Quote :

" Except guards and workers Theres no way it's not already in prison populations"

already happening:

http://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1239602267613007873

Quote :

" An employee for the NYC Dept. of Correction has died of coronavirus, DOC commissioner Cynthia Brann confirms in statement"

3/16/2020 10:28:53 PM

Iran has temporarily released 54,000 prisoners for that reason

3/17/2020 12:38:48 AM

interesting video of someone who was on the cruise ship in japan who caught the virus:
https://youtu.be/H2E1t3yMXgE

3/17/2020 9:00:35 AM

2:48 on that video. her face is priceless

3/17/2020 9:23:41 AM

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"The real crime is that planes are exempt from all guidelines. All to prop up the industry."

Read an Australian-based air travel think tank that said yesterday they estimated every major airline in the world will declare bankruptcy by July.

3/17/2020 9:30:21 AM

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"Suppression strategy scenarios for US showing ICU bed requirements. The black line shows the unmitigated epidemic. Green shows a suppression strategy incorporating closure of schools and universities, case isolation and population-wide social distancing beginning in late March 2020. The orange line shows a containment strategy incorporating case isolation, household quarantine and population-wide social distancing. The red line is the estimated surge ICU bed capacity in US. The blue shading shows the 5-month period in which these interventions are assumed to remain in place. (B) shows the same data as in panel (A) but zoomed in on the lower levels of the graph."

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

3/17/2020 10:30:23 AM

Governor announcing all restaurants and bars ordered closed for dine-in service. Take-out only.

3/17/2020 10:57:21 AM

given the projected spread and incubation period... the hospitals should be overflowing by sunday yes?

3/17/2020 11:03:22 AM

Pretty much. We'll get to see what it's like to live in Italy.

3/17/2020 11:18:05 AM

Mamma mia!

3/17/2020 11:36:57 AM

no fucking way the economy is shut down for 5 months. Places are going out of business after 2 weeks.

3/17/2020 11:45:43 AM

we will be on full lockdown by friday

3/17/2020 11:46:45 AM

that graph pupils posted has this lasting a year

3/17/2020 12:02:56 PM

https://v.redd.it/xpa10jdh98n41

3/17/2020 12:07:37 PM

Pence poker face during Trump's gaffe saying WV doesn't have cases because of its politicians.

3/17/2020 12:13:09 PM

LOL is WV the next Switzerland? They were like WV before everyone else took themselves out with war while they took care of the money. Flashforward 50 years and WV is Appalachiakanda

3/17/2020 12:14:53 PM

is a poor state that is unable to test people and definitely has unreported coronoavirus the next switzerland?

i DoN't kNoW, mAyBe

3/17/2020 12:18:12 PM

Well so much for working remotely from the pub or bottle shop.

3/17/2020 12:26:21 PM

why the fuck would you want to do that

3/17/2020 12:27:35 PM

my cafes are still open with seating even though restaurants can't be. seems like a loophole but i'm working from a beautiful and empty terrace cafe.

3/17/2020 12:28:47 PM

Make sure you tell the staff how great it is that you get to work from "home."

3/17/2020 12:37:34 PM

Your cafes are fine.

3/17/2020 12:39:13 PM

oh i didn't mean i run the cafe. i meant "my" local cafes.

3/17/2020 12:39:19 PM

This is what Rush Limbaugh and Trump get us when they kept telling the world that this was no big deal. I fully expect to see our law enforcement resources wasted like this all over the country:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/us/kentucky-refused-quarantine-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

3/17/2020 1:45:09 PM

Quote :

"President Trump made his first public comments about the coronavirus on Jan. 22, in a television interview from Davos with CNBC’s Joe Kernen. The first American case had been announced the day before, and Kernen asked Trump, “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” The president responded: “No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”"

Quote :

"Trump, however, repeatedly told Americans that there was no reason to worry. On Jan. 24, he tweeted, “It will all work out well.” On Jan. 28, he retweeted a headline from One America News, an outlet with a history of spreading false conspiracy theories: “Johnson & Johnson to create coronavirus vaccine.” On Jan. 30, during a speech in Michigan, he said: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.”"

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"Jan 31 - “Coronavirus,” Hannity said. “How concerned are you?” Trump replied: “Well, we pretty much shut it down coming in from China. We have a tremendous relationship with China, which is a very positive thing. Getting along with China, getting along with Russia, getting along with these countries.”"

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"On Feb. 10, he repeatedly said — in a speech to governors, at a campaign rally and in an interview with Trish Regan of Fox Business — that warm spring weather could kill the virus. “Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away,” he told the rally."

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"On Feb. 19, he told a Phoenix television station, “I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along.” Four days later, he pronounced the situation “very much under control,” and added: “We had 12, at one point. And now they’ve gotten very much better. Many of them are fully recovered.”"

Quote :

"Throughout late February, Trump also continued to claim the situation was improving. On Feb. 26, he said: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” On Feb. 27, he predicted: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.” On Feb. 29, he said a vaccine would be available “very quickly” and “very rapidly” and praised his administration’s actions as “the most aggressive taken by any country.”"

Quote :

"he suggested on multiple occasions that the virus was less serious than the flu. “We’re talking about a much smaller range” of deaths than from the flu, he said on March 2. “It’s very mild,” he told Hannity on March 4. On March 7, he said, “I’m not concerned at all.” On March 10, he promised: “It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”"

Quote :

"Trump, while touring the C.D.C. on March 6, said, “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.”"

Quote :

"I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president."

[Edited on March 17, 2020 at 1:59 PM. Reason : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html]

3/17/2020 1:51:25 PM

Italy seems to have reached a peak.

3/17/2020 1:53:08 PM

Oh man people are going to freak out now about Amazon

3/17/2020 2:12:22 PM

people are going to freak out about toilet paper and hand sanitizer being in stock more often?

3/17/2020 3:03:45 PM

they have stopped receiving anything except critical items and healthcare related items at their warehouses

i doubt anyone will freak out because they aren't changing deliveries to consumers, just what they are receiving to their warehouse

3/17/2020 3:08:27 PM

Right, but once warehouse stocks of said non-critical items are depleted they won't be replenished.

3/17/2020 3:34:26 PM

people who sell stuff through Amazon will be pissed as it will hurt their business a ton. people who shop on Amazon will probably appreciate being able to buy things like toilet paper, soap and hand sanitizer, which they define as "household staples"

3/17/2020 3:48:20 PM

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" they aren't changing deliveries to consumers"

False

3/17/2020 4:04:04 PM

that's what the news said 2 hours ago

3/17/2020 4:23:32 PM

what items can be used to sign for a credit card POS machine, is it just capacitive and any capacitive pen will work?

3/17/2020 4:31:09 PM

your deliveries are not fine

3/17/2020 4:43:24 PM

trump supporters are just absolutely insane

Inside the Pro-Trump Facebook Group Where First Responders Call Coronavirus a Hoax
In a private Facebook group, firefighters and paramedics shared memes and conspiracy theories doubting the pandemic, raising concerns that they aren’t taking precautions to protect themselves and others.
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-firefighters-corona



^where are you seeing that, everything i'm finding is about shipments from vendors, for example:
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-amazon-suspends-all-non-essential-shipments-to-warehouses-2020-3

Quote :

"The change only affects shipments to Amazon's warehouses, not the last-mile deliveries to consumers."

[Edited on March 17, 2020 at 4:51 PM. Reason : .]

3/17/2020 4:49:41 PM

Four nets players tested positive, 3 who were asymptomatic.

Again, non at-risk famous people with no symptoms getting tested and regulars.... ?

3/17/2020 5:03:25 PM

What do they have that you don't?

3/17/2020 5:18:28 PM

had an employee today ask if a company was "libel" if they got sick because of another employee/customer that was there onsite.

probably foreign territory for most HR folks so just told him to email me and let them deal with it but just curious what folks think here. I think like anything if you get sick you get sick.

3/17/2020 6:04:57 PM

Seems you'd have a hard time proving the virus was actually contracted at work.

3/17/2020 6:15:48 PM

WFH is insanely difficult with a 6 year old and a 16 month old. I'm very fortunate and thankful however, that I can still get my job done and earn a paycheck throughout all of this.

3/17/2020 7:29:16 PM

3/17/2020 9:52:31 PM

That video needs sound

3/17/2020 10:36:37 PM

WH changed their tone because of that report from the Imperial College posted above.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/coronavirus-fatality-rate-white-house.html


And this has a timeline of all the things Trump has said about the epidemic from January till now:

https://twitter.com/leslie_ahren/status/1239775021435846656


[Edited on March 18, 2020 at 12:21 AM. Reason : ]

3/18/2020 12:17:51 AM

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/17/816501871/poll-as-coronavirus-spreads-fewer-americans-see-pandemic-as-a-real-threat?utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=politics&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Quote :

" Just about 56% of Americans consider the coronavirus a "real threat," representing a drop of 10 percentage points from last month. At the same time, a growing number of Americans think the coronavirus is being "blown out of proportion." "

I don’t understand why it has dropped 10% in the last month...what has happened in the last month for people to believe it’s now less of a threat than it was a month ago? Or just general distrust of media from republicans I guess...

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" Pollsters found that both shifts are largely driven by changes in opinion by Republicans. For instance, 72% of Republicans saw the coronavirus as a real threat in early February, but that figure has now plummeted to 40% of Republicans now believing the deadly virus is a serious menace."

I don’t get it. More republicans in less densely population areas vs more Dems in more densely populated areas being a contributing factor? Or is this just a response to republicans believing trump has everything under control?

[Edited on March 18, 2020 at 7:16 AM. Reason : A]

3/18/2020 7:15:38 AM

I have no clue. I went to Lowe's Foods yesterday because we ran out of bread, since we refused to panic-buy. Lowe's had plenty of bread (no TP) and it also had plenty of idiots gathering around their little beer bar, shoulder-to-shoulder.

Side note - why people feel the need to congregate at a bar inside a grocery store, even when there is no pandemic around, is beyond me.

3/18/2020 7:46:40 AM

Countries with >= 1,000 cases: (compare with list from 2 days ago on previous page)

Country     Cases     Deaths
China       80,894    3,237
Italy       31,506    2,503
Iran        17,361    1,135
Spain       13,716      598
Germany     10,069       26
S. Korea     8,413       84
France       7,730      175
USA          6,524      116
Switzerland  2,742       27
UK           1,950       71
Netherlands  1,705       43
Norway       1,524        4
Belgium      1,486       14
Austria      1,471        7
Sweden       1,196        8
Denmark      1,044        4

3/18/2020 8:32:41 AM

OEP have you seen anything new about the hand sanitizer guy?

3/18/2020 8:36:31 AM

My proposal about 10 days ago to shut everything down for a full month doesn't look quite so far-fetched now. Except we're still doing it a little bit at a time, and it's still mostly optional, so the timeline over which effects will be felt keeps expanding. The proposal was a bit of a joke because I knew it would not be done in the US, but it probably should have been done.

3/18/2020 8:42:44 AM

next

3/18/2020 9:18:29 AM