MrDollarBills wrote:Papi_swav wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:I hope all of yall are staying the hell indoors as much as possible and washing your hands.
No going out on Tuesday.
Unfortunately my job is outdoors. I'm hoping they give us hazardous pay or a bonus.
Schools in NYC is shut down for a month. So is movie theaters, events etc.. restaurants are only doing take out and delivery. Looks like the city is shutting down soon. My job will be the last to react tho sadly. I work for the city BTW.
That's rough, hopefully being outdoors and keeping distance will keep you alright...I work indoors but I had to come into the office because they are staggering our shifts, so I'll be work from home wednesday and thursday. I'm hoping that the governor here in NJ gets off his ass and calls for a shut down because I really would prefer to be at home where the risk of infection is minimal. This weekend I only went out in regards to food and water. I'm in the office and every time someone coughs I'm just like
I think everything should be shut down aside from essential functions. Keep the grocery stores, liquor stores (trust me, you don't want to shut down the liquor stores), and food places that offer takeout or delivery open and close everything else. People are acting really stupid right now going out to bars, movie theaters and restaurants. In Italy they were doing that two weeks ago and now look.

You should be fine outdoors. Indoors is far riskier, as you have recirculating air, many contact surfaces, etc. They're doing studies & there's belief/hope that it could be seasonably affected like the flu. Supposedly humidity is believed to be the biggest factor when it comes to the seasonality. These viruses do not do well in moist, warm air. They thrive in the dried out heated air indoors. One of many concerns is that it does wane in the spring & return in the fall.
At the end of the day, it's expected that 70+% of the population will get it eventually. There's hope/belief that once you get the virus, your immune to getting it again this season. There are some reports of people who have tested positive, then negative & then positive again. It's unknown how good their immune systems were. Assuming that you do at least have short-term immunity after getting over the virus, it makes you wonder if the ideal scenario would be to extremely isolate the high risk population (& those that care for them), while expediting the spread & recovery among people that are healthy enough to recover on their own.