Andrast posted:

I'm fine with the current quarantine for myself but even I would start to loving lose it if I had to spend like a year with no face to face contact

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Edit: I guess if they've already booked a large wedding venue they can still go ahead just as long as they stick to the "one person per four square metres" rule and someone is simultaneously getting a haircut in the room?

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

How is someone gonna cut your hair if they are at least 2 meters away from you? lol...

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

How is someone gonna cut your hair if they are at least 2 meters away from you? lol...

Zugzwang posted:

My shut-in lifestyle has never seemed so wonderful.

In other news, an Asian coworker of mine reported an uptick in racism being experienced by his family. So that's going on now too.

Bamabalacha posted:

My cousin is adopted and he's pretty sure he's the only Asian anyone in his town in Florida has ever seen.

He has...not been having a good time of it.

MrQwerty posted:

Evidently circuit board manufacturing is essential.

I'm not complaining, if my plant shut down I'd surely be permanently laid off without long-term UI options and be completely hosed financially for years and years to come.

How are audio equipment circuit boards essential, though?

Jabor posted:

Don't feel too bad, you're only a few days later than Boris Johnson in coming to that realization.

tater_salad posted:

people suck.. My buddy in CA is saying that folks are refusing uber rides from Asians etc.. It's a got damned poo poo show.. This modern world sucks.

Tei posted:

You can't quarantine the weak and old. Is a large group of people, and a large group of the workforce, including medic personal. If you send home everyone [from the senate] older than 60, only 14 people will attend it, I believe.
People live with families, caretakers. Do you quarantine these caretakers too?.

Quarantining the old is another way to say "let the old and weak people die". Eugenics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

Young people is still going to die. The whole hospital system will collapse, with doctors and nurses inside. Everyone having a medical problem may die too.
Maybe other social systems will collapse too. ( Have fun if the police forces are reduced to only a few officials)

Facing certain or probable death, maybe most prisons will revolt and escape. If you see somebody your age -5 die, and you see that you will die next. What you have to lose? what they can do? , kill you?

Taking this option would also create a horrible wound on the society, a undeletable Sin, future generations will look at it, think about the horrible things that generation did. Maybe learn the worst from it, than killing the weak is a good thing. Maybe we have to stop that idea here just now.

We will grown older, and weak. Everyone will one day be weak.

Has a society, if we don't protect the old and the weak, we don't deserve to survive.

Theres bones from people living 100.000 years ago, from people that would not have survive withouth a lot of care from others.

Is not a thing we do, let the weak die. Is not how we are defined has human beings.

tater_salad posted:

people suck.. My buddy in CA is saying that folks are refusing uber rides from Asians etc.. It's a got damned poo poo show.. This modern world sucks.

hallelujah posted:

HugeGrossBurrito posted:

It’s great when you can’t tell if your getting sick or freaking yourself out or both

Mandrel posted:

of course I live in Alabama, so kay Ivey will have us all back to work the moment Trump says jump

Zugzwang posted:

My shut-in lifestyle has never seemed so wonderful.

In other news, an Asian coworker of mine reported an uptick in racism being experienced by his family. So that's going on now too.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Your blood sacrifices have pleased Number

JK Fresco posted:

https://twitter.com/DamnShawtyOkay/status/1241940444541595650

Tim Whatley posted:

My high school is about to be converted to a temporary hospital. National Guard is starting on it today. Crazy man

ilmucche posted:

I don't think I've ever heard a man sound so angry while yelling something that sounds so scientifically precice

JK Fresco posted:

Lol thus Pelosi bill:

https://twitter.com/rachelbovard/status/1242116258834845710

quote:

President Trump hints at a short shutdown: “I’m not looking at months.”
President Trump, in a nearly two-hour coronavirus briefing, hinted on Monday that the economic shutdown meant to halt the spread of the virus across the country would not be extended.

“Our country wasn’t built to be shut down,” he said. “America will again and soon be open for business,” the president added, without providing a timeline for when he believes normal economic activity could resume.

“If it were up to the doctors, they’d say let’s shut down the entire world,” Mr. Trump said. “This could create a much bigger problem than the problem that you started out with.”

He later added, “I’m not looking at months, I can tell you right now.”

Mr. Trump sent mixed signals from the White House lectern, agreeing at one point with his surgeon general and saying, “It’s going to be bad,” then suggesting that the response to the virus may have been overblown.

“This is going away. We’re going to win the battle,” Mr. Trump said, citing jobs, “anxiety and depression” and suicide as arguments for restoring the U.S. economy.

He compared deaths from the novel coronavirus to deaths from other causes — influenza and car crashes — suggesting that the scale of those preventable deaths means economic restrictions may not be appropriate to prevent the spread of the virus.

“We have a very active flu season, more active than most,” he said “It’s looking like it’s heading to 50,000 or more deaths — not cases, 50,000 deaths. Which is — that’s a lot. And you look at automobile accidents, which are far greater than any numbers we’re talking about. That doesn’t mean we’re going to tell everybody, ‘No more driving of cars.’ So we have to do things to get our country open.”

While it is true that those causes of death outnumber deaths from the virus to date, projections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that deaths from Covid-19 could range from 200,000 to 1.7 million people. Estimates from other scientists place the potential deaths in a range from several hundred thousand to several million deaths, substantially more than annual deaths from car accidents and flu combined.

Mr. Trump also suggested the economic contraction caused by restrictions on commerce and travel to prevent spread of the coronavirus could lead to large-scale fatalities from suicide — “probably more death from that than anything we’re talking about with respect to the virus,” he said. The number of suicides in the country would need to quadruple to approach the low end of the estimates for possible coronavirus deaths.

QuarkJets posted:

Notice how old conservative liches were eager to shut down the entire country when everyone thought they were the only ones who got effected but now that it's becoming understood that young people get hospitalized in mass numbers too the same liches think we should end the quarantines lol

gently caress Man posted:

Trump yesterday was definitely on brand, but he's on a new level.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/world/coronavirus-updates-usa-world.html

E-flat posted:

My speech-language pathologist friend who works in a skilled nursing facility (which is out of surgical masks) was ordered to carry around a form stating she is an essential employee; in Michigan my ICU pharmacist cousin has apparently now run out of medication in addition to vents. It feels like we're already on our way to quarantining the weak and old in our hospitals and long-term care facilities.


No, no, no, my fine upstanding Lt. Gov of Texas Dan Patrick just doesn't want us to "sacrifice the country" by sheltering in place because "these businesses can't wait that long"