sunlight kills the virus, so for now, we just need to hang on until April or so.

If Trump and Pence died, the markets would rejoice.

If Trump and Pence died, the markets would rejoice.

Literally ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. Rich assholes go to the Hamptons.

I don’t think I can or want to stop rubbing my eyes. They itch.

[quote]R74 Who needs cash in this day and age anyway?

And does the coronavirus live on bills + coins?

I wonder...

R99 I would think Iran is sunny and hot ...

Rather than self quarantining, why doesn’t Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz get tested for the coronavirus?

Yes, they think it can live on currency. Other countries are trying to figure out what to do about that.

Like this, R97?

[quote] They're saying everyone is going to be exposed to it eventually, so I'm thinking it would be good to get it early. Then, I'll be able to take advantage of bargain basement airfare and hotel prices. The world will be my oyster -- if I don't die.

I'd rather get it later after they have perfected the treatment and there's an available ventilator.

[quote] I have enough food for 50 or more days. Not that it’s good food, but I have it.

I have enough food for a 50 day fast.

R99, it’s summer in Australia, yet Tom Hanks caught the virus there.

CNN-President Donald Trump is the first world leader to suggest postponing this summer's Olympics

President Donald Trump has become the first world leader to suggest postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.

""This is just my idea … Maybe they postpone it for a year," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, 134 days before the opening ceremony is scheduled to take place in Tokyo's Olympic Stadium. "

Trump added that delaying the Olympics by a year would be a better option than holding it with no crowds. However, he said he would not relay the message to Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, according to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK. The pair held telephone talks Friday Japan local time.

In response to Trump’s comments, Japan’s Olympics minister, Seiko Hashimoto, stressed the preparations for a “safe and secure” Games was still underway.

“I’m aware of President Trump’s remarks, however, neither the IOC nor the organizing committee has considered any postponement or cancellation of the Games," she said.

Trump’s latest comments came as the Olympic flame lighting ceremony kicked off in Greece Thursday, and as International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said Tokyo 2020 would go ahead as planned.

What happened to the Cancelled By Coronavirus thread? It disappeared from my watched and I can't find it in a search either.

CNN-Chelsea soccer player Hudson-Odoi tests positive for coronavirus

The 19-year-old player is the latest soccer figure to test positive for the virus. The English Premier League is set to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss future matches.

I'm being trucked in on monday to perform a concert for - cameras. the audience which normally assembles every week, has been sent away. we are being paid to do only a webcast

CNN-Coronavirus patient says he's still testing positive a month after contracting the virus

Coronavirus patient Carl Goldman is still testing positive for coronavirus about one month after contracting it, he told Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Thursday during CNN’s Global Town Hall, “Coronavirus: Facts and Fears.”

Goldman said he last tested positive on Thursday, meaning he would remain in isolation in Omaha, Nebraska, for the coming days while health officials continue to take samples.

"I'm not the only one," he said. "There's a bunch of us from the Diamond Princess ... that are still in the same boat I'm in."

A retrospective study published Wednesday in medical journal The Lancet found that, among nearly 200 hospitalized coronavirus patients in China, viral shedding ranged from eight to 37 days among survivors, with a median of 20 days.

[quote]it’s summer in Australia, yet Tom Hanks caught the virus there.

Aussies are saying Hanks and Wilson were infected elsewhere and brought it with them.

For R104.

Here in Ireland, all schools and colleges are closed, cultural institutions are closed, outdoor gatherings of more than 500 banned, St Patrick's day is officially off.

Public transport is still on though, so once I finish attempting to teach my students online, I might go out to some windswept cliff walk somewhere and stare at the sea for the day.... not quite as depressing as staying in my rented room all the time.

I have enough food for 2½ hours.

R117 I think they flew into Australia from Europe and started feeling sick.

Trump and Pence not being tested is the ultimate sign of incompetence, but good riddance if they go out.

Darfur O R120 I have enough food for you to never feel hunger and a guest home for you never to feel cold or hot.

Trump is watching Fox News and fuming. And tweeting:

[quote] Sleepy Joe Biden was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!

and:

[quote] “The Obama White House had to immediately issue an apology for Joe Biden’s remarks, and any alarm that he might have caused, an alarm about a Swine Flu outbreak that took 6 months for President Obama to declare a National Emergency, and that killed 12,000 Americans.” @LouDobbs

Stop paying any attention to him.

R119 I've always wanted to take a day and stand on a windswept cliff walk somewhere and stare at the sea.

Marry me?

[quote]"This is just my idea … Maybe they postpone it for a year," Trump told reporters

Of course he did. Get ready for the Doral Olympics 2021. Events include:

Greased-palm relay

Broken-tile obstacle course

Timed carpet-stain removal

Golf cheating

Steak-and-ketchup eating

Glad handing

Fallen-tree hurdles

Bedbug dodging

I've given up. I just can't understand the stupidity of Trump and his supporters.

It's already in the Hamptons. 3 cases at Southampton Hospital and 6 on the North Fork. R102

DLers from UK are you worried about your country doing next to nothing to stop the virus? No shutting down schools or mass gathering. The Liverpool match two days ago was played with full crowd. They still haven't decided whether they would suspend the EPL. I wonder what will happen to UK in the next few weeks.

I don’t see how the olympics will happen this year. Even if stuff starts to clear up in May, that’s just the beginning of picking up the pieces. It ain’t happening this summer.

Any further updates about the number of official tests that have been conducted by the CDC? The last information I saw was around 7000 which is a complete joke for a country as big as the US.

Anyone remember this from 2017? The WHO is sketchy.

R132 here. I found the statistics myself on Guardian. Only 11000 now!

I am worried for the UK. Now all Europeans will just book flights into and out of London for travel. Their airports will become hot zones. The travel restriction is.a joke.

For those of you who don't have time to read the article, there were only 8 official tests on Tuesday. 8!!!

Quote: It shows that on Tuesday, the most recent entry given, the total number of specimens tested across the whole of the US was eight.

I’m so scared. Didn’t the WHO walk back the money claim? I need to go to sleep but I’m so scared and anxious.

I’m so scared. Didn’t the WHO walk back the money claim? I need to go to sleep but I’m so scared and anxious.

After hoarding all my wet clothes from our communal laundry room out of fear of something both of my next door neighbors can't stop coughing and I have a sore throat. I've been drinking star anise tea which have helped me to never get a cold or flu for many years. My parents in Santa Monica still refuse to prep. I'm not joking when I say my neighbors might be sick they work at the hotel industry and deal with people all day. They've being coughing for hours on end.

Relax r138. There’s a ton of misinformation going around. The truth is no one knows much. What’s gonna happen is gonna happen. Do your part by practicing social distancing.

R138/R139, all we can do is our best.

1) Social distancing

2) Sleep. It bolsters your immune system.

3) We can advise our parents, but we can't make them do anything. They're adults; it's their choice. All we can do is inform them.

Think of it this way: If you make yourself sick with anxiety, you'll be taking a hospital bed from someone who will need it more urgently. Take care of yourself.

Thank you R141 💕.

I don’t know what I would do without DL. You make me laugh and many give me hope at least some of us have their smarts and wits about them. Always good for a laugh and some legit knowledge.

Now off to read the Go Fund me boyfriend thread for some levity.

R86

Reagents are in short supply. Only testing likely infected is prudent until more can be produced.

“ The regulation after 2008 eliminated the risks of another 2008, Uncle Billys. You're really winding yourselves up with this one. This is a bear (stock) market, not a liquidity or capitalization crisis.”

The federal reserve is injecting $1.5 trillion in liquidity into the system today and tomorrow. TRILLION!

This is definitely a liquidity crisis, because banks do not trust counterparty banks. They believe that one (or more) of the Global Systemically Important Financial Institutions (G-SIFIs) is about to default.

Deutschebank is my pick.

R97

Weimar her we come!

Actually, the euro will be the new hyperinflation currency before it destroys the rest of them.

R133

Tedros is sketch!

#FlattenTheCurve

#StayTheFuckHome

I have cough but it's from allergies, I'm in texas so every time I gonout to the store etc. And I start coughing people start getting paranoid, god I hope this shit ends soon. Swine flu was also about coughing and everytime you coughed everyone would get paranoid and run away.

They just confirmed the first death from the corona virus here in Norway. The government officially have blood on their hands. Let this be a lesson: you can never trust conservatives. They will always fuck us over. The only thing they care about is profit. They should have shut down schools weeks ago, instead they waited and even more people got infected.

I don't even remember swine flu, and I was 52 when it happened. Why is this panic so much worse?

R87 On the flip-side, at least you have your dog to eat if things get really bad.

Is THE COCK in East Village still open?

And r151, if you succumb, your dog can eat you, so clean up is a snap!

Peter Dutton, Home Affairs Minister (and extremely right wing) contracts COVID-19.

Here is a photo of him with Ivanka and other deplorables in the US LAST WEEKEND including Ivanka Trump!

Most cases of COVID-19 have come from Australians returning overseas. Add Peter Dutton to that list!

[quote] What happened to the Cancelled By Coronavirus thread?

It, too, was canceled.

Cancelled thread link

R154 Ivanka, Kellyanne and Big Billy Barr met with him. Will any of them get tested?

This is getting wild! Surreal.

"Trump and Pence not being tested is the ultimate sign of incompetence, but good riddance if they go out."

I bet they've all been tested already. But if they say they haven't been tested, they don't have to publish the results.

We will get through this, and we will get through this together on DL.

If the internet and DL had existed in 1981, history would have been quite different.

Schools just closed here in Ohio, and people are panic buying.

Heeeeyy! I'm Spaniard, and I have the coronavirus, I made a positive last night. I'm not in the hospital, there are beds only for old people or patients with a previous pathology.

As we have free health care system, the hospitals have collapsed.

My boyfriend, her sister and a few friends have it. Is like a flu, I have had worst flues than this.

Everyone is going to get infected at some point. I'm happy it happens now, so I can just forget about it as soon as possible. Believe me, don't freak out.

If you guys have any questions, just ask.

Can't believe the Australian Defence Minister is sick in hospital with the virus and spent time recently with Trump and Ivanka. Would he have passed it on to them or they to him? Less than a week ago.

There must be far more cases out there in the general population in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, then the official stats would suggest. Take the junior Health minister in the UK, Australia's Home Affairs Minister, Trudeau's wife, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson for a start.

There seems to be far too many high profile people with it. High profile people are a very low percentage of the general population, but well over-represented in the COVID cases.

I know they interact with a lot of people, and are coming and going from overseas, but a lot of everyday people do to.

Either these high profile people with the virus are really unlucky, or corona is more prevalent then the official stats would suggest.

The first case of someone in China suffering from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, can be traced back to November 17, according to government data seen by the South China Morning Post.

Chinese authorities have so far identified at least 266 people who were infected last year, all of whom came under medical surveillance at some point.

Some of the cases were likely backdated after health authorities had tested specimens taken from suspected patients.

Interviews with whistle-blowers from the medical community suggest Chinese doctors only realised they were dealing with a new disease in late December.

Scientists have been trying to map the pattern of the early transmission of Covid-19 since an epidemic was reported in the central China city of Wuhan in January, two months before the outbreak became a global health crisis.

Understanding how the disease spread and determining how undetected and undocumented cases contributed to its transmission will greatly improve their understanding of the size of that threat.

According to the government data seen by the Post, a 55 year-old from Hubei province could have been the first person to have contracted Covid-19 on November 17.

R158 Would we be discussing what would be on the GRID Walkman Mix-tape?

R163 There was a wave of sick people in Australia (with a large Chinese population, that frequently comes and goes from China to Australia) around November last year.

It was a flu-like sickness with a constant sore throat and dry cough (itchy throat).

Yeah, probs, R164, and fewer people would have died.

[quote] Either these high profile people with the virus are really unlucky, or corona is more prevalent then the official stats would suggest.

When I'm feeling the most paranoid and freaked out, I tell myself that maybe we've all already contracted it, and that's why they're not rushing the testing - they don't want us to know how many of us already have it and how truly fucked we are.

I am in NYC, and I'm quite sure I already had this in December.

After a month off from the gym in November, I went back full-force. After three days of touching machines and weights and not being unusually careful about handwashing, I got what I thought was a bad chest cold. But it was unusually severe and long, and it involved a fever—I never have fevers, but this went away and came back for more than a week.

I am HIV neg and have been celibate for more than a year, so it really tweaked my radar, FWIW.

r163,r165, r168 I too believe I had this in late December. There was a bad "flu" going around here in Los Angeles, my boyfriend got it first, then a lady I do dog walking for. I felt like I was going to die. My entire body ached, I had fever, chills, headache and I coughed so much I started to cough up blood. Took me at least three weeks to recover fully, the worst was over in a week and then it took another two weeks just to get my strength back.

^It was only starting to spread in China at that time. I doubt this was already massively spreading around the globe in December. You probably only had the flu. Did your doctor not test you?

What I had was very unusual, in that I felt exhausted, canceled a trip and stayed out of the gym for two weeks.

I didn't cough up blood, but it really knocked me on my ass. And it motivated me to order zinc lozenges, which I used and worked or didn't work, who knows.

[quote]I have enough food for 2½ hours.

Chew your maggots more slowly Darfur Orphan.

I think my my husband and I both had it last month, and it was very mild. All of the symptoms described, including diarrhea. Not much sneezing at all. We were back to normal in three days.

Normally I would say it was a common cold or allergies, but the no sneezing or nasal congestion was odd.

Could we have had it? Both 50, normal health and weight.

r170, I never saw a doctor. I don't have health insurance but I also figured it was just the flu so why bother? I just stayed in and took zinc and vitamin c. Normally, I never get the flu. I can't even remember the last time I had it. per r163 it started in November in china, Its not a stretch to think someone infected from china came to Los Angeles around that time.

25m ago 11:19 - Guardian. (Fortunately, organisations in the UK are taking actions that the government is unwilling to do. Boris is following the Trump playbook. Delay, confuse, mislead and most importantly no testing)

All professional football in England suspended Paul MacInnes Paul MacInnes The Premier League, the Football League and the Women’s Super League and Championship have suspended all matches until 3 April in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Paul MacInnes reports.

An unprecedented development, it follows the revelation overnight that several Premier League clubs have members of staff, including players and coaches, who are displaying symptoms of the virus.

[quote]I called today about my jury duty on 4/1 and was told I would need a doctor's note and to file paperwork to get out of it (I have a chronic condition). I told them I could not get in to see my doctor until late next week and he told me that they would reschedule me in 3 months to give me time to get the paperwork in. Better than nothing I guess, but no signs that Chicago will close their court system for this.

Thanks r32. It's amazing in light of incredible statements such as President Macron of France for example, saying something about 'worst event in generation." I lost the quote but it was something along those lines. Anyway, I also have jury selection duty on March 30 and I am NOT going. Canadian PM Trudeau has got it. It is spreading and it is just starting. I have a doctor's appt Monday and am getting a note to cover myself. I cannot risk going and sitting in a dank, office building for the required 7-8 hours with OTHER unknown people for jury selection.

15 min - CNN. EVERYTHING the administration is saying is a lie.

Confusion over the availability and criteria for testing is leaving sick people wondering if they're infected From CNN's Ashley Fantz, Scott Bronstein and Drew Griffin

Samples being tested for respiratory viruses are pictured at Leeds General Infirmary in Leeds, England, on Thursday. Samples being tested for respiratory viruses are pictured at Leeds General Infirmary in Leeds, England, on Thursday. Credit: Danny Lawson/Pool/AFP/Getty Images A group of first responders in Washington state, a scientist in California, a woman at an assisted living facility in Florida -- all worried because they believe they might have coronavirus but say they can't get tested.

They and many others tell CNN they're suffering symptoms associated with Covid-19, and are worried they may have come into contact with someone who has the virus. They are angry and frustrated after trying to get tested, only to be turned away.

Their stories came into CNN's tip line even as Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday told CNN's morning show, "New Day," that anyone with a doctor's order could get tested.

"There's no barrier ..." Pence said. "Make no mistake about it, we're making steady progress." A primary care doctor in Massachusetts said Pence's assertion that anyone with doctor's orders for testing can get it is "totally false."

There is strict criteria for testing: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is only approving testing for people who are critically ill, have been exposed to an infected patient, or who have recently traveled to certain heavily impacted countries outside the US.

Even if a patient is approved for testing, there just aren't tests on hand to use, said the physician, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

"Even if the patient were around and exposed to someone coughing, sick, sneezing, I cannot give them a coronavirus test," the doctor said. "We are being crippled by our department of public health and the CDC on our ability to combat this pandemic."

[quote]Either these high profile people with the virus are really unlucky, or corona is more prevalent then the official stats would suggest.

Well, the official stats only list those people who have been tested, which, in the U.S. is hardly anyone. So of course it's much more widespread than those figures suggest.

For example: As of yesterday, five people in Ohio had tested positive.

Based on that and "evidence of community spread," the Ohio Health Dept. estimated that 117,000 Ohioans are currently infected.

[quote]There must be far more cases out there in the general population in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, then the official stats would suggest. Take the junior Health minister in the UK, Australia's Home Affairs Minister, Trudeau's wife, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson for a start.

To that I'll add: Boris Johnson (eventually); David Beckham (lives on planes); Princess Beatrice and Italian boyfriend; Prince Harry and wife; Others Royals (Charles; Camilla etc); Heidi Klum; Oprah; Gayle; Anderson Cooper; Andy Cohen; UN officials; diplomats; etc

I thought Trudeau didn't have it?

I'm so glad Nancy Pelosi moved to impeach Fatso when she did. A month ago, we could have been rid of him, but the Senate stepped up to save him. And look what they get in return.

In Senate elections across the country, this should be driven home again and again through 2020. The Republicans in the Senate could have stopped him, but instead saved him. And he has destroyed everything with his bungling of a public health emergency.

Justin Trudeau's wife came back positive. Latest info:

[bold]“The Prime Minister is in good health with no symptoms,” the statement from the PMO said. “As a precautionary measure and following the advice of doctors, he will be in isolation for a planned period of 14 days. Also on the advice of doctors, he will not be tested at this stage since he has no symptoms. For the same reason, doctors say there is no risk to those who have been in contact with him recently.

That racist Trudeau has whats coming to him.

Yvonne is telling you now so she doesn't have to tell you later:

THIS IS IT!!!!

WOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

R160 the hospital system has collapsed BECAUSE Spain has free healthcare (it’s not free, you pay through your taxes)? Sure, Igor, I mean Juan.

Attention DFW Gays and Frisco Frauen! We have our first community spread case. Wash your hands and be well.

At this point, people that know they have the virus are probably going to see Trump on purpose.

i dont understant why doctors advise Justin Trudeaunot not be tested. Whats the harm?

Ugh, Balch Springs.

Frisco Fraus, don't Gunner and Addysyn need new Easter outfits? I'm sure it's safe at Stonebriar. The kiddos will love it!

#DallasGAY

There are always silver linings.

The Mormon Church announced Thursday it is suspending all public ceremonies and gatherings of its members around the world over the new coronavirus pandemic.

The church said it took the measures after consulting government and medical officials, and had "sought the Lord's guidance in these matters."

The suspension until further notice affects "all public gatherings of Church members" including worship and conferences, a letter to members said.

[quote] had "sought the Lord's guidance in these matters."

And the Lord did speak unto them. And saith the Lord, "You fuckers are fucked!!"

Now the asshole is blaming Obama for the testing fiasco . They had weeks (years even since he's been in office) to get their shit together. Tactic 1: stall and delay didn't work, so now he's moving on to Tactic 2: Blame Obama for everything. And suddenly now "widespread " testing will be available. He must be getting very desperate to already go to the blame Obama option so quickly.

Dallas judge Clay Jenkins declares public health MARY!emergency. I have to out later and stock pile lip gloss, do we know if Prada makes a hazmat suit?

I want to see how the markets react today. Feels like things are normal. I have a political event get out the vote event to attend on Saturday. I really thought that it would be cancelled but the campaign is chugging along. I sure as hell won’t be knocking doors as originally planned. Just give me a call list and move on.

R173 I’m now wondering if I had it too back in December as well as my husband. He got WHALLOPED with pneumonia out of nowhere right before Xmas. One second he was fine, the next second he collapsed. We took him to the hospital and he was diagnosed with pneumonia. They discharged him the next day but he was in bed for 7 days after with absolutely no energy, a fever and diarrhea. I had similar but much milder symptoms the week after.

This is starting to feel apocalyptic.

You have to figure behind the scenes Trump is getting a lot of bad news, which he’s pretending doesn’t exist in public. So the more he claims everything is under control, the more you know it isn’t.

For him to be saying it’s Obama’s fault already, it means he’s been told the shit is about to hit the fan.

What will he do if Ivanka gets it? She’s been exposed, and he’s been exposed multiple times. Will they isolate, or will he just go on infecting people like a Typhoid MARY!

For all we know he already knows he has it, but is continuing to spread it because he refuses to admit it. He’s in the same room with Pence all the time. It’s likely Pence, Mother, Ivanka and her family all have it. It’s highly contagious.

I hope Nancy is being extra careful.

R162 The offical numbers for Australia are correct apart from a couple that may have gone under the radar.

Most of the cases have been imported from mainly China, Iran and the U.S. Others from other parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson & Peter Dutton all picked up the virus in the U.S. - that has been established.

Other cases have been from people who came into close contact with someone who had been overseas (i.e. live in the same house).

There are a small number of people with whom Australian authorities are working with to determine where they picked up the virus as they have not been overseas and have no known contact with anyone who has recently returned from overseas.

The number of these cases are very small and with further investigation will in most cases locate a 'contact'. Over 30,000 Australians have been tested. There is no evidence the disease is running rampant in the country = the medical system would have picked it up. Thats not to say that in a weeks time cases may triple but for the time beginning everything appears to be fine.

Also, large gatherings of 500 or more are banned from next Monday as a protective matter to try and limit as much as possible local transmission before more drastic measures need to be introduced.

Australia has a good handle on this.

France now banning all gatherings of over 100 people. Time to edit those wedding guest lists etc

Praise the Lord! My workplace put out a statement encouraging remote working. My department is going to a skeleton crew of one person in the office per day!

Can we give credit to the OP(s) of these threads? In typical DL fashion they saw the writing on the wall and kept the conversation moving. Thank you!

R186 thank you for the updated information! R189 I haven’t been to that mall in years.

A woman on Frisco Nextdoor posted that she sells life insurance and “in light of present circumstances” would be happy to talk to anyone. What an entrepreneur!

All the public schools around here have closed for an extra week. I suspect in a week or two they’ll cancel the remainder of the year or move it online.

Please stay safe DL.

Why the fuck was the CDC and WHO so goddamned slow? Why can’t we buy test from Korea or China?

Why is China saying SARS-Cov2 is from the US Military ?

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[quote]i dont understant why doctors advise Justin Trudeaunot not be tested. Whats the harm?

They're generally only testing people who have symptoms, and I think you can go several days without testing positive even if you do have it. They may simply be waiting for a time when the test would be more accurate.

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I’m still shocked that Chicago banned gatherings of 1000 or more yet will continue with school. Most kids in the city take public transportation to school, when outside of walking distance, so that’s thousands of additional carriers roaming the city and passing each other.

One person joked that this was payback to the teachers union for their (almost annual) strike earlier in the school year. Obviously it’s a joke.

R203, you are so right. Facebook is a piss-poor way to solicit opinions.

Just think of the information he could have amassed instantly if he had placed his request at Datalounge.

My next door neighbors, an entitled millennial hetero couple, are getting wed in late April. Bitches are panicking.

I commute into Manhattan for work. Morning trains are normally packed, every seat taken.

This is my train car this morning:

The lack of testing in the US is egregious—maybe even criminal. I have a feeling when history looks back on our government’s response to covid it will not be too kind.

R209, wow, good for you! but virus can still stay on surfaces for 2 or 3 days so please be careful! heard that subway ridership is down as well.

This will be hard on the porn industry and escorts. Those activities are not known for "social distancing."

Please, think of the sex workers.

So, we can assume that Madonna will now cancel the rest of her Madame X tour...to prevent potential human suffering.....from the coronavirus, of course!

My husband is the GM of a tourism attraction in NYC. Today he has to tell the employees (over 100 of them) that they are closing for the next 30 days, if not longer. They will be furloughed, so not getting paid. This will devastate many of them, as there are lots of single parents, etc.

It's heartbreaking, as there's nothing more he can do. The employees are eligible to apply for unemployment with the State of NY, but that will take weeks (usually 6) to get their first check, which will only be a couple hundred $ per week anyway.

This is bad.

Oh, and the furlough applies to all employees, salaried and hourly, so my husband won't be getting paid either.

NBA player Rudy Gobert was of course staying at The Dominick, formerly the Trump Soho...developed by Trump and criminal asshole Felix Sater! Rudy Gobert mocked the coronavirus safety precautions and was later diagnosed with the coronavirus, of course!

Naturally, the stupid schvartze was staying at the cursed Trump monstrosity. I assume many will die, and many who don't will vote for Trump again! It's like a movie no one would ever believe.

Bloomberg:

New Coronavirus Test 10 Times Faster Is FDA Approved

President of Brazil tests positive. Trump has it.

Washington Post:

Live updates: Trump administration announces steps to speed coronavirus testing; Australian official who met with Barr tests positive

Trump has coronavirus! Tell EVERYBODY!

NYT:

Trump Ties Obama to C.D.C.’s ‘Inadequate’ Testing System

The silver lining in this is seeing all the state governments acting aggressively and swiftly. Trump is almost an afterthought in all of this. We don’t need or want him. If the virus doesn’t get him (which I believe he 100% has) then we’ll be kicking him to the curb in November.

From FUX: Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

WH has emergency meeting re Bolsonaro. Guess one of their allies infected means they will be sending the best medical care available down to him. He's probably too new to be aware of secret stash of harvested plasma with antibodies from China available to the rich and connected in the US.

I got my hair cut yesterday, shorter than usual, but it should last me two months. I'm trying to limit the places I got to for the next month or two.

I’m not going to be thrifting for the foreseeable future.

Thanks R156

I can access it on my phone, but not on my laptop.

From my friend on FB: Well folks that’s it, Barcelona is under government ordered lockdown. 15 days at least.

No one is paying attention to Trump and that includes business and Wall Street. He has been neutered. His Presidency is over. People are taking things into their own hands.

Miami Mayor infected

President of Brazil tested NEGATIVE per CNN

[quote]R110 I have enough food for a 50 day fast.

Rock on! It could be the BEST THING that ever happened to you!

Go get that virus NOW! We’re all pulling for you!

Bolosandro now saying he is not infected! I wonder if the WH emergency communications meeting had something to do with this statement. (His son told Fox he was poz)

An actor kid I know mother posted this today on FB (regarding testing):

Ocean came home from school early yesterday with a fever and a migraine, body aches, and slight congestion. It reminded me of my recent flu symptoms. I tried to make an appointment for him with Kaiser with their app, but based on the symptoms they only would give us a phone appt to keep us from coming in the office (I’m still waiting for them to call me!) So I took him to Urgent Care. I noticed a sign on the door that says WE ARE NOT TESTING FOR CORONAVIRUS- I took him in (we wore masks) They tested him for Influenza A & B - both came back negative.

I asked why we couldn’t test for Coronavirus and this is what I was told: Our labs have not sent out tests. Quest says they will soon be getting a million tests but even once we get those it will take a week to get results back. I asked “well can’t you swab him now and seal it up to send once you have tests?” She said “we have not been told how to swab, where to swab, or how many swabs to use. Mostly though we don’t have any insurance codes to put it in the computer.

There is no way to order the test yet. You have to be in a hospital or go to a county health office” They told me to take him home and quarantine him, which has been a challenge. I checked the Ventura county website yesterday and only 77 people have been tested in a county of almost a million people! Why???? My friend Marla encouraged me to post about it on Auggie’s socials and I did. It seems like it’s getting some attention. Maybe we will see change soon if more people speak out demanding for access to tests! Because the way this is being handled right now is UNACCEPTABLE! How can we stop the spread of a disease if we don’t even know who has it?

Dirty Hollywood whores

“Ocean”? Really?

Reminds me of Kelly Killoren Bensimon’s daughter, “Sea.”

My doctor's office just called to cancel my appointment for a check up next Tuesday which was scheduled months ago. It's been rescheduled in three months. That's a first.

Who the fuck names their kid "Ocean?" She and the kid both deserve to die.

I hope at least they'll have a burial at sea.

It seems that government reps from other countries who came and met Trump, shook his hand, etc., have returned to their respective countries with the Coronavirus. Australia, Greece, and now maybe Brazil. Either Trump has the virus or the speculation is so rampant that he does, the news is spreading faster than the virus itself.

The military doesn't have tests for the troops abroad.

Perhaps it’s because most other countries already have tests that the troops can use. Our government can’t even test its citizens right now, they aren’t going to worry about their contractual slaves, aka the military.

Scotland has now seen its first death from coronavirus, bringing the UK's total to 11. There are now 798 cases in the UK, an increase of 342 in two days.

Friday the 13th. Breaking news from Italy:

"250 DECESSI IN 24 ORE, 1266 IN TOTALE"

250 deaths in 24 hours. 1266 total.

Fuck, even with the lock-down...

My mother went to the nursing home this morning to visit my brother and they told her the facility is on lockdown for at least 21 days. Kansas City Missouri. She visits him every day for several hours, he is going to freak out in a few days.

He probably will. But nursing homes are sitting ducks for this virus. The longer they keep the front door locked, the longer the folks inside will live.

Remember that atlantic article? They are saving the young people and not the older ones.

[quote]I don't even remember swine flu, and I was 52 when it happened. Why is this panic so much worse?

Two words: social media. And 24/7 cable news.

Jack Ma is donating 1 million masks...probably all gonna go to Trump and his cronies...

Stats are meaningless because Next to no one is actually getting tested.

I’m really curious about the bug that a ton of people had in January and February. Included a cough, fever and sore throat and was more intense than average flu. And in people who got the flu shot. Wonder of the test can tell if you previously had it.

I totally don’t believe the NY lawyer was the first. Completely misleading.

Young people have their lives ahead of them, older people loved their life.

R249, yes, that test is coming, heard them talking about it on TV. it will see if you have the antibodies etc. will show you had it before.

R243 the lockdown does nothing for cases already in the country. These deaths would have happened regardless.

wow, that's so fucking criminal, Chinese cunts hid it from the world for at least 2 months! I thought it was only 1 month. So now it's been found that they knew about it in Nov. and they even tried to silence the doctors who tried to warn others. China is so fucked up.

I'm really surprised. I wonder who that westchester lawyer got it from? He did take a trip to israel...

CNN-Massachusetts governor bans gatherings of more than 250 people

These gatherings are “subject — but not limited to — community, civic, public and leisure gatherings, faith-based events, sporting events with spectators, concerts, conventions, fundraisers, parades, fairs, festivals and any similar event or activity that brings together 250 or more persons in a single room or single space at the same time,” Baker said at a news conference.

CNN-Nike encourages US-based employees to work from home

Sportswear giant Nike announced on Friday that they are encouraging US-based employees to work from home through March “if their jobs allow,” according to a statement.

“We will continue to monitor developments and make decisions that prioritize the safety of our teammates as necessary,” the company said in a statement.

[quote]R123 Darfur O [R120] I have enough food for you to never feel hunger and a guest home for you never to feel cold or hot.

I’m sure he doesn’t eat much, and he CAN’T take up too much space! This is good of you.

(Do get him tested, tho, before importing him?)

One of my co-worker's sons is quarantined in Malta for the next two weeks and then another two weeks when he arrives home in Houston.

Orange turd will declare national emergency via cnbc.

In Late January, I had the "flu" with the super-high fever, dry cough, and extreme body ache.

I haven't had the flu in over 35 years and I never get a fever. This fever was 102 but only lasted about 8 hours. The dry cough was bad for two days. I was mostly back to normal in 3 days. Went back to work.

Several other teachers at my school got the exact same thing, "the 3-day flu," they were referring to it as.

Was this CV?

Is it true that Bernie Bros are tweeting with the hashtag Boomer Removal? Man, they are a pack of vicious thugs. Someone should film a remake of Wild in the Streets with Bernie Bro characters. Is Christopher Jones still alive? He could play one of the dead bodied they’d stomp all over with glee.

"Louisiana Primary postponed two months over coronavirus concerns

From CNN's Keith Allen

The Louisiana Primary scheduled for April 4 will be postponed until June 20 due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak, Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin said at a news conference Friday.

The move was made “to best protect the health and safety of Louisiana voters and voting officials,” Ardoin’s office said in a statement.

Louisiana has identified 33 positive cases of coronavirus in the state."

Read R261:

corona virus:

-boring

-what even is a corona??

-sounds stupid

boomer remover:

-cool as fuck

-boomers are being removed

-goodbye old people

UK's chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, on corovavirus:

"Communities will become immune to it and that’s going to be an important part of controlling this longer term. About 60 per cent is the sort of figure you need to get herd immunity. Our aim is to try to reduce the peak, broaden the peak, not suppress it completely; also, because the vast majority of people get a mild illness, to build up some kind of herd immunity so more people are immune to this disease and we reduce the transmission, at the same time we protect those who are most vulnerable to it."

"If you suppress something very, very hard, when you release those measures it bounces back and it bounces back at the wrong time."

In a top secret laboratory, located in the sub basement of the White House, you will find a single Corona Virus Test Kit labeled[bold] Patient T.

I have an earache.

But it might just be from sleeping on my pillow wrong.

NY gov Cumo:

current hospitalizations:

50 out of 421 cases (12%)

18 in ICU

3200 ICU beds

53000 beds.

⏳CORONA TIME 2:00 PM EST

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 142,897

DEATHS: 5,375

CRITICAL: 5965

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 1,992

DEATHS: 41

CRITICAL: Unavailable

[quote]R195 My husband got WHALLOPED with pneumonia out of nowhere right before Xmas. One second he was fine, the next second he collapsed. They discharged him the next day but he was in bed for 7 days after with absolutely no energy, a fever and diarrhea.

How much arsenic do you usually give him?

[quote]I had similar but much milder symptoms the week after.

Good cover. Small doses are okay.

R260 I had that in late Feb, Thurs night to Sunday. Self isolated and realized I was not remotely prepared for a two week hospital quarantine if it came to that.

NYS will waive the 7 day wait for unemployment. so you will qualify for unemployment insurance immediately for those who are laid off...lots of people will be via Gov Cuomo pres conference.

Poor people problems.

The Putinbots and 4chan trolls are hot at it today I see.

R266 That's probably what it is.

NY GOV. cuomo-421 cases state wide. 154 cases in NYC

I got a text today from my weekend gig working on a busy sales floor. If the Coronavirus bothered me, I didn't have to come in. If I don't, I won't be paid for it. It doesn't bother me. I'll be there. Next weekend may be a different story.

[bold]May I suggest the substance of Spanky's speech? I RESIGN AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Let's focus on what's really important, people

Charles Barkley under self-quarantine after getting coronavirus test

The “NBA on TNT” analyst called into Thursday’s show to explain he was under self-quarantine for a possible coronavirus case.

“I spent the earlier part of the week in NYC, when I got to Atlanta yesterday I wasn’t feeling well,” he told his co-hosts. “I talked to a couple people at Turner and a couple of doctors, and they told me to self-quarantine for the next 48 hours.

“I started yesterday. This is my second day. I haven’t been feeling great and they didn’t want me taking any chances. I went and took the coronavirus test late this afternoon. I haven’t got the results back yet.”

“I’m kind of in limbo right now,” he said. “I’m hoping it was just a bug.”

NPR @NPR · 15m

At drive-through COVID-19 testing centers in South Korea, the test takes 10 minutes at most.

Results are texted to you, usually the next day. And it's free — paid for by the government.

☘️ I'm very curious to see if the bars will be packed on St. Patrick's Day, or even shut down. It's usually standing room only, elbow to elbow drunks sloppy drunks hanging all over each other. The distance between patrons will be approximately six micrometers.

I live in a large condo complex. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas. There was something going around. Fever, chills I coughed my guts out for 3 weeks. Everyone had IT, Whatever IT was.

Fiorentina have confirmed that Dusan Vlahovic has tested positive for coronavirus. (player in serie A)

The Hong Kong Hospital Authority announced the findings after studying the first wave of patients who had fully recovered from COVID-19, the South China Morning Post reported.

Three people have died of the illness in the former British colony, which has so far recorded 131 confirmed cases. Among them, 74 people have been discharged.

Dr. Owen Tsang Tak-yin, medical director of the authority’s Infectious Disease Centre at Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung, said that of about a dozen discharged patients examined, two or three were unable to function as they had previously.

“They gasp if they walk a bit more quickly,” Tsang told reporters Thursday, according to the news outlet. “Some patients might have around a drop of 20 to 30 percent in lung function [after recovery].”

Lung scans of nine infected patients at the hospital suggested they had suffered organ damage.

But Tsang said it had yet to be determined whether they would develop pulmonary fibrosis, a condition in which lung tissue hardened and the organ could not function correctly.

He added that patients can perform cardiovascular exercises to improve their lung capacity over time.

Coronavirus patients have been treated with Kaletra, a medication originally used for HIV/AIDS; hepatitis C drug Ribavirin; and interferon, according to the South China Morning Post.

So the earlier claim you can have permanent damage seems true R284.

My gym sent out an email stating that they would provide surgical gloves for patrons to use while they workout. I'm sorry, but if you need surgical gloves to workout safely, then maybe you should just stay home.

I pulled out my old Jane Fonda aerobics videos to use for the time being.

[quote]R253 that's so fucking criminal, Chinese cunts hid it from the world for at least 2 months!

They’re so secretive, and [italic]inscrutable!

R284's article shows that this is FAR more serious than the common flu and has possible long-term effects.

Suggested text of Trump's address:

]BOLD]In order to calm the market and get accurate information out to the public about the coronavirus, I will be suspending all my future addresses and tweeting, and let the experts speak and handle the crisis.

[quote]One of my co-worker's sons is quarantined in Malta for the next two weeks and then another two weeks when he arrives home in Houston.

But not during the 14 hours it takes to fly from Malta to Houston (and at least two planes and three airports? billiant

🍀 The St. Patrick's Day Parade has been canceled. I'm sad. I was so looking forward to the candy and the shiny green plastic beads, tossed into the crowd by the leprechauns riding the parade FLOATS.

Bummer ..... I hope they don't cancel the corner beef & cabbage dinner.

🏋️ I'm sure that many of you are still in possession of your " Sweatin' To The Oldies" VCR tapes.

NYers no need to pay con ed! for now anyways...

Andrew Cuomo @NYGovCuomo

Today I asked the Department of Public Service to direct utilities not to cut off service to any person who hasn’t paid their bill as a result of the #Coronavirus situation.

No one should face losing their electricity or gas or water because of this public health emergency.

Except they're the wrong oldies, r292. Our "oldies" would be a decade or a two later (70s/80s).

Andrew Cuomo @NYGovCuomo · 56m We know that some New Yorkers are going to lose work & even their jobs because of #Coronavirus.

NYS will immediately waive the 7-day waiting period for unemployment insurance for people who have been laid off due to virus.

Coronavirus Freakout 17: FLUMMOXED!

New Orleans public schools are closed for a month.

The democratic states are on top of it.

The poor souls in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi etc... are in danger.

Darfur Orphan, working that tired old bit. How sad.

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Yesterday we had a joint news conference in my home town,with the County Dept. of Health, the Mayor's office, local hospitals and churches participating. I expected to hear that we now had the first case of Corona in our community, but not so. A very aggressive plan was announced to keep the city and county safe, and I was very impressed by the plan of action, and actually felt hopeful. Last night I got my first good night's sleep in several weeks.

R300 along with Trump and Pence

R300 along with Trump and Pence

Just saw a report on CNN concerning Iran. As reported here on DL, they are digging mass graves in the middle of the night to bury the dead. The graves are the size of football fields and are deep and large enough to be seen from space. Think about that for a moment. The numbers from Iran are false! The numbers from China are false! The numbers from the US and UK are false! Please wake up people!!!

We are awake, r304, and living the Great American Dream.

Texas Governor Greg "Hot Wheels" Abbott just declared a state of disaster. Drive through testing to begin in San Antonio. UT Southwest employees in Dallas being quarantined. Baylor says they are developing their own tests for the state. Thankfully I was able to get a 6 months supply of lip gloss, and I am currently working on getting a Prada hazmat suit. Hopefully this will bring gloves back into fashion!

[quote]I pulled out my old Jane Fonda aerobics videos to use for the time being.

BernieBro. UGH.

R306, NorthPark better not close!

#DallasGAY!

The silver-est lining of them all is that Trump is probably toast. Hopefully, the disease spread will be limited, but the economy will certainly take a hit, and that's the one thing voters will never forgive.

"Jack Ma to donate 500,000 test kits to US"

Embarrassing.

This morning, my 10-year nephew was rushed to the hospital in Luxembourg by ambulance. He passed out in front of his mom with a high fever. Based on his symptoms, the medical staff feels that he may have the virus. However, they decided not to perform a test because he is not considered in the "at risk" age group. Nevertheless, the entire family is now under quarantine for 14 days. 7 other kids from his school are also under quarantine with their families. Fortunately the school has been closed for several days now. He was released and is resting at home. Although his fever was under control, it is beginning to rise again. The doctor advises the family to stay at home due to the quarantine. Needless to say, my sister-in-law and her husband are freaking out. My husband is freaking out And now I am freaking the fuck out

freaking out will be as common as face touching once the shit hits the fan everywhere in a week or two, millions will be doing the same, especially when they realize there will be nowhere to turn for help

Should have taken it seriously in January.

That doesn't just go for Trump, it goes for us all.

Too late.

Doctors at John Hopkins think the REAL number of infections currently in the US is between 50,000-500,000.

Good information, even if it is Joe Rogan.

I'm in the Cleveland area and there have been a handful of cases (identified) here. There are estimates that there are about 12000 infected people in Cuyahoga County. I live in Rocky River, which is one of the more upscale communities around here , and since a lot of the residents are health professionals, as well as people who travel for work, I'm wary of patronizing the businesses here. I'm thinking of driving all the way to blue collar Lorain County to do all my shopping. They have a Walmart which closes at 1AM, so I plan to do my shopping around midnight to avoid as many people as possible. Then I'll spray all my purchases with Lysol and let them sit for 3 days before using them. I'm so glad I work at home.

R315, could you sum it up for those of us who can't watch a 15-minute video right now?

A friend of mine working in Europe just wrote that all employees in Europe, Canada and the States are to work from home for three weeks.

This is good, responsible.

LIAR, LIAR ..... Enough with the lies and the insults !

The DC Fire Dept should be on standby every time Clarabelle addresses the nation.

So a bit of good news... that woman Dr. at the press conference in the Rose Garden said early testing rates in the U.S. show the corona infection rate is running at 1 - 2 %.... in South Korea the infection rate was 3 - 4 %... that means a lot of this is other seasonal respiratory woes. FWIW. Lets hope it holds.

The full interview for those with an hour and thirty four minutes to listen.

Gov. Tom Wolf in Pennsylvania just announced that all schools in the Commonwealth, grades K-12, will be closed for at least two weeks.

[quote]I live in Rocky River, which is one of the more upscale communities around here

Well, get a load of her.

Will this maybe cause people to take their government seriously for at least a while? Leadership during a crisis can make an enormous difference between a bad situation and a disaster. Maybe shit like "her emails" look less important when we wind up with a President that doesn't want widespread testing because it might affect his re-election chances?

This is what government is for, to provide stability, and institutions to deal with situations like this. Maybe even the anti-government, libertarian types will relent a bit?

Or not.

Being from Rocky River won't save your life once your body is invaded by [italic] The Dreaded Corona.

r323, LOL. I wasn't saying that to brag, just to explain why I'm wary of shopping here. I moved here from SF, so living in any part of the Cleveland area feels like several steps down. But thanks for your cunty reply, that's what I love about DL.

I also heard New Orleans is delivering meals to the kids who rely on them at school. I hope all school districts with lower income populations follow suit.

Is Dr. Fauci gay? I noticed that he doesn't wear a wedding ring.

into 80 y.o. grandpas, or looking for a husband from whom you can inherit quicly?

I haven't seen the whole presser since I've just come home...I've only watched a few min and Trump hasn't coughed. I mean, aren't those people scared that they might get it from him esp Dr. fauci? he's old!

The Doctors Donnie & Mike Medi-Con Hour

Trump said he might take the test.

More lies and false promises. Last week they were saying 75,000 tests would be available THIS week and a million next week. Yet only 8 tests were performed on Tuesday. 8 tests!!! As always long on promises and short on delivery. Next

They 💟 me here, r299.

My vision may not be 20/20 due to lack of fresh carrots in my nutrition plan, but I don't see any WW hits on your post, Miss.

I would love to live in Cleveland right now. A huge world class hospital that developed one of the first tests for the virus. Small population with top notch hospital care and disproportionately high number of health care workers. And easier to self isolate than NYC. It’s really the ideal city to be in right now - other than Rochester, MN (and I would choose Cleveland over Rochester MN any time)

This whole thing has made me really consider the quality and accessibility of good health care. While NYC has top rated hospitals, the accessibility and disproportionate volume of patients makes it less attractive than a place like Cleveland,

Trump news conference was a pure manipulation of markets. +9,000 points in 45 minutes. Yay!

Dr. Fauci makes me feel better. Pence actually handles himself better than dump.

R278, does the phrase "trigger warning" mean nothing to you?

R320, "FWIW" = as much as the other loads of crap emanating from the WH since 1/20/17.

I agree, Pence was good. The female doctor was decent.

deplorables are so fucking stupid. They think the experts concerned about the lack of testing are "idiots" and "should be more concerned with travel bans and border closings"

I'm sorry, Pence was good? In what universe? He spent the first 5 minutes sucking Trump's cunt and then Trump repeated everything he said right after.

all those CEOs shook Trump's hand...they are doomed.

[Quote] all those CEOs shook Trump's hand...they are doomed.

Sweety, we're all doomed.

Is there a Canadian lawyer on DL who might know whether jury duty constitutes " sufficient risk to personal exposure to CV"? I have jury selection on March 30 and do not want to risk it. Any comments/advice welcome.

Reporter: Thank you, Mr. President. Yamiche Alcindor from PBS NewsHour. My first question is you said that you don't take responsibility, but you did disband the White House pandemic office, and the officials that were working in that office left this administration abruptly. So what responsibility do you take to that? And the officials that worked in that office said that the White House lost valuable time because that office was disbanded. What do you make of that?"

President Trump: "Well, I just think it's a nasty question, because what we've done is, and Tony [Fauci] has said numerous times, that we've saved thousands of lives because of the quick closing. And when you say me, I didn't do it. We have a group of people. I could perhaps ask Tony about that, because I don't know anything about it. I mean, you say we did that. I don't know anything about it."

Reporter: "You don't know about the reorganization that happened at the National Security Council?"

Trump: "It's the administration, perhaps they do that, let people do, you used to be with a different newspaper than you are now, you know things like that happen."

Reporter: "But this is a reorganization at the National Security Council."

Trump: "Please go ahead. We're doing a great job. Let me tell you, these professionals behind me, these great, incredible doctors and businesses people, the best in the world, and I can say that, whether it's retailers or labs or anything you want to say, these are the best in the world. We're doing a great job. And we are 40 people right now, 40, compare that with other countries that have many, many times that amount, and one of the reasons we have 40 and others have, and again, that number is going up, just so you understand. And the number of cases, which are very small relatively speaking, it's going up. We've done a great job, because we acted quickly, we acted early, and there's nothing we could have done that was better than closing our borders to highly infected areas."

total bullshit as usual

Have there been any updates on what's happening in Italy today? Besides that lovely video of quarantined people singing off their balconies, which made me tear up I'll admit

I doubt Trump has the virus. The devil is only a carrier and does not suffer like the rest of us.

One reason we think kids aren't getting this virus is because they are Not being tested.

I heard today that the reason that people who don't show signs of the virus aren't tested is because they could have it but it could come back negative for up to 5 days.

I wonder who got rid of that position...you know Trump ain't that smart...he probably listened to one of his "friends", close circle or maybe it was Jared! who got rid of that position. He signed off on it, so ultimately, it's his fault but it wouldn't surprise me if someone like Jared suggested it.

total incoherent, illiterate, incontinent bullshit as usual, R347

Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly May 10, 2018 at 3:32 p.m. CDT

The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by national security adviser John Bolton.

The abrupt departure of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council means no senior administration official is now focused solely on global health security. Ziemer’s departure, along with the breakup of his team, comes at a time when many experts say the country is already underprepared for the increasing risks of a pandemic or bioterrorism attack.

Ziemer’s last day was Tuesday, the same day a new Ebola outbreak was declared in Congo. He is not being replaced.

Pandemic preparedness and global health security are issues that require government-wide responses, experts say, as well as the leadership of a high-ranking official within the White House who is assigned only this role.

“Health security is very fragmented, with many different agencies,” said J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It means coordination and direction from the White House is terribly important. ”

The personnel changes, which Morrison and others characterize as a downgrading of global health security, are part of Bolton’s previously announced plans to streamline the NSC. Two members of Ziemer's team have been merged into a unit in charge of weapons of mass destruction, and another official's position is now part of a unit responsible for international organizations. White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert, who had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks, is out completely. He left the day after Bolton took over last month.

NSC spokesman Robert Palladino said Wednesday the administration “remains committed to global health, global health security and biodefense, and will continue to address these issues with the same resolve under the new structure.”

Another administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly, acknowledged it was only one of many administration priorities. “In a world of limited resources, you have to pick and choose,” he said. “We lost a little bit of the leadership, but the expertise remains.”

Ziemer is a well-respected public health leader who was considered highly effective leading the President’s Malaria Initiative under George W. Bush and Barack Obama before joining the NSC last year. While Palladino said he left “on the warmest terms,” an individual familiar with the specifics behind the reorganization said “he was basically pushed out. He struggled to preserve himself and the integrity of his team, and he failed.”

R348. 250 deaths in Italy since yesterday. Most so far in one day

You may not get it even if you're standing next to an infected person. But he spent 2 hours with the President of Brazil who may have it....so he should be freaking out about that. Coz he's a fat fuck and he will definitely need to be tubed, who knows what else he has...he might die.

He's being tested daily, he's just lying to try to appear invincible.

I also think Jair Bolsonaro has it, and he's lying. His son confirmed he had it and now he's saying that it's all fake news and Jair doesn't have it.

What's 4 Dinner ?

[quote] Is there a Canadian lawyer on DL who might know whether jury duty constitutes " sufficient risk to personal exposure to CV"? I have jury selection on March 30 and do not want to risk it. Any comments/advice welcome.

R345 , it's a long way from March 13 (today) to March 30 (things change quickly). In my jurisdiction (US), the judges are urged to not do *civil* trials, however, the criminal trials are still "on" for now.

It irks me when people say "it's not that bad, only the elderly and immunocompromised are gravely affected." WTF I thought this is America, where we care about/for the most vulnerable among us.

Do we know any new numbers for the US? Have we spiked?

As of 2pm today, NYC has 154 confirmed cases (increase of 59 from yesterday)

Manhattan 35 (yesterday was 25)

Brooklyn 24

Queens 26 ( yesterday was 17 I think)

Bronx 13

S.I. 5

Most Texas schools have the next two weeks off! Spring Break just ended for half the state!

Not official for all public schools yet... but soon!

And we teachers are PAID! And no make-up at the end of the school year!

Thank you, Coronavirus!

R349. It's only a matter of time. His stubbornness will eventually bite him in the ass. Clearly he is not well. He has gained a lot of weight, he is larthegic and breathless, and looks worse than normal. Seemingly medicated at times. Stress is not good for anybody, especially at his age. Despite what he or his doctors say, he is vulnerable and in the at risk group. He is also in the middle of an election year which will add further stress to his already hectic schedule..The more hands he shakes, the greater the risks. Ditto for his professional and social events which expose him to a lot of people. For sure, he will get it at some point. The only question is will he live or die. If I had to bet, I would go with the latter. One way or another, he will be gone within the next 9 months. Mark my words

De blasio is saying it's not airborne...not so sure about this...he previously said the virus lived for only 2 or 3 min outside the body...

he's having a press conference now.

Second person who visited Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last weekend tests positive

From Washington Post: BREAKING: A second person who visited President Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago estate last weekend has tested positive for coronavirus, according to emails from Republican party officials to other guests who were present. The president has been near two people in two days who have since been diagnosed as infected.

Local news said covid19 can live on surfaces for about a week.

R362, I'm marking them; I think you're correct.

Quiet correct, in fact.

I always felt T ran for the presidency b/c Obama made fun of him at, I believe, the White House Correspondents dinner. He said he heard Trump was running as a Republican, which was funny because I heard he was running as a joke.

The room roared. Trump just sulked.

So, he runs and he plans to use the publicity to start up a media empire. Only guess, what? He wins!

So, he has to take the job and he does and he ultimately can't handle it and now we have the coronavirus and T may not survive.

I'm kinda pissed the stock market rallied today during his speech.

Coronavirus patients are conscious as they die, and beg to say goodbye to loved ones, according to a doctor on Italy’s frontline.

Dr. Francesca Cortellaro, from the San Carlo Borromeo Hospital in Milan, described the haunting final moments of those on their death beds, as the European country battles the worst outbreak outside of China.

“You know what’s most dramatic? Seeing patients dying alone, listening to them as they beg you to say goodbye to their children and grandchildren,” Dr. Cortellaro told the Italian paper Il Giornale, according to Sky News.

“When they are about to die, they sense it,” she added.

“They are lucid, they do not go into narcolepsy. It is as if they were drowning, but with time to understand it.”

Most of the more than 15,000 infected in Italy are elderly people — and often their only way to say goodbye to their loved ones is via a video phone call.

“I pulled out the phone and called her on video,” Cortellaro said of one dying grandmother’s request to see her granddaughter.

“They said goodbye. Soon after she was gone.”

With 15,113 confirmed cases as of Friday evening — and more than 1,016 deaths — Italy remains on lockdown, as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Europe the new epicenter of the pandemic.

At another hospital in Milan, a new patient is admitted every five minutes, ABC News reported.

Dr. Massimo Galli, head of the infectious disease unit at Sacco Hospital, said the facility is reaching a point of “complete saturation.”

The good news is virus-free patients are being discharged every two or three hours, Dr. Galli told the outlet, but there are still not enough beds to treat everyone and the virus isn’t expected to reach peak-spread for at least two weeks.

r366 except for the fact that he'd run for the presidency multiple times before Obama said anything. He just lucked out at a time when the Republican field was in a huge disarray and split the votes.

R328 Sorry but -

Fauci married Dr. Jennifer Grady, a nurse with the NIH, in 1985, after meeting while treating a patient. Grady is currently Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. They have three adult daughters.

Trump's a lazy fat ass who will be even fatter in 9 months, r362.

That will probably be due to the rollout of the new Mickey D's Bigger Mac, with FOUR all beef patties. Goes great with the Big Basket O' Fries.

When the shock wears off and reality sets in, the market will hit bottom again. Maybe even lower.

[quote]all employees in Europe, Canada and the States are to work from home for three weeks.

All employees of WHAT?

They didn’t say anything in the conference. Just a bunch of gobbledygook and they held up a chart.

But there is nothing that’s actually being done, it appears.

They still don’t want anyone to get tested. Also, they said it would be weeks before the tests come but why don’t they mention the non-cdc tests that are popping up everywhere. Surely that wouldn’t take 2 weeks.

The administration’s sole goal seems to PREVENT TESTING AT ALL COSTS!!

So I'm the guy from a few threads back, from Victoria, BC, with symptoms. Can't be arsed to track down the posts.

Finally got tested after a lot of bullshit, results are back, positive, I have COVID-19.

Maybe I should say "had" -- my symptoms are down to almost nothing, just a little bit under the weather. This is day 8 of symptoms.

I've had experiences with influenza that were far worse, this wasn't even debilitating. I work from home anyway and continued to work the whole time. I read an account from a marketing manager in Seattle, her symptoms were mild and exactly like mine.

[quote]He has gained a lot of weight, he is larthegic and breathless, and looks worse than normal.

Speech is even more slurred and rambling than usual too.

How old are you, R375? Glad that it wasn't that serious for you.

R375 Thanks for checking in, I was worried about you. Still, haven't there been reports of people getting it, thinking that they're ok, then taking a turn for the worse? Keep on updating us.

NO ONE actually knows how long The Corona Germ lives on surfaces.

We're getting nothing more than educated and uneducated guesses.

You know who you are.

deplorables are being told that testing isn't important so they believe it. Trump, repubs and repub media are telling them testing isn't important because they don't want people to get tested or get mad that testing isn't available for everyone. Trump doesn't want the numbers to spike because he knows it will hurt him politically

but don't tell deplorables this. They believe "Pelosi and the Dems are in the way" of dealing with coronavirus

As if Sylvia Fowler cares about anyone but herself...

r377 I'm 40, white guy, healthy otherwise, former smoker (quit 5 yrs ago), occasional pot-smoker. Not particularly virus-resistant, I get my share of colds/flus. This was an easy one. Yes I've heard some people take a turn for the worse, I'm watching for breathing difficulties, which could mean pneumonia. The virus can make its way into the lungs and apparently you remain infectious for a period of time after symptoms subside, though I can't find definitive numbers on that. Lungs/breathing seem fine, no coughing at all. Here's the article re: the women in Seattle who had pretty much the same experience (sorry it's New York Post, I know they're terrible):

This is who should have been the dem nominee for president.

"Not true, @realDonaldTrump. I wrote to you more than 600 days ago demanding answers after you fired the entire White House pandemic team."

⏳ CORONA TIME 6:30 PM EST

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 145,336

DEATHS: 5,416

CRITICAL: 5990

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 2,269

DEATHS: 48

CRITICAL: NOT AVAILABLE

I wonder why they have stopped updating the critical in the US.

Ivanka Trump is going into self quarantine out of an "abundance of caution."

Washington Post:

White House, House Democrats reach deal on coronavirus economic relief package, Pelosi announces

Am I missing something? Doesn't the UK's suggested "herd immunity" strategy involve letting a lot of people die in the short term?

R382, wow! I'm sorry to hear you got it but I'm glad it's a mild case!

Wishing you a speedy recovery! Do you know how you got it? I think you mentioned it in previous threads but I forgot.

Do you work out often and take vitamins?

Do you know if you gave it to others? I seem to recall you were taking precautions.

NY state passed WA today as having the most cases, half from the New Rochelle lawyer.

NYC dipshit mayor still won't close the schools so there are millions of potential carriers riding public transport.

Trump has never been recognized for his ability to speak intelligently before a gathering.

He's never been known for telling the truth, either.

the wall st douchebros bought the bullshit and pumped up the market, which was the only purpose of the whole charade

I don't think the Westchester lawyer is gonna make it. my personal guess.

Just now heard ...... The whole freaking Trump family was exposed to Corona at a fund raiser.

Finally my company is mandating we work from home for at least 2 weeks. Only just yesterday I was getting emails about the office St. Patrick’s Day party next week ... I don’t give a fuck about that right now, what are you doing ...

R394 that just made me smile. I don’t care if that makes me a bad person.

We are all doomed but the bathhouses of the Castro remain open, so I'm going to a different one every night and making the most of my last sad days.

Also, Nepal has closed their side of the mountain, so no Everest thread on here this year.

r389 I'm almost over it, it was quite mild.

Most likely I got it on the ferry between here and Vancouver, maybe in Vancouver itself.

I exercise and take a multi, I've been dosing with a couple grams of vitamin C since symptoms appeared, but I doubt it helps all that much. I have an extremely healthy diet.

Hopefully I didn't give it to others. I haven't gone out at all since symptoms appeared, going a bit stir crazy, had a friend drop off stuff I needed. Still several more days to go before I can emerge. Really don't want to spread it and I live in an condo building, so...

208 new cases of corona in the UK today. 130 in London. Trump's sentimentality towards that country is going to cause a lot of deaths. He's banned flights from Cyprus where they have barely any cases and allowed in the Brits where it's running amok.

I'm praying that St. Patrick can drive The Corona from the land.

Irish Cream and Irish Whiskey for The Corona Survival Grocery List.

Lol, someone posted this on Facebook

[Quote] Soon everyone will be quarantined to their houses with no sports to watch. 9 months from now we'll have the baby boom of 2020 .....and we shall call them "Coronials"

The heat does not kill the virus as previously thought. Ten people in the Maldives have it, where temps do not fall below 28c even at night.

R395: My company expects us to return to work, onsite, this Monday (major media/publishing company in NYC) - when we have the ability to work offsite (like today). Fuck that - I WFH or not at all! Everyone else at my company should do the same.

It is bullshit that people with jobs which are capable of being done remotely are still being made to come to work. Vile

[quote]apparently you remain infectious for a period of time after symptoms subside

Fauci today said on CNN that you can still shed the virus after your symptoms have totally subsided. He said you need two negative CV tests 24 hours apart to be deemed non infectious.

It could just be my gayness talking, but that whole image sort of grosses me out, R402. It sounds like a joke that would entertain deplorables: "With no basketball on the teevee, the menfolk will just have to fuck their wives to pass the time! Har har."

I mean... that's probably what's happening. You know how many spouses of bad marriages are forced to spend time together now? I bet you divorces will go up.

Nobody at the at shit show did “good” you stupid troll. FF already.

They said that divorces had jumped in China after everyone was forced to stay home for a month.

I'm sorry but...who is the hot reporter with Nancy Pelosi at r387?

Please answer R411's question immediately.

China shut this down only after the central government stepped in and quarantined millions of people. No one allowed to go in or out, all businesses, factories and schools shut down. People were only allowed outside their homes to buy food and that only on designated days. Roads were blocked and quarantines were enforced by the military.

Italy is what happens when those kinds of draconian measures are not taken. I think we’re more like Italy than China and we may be in for a similar fate.

Is it safe to get a haircut? I really need one, but I'm afraid to do it since the barber is constantly touching you.

Thank you r357. I heard that New Brunswick, Canada has cancelled or deferred I should say all jury duty for 2 months. I suspect a lot of other Provinces in Canada will be following or maybe they have already done this.

omg, me too R414, I need a trim but I'm anxious...

Also China built makeshift field hospitals within days to handle the influx of patients. Are we prepared to do that?

I wonder what’s going to happen with the primaries scheduled for Tuesday? Some big ones, including FL, IL and OH.

CNN-At least 2,033 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the US

There are at least 2,033 cases of the novel coronavirus in the United States, according to the state and local health agencies, governments and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the CDC, there are 70 cases from repatriated citizens. According to CNN Health’s tally of US cases that are detected and tested in the United States through US public health systems, there are 1,963 cases in 48 states and the District of Columbia, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases to 2,033. In total, 47 people have died.

[quote] Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, was asked if people who have contracted the virus might now be immune.  “We haven’t formally proved it, but it is strongly likely that that’s the case,” Fauci said. “Because if this acts like any other virus, once you recover, you won’t get reinfected.”

In a big country like the US, there will be places hit with outbreaks while other places will see only few cases if at all, as long as the outbreak locations are quarantined. It's the big cities that are the most problematic for the health care systems.

How is that possible...we get the flu all the fucking time...this virus will mutate and we will get a different version of it next year and the next and so on...

I was pleased to see Grindr giving me some health tips.

An epidemic of The Corona 🚼 Baby should hit the world early to mid December.

Merry Freakin' Christmas, y'all.

The attached article was a good description of the state of things in NYC.

Only 5,000 respirators ?!? WtF!? For 8 million people !? THIS is what will cause massive deaths. Whatever happened and whatever people do now is irrelevant . We need to be making respirators in the thousands - like now! Without respirators, people will die guaranteed.

r425, WOW....scary. and the schools are still being kept open. what a shit show. and at the mayor's presser today, a journo asked if we will be like Italy...choosing who to save etc...the doctor at the press conference said "we will treat everyone who is ill".

Trump will introduce bill to cancel all elections for the remainder of the year, and extend his presidency for another twelve to eighteen months.

[quote] R141: all we can do is our best

Thanks to DataLounge! I shopped before, I think, the virus was here, so I can use my stored groceries without thinking I should wipe everything down.

I warned my family early, who was oblivious to this. My 72 year-old sister shopped just before the curtain dropped. My stupid brother flew to Florida, returning Tuesday. Idiot. But like R141 wrote, they’re adults and I can’t force them. You cunts are wonderful!

I haven't heard anything about the virus in Mexico, curious how they are being affected.

Mexico is going to close the border with the US to protect itself (but trump will pay for it)

fucking mayor of ncy won't close the schools so we have millions of carriers riding public transport.

hospitals in nyc will be at capacity in two weeks, we're doomed

I was in Mexico last week. When I left there were seven confirmed cases, all linked to travel.

What am I now?

What am i now?

What if I'm down, what if I'm out

What if I'm someone you don't want around

I'm falling again

I'm falling again

I'm falling...

MEXICO: 12 CASES - 0 DEATHS - 1 CRITICAL

[quote]Is there a Canadian lawyer on DL who might know whether jury duty constitutes " sufficient risk to personal exposure to CV"? I have jury selection on March 30 and do not want to risk it. Any comments/advice welcome.

Just don't go. If they're still running, which they probably won't be, nobody is going to take you on for refusing to attend/sit in a crowded jury pool. If it's anything like Toronto, it would be one big room of around 300 people. I always do as told - I would have no problem blowing this off. The whole idea runs counter to public health.

In the darkness before the dawn

In the swirling of this storm

When I'm rolling with the punches and hope is gone

Leave a light, a light on

Millions of miles from home

In the swirling swimming on

When I'm rolling with the thunder but bleed from thorns

Leave a light, a light on

DiBlasio is fucking-up, big time, by not closing public schools....He will - when it is obviously too late...THIS will bite him in the ass.

[quote] R139: My parents in Santa Monica still refuse to prep.

If you can and care to, you might go online to a grocery delivery service and just send them groceries!

I have a bro and sister who are being cagey about this - I don’t know if or how they’ve prepared. I'm pretty sure they’ve under-prepared and I’ll just have to pray that they are naturally immune. It makes me so sad. My sister also lost at least $100,000 despite my insisting she sell. I used to manage her money and did quite well, so I know what she’s invested in.

The UK is FINALLY acting and is going to ban large gatherings. All Premiership football, Harry Styles concerts, Wimbledon, London Marathon, Glastonbury.

I see DiBlasio's point. If school is out of session, a lot of those kids won't eat and their parents just can't take the day off to watch them.

It's not so much that I think closing the schools is a good idea, but I'm not sure closing them and leaving thousands of kids to fend for themselves is a better one.

R428 me too! I’ve been quietly stocking up on food for weeks and selling stocks at the peak. It is thanks to DL. It’s got crazy where ai am in the last few days and food is one less thing to stress about.

R439> Not true. Jersey City schools are open 9am until 12noon to feed children who need it. And they are delivering to kids who can’t make it to school. Where there is a will and all...

Anyone from SoCal? My relatives in Orange County are just going about their merry way, ladida, no big deal. Are my family members idiots or is that the general attitude there?

Boris has FINALLY banned all large gatherings in the UK, but not before 1m people have returned from the giant petri-dish that is Cheltenham Races. There are pictures of them all crushed together - it looks terrifying.

🙁 Africa reports it's first positive case of Corona Virus

We finally have a confirmed case on my end of PA, though happily it's in one of the Trump-voting redneck wasteland counties south of Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, a lot of those people commute into Pittsburgh for work.

BTW, I INSIST the next thread must be 'Sleepless in Seattle.' Do it for Tom & Rita!

R442, there was just a news report on the chaos happening at stores. Someone in Orange County might feel more threatened because of the large Asian population.

[quote]Italy is what happens when those kinds of draconian measures are not taken. I think we’re more like Italy than China and we may be in for a similar fate.

What?

NO other European country has taken the extreme measures that Italy has. Germany, the UK, Spain, should be on total lock down.

Why aren't they? They're where Italy was 2 weeks ago.

And so is the US.

So Glastonbury's cancelled? Just as well. 78-year-old Paul McCartney performing in a field full of hundreds of thousands of people didn't sound like a great idea, given the circumstances.

New hoax voicemail is saying that the US will be on lockdown in two weeks. Widely circulated.

Cheltenham Races today - plague vector in the UK>

Fights broke out @ Costco in NYC, and @ a Sam's Club in Georgia.

Gonna get a whole lot worse ............

If/when we go to a full quarantine, things are going to be very third world.

People were super nice in the incredibly packed grocery store I was in tonight. That will all go away fast if we are quarantined.

CT will be shut down by Monday the latest going into a self imposed quarantine. Which is a good step. The medical community needs to use South Korea as their precedent for handling this, they were on top of things faster but their numbers are improving daily due to what they're doing. Their recovery figures are very encouraging too.

It's good to see the states, major industries and entertainment all take proactive measures while Chump just keeps his used car salesman-sundowning act going. Its his own base that's going to take a total hit.

^ cant provide a link bc that was gossip with a selectman.

Do we really think they will lock down entire cities? I just don’t see that working in the US...I’m planning on dining out tomorrow...lord knows I wasn’t waiting in a grocery line today

NEW THREAD TITLE IDEA

CORONAPOCALYPSE NOW

Sorry I have bee absent. Have HIV grant deadlines.

Haven't read anything here since I got called a conspiracy theorist.

Am I still persona non grata?

The geneticist.

With a shortage of Covid tests, how did the Utah Jazz get 55 in one day?

What in the world are we going to do?

Look at what everybody's going through

What kind of world do you want it to be?

Am I the future or the history?

[Chorus] 'Cause everyone hurts, everyone cries

Everyone tells each other all kinds of lies

Everyone falls, everybody dreams and doubts

Got to keep dancing when the lights go out

[Verse 2] How in the world am I going to see

You as my brother, not my enemy?

[Chorus]

'Cause everyone hurts, everyone cries

Everyone sees the colour in each other's eyes

Everyone loves, everybody gets their hearts ripped out

Got to keep dancing when the lights go out

Gonna keep dancing when the lights go out

Hold tight for everyday life

Hold tight for everyday life

R455 If infection is wide spread in a city, you bet it will be locked down. Everyone running off to god knows where to spread the virus would be a nightmare for the state and the country.

London should be locked down. It has 120 new cases this week, three deaths, and has no restrictions on mass gatherings. Trump is still letting Londoners fly into the US.

459 that belongs in the Coronavirus Playlist thread.

Donald's responses at R347 should be clear and obvious proof that the man is a PSYCHOPATH. Not just petty, not just equivocating, not just a blame-shifter, not just a liar—a classic, DSM-5 antisocial-personality-disorder psychopath. The US is now reaping what it has sown. What a shithole.

[quote]NO other European country has taken the extreme measures that Italy has.

They waited too long though. It was too late and the virus was already out of control (like what we’re doing.) China jumped on it early and did what had to be done in time to stop it.

457 I never say anything and just wait them out because I know that eventually they will see that I was right

Since there is no cure for Coronavirus, will it stay in the infected person's system permanently? Slowly eating away at organs?

according to Maddow's graph we are on the same trajectory as Italy.

R464 Yes, you have to get ahead of the virus to curtail an epidemic. Don't plan for the number of cases you have today. Plan for what you expect to have a week from now.

R467 - I saw that. Yikes!!!

R466.. no. Eventually your immune system kills a virus and you have immunity.

R126 Please send pics! And test results!

r470 - sure, just like the flu.

A dark music playlist..................................

How do people know that the virus isn't going to spread to major organs...

[quote]They waited too long though. It was too late and the virus was already out of control (like what we’re doing.)

When Italy was where the other Euro countries are now (as far as number of cases go) they already had regions in lockdown.

Why isn't the rest of Europe doing that?

[quote]It was too late and the virus was already out of control

So tell us: you think the virus is "under control" in Spain, the UK, Germany etc?

R474. I'm fine. Regards.

We are in at least semi-lockdown here in Ireland.

All the universities are closed by government order so I've been told to find ways to try and teach the rest of the syllabus online. That'll be a fun way to teach Baudelaire.

Naturally I intend to do only the absolute bare minimum that I can pass off as sufficient effort. Supposed to be doing training now on online collaboration tools. It'll be interesting to see whether any students show up for our scheduled online hangouts or whatever the fuck they are meant to be.

I was meant to get next Tuesday off (as it is St Patrick's Day and a public holiday), I dunno if that applies now.

R474 because this is a virus that causes respiratory disease. Its architecture lets it attach to epithelial cells inside the respiratory system, causing bilateral interstitial pneumonia.

R478 yes but I read it can potentially damage other major organs as well...

Pulmonary Fibrosis is no joke. My father had it. It's a miserable way to live and die.

Heidi Klum says that she has it!

New York cases will surpass Seattle in a few weeks. Watch

Thanks a lot, r434. That is my sense, that it is "common sense" to not be subjecting yourself to "crowds" of unknown persons, for a protracted period of time in a confined area, likely seated cheek by jowl. I refuse to subject myself to this level of risk.

To pay tribute to new DL fave Tom Hanks new title should be

Mama always said ....... you can fill in the blanks.

I say never trust a man with orange makeup.

Or life is like a can of Lysol you never know when you might have to fight to the death over it.

Apparently, R470 has never heard much about HIV.

R439 = frau in this clip

I was freaked out today seeing there was practically nothing left on the shelves in three different supermarkets.

We're going to find out by the end of March/early April. If the number of deaths are in the hundreds then I'm sure Trump and his ilk will crow that the rest of us overacted and/or gloat about how well the administration took care of the problem. And I hope that's the case because obviously that means very few people will suffer.

But if we're on the same trajectory as Italy, then it will be a horror show. My mom is in her late 60's and I'd rather be wrong and hope all of this is going to be of a dud, like Y2K was.

R453 Connecticut will be locked down?

San Francisco is shutting down the public libraries from today until the end of the month... so I guess I don't have to return any borrowed materials.

Today I was watching Sanjay Gupta on Christmas Cuomo’s show and they were taking about shopping and shortages. Gupta said you should only buy “for two weeks.” Why? Does he seriously think in two weeks this is going to be all better, or better at all? Judging by Italy, it’s going to be a lot worse.

Who is telling them to say this? Homeland Security? Because it’s in no relation to reality, which is in two weeks everyone’s hair is going to be standing on end.

I expect movie theaters, non-grocery stores, bars and restaurants will follow suit and close down until end of the month.

Is this the sweetest thing. Brought a tear to my eye.

Siena Italy. People singing together from their homes...

r491 - Forget Gupta. An American woman on a U.S. military base in Italy interviewed today on CNN. She had very practical advice and said to stock up on food and other essentials for up to 30 days. She said you can count on stores closing, and chaos. That was her advice to Americans today. She also advised to take this virus [bold] very seriously.

R458

When you’re connected to powerful people in the government they can do anything.

Fuck the little people. They used 10% of available tests on these professional gladiators. Sickening.

I love Sleepless in Seattle as the next title

Visited my local grocery today. Most things were there. Not bottled water. Absolutely no toilet paper.

But people were still buying large quantities of food. Large quantities of food and no toilet paper is going to be a problem.

Bidets, people. BIDETS. Cheap and effective. Straight from Amazon to your bum in two days.

OTC drugs are running out also

R493

That literally made me tear up.

Shutting down interstate travel, except for trucks carrying supplies, limiting travel inside your own community, making all restaurants/clubs/theaters/schools/libraries etc. close down for a month or two so we can

A) slow down the spread so that our medical system isn’t overwhelmed, aka #FlattenTheCurve

B) stock up on PPE essentials for medical staff, build out additional facilities and learn from the first wave of infected

If we allow our medical system time to adapt to an unprecedented outbreak, we can keep the death rate under 1%.

If everyone gets sick at the same time, the number goes to 8-10% or more because of lack of hospital space, intensive medical care, and lifesaving drugs that are in short supply.

Shutting down everything except curbside delivery of pharmaceuticals and groceries is one of the only ways we are going to stop this from becoming a catastrophe.

Utah Jazz used up half of Utah State's tests! All their staff and players...like make 50 tests were used. That first player who tested positive is hated by his teammates now, he was in the locker room touching all their stuff.

China is now trying to deflect its responsibility as the Mother of this shit show by circulating a rumor that the virus was created in a military lab in Fort Detrick. Maryland were it scaped last year during an accident that caused the lab to shut down. They say that it was the virus what caused the mysterious vape related deaths and that american soldiers who participated in a sort of military olimpics held in WuHan last october were the ones who brought it to China

I remember Italy didn't want to close borders, said it wasn't necessary etc. They were so confident it was no big deal...and now look where they are.

Italy's population is old, I think I read that 60% of the the people are over 40. that why it is has been so devastating there.

I tend to eat out a lot and don't have much in the fridge. I'm almost tempted to go shopping tomorrow morning just to have something in the freezer. Maybe, a case of wine.

R503 - yet, some on here *still* believe it is just a bad cold or flu that kills old people at worse and we are overreacting...sigh, smdh

I think the next thread should be called "Testless in Seattle"

Lol, someone else posted this on Facebook.

[Quote] You know that stash of fast food napkins in your glove box? It's their time to shine.

Just basic math - it will be a disaster in NYC like Italy. There just aren’t enough respirators - so the ONLY way to prevent large number of deaths is stopping the spread. NYC should be more aggressive. TX is shutting down for Gods sake. NYC hospitals can not handle it - period. Everything needs to stop - screw the economy.

The hoarding is a Minor distraction. Toilet paper is irrelevant. And people are overreacting on food. Plenty of Frozen foods at stores - even if meat and veggies may be gone. I’m also confident that stores will be resupplied by next week.

THE ISSUE is respirators.

Corona in Pittsburgh is too close for comfort.

I'm about to jump from moderately nervous to uncomfortably nervous.

FLATTEN THE CURVE!

Suspend all public meetings of more than a half dozen. Offer immediate help to people laid off because of illness or work disruptions due to lockdown.

We have to get this under control or more people will die from lack of care than from the disease itself.

[quote] AMENDMENT I Of the Constitution: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The government can’t force the cancellation of meetings and rallies. I suppose, by the time the matter gets to the Supreme Court, it will be months from now and mute.

To whoever makes the next thread - and we had someone jump the gun with this one - could we please reinstate the 1 -10 panic poll and fuss less about the thread title?

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

⏳ CORONA TIME 11:15 PM EST

🌐 GLOBAL

CASES: 145,634

DEATHS: 5,436

CRITICAL: 6,082

🇺🇸 UNITED STATES

CASES: 2,291

DEATHS: 50

CRITICAL: NO UPDATE

Pierre, you over simplified a bit.

How Trump's Mistakes Made Coronavirus Worse | All In | MSNBC

whenever the actual tests are available in mass format, the US infection rates and death will SPIKE

it's been drip drip rising so far but by next week if the tests truly are available the numbers will look like Italy

A doctor at the Brooklyn VA Medical Center has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to officials and an internal memo.

James Fitzgerald, director of NYC Veterans Alliance, said the employee is a doctor who treated patients at the Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, facility on Monday and Tuesday after coming into contact with someone who had coronavirus at religious services last weekend.

A VA staffer confirmed that the infected doctor treated patients earlier this week.

[quote]Naturally, the stupid schvartze

What the fuck is wrong with you people lately? Every other post from you is some casual racist bullshit. Don't you have Twitter or Reddit or Breitbart to play on?

apparently a 2nd Brazilian official has now tested positive. He's posing in a pic near Trump and Ivanka/Jared

The waiting is the hardest part. Other than dying, I mean.

The entire Trump clan was in attendance.

Most likely, Barron was elsewhere. Unless he wasn't.

Trump is a vector for the coronavirus, most likely.

It's inevitable that we will have clusters of Coronavirus victims since it will hit prisons and armed forces bases. Has anyone heard about our federal government's plans dealing with these situations? In a couple of countries, prisoners have actually rioted over it, and one country was getting ready to release prisoners.

I think it could easily spread like wildfire in red states like West Virginia, Arkansas and Kentucky

I suggest "Wipeout" as the official Coronavirus Freakout theme song.

It's got a bold, hypnotic beat, and you can dance to it.

I think they have to stop the prisoners from having visitors.

So it seems Donald Trump is a super spreader.

We know his wife always has been.

I feel bad for the cleaning staff in the White House and I mean that sincerely not in a bitchy DL way

[quote]I remember Italy didn't want to close borders, said it wasn't necessary etc. They were so confident it was no big deal...and now look where they are.

If they thought it was no big deal, why did they shut down all flights to and from China on January 31st?

R512 In an emergency, the president can suspend habeas corpus and pretty much suspend the constitution. That's part of what makes Trump so scary. If Trump weren't so big on doing everything he can not to hurt the wealthy, he could order everyone in the country remain in their homes for two weeks, like China. He won't, but he'd have the right to do so under a state of emergency.

Johnny Rapid has retired due to CV..It's the end of the DL World!

Does Melania have to change his.....

Melania invented the "Slovenian Split."

Johnny won't be missed. he got boring when he stopped being fresh and submissive.

Johnny won't be missed. he got boring when he stopped being fresh and submissive.

Johnny won't be missed. he got boring when he stopped being fresh and submissive.

Habeas corpus, in simple terms, means people (citizens and noncitizens) can seek recourse to go before a judge [italic]while being held in detention in the US.[/italic]. Those who believe they have been unfairly detained can petition for a writ of habeas corpus. A successful petition means the those who are holding a suspect must bring the suspect before a judge to have the suspect's detainment adjudicated.

[bold]Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution states, "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."[/bold]

Stop alarming people through ignorance. There is enough to worry about.

Got it r536 r537 r538.

Anything from Tom Petty would be good since he died from a hospital mistake

I too like the poll but I'm a fan of OP. Do what you gotta do,brother.

Anything from Tom Petty would be good since he died from a hospital mistake

I too like the poll but I'm a fan of OP. Do what you gotta do,brother.

[quote][R464] Yes, you have to get ahead of the virus to curtail an epidemic. Don't plan for the number of cases you have today. Plan for what you expect to have a week from now.

Exactly, R468. The pandemic has proven an excellent way of filtering out the idiots in my life. I have two siblings who have openly mocked me for preparing, both saying things like, "the flu kills blah blah many people a year", "there's only a few cases here", etc. Italy, with its 12,462 cases started with one, but somehow their tiny brains can't managed to put it together.

Is There An Echo In Here ?

Donald got a doctors note to get him out of taking the test.

Melania was spotted today in an exclusive Georgetown boutique shopping for a suitable frock to wear at Madame Trudeau’s funeral-something black and chic but with enough of a plunging neckline so as to make Justin finally hers, all hers.

Petty OD'd at home.

Petty died from an "accidental" drug overdose.

Yesterday was [bold] FRIDAY the 13th ! ! !

Chris Martenson's latest video

Corona is the new Grim Reaper.

So which big city will get the Corona treatment first?

So if your car was scheduled for service tomorrow- would you still go?

no, you shouldn't be driving anyway. stay home

Saw this just now from an ER doc I follow:

Just an ER doctor in the trenches in rural lower Michigan convinced that this country has no fucking idea how bad it’s about to get.

Every hospital we transfer to has no ICU beds.

This is gonna be a total nightmare. Total.

Is there any news about what is going on in Russia? Do the people there know about the CV? If it has arrived in some of the former Soviet republics, surely it has found its way to Russia.

And another from the ER doc:

AMERICA,

Take it from a doctor on the front lines of this crisis in Michigan,

This is going to be an absolute DISASTER

Never seen so many shortness of breath in a short amount of time.

R532: In an emergency, the president can suspend habeas corpus and pretty much suspend the constitution.

I don’t think so, R532. Can you cite something in the Constitution that says so?

Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the civil war but SCOTUS eventually ruled it unconstitutional. Trump can do a lot of things that stay put until/unless SCOTUS rules if they are unconstitutional.

Back to being scared again ...

Should we all just put ourselves in body bags r557? Source to a medical source to your hysteria ?

R560 it's @thaterguy on Twitter, and I can do without the hyperbole thanks

“And no bells tolled,” wrote a chronicler of Siena, “and nobody wept no matter what his loss because almost everyone expected death.… And people said and believed, ‘This is the end of the world.’ ”

Wait 6-12 weeks, that's how long Harvard University told it's student their labs would closed. No online work for lab tests.

“And no bells tolled,” wrote a chronicler of Siena, “and nobody wept no matter what his loss because almost everyone expected death.… And people said and believed, ‘This is the end of the world.’ ”

Wait 6-12 weeks, that's how long Harvard University told it's student their labs would closed. No online work for lab tests.

Sorry r561 but the hysteria is not needed. We know it’s bad. But you’re getting into Chris Hayes territory of saying 2 million will die with no basis for saying that other than that’s what TV doctors are saying as a worst case scenario and causing people to lose their minds

R564 but that isn't what he said. He was on a break, went back to work, and has been surprised by the ER patients he's gotten which he said are 70% "shortness of breath" and upper and lower respiratory symptoms. And he can't send them to other hospitals in the chain because there's no available beds. And getting them tested is apparently difficult (which we already knew). The two posts above were definitely the most alarmed ones but the point of view is what's important.

Related:

@NickKristof

A hospital in Seattle area has sent out a note to staff, shared with me, suspending elective surgery and warning that "our local COVID-19 trajectory is likely to be similar to that of Northern Italy." The hospital is down to a four-day supply of gloves.

The Ars Technica guide to Coronavirus

Let’s give good vibes to scientists all over the world who are looking for a cure? A slow down? Thank you. And we all can say Fuck China. And fuck the Chinese and their wet markets. Uncivilized animals. You really need to eat salamanders?

R567 China sure had the last laugh on you racists!

[bold]Stop being afraid - fear is contagious. Scan some observations from the Black Plague and note the difference. COVID-19 is not the big one. Now go back and fight over the last roll of toilet paper. It will work out your anxiety.[bold]

So rapidly did it spread from one to another that to a French physician, Simon de Covino, it seemed as if one sick person “could infect the whole world.”

“And in these days was burying without sorrowe and wedding without friendschippe.”

“Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another,” he wrote, “for this plague seemed to strike through the breath and sight. And so they died. And no one could be found to bury the dead for money or friendship.… And I, Angolo di Tura, called the Fat, buried my five children with my own hands, and so did many others likewise.”

The father will not visit his son, nor the son his father. Charity was dead.”

Filled with the sound of mourning, the city (Tournai) became oppressed by fear, so that the authorities forbade the tolling of bells and the wearing of black and restricted funeral services to two mourners.

The urban poor died in their burrows, “and only the stench of their bodies informed neighbors of their death.”

“Men and women … wandered around as if mad” and let their cattle stray “because no one had any inclination to concern themselves about the future.”

“the world could never again regain its former prosperity.”

At Montpellier, site of the leading medieval medical school, the physician Simon de Covino reported that, despite the great number of doctors, “hardly one of them escaped.”

The panic is going to kill a lot of people

The hysteria is hilarious.

but but but the stock market rebounded today yesterday's losses! Pandemic HANDLED. The adult is in the room and it's Trump!

I feel bad for all the whores. Is anyone stupid enough to book one of those disease-bags for a night with all this going on?

Aussie scientists say they already have a vaccine, and it will be available in about 6 months.

Noticed that the death toll isn't rising quickly in the US. 50 people?

Whoever does Coronavirus Time should also state how much the totals have increased since the previous day, otherwise it's pretty meaningless.

Or you could check the stats yourself.

Coronavirus Stats UK

Monday 9/3/20 = 319/5 dead

Tuesday 10/3/20 = 373 up 54/ 6 dead

Wednesday 11/3/20 = 456 up 83/8 dead

Thursday 12/3/20 = 590 up 133/10 dead

Friday 13/3/20 = 798 up 208/11 dead

R574 only because we're 6 weeks behind on testing

there will be a lot more deaths and who knows how many have died in the last 6 weeks who weren't tested

The UK is worse than the US in terms of dealing with this. Cograts.

Fuck China. Fuck their wet markets. Will the world finally step in to stop those animals?

We should have just bombed Wuhan when we got the first whiff of this.

R560 They're sold out too!

Medical imagery of people suffering from COVID-19—the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus—shows how the condition affects the lungs of patients.

[QUOTE] Medical imagery of people suffering from COVID-19—the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus—shows how the condition affects the lungs of patients.

The lungs of 0.2% of 'patients' under 50, you alarmist clown.

Hey cunt 582, I only copied and pasted the opening paragraph of the article. Cunt.

Ooh did I hit a nerve, Miss Hysteria? Let's hope you get hit by a lethal mutant strain of coronavirus and die from lung lesions within five days.

New thread with poll but without pretentious quotation

Have we used Death in Venice as a thread title yet?

The Michigan ER doc post is dubious. Doesn’t make sense that is happening there - when it’s not happening yet in NYC or other hot zones. I do expect ICUs to be overwhelmed but we are not there yet. We will be - so valid fear. But not yet. We really need to focus on setting up emergency centers in addition to hospitals. Unfortunately we don’t have the staff or the respirators needed to operate them.

Like I said before the Seventh seal one was the ultimate. Maybe when things aren't so seemingly serious we can be entertained with witty thread titles.

Like I said before the Seventh seal one was the ultimate. Maybe when things aren't so seemingly serious we can be entertained with witty thread titles.

Thread 17 is already made

World War C.

DL-ers make fun of everything and Corona is included in that.

Nothing wrong with a bit of gallows humour.

New thread with poll that people are already using

Snark is always appropriate.

Plague

New thread

New Part 17

New Corona thread

Please move to thread 17 as this one is done.

Thread 17 is here.

True I'm just saying if you cant come up with a good one like silly Bond ones or world War c dont do one at all. The poll one is fine.