The Coronavirus Thread

[Hermit]

Where is the conspiracy?

In your head.

[Svartalf]

The Italians may be champ, but the best crises are still Dutch crises.

[Tero]

Jack Ma sends us test kits
https://twitter.com/JackMa/status/1239388330405449728

the masks are useless unless you have been fitted for a dust mask. I used to have the test once a year. The rubber bands are stapled to the mask, and we used to pull them a little tighter to pass that test. The test sent particles at you and detected air flow.

[Tero]

NYT thinks your phone might carry viruses. You put it away to clean up stuff and wash hands, then took the dirty phone out of your pocket, getting your hands dirty again.

NYT
■ As part of restrictions across Europe, Germany will close its borders with several neighbors.
■ A Tennessee man who became a subject of national scorn after stockpiling more than 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer donated the supplies. The state has begun a price-gouging investigation.
■ Movie theaters had their worst weekend in two decades. Domestic ticket sales totaled $55.3 million, a 44 percent drop from the previous weekend.
What to know: Here’s how to practice social distancing and clean your phone. The Times is providing free access to much of our coverage, and our Coronavirus Briefing newsletter, like all of our newsletters, is free.

[Scot Dutchy]

The Italians may be champ, but the best crises are still Dutch crises.

[Tero]

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1239419341592035331
McDonalds
Burger King
Pizza Hut
Duncan Donuts
Wendy's
Taco Bell
Subway

None give their workers paid sick leave.
They should be required to post this sign on their doors:

"Because we don't give our workers paid sick leave, they may be sick when they serve you."

[Tero]

no sick leave

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[NineBerry]

Just make it the law

[Tero]

Socialism! Bernie stuff!

[Cunt]

In other countries like Germany and the Netherregions, the number of infected people is also rising exponentially.

I saw a report that Deutschbank deregistered as a company. That sounds pretty alarming.

[Scot Dutchy]

Exponentially? We had a fifth more cases yesterday and four deaths which were very elderly suffering other complaints. Not quite exponential?

[Tero]

My wife went shopping and got flour and carrots.

Frozen pizza seems to be a popular item to stock up with.

My brother in law flies abroad several times a year. He had several flights canceled. So in his first year of retirement fully (he spent the year after he turned 65 as doctor in New Zealand) he can't stop traveling. He is driving here from Minnesota "just to visit" and see his mom who is 92. She won't talk to him on the phone unless she has a medical isdue. She does not talk to anyone on a phone. Well, my son a few months back, to announce his wedding plan. This is the only grandparent my kids ever met.

[NineBerry]

Exponentially? We had a fifth more cases yesterday and four deaths which were very elderly suffering other complaints. Not quite exponential?

20% more cases every day is exponential growth.

This is the graph for Germany:

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[Cunt]

Are people who have had the virus being used, now that they are immune?

What I mean is, if a nurse contracted Covid19, then recovered, would they put that nurse back on staff, as an 'immune-nurse'?

Funny side-note, I decided to pick up some more rice. I always eat brown rice. All the white rice, jasmine rice and minute rice was gone. The only thing left was the brown rice. I got plenty.

Lentils were untouched as well. High-protein, stores a long time dry and has a mild, pleasant flavour.

[Svartalf]

I went for groceries, and could not get all I wanted. Although the street is near deserted, which is most unusual, I had never seen so many people in the store, and many areas had been thoroughly plundered. No more TP, no more milk, rice and pasta vanished... The French are morons, they had been warned to make normal buys to ensure there would be normal provisioning... they did not do as told.