The Mayor there is not fucking around. He looks like an undertaker at this point. He may as well be one with the amount of death he is about to face in the next week. He said any nonessential businesses still open will get a city ordinance to have their water and power shut-off. I'm assuming they might get one warning to vacate, but maybe not. The cops might just roll up and shut your water and power off.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
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Okay here's some scary news out of China.
China reported only 3,000 deaths but there are two funeral homes that are receiving tens of thousands of urns delivered int he last week. Also 21M cell phone accounts have been canceled in the last 3 months in China.
Not good.
I think it's time for a stand alone thread.
I was just thinking that.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Done. Found as many as I could. If you see any stranglers let me know and I'll move em.
As some of you read in a previous post, my sister has COVID-19. She is almost over with her city mandated self-quarantine (in Austin, TX) of 14 days, but still has a cough. She's one of those lucky ones that had mild symptoms. She works as an occupational therapist with some multi state huge corporate health care company. She's pretty irritated at them right now. She had to use up all her PTO and sick days for the year (she gets 10 PTO a year, which seems low to me), which means if she takes off any vacation for 2020 in the holidays or whatever, she won't get paid. She also says they "frown upon" any non PTO days off, whatever that means.
Anyway, even more irritatingly this giant corporate conglomeration keeps calling her and asking her when she is going back to work. She doesn't want to go back if she still has it. Apparently the CDC is telling people that once they are done with the 14 days and showing no symptoms, they should be free of it and to not take any more COVID-19 tests to be sure she is free and clear. She (and I do too) thinks this is utter bullshit. She could still have it and be asymptomatic. Plus she works in health care with many elderly patients with underlying physical conditions. If they are doing this to all positive tested health care workers, this is ludicrous.
She is probably going to go back to work in a week once her cough is gone, regardless of retests. Initially the CDC wanted health care workers to not only retest once, but also test again to make sure it wasn't a false positive. Apparently they got rid of those rules, which I find nuts.
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Started day with sleeplessness and allergies. Now a low grade fever. Great.
You probably got it from your bored daughter's friends.
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She didnt end up going anywhere. Probably neighbor kids.
I never took any of the numbers or reports from China as factual.
I rolled my eyes when people talked about how China has "flattened the curve".
I don't understand this push-pull between Trump and Cuomo about quarantining the tristate area. I understand why Cuomo wouldn't want to do this, but he's on tv saying that it's a "deceleration of civil war" and "the people won't stand for it." I think most people outside of that area would be very much for it. Why all planes haven't been grounded out of JFK and LaGuardia is beyond me. Cuomo is apparently mad at the gov of Rhode Island for having the National Guard turn away all cars with NY plates, but why not? I totally get that.
EDIT: here's an article about the legality of it. I think Cuomo is full of shit if he thinks he has legal authority over Trump on this. Not sure what he is on about w/ "deceleration of civil war" either. NY'ers don't have (legal) guns and they all hate Trump anyways. Plus some of them would be sympathetic to getting quarantined off for a few weeks at least.
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In MA the State Police is monitoring Cape Code for all NY license plates and mandating them to self isolate for 2 weeks.
My post above is probably an overreaction. I forgot how many people die in a city with 11 million people a month without COVID 19.
My liberal friends all hate Trump and are starting to love Cuomo, but on this particular issue I get where Trump is coming from. It's straight out of the Outbreak type movie playbooks. I don't think they won't get supplies (which is what Cuomo is probably worried about) but I don't understand why having a National Guard barrier between these states (and grounded all airplanes in/out of them) for a few weeks is a bad thing. You can let essential supplies and trucks and commerce through. Just no state-to-state non official business standard autos (w/o prior approval).
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Because 'freedom' and all that jazz. I don't think people realize just how serious the situation is. I get that's all the news talks about 24/7 but what people don't realize is the more they cooperate, the quicker this situation goes away. And because of slow reaction from states like FL, I think we have the whole month of April and May to get this under control.
Half the positive cases in the USA are in New York state. Cuomo is crazy if he doesn't think the rest of the country wouldn't support a quarantine on them. Trump clarified that they would let trucks and essential supplies in, but it would mean limited state-to-state movement.
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Colorado was 5th in cases and is now 13th.
Detroit, New Orleans, and Florida shot up it seems like. Florida as discussed earlier.
Wonder if Mississippi will have any problem since the governor has no intentions of shutting down anything, correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaking of which, I keep reading stuff saying that Cuomo could make a late push for a Presidential run. Is that realistically possible given how late we are into primary season, or are people just that butthurt over Biden most likely becoming the nominee?
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I've heard this too. I don't think it's possible unless something catastrophic happens to Biden (beyond him being senile). You're going to thwart democracy and irritate the large swaths of African American and older voters that enthusiastically voted for Biden. I do think Trump has a big leg up on him right now. People can criticize him all they want, but the optics are Trump looks presidential while Biden talks to people from a crappy webcam from his house. But I think the economy and what happens with the COVID stuff will be enormous come around October. We'll see.
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Guys, the numbers are CONFIRMED cases, remember. Testing is still shit in the entire US, so the NY numbers just mean they're doing more testing. A useless, impossible to maintain quarantine would just syphon off resources needed for more useful stuff.
Oh, sorry. Yeah without work and my walks I would probably go insane. I can only spend so much time at home each day.
Also I wondered when this would become it's own separate thread.
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Test results came back from wife's co-worker. She was positive for COVID-19. So wife is probably almost over it, and I've just begun.
Best of luck you guys. Hope there's no complications and it breezes by.
We're supposed to get a call from health dept today, and we were told most likely we will be quarantined in house for 2 weeks.
Are you getting tested or are you just going to assume you have it and wait it out for two weeks?
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