Rand Paul is 1st senator to report positive test for virus

"Come on" as in: instead of posting "suspect" links waste 2 seconds checking the source before adding nonsense to a thread that could be useful for some people.


And I don't know why you linked the tweet, that's the point.



I live in another continent and still the fact that the US Army has bases in Cali is no secret, googling 2 seconds led to those youtube videos.

I agree about keeping this thread for useful information, the post has been deleted.

Dunno, who's supposed to be koo koo on here? I think I missed a few posts.
I try to post "useful" stuff from time to time (I guess living in Italy gives some sort of almost first-hand experience on the matter), but I definitely can't keep up with everything..


Numbers for today are slightly better than yesterday here (a few less new positive, a few less dead - still A LOT -, a few more recovered ), hopefully these are the first signs of the results of the quarantine (which will get even more strict from tomorrow, btw..).

I'm glad we're on the same page on that.
I've witnessed A LOT of misinformation in my country, and in the US there's arguably even more chance of that for a number of reasons.

yeah, well, some... let's not sweat it and move on

anyway we've missed you around here, and your posts are gold.

glad to see numbers trending down in your parts, if ever so slightly

i expect multiple waves of this thing because first people don't think it's bad and spread the thing.

then they think it's getting better and will look for excuses to gather again.

but we gotta hang tight untill the all-clear.

i just ate some beans, onions, corn tortillas, eggs, and bacon

oh i'm gonna miss bacon when i run out :D

nope, not going to the supermarket unless strictly necessary. i might look into deliveries if it gets to that point, i don't know.

Plus he was recently droning on about how his businesses have been hit. Great timing, Bumblefuck.

I'm shocked that the message always seems to be "stay home, play with your kids in the house, watch movies" etc etc. Since when is going out for a walk, not in a crowd, staying away from anyone else you may see, a wrong thing?

well depends where you live but in new york where most cases are in the usa going out for a walk gets you in contact with people regardless

also in a building: staircase or elevator or whatever

im not fucking going anywhere unless i have to

check out prison cell workout for more info :p

Yeah, I suppose I am lucky that way, on the edge of a small town, with greenspaces everywhere. If I cannot get outside and walk I'll go fucking crazy.

Just a random thought, but who will soon release an album called Coronation? (Brilliant, innit?)

im lucky i have big windows and bright natural light but yeah it can be difficult for some people

aqua buddha just tested positive btw

Who the fuck is that? :)

Oh....it's related to Rand Paul somehow.

If I was a terrible person I would say something like "Oh please.....oh please...." but I am not that way, so I won't.

aqua buddha is a made-up deity that rank pod made up with his friends in college. i forget what the story was but he’s referred to that way among his critics.

he voted against the coronavirus relief bill

which, truly, is not a perfect bill, but it’s better than nothing

ANYWAY that’s the latest

He also did a lot of dumb shit while awaiting the result, apparently.

Is it just me seeing things wrong, or do Pence and Trump stand with groups of people at the podium, huddled close together, setting an example of what NOT to do, for the whole world to see?

yeah, I live in Tiny Town on acreage. Been reading and sleeping out in the lawn chair, earlier in the day I was digging out stumps. I have a nice home gym set up, too, so the health club closure doesn't REALLY bother me.

Even in the city, I'm going out and walking the dog plenty. It's snowing now, but not windy or anything, so tonight's walk was pleasant. Many people are still out walking around and honestly....I'm seeing more people getting out and walking around and getting exercise around the neighborhood.

I'm not exactly outdoorsy - if I could order food and have a decent internet connection I could stay indoors for weeks. (No dog - after my buddy Emilio died long ago I felt I couldn't take another loss like that, and besides he was my dog, you know?) The internet issue is the worst, because as a Dimeadozenholic I need to keep up with the goodies that interest me, and I can only download big filesets from the office. And that, my friends, is where the zombie apocalypse could hit me harder, as there's talk of closing the office building altogether until shit is contained.

Which brings me to: what does containing the disease mean, anyway? Obviously I know the literal meaning, but let's go practical: we take the sanitary precautions, we don't go out, so deaths go down, cases go down. And then what? Isn't the virus gonna be there waiting for us like the zombie which for some reason is more clever than the other zombies? Or will hazmat-suited cats be spreading Lysol over every goddamn squared centimeter of the planet?

we’re buying time to make tests & masks & develop vaccines & build capacity for treatment

eventually everyone is gonna get it and the virus will mutate like viruses do and people will die like they die from the flu and so forth.

but a flu vaccine gives you a 50% chance to prevent it, we can treat the flu, and flu treatments don’t overwhelm hospitals

With the sorry-ass state of both our countries' healthcare systems, and with Trump and Piñera in charge, good luck with that. And may Vishnu/Zeus/Ra have mercy on us all.

After Pence said every person insured could get tested, they asked him what would happened with the (at least) 30 million people uninsured. The super-compassionate evangelical walked out of the press conference. You can do that these days, because that's the fucking world we're living in.

From the BBC:
Coronavirus: When will the outbreak end and life get back to normal?


It. Is. GLAMOROUS. :mad:

china is managing to flatten the curve so i would not be completely pessimistic here

but yeah a lot of challenges ahead. are you working from home yet?

Hard to do with this connection. Some things can be done, but it's a real estate business (my mother's), and obviously NOBODY'S GONNA GO LOOK AT PROPERTIES (to rent or buy) with CRAPVID-19 around. We're tanking, man, it's not pretty. A couple of weeks ago or so a friend of my mom's arrived at the office with a couple of bags of groceries for us - it was certainly welcomed, but the sheer sight of it was heartbreaking. Not even during the dictatorship things were this brutal in the economic sense for us.

I would start one of those gofundme pages if people weren't gonna give a damn about it because other people happen to be dying.

everybody has to put themselves on hold for some time, that’s just the reality

for the reboot it’s gonna be MMT or bust

anyway i would plant potatoes in the backyard but i don’t have one, get some chickens & rabbits going.

otherwise maybe record some VR tours and see if you can broker online?

a lot of transactions are moving online now, it’s just the future, accelerated.

but yeah with everybody losing income—workers, businesses—only the printing press can keep things going

there is still demand, supply will meet if the means are available. but there will be retooling. we won’t go back to the same. you need to look ahead to readjust.

maybe there will be demand for cheaper housing. maybe you market one socioeconomic level up for the new poor. maybe ditch the office and do all online. maybe meet the clients via facetime so you won’t have to breathe the same air. do you guys have docusign?

so glamorous

First I hear of Docusign; looks very convenient, but I'll have to look into it to make sure it's accepted by local regulations. As for Facetime, people are OK using WhatsApp for now, but we'll incorporate it if necessary. Thank you.

@Soup Nazi, won’t the virus just die on its own? It’s not nag on a sit waiting forever....or am I missing something?

Thing is, people do recover from the virus. Putting it in a simplistic way.

Asymptomatic covid-positive people seem to become "negative" in around 14 days (still early to be sure about that, in china a patient tested positive after a bit more than a month), and even people with mild symptoms seem to become "less contagious" after 10-14 days (possibily need more to get rid of it). So the quarantine helps to prevent spreading the virus, and also to "fight" it home alone without even knowing it (you might have it, be asymptomatic, "let it die" during the extent of the quarantine).


The virus needs a host to be alive, so when things get kinda "back to normal" (I think we'll have to be pretty damn patient for that, all over the world..), at least in terms of people's circulation, its presence should be way less threatening : either people "won" over it, and supposedly their immune system can fight it, or at the very least they'd be way less contagious (weaker virus + no symptoms = less sneezing and coughing etc.).


In the meantime, there's studies on drugs (apparently working at least on some of the more dangerous complications), on the future vaccine etc..

Again, this is info I gathered around, things are still a bit up in the air in terms of scientific certainty..



yup, that too (picture from Turin).




with robots too, in china!






not every squared cm, but every bit helps (here they're doing it mainly on the usually more busy streets / squares).

meanwhile in the united states of america...



ok this was from last week, but still...

MORONAVIRUS

^here they use remodeled snow guns.
take care nicfit... all the best to you and yours.

Looks like that guy's going "DIE, MOTHERFUCKER!!!"

I’m still going into work every day. It’s — ahhhh — not ideal.

Also, I’m about to melt down with all the anxiety in the air. It’s driving me fucking crazy, and I’m feeling increasingly paranoid and crazy.

Feels like Cthulhu is feeding off our madness.

Shit, you’re in Seattle still aren’t you?
How are you doing? Or did you gtfo?
I’m very worried about my friends and family in the area.

no, he went back home to chicago long ago

Thanks man. Same goes for everyone, everywhere.

Work is a four-letter word.