Wuhan Coronavirus: Lockdowns, Quarantines, Cancellations

[simulated goat]

I don't know if this is a MidWest thing, but I've noticed that whenever drivers here go onto a closed off/deserted road, they suddenly turn into Mario-fucking-Andretti. As if they've been waiting their whole lives to live out their Need for Speed fantasies and figure they can finally do so because there are no cops around or rules forbidding them. You hear "White MidWesterner" and you think "honor system rules lawyer", the kind of people who'd follow the law to a fault even if God himself were looking the other way. But no. The only thing that's keeping Sven and Ole in check is the shame of what their neighbors would think of them if they were ever caught.

Nothing better than a cold six of Leinies or Point and a wide open county road BB to dispel the ennui of living in a trailer park next to the Swiss Colony factory...

 

[FuckedUp]

So do they have Chemistry and other courses that pretty much require labs/in person meetings listed?

My labs will be done online. If people are interested I can talk about them during the semester, but I'm unsure if there's any interest for it.

I emailed my academic advisor about the four math classes I was planning on taking now that I won't have to drive to campus, and she said there's a good chance at least one will just be straight-up cancelled anyway. I guess they're just going to cancel the science classes that have labs now that they know ahead of time, though they could still do the lectures and just make the students do the labs later.

 

[CeleryStalks]

Michigan, USA

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) has, as expected, extended our shutdown to April 30.
All public and private gatherings of any size are prohibited.
Store occupancy will be limited to four customers per 1000 square feet, or 25% of normal fire capacity, depending on the size of the store.
Persons having more than one home may no longer travel between them after tomorrow, Friday, April 10.
Gardening sections of stores are to be closed as nonessential.
Official government website (archive)

Spoiler: Michigan Recap

SHUTDOWNS
Shelter-in-place order and shutdown of everything non-essential from Tuesday March 24 to Monday April 13. Thursday, April 30 (archive). Marijuana shops are open. Tobacco shops are closed (archive). K-12 schools suspended for remainder of year, but alternate learning plans will be implemented (archive) (archive).
The Big Three Auto manufacturers (Ford, GM, Chrysler) are closing all factories in the USA, putting well over 150,000 workers out of work. This figure does not include workers at supplier factories, which will also be obliged to close. (archive) (archive) (archive). They will be making a small number of parts for emergency vehicles, and GM will be helping Ventec, a company that makes ventilators (archive - ventilators). Ford will be helping 3M and GE Healthcare to make respirators and ventilators (archive).

ECONOMY AND MISCELLANY
Unemployment so high that claims must be made on certain days, based on claimant's last name. (archive)
Big Brother is watching, and he approves. Massive phone-tracking project reveals Michigan travel down by 45%, compared to 40% nation-wide (website) (news article archive).

FREE STUFF!
Evictions suspended while the state of emergency lasts (archive)
Water will be turned back on for all households while the crisis lasts (archive)

FREEDOM!
Semi-trucks carrying essential supplies can ignore seasonal road weight limits (archive)
Distilleries can make hand sanitizer without a permit (archive)
Pharmacists may prescribe 60 days of emergency medication and may substitute drugs without physicians approval in event of shortages (archive). Various other medical restrictions loosened (archive).
Restaurants can sell food like grocery stores (archive)

HEALTH CARE
Detroit hospitals are at or near capacity and have reached the point of moving patients out to other hospitals (archive - March 30). (archive of Detroit triage plans)
Detroit-area nurse makes a video (archive)
Detroit hospital staff protest unsafe patient-to-nurse ratio. Asked to leave hospital. Still plan to come back to work. (Their video; news article archive)
Hydroxychloroquine banned by governor's order (archive). Nevermind LOL! Now she's asking the federal government for it and claiming the ban was a typo in the first place. (archive). Detroit-area hospitals are beginning to test the drug's effectiveness as a preventative on first responders and health-care workers (archive).
A look at how many hospital beds, ICU beds, and ventilators Michigan has, by region (archive).

LAW AND ORDER
All localities given more discretion to release prisoners early (archive). The State prison system is not currently releasing inmates early.
Lansing (the capitol) police are not physically responding to minor crimes such as larceny, property damage, and break-ins to unoccupied buildings, including garages. Other police are adopting similar policies (archive) (archive).
Police and first responders testing positive everywhere (archive - Kalamazoo). (archive - Saginaw) (archive - Detroit, April 2).
Detroit police claim crime is down. (archive).
Muskegon police report crime is up (archive).
Breaking the lockdown is a misdemeanor, punishable by $1500 fines and 90 days jail time. Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) has stated there will not be a "ramp up" of police enforcement (archive). The attorney general has left it to local law enforcement to close businesses, as her hands are full with price-gougers and con artists (archive).
The police cannot, at present, pull drivers over simply for being out during the shutdown (archive).

 

[simulated goat]

I do not understand gardening as nonessential. Whatever happened to the Victory Garden? Just adds fuel to conspiracies. I dunno about anyone else, but I'm grabbing some more seeds and stuff this week just in case.

 

[Govt. Shitposting Machine]

How the fuck is gardening considered nonessential? White House is already trying to scare people into not going to supermarkets, how the fuck are people gonna get their food then. Where is the food going to manifest from? My brain is making dialup noises.

 

[Mikoyan]

Michigan, USA

Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) has, as expected, extended our shutdown to April 30.
All public and private gatherings of any size are prohibited.
Store occupancy will be limited to four customers per 1000 square feet, or 25% of normal fire capacity, depending on the size of the store.
Persons having more than one home may no longer travel between them after tomorrow, Friday, April 10.
Gardening sections of stores are to be closed as nonessential.
Official government website (archive)

Spoiler: Michigan Recap

SHUTDOWNS
Shelter-in-place order and shutdown of everything non-essential from Tuesday March 24 to Monday April 13. Thursday, April 30 (archive). Marijuana shops are open. Tobacco shops are closed (archive). K-12 schools suspended for remainder of year, but alternate learning plans will be implemented (archive) (archive).
The Big Three Auto manufacturers (Ford, GM, Chrysler) are closing all factories in the USA, putting well over 150,000 workers out of work. This figure does not include workers at supplier factories, which will also be obliged to close. (archive) (archive) (archive). They will be making a small number of parts for emergency vehicles, and GM will be helping Ventec, a company that makes ventilators (archive - ventilators). Ford will be helping 3M and GE Healthcare to make respirators and ventilators (archive).

ECONOMY AND MISCELLANY
Unemployment so high that claims must be made on certain days, based on claimant's last name. (archive)
Big Brother is watching, and he approves. Massive phone-tracking project reveals Michigan travel down by 45%, compared to 40% nation-wide (website) (news article archive).

FREE STUFF!
Evictions suspended while the state of emergency lasts (archive)
Water will be turned back on for all households while the crisis lasts (archive)

FREEDOM!
Semi-trucks carrying essential supplies can ignore seasonal road weight limits (archive)
Distilleries can make hand sanitizer without a permit (archive)
Pharmacists may prescribe 60 days of emergency medication and may substitute drugs without physicians approval in event of shortages (archive). Various other medical restrictions loosened (archive).
Restaurants can sell food like grocery stores (archive)

HEALTH CARE
Detroit hospitals are at or near capacity and have reached the point of moving patients out to other hospitals (archive - March 30). (archive of Detroit triage plans)
Detroit-area nurse makes a video (archive)
Detroit hospital staff protest unsafe patient-to-nurse ratio. Asked to leave hospital. Still plan to come back to work. (Their video; news article archive)
Hydroxychloroquine banned by governor's order (archive). Nevermind LOL! Now she's asking the federal government for it and claiming the ban was a typo in the first place. (archive). Detroit-area hospitals are beginning to test the drug's effectiveness as a preventative on first responders and health-care workers (archive).
A look at how many hospital beds, ICU beds, and ventilators Michigan has, by region (archive).

LAW AND ORDER
All localities given more discretion to release prisoners early (archive). The State prison system is not currently releasing inmates early.
Lansing (the capitol) police are not physically responding to minor crimes such as larceny, property damage, and break-ins to unoccupied buildings, including garages. Other police are adopting similar policies (archive) (archive).
Police and first responders testing positive everywhere (archive - Kalamazoo). (archive - Saginaw) (archive - Detroit, April 2).
Detroit police claim crime is down. (archive).
Muskegon police report crime is up (archive).
Breaking the lockdown is a misdemeanor, punishable by $1500 fines and 90 days jail time. Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) has stated there will not be a "ramp up" of police enforcement (archive). The attorney general has left it to local law enforcement to close businesses, as her hands are full with price-gougers and con artists (archive).
The police cannot, at present, pull drivers over simply for being out during the shutdown (archive).

I don't usually like to get political here but my grumpy summary was "Look, Joe, I can make the tough calls and be a VP!"

Shit's serious here, no doubt. But come on, let's not get completely exceptional. The now glorious contradiction of 'you can drive up north to go to hike around a state park but you can't go to a cottage you have up there' is also pretty fuckin' weird.

 

[byuu]

Kirov reporting

Zeppelin Operation at Lake Constance
(in German - archive)

The police at Lake Constance will control compliance with the strict rules against infections from the air this week-end.
The police headquarters of Ravensburg announced that police officers will board a zeppelin from Good Friday to Easter Monday to observe where illegal gatherings are forming.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I don't know if this is a MidWest thing, but I've noticed that whenever drivers here go onto a closed off/deserted road, they suddenly turn into Mario-fucking-Andretti.

I know a deputy that had a busy day earlier this week. Pulled over 8 people in a 55 zone. None of them were going slower than 80.

 

[Never Scored]

Persons having more than one home may no longer travel between them after tomorrow, Friday, April 10.

This right here. This is the shit I don't understand. Who the fuck does this protect?

 

[CeleryStalks]

This right here. This is the shit I don't understand. Who the fuck does this protect?

In theory, it protects the rural communities up north from snowbirds and other people fleeing the big cities and bringing Corona-Chan along with them.
Anecdote, which a relation heard from another relation who heard it from a friend who lives up north (I know, I know):
A lot of snowbirds have their water turned off at the street when they go south for the winter. Allegedly, the local water company isn't going to turn water on for anyone coming back north right now.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

Kirov reporting

Zeppelin Operation at Lake Constance
(in German - archive)

Well we all know that Germans and Zeppelins are a good combination:

 

[heathercho]

How the fuck is gardening considered nonessential? White House is already trying to scare people into not going to supermarkets, how the fuck are people gonna get their food then. Where is the food going to manifest from? My brain is making dialup noises.

When you put a bzillion people out of work for literally "just the flu, bro" death tallies (yeah, NYC got hit hard, but that's a cesspool, a good strain of the flu would have wiped them out and classing every death as COVID-19 is fucking weird), you have to justify your behaviour by making people feel like the doom, restrictions and long term consequences were justified.
Typical dictatorship tactics - have people scared they'll starve, cut off their access to alternatives, make the lines long, remove their way of taking care of themselves in all manner, make the threat very, very, very scary so that you see the government is doing a good job protecting you and that their justifications are warranted.

Watch as anti-body testing gets delayed, hand-waved or put off completely (it's already happening). If they test the population for the true spread, they'll find most people have been infected and not known. If you look at patients age and history coming out of countries with relatively low death tolls, it's behaving like the flu - the elderly or very sick are hit hard.
If they do testing like that right now, it will create public rage, because all this draconian lock down mess can't be justified. Sweden have held this belief and I think genuinely, it's the correct belief. South Korea is looking at that belief. I hate Borkland, but they've acted reasonably.

 

[ditto]

Had two of my aussie relatives the only thing wrong with the lockdown is that domestic violence is skyrocketing. No complaints about anything else, despite both being out of work and likely for months.

 

[Trust Nae Fucker]

How long do you give it before stay at home orders are ignored en masse?

In the UK there's already standoffs between sunbathers and whoop whoops (it's da sound of da police).

All very British of course, polite requests to move along and embarrassed stiff upper lip shuffling when the peasants don't comply.

A glint of sunshine and all the Brits are out there on the nearest inch of grass with their disposable barbeques, socks and sandals. Just beat the pasty fuckers to death with their cheap Banana Boat sun cream and be done with it,

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

do not understand gardening as nonessential. Whatever happened to the Victory Garden? Just adds fuel to conspiracies. I dunno about anyone else, but I'm grabbing some more seeds and stuff this week just in case.

How the fuck is gardening considered nonessential? White House is already trying to scare people into not going to supermarkets, how the fuck are people gonna get their food then. Where is the food going to manifest from? My brain is making dialup noises.

Recently, people have been complaining about people going to their local stores such as Lowe's or Home Depot and buying lawn mowers and other ordinary items that don't seem essential on the surface. I imagine the expanded restrictions are in response to this even though I think such restrictions are presently overkill.

However, tonight's evening news featured a mayor who stated on-camera he has no plans to target landscape services mowing customers' lawns in his city. He believes that an e-mail reply from the governor can be interpreted to say that keeping grass cut is an essential service because of city ordinances requiring grass to be kept below a certain height to reduce blight, prevent vermin, etc.

This right here. This is the shit I don't understand. Who the fuck does this protect?

In theory, it protects the rural communities up north from snowbirds and other people fleeing the big cities and bringing Corona-Chan along with them.

Hand in hand with @CeleryStalks' response, rural communities are concerned about potentially-infected people coming from the city and getting sick in their area where they lack the facilities to adequately handle any sort of COVID-19 outbreak. In many rural areas, the medical facilities are more like a country clinic with a "hospital" in or near the county seat. Those needing serious emergency or trauma-level treatment usually need to be airlifted to the nearest big city's hospital.

 

[Radical Cadre]

Furthermore, if someone has the money to buy something even if it is unnecessary, fucking let them buy it. The economy needs every cent it can get right now.

 

[Mrs. Addams]

Welp. California has closed the desert. The dirt bikers are pissed. I went dirt biking once and it was a great way to have fun without being close to anyone.

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If they have to close something, they should go close the fast food places.

 

[NoSpiceLife]

Had two of my aussie relatives the only thing wrong with the lockdown is that domestic violence is skyrocketing. No complaints about anything else, despite both being out of work and likely for months.

Yeah most Aussies are fairly chilled about it (Victorians might be the exception because the whole state is so small), we've done what we've been told to do, besides the normal self-entitled arseholes everyone gets.

The bonus for us, is that being so far from anywhere (as in Australia, not individuals, although it can apply to majority of the States and Territories), means we don't have that much shit to go out and buy anyway, so we're not so obsessed with missing out.

Well besides the 20-29 year old females, who are self-entitled skanks at the best of times, age group with the highest number of cases and it just keeps growing, parents can't keep them at home/they won't stay at home, their instafame 'careers' are too important.

 

[heathercho]

Yeah most Aussies are fairly chilled about it (Victorians might be the exception because the whole state is so small), we've done what we've been told to do, besides the normal self-entitled arseholes everyone gets.

The bonus for us, is that being so far from anywhere (as in Australia, not individuals, although it can apply to majority of the States and Territories), means we don't have that much shit to go out and buy anyway, so we're not so obsessed with missing out.

Well besides the 20-29 year old females, who are self-entitled skanks at the best of times, age group with the highest number of cases and it just keeps growing, parents can't keep them at home/they won't stay at home, their instafame 'careers' are too important.

Disagree.
This country is by far, too cucked. Considering over the past few days, people have been calling for more economic terrorism and house arrest, the days of Australia being anything but a paypiggie for China, are over.

Australians have only been compliant because they think an end will be insight. They won't be that way if this bullshit drags on into eternity. Every time a "95 year old dies, its a tragedy" headline pops up, it pretty much confirms how dumb Australians are.
I was promised young thots of all sexes dead in the streets. They're the demographic that was most infected.
They're not even hospitalised. None of them are on vents in ICU. It's all the diabetic old people from the Ruby Princess.
I hope that Australians realise that to save a few old people now and to save ourselves the discomfort of the coof, we will have made it impossible for people to grow old, self-fund retirement and float around on petri dish cruise liners in the future.
We traded a quick die off for a prolonged death by a thousand coofs.

 

[Kane Lives]

Haven't been posting lately, but for those interested, Malaysia has extended its lockdown for yet another two weeks.

MCO extended until April 28, PM announces (updated)

PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has announced that the movement control order (MCO) will be extended for another two weeks, from April 15 to April 28 to curb the spread of Covid-19.

www.thestar.com.my

One can only imagine how much longer people are willing to put up with this.