Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Actinidia]

I had an unpleasant mystery virus and still feel poorly, but I didn't match up to the COVID profile well enough to get tested, so who knows.

Spoiler

Fever (never very high) and exhaustion yes, cough/trouble breathing not really, and "my limbs feel like they're made of silly putty" isn't a thing, I guess.

The clamping down has continued, but I admit it's slower and subtler than my paranoid ass expected. It's been most irritating that nobody has anything better to do than rat you out to the HOA and/or bitch about you on NextDoor for spending too much time in your own back yard.

The Society of Actuaries rescheduled their "Spring" exams into mid to late July, so take that as you will, but if you were betting on the world going back to normalish in May/June... maybe bet different.

 

[pwnest injun]

tocilizumab

Why are they naming drugs after the Princes of Hell?

 

[New & Improved Username]

Captain Crozier https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1246089082876366848

 

[ditto]

Why are they naming drugs after the Princes of Hell?

Who do you think are their major shareholders?

 

[Non-Expert!]

California Projects Peak Coronavirus Infections in Mid-May, Hospitals…

archived 4 Apr 2020 06:38:01 UTC

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California is projected to peak in Mid-May.

Statewide, a little over 5000 are scheduled to be deceased in early August.

I suppose that these projections are based on the continuance of the hunker-down orders?

Just F.Y.I.

Then school starts in the fall? Then another deathwave hits?

Anybody have any insights?

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

On the retail front, it was strongly implied we were going to limit in store shopping to "essentials only" and anything else will be curbside pickup. From what I understand, this will only be at stores in hard hit areas though. It will probably be a shitshow.

I'm still coming to term with being so close to the epicenter. I knew it was inevitable, but it's still scary. We're only allowing 20% capacity now. There is an armed police officer in front of the store. Aisles are all marked one way and plexiglass barriers were put up for the cash registers. I am not sure if every store is getting this or if it's just in this state.

Hearing about this more and more. I think the time has come to say if you are comfortable with the food and cash you have onhand and have some money to spare, and there is any gereral merch/electronics/household goods/clothes/cheap Chinese crap you want BUY IT NOW.

If they limit Walmart purchases to food and medicine amd Amazon has any restrictions/supply issues in the next couple weeks you'll wish you had.

Keep everyone in bunkers until they can create vaccines and vaccinate everyone on the planet.

This would only take oh, 10 years or so.

Now if we're locked in, how will we continue to breed as a species? Wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Whether he tried to inform higher-ups or not, leaking info that an aircraft carrier may not be combat-ready to the public is a pretty massive Opsec breach. Had he been enlisted he'd of been punished much more harshly.

Edit:
If his direct superiors were acting foolishly, his best course of action would have been to of taken it to higher-level command. His main fuck up was that what he resorted to should have been his last option, and not his first.

There has to be more than what we know. There are only a handful of these ships; captianacy of one is the highest single vessel command any captain in the world can achieve. He is one of an elite few so he can't be stupid. The guy went nuclear (lol) on his career. He had to know what he was doing, what it would mean for his reputation, what position it would put his ship and the Navy in. Whining to the press like a little bitch cannot have been the first thing he did.

 

[Non-Expert!]

zithro+chloro no longer being given as a standard here. they're using kaletra* +remdesivir. ICU working on everyone prone once they have SoB. Some more people with seizures, confusion so we are back to quick scan of the brain prior to brief sampling at autopsy. (drug changes due to numbers from UW/hutch)

no more to update - numbers still going up. should calm this coming week, it'll have been over two weeks since stay-home orders then.

*wrong, tocilizumab, not kaletra

also: med shortage - propofol, fent, 'pams, and morphine

Are any of you med experts cynical about this "curve?" By that I mean, what is going to happen after THE curve has flattened and a small minority of a large population has succumbed?

Then what? Is there going to be a cycle of smaller curves, and shutdowns (like hot-cold) until this virus gets bored and mutates into something more benign, or can't find any suceptible people in a crowd of pre-exposed ones?

Because it seems like this curve flattening is merely putting off the inevitable. I totally get it though, it is about managing the epidemic by drawing it out. But they make it sound like it will stop in August.

Any other scenarios?

 

[feral cat #6385]

Hey is anybody starting to lose weight from:

a) restaurant food being (literally) off the table?
b) needing to ration every can of beans that crosses your threshold?
c) only "some" of every food item to go around during meals?
d) not being able to get together with friends and family for potlucks and coffee and high-calorie cake?
e) boredom-induced cleaning and organizing binges?
f) increased cleaning due to the sheer number of people in the house 24 hrs a day?
g) more rest?

Just wondering.

Lack of appetite. I only eat 1 meal a day now.

 

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Amazing. Even as the coronavirus crisis continues to affect Germany, hospitals are being closed.

https://archive.is/l5TWt#selection-1414.0-1414.3

【魚拓】Hospital closures continue in Germany despite COVID-19 pandemic - World Socialist Web Site

https://www.wsws.org:443/en/articles/2020/04/02/germ-a02.html - 2020年4月4日 15:53 - ウェブ魚拓

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Temporary hospitals are being set up.. while permanent hospitals serving small communities are being closed.

You would think that the people behind the 'elite' that rules over Germany would have some shame about this. But why should they? They need to spend government money on important things, like building nuclear-armed submarines for their masters, not hospitals serving rural areas. What better time to shut down hospitals than a time that they can bar protests?

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Gas is $1.99 from what I saw. Holy shit. If you could, fill up your car or gas tank.

$1.99?

Dude, I got it for $1.39 when I poked my head out of the gopher hole a week ago. And yes, I did buy it. The truck is a thirsty bitch, took 34 gallons. Worth it. Also filled up three 5 gallon cans with Stabil 365 in them to keep the gas fresh until this blows over. And put 10 in the car the same day.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Captain Crozier https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1246089082876366848

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Get cucked lmao. I hope the political points he tried to score were worth his career.

 

[New & Improved Username]

Get cucked lmao. I hope the political points he tried to score were worth his career.

If that's what he was looking for (which I don't believe) it probably was worth it if he plans on a political career.

 

[pwnest injun]

$1.99?

Dude, I got it for $1.39 when I poked my head out of the gopher hole a week ago. And yes, I did buy it. The truck is a thirsty bitch, took 34 gallons. Worth it. Also filled up three 5 gallon cans with Stabil 365 in them to keep the gas fresh until this blows over. And put 10 in the car the same day.

At that price, I'm tempted to buy a tanker full and paint Twitter HQ with it!

 

[Rudy Russo]

California Projects Peak Coronavirus Infections in Mid-May, Hospitals…

archived 4 Apr 2020 06:38:01 UTC

archive.li

California is projected to peak in Mid-May.

Statewide, a little over 5000 are scheduled to be deceased in early August.

I suppose that these projections are based on the continuance of the hunker-down orders?

Just F.Y.I.

Then school starts in the fall? Then another deathwave hits?

Anybody have any insights?

No insight, but by June first Im thinking the death count for the country will be 38k.

 

[Rohan Davey]

What the fuck is a landlocked peninsula?

A fjord?

 

[Shaka Brah]

If that's what he was looking for (which I don't believe) it probably was worth it if he plans on a political career.

If he wasn't doing it to add gas to the Dem narrative, what did he think he would possibly gain? He didn't go through the chain of command at all so he's going to get reamed by his superiors, discharged as soon as this is over, and could even get in worse trouble since he communicated readiness info about a US ship.

 

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If he wasn't doing it to add gas to the Dem narrative, what did he think he would possibly gain? He didn't go through the chain of command

lol I love that you consider a officer of your military trying to actually protect his sailors from dying to no good purpose by going to senior military officials who had to consider whether it could impact their future salary at Lockheed Martin rather than jerking himself off through his immediate superiors as a suspicious politically motivated move

 

[Rudy Russo]

archive of the ABC7 NY twitter post:

https://archive.vn/7xtDf

Yeah, NYC going to be dying for a long time.

 

[2021Murder]

On the retail front, it was strongly implied we were going to limit in store shopping to "essentials only" and anything else will be curbside pickup. From what I understand, this will only be at stores in hard hit areas though. It will probably be a shitshow.

I'm still coming to term with being so close to the epicenter. I knew it was inevitable, but it's still scary. We're only allowing 20% capacity now. There is an armed police officer in front of the store. Aisles are all marked one way and plexiglass barriers were put up for the cash registers. I am not sure if every store is getting this or if it's just in this state.

Second coworker was diagnosed positive yesterday. The first case actually just returned to work. She was an asymptomatic carrier, but she couldn't return until she tested negative, I believe she was out for about 3 weeks. She only got tested because someone in her household had it, she probably wouldn't have known otherwise.

The store will be providing masks to employees. It seems like only yesterday that we weren't allowed to wear them at all, now they're giving them to us. I appreciate it though.

It's up in the air whether or not we'll have any in stock to sell customers any time soon. Initially we were diverting shipments of them to healthcare workers, but I was told we may atleast be getting some surgical style masks eventually. I'll believe it when I see it though.

Miracle of miracles, we got a palette of hand sanitizer. It's been almost a month since we've had full sized bottles. Alcohol came in as well. These are the two items that have been the most scarce.

Morale is a bit all over the place, I think it seems pretty good though. It's hard to tell, because bitching about work is a sport with most retail workers even during good times.

Have they cut hours? I asked one of the kids at the grocery store and they said they went from doing 8 hours a day to 7 but they bumped pay up a little to make up for it.

 

[rocknrollmartian]

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archive of the ABC7 NY twitter post:

https://archive.vn/7xtDf

Yeah, NYC going to be dying for a long time.

Holy shit. Are there gonna be 200K deaths in NYC alone?