Corona Thread |OT| Please scream inside your heart

[Ghoul]

I think just number of people in US vs Spain and Italy + how lax they're playing this I would not be surprised if the US has the most deaths world wide, It'll be between US and India tbh.

[VomKriege]

New polling in France show that people are more worried (87%), feel the country is not ready to face it (73%) and less than a majority feels Macron and the government is managing this well (48%). With fatalities that will only keep on increasing in hospitals and retirement homes for at least a week, I wouldn't expect this will get better for Macron. I think we can expect tons of inquiries from media and parliament at the other end of this.

Public transport in Paris to get even more curtailed starting tomorrow.

A man got a 4 months prison sentence for being controlled 8 times without the proper papers while outside.

1600 people released from prison but there's still, IIRC, 70k prisoners for a theoretical capacity of 61k.

[CatsCatsCats]

Actually sent dat email today. C’mon, lay offs

[Akala]

It seems like no matter the case it would be a good idea in the US to get at least some worst-case supply chain planning going. Big box stores should be planning for limits on necessities, closing interiors of stores to the public and moving to curbside pickups or contactless deliveries only.

Pretty obvious by now that, generally speaking, the system we have now won't work in a crisis and that many people can't be trusted to take only what they need.

[nachobro]

NM already put limits on that with the stay at home order. Surprised that's not the case in every state at this point

In order to minimize the shortage of health care supplies and other necessary goods, grocery stores and other retailers are hereby directed to limit the sale of medications, durable medical equipment, baby formula, diapers, sanitary care products, and hygiene products to three items per individual

[Occam]

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1242271693181091840

This only affects the US, right?

Edit: Seems so.

Who could have known that voting a conman grifter into the highest office would have dire consequences?

I'm maybe speaking out if my ass but "limiting availability" might be to prevent hoarding and misuse before it can be confirmed it is helpful.

No, it doesn't sound like that at all. It just means that Gillead can charge any price and no-one else in the US is allowed to make a cheap generic version. This "rare disease" protection is meant to allow companies to recoup their investments when developing treatments for diseases that few people are suffering from (which would otherwise be unprofitable). In this instance, the government had already paid for development (the company was given an $80 million grant by a previous administration). So in this case granting "rare disease" status is completely absurd and will only serve to make the drug super expensive in America while generating lots of profit for Gilead Sciences. It wouldn't shock me in the least if members of Trump's administration (and his clan) bought lots of Gillead stock before issuing this.

[demi]

So what's the TLDR on coronabux? Do I get my money or not

[nachobro]

It does seem some corps are getting around the "stay at home" rules here though. Part of the order was that all call centers had to reduce in person workforce by 100% (we have a lot of call centers here) but also that hardware stores are essential so the Lowe's call center has to remain open...for everyone calling Lowe's customer service during a pandemic.

So what's the TLDR on coronabux? Do I get my money or not

we find out today for sure but you'll probably get $1200 next month

[Ghoul]

do you guys only get a one time corona bux payment?

[Occam]

Prince Charles has tested positive.

[nachobro]

do you guys only get a one time corona bux payment?

yes, but unemployment insurance is boosted by $600 a week for those out of work as well. after the vote they recess til next month and if needed this thing starts all over again to get people paid for may.

[bork]

do you guys only get a one time corona bux payment?

"Are we going to get corona bux payment" is the question right now.

[bork]

Move over, corona virus- it's Hanta's time to shine.


https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/man-who-died-on-bus-in-china-tests-positive-for-hantavirus/amp/

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“The #Hantavirus first emerged in 1950s in the American-Korean war in Korea (Hantan river). It spreads from rat/mice if humans ingest their body fluids. Human-human transmission is rare,” Swedish scientist Dr. Sumaiya Shaikh tweeted.

“Please do not panic, unless you plan to eat rats,” she stressed.

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[thisismyusername]

damn so esch has it huh

dont die breh, i plan to hire u as my personal chef some day

He can't die until he posts hog to me anyway. 

[nachobro]

why cant those fuckers over there be normal

[thisismyusername]

Move over, corona virus- it's Hanta's time to shine.


https://nypost.com/2020/03/24/man-who-died-on-bus-in-china-tests-positive-for-hantavirus/amp/

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Apparently you get this from eating RATS. 

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[bork]

why cant those fuckers over there be normal

[Ghoul]

bat are off the menu, back to wingless bats

[james]

Pretty sure Yosemite gets that rat virus and they have to close the camp sites to clean it up every few years

[ToxicAdam]

wait... charles has it, but not camilla


sounds like a happy marriage

My favorite tidbit about their affair was when it was revealed that in a phone conversation he told her "he wanted to be her tampon."

Guess those days are over.

[thisismyusername]

Glad to see Meghan and Harry got out of that crazy house at a good time.

[Mupepe]

do you guys only get a one time corona bux payment?

yes, but unemployment insurance is boosted by $600 a week for those out of work as well. after the vote they recess til next month and if needed this thing starts all over again to get people paid for may.

by $600 or from $521 to $600? The article I read sounded like the latter, but the former would be awesome.

[nachobro]

It sounded like the feds just giving $600/week on top of whatever your state was giving you for UI

Dammit.. CNN detailed it:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/senate-deal-stimulus-checks-coronavirus/index.html

It's based on 2019 returns if you filed lol.. not procrastinating probably just cost me $1500+ or so lol.

However, the payments would start to phase out for individuals with adjusted gross incomes of more than $75,000, and those making more than $99,000 would not qualify at all. The thresholds are doubled for couples.
About 90% of Americans would be eligible to receive full or partial payments, according to estimates by the Tax Policy Center. Lawmakers set aside $250 billion for the so-called recovery rebates.

Qualifying income levels will be based on 2019 federal tax returns, if already filed, and otherwise on 2018 returns.

if you filed jointly i think its 150k before you start losing coronabux

[Mupepe]

well that would be sweet AF and alleviate a lot of my stress from the last week and a half.

[toku]

Think i gotta take a break from coverage. I have no idea what to think about the coming weeks now 

[nachobro]

My work extended WFH another week to line up with the state's request, but I'll have to be in the office next week to help with provider payroll. Hoping it only takes a couple of days, but there will be under 10 of us across three buildings so it probably won't be too bad.

[Ghoul]

Think i gotta take a break from coverage. I have no idea what to think about the coming weeks now 

Yeah try not to overload on it, I just wait for the 5pm updates and then fuck off the rest, no point over indulging in misery.

[Stro]

I have no doubts I won't get any corona bucks because I basically don't even exist on paper anymore and have been unable to get any type of government benefits of any kind for a decade, including signing up for Obummercare.

[james]

I have no doubts I won't get any corona bucks because I basically don't even exist on paper anymore and have been unable to get any type of government benefits of any kind for a decade, including signing up for Obummercare.

Did you fake your death?

[nachobro]

My work extended WFH another week to line up with the state's request, but I'll have to be in the office next week to help with provider payroll. Hoping it only takes a couple of days, but there will be under 10 of us across three buildings so it probably won't be too bad.

boss clarified that i only have to go in "as needed" next week

of course watch this mean like 3 times a day for a printer jam or something dumb

[Ghoul]

Yeah I have no idea when I'm in next.

[nachobro]

i went in yesterday cause an alarm went off in the server room but it wasn't anything major. was pretty quick cause roads were so empty.

[Ghoul]

i went in yesterday cause an alarm went off in the server room but it wasn't anything major. was pretty quick cause roads were so empty.

Nice we have ILO so any alerts I can check before going in. But yeah it' pretty quick to get in because everyone should be staying in

[Madrun Badrun]

[VomKriege]

Lombardy numbers better than yesterday...
You take everything you can get.

[Nintex]

While the numbers keep going up the experts here have announced 'good news'. The measures are working and the growth is no longer exponential.

Corona-chan has also brutally murdered what was left of the EU, as the Russian Army moves in to help Italy
https://twitter.com/asetemel/status/1242769714285338624

The EU meanwhile has announced it only as 10% of the needed medical supplies and equipment required to deal with this crisis in reserve.
And they're wholly depended on importing more.

I'm staying home 

[VomKriege]

Nintex : Dutch Land Uber Alles, we got this !

*2 weeks later*

Nintex : Where is the EU ? Fucking useless. And I'm all out of Kroketten...

[EightBitNate]

:demi

https://twitter.com/CraigCons/status/1239882298784468992

You guys better hope Trump doesn’t see this

[Nintex]

Nintex : Dutch Land Uber Alles, we got this !

*2 weeks later*

Nintex : Where is the EU ? Fucking useless. And I'm all out of Kroketten...

Putin will at some point conquer Europe by door to door toilet roll delivery 

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/StephenCurry30/status/1242865808281227268

[Nintex]

@Dr. Fauci: "We've seen that a small sacrifice to the blood god has given us a 3000 points raise in two days. How many people have to die for the DOW to hit 30k, 50k or even 100k?"

[BisMarckie]

Signed up for some workout at home video service.

Time to get swole brehs

[Stro]

I have no doubts I won't get any corona bucks because I basically don't even exist on paper anymore and have been unable to get any type of government benefits of any kind for a decade, including signing up for Obummercare.

Did you fake your death?

No, but I've technically been a dependent for most of the past 10 years, and nothing is in my name, I can't get my driver's license address changed because I have nothing in my name to prove my address, I can't get anything in my name because I can't prove my address, it's been 9 months and I haven't been able to get any of the bills changed to my name even with a death certificate of the previous payee, and there's some weird thing with my SSN that I was unable to sign up for Obamacare any year it was available to me.

[shosta]

I'm trying to get off the grid. Swap? You can have my name and identity. Only two misdemeanor convictions.

[Madrun Badrun]

I have no doubts I won't get any corona bucks because I basically don't even exist on paper anymore and have been unable to get any type of government benefits of any kind for a decade, including signing up for Obummercare.

Did you fake your death?

No, but I've technically been a dependent for most of the past 10 years, and nothing is in my name, I can't get my driver's license address changed because I have nothing in my name to prove my address, I can't get anything in my name because I can't prove my address, it's been 9 months and I haven't been able to get any of the bills changed to my name even with a death certificate of the previous payee, and there's some weird thing with my SSN that I was unable to sign up for Obamacare any year it was available to me.

I've got a bunch of weird shit going on right now too because of stupid government forms.  I can't defer my student loan because they changed the login system and I took the loans out so long ago that I don't have the numbers to create a new log in (the pin system was not in existence when I took out the loans).  They are federal loans but I keep getting referred to the province when I try to solve the issue and then they haven't been able to solve my issue twice.  I also don't have an Ontario health card because when I tried to sign up they required my father's name, which I don't know.  Luckily, the sask government just keeps sending renewal stickers to my mom, so I can still use my sask card lol.  Bureaucracies can be crazy some times.

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/p-e-i-farmer-keeps-social-distance-by-hurling-pork-products-to-hungry-customers-1.5507326

P.E.I. farmer keeps social distance by hurling pork products to hungry customers



‘When you start throwing roasts and pork chops through car windows, your aim gets better and better’

[VomKriege]

Today's French numbers, not great, not terrible. Though that fatality figure probably is not counting the deaths that occured in retirement homes and yet.

[nudemacusers]

I’m working two days a week now. Getting paid. Feelsgoodman

[james]

I have no doubts I won't get any corona bucks because I basically don't even exist on paper anymore and have been unable to get any type of government benefits of any kind for a decade, including signing up for Obummercare.

Did you fake your death?

No, but I've technically been a dependent for most of the past 10 years, and nothing is in my name, I can't get my driver's license address changed because I have nothing in my name to prove my address, I can't get anything in my name because I can't prove my address, it's been 9 months and I haven't been able to get any of the bills changed to my name even with a death certificate of the previous payee, and there's some weird thing with my SSN that I was unable to sign up for Obamacare any year it was available to me.

No utility bill, phone bill, or internet bill?

Do you file taxes?

[Stro]

I have no doubts I won't get any corona bucks because I basically don't even exist on paper anymore and have been unable to get any type of government benefits of any kind for a decade, including signing up for Obummercare.

Did you fake your death?

No, but I've technically been a dependent for most of the past 10 years, and nothing is in my name, I can't get my driver's license address changed because I have nothing in my name to prove my address, I can't get anything in my name because I can't prove my address, it's been 9 months and I haven't been able to get any of the bills changed to my name even with a death certificate of the previous payee, and there's some weird thing with my SSN that I was unable to sign up for Obamacare any year it was available to me.

No utility bill, phone bill, or internet bill?

Do you file taxes?

No. I've been a live in caretaker most of the past 10 years. All I have in my name is my bank account I opened at 16 and my car. I've been trying to get everything put in my name here for the better part of 2 years and the farthest I've gotten is getting my name added to one of the bank accounts.

Stro have you tried actually going to a Social Security Office?

They were extremely helpful and insta-solved an issue with my wife a while back.

Yeah they didn't know what the problem was either. The only thing I can think of is when my mom got remarried, my step dad adopted me and that somehow caused a glitch somewhere 25 fucking years ago.

[OnlyRegret]

A joy

https://twitter.com/CourtneyHagle/status/1242803124680699905

[OnlyRegret]

https://twitter.com/StephenCurry30/status/1242865808281227268

This reality isn't all bummers

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/sonam_sheth/status/1242890475243216898



https://twitter.com/Just_SomeChick/status/1242845950554460160

[Joe Molotov]

A joy

https://twitter.com/CourtneyHagle/status/1242803124680699905

If anyone wants to voluntarily corona themselves before the checks go out, that could save us a lot of money.

[Pennywise]

Signed up for some workout at home video service.

Time to get swole brehs

I wish.
No job, no gym. Feels weird having nothing to get rid of your stress.

The EU meanwhile has announced it only as 10% of the needed medical supplies and equipment required to deal with this crisis in reserve.
And they're wholly depended on importing more.

I'm staying home 

Time for the EU to build up some factories and delievery chains that are all in China now. Might be a better idea to not solely rely on a country that's so far away when you could have done the important parts at home.
Chinese prices though 

[Madrun Badrun]

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/lee-mack-coronavirus-self-isolating-a4397846.html

Hope he gets better soon.   

[Madrun Badrun]

[bork]

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-03-24/countries-are-starting-to-hoard-food-threatening-global-trade?in_source=amp_trending_now_3

 

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1242657146392784896

[Bebpo]

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-03-24/countries-are-starting-to-hoard-food-threatening-global-trade?in_source=amp_trending_now_3