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I'm sure the parties will continue....but the parade is cancelled.

This is why I'm all for mandatory quarantine....people can't be trusted to follow it on their own.
Bars are going to have a rough go. No sports, crap st. Patty's day, potential shut down of public gathering places and high rent that never stops.
 
My sister-in-law in Italy broke her collarbone skiing a couple of weeks ago. Her surgery has been pushed back again and again because the hospitals are at capacity dealing with respiratory ailments and severe cases from COVID-19.

I've been watching some people's attitudes on social media about how this pandemic is overblown because of the low mortality rate. Sure you probably won't die of it if you're under 60, but there are a lot of senior citizens and others with existing ailments who will take up space in the hospitals because of COVID-19. So as long as you or your loved ones don't plan on hurting yourself and seeking medical assistance for car accidents, heart attacks, slips on ice, etc. then yeah, don't worry about it.

The isolation and restrictions on travel are not an over-reaction. It's a way of slowing the spread of the disease so the hospitals can ramp up as well as deal with medical emergencies at a reduced rate, instead of all at once, like in Italy. Doctors in Italy are now having to decide who they choose to save and who they will let die when patients come in through the ER doors.

If you read about people being cavalier about the severity of COVID-19 and not respecting self-isolation procedures, washing hands and gathering in crowded spaces then please educate them. We are two weeks away from becoming like Italy if we don't take this seriously.

If you tweak the statistics you're more likely to die at the hands of your spouse, therefore marriage is more deadly than COVID. However if your neighbour's wife poisons him it's unlikely suddenly every spouse will get the kill notion.

Is it worth the risk if it isn't necessary?

My biggest concern would be minimum wage earners on tight budgets riding crowded subway cars. No work no pay isn't easy to swallow.

This site isn't for cautious people on extremely tight budgets so we won't be getting a true picture relying on GTAM for points of view.
 
If you tweak the statistics you're more likely to die at the hands of your spouse, therefore marriage is more deadly than COVID. However if your neighbour's wife poisons him it's unlikely suddenly every spouse will get the kill notion.

Is it worth the risk if it isn't necessary?

My biggest concern would be minimum wage earners on tight budgets riding crowded subway cars. No work no pay isn't easy to swallow.

This site isn't for cautious people on extremely tight budgets so we won't be getting a true picture relying on GTAM for points of view.
It's not just minimum wage. My wife is contract. No work, no pay. I need clients to pay me. If more offices start to shut down, cheques wont be going out. We wont be going hungry but it could hurt in the short term. We do have the luxury of largely avoiding interactions with crowds of strangers.
 
My biggest concern would be minimum wage earners on tight budgets riding crowded subway cars. No work no pay isn't easy to swallow.

This site isn't for cautious people on extremely tight budgets so we won't be getting a true picture relying on GTAM for points of view.

I totally get it. There will be people who go into work because "I need to pay the rent, and besides I've probably just got a cold, it's not even that serious".

But there are many others with the "f**k you sensationalist-mass-media-with-an-agenda, you're not going to tell me where I can go" attitude. The tin-foil hatters, the anti-vaxxers, etc. Those are the people that hasten the spread of the disease.
 
But there are many others with the "f**k you sensationalist-mass-media-with-an-agenda, you're not going to tell me where I can go" attitude. The tin-foil hatters, the anti-vaxxers, etc. Those are the people that hasten the spread of the disease.

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But there are many others with the "f**k you sensationalist-mass-media-with-an-agenda, you're not going to tell me where I can go" attitude. The tin-foil hatters, the anti-vaxxers, etc. Those are the people that hasten the spread of the disease.
If you believe some reports, Italy is thinking about handing murder charges out to some of those people. It may be a good idea to get the morons back in line and then drop them on good behaviour bonds once the crisis has passed.
 
From: Young and unafraid of the coronavirus? Good for you. Now stop killing people | Opinion

A DOCTOR IN WESTERN EUROPE
ON 3/11/20 AT 2:29 PM EDT

I'm a doctor in a major hospital in Western Europe. Watching you Americans (and you, Brits) in these still-early days of the coronavirus pandemic is like watching a familiar horror movie, where the protagonists, yet again, split into pairs or decide to take a tour of a dark basement.

The real-life versions of this behavior are pretending this is just a flu; keeping schools open; following through with your holiday travel plans, and going into the office daily. This is what we did in Italy. We were so complacent that even when people with coronavirus symptoms started turning up, we wrote each off as a nasty case of the flu. We kept the economy going, pointed fingers at China and urged tourists to keep traveling. And the majority of us told ourselves and each other: this isn't so bad. We're young, we're fit, we'll be fine even if we catch it.

Fast-forward two months, and we are drowning. Statistically speaking—judging by the curve in China—we are not even at the peak yet, but our fatality rate is at over 6 percent, double the known global average.

Put aside statistics. Here is how it looks in practice. Most of my childhood friends are now doctors working in north Italy. In Milan, in Bergamo, in Padua, they are having to choose between intubating a 40-year-old with two kids, a 40-year old who is fit and healthy with no co-morbidities, and a 60-year-old with high blood pressure, because they don't have enough beds. In the hallway, meanwhile, there are another 15 people waiting who are already hardly breathing and need oxygen.

The army is trying to bring some of them to other regions with helicopters but it's not enough: the flow is just too much, too many people are getting sick at the same time.

We are still awaiting the peak of the epidemic in Europe: probably early April for Italy, mid-April for Germany and Switzerland, somewhere around that time for the UK. In the U.S., the infection has only just begun.

But until we're past the peak, the only solution is to impose social restrictions.

And if your government is hesitating, these restrictions are up to you. Stay put. Do not travel. Cancel that family reunion, the promotion party and the big night out. This really sucks, but these are special times. Don't take risks. Do not go to places where you are more than 20 people in the same room. It's not safe and it's not worth it.

But why the urgency, if most people survive?

Here's why: Fatality is the wrong yardstick. Catching the virus can mess up your life in many, many more ways than just straight-up killing you. "We are all young"—okay. "Even if we get the bug, we will survive"—fantastic. How about needing four months of physical therapy before you even feel human again. Or getting scar tissue in your lungs and having your activity level restricted for the rest of your life. Not to mention having every chance of catching another bug in hospital, while you're being treated or waiting to get checked with an immune system distracted even by the false alarm of an ordinary flu. No travel for leisure or business is worth this risk.

Now, odds are, you might catch coronavirus and might not even get symptoms. Great. Good for you. Very bad for everyone else, from your own grandparents to the random older person who got on the subway train a stop or two after you got off. You're fine, you're barely even sneezing or coughing, but you're walking around and you kill a couple of old ladies without even knowing it. Is that fair? You tell me.

My personal as well as professional view: we all have a duty to stay put, except for very special reasons, like, you go to work because you work in healthcare, or you have to save a life and bring someone to hospital, or go out to shop for food so you can survive. But when we get to this stage of a pandemic, it's really important not to spread the bug. The only thing that helps is social restriction. Ideally, the government should issue that instruction and provide a financial fallback—compensate business owners, ease the financial load on everyone as much as possible and reduce the incentive of risking your life or the lives of others just to make ends meet. But if your government or company is slow on the uptake, don't be that person. Take responsibility. For all but essential movement, restrict yourself.

This is epidemiology 101. It really sucks. It is extreme—but luckily, we don't have pandemics of this violence every year. So sit it out. Stay put. Don't travel. It is absolutely not worth it.

It's the civic and moral duty of every person, everywhere, to take part in the global effort to reduce this threat to humanity. To postpone any movement or travel that are not vitally essential, and to spread the disease as little as possible. Have your fun in June, July and August when this—hopefully—is over.

Stay safe. Good luck.
 
From: Young and unafraid of the coronavirus? Good for you. Now stop killing people | Opinion

A DOCTOR IN WESTERN EUROPE
ON 3/11/20 AT 2:29 PM EDT

I'm a doctor in a major hospital in Western Europe. Watching you Americans (and you, Brits) in these still-early days of the coronavirus pandemic is like watching a familiar horror movie, where the protagonists, yet again, split into pairs or decide to take a tour of a dark basement.

The real-life versions of this behavior are pretending this is just a flu; keeping schools open; following through with your holiday travel plans, and going into the office daily. This is what we did in Italy. We were so complacent that even when people with coronavirus symptoms started turning up, we wrote each off as a nasty case of the flu. We kept the economy going, pointed fingers at China and urged tourists to keep traveling. And the majority of us told ourselves and each other: this isn't so bad. We're young, we're fit, we'll be fine even if we catch it.

Fast-forward two months, and we are drowning. Statistically speaking—judging by the curve in China—we are not even at the peak yet, but our fatality rate is at over 6 percent, double the known global average.

Put aside statistics. Here is how it looks in practice. Most of my childhood friends are now doctors working in north Italy. In Milan, in Bergamo, in Padua, they are having to choose between intubating a 40-year-old with two kids, a 40-year old who is fit and healthy with no co-morbidities, and a 60-year-old with high blood pressure, because they don't have enough beds. In the hallway, meanwhile, there are another 15 people waiting who are already hardly breathing and need oxygen.

The army is trying to bring some of them to other regions with helicopters but it's not enough: the flow is just too much, too many people are getting sick at the same time.

We are still awaiting the peak of the epidemic in Europe: probably early April for Italy, mid-April for Germany and Switzerland, somewhere around that time for the UK. In the U.S., the infection has only just begun.

But until we're past the peak, the only solution is to impose social restrictions.

And if your government is hesitating, these restrictions are up to you. Stay put. Do not travel. Cancel that family reunion, the promotion party and the big night out. This really sucks, but these are special times. Don't take risks. Do not go to places where you are more than 20 people in the same room. It's not safe and it's not worth it.

But why the urgency, if most people survive?

Here's why: Fatality is the wrong yardstick. Catching the virus can mess up your life in many, many more ways than just straight-up killing you. "We are all young"—okay. "Even if we get the bug, we will survive"—fantastic. How about needing four months of physical therapy before you even feel human again. Or getting scar tissue in your lungs and having your activity level restricted for the rest of your life. Not to mention having every chance of catching another bug in hospital, while you're being treated or waiting to get checked with an immune system distracted even by the false alarm of an ordinary flu. No travel for leisure or business is worth this risk.

Now, odds are, you might catch coronavirus and might not even get symptoms. Great. Good for you. Very bad for everyone else, from your own grandparents to the random older person who got on the subway train a stop or two after you got off. You're fine, you're barely even sneezing or coughing, but you're walking around and you kill a couple of old ladies without even knowing it. Is that fair? You tell me.

My personal as well as professional view: we all have a duty to stay put, except for very special reasons, like, you go to work because you work in healthcare, or you have to save a life and bring someone to hospital, or go out to shop for food so you can survive. But when we get to this stage of a pandemic, it's really important not to spread the bug. The only thing that helps is social restriction. Ideally, the government should issue that instruction and provide a financial fallback—compensate business owners, ease the financial load on everyone as much as possible and reduce the incentive of risking your life or the lives of others just to make ends meet. But if your government or company is slow on the uptake, don't be that person. Take responsibility. For all but essential movement, restrict yourself.

This is epidemiology 101. It really sucks. It is extreme—but luckily, we don't have pandemics of this violence every year. So sit it out. Stay put. Don't travel. It is absolutely not worth it.

It's the civic and moral duty of every person, everywhere, to take part in the global effort to reduce this threat to humanity. To postpone any movement or travel that are not vitally essential, and to spread the disease as little as possible. Have your fun in June, July and August when this—hopefully—is over.

Stay safe. Good luck.
Tic-toc for JT to deal with march break. Mass exodus probably starts in a few hours.
 
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Id put little stock in spoiled ex drug dealer medical advice.
 
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Trudeau just went into self-isolation.

I think I'll do the same.
 
Id put little stock in spoiled ex drug dealer medical advice.
I mean you realize that's what his medical officers are telling him right?

The feds aren't panicking and its trickle down.
 
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