Interviewing guests remotely is a piece of cake. Webcams for a studio audience would take some time, depending on how many and how they want to set it up. I think they don’t want to be making jokes while people are dying en masse, but I fear they aren’t going to have a choice.
Those who believe they have symptoms can head over to the local healthcare center and get a test.
But what I find puzzling is that despite availability, there has been no signs of mass rush (or need) to do so.
But that alone doesn’t explain the lack of increase of hospitalizations and deaths.
Yeah but you guys have all those deadly animals and skin cancer and stuff. We’re so soft here it’s like a pillow fort.
I do like how all your great interior explorers basically went off without a plan and died and everyone loves them for it.
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I’ll tell you guys this: I have recently been in the habit of interacting with touchscreens with my knuckles instead of my fingertips. When I check out at Kroger I’m only using my knuckles. When I open doors now I try to use the crook of my joints and avoid having my fingertips touch the doorhandle whenever possible.
I talked to my mom about this because I thought it was a cool new thing I discovered and it turns out she’s been doing this kind of thing for the past thirty years and I never even noticed it once. At the ATMs she’s always punching buttons with her knuckles.
And like I know people hate it when we compare novel coronavirus to the seasonal flu, but so much of the coronavirus Boot Camp training we are going through right now is just basic sanitation that we should have been practicing for a long time.
Like, fuck me, man, what if every single year we treat seasonal flu like it’s a deadly killer virus that takes away people’s grandparents and immunodeficient people? What if we make it a regular point to wash our hands all the time and throw shade on people who sneeze into their hands and what if we insist that people in the service industry have sick leave?
Like, your average basic bitch seasonal flu hospitalized a million people last year and killed 30k people. What if we could give grandpa a few more years just by washing our hands and not picking our noses and shit?
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Hospitals not overwhelmed, but where is the increase in hospitalizations and deaths? Japan was one of the first exposed countries, yet fewer than 1000 infections and 25 deaths.
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I’ve been trying to flatten the curve of panic amongst my friends and family in a variety of ways, with mixed results. One of my big concerns is the people with their head in the sand going from 0 to 100 on the panic scale all at once and overwhelming our society’s capacty to deal with that.
Unfortunately the people with their head in the sand can’t hear. The only real success I had was telling some family that are scared of what they know is coming and of losing their jobs afterward to let me know if they need help if that happens, and to tell my buddy who’s even more concerned than me that we’ve got each other’s back and we’ll be ok.
Then I watched Contagion, and found it oddly calming. As long as we keep the food coming, we’ll be okay with society outside of minor episodes. Distributing a vaccine once we get to that point will be a mess but thankfully the mortality rate is so low for the healthy young that we should all be able to agree to vaccinate by age in reverse.
I do worry quite a bit about red states cause Trump’s incompetence really puts this on governor’s, and so far most red states seem to be taking this way less seriously.
I am worried that I may not have a livelihood for a while if live poker isn’t a thing for a while, but I am blessed to be able to ride out a year if I have to, so that should get me through it, and it is what it is.
Too soon!
I’m going with corona like thing swept through Japan in 600 AD until proven otherwise.
Someone with like actual history skills please look through all of Japanese history for a plague that affected them but not most of China. Maybe a little of Korea.
Then again back then losing 4% of your population, mostly olds, might not even be noticed.
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But how are you gonna pay for it?
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The people who serve you fucking food, man. Like, I’m as greedy as the next guy, but I def want the guy making my food to have healthcare so he’s not hacking up viruses into my sandwiches.
Well like you said - no one hugs. Maybe it’s that simple. I’m still trying to imagine not hugging your parents since you were a kid. Can’t wrap my head around that one at all.
For the most part brief contact doesn’t seem to spread it. So maybe even crowded subway trains aren’t that terrible. Also clothes seem to be a huge vector. So not touching someone else, or their clothes. Maybe that’s a big deal.
I’m picturing Italians at ski resorts getting drunk on wine and Sambuca and just slathering all over each other. I have family in Italy and there is a ton of close contact.
And they closed Tokyo Disneyland really early. But that goes against my whole theory about briefer encounters.
And Japan is the cleanest country in the world other than maybe Singapore right?
How many countries do we have represented in just this thread? This is an amazing resource.
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Took a hiatus from the Trump Dump for a few months but good lord if there was a reason to come back, it’s this.
I got a flu shot back in the beginning of January. About 3 weeks ago, I went to bed feeling fine (10 PM) and woke up coughing my lungs up (8 AM). I felt like shit and had a 103 fever. I actually thought I had the CV and this was back when there was like 50 cases. So I never acted on it. I was like “Nah…” My fever went away after 24 hours so I never went to the doctor. Took over the counter medication for cough. It’s worked like 80% but I’m still coughing to this day. I seriously wonder if I had the CV but didn’t know it. The last time I was sick was probably 5 years ago? Maybe longer? But yea, I’m coughing. Am I self quarantining myself? Not really. I still have to get groceries and shit. I work part time and need the money. So yea. If I have it, I’m probably infecting 25 people a day. To be honest, I don’t THINK I have it but then again it’s been years since I have been sick and I got a flu shot. So who knows. Exciting times!
Oh and this may get me banned but I hope Trump’s asshole rots out from in the insideout and infects his entire cabinet. Thanks Awval. Hope you enjoying those lottery scratchers in-between coughing fits you fucking ghoul. Tell us more about how you took America back.
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Hey, crazy liberal Bernie Bro take right here, but what if the people making your egg McMuffins didn’t have to show up to work sick as a dog because they don’t have basic sick leave? The people who make your food, stock your grocery aisles, attend to your bathrooms, wrangle your kids, imagine if they had access to basic sanitation when they’re contagious as fuck with zoonotic respiratory diseases --that’s some crazy shit, no?
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Literally every major part of Kentucky’s government is red except governor. But so so so glad Andy Beshear is in charge right now instead of Matt Bevin.
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You realize how are you going to pay for it was a joke right? Cuse is one of the biggest lefties on here.