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skullpatrol

03:44

in Pandemic Positivity, 8 hours ago, by Carcer

Wiktoria

@skullpatrol hi

skullpatrol

hello

Wiktoria

@skullpatrol hi

@skullpatrol do you know @AbhasKumarSinha ?

skullpatrol

yup

Wiktoria

Then please join me in AI room...

skullpatrol

03:54

a map of the world with all countries social distancing

KorvinStarmast

That will improve the fishing. Hunger? Solved.

skullpatrol

not if the fish start social distancing

no more schools

G Warner

04:10

@skullpatrol home schooling?

skullpatrol

yup, flip the classroom

skullpatrol

04:30

#Be-Virally-Nice policy

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Knight

06:17

Hello everyone

kviiri

Good morning

A joke from the social media, translated for your enjoyment:

"The coronavirus has caused a rare political situation where every party got their way. The Nationalists got the borders closed, the Greens got the people to stop flying, the Left got the stores empty, the Right got big corporate bailouts, the Agrarians got people to leave the cities and the Christians got the bars closed."

4 hours later…

BESW

10:53

Governor orders closure of businesses by noon Friday, except in key areas

2 hours later…

nitsua60

13:03

@BESW That's, like, 18 hours from now, right? Good luck.

BESW

Yeah. We've been in government-recommended social distancing since Monday, so we've had time to prepare.

My dad's still in the hospital, will be for at least two more days, so that's a complication.

nitsua60

@BESW I'm sorry to hear that. Not CoViD-related, though?

BESW

No, stubborn infection possibly complicated by accidental medication dosage problems due to weight loss.

NautArch

@BESW oh, man. Im sorry. My dad passed away a few weeks ago, but I can't imagine what I would have odne had this been going on when he was hospitalized.

BESW

He's doing better, but they're holding onto him while they wait for cultures and keep him on abx.

nitsua60

13:09

Arghh... not a great time to be dealing with stubborn and lingering ailments. (Stupid thing to say: like there ever is a good time....)

BESW

@NautArch My condolences.

NautArch

@BESW Thank you.

BESW

It'll be ten years of intensive caregiving in a month or two, I've reached the point where his medical emergencies are almost routine. This is the first time he's had to be hospitalized though, so it's definitely an escalation.

And at least he's using the Navy hospital's resources rather than a public hospital. I'm a lot more okay with squeezing the military for a bed and an IV drip than if it was an imposition on the public health infrastructure at this time.

(And, this is the second time in ten years that I've had days in a row where I don't have to sleep with one ear open for him falling out of bed. So there's that.)

NautArch

@BESW We got a baby monitor for that.

BESW

We've got motion detectors.

NautArch

13:15

even better

We did in-home hospice at the end. I hold hospice in incredibly high regard now.

BESW

We're a bit worried about supplies when he comes back from the hospital, and if he's not significantly improved we're going to need daily visits from trained professionals to help with some of his care. Which is not a super good thing in a lockdown.

NautArch

14:15

@BESW one of the other couples in the facility my mom was in (we moved her into our house for this time being) has a husband that was in the nursing home part and is dying. She was unable to visit. THey're moving him back to the apt, but on hospice. I have no idea how hospice works in this situation.

GcL

Has anyone seen @Rubiksmoose on lately?

Rubiksmoose

15:07

I'm around :)

NautArch

15:26

@GcL ^

Himitsu_no_Yami

15:47

This virus has made my life so much easier at work. There's nobody calling us. I'm sure that when it blows over we're gonna be swamped though.

GcL

16:35

@Rubiksmoose word on the grape vine for our State is that today would be a good day to go grocery shopping. Maybe make a couple meals that freeze okay.

Rubiksmoose

@GcL Oh yeah? Is that because stores might actually have stuff or because stuff is going to get worse?

@Himitsu_no_Yami Dude, it's made mine so much worse.

Himitsu_no_Yami

@Rubiksmoose I'm customer support for Pearson, we work with the schools and with all the schools in the country closed we have nothing to do

Rubiksmoose

That's pretty nice.

GcL

@Rubiksmoose Might be a shelter in place order coming down the pipe from the Governor. Just a rumor, but any excuse to make fried rice.

Rubiksmoose

I'm an engineer and currently I'm having to remotely stage and run tests with hardware.

NautArch

16:42

i'm a business owner getting pretty worried

unlikely will need to close, but sales are way way down

GcL

@Rubiksmoose Have you tried turning it on and off again... a 100 times in a row? because that was a failure state for our last IC.

On the upside, my phone, keys, wallet, and credit cards haven't been this clean since I worked in a lab.

Rubiksmoose

16:56

@NautArch :'(

@GcL If only I could lol

NautArch

17:11

listening to a employment law seminar on covid and the audio has been awful. worthless.

Yuuki

NautArch

@Yuuki ha! @kviiri

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GcL

18:26

Ugh... researcher I work with and their family got corona virus. Ugh.

NautArch

@GcL work closely with them?

GcL

@NautArch In the same conference rooms.

NautArch

@GcL ugh, do you have to quarantine?

GcL

@NautArch Probably not. It's not like I'm going out anytime soon anyway. Working from home.

Actually maybe.

NautArch

Probably should :(

GcL

18:37

Trying to figure out when the last time we were in the same spaces. Their partner is a clinician, so probably was exposed via that route.

They sound pretty miserable on the conference call.

JohnP

18:52

@GcL We are WFH if possible as well. One of the team members near me is getting tested, but he hadn't been in the office for a week anyway. I came in today so my kids wouldn't disrupt my early AM meetings.

nitsua60

19:47

@GcL What state?

2 hours later…

nitsua60

21:36

Well, crap. Reading the Dept. of HHS's "wargaming" report from last October on how prepared the US ~~was~~ is to handle a novel zoonotic pandemic was... sobering.

nitsua60

21:49

An article from 6 (!) days ago:

> Yes. Tell me one reason [the US caseload] shouldn’t [get as bad as Italy]. I see no reason. The United States are maybe two weeks behind Italy. I think everyone got a shock this week, and there was the sense of a shift, with the N.B.A. canceling and the president speaking from the Oval Office with the travel ban, and then Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson — bang, bang, bang.

I think next week we are going to get an even bigger shock. Because we are going to have, as I said, 5,000 to 10,000 cases. People are going to realize it is everywhere. I can’t go to the store, I can’t take public transport…

JHU's gisanddata has US at 13K active cases as of this writing.

But who needs experts =(

jkerian

22:02

In fairness, though. At least around here we've done about all that can be done.

Almost exactly 6 days ago, my company and most of my friends switched to working from home, pretty much all large gatherings ended.

It is particularly sobering to note that there is absolutely no reason this couldn't have been much, much worse than it is.

NautArch

22:34

It's still getting worse @jkerian

When I got to the woods today to hike, a group of college kids were gathering and clearly hadn't seen each other in awhile. Hugging each other, etc.

jkerian

Yup, and it will certainly get worse.

But very early on I heard some virologists saying "Well, viruses have to balance lethality with the ability to spread, or they die out."
My immediate response was "Well, yes... that's true for a virus that is stable over a long period of time, but it's not as if it's an absolute law of evolution"

jkerian

22:48

I may have done too much GMing when I take a global pandemic and immediately start thinking of ways of making it worse.

nitsua60

23:07

@jkerian Where's "here" (roughly), out of curiosity?

jkerian

midwestern US, small city

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