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Rexxed posted:Staples and office depot have some tissues and even the awful rough tp available. I think putting limits on orders is helping with the insanity. Thanks! Now I just need to hold out until the 26th when they estimate delivery. Provided they don't close completely due to being non-essential.
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The Prime Minister of the Netherlands addressed the public directly last night, which hasn't happened since the oil crisis in the 70s. No new rules, just told everyone to hang tough and said the Netherlands was not going on lockdown and the airport is still open. Germany and France and Spain have all shut down non-essential shops though, so I reckon that'll happen before too long. Mr Ralph is planning a trip to the big bulk store on Friday (unlike the US you have to have a tax number to get into our Costco equivalent so it hasn't been mobbed by the public) so we can stock up on liquor, but I think by Friday we will be looking at a completely different situation. Just this time last week the Prime Minister was saying "just don't shake hands lol". Non-essential shops are still open so I am looking to buy some outdoor toys for our kid. Thank goodness we have a small yard, not everyone in the country does, and if we get locked down like they do we can at least go in our yard.
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Mar 17, 2020 11:41
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I work in a cafe in a busy shopping centre, mostly on the floor meaning I handle all sorts of horrible stuff people have had their hands and mouths on. On the one hand I'm pretty much 100% sure I'm going to catch it, on the other hand at least we're getting very few people coming in so we are going home early most days. Gonna suck when I look at my paycheck but hey that's why I have money saved up.
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Mar 17, 2020 11:51
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I'm a salesman at a boutique store (specifically, camera store) in Australia. We also print photis on site. I spent the entire day in a silent rage as geriatric after geriatric toddled into the store to get a couple of prints done, as if nothing was out of the ordinary. I'm not worried about them spreading the virus in the store, but these people are in the super high risk category and aren't even acknowledging that there's a pandemic. There's a very good chance I won't have my job when this is all said and done, but right now all my anxieties are at the endless ignorant people (especially oldies, gently caress me) disregarding this as a real threat. I'm 100% going to lose multiple long term customers to this illness.
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Mar 17, 2020 12:05
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SwissDonkey posted:I'm a salesman at a boutique store (specifically, camera store) in Australia. We also print photis on site. I spent the entire day in a silent rage as geriatric after geriatric toddled into the store to get a couple of prints done, as if nothing was out of the ordinary. I'm not worried about them spreading the virus in the store, but these people are in the super high risk category and aren't even acknowledging that there's a pandemic. There's a very good chance I won't have my job when this is all said and done, but right now all my anxieties are at the endless ignorant people (especially oldies, gently caress me) disregarding this as a real threat. I'm 100% going to lose multiple long term customers to this illness.
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Mar 17, 2020 12:08
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Xander B Coolridge posted:Is that goon who gave everyone Mad Max nicknames a few years ago doing gonna do a new thread in honor of the current apocalypse? I still remember my soon to be name from that. Mortimer Jovius and the Raven Clan Family.
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Mar 17, 2020 12:09
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I work at a government facility that refuses to shut down or curtail operations. It's been fun everyone.
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Mar 17, 2020 12:11
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FlamingLiberal posted:I also work in an office where we take photos and the people coming in don’t seem to be any less than would be usual this time of year which is crazy to me This is a generation within living memory of the Spanish Flu, at that. Like, what in the actual gently caress. You'd think that if anything, they'd be telling the rest of us to take it more seriously? 
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Mar 17, 2020 12:11
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McSpanky posted:This is a generation within living memory of the Spanish Flu, at that. Like, what in the actual gently caress. You'd think that if anything, they'd be telling the rest of us to take it more seriously? I don't think people comprehend that you will not want to be internationally traveling for a long, long time
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Mar 17, 2020 12:15
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FlamingLiberal posted:I also work in an office where we take photos and the people coming in don’t seem to be any less than would be usual this time of year which is crazy to me I just don't get this disconnect these people have, if you converse with them they're usually pretty abreast of it, but they just don't care
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Mar 17, 2020 12:15
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FlamingLiberal posted:Even better, these are for passport photos Today I had someone following up on a customer order for a big zoom camera, because they're "leaving for South Africa in 10 days"
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Mar 17, 2020 12:24
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SwissDonkey posted:Today I had someone following up on a customer order for a big zoom camera, because they're "leaving for South Africa in 10 days" 
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Mar 17, 2020 12:27
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Dell_Zincht posted:Here in the UK, the BBC have just advised pregnant women to self isolate as it's unknown how Covid-19 affects foetuses in the womb This was in the Downing Street press conference yesterday. There was a recommendation for pregnant women to self-isolate based on the precautionary principle and "being seriously ill and pregnant is generally bad" rather than any expected serious risk with COVID-19.
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Mar 17, 2020 12:35
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I think some goon posted earlier that htey did some tests and the initial cases show that babies don't get covid from their mom at birth.
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Mar 17, 2020 12:42
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SwissDonkey posted:I'm a salesman at a boutique store (specifically, camera store) in Australia. We also print photis on site. I spent the entire day in a silent rage as geriatric after geriatric toddled into the store to get a couple of prints done, as if nothing was out of the ordinary. I'm not worried about them spreading the virus in the store, but these people are in the super high risk category and aren't even acknowledging that there's a pandemic. There's a very good chance I won't have my job when this is all said and done, but right now all my anxieties are at the endless ignorant people (especially oldies, gently caress me) disregarding this as a real threat. I'm 100% going to lose multiple long term customers to this illness. Most of our customers at the cafe are old fuckers! Most of our money the other day given we were completely deserted came from a table of eight old old old ladies from the UK who were hugging and using hankies and sharing food with each other. Needless to say most of the toilet paper hoarding is also being done by olds. I hope we redistribute their poo poo to aid agencies when they die from their own stupidity.
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Mar 17, 2020 12:45
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tater_salad posted:I think some goon posted earlier that htey did some tests and the initial cases show that babies don't get covid from their mom at birth. Read this externally from here earlier in the day too, there was I think 2 births from plague mums with non plague babies
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Mar 17, 2020 12:45
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Somehow my Grandad is being a dumbass too and seems to think his trip to the UK in the first week of April is going to go ahead as normal. Grandad you idiot! Get back in the loving house!!! Scott Morrison please shut down the airports so my stupid favourite Grandad doesn't kill himself and others!
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Mar 17, 2020 12:47
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:Somehow my Grandad is being a dumbass too and seems to think his trip to the UK in the first week of April is going to go ahead as normal. Grandad you idiot! Get back in the loving house!!! Scott Morrison please shut down the airports so my stupid favourite Grandad doesn't kill himself and others! I have a friend who still wants to fly thorough Toronto to a resort on an island. I figure i'll at least have a friend with the roni unless canada completely closes.
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Mar 17, 2020 12:50
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Every casino around us is closing it's doors until mid-April. The casino I work at has cancelled all training classes. So 6-10 employees can't be in a training class together, but we can walk a casino floor with 50+ random people. Fuckin...idiots.
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Mar 17, 2020 13:00
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They just broke in on CBC to say that Ontario will be declaring a state of emergency at an 8:30 press conference. Took them long enough.
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Mar 17, 2020 13:02
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Augusta, GA area has Lots of national guard rolling in right now. Whole bunch of guns. 
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Mar 17, 2020 13:09
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Chinatown posted:Just realized probably every summer county fair won't happen this year. And, well, summer in general. Events in the Fall will undoubtedly be canceled, too. This virus won't go away from a 2 month quarantine. The moment people stop isolating, it will spread again. None of this ends until a vaccine is mass produced, I saw somewhere that could take 12-18 months from now. Beachcomber posted:Thanks! Now I just need to hold out until the 26th when they estimate delivery. Provided they don't close completely due to being non-essential. Maybe we need a Don't Poop Challenge thread so we can all hold it in together??
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Mar 17, 2020 13:11
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Adolf Glitter posted:You can buy them from the darknet markets. oh *i* don't need to wear one. im the one who will get shouted at by nurses and doctors if i don't hand them a box of masks/papr at the warehouse window.
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Mar 17, 2020 13:12
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Augusta, GA area has Lots of national guard rolling in right now. Whole bunch of guns. I can't help poo poo like that making my skin crawl. I'm sure half of Washington gets a semi every time someone mentions Martial Law.
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Mar 17, 2020 13:20
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Clitch posted:I can't help poo poo like that making my skin crawl. I'm sure half of Washington gets a semi every time someone mentions Martial Law. Probably because that's how we transition from "democracy" to autocracy. Which looks to be about three months from happening.
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Mar 17, 2020 13:22
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whats been real wild to me are the people who are straight up complaining about having to watch their kids all day due to schools being shut down for the foreseeable future. to clarify, i work in an area with a lot(a LOT) of SAHMs due to their husbands making some serious bank. Had one lady super pissed because their nanny was self-quarantining due to having a weakened immune system. like goddamn lady, it's a 2 year old child not a nuclear reactor, they're really not that hard to take care of if you're not a lovely loving person. Feed them, love them, and let them play.
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Mar 17, 2020 13:24
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haunted bong posted:whats been real wild to me are the people who are straight up complaining about having to watch their kids all day due to schools being shut down for the foreseeable future. There's the issue for most folks. I have loved being home with mine. I get to play, watch fun shows, take naps.
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Mar 17, 2020 13:33
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haunted bong posted:whats been real wild to me are the people who are straight up complaining about having to watch their kids all day due to schools being shut down for the foreseeable future. Lol, screw them. Many people at my work have young children at home and both parents working and no one is complaining. My wife and I have to work from home and keep a hyperactive 2 years old. We have to work in shift and in evenings but at least we still have a job.
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Actually a nuclear reactor is far more stable. Also not everyone has a SAH partner. A lot of people are very stressed about childcare and work right now, regardless of your bougie area.
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haunted bong posted:whats been real wild to me are the people who are straight up complaining about having to watch their kids all day due to schools being shut down for the foreseeable future. how surprising, spoiled entitled people acting entitled
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Untrustable posted:Every casino around us is closing it's doors until mid-April. The casino I work at has cancelled all training classes. So 6-10 employees can't be in a training class together, but we can walk a casino floor with 50+ random people. Fuckin...idiots. I heard in Melbourne they turned off every second pokie so the gamblers maintain a safe distance from each other.
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TheKingslayer posted:I still remember my soon to be name from that. Mortimer Jovius and the Raven Clan Family. Mine were Chromium Bonesplitter and Portapottamus. I think I’m going with Portapottamus to add some levity to my pack of ferals. SwissDonkey posted:I just don't get this disconnect these people have, if you converse with them they're usually pretty abreast of it, but they just don't care Yup, my parents and inlaws have made zero changes in their routine other than “we’re using sanitizer!” My father is convinced this is a ploy by Democrats and/or China to bring down Trump. Lol that post right above this one. gently caress Fox News forever. I hope Rupert Murdoch and his cronies drown in their own phlegm and I will happily eat a probe for saying that.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Augusta, GA area has Lots of national guard rolling in right now. Whole bunch of guns. How are things there overall? Have some relatives there who don't seem too concerned (including going to church last weekend).
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Mar 17, 2020 13:46
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Oh apparently a Woolies worker in Kingaroy (big country town where a bunch of people from small country towns do their shopping) tested positive for the 'rones, and according to my mum they worked in checkout 
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Just left my office and walked around my mucky little Northern town to grab a sandwich. It’s still busy, there are still buskers and still plenty of old people shuffling about. My mum (75) now has a cough and is trying to keep out of my dads (82) way in their house. I think we are going to be told to WFH after today.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Augusta, GA area has Lots of national guard rolling in right now. Whole bunch of guns. Do you have any proof or photos? I'm not calling you out, just curious.
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Ford declared a state of emergency in Ontario and announced the first set of COVID-19 funding, mostly expanding EI, more critical care beds and ventilators, more PPE, brining in more doctors and nurses and 25 new testing centers. Nothing mind blowing and not a lockdown, but at least some decent stuff. I *really* wonder what Trudeau's announcement at 11.30 is going to be.
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I live in the middle of nowhere so .. a blessing and a curse at the same time? Stores basically have no shelf stable goods left but currently fresh stuff is fine. I also have a nice park I can go to and hike around with not a soul in sight. I am deep in the heart of hillbilly land and I have actually heard more actual concern than I thought we would get around here.
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monkeytennis posted:Just left my office and walked around my mucky little Northern town to grab a sandwich. It’s still busy, there are still buskers and still plenty of old people shuffling about. those buskers are going to have it rough soon
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