**** it. Didn’t cancel Cancun vacation we booked 6 months ago. Got here last night. Business as usual, everyone getting hammered and eating from buffets.
Plenty of toilet paper
Plenty of beer
Plenty of eye candy
Plenty of sunshine
Plenty of cocaineIf I die I die
From Chiefsplanet (actually I just noticed it’s a different thread - it’s from 3/13 - such an innocent time).
Cocaine seems like a great idea right now.
Trump can’t just suspend habeas corpus. We have rules against that.
Slightly less unlikely I guess.
A+
Only a week ago, Hong Kong seemed like a model for how to contain the novel coronavirus, with a relatively small number of cases despite months of being on the front lines of the outbreak.
That was in large part thanks to action taken early on, while cases were spreading across mainland China, to implement measures that are now familiar throughout the world: virus mapping, social distancing, intensive hand-washing, and wearing masks and other protective clothing.
Hong Kong was proof that these measures worked, with the city of 7.5 million only reporting some 150 cases at the start of March, even as the number of infections spiked in other East Asian territories like South Korea and Japan, and spread rapidly across Europe and North America.
Now, however, Hong Kong is providing a very different object lesson – what happens when you let your guard down too soon. The number of confirmed cases has almost doubled in the past week, with many imported from overseas, as Hong Kong residents who had left – either to work or study abroad, or to seek safety when the city seemed destined for a major outbreak earlier this year – return, bringing the virus back with them.
On Monday, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that all non-residents would be barred from the territory as of Wednesday, the latest addition to a raft of new measures.
This is a pattern playing out across parts of Asia – mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan – that were among the first to tackle the outbreak. All are now introducing new restrictions as a sudden wave of renewed cases begins to crest.
I’ve got a shit load of boxes coming in over the next couple weeks (moving apartments) whats the best way to sanitize them? I’ve been just rubbing Clorox wipes all over.
Maybe just don’t handle them for a day? That’s the lifetime of corona on cardboard.
Merkel’s initial test came back negative. My two co-workers also tested negative 
Give it 48 hours just in case.
Was all set to be like “What the fuck? Open your eyes” until I saw the username.
Depends on your state. Looks more like a rolling apocalypse over the next 30 days.
WHO is saying they might live for several days.
On cardboard even? I hadn’t seen that change.
Prosecutors asking for totalitarian powers? Nah, never.
On cardboard? I saw research for different surfaces and cardboard was 24 hours. SS and plastic were 3 days or so.
There’s the packing tape to worry about as well.
One is a 400 pound bed frame that they are going to leave in the common area so just letting it sit there for 3 days might be an issue
latest from New York state
| Date | Total Cases | Daily Tests | New Cases |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3/23/2020 | 20,875 | 16,739 | 5,707 |
| 3/22/2020 | 15,168 | 15,915 | 4,812 |
| 3/21/2020 | 10,356 | 12,979 | 3,254 |
| 3/20/2020 | 7,102 | 10,072 | 2,950 |
| 3/19/2020 | 4,152 | 7,584 | 1,770 |
| 3/18/2020 | 2,382 | 4,482 | 1,008 |
| 3/17/2020 | 1,374 | ? | 432 |
If I could wager somehow that they eventually find out C19 is most contagious by breath to aerosol breath transfer and not touching sputum droplets hacked up by sick people - or at least roughly as contagious - I’d put some money on it.
- A study shows the virus sheds virulently out of the throat before you’re symptomatic.
- We know breath droplets contain the virus.
- People are washing their hands like crazy.
- Masks seem to work in Asia.
- USA #1 has been washing hands vigorously for a while, still spreading.
- Being in the same space with someone for a while seems to make a huge difference. That could be from touching but breathing in infected air seems like it could be a culprit.
There are a few more bullet points I’m forgetting. I feel like we’re running the SARS playbook but slowly waking up to the ways this is different.