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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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A friend sent a picture that I can't get to load on here but....grocery store with shelves picked clean. I mean rows of empty steel shelves in the bread aisle.

Except for a fully stocked section of Italiano brand bread.

I shit you not.
 
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Great article. SIAP


The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need lots more testing.

Larry Brilliant says he doesn’t have a crystal ball. But 14 years ago, Brilliant, the epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox, spoke to a Ted Talk audience, and described what the next pandemic would look like. At the time, it sounded almost too horrible to take seriously. “A billion people would get sick," he said. “As many as 165 million people would die. There would be a global recession and depression, and the cost to our economy of $1 to $3 trillion would be far worse for everyone than merely 100 million people dying, because so many more people would lose their jobs and their health care benefits, that the consequences are almost unthinkable.”
 
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Warm sunny day yesterday in Shanghai, and the government is starting to relax the rules for mask-wearing in public in open areas and parks. People are not letting their guards down, nonetheless, and EVERYONE* I saw outside, taking a well-deserved break from my hotel room and CNN (and the daily sh*t show / White House mud-wrestling WWF-style grudge matches between the goons on the stage and the faux-outraged flakes sitting in the peanut gallery), was still wearing their masks. Local police who have been manning major street intersections throughout this ordeal now have robo-cop type helmets equipped with infrared temperature cameras... freaked me out at first why these guys were staring at me so directly in a sustained way (which is not culturally appropriate in China), but then I found out why.

* One exception to people wearing masks was this... the only other foreigners I saw on the streets were a mother (Jenny McCarthy type) and son proudly strutting around without masks, albeit with full "f*ck you" regalia of cowboy hats, leather pants, hoop earings and snake-skin shit stompers. Unfreakingbelieavable... JFC. It's a good thing robocop wasn't around to see me because I'm sure my temp spiked exactly at that moment when I saw JM and her youngster boldly walking around giving everybody the proverbial finger.
 
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Warm sunny day yesterday in Shanghai, and the government is starting to relax the rules for mask-wearing in public in open areas and parks. People are not letting their guards down, nonetheless, and EVERYONE* I saw outside, taking a well-deserved break from my hotel room and CNN (and the daily sh*t show / White House mud-wrestling WWF-style grudge matches between the goons on the stage and the faux-outraged flakes sitting in the peanut gallery), was still wearing their masks. Local police who have been manning major street intersections throughout this ordeal now have robo-cop type helmets equipped with infrared temperature cameras... freaked me out at first why these guys were staring at me so directly in a sustained way (which is not culturally appropriate in China), but then I found out why.

* One exception to people wearing masks was this... the only other foreigners I saw on the streets were a mother (Jenny McCarthy type) and son proudly strutting around without masks, albeit with full "f*ck you" regalia of cowboy hats, leather pants, hoop earings and snake-skin shit stompers. Unfreakingbelieavable... JFC. It's a good thing robocop wasn't around to see me because I'm sure my temp spiked exactly at that moment when I saw JM and her youngster boldly walking around giving everybody the proverbial finger.
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So, undaunted she pulled herself up by the bootstraps and soldiered on...
 
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...Local police who have been manning major street intersections throughout this ordeal now have robo-cop type helmets equipped with infrared temperature cameras... freaked me out at first why these guys were staring at me so directly in a sustained way (which is not culturally appropriate in China), but then I found out why...
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So even the three county commissioners where I live have to get in on the act and have a fucking press conference. Ostensibly to "calm" everyone but how do you calm people that don't know who the hell you are?

This is some good insight into the economic impact at the main street level after 5 days of this "non essential lock down" nonsense:
But while residents may be relatively healthy physically, the negative impact of the virus has been more significant when it comes to the county’s economic health, according to figures discussed by commissioners' Vice Chairman Josh Maxwell.

Following the telephone Town Hall, the commissioners convened with business leaders on Tuesday; nearly 750 small business owners responded to a Business Impact Survey distributed by the county online. According to Maxwell, 60 percent of those responding reported that layoffs, temporary closures, or even permanent closures have already occurred because of the virus. Sixty-one percent of those said they had postponed hiring that was planned, or had laid off or furloughed employees.

“Many small business owners have immediate concerns about making rent, payroll and mortgages,” he said, promising to remain on top of those concerns, although county resources are limited in assisting small businesses. “We will continue to work together to support our business community during this time,” he said, "including getting out information to those who have become unemployed about changes to rules regarding applying for help.”
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60% of 750 is 450.

450 small businesses have already let people go or closed their doors.

11 people in our county have tested positive for COVID-19. Eleven.

1 person has died in the state of Pennsylvania. One.
 
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