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I hope everyone is staying calm and safe as the numbers grow in the U.S. No confirmed cases in this area, yet. As usual, hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Along with all the school and sports suspensions, I see NY and LA have ordered bars and restaurants closed. I work in a bar in Duluth, and suspect that trend may continue. I could use a little time away from people at the cabin anyway, preferably without being sick. My Mom plays piano sing-alongs at assisted living homes and that's all been cancelled. People who know what they are talking about say it will get worse before it gets better. I'm more worried about my folks, than myself.
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Currently out of work, I’m the mechanic for a local school system.
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My area has a few community spread cases. I’m a software engineer at Ford and on Friday they told the entire company to work from home until further notice (for the groups who can do so) to try and slow the spread of this thing. Also all the schools in Michigan have been closed. Kind of feel like I’m living in the twilight zone.
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My mother does the same type of thing in Florida. They have cancelled all of the outside entertainers there as well.
Schools, restaurants and bars are also closed for dine in here in Illinois. Curbside pickup and delivery only starting tonight.I hope everyone is staying calm and safe as the numbers grow in the U.S. No confirmed cases in this area, yet. As usual, hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Along with all the school and sports suspensions, I see NY and LA have ordered bars and restaurants closed. I work in a bar in Duluth, and suspect that trend may continue. I could use a little time away from people at the cabin anyway, preferably without being sick. My Mom plays piano sing-alongs at assisted living homes and that's all been cancelled. People who know what they are talking about say it will get worse before it gets better. I'm more worried about my folks, than myself.
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My job is tied directly to the airline industry, Delta specifically and it ain't pretty. My wife is a nurse, you would think that would be a good thing but it's not. We will ride it out what else can we do?
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I work in a clinical lab that serves the clinical trial business. Fortunately, it’s been business as usual although test volumes have been less. Fewer patients are going to get their labs done.
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I had to close my church doors to the public and our 10 AM service is only available live on the radio and on-line. This is going to last for awhile.
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I work on the engineering side for a Cable/ISP, so it is more important now than ever to keep services operational for our customers. I only come in contact with the few co-workers in my area in computer room environments, so business as usual for us.
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I’m a electrical superintendent that specializes in new multifamily projects and currently doing one in downtown Memphis. It’s business as usual for us .
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I work in IT for a local Hospital, the world is turning upside down here. Crazy how much things can change in just 7 short days.
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I am a teacher, and we are transitioning to all online lessons...based on what I just heard from the CDC/press conference, I'm starting to wonder if we will be back in person this year. What a week...
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I'm a finance guy at a methadone treatment nonprofit organization with 12 locations - we get 95% of our funding from state and federal sources, so we're open but taking all kinds of precautions in the management office. Wife is a junior high school teacher and her school, along with our kids' high school, are doing e-learning sessions for the next 3 weeks. I consider myself lucky to still be working full time, and I know the state/federal governments could pull the plug any time.
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I am a firefighter/EMT in a suburb of Phoenix, so it is business as usual, sort of.
We are modifying many of our response protocols to prepare for contact with this virus.
We have also suspended all non-essential contact with the public.
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We’ve been working from home for fibre channel tech support. Wife’s school has closed down.
We’ll see how long it takes for me to get on her nerves.
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The bay area is on lock down starting 12am for 3 weeks. We can leave to go to work, store and to check on people. They said we can get out and take walks and stuff too ( for now)
Only emergency staff, automotive repair, gas stations, banks, hospitals , grocery stores and restaurants are only doing drive through or delivery orders.
Work has been slow already because of this and now we are right on the edge of closing. Luckily California has put in place good measures to protect people. And most company's are not penalizing for late payments during this.
Shits gonna get crazy here if they put us on full lock down.
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The MN Governor shut down bars and eat-in dining from today until the 27th, so I now have some time on my hands. I haven't heard of any craziness at the local grocery chain, but I guess they limited TP to two per customer. My folks are getting on in years, so they are hunkered down and trying to stay safe and healthy. We've only just begun this ordeal.
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I work tradeshows and everything has been cancelled. Open up my unemployment account and use the cash in my brokerage account to take care of things after that it's the stocks. I think this will be worse than 911 work wise.
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All schools are closed here in California. It was just announced on the news the the Governor of California doubts that any schools will be reopening this school year due to the COVID-19 virus. Wow! They "hope" to reopen in September.
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La Crosse County, Wi just got our first confirmed case. Stay safe.
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Having 3 kids 7 and under this lock down is rough.
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I don’t know if anyone reads there bible, but this would be the perfect, storm, or time for the antichrist, to step in. Yeah I just said it...I’m not a conspiracy wacko, or doomsday sayer, but really stop and think about it. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this kind of global thing before? Just saying.
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I don’t know if anyone reads there bible, but this would be the perfect, storm, or time for the antichrist, to step in. Yeah I just said it...I’m not a conspiracy wacko, or doomsday sayer, but really stop and think about it. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this kind of global thing before? Just saying.
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I don’t know if anyone reads there bible, but this would be the perfect, storm, or time for the antichrist, to step in. Yeah I just said it...I’m not a conspiracy wacko, or doomsday sayer, but really stop and think about it. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this kind of global thing before? Just saying.
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This is the 4th or 5th flu pandemic in the last 100 years. That's starting at the spanish flu in 1918.
Viruses adapt just like we do. They are no different than we are.
They come out swinging, get beat down , regroup and come out stronger than before.
This virus is bad, dont get me wrong. But it's honestly blown way up by the media and social media. It's been in china since november, it just hit 200k infected with a 50% recovered so far and 9% mortality rate. The number of infected has shot up theast few days due to population awareness to it and the influx of people being able to be tested. Before 3 days ago it was over 1000 co pay to get tested. Now it's free so of course the numbers are going to skyrocket.
People need to take a breath, step back, look at the bigger picture and come to realize that it will pass. It always does. People will inevitably die but so far only people with pretty exhausting health issues are being effected the worst. Protect those who have weak immune systems go out only when needed and stop panicking.
Hysteria is what's making everything worse right now. And no offence dude but its posts like yours that make it worse. The world is not going to end.
It's time for the world to step up, put all their petty shit aside and work as one unit to over come this. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and right not everyone's enemy is the coronavirus.
Are you going to help or make it worse?
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I don’t know if anyone reads there bible, but this would be the perfect, storm, or time for the antichrist, to step in. Yeah I just said it...I’m not a conspiracy wacko, or doomsday sayer, but really stop and think about it. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this kind of global thing before? Just saying.
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There have been about nine influenza pandemics during the last 300 years. Surely you have heard of the Spanish Flu from the early 1900's, it killed over 50 million people.
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Yup the last one was only 6 years ago with sars or swine flu. It happens more often than people realize
I don’t know if anyone reads there bible, but this would be the perfect, storm, or time for the antichrist, to step in. Yeah I just said it...I’m not a conspiracy wacko, or doomsday sayer, but really stop and think about it. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this kind of global thing before? Just saying.
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There have been about nine influenza pandemics during the last 300 years. Surely you have heard of the Spanish Flu from the early 1900's, it killed over 50 million people.
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I don’t know if anyone reads there bible, but this would be the perfect, storm, or time for the antichrist, to step in. Yeah I just said it...I’m not a conspiracy wacko, or doomsday sayer, but really stop and think about it. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this kind of global thing before? Just saying.
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This is the 4th or 5th flu pandemic in the last 100 years. That's starting at the spanish flu in 1918.
Viruses adapt just like we do. They are no different than we are.
They come out swinging, get beat down , regroup and come out stronger than before.
This virus is bad, dont get me wrong. But it's honestly blown way up by the media and social media. It's been in china since november, it just hit 200k infected with a 50% recovered so far and 9% mortality rate. The number of infected has shot up theast few days due to population awareness to it and the influx of people being able to be tested. Before 3 days ago it was over 1000 co pay to get tested. Now it's free so of course the numbers are going to skyrocket.
People need to take a breath, step back, look at the bigger picture and come to realize that it will pass. It always does. People will inevitably die but so far only people with pretty exhausting health issues are being effected the worst. Protect those who have weak immune systems go out only when needed and stop panicking.
Hysteria is what's making everything worse right now. And no offence dude but its posts like yours that make it worse. The world is not going to end.
It's time for the world to step up, put all their petty shit aside and work as one unit to over come this. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and right not everyone's enemy is the coronavirus.
Are you going to help or make it worse?
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of truth to the media contributing to the hysteria. Only 10 years ago, social media was but a blip on the radar of where people got their news (TV was #1). Today, however, social media is TIED with TV, sending print media (newspapers and magazines) down into the bottom of the barrel of importance.
The issue I personally have with social media as a news source is its inclusion of regular citizens as news-makers and news-reporters - people who have nothing to lose in terms of reputation when they get things wrong and everything to gain in terms of notoriety simply by reporting something that goes viral. Attention-grabbing tweets/retweets/etc. draw clicks/views which generate revenue. Nuance and the context of stories are lost or deemed irrelevant in the fast-paced game of gotcha news reporting, which requires little fact checking and simply becomes a popularity contest. For example, social media outrage mobs have inexplicably been given the power to force companies and people into action or reaction when the fact patterns suggest that they did nothing wrong except perhaps express an opinion deemed insensitive or out of touch with what the mobs deem important.
I find myself double and triple checking things I see on TV or read in the newspaper for fear of being duped. I continue ignore anything my friends send me that's political in any way shape or form as I have no reason to believe their accuracy. This a brutal time for such a terrible event to unfold upon us. I've known for a long time not to trust our politicians, but it's sad that I feel like I can't trust our media either since they've been playing catch up in the race for clicks/views and will do anything to get/keep them.
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I don’t know if anyone reads there bible, but this would be the perfect, storm, or time for the antichrist, to step in. Yeah I just said it...I’m not a conspiracy wacko, or doomsday sayer, but really stop and think about it. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this kind of global thing before? Just saying.
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This is the 4th or 5th flu pandemic in the last 100 years. That's starting at the spanish flu in 1918.
Viruses adapt just like we do. They are no different than we are.
They come out swinging, get beat down , regroup and come out stronger than before.
This virus is bad, dont get me wrong. But it's honestly blown way up by the media and social media. It's been in china since november, it just hit 200k infected with a 50% recovered so far and 9% mortality rate. The number of infected has shot up theast few days due to population awareness to it and the influx of people being able to be tested. Before 3 days ago it was over 1000 co pay to get tested. Now it's free so of course the numbers are going to skyrocket.
People need to take a breath, step back, look at the bigger picture and come to realize that it will pass. It always does. People will inevitably die but so far only people with pretty exhausting health issues are being effected the worst. Protect those who have weak immune systems go out only when needed and stop panicking.
Hysteria is what's making everything worse right now. And no offence dude but its posts like yours that make it worse. The world is not going to end.
It's time for the world to step up, put all their petty shit aside and work as one unit to over come this. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and right not everyone's enemy is the coronavirus.
Are you going to help or make it worse?
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of truth to the media contributing to the hysteria. Only 10 years ago, social media was but a blip on the radar of where people got their news (TV was #1). Today, however, social media is TIED with TV, sending print media (newspapers and magazines) down into the bottom of the barrel of importance.
The issue I personally have with social media as a news source is its inclusion of regular citizens as news-makers and news-reporters - people who have nothing to lose in terms of reputation when they get things wrong and everything to gain in terms of notoriety simply by reporting something that goes viral. Attention-grabbing tweets/retweets/etc. draw clicks/views which generate revenue. Nuance and the context of stories are lost or deemed irrelevant in the fast-paced game of gotcha news reporting, which requires little fact checking and simply becomes a popularity contest. For example, social media outrage mobs have inexplicably been given the power to force companies and people into action or reaction when the fact patterns suggest that they did nothing wrong except perhaps express an opinion deemed insensitive or out of touch with what the mobs deem important.
I find myself double and triple checking things I see on TV or read in the newspaper for fear of being duped. I continue ignore anything my friends send me that's political in any way shape or form as I have no reason to believe their accuracy. This a brutal time for such a terrible event to unfold upon us. I've known for a long time not to trust our politicians, but it's sad that I feel like I can't trust our media either since they've been playing catch up in the race for clicks/views and will do anything to get/keep them.
All so true in your statements about online media and so many news outlets on cable.
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Well, half my work got temporarily laid off today. I'm still employed for now
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How do I get on that lol.
We got a temporary 25% raise today at work. It’s even retro for time during this issue. Pretty cool to work for my company.....
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How do I get on that lol. We got a temporary 25% raise today at work. It’s even retro for time during this issue. Pretty cool to work for my company.....
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I’m a teacher & coach in OK.
All schools are shut down until April 6. Absolutely no instruction. Whether or not we stay out will be determined later but I’m not seeing us back in school anytime soon. We may very well be out indefinitely. Pretty sure the district is working on alternative learning plans.
We’ll see.
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I’m a teacher & coach in OK.
All schools are shut down until April 6. Absolutely no instruction. Whether or not we stay out will be determined later but I’m not seeing us back in school anytime soon. We may very well be out indefinitely. Pretty sure the district is working on alternative learning plans.
We’ll see.
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Our schools in California are looking indefinitely closed till next school year. Donno if they might try to make up hours by making the summer part of the school year or if they will just be like well that sucked starting fresh this year
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I've got a freshman and junior in high school, and they both just started an e-learning module from their school. They'll be e-learning this week, followed by their normally scheduled spring break week, followed by another week of e-learning. Based on some discussions I've had with their teachers and other parents that we know, most believe that their school will continue with e-learning for the rest of the school year. One thing is clear though: no one has much confidence in whether e-learning will be successful in effectively transmitting knowledge from teacher to student. Illinois, like all states, has minimum education requirements in order to move from one grade to the next. People are concerned about whether their kids will be able to understand the material being taught in this manner well enough for them to pass mid-terms or finals this semester (in whatever form those exams take shape). Hopefully, the kids will adapt well and our educators and administrators will make wise decisions.
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I do IT for NASA. The whole Center is 100% telework right now. I'm trying to work from home with a 3 and 5 year old. Fun times! All schools are closed. No eat-in at bars or restaurants. Grocery stores are empty. Good to know farmers and a butcher.
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I currently work retail . And let me tell you . It’s good to be prepared for things but having a bit of extra cans goods, and things for the freezer . But this has gone out of control . People hoarding milk??? I don’t think I need to explain why that’s stupid. People can’t find TP. Just crazy . Today was the first day in awhile there was actually some food on the shelves .
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I currently work retail . And let me tell you . It’s good to be prepared for things but having a bit of extra cans goods, and things for the freezer . But this has gone out of control . People hoarding milk??? I don’t think I need to explain why that’s stupid. People can’t find TP. Just crazy . Today was the first day in awhile there was actually some food on the shelves .
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@Dc_smoke309 THANK YOU for all your hard work during this time. I've only been to the grocery once in the last week, but I made sure to thank the shelf stockers and cashiers for their hard work and quite honestly, sacrifice.
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I currently work retail . And let me tell you . It’s good to be prepared for things but having a bit of extra cans goods, and things for the freezer . But this has gone out of control . People hoarding milk??? I don’t think I need to explain why that’s stupid. People can’t find TP. Just crazy . Today was the first day in awhile there was actually some food on the shelves .
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@Dc_smoke309 THANK YOU for all your hard work during this time. I've only been to the grocery once in the last week, but I made sure to thank the shelf stockers and cashiers for their hard work and quite honestly, sacrifice.
Appreciate that a lot. Most people are understanding . But some people are just straight up mean. Takes a lot to keep the lips sealed . Lol I have three kids so I know how ppl feel when there is nothing to buy. So we try and work our butts off to make people feel a little more “ normal “. People need to STAY HOME unless they actually need something .
I hope all of you and your loved ones stay safe... hopefully this will all be over soon.
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Here we go - State of Illinois about to announce a shelter-in-place order effective tomorrow. Yay.
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Here we go - State of Illinois about to announce a shelter-in-place order effective tomorrow. Yay.
I saw Oak Brook had already done that. [emoji40]
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Damn I’m in Illinois . My brother was gonna come over and grill some wings ...guess we can’t do that now
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I do IT for NASA. The whole Center is 100% telework right now. I'm trying to work from home with a 3 and 5 year old. Fun times! All schools are closed. No eat-in at bars or restaurants. Grocery stores are empty. Good to know farmers and a butcher.
Similar situation here. IT for a large Insurance and Financial Services company. We went work from home company wide. It’s tough with a 4,2, and 0 year old in the house. Take out only, no sit down restaurants or bars. Store shelves are bare and our gun stores have been packed full of people. Strange times.
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We have two young kids & another one due in about a month. The kids were coughing for a couple days late last week, early this week, which makes you wonder in the back of your mind. Yesterday, I started coughing & googled "dry cough" as I heard that was one of the symptoms, but I didn't know what exactly it meant. I've never been so damn happy to have phlegm in my throat when coughing as when I looked up what dry cough meant (I was guessing it involved a lack of mucus, but wasn't 100% certain).
The wife had a doctor's appointment last week & her doctor's office is located inside Rush Oak Park Hospital, where 2 ER doctors & a patient were recently diagnosed. The hospital is a small hospital, so it was a bit concerning, but my wife was an ICU nurse & decided to go, but to take some precautions. Since everything looks fine, the doctor suggested they skip the last appointment before delivery to reduce risk of exposure.
She is planning on delivering at Rush (downtown), which is a HUGE hospital. She is more impressed with that hospital than a lot of others in the area, including one near us (Advocate Lutheran General) that is generally well thought of. Even if Rush winds up with quite a few cases, one nice thing is that there is a way to get to the labor & delivery floor from the parking garage where you don't go through the rest of the hospital.
My first job (other than cutting lawns, etc) was when I was 14 at a mom & pop Pizza Place. I took hand washing very seriously and have washed my hands more than most people (especially when cooking). At one point, I was a actually bit worried that I might become obsessive about it, so tried dialing it back a bit. Because my wife was an ICU nurse, she has always taken hand washing seriously. Still a bit worried in the back of my mind over having her due next month. My biggest concern is if hospitals just get overwhelmed. Can't believe the CDC is suggesting "improvised" masks (like a bandanna or a scarf) is fine for a health care worker if supplies run out. I can understand people having to improvise, but for the CDC to suggest that is fine is a bit unnerving as it indicates how bad things already are around the country with respect to supplies.
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We have two young kids & another one due in about a month. The kids were coughing for a couple days late last week, early this week, which makes you wonder in the back of your mind. Yesterday, I started coughing & googled "dry cough" as I heard that was one of the symptoms, but I didn't know what exactly it meant. I've never been so damn happy to have phlegm in my throat when coughing as when I looked up what dry cough meant (I was guessing it involved a lack of mucus, but wasn't 100% certain).
The wife had a doctor's appointment last week & her doctor's office is located inside Rush Oak Park Hospital, where 2 ER doctors & a patient were recently diagnosed. The hospital is a small hospital, so it was a bit concerning, but my wife was an ICU nurse & decided to go, but to take some precautions. Since everything looks fine, the doctor suggested they skip the last appointment before delivery to reduce risk of exposure.
She is planning on delivering at Rush (downtown), which is a HUGE hospital. She is more impressed with that hospital than a lot of others in the area, including one near us (Advocate Lutheran General) that is generally well thought of. Even if Rush winds up with quite a few cases, one nice thing is that there is a way to get to the labor & delivery floor from the parking garage where you don't go through the rest of the hospital.
My first job (other than cutting lawns, etc) was when I was 14 at a mom & pop Pizza Place. I took hand washing very seriously and have washed my hands more than most people (especially when cooking). At one point, I was a actually bit worried that I might become obsessive about it, so tried dialing it back a bit. Because my wife was an ICU nurse, she has always taken hand washing seriously. Still a bit worried in the back of my mind over having her due next month. My biggest concern is if hospitals just get overwhelmed. Can't believe the CDC is suggesting "improvised" masks (like a bandanna or a scarf) is fine for a health care worker if supplies run out. I can understand people having to improvise, but for the CDC to suggest that is fine is a bit unnerving as it indicates how bad things already are around the country with respect to supplies.
Wow I think about folks with young ones let alone people who work in the health industry. I feel for you and wish you the best.
I have some personal stories with my family and it’s not easy out there. My daughter’s boyfriends mom is on hospice at home. Not long before she passes. We had a cousin in Munster community hospital that was not allowed visitors. They did not have the virus.
I’m pleading with people at this time to not think of themselves. I’ve heard of people having house parties. I’ve heard of beach parties in Florida. And right here in Chicago people went downtown to celebrate St. Patrick’s day. I had a friend tell me it’s no big deal you should just get the virus and be done with it, it’s not that bad.
But I am begging everyone here to pass this message on. I am here in Illinois on stay at home law and I’m proud of it. If we don’t do this many of the unfortunate people will die. And the sad thing is.... you may die alone in the hospital or nursing home and not even have a funeral. It’s limited to ten at a funeral right now.
So please please please think of others. This is the new norm for now and we need each other. We will be back but if we don’t sacrifice there may not even be enough hospital beds for the sickest people. There will be no dignity in that.
Simple message, be responsible for others at this time. What you do matters more than ever. Please pass this message on. You are one of the best group of people I’ve ever met online.
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Three weeks in and I'm on unemployment. MN Gov. Walz extended the shut down until May 4th. I have spent two week long stays at the cabin with a few days in between. Its nice to get away from all the news and just watch the spring transition. Seeing and trying to identify the migratory birds coming back north is one of my favorite things while up there. It sure beats hauling wood. Doing a little grilling, playing a lot of solitaire , and just trying to make the best of it. My folks are still hunkered down, but go out for occasional drives, just to get out of the house, as I'm sure a lot of people are doing. The daily local newspaper here usually has at least three sections, and they are now down to one. Not enough advertising, sports, court trials, upcoming events, and a general lack of things to report. YouTube has been my usual window to the world. Checking out the various live street cams around the world reveals pretty much ghost towns, which is sad, but also good. At the moment, things seem to be getting slightly less worse, but I think its still to early too tell without more testing. We sure aren't rid of it yet. How are the rest of you doing?
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I work for a company that performs clinical lab testing for clinical trials. I’m proud to say we are supporting many aspects of the pandemic response. We’re already supporting clinical trials for vaccines and device testing for covid 19 assays. We will be doing covid 19 diagnostic testing soon as well. I feel fortunate to be working and to be part of the laboratory response. #labproud
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Wife had another appointment last week & cancelled the one this week. Last week, the doctor said she thinks she is going to deliver early, which we were kind of hoping for as her due date was right about when they projected it would likely be peaking here.
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The pets will thrive! (A parody)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i97VF8XeBQ4
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I work for a Bank and that industry is considered essential. We are not shut down, but are alternating one week on and one week off as much as possible to limit the amount of people exposed if someone does get sick. The week off has been nice, especially since we tend to work twice (if not more) as hard during the week on. Between the stimulus money calls (Where's my money?), people coming in (Give my my stimulus money!), and these PPP loans it hasn't been until yesterday that things finally calmed down. I am definitely glad that the stimulus money was given to help people and that a lot of small businesses are getting aid, but it sure made things insane.
In terms of home life it has been especially hard on my wife. After being shut in all winter, is Spring/Summer is usually the time she looks forward to the most in terms of visiting family, camping, weekend trips, and vacation. Easter was really hard on her because it is the first one she has spent without her family. On top of that she is putting in really long days during my work weeks trying to take care of our daughter at home and working from home
I have been doing really well with being home with my daughter every other week, but I can be satisfied with a quiet day home much easier than her assuming I have electricity and internet. Getting supplies for food, house, and/or projects as needed has been kind of a pain. We have been pretty extreme about going no where. I still get some exposure at work and I am the only risk of exposure for my family so I take it pretty seriously.
We also had one last cold snap this week after planting garden recently. Really mother nature? Inches of snow in the middle of April when people need to start growing food at home now more than ever?
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Pretty sure we had the rona back in November thru December, I know that doesn't line up with the government/media timeline. But it was the worst respiratory shit I e ever had, even had one buddy who actually thought he was dying. And somehow, there aren't very many cases around here. You could say that's from social distancing, but if you have been to any of the stores that are open, then you would see 2-3 times more people there than normal. I don't see how that's stopping it from spreading. I know one thing, since they shut down school, we haven't had a sliver of symptoms for any kind of sickness. If this homeschool shit wasn't such a pain in the ass, and I actually felt like she was learning something, then I would just keep homeschooling.
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My understanding is that the form of flu that went around this year was particularly bad, so that is what you may have had. Apparently, it was so bad that when Covid-19 came about, may doctors thought most were affected by that until symptoms got really bad.
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After 7 weeks off I went back to work today!
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I'm still off going on day 47 I think. All I know is its officially official im never retiring lol
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After 7 weeks off I went back to work today!
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Congrats
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I started a new job March 30th, as people were freaking out over having to stay at home or use a computer. My job is inherently staying at home, working on a computer.
Yes I consider myself very fortunate, even if I only had 2 paychecks before across-the-board payroll cuts were enacted. I'll be gone by August or end of year if the company can't find a way to adapt. Yes I am eager to contribute to the economy in ways I haven't been able to do for more than 10 years. Will I? Not anytime soon.
Affected? I live in the pandemic epicenter: America. Yeah, I'd say I'm affected. But ya know, lots of people won't act on what they can't see and so it'll all good, right?
Meanwhile, the numbers continue their upward march. We're acting as if this thing's been beaten, as if what's coming in a few months will magically be better than today.
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I started a new job March 30th, as people were freaking out over having to stay at home or use a computer. My job is inherently staying at home, working on a computer.
Yes I consider myself very fortunate, even if I only had 2 paychecks before across-the-board payroll cuts were enacted. I'll be gone by August or end of year if the company can't find a way to adapt. Yes I am eager to contribute to the economy in ways I haven't been able to do for more than 10 years. Will I? Not anytime soon.
Affected? I live in the pandemic epicenter: America. Yeah, I'd say I'm affected. But ya know, lots of people won't act on what they can't see and so it'll all good, right?
Meanwhile, the numbers continue their upward march. We're acting as if this thing's been beaten, as if what's coming in a few months will magically be better than today.
How should people act? Hide at home and suck their thumb or go out and take the necessary risks to put food on the table? And with that we also have to go out and have fun. Most of the shut down was a joke and most things should have remained open taking as much precaution as possible. Which is what they are finally starting to do anyway.
Welcome back by the way. I’ve missed your cooks.
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I was really in need of a haircut, my neighbor lady’s helped me out.
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I started a new job March 30th, as people were freaking out over having to stay at home or use a computer. My job is inherently staying at home, working on a computer.
Yes I consider myself very fortunate, even if I only had 2 paychecks before across-the-board payroll cuts were enacted. I'll be gone by August or end of year if the company can't find a way to adapt. Yes I am eager to contribute to the economy in ways I haven't been able to do for more than 10 years. Will I? Not anytime soon.
Affected? I live in the pandemic epicenter: America. Yeah, I'd say I'm affected. But ya know, lots of people won't act on what they can't see and so it'll all good, right?
Meanwhile, the numbers continue their upward march. We're acting as if this thing's been beaten, as if what's coming in a few months will magically be better than today.
How should people act? Hide at home and suck their thumb or go out and take the necessary risks to put food on the table? And with that we also have to go out and have fun. Most of the shut down was a joke and most things should have remained open taking as much precaution as possible. Which is what they are finally starting to do anyway.
Welcome back by the way. I’ve missed your cooks.
In a pandemic you don't "need" to go out and have fun. Gimme a break. Read a book. Listen to music. Look at a grilling website. Do what you can. This will pass (for most of us, I guess.) It's disappointing to learn that people distancing themselves to reduce a serious contagion are "hiding." Wow. How truly horrifying that sort of life must be for you. Is the Netflix at least paid up? I have to drive 15-20 minutes to the good liquor locker. But the car I last filled up in March still has gas.
We will have a hard disagreement on whether or not any shutdown has been helpful. Absent a vaccine, literally the only thing that has helped has been keeping people away from other people. To dream otherwise is to ignore all credible evidence, both here and abroad. But hey, talk to me in a month or so if you're feeling confident today. The numbers in my county keep rising. How about yours? Don't think anything more can be done? Are ya sure?
Many of the choices are heartbreaking and imperfect. My kid's basketball tryouts are in a week. Limited indoor (gym) ventilation and heavy exhalation are higher risks. On the other hand, our rural county has few known (well, reported ... ) infections overall. On the other-other hand, teens can have reactions from C-19 that stop their fucking heart. I'm truly not interested in someone else's ability to pay the rent at that point, sorry.
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I was really in need of a haircut, my neighbor lady’s helped me out.
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Nice haircut. Is that your house? Looks like a cool outdoor area behind you.
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I was really in need of a haircut, my neighbor lady’s helped me out.
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Nice haircut brother.
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I was really in need of a haircut, my neighbor lady’s helped me out.
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Nice haircut. Is that your house? Looks like a cool outdoor area behind you.
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It’s my neighbors house, just the perfect stumbling distance away.
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I was really in need of a haircut, my neighbor lady’s helped me out.
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Nice haircut. Is that your house? Looks like a cool outdoor area behind you.
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It’s my neighbors house, just the perfect stumbling distance away.
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That is awesome. Looks similar to my area only 4 times bigger and the tv is actually hung! Very cool.
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Iv been letting mine grow so I can rock the hawk. Got a freaking mop right now. I usually just roll a #1.
As for the rona we are thankfully un effected so far. Though iv been laid off for near 3 months the unemployment and not going out as much as be fore has eased up the stress of the bank account. I was really in need of a haircut, my neighbor lady’s helped me out.
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Hope everyone in Minnesota is safe. Didn’t realize what was going on till now.
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https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics.
This is a pretty current snapshot of adolescent/teen deaths from COVID-19 in NYC. Possible? Yes, but very uncommon. More concerns about them being asymptomatic carriers and exposing the most vulnerable.