Just got word that the group that owns our building could close the building at a moment's notice for up to two weeks for a "deep clean". I'm ok with it because my firm said they will pay us, but I have Inheritance Tax Returns due as well as income tax returns, so could someone please let the Dept. of Revenue and IRS know about this little hiatus? K thanks.
My daughter just lost her dance classes, her girl guides, her swimming. So... she’s heartbroken. So many people are losing their fun. Countless family vacations planned for next week’s March break have now been shot to shit.... fuck this.
I'm still flying to Utah to go ski at Park City tomorrow. I changed my flight path because it had a layover in Seattle to a direct flight and some added cleaning supplies/precautions. I feel bad for those who were coming here to Disney or had a cruise planned, that's a real bummer. I just hope they don't shut down air travel while we are out there, that will be a long drive home.
The governor of my state just closed all public schools for the next two weeks. Looks like I'm heading to the liquor store on the way home! Jeez.
I’m sitting in the Vancouver airport right now (which is quite empty, zero security lineups) and I’m thinking I should not have worn my Japan Rugby shirt. I just coughed and about 10 people looked at me like I was a leper with and arm sloughing off of my shoulder.
Of all the places that I would expect for someone to pull out a gun for toilet paper, Toronto was not one of them. https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/ma...n-fight-at-downtown-loblaw-s-police-1.4852196
This misses a big problem. Maybe you're being facetious, in which case ignore, but... First, the virus isn't the problem (unless you're over 60 and/or have a health problem). The problem is the cascade effect to the infrastructure and the supply chain. THAT might be unrecoverable in some cases. How many businesses can survive being shut down for 3-4 weeks on a government edict? How many people/companies could survive or recover from zero cash flow for multiple weeks? The ones that DO go under, how well do the remaining outfits pick up the slack? How long does it take to get society running properly again, and what do the people who were living paycheque-to-paycheque do if the downtime bankrupted them? As to your point about "the world could do with less people," the people who die will be: elderly; already ill; poor people (ie developing countries); medical professionals. If the number is huge like you're throwing around - 10-25%, let's say (it won't be CLOSE to that), how does society recover? Do you think power plants would stay operational? How about water treatment facilities? What do you do with nuclear facilities that were built around the time our grandparents were fertile and need constant daily monitoring, even if they've been decommissioned for twenty years? Not to be all doom-y, but I hope people know that if within a year 10% of the world's population died, we'd all be royally screwed. It wouldn't be business as usual with more resources for the rest of us.
Real quick....what’s a paycheque? I was being facetious, of course. Just adding some (more) assholishness(?) to the discussion.
Watch out, man. They might delete your comment for being off topic. In other news, apparently toilet paper is all but sold out down here. One of my friends from work is going out to scout the are because he and his wife are almost out. I wonder how their food supply is...
Dude, just keep the overtly political bitching in the politics thread. It’s not hard to figure out, and it was nothing personal. Stay on the topic of humankind killing extinction level viruses in this thread.
This morning, the cool tactical-looking outbreak map website must have been lagging. It had about 1800 less deaths reported than the night before. And I was like “GREAT, now we gotta deal with the fucking zombies, too!”
im good now. It was a little weird a bit ago but so was everything on the Internet. I chalked it up to people panic buying internet
kinda envious of you getting to people watch in the airport. People are out of their minds down here. Two days ago a lady wanted someone kicked out of the gym for coughing. I’m getting a ton of applications from people in the medical profession, nurses and the like. Apps go directly to my phone and I’ve had to charge it multiple times just today from people going crazy on indeed
Cancel culture has gone too far. Cancel NBA. Cancel XFL. Cancel college. Cancel toilet paper. What are we gonna cancel next, satellite tv packages?
Officially got the word that I'm working from home for at least the next two weeks. I've got about 2-3 weeks worth of cooked and frozen meals in my freezer. I do meal prep as it is, was a pretty easy leap to make sure I had a good cushion on it.