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[Cnasty]

That recent Joe Rogan episode with the disease guy was fascinating.

[GeorgesGoons]

That recent Joe Rogan episode with the disease guy was fascinating.

What was the gist of it?

[cougnix]

Has the ground zero moved from Western Washington to New York? More confirmed and dead than us?

I hope so...

Someone asked about 250. Nobody here knows why 250 was the number. Schools are now closing for weeks, potentially months. My school hasn't closed its doors yet, but it's imminent. I have a Spring Break trip to california for my baseball team that we fundraised for that I'm worried will be cancelled. This is fucked up...

[nick]

this is insane and terrifying.

[nick]

no more jokes from me about this.


Royal Hurlbert
2 hours ago
I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you, today, not the government, not the school district, not the mayor, each individual citizen has the chance, today to take actions that will deter the Italian situation from becoming your own country’s reality. The only way to stop this virus is to limit contagion. And the only way to limit contagion is for millions of people to change their behavior today.

If you are in Europe or the US you are weeks away from where we are today in Italy.

I can hear you now. “It’s just a flu. It only affects old people with preconditions”

There are 2 reasons why Coronavirus has brought Italy to it’s knees. First it is a flu is devastating when people get really sick they need weeks of ICU – and, second, because of how fast and effectively it spreads. There is 2 week incubation period and many who have it never show symptoms.

When Prime Minister Conte announced last night that the entire country, 60 million people, would go on lock down, the line that struck me most was “there is no more time.” Because to be clear, this national lock down, is a hail mary. What he means is that if the numbers of contagion do not start to go down, the system, Italy, will collapse.

Why? Today the ICUs in Lombardy are at capacity – more than capacity. They have begun to put ICU units in the hallways. If the numbers do not go down, the growth rate of contagion tells us that there will be thousands of people who in a matter of a week? two weeks? who will need care. What will happen when there are 100, or a 1000 people who need the hospital and only a few ICU places left?

On Monday a doctor wrote in the paper that they have begun to have to decide who lives and who dies when the patients show up in the emergency room, like what is done in war. This will only get worse.

There are a finite number of drs, nurses, medical staff and they are getting the virus. They have also been working non-stop, non-stop for days and days. What happens when the drs, nurses and medical staff are simply not able to care for the patients, when they are not there?

And finally for those who say that this is just something that happens to old people, starting yesterday the hospitals are reporting that younger and younger patients – 40, 45, 18, are coming in for treatment.

You have a chance to make a difference and stop the spread in your country. Push for the entire office to work at home today, cancel birthday parties, and other gatherings, stay home as much as you can. If you have a fever, any fever, stay home. Push for school closures, now. Anything you can do to stop the spread, because it is spreading in your communities – there is a two week incubation period – and if you do these things now you can buy your medical system time.

And for those who say it is not possible to close the schools, and do all these other things, locking down Italy was beyond anyone’s imagination a week ago.

Soon you will not have a choice, so do what you can now.

Please share.

[The_Niddler]

I’ll be on a plane 7 times in the next 7 days

Yikes

That's a lot of free pretzels

I always goes for the Biscoffs instead.

Have you ever had cookie butter?
It is sold in grocery stores around the peanut butter, but it is made out of the Biscoff cookies and holy shit is it good stuff!

[Wasted Memory]

I'm sure it's happening in every state, but we've had several universities (UK, UL, UT, WKU, MTSU, etc) in the surrounding areas extend their spring breaks and are now moving all their classes to online and suspending everything on campus.

With the NBA suspending their season, how much longer until the NCAA Tourney is outright suspended instead of just closing it off to fans?

[The_Niddler]

Yes, it is happening in Ohio.
Starting this week, many universities are doing that and my work just informed us that we are to work from home starting Monday until further notice.

[Cnasty]

In that podcast that guy made a great point about closing schools.

So you close schools and now 75% of the nurses caring for sick people can’t work because they have to be home with their kids.

Quite the conundrum.

[ajalves]

My son goes to FSU and they start Spring Break tomorrow....the school now has told everyone that the two weeks after spring break they will do their course work online.

they made it sound like its just for starters and then they will see whats what at that point

[Cnasty]

they made it sound like its just for starters and then they will see whats what at that point

This is just the beginning as I assume this will go on for months on end but glad they are taking some action to slow the spread which if they didnt would cripple the healthcare system.

[ajalves]

i better get a refund on that housing and meal plan bill

[Cnasty]

Bros doing a solid

Pornhub offers free Premium access to all Italian residents and donates all of March profits.

[DRWebs]

Bros doing a solid

Pornhub offers free Premium access to all Italian residents and donates all of March profits.

Quite the philanthropists

[nick]

Trudeau has it. A brazilian person who came in contact with Trump has it.

[shel311]

It's just really odd that all these famous people started getting it at the same exact time.

[ajalves]

It's just really odd that all these famous people started getting it at the same exact time.

+1

[nick]

because thats how flus travel. and its everywhere in the world.

also how many famous ppl got it? Tom Hanks? and Rudy Gobert/Donovan Mitchell?

[DRWebs]

It's just really odd that all these famous people started getting it at the same exact time.

Secret celebrity orgy?

[GeorgesGoons]

Billy just text me and said that OOTP sims will now be delayed due to Corona Virus. Now this shit is hitting too close to home!