Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Ethereal Eye]

I was recently put at a new job at a steam plant of sorts, and they have the most ridiculous shit. They are sending anyone home who was near a Covid-positive employee for at least 15 minutes. People are getting sent home for two weeks in waves of 5-15. They are bitching about work being behind as a result, and are wanting people to work on Sunday. The other shitty part is their new stupid rule, which makes you wear a mask when you are around people period, even if you are six feet away from everybody. Some of these plants are pussywhipped into total fear and hysteria already, and that is shitty considering their involvement in the powergrid.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Don't make me like a tax.

Widescale working from home has been an unmitigated disaster. There has been so much that has been missed and overlooked because people were taken out of a centralized office environment. Communications broke down and collaborative efforts have struggled. You'd think they would have figured out their automated phone trees and voicemailboxes by now but they haven't.

I swear if I hear one more middle-aged woman office drone humblebrag about how much more productive she is at home because she is "getting all the work done early" I'll lose it. It's real easy to get your work done ahead of schedule if a significant part of your tasks are ignored because nobody can get ahold of you to fix all the little overlooked things that always go wrong.

As a guy who is consistently at the pointy end of things in the field, this year has been tough. Worst working experience of my life because all of the supporting cast are even more useless than usual. Guess who gets the honor of picking up the slack.

@ColtWalker1847 - From what it sounds like, the workflow you're involved with isn't too conducive for work at home. In that case, I can understand your opinion and your frustration in dealing with the resulting mess. I hope it gets better for you qucikly and your area doesn't impose new stay home orders.

If it makes you feel better, consider the idea of that tax being a slippery slope in that it could be used to open the door to tax workers as a way to fund UBI for those claiming to be "different-abled neruodivergent" people who find working to be too ablist.

Elon Musk said there's something fishy about the Covid-19 tests.

He's not all wrong. One of the state's pro athletes has had an initial COVID test come back positive at least twice that I know of only to have all subsequent tests come back negative. That always seemed peculiar because COVID can't just disappear in a day even with the best known treatments for it -- at least if what the experts have been telling us all year is accurate.

I think that's the biggest frustration for normies. There's too much COVID-related stuff that seems fishy at face value and there's too much conflicting information that those in authority refuse to, or simply don't, clarify without being political about it.

 

[afternoon_tea]

I mentioned months ago that I had a few friends whose mental health I've been worried about during the lockdowns. Yesterday one of them committed suicide. She hadn't left her apartment since March, she was convinced there was no hope and we are all going to die one by one of this stupid bat flu and nothing was ever going to get better.

And I hate how you're not allowed to talk about how the lockdowns are effecting people's mental health without someone chiming in how it's totally worth it though because you're saving grandma from the bat flu! Only covid deaths matter! People whose lives are destroyed by the lockdowns don't count. Who cares if you can't feed your kids or are losing your home or having your mental health destroyed?

I hate everything about the way this pandemic has been handled. Even if the coof was twice as deadly than it is hysteria and panic and are not a good way to handle a crisis and only make things worse long term. The over the top fear mongering from the media and political figures is disgusting. It's time for cooler heads to prevail, it's so destructive to whip people up into hysteria like this.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I mentioned months ago that I had a few friends whose mental health I've been worried about during the lockdowns. Yesterday one of them committed suicide. She hadn't left her apartment since March, she was convinced there was no hope and we are all going to die one by one of this stupid bat flu and nothing was ever going to get better.

And I hate how you're not allowed to talk about how the lockdowns are effecting people's mental health without someone chiming in how it's totally worth it though because you're saving grandma from the bat flu! Only covid deaths matter! People whose lives are destroyed by the lockdowns don't count. Who cares if you can't feed your kids or are losing your home or having your mental health destroyed?

I hate everything about the way this pandemic has been handled. Even if the coof was twice as deadly than it is hysteria and panic and are not a good way to handle a crisis and only make things worse long term. The over the top fear mongering from the media and political figures is disgusting. It's time for cooler heads to prevail, it's so destructive to whip people up into hysteria like this.

Really, the only solution is to shut people who talk like that down. Straight up tell them 'This fucking lockdown killed a friend of mine. Shut your trap unless you want to fucking fight about it.'

And when they gasp and clutch their pearls and snivel, do not give a goddamn inch.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Stuff like this is why I am not taking the flu seriously.

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2020-11-10/staff-at-southmead-hospital-under-investigation-after-breaking-social-distancing-rules-on-a-night-out

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

So super goblin mega-groid Lori Lightfoot declared a stay at home order for Thanksgiving... and then went to a political rally.

Ace of Spades has the deets.

Next motherfucker I hear make some faggot remark about 'superspreading', I'm going to super-spread their asscheeks around the toe of my shoe.

God, I hate that bitch. I'm so fucking glad I don't live in Chicago any more.

She's a cringey politician who needs a detractor thread. She's turning Chicago into Detroit 2.

 

[General Disarray]

Governors are using up the CARES act funding before it expires which is, IMO, why they're tripling down on this shit. The governor of my state spent CARES money to get the overflow facility ready in the Spring, and it sat unused. They spent more money on it this fall in more "preparation" to open it, and did so for the "spike" about a month ago. It's a fucking huge facility - there are EIGHT people there now. HOSPITALS ARE OVERFLOWING people!!

It's all a fucking money grabbing scam just as Dems are wont to do. In the same breath Evers says he's going to ask Big Daddy Government for more money for small businesses. Also did you know that almost 50 percent of the small businesses that received CARES act funding are black/women owned? Hmm. That statement right there speaks volumes.

eta: regarding the article about Newsom attending that fancy birthday party, this is how they describe Newsom's wife:
“He and the first partner paid for their own meals.”
FIRST PARTNER. Fucking California, man.

 

[lurk_moar]

People in my building are still having motherfucking visitors over. Ever heard of skype, facetime, or the motherfucking telephone?

Jesus Christ, every single patient who walks through the ER is covid positive.

Meanwhile, I still can barely smell or taste months after getting infected by a dumbfuck who just had to go to the fucking bar because I was too motherfucking stupid to transfer some of his blood into a venous blood gas tube before spinning it. I got covid because my N95 fit too loosely because my fat ass lost too much weight. Everything still smells and tastes funny four months and counting after a very, very mild infection.

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

My health insurance company sent me a thin-ass cotton mask in the mail with their logo stamped on it, with some stupid card telling me how to stay healthy and stuff, at the bottom in tiny print it basically says, "this mask doesn't do shit"

The hospital I work at came down with a "no cloth masks" edict. All staff have to wear the paper surgical masks.

A week later, they gave out free cloth masks with the hospital's logo on it to all staff.

 

[ndnmdasma]

I mentioned months ago that I had a few friends whose mental health I've been worried about during the lockdowns. Yesterday one of them committed suicide. She hadn't left her apartment since March, she was convinced there was no hope and we are all going to die one by one of this stupid bat flu and nothing was ever going to get better.

And I hate how you're not allowed to talk about how the lockdowns are effecting people's mental health without someone chiming in how it's totally worth it though because you're saving grandma from the bat flu! Only covid deaths matter! People whose lives are destroyed by the lockdowns don't count. Who cares if you can't feed your kids or are losing your home or having your mental health destroyed?

I hate everything about the way this pandemic has been handled. Even if the coof was twice as deadly than it is hysteria and panic and are not a good way to handle a crisis and only make things worse long term. The over the top fear mongering from the media and political figures is disgusting. It's time for cooler heads to prevail, it's so destructive to whip people up into hysteria like this.

Why are you posting this on the trans bullying to death website? I hope both of you die.

 

[Aqua Panda]

So the upcoming job cuts in municipal services and public schools are going to be nuts.

I got a buddy who is working on the budget for next year in my state. We are talking 30%+ cuts to most areas and some whole departments shut down. Tax revenues have been devastated and major shortfalls have to be covered. (Even with Biden as President, it's looking unlikely the Federal government is going to bail out the states.)

A whole lot of people who thought they had secure government jobs and/or teachers/professors who thought they'd be untouchable are about to get a really rude wake up call.

I'm planning and prepping for a second major market correction like this last March. Probably worse as the effects on state budgets will become more clear at we get closer to tax day.

As doomer as this sounds, there may be a silver lining. The real estate market has become rather inflated again. If you know you're secure in your job and have the funds, it may be really worth buying after prices fall. Especially with current interest rates.

P,S, Just don't pull a DSP and buy a overvalued property right before the market falls out.

 

[Dave.]

Ran 9 miles of hill running yesterday and 10 today with no mask on and it was glorious. Going to go out again tomorrow morning so I can hit 50 miles ran this week. Of course today the only person who made that wear a mask hand gesture was some fat boomer fuck waddling along the trail.

It's so sickening there are people who'd rather shave years off of their lives endlessly worrying about this bullshit disease, and even more sickening they want to drag us in with their little slow death by anxiety death cult.

In a piece of good news though the local ski resort is going to open tomorrow. Having a 2 day delay for your opening due to employees having Covid isn't the worst thing in 2020.

It’s always fat dyed hair slobs who do this shit. I was at work in the break area where you’re not required to wear a mask and some guy who looked like he weighed 450 lbs made the mask gesture at me. Everyone else was apathetic.

 

[Carnavoyeur]

Governors are using up the CARES act funding before it expires which is, IMO, why they're tripling down on this shit. The governor of my state spent CARES money to get the overflow facility ready in the Spring, and it sat unused. They spent more money on it this fall in more "preparation" to open it, and did so for the "spike" about a month ago. It's a fucking huge facility - there are EIGHT people there now. HOSPITALS ARE OVERFLOWING people!!

It's all a fucking money grabbing scam just as Dems are wont to do. In the same breath Evers says he's going to ask Big Daddy Government for more money for small businesses. Also did you know that almost 50 percent of the small businesses that received CARES act funding are black/women owned? Hmm. That statement right there speaks volumes.

eta: regarding the article about Newsom attending that fancy birthday party, this is how they describe Newsom's wife:
“He and the first partner paid for their own meals.”
FIRST PARTNER. Fucking California, man.

LA County is using a couple million of their CARES money to pay fucking PR firms for COVID messaging

LA County using CARES Act money to partially pay PR firms for COVID-19 messaging; now totaling $2.9 million

Los Angeles County has extended agreements with two PR firms hired to guide the county’s COVID-19 messaging and is using federal CARES Act money to offset part of the cost of their contracts, which now total $2.9 million, according to documents obtained exclusively by FOX 11.

www.foxla.com

They said it's fine because FEMA agreed to reimburse them. When? After hundreds of small businesses are shuttered and bankrupted, probably.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Well shit, I guess Amy Acton is an evil heartless nazi now. I mean, that's what happened when Trump said basically the same thing, right?

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/ne...ear-more-harmful-than-coronavirus/6277868002/

Former Ohio health chief Dr. Amy Acton: Fear is more harmful than the coronavirus​

Jackie Borchardt
Cincinnati Enquirer



COLUMBUS – Former Ohio health department director Dr. Amy Acton is encouraging Ohioans to "dig deep" one more time as the state experiences its greatest amount of coronavirus spread yet.

"We face a contagion fare more insidious than this virus and that is fear," Acton says in a new video. "Fear paralyzes us and it leaves us turning inward and away from one another. It prevents us from being there to support each other. That’s exactly what we need to do right now."

Acton stepped down from the director post in June and left the DeWine administration in August. She's now the director of kindness for the Columbus Foundation's Kind Columbus initiative. The video was published Friday to mark World Kindness Day.

Acton has given only one media interview since her departure. She told The New Yorker magazine last month the country needs "a long-term emotional survival strategy" to get through the pandemic.
In the video, Acton urged Ohioans to support each other during the next few months, especially health care workers who are feeling the strain of greater spread.


"Please, let's commit to act on love, not hate," Acton said. "Let us act on kindness and not fear. Being courageous – and we do need to be courageous now – does not mean that you don't have fear, but it means you keep going anyways."

Acton earned praise and fandom for her guidance and daily public presence in the early days of Ohio's pandemic response. She also was criticized for early projections of the virus spread that are only materializing now and for health orders she signed that closed businesses and schools in March.

DeWine's pick to replace Acton turned down the job citing harassment directed toward Acton, which included armed protesters demonstrating outside her home and an anti-abortion group publishing an interview with her estranged mother that questioned her mental health.

Ohio is now in its third surge of the virus, with a record 7,101 new cases and 3,024 current hospitalizations reported Thursday.
In the video, Acton said the coming months will be difficult and we "must make sacrifices this holiday season to safeguard all of the holidays to come." She urged people to wear masks, keep physical distance from others and wash hands – each like a layer of swiss cheese that combined are more effective than any one act.

Acton said kindness is yet another layer that will help: "Don those capes, don your mask, don kindness and we will go on this journey with you."

 

[The Nothingness]

So in my great state of North Carolina, our recently reelected governor has made an EO that limits indoor gatherings of 10 people or less. But when you read the FAQ page, what is and is not subject to this 10 person limit makes no sense. And the big question, of course, is how will this be enforced? I'm guessing this will result in people calling the police on their neighbors if they see more than 10 people who are not family members that live together. This is just seems like a further way to divide people.

 

[General Disarray]

So the upcoming job cuts in municipal services and public schools are going to be nuts.

I got a buddy who is working on the budget for next year in my state. We are talking 30%+ cuts to most areas and some whole departments shut down. Tax revenues have been devastated and major shortfalls have to be covered. (Even with Biden as President, it's looking unlikely the Federal government is going to bail out the states.)

A whole lot of people who thought they had secure government jobs and/or teachers/professors who thought they'd be untouchable are about to get a really rude wake up call.

I'm planning and prepping for a second major market correction like this last March. Probably worse as the effects on state budgets will become more clear at we get closer to tax day.

As doomer as this sounds, there may be a silver lining. The real estate market has become rather inflated again. If you know you're secure in your job and have the funds, it may be really worth buying after prices fall. Especially with current interest rates.

P,S, Just don't pull a DSP and buy a overvalued property right before the market falls out.

I am interviewing remotely for a city position this week lol. I've worked at City Hall before, so I have no expectations I just want to do my job and leave. The pay and benefits are just too good to pass up and once you're in, unless you quit you're basically there until retirement. The position I left when Covid struck was at a table manufacturer whose primary clients are schools (cafeteria tables; mostly custom made, can't wait to see how their receipts fare given the upcoming school budgets) and I only did so because like many, I was afraid and took two buses to my employer, and hadn't worked there long enough to be eligible for health insurance. In retrospect I am glad I did considering the tenuous future I foresee for them, and maybe Covid has turned out to be a positive for me in that regard.

 

[PaleTay]

So the upcoming job cuts in municipal services and public schools are going to be nuts.

I got a buddy who is working on the budget for next year in my state. We are talking 30%+ cuts to most areas and some whole departments shut down. Tax revenues have been devastated and major shortfalls have to be covered. (Even with Biden as President, it's looking unlikely the Federal government is going to bail out the states.)

A whole lot of people who thought they had secure government jobs and/or teachers/professors who thought they'd be untouchable are about to get a really rude wake up call.

I'm planning and prepping for a second major market correction like this last March. Probably worse as the effects on state budgets will become more clear at we get closer to tax day.

As doomer as this sounds, there may be a silver lining. The real estate market has become rather inflated again. If you know you're secure in your job and have the funds, it may be really worth buying after prices fall. Especially with current interest rates.

P,S, Just don't pull a DSP and buy a overvalued property right before the market falls out.

I don't know that the housing market will ever crash, depending on where you live. If we look at Canada, and a couple European countries, the solution is a few million more rapefugees. It's possible that Biden will try to do the same.

 

[JosephStalin]

Well shit, I guess Amy Acton is an evil heartless nazi now. I mean, that's what happened when Trump said basically the same thing, right?

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/ne...ear-more-harmful-than-coronavirus/6277868002/

Former Ohio health chief Dr. Amy Acton: Fear is more harmful than the coronavirus​

Jackie Borchardt
Cincinnati Enquirer



COLUMBUS – Former Ohio health department director Dr. Amy Acton is encouraging Ohioans to "dig deep" one more time as the state experiences its greatest amount of coronavirus spread yet.

"We face a contagion fare more insidious than this virus and that is fear," Acton says in a new video. "Fear paralyzes us and it leaves us turning inward and away from one another. It prevents us from being there to support each other. That’s exactly what we need to do right now."

Acton stepped down from the director post in June and left the DeWine administration in August. She's now the director of kindness for the Columbus Foundation's Kind Columbus initiative. The video was published Friday to mark World Kindness Day.

Acton has given only one media interview since her departure. She told The New Yorker magazine last month the country needs "a long-term emotional survival strategy" to get through the pandemic.
In the video, Acton urged Ohioans to support each other during the next few months, especially health care workers who are feeling the strain of greater spread.


"Please, let's commit to act on love, not hate," Acton said. "Let us act on kindness and not fear. Being courageous – and we do need to be courageous now – does not mean that you don't have fear, but it means you keep going anyways."

Acton earned praise and fandom for her guidance and daily public presence in the early days of Ohio's pandemic response. She also was criticized for early projections of the virus spread that are only materializing now and for health orders she signed that closed businesses and schools in March.

DeWine's pick to replace Acton turned down the job citing harassment directed toward Acton, which included armed protesters demonstrating outside her home and an anti-abortion group publishing an interview with her estranged mother that questioned her mental health.

Ohio is now in its third surge of the virus, with a record 7,101 new cases and 3,024 current hospitalizations reported Thursday.
In the video, Acton said the coming months will be difficult and we "must make sacrifices this holiday season to safeguard all of the holidays to come." She urged people to wear masks, keep physical distance from others and wash hands – each like a layer of swiss cheese that combined are more effective than any one act.

Acton said kindness is yet another layer that will help: "Don those capes, don your mask, don kindness and we will go on this journey with you."

No, bitch. Not sacrificing anything. Only wearing a mask to get into certain places. Not getting tested. Not washing my mask. You aren't going ANYWHERE with me. Only an idiot believes ANYTHING said in the media by the government or those allied with it. No cred, no trust. Eat me.


Here's the latest from the county I live in, continuing the fuckover of a bunch of breadwinners.

WEEK'S CASES HIT 527 AS CORONAVIRUS CASES CONTINUE TO SURGE

• Up 50 percent in three weeks

Monterey County may be subject to the strictest social distancing and economic shutdown rules in the state, but new cases continue to climb here and this week reached 527, up more than 50 percent from the 350 cases during the week that ended Oct. 24.

The increase — 80 percent of which is happening in seven of the county's 32 zip codes — promises to keep Monterey County in the Purple Tier under the state's economic shutdown scheme for the indefinite future, which means local restaurants and other businesses and their employees are facing not only a severely limited Thanksgiving season, they may still be closed or seriously hindered as far as sales and revenue are concerned through Christmas.

Meanwhile, the county health department and the board of supervisors seem barely to be aware of the worsening epidemic in Salinas and the Salinas Valley as they continue to rely on things like "partnering with community-based agencies" and "grass roots outreach efforts" instead of imposing new social distancing rules or stepping up enforcement of existing ones in the county's hotspots. (THEY DON''T CARE. They always get their paychecks and don't care if anyone else does or not. And Monterey County wants their property taxes, whether you can pay them or not. - JS)

According to data from the health department, of this week's 527 new cases, 406 were in Salinas and the Salinas Valley, while 72 were in the Monterey Peninsula, including 38 in Seaside, 10 in Marina, eight in Monterey and Pacific Grove, five in Carmel area (93923), two in Carmel Valley and none in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Big Sur or Pebble Beach. There was one more case in an unspecified Peninsula location.

The county's surge raises its 7-day average daily case rate per 100,000 residents to 16.2 — more than double the 7.0 needed for additional parts of our economy to be allowed to reopen.

There were 4,840 tests for the coronavirus completed among county residents during the week. Since 527 of them were positive, Monterey County's current positivity rate is 10.89 percent; statewide, that number is 3.4 percent. (And this is why I have no intention of being tested. - JS) There were eight coronavirus-related fatalities in the county this week, the health department said, bringing the total to 108 (Over EIGHT months! - JS) and making our fatality rate .0002325, or 232.5 people per million. Twenty more residents with coronavirus infections were hospitalized during the week, and the latest inpatient counts we have are four at CHOMP, 25 at SVMH and 14 at Natividad. (Each of these hospitals has over 200 beds. - JS)

For details about Monterey County's shutdown status, as reported by the California Department of Public Health, click here. To see the most up-to-date charts and tables from the county health department, click here. Below, you can also find the updated versions of our charts showing coronavirus infections countywide and in the Monterey Peninsula, along with the data for hospitalizations and our chart breaking down Monterey County's coronavirus cases and infection rates by zip code. Please check these charts and tables for the latest data on coronavirus cases in your community. (I'm not checking shit. No use to. They'll just keep fucking people over anyway, - JS)

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

People in my building are still having motherfucking visitors over. Ever heard of skype, facetime, or the motherfucking telephone?

Maybe they just aren't afraid anymore?
Maybe they are tired of this shit.

It’s always fat dyed hair slobs who do this shit. I was at work in the break area where you’re not required to wear a mask and some guy who looked like he weighed 450 lbs made the mask gesture at me. Everyone else was apathetic.

I had this "wolf among sheep" moment the other day at the grocery store. I walked in sans mask, nobody said a damn thing (even though most of the store was, surprisingly, masked); but this one older lady looked at me like she was staring at a vampire or some shit. Eyes wide, stopped in her tracks, just staring at me with a quivering upper lip as I menacingly ...grabbed my produce and walked off.

Like what the fuck? Am I supposed to feel bad, or should I just laugh and enjoy my young, healthy body while I still have it?

 

[Vault Boy]

So the upcoming job cuts in municipal services and public schools are going to be nuts.

I got a buddy who is working on the budget for next year in my state. We are talking 30%+ cuts to most areas and some whole departments shut down. Tax revenues have been devastated and major shortfalls have to be covered. (Even with Biden as President, it's looking unlikely the Federal government is going to bail out the states.)

A whole lot of people who thought they had secure government jobs and/or teachers/professors who thought they'd be untouchable are about to get a really rude wake up call.

I'm planning and prepping for a second major market correction like this last March. Probably worse as the effects on state budgets will become more clear at we get closer to tax day.

As doomer as this sounds, there may be a silver lining. The real estate market has become rather inflated again. If you know you're secure in your job and have the funds, it may be really worth buying after prices fall. Especially with current interest rates.

P,S, Just don't pull a DSP and buy a overvalued property right before the market falls out.

Have some rather mixed feelings about that to be honest. On the pragmatic hand, more layoffs might have a more devastating effect on the economy. But on the vindictive hand, seeing so many smug bastards get the rug pulled from beneath them would somewhat amuse me.

Months of their righteousness have worn thin on me, so let them have a taste of the hell they helped create.