OT: Coronavirus

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Here in Illinois, businesses that have been shut down are donating cleaning supplies, hand sanitizer, facemasks etc. to businesses that have to stay open.
I'm a window clerk in a small post office. All of our necessary cleaning supplies are on back order. I just got a supply of facemasks but can't get disinfecting wipes or latex gloves. A customer just brought me a bottle of hand sanitizer. People don't realize how many people each mail carrier interacts with. My mail carrier touches 405 mail boxes every day that someone else has touched recently. I have elderly customers coming in daily to just hand me a letter because it has to go out today. 
If you've got any latex gloves or extra hand sanitizer laying around, consider donating it to your local post office

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@Hidalgo said:
People don't realize how many people each mail carrier interacts with. 

Right? I think some people don't realize how many people there really are. I think that when I see the toilet paper hoarders. Like, I don't disagree it's bullshit for 1 person to buy 27 packages... I just realize that 27 people buying 1 package is as likely and not too far off from creating the same outcome.

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https://twitter.com/usatodaysports/statu...62273?s=19

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@Vikergirl said:
https://twitter.com/usatodaysports/statu...62273?s=19

They really didn't have much choice. An unfortunate consequence of all of this. 

I guess it pales in comparison to the death and dying...

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https://twitter.com/NeilDiamond/status/1...3927074818

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@purplefaithful said:

@Vikergirl said:
https://twitter.com/usatodaysports/statu...62273?s=19

They really didn't have much choice. An unfortunate consequence of all of this. 

I guess it pales in comparison to the death and dying...

or going ahead and having nobody show up.  Canada had already said they werent sending their team...of course this is the summer olympics so thats not a huge head turner like it would have been for the winter games.

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@purplefaithful said:

@Vikergirl said:
https://twitter.com/usatodaysports/statu...62273?s=19

They really didn't have much choice. An unfortunate consequence of all of this. 

I guess it pales in comparison to the death and dying...

I was thinking it took them long enough.

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@JimmyinSD said:

@MaroonBells said:
@purplefaithful I know we all have different perspectives on CNN and MSM. That aside, there's a lesson here...We're going to need to have enough test, tracing and isolating capability in place to address everyone - even the asymmetricals. 
I dont mean that to sound dire, but I do think it will be our reality - and the worlds reality


Just to play devil's advocate, I have to wonder if we won't get to a point where living (and, yes, dying) with corona is just the new normal. We’ll adjust, take precautions, and we’ll ACCEPT the fact that most of us are going to be infected. But 96% to 98% of us will survive, recover and then be immune. 
When we hit that realization--that new normal (a shitty normal to be sure, especially for the elderly)--restaurants will open, borders will open, businesses will open. Infections will increase again, because we won't be over the virus by a long shot, but because of the amount of those immune, and the knowledge of prevention we will then have, the curve will be seen as tolerable, especially considering where we once WERE, and what it will have done to the world's economy by then. 
I don't know if this is 6 weeks from now or 6 months, but at some point, we either have to get back to business or we'll be facing a Depression that will make the 30s look like a bad day on Wall Street. I know this might sound crass and uncaring, but I do believe that economic devastation with the job losses that come with it, the destruction of families and futures, suicides, etc. has the potential to do as much or more damage than a virus that will kill 3% of us could ever do. I don't know...just something I'm thinking. 

I have seen mention of immunity by several posters.  I havent actually seen any documented medical data that suggests that they body develops a long term immunity,  this isnt like the chicken pox where if you get it once you wont get it again from what I've read.  Some doctors are also suggesting that this will likely develop traits like the flu where it will run its course and then mutate into a similar but different strain that can reinfect. 

Yes, anything is possible and nothing is documented. Obviously. This is the great unknown. But most experts believe that it will behave like most infections and you will develop a level of immunity to it once you recover. The word I've heard bandied about is "likely." 

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Boris locks-down Great Britain...Police ordered to ensure compliance.

Desperately trying to avoid becoming the next Italy.

Impassioned, from the heart, articulate speech to his people. 


https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/...1334607886

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Trump's presser just now, Barr touched base on investigations into the hoarding of ventilators and other medical supplies on an industrial scale. I guess it's not just Joe Shmoe trying to sell TP and masks out of the back of their minivan.