Corona Thread |OT| Nu variant, who dis?

[Occam]

More than two-thirds of Germany could end up infected by coronavirus, Merkel warns
(WaPo)

[Mr. Gundam]

Heard from a friend the national guard is being told to be prepared to shut down SeaTac;  not like they have been ordered yet, but it's a possible plan.

Fuuuck. My parents are gonna get stuck in Australia and my wife is going to lose her mind. She's already pissed they went on this vacation when I had surgery planned.

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1237779269385936899

[Akala]

Shutting down the Houston Rodeo.

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1237779269385936899

Who?

[Mr. Gundam]

UWMC where I'm having surgery is placing new rules on visitation. One per patient, and if they leave, they can't come back. Looks like my wife and I are gonna have a week long slumber party.

[BisMarckie]

Heard from a friend the national guard is being told to be prepared to shut down SeaTac;  not like they have been ordered yet, but it's a possible plan.

Riotous, this is serious.
 I need you to pull through until the 24th when t-mobile starts the mlb.tv giveaway.
Take any precautions necessary.

[Don Rumata]

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1237779269385936899

Who?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Did extra big groceries, if people will hoard I will be the first fucking one

Gettinh ready for two weeks quarantine at home with fam 

[Uncle]

this coronavirus is a real bruh moment

[BisMarckie]

Did extra big groceries, if people will hoard I will be the first fucking one

Gettinh ready for two weeks quarantine at home with fam 

Buy a gun so you can defend your cans of ravioli

[Mr. Gundam]

Washington state banned gatherings of 250 people or more. King County (where Seattle is) is banning gatherings of less than 250 people unless they meet strict health guidelines.

Also, Inslee spoke with Pence this morning and there is going be a federal response that may be similar to what we have in Washington.

[BisMarckie]

https://versus.uk.com/2020/03/hannovers-timo-hubers-becomes-first-player-test-positive-coronavirus/


Looks like they won’t be playing any games for at least two weeks. 

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1237800914477617152

[Pennywise]

https://versus.uk.com/2020/03/hannovers-timo-hubers-becomes-first-player-test-positive-coronavirus/


Looks like they won’t be playing any games for at least two weeks. 

Nah. He got infected at a party on Saturday and had no contact with his team. They'll be tested regardless, but that won't be the reason the games would be cancelled.

Watching the game behind closed doors now. Dreadful stuff. Feels like a training match at best.

[BisMarckie]

Is forums poster Occam for the forceful occupation of China for causing two global pandemics?

[TEEEPO]

https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1237796265577943040

[BisMarckie]

We need Corona-Amy wearing a surgical  mask.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Did extra big groceries, if people will hoard I will be the first fucking one

Gettinh ready for two weeks quarantine at home with fam 

Buy a gun so you can defend your cans of ravioli

I have an axe

[shosta]

https://twitter.com/FINALLEVEL/status/1237779384079089664

[curly]

Sounds like things are going great in Cali:

In Sacramento, the county health officer announced there would be no more quarantines and minimal tracing to determine how those testing positive for the novel coronavirus contracted the deadly, fast-moving disease. Those with symptoms face only voluntary restrictions for mingling in the community.

“The cat is already out of the bag,” said Peter Beilenson, Sacramento County’s health director. “The community spread has already occurred.”

“Our detection is so poor that if we detect one [case] we absolutely have a lot more than that,” said Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. “We have failed to detect cases to such a degree that there are probably many, many cases that are spreading undetected and the only way to deal with that problem are measures like social distancing that don’t require tracing cases.

What this new phase of fighting the novel coronavirus looks like varies widely as health officials grapple with how to keep people away from one another, a daunting prospect when many Americans are unaware, or skeptical, of the actual risks of the disease. Mixed messages from federal, state and local authorities have confused many about the suggested precautions they should take, said Lipstich and others.

“I don’t think that people are grasping that it’s serious right now,” said Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina. “And I think right now is our last chance to prevent massive numbers of cases.””

When authorities urge businesses and governments to delay events like Coachella, as happened Tuesday, it mitigates risks but also hits low-income workers, who are losing jobs, contributing to the chance the nation will slip into a recession.

“In most jobs in this country, you can’t work from a laptop on your couch,” said Adriane Casalotti, the chief of government and public affairs at the National Assn. of County and City Health Officials. “We’re out there asking real people to choose between the public’s health and their own financial well-being — them keeping their jobs. For individual families, this is complicated and messy.”

The disparate realities of mitigation are especially apparent in California, where Gov. Newsom has made it clear counties have the lead in responding to the virus.

Widespread quarantine measures can’t be sustained, Sisson said, especially for healthcare workers. California is already taxed with a shortage of medical providers, and forcing quarantines on front-line staff is a burden the system can’t bear as the virus spreads.

If counties keep quarantining healthcare workers for potential exposure, “we wouldn’t have any healthcare workers left,” she said.

Sisson added that the county does not have the capacity to continue to trace every contact because it lacks the manpower, even with an offer from the state for additional help.

“Even a handful of cases tested our capacity,” she said.

Casalotti said that in addition to tracing contacts, health officials felt burdened by containment because it required caring for those in isolation — a costly and labor-intensive prospect. Health workers often deliver groceries to keep patients away from busy public spaces where they could transmit the virus, for example.

“It’s hard work to do even when the numbers are in the hundreds,” said John Auerbach, the chief executive of Trust for America’s Health.

But Dr. Stanley Perlman, a microbiologist at the University of Iowa who studies coronaviruses, pointed out that drastic measures in Wuhan seem to have significantly slowed the spread of the virus. China’s massive quarantine was a never-before-seen public health experiment.

“Certainly what they did seems to have worked,” Perlman said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-11/california-steps-back-from-containment-new-york-sends-in-national-guard

Sounds like we're going to have an outbreak and a lot of people are going to die because our healthcare system sucks/the government's response sucks/people are too poor to miss work/businesses aren't going to eat the cost of shutting down.

[Joe Molotov]

Special, limited edition corona emojis, only available while the virus lasts or we're all dead.

[shosta]

(Image removed from quote.)

edit: second chart is a bit deceptive.

how? It's showing a good fit for the same rate of growth and that Italy isn't special.

[CatsCatsCats]

Decided fuck flying to San Diego next month

[Akala]

https://twitter.com/lfrayer/status/1237793020193304576

[Flannel Boy]

(Image removed from quote.)

edit: second chart is a bit deceptive.

how? It's showing a good fit for the same rate of growth and that Italy isn't special.

Would a per-capita stat be better? The start days also don't align.

[Cerveza mas fina]

What was Italy up to around 11 days ago?

1600

[shosta]

Would a per-capita stat be better? The start days also don't align.

covid cases per capita would just divide cases by 100,000. The start days aligning don't matter either, the point of the graph is the ubiquity of the growth rate except in the place with strong isolation measures (Japan).

[Brehvolution]

My daughter's college is telling student to move out this Friday. What a great time to have 10s of thousands of people all rushing to move on the same day. 

[toku]

It's happening. Akira is coming.

[team filler]

Special, limited edition corona emojis, only available while the virus lasts or we're all dead.

start a rare corona's thread, to be re-titled later 

[nachobro]

work asking me to come up with a preemptive work from home plan

[Svejk]

Already work from home, and wife stays home with the kids to homeschool...  it's like nothing's changed for me.  We hate being around other people anyways.  People suck.

[BisMarckie]

work asking me to come up with a preemptive work from home plan

Getting paid for smoking weed and playing vidya

[nachobro]

WFH plan being easy af to make cause 80% of the staff is already mobile

the rest get chrome remote desktop lets go baby

[Cerveza mas fina]

All schools are closed as of now, all non essential government services too.

From tomorrow possibly all restaurants and cafes etc.

[james]

They just called off my 10am site visit

 

No it will be a google streetview shared screen!

[Bebpo]

Jealous of y'all working from home. Our office is just not equipped for that, we're still in the paper age and never got digital like some law firms. And there's a lot of constant people talking to each other on the staff level, so nothing gets done if people are out. I get yelled at when I try to work from home :|

We're getting more and more cases here in OC, but no one is staying home yet. I drove to LA and back this morning and the freeway traffic was way lighter than I'm used to. Everyone I talked to in LA said a lot of people were already doing WFH so less people commuting and LA traffic is actually bearable. OC traffic still the same.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/CarsonDeonS/status/1237831818209984512

 

[Bebpo]

oh and since SF is cancelling gatherings over 1000 and Washington over 250, my horror group is set to go to midsummer scream in the summer in Long Beach Convention Center. Has about 30,000 attendees and it smells like normal nerds who do not have hygiene smell.

I'm not planning on going, but I'm guessing it'll get delayed/cancelled. Seems kinda crazy not too.

[team filler]

is sf canceling the homeless then? 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1237846584601108482

 

[Mr. Gundam]

Seattle Public Schools closing for two weeks starting tomorrow. Gonna pick up my daughter in a little while.

We're also learning that my wife will likely not be able to stay with me or visit me while I'm recovering after my surgery. The wording is that she can be in the hospital during the surgery, she can see me once I'm done but then she has to leave. 5-7 days by myself in the cardiac ICU. Fuuuuck.

[who is ted danson?]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2020/mar/11/hands-off-can-orgies-survive-in-the-age-of-coronavirus

[BisMarckie]

Degenerates annihilated 

[who is ted danson?]

https://twitter.com/DanielleMisiak/status/1237327453460324352

[team filler]

 

[brawndolicious]

Seattle Public Schools closing for two weeks starting tomorrow. Gonna pick up my daughter in a little while.

We're also learning that my wife will likely not be able to stay with me or visit me while I'm recovering after my surgery. The wording is that she can be in the hospital during the surgery, she can see me once I'm done but then she has to leave. 5-7 days by myself in the cardiac ICU. Fuuuuck.

That....sucks. It's just terribly boring sitting alone in a hospital bed.

[Flannel Boy]

https://twitter.com/ReutersWorld/status/1237826411282530305

[Cerveza mas fina]

Yeah, bit too late imho but still.

Well stay in the house next two weeks, maybe just go for walks in the forest and play in the garden

[Propagandhim]

https://twitter.com/DanielleMisiak/status/1237327453460324352

https://twitter.com/SymoneSydnee/status/1237542339234545664

[james]

Surely this won't put a damper on st paddys day right?

[Mr. Gundam]

Seattle Public Schools closing for two weeks starting tomorrow. Gonna pick up my daughter in a little while.

We're also learning that my wife will likely not be able to stay with me or visit me while I'm recovering after my surgery. The wording is that she can be in the hospital during the surgery, she can see me once I'm done but then she has to leave. 5-7 days by myself in the cardiac ICU. Fuuuuck.

That....sucks. It's just terribly boring sitting alone in a hospital bed.

Last time I was pretty drugged up and slept a lot. Hopefully it's the same again.

[BisMarckie]

https://twitter.com/ReutersWorld/status/1237826411282530305

Meanwhile we are told to wash our hands and keep our distance to everyone. 

[EchoRin]

Surely this won't put a damper on st paddys day right?

They cancelled the parade in Chitown. We gonna get drunk anyway though

[BisMarckie]

Surely this won't put a damper on st paddys day right?

They cancelled the parade in Chitown. We gonna get drunk anyway though

Gargle with whiskey to kill Corona-chan.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/HishamFageeh/status/1237406453175996417

 

[team filler]

rare-corona's 

[Flannel Boy]

I tried that trick in college. Didn't work.

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1237777806425092097