They offered to let us work remote, I declined. There is no way in hell I would survive around Crazy and Crazy II 24/7. Besides that, the last place I want to be if shit truly goes to hell is in a big city. The moment they give me a hiatus, I'm pointing my Camaro towards Missouri. My place is remote, with plenty of fish, fresh water and small game in the area. I'll be just fine out in the country. In the city I'd suffer a slow, miserable death.
Anyone know of a good public visualization that shows the increase in cases over time? It's doubling about every 4 days now, my nerd's are predicting 10K cases by 3/20, which is a revised estimate (ie, we were wrong). https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 is the best thing running at the moment.
Shit For Brains finally called a state of emergency for Ontario. He must be scared, given this virus’ mortality rate towards the morbidly obese.
I’m now working from home and limiting trips to essential travel. Got easily 2-3 weeks worth of food in the fridge and freezer, probably more. Never been so glad to live in the country. Isolation to me means over 200 acres of hunting and fishing and fucking around. Turkey just showed up in the front yard a few days ago as if on cue.
I've now officially been socially distanced. They're gonna work out a rotating schedule so that there's less people in the building. My wife works for the same company in a different building, and she went in today, but there's only three of them there and they have to sit far apart. We're also still in a region with no cases. I saw that Amazon is hiring more people so they can keep getting out orders - I wonder if they're doing it so they can rotate their staff more too.
I’m not allergic to it. Grandfather on my mother’s side wasn’t either. He used it when he was in the pacific during ww2 as a toilet paper.
Anyone else notice the same people who share toilet paper memes on facebook are the same ones who brag about hoarding toilet paper?
Me either. Back in 5th grade, my friends and I had a bright idea to purposely infect ourselves with poison ivy in order to all stay home from school. I had no reaction, buddy #2 had a super mild reaction, #3 had standard reaction and buddy #4 had weeping blisters within the hour.
Well Alberta cancelled school indefinitely this year. BC is holding a press conference today probably announcing the same thing, I have no idea what we are going to do for the next 3.5 months if that happens. There was a guy at work where is GF was at a conference that was a known hot spot for the virus so she was self isolating, well the fucking dumb ass showed up to work, and promptly got sent home.
Ontario is now under a State of Emergency. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/coronavirus-covid-19-ontario-tuesday-1.5500006 And I think Florida is going to be fucked soon.
Mark my words, less than two weeks into a nationwide quarantine and people will get cabin fever and break out making this lockdown futile.
Meh, all those people are locals. It's not like people are visiting, and then will leave to spread the virus up and down the east coast. There will be some kind of tipping point. People will say, fuck it, and take their chances. Whether or not that leads to regular stupidity or escalating anarchy will be interesting to watch.
I have neighbours across the court that are now in Florida enjoying Spring Break, and are finding that their cheap non-refundable charter flights (Swoop) are no longer allowed into the local airport, and have been cancelled. No new flights being scheduled. No refunds. No more flights available to come home for a few weeks from any airline, never mind the cost. https://www.flyswoop.com/coronavirus/ They're currently stuck down in Florida right now. They are morons. They would be the type to go to the beach.
Shit just got REALLY real... IRS postponing tax filing by 90 days. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/treasury-and-irs-to-delay-tax-deadline-by-90-days.html
Customer just left my shop and said "I'd shake your hand but I don't want you getting me sick." I replied "Or you could get me sick, haha" He looked at me like I just spit on his mother. The gym I frequent has gone to limited hours and no group classes. I see them closing it soon which is a good thing. Even though you aren't relatively close to people, everyone is touching the same equipment. One person could pass it to dozens in just a few hours. San Francisco and surrounding areas (affecting 6.7 million people) has been ordered to "shelter in place" which is basically lock down unless you run an essential business.