At some point here, we’re going to need governors (because we trust some of them) to get in front of the cameras and promise us that the food supply chain is fine and we should all just buy 2-3 weeks at a time at the most to be able to minimize time in public… then they should add that even if something happened, they have enough MREs with the national guard to feed us for a while anyway, at least long enough for us to learn to grow potatoes and shit.
The way this is going, when everything goes back to normal the grocery stores are going to lay everyone off cause nobody is going to be buying food or toilet paper for like 12 years.
Kids, gather round so grandpa can tell you how pancake sandwiches came to be a family Fourth of July tradition!
If only they had read this thread. (Seriously, this place has been an amazing resource for this event. I’d likely be way under-reacting if not for all of you.)
for real. 2 weeks ago i was supposed to give a presentation and i got bumped, they’re like, “ok you’ll present after we get back from vacation” and i’m like, “yeah if the school is even still open” and they’re like, “huh? why wouldn’t it be?”
They mean they’re going to keep taking your $99.99 a month, thank you very much, but there will be a cute girl and a ripped dude doing videos on their website of at-home body weight workouts.
Imagine being a doomsday prepping conspiracy nut for like 20 years, and when the big one finally comes you’re like, “Nah, it’s a hoax, I’m going to Applebees!”
in all seriousness, i’m counting my blessings and and i’m really grateful governments around the world are responding they way they have been to this, even the trump admin. if we were a little bit unluckier and this bug was deadlier, society would be fucked. but maybe after all this we’ll actually be ready for a deadlier outbreak when it hits some time in the future
I think they got lucky in that they happened to go to a clinic in Mississippi, where all the rednecks still think this is the flu. And the fact that they came from Washington state probably helped.
I was a little bit worried when my wife and I left for our 10 year anniversary trip (Feb 17-Mar 3) that we wouldn’t be allowed back in the country.
I was mostly joking, but everyone else thought I was entirely joking. If I had just planned it like 2 weeks later…yikes.
Although being stranded in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, or Ushuaia right now wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. All kick-ass places. When travel is normalized again, I highly recommend.
There’s such mass confusion on this. Even surgical masks help. You don’t need N95. A bandana might even be good enough to block most of the droplets.
The whole thing is if you’re protecting yourself - you want to stop almost everything from getting through. If you’re protecting others, even reducing 80% of the contagious droplets from getting out into the world is gigantic.
My new plan is masks + massive testing + mandatory isolation for positives. Fuck herd immunity.
And it was never my plan I was just trying to reason through it. Even in our exchange I realized the best case scenarios in Northern Italy are still nowhere near herd immunity levels.