Coronavirus/COVID-19, Thread 2

[Homerclease]

Roll call... Who doesn't have COVID yet? Or hasn't been tested positive.

How are you all doing? Got enough supplies? I haven't been out for more than a week. We got about a dozen suspected COVID positives in our town. But testing has been soooo slowww. Only 2 are confirmed COVID-19 patients -- one died and one is recovering.

Still alive and well although a man on my crew tested positive this past Monday. Test results took 9 days so they gave us the rest of the week off and it’s back to the grind on Monday.

[Dave_From_NB]

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I don't understand how this can still be permitted. With this kind of thing going on, NYC just simply is going to run the gauntlet of 100% of residents infected and that 100-200 thousand deaths talked about will be in NYC alone.

This is like watching the prequel to "I am Legend".

[Parliament10]

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I don't understand how this can still be permitted. With this kind of thing going on, NYC just simply is going to run the gauntlet of 100% of residents infected and that 100-200 thousand deaths talked about will be in NYC alone.

This is like watching the prequel to "I am Legend".

This is crazy.
It's supposed to be for "Essential Workers". This looks like the Average Joe & Jane.

[claycarver]

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I don't understand how this can still be permitted. With this kind of thing going on, NYC just simply is going to run the gauntlet of 100% of residents infected and that 100-200 thousand deaths talked about will be in NYC alone.

This is like watching the prequel to "I am Legend".

Definitely. The difference between the New York City area and the rest of the county is staggering. At 1,867 deaths in New York City, with a population of 8.6 million, they've had about 1 death per 4,600 residents. Spain and Italy are right around 1 in 4000, so New York City is basically right there.

By comparison I live in Maryland, with where we've had about 1 death per 140,000 residents. And Maryland is almost exactly average for the country.

[Parliament10]

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This is a tough one.

[jmr07019]

Cuomo dropping the ball on the subway jeez. As are all those people. Why would you even get on the subway?

[sam_I_am]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/politics/republican-governors-stay-at-home-orders-coronavirus/index.html

To see this level of ignorance in the face of the unfolding catastrophe is mind boggling. New York is going to use up every ventilator they can get. And then MA, FL, CA, IL, MI will need them and maybe there will be even less to get. Oh, and to be on a ventilator for 21 days means 21 days of sedatives and guess what.....there are already nationwide shortages of fentanyl, versed, ketamine, propofol etc. so even if GM makes ventilators in time for rural US, there may not be enough drugs left to put people on them. If people are looking to the hospitals to save them.....and they will kill themselves trying to do it...... but they are in for a rude awakening. The only treatment for this disease appears to be luck - lucky enough not to get It or if you do lucky enough not to sick from it. For many who do get sick the life rafts that can keep 50% afloat long enough to recover are running out. Governors in these 8 states are delusional. Being first like NYC only looks bad now....it could be far worse for those states who get it bad later. It’s not too late for them to flatten their curves.

[sam_I_am]

Cuomo dropping the ball on the subway jeez. As are all those people. Why would you even get on the subway?

This is a drastic example of how the haves and the have nots are going to fare in this pandemic. The racial disparity in the US of coronavirus pandemic is already revealed by those who have died or are in ICU and it is shocking and sickening. Those people probably work in health care, as home health aids, grocery stores, or other essential industries. Meanwhile, the elite who live on upper East side are locked down on in their summer homes in Cape Cod etc,

[canman1971]

So far, so good here, despite my wife being a nurse and having to go to work and the moron donor who likes to call herself "mom", even though my son doesn't insisted for the second week in a row to take him. My wife and I certainly understand keeping her in his life, despite being a loser and completely irresponsible while marrying a convicted felon including domestic violence (twice) on her and who can't see his own kid unsupervised. However, this is a little different. It's like getting to hold your breath from Friday to Monday morning. Then start homeschooling and teaching my own stuff. So, all considering, as I said, all is good so far. There are many worse of by far. One observation, after going to the store to get necessities, it is really weird, in a creepy way on how people act.

[Bad-Thoma]

Roll call... Who doesn't have COVID yet? Or hasn't been tested positive.

How are you all doing? Got enough supplies? I haven't been out for more than a week. We got about a dozen suspected COVID positives in our town. But testing has been soooo slowww. Only 2 are confirmed COVID-19 patients -- one died and one is recovering.

I'm more thankful than usual to be living in rural Vermont, I'm working from home building a day bed with drawers for a customer and limiting my excursions to the occasional hardware store run or supply run for vulnerable neighbors. My wife is going all out running a food pantry that's always pretty busy but is now, as expected, gaining more clientele. She's being as safe as she can to protect herself, volunteers, and the clientele, many of whom are elderly or have health issues that put them in the position of needing help in the first place, but I'm worrying about her every day, she's 51 and quit smoking a couple years ago thankfully but still was a smoker for a long time. Luckily all of my own underlying health issues are mental .

I'm thankful for you all and your stories, I'm definitely spending more time on the board than during the basketball season. The first covid wall of shame is the only wall of shame I've ever made, lol.

[Green89]

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I don't understand how this can still be permitted. With this kind of thing going on, NYC just simply is going to run the gauntlet of 100% of residents infected and that 100-200 thousand deaths talked about will be in NYC alone.

This is like watching the prequel to "I am Legend".

This is crazy.
It's supposed to be for "Essential Workers". This looks like the Average Joe & Jane.

It's the business owners who refuse to shut down and pay their workers. They stay open, forcing people to go to work, or else they have no income. It's not just NY. I see it in the towns near me. When I've driven to stores this past week, I see small to medium sized, non-essential businesses open as normal with full employee parking lots. It's happening in Mass, too. This needs to stop. If giant retailers have to shutter their doors, these small and medium business owners need to be heavily fined for staying open and seriously jeopardizing public health. I don't think anyone is policing this, either.

[djFan71]

At least these dudes are having a good time during all of this:

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We stayed in Llandudno like 5 years ago. It was kinda deserted even then. Except for the pubs. And the old people gossip network was strong. They have a huge boardwalk on the Irish Sea which was pretty empty for it's size. We went for a swim and the water is super cold even in July, so it was really quick. We walked back to our hotel, showered, and came back down and the owners were asking us about how the swim went. Their friends had seen some "young" people (we're in our late 40s now) at the beach and we were the only ones in town that fit the description, so it got back to them in less than an hour.

Also, the owner husband was like a Welsh Michael Caine and kept flirting with my wife.

[threrf23]

Cuomo dropping the ball on the subway jeez. As are all those people. Why would you even get on the subway?

I'm sure many feel like they have no choice. And it may even be a health issue for them on some level, b/c they feel they will lose their job if they can't make it to work, and they may depend on their job for health insurance. Some, which might or might not be pictured, may be homeless and/or at a point in life where they don't care, don't know they should care, etc. Some are prob grabbing groceries...

Some truly, figuratively not just literally, are probably essential. But that's an even bigger problem IMO. I don't know if masks are effective at all in this sort of context? But I feel like anybody riding the NYC subway right now should prob be self-quarantined for 14 days - even without crowds the ventilation is likely poor and there are likely LOTS of undiagnosed folk going about their biz in NYC right now. Last thing you want is for someone to get infected on the subway, and spread to others in hospital environments and what not, that does more harm than good. Someone needs to be finding better tansportation for them.

This is why the subway needs to be shut down, it will force people to find alternate solutions in some cases, and will force some very hard (but in most cases right) decisions on others.

[djFan71]

Cuomo dropping the ball on the subway jeez. As are all those people. Why would you even get on the subway?

This is a drastic example of how the haves and the have nots are going to fare in this pandemic. The racial disparity in the US of coronavirus pandemic is already revealed by those who have died or are in ICU and it is shocking and sickening. Those people probably work in health care, as home health aids, grocery stores, or other essential industries. Meanwhile, the elite who live on upper East side are locked down on in their summer homes in Cape Cod etc,

Yep. By now NY should have allowed unemployment for people who have to use the subway to get to their jobs*. No restrictions. But, even that is a slow process and low enough $ that it may not be practical for people. But you gotta give them some option other than riding in those crowded cars and continuing to spread this thing.

* Not sure if they have or not, apologies if that's been implemented.

[djFan71]

So far, so good here, despite my wife being a nurse and having to go to work and the moron donor who likes to call herself "mom", even though my son doesn't insisted for the second week in a row to take him. My wife and I certainly understand keeping her in his life, despite being a loser and completely irresponsible while marrying a convicted felon including domestic violence (twice) on her and who can't see his own kid unsupervised. However, this is a little different. It's like getting to hold your breath from Friday to Monday morning. Then start homeschooling and teaching my own stuff. So, all considering, as I said, all is good so far. There are many worse of by far. One observation, after going to the store to get necessities, it is really weird, in a creepy way on how people act.

Man, that is tough, canman. Having to see him go anywhere nowadays, much less that environment, has to be gutwrenching. I hope everyone stays safe!

[canman1971]

So far, so good here, despite my wife being a nurse and having to go to work and the moron donor who likes to call herself "mom", even though my son doesn't insisted for the second week in a row to take him. My wife and I certainly understand keeping her in his life, despite being a loser and completely irresponsible while marrying a convicted felon including domestic violence (twice) on her and who can't see his own kid unsupervised. However, this is a little different. It's like getting to hold your breath from Friday to Monday morning. Then start homeschooling and teaching my own stuff. So, all considering, as I said, all is good so far. There are many worse of by far. One observation, after going to the store to get necessities, it is really weird, in a creepy way on how people act.

Man, that is tough, canman. Having to see him go anywhere nowadays, much less that environment, has to be gutwrenching. I hope everyone stays safe!

Thanks man. Appreciate it. And I gave the extremely cliff notes version. Court this week hopefully might change stuff. All by phone which will be weird.

[djFan71]

For roll call: Wife & I are both at home and healthy. She got laid off, but while not glad, we feel safer about it that way. We moved to Central Oregon from Seattle 3.5 years ago, and we would have been screwed there. We lived in a big apt building and ate out for over half of our meals. Since moving, we cook at home way more, so are much better prepared.

We have a decent supply of food, but not months worth or anything. One of us goes out once a week or so to shop - either late at night or right after the senior hours end seem to be pretty low volume.

Community here is pretty decent at distancing, but everyone is an outdoors lover - it's why you move here. So, they had to close all the parks to stop people going, and even that didn't really get to 100%. Overall, though, we're in much better shape than other parts of the country.

[fallguy]

For roll call: Wife & I are both at home and healthy. She got laid off, but while not glad, we feel safer about it that way. We moved to Central Oregon from Seattle 3.5 years ago, and we would have been screwed there. We lived in a big apt building and ate out for over half of our meals. Since moving, we cook at home way more, so are much better prepared.

We have a decent supply of food, but not months worth or anything. One of us goes out once a week or so to shop - either late at night or right after the senior hours end seem to be pretty low volume.

Community here is pretty decent at distancing, but everyone is an outdoors lover - it's why you move here. So, they had to close all the parks to stop people going, and even that didn't really get to 100%. Overall, though, we're in much better shape than other parts of the country.

I keep thinking about moving to Oregon, but have always focused on Portland (which is the only place I've been in Oregon besides a couple of coastal towns).

What are the pluses of where you're living? Sounds appealing.

[Froob]

Thankful my work has a free counseling line. Anxiety hitting an all time high. I think just about all of us could use a little support. Can’t be afraid to reach out and get some help when you need it.

[claycarver]

I'm going to put this out here even though it sounds awful...these last few weeks have been awesome for my family. Both my wife and I have continued to get paid even though our responsibilities have been greatly curtailed. I have two teenage daughters that live the hectic lives of high powered executives (school, activities, sports, friends, etc.) without the personal resources to power those lives. That's all come to a halt which has saved me hours and cash. Also, I like them so it's nice that they're trapped at home with me. I've gotten more house projects done these two weeks than I did last year. The house is starting to look like a magazine spread, so the wife is super grateful.

There hasn't been a personal downside for us. It feels shameful to say that with all the anxiety and instability facing other people. But if you're asking how we're doing, there it is.