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Checking in from rural North Yorkshire -hospitals are out of tests so they only give them if show up and it's critical. Local GP surgery is telling people not to come in if they have any COVID-19 symptoms and to call the NHS hotline. For elderly and vulnerable people they are doing housecalls so they don't have to put themselves at risk going in. Mixed information on the extent of testing, earlier NHS were saying their capacity was 4'000 a day but were supposed to be ramping up to 25'000. What they are actually able to do, no idea. -several pharmacies are closed because the staff was exposed. Local village pharmacy is great. They are fully staffed (3 people including the owner). The pharmacist is also making hand sanitizer in the back room and giving it away for free to the over 70's and selling it low cost to locals. -I haven't seen TP or paper towels on a shelf in a week Supermarkets in the nearby large towns have been stripped bare of toilet paper. Village store is keeping packs in the backroom for locals/regulars to buy. Independent small grocery store in the nearby small town also has it. -installed a bidet we had floating around for about 3 months, waters cold but can live with it. I buy toilet paper in large batches, and bought like half a years worth just before it all kicked off so have plenty. -grocery stores are a crapshoot if they have things like meat, bread or milk. The supermarkets have been unpredictable. One day the milk will be stripped but there will be bread, then the next time you go in there will be no bread but plenty of milk. Pasta and tinned goods, no chance. Main reason for the shelves being stripped isn't people panic buying in the store anymore (when I've been in people seem to have been pretty reasonable) but the people ordering for home delivery as that stuff either never makes it onto the shelves or gets stripped by people fulfilling the orders before the store opens. Plenty of fish and fresh fruit / vegetables, no chicken, pork and beef pot-luck. However, for meat local butcher and farm shop have plenty and will deliver at home to people self-isolating. Supermarkets in the UK have been designating specific times for vulnerable / elderly people / NHS workers to shop. From monday they are also prioritizing home delivery / click and collect for the over 70's and vulnerable people. The government also announced today a scheme where local councils will supply food parcels (free) to people who have been advised to self-isolate for 12 weeks. -local government has basically shut down except for utilities No problems at all. Internet is also fine, on BT Fibre noticed no dip in quality or speeds at all. -the quarantine is a joke since every business that hasn't been ordered closed pretends everyone is essential. Around here people seem to be taking it fairly seriously. Streets in the local village / town are empty and the Saturday market was cancelled. Around the small estate I live on people are walking on opposite sides of the street to keep social distancing. -most sit down restaurants have given up trying to get by on take out and have closed, few have said they are closed for good. Restaurants and pubs have all closed (not that there is that many restaurants), Government has promised support for effective business and have cut business rates to 0. Watch this space to see how effectively it gets rolled out. There isn't really a strong culture of food delivery here, and only the few Pizza / Indian / Chinese places do take out. Most of the food delivery apps don't even work here. -police have said they will not respond to minor crimes (i.e. trespassing and minor theft). Police have been busy enforcing the shutdown of pubs. A few of the locals had been ignoring it. Otherwise no difference noticed. general comment It sounds like the pressures on the system are a lot higher in the cities than out in the sparesely populated boonies where I live.
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bollig posted:Just do 100 burpees, time yourself, and try to beat that time. It'll be a cold day in hell before I even do a single burpee.  I don't even know what the gently caress a burpee is. I assume it's something I was forced to do in PE class way back when I was in school but I guess my brain suppressed the memory.
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before you guys cum yourself over the lives of the GOP going down the shitter, remember that our pres is crazy enough to declare himself a literal God King and rule for eternity (about 5-10 more years), leading to a civil war that destroys the earth.
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Supreme Allah posted:My moms doctor (some sort of new-fangled 'lady part specialist') found weird growth stuff and so she has had to fly out from Arizona to me in DC because apparently the good surgeons are on this side of the country. She's got an out-patient procedure next week which has some crazy but sensible guidelines. Just picked her up and she's passed out, now, my biggest immediate worry is the sinkful of dirty dishes she's gonna see tomorrow. And I haven't been cleaning her bird feeders No one is cursing people who travel for essential reasons, like surgery
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Flyinglemur posted:Sorry if this has been covered. I live in upstate NY and they have just madeit a misdemeanor if you test positive and don't follow quarantine instructions. Not sure if this is for just our county or for the state yet, heard it from a county official but I don't know if this is coming from Cuomo's office or not Onondaga County right? My relatives(husband and wife) who finally got their results back positive on Friday got served with those papers. They get daily calls to record their temperatures taken twice daily. They won't be able to leave until they both have negative test swabs in 1-2 weeks. They were lucky to have milder symptoms and had already been self isolating for 2 weeks.
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Im Ready for DEATH posted:before you guys cum yourself over the lives of the GOP going down the shitter, remember that our pres is crazy enough to declare himself a literal God King and rule for eternity (about 5-10 more years), leading to a civil war that destroys the earth. Or he just gets bored and has a nap at his private walled-off resort. Both equally plausible.
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Anyone heard from the uygur recently ? e:vvv Lol unpacked robinhood fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It'll be a cold day in hell before I even do a single burpee. k
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Kibbles n Shits posted:https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-digestive-symptoms-are-common I know this thread moves fast, but this article doesn't show any evidence that covid 19 causes digestive issues. It just states that, uncommonly, a few patients had diarrhea too. You can have diarrhea, for example, and a cold at the same time. Doesn't mean everyone who shits or farts should start panicking.
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central dogma posted:I know this thread moves fast, but this article doesn't show any evidence that covid 19 causes digestive issues. It just states that, uncommonly, a few patients had diarrhea too. You can have diarrhea, for example, and a cold at the same time. Help! I have covid 19 and I can't stop eating cheese
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Noblesse Obliged posted:Help! 
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central dogma posted:I know this thread moves fast, but this article doesn't show any evidence that covid 19 causes digestive issues. It just states that, uncommonly, a few patients had diarrhea too. You can have diarrhea, for example, and a cold at the same time. Doesn't mean everyone who shits or farts should start panicking. Nothing to do with the typical goon diet, as I sit here and inhale junk food with nothing else to do.
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central dogma posted:I know this thread moves fast, but this article doesn't show any evidence that covid 19 causes digestive issues. It just states that, uncommonly, a few patients had diarrhea too. You can have diarrhea, for example, and a cold at the same time. Doesn't mean everyone who shits or farts should start panicking. no they shouldn't, but COVID 19 absolutely causes digestive issues, as has been reported since the very beginning as in... Study: Nearly half of COVID-19 patients experience digestive issues quote:Chinese researchers analyzed data from more than 200 COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals in the Hubei province and found almost half said their main complaints were digestive symptoms.
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Csixtyfour posted:Nothing to do with the typical goon diet, as I sit here and inhale junk food with nothing else to do. My roommate seems to mostly be subsisting on white bread, tinned soup and hotdog sausages.
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Fatkraken posted:My roommate seems to mostly be subsisting on white bread, tinned soup and hotdog sausages. There are whole generations of families that have only survived on those food groups.
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unpacked robinhood posted:So tests are being done or what ? Yes, there are some tests in Upstate NY and our numbers are going up pretty fast as a result (or course) literally a hog posted:Onondaga County right? My relatives(husband and wife) who finally got their results back positive on Friday got served with those papers. They get daily calls to record their temperatures taken twice daily. They won't be able to leave until they both have negative test swabs in 1-2 weeks. They were lucky to have milder symptoms and had already been self isolating for 2 weeks. Yup, right here in Syracuse. I hope they're going to be ok. The only thing worse than being quarantined is being quarantined in Syracuse. Hopefully your people are in a better part of the county
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friendly 2 da void posted:no they shouldn't, but COVID 19 absolutely causes digestive issues, as has been reported since the very beginning The article I quoted stated that the most common digestive issue reported was lack of appetite. This one says diarrhea. So not only do we have two contradictory articles, but they're both possibly wrong as well. Wait for an official authority to comment directly. The same one you quoted also stated that only 7% of patients did not report respiratory issues. The goon I was helping last night had no respiratory issues, so likely no need to panic. If you have a fever and respiratory issues AND diarrhea, go get tested if possible. If you only have the squirts, try not to sweat it. Edit: If you do have all the symptoms, call a health provider for directions instead of running out and getting tested, thereby exposing others. central dogma fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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Boomer politicians: We will never support term limits! Covid-19: Life, uh, finds a way.
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friendly 2 da void posted:no they shouldn't, but COVID 19 absolutely causes digestive issues, as has been reported since the very beginning And as I believe now 3 of us have pointed out, that study doesn't say what people say it does.
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central dogma posted:The article I quoted stated that the most common digestive issue reported was lack of appetite. This one says diarrhea. So not only do we have two contradictory articles, but they're both possibly wrong as well. Wait for an official authority to comment directly. According to this: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/#h6 only 5 percent had nausea/vomiting and 4 percent had the runs.
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as subject matter experts on pants making GBS threads, goons vow to get to the bottom of the covid/diarrhea connection
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central dogma posted:The article I quoted stated that the most common digestive issue reported was lack of appetite. This one says diarrhea. So not only do we have two contradictory articles, but they're both possibly wrong as well. Wait for an official authority to comment directly. 15% of people had diarrhea, 1% vomiting and abdominal pain. The rest of the "gastrointestinal" issues are lack of appetite (40% of cases) which isn't what people are thinking about when they think gastro. There's also other issues with the study that make it doubtful it's a great sample of COVID-19 cases but even if you assume it's a great sample it doesn't say anything about lots of people having the shits. Actually that Hill article is considerably worse than others quoting that study, since usually they include loss of appetite bundled together with the other symptoms but the Hill makes it sound like they're just talking about "diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain." Kase Im Licht fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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Lol 4%. I'd be surprised if in all the world's population that at least 4% didn't have diarrhea at any given time. Edit: ^^ yeah I think (I hope) that these reporters mean well, but now is not the time for haphazard reporting. central dogma fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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Is anyone still getting delivery or take out? I've been living like I'm on total lockdown but I don't know if its that bad. Yet.
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pro starcraft loser posted:Is anyone still getting delivery or take out? I've been living like I'm on total lockdown but I don't know if its that bad. Yet. There's a whole small business delivery economy starting up round these parts You can get meals, toys, coffee, desert trays, art supplies and even Bird feeders and bird feeder accessories delivered
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pro starcraft loser posted:Is anyone still getting delivery or take out? I've been living like I'm on total lockdown but I don't know if its that bad. Yet. Probably depends on what your risk tolerance is? I guess at the very least don't order cold stuff (salads, sandwiches) if you are going to do that. But yeah there are restaurants doing that
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Probably depends on what your risk tolerance is? I guess at the very least don't order cold stuff (salads, sandwiches) if you are going to do that. But yeah there are restaurants doing that Early (ish) 30s with no underlying health problems or obesity. 
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pro starcraft loser posted:Early (ish) 30s with no underlying health problems or obesity. Do you have a kitchen? This is probably the best time in your existence to pick up cooking
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honestly, all the ways this thing works i feel like its all the same risk at this point. having someone do contactless delivery (of food, or your groceries or amazon whatevers), going to the store (maybe a lil riskier as a place of transit)..poo poo it's airborne for hours too...like you can do things that lessen the odds but you'll go insane if you try and bubble boy this. i'm not hoping i get it by any means, but at a certain point it'll be more about when then if
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Justin Credible posted:For whoever is keeping track of who gets the wall - I write for TM-F (it pays good I don't want them to find me). We are being encouraged to write these because they're great traffic and, to be honest, it's a good investment frame for those who will have extra to spare (don't do this). I politely said I had other ideas and my editor was very sad. That's my take on it!
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Google Butt posted:Do you have a kitchen? This is probably the best time in your existence to pick up cooking I do and I actually enjoy cooking. I just don't have much pantry space and all I've really purchased recently has been rice, pasta, soups, etc.
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Well, I finally saw a co-worker (we work solo on the weekends and I was off Thurs/Fri/Sat) who explained why we can't work from home when literally every other person in the office is. I work as a dispatcher, and the IT guys can't figure out a way to get our inbound calls to forward to our laptops at home. They thought they had it figured out, but since we share desks (WHY), they can't find a way to get the hard phones to forward from one employee to another without someone logging those employees in/out on the physical phone. So now they're just going to have us spread out a little more and try not to cross-contaminate at shift change. I have three people in my department over the age of 55, two with children at home, and an elderly smoker who already had to have surgery last fall for smoking related reasons. Also, that elderly smoker has apparently called in sick the last two days. No one knows what her symptoms are, but I mean, it can't be good. I'll give y'all live updates if I get the roni (I'm going to get the goddamn roni).
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central dogma posted:I know this thread moves fast, but this article doesn't show any evidence that covid 19 causes digestive issues. It just states that, uncommonly, a few patients had diarrhea too. You can have diarrhea, for example, and a cold at the same time. Doesn't mean everyone who shits or farts should start panicking. It cites research papers showing evidence of digestive symptoms, including descriptions for the mechanisms by which GI symptoms could occur. I know you're trying to be helpful but please don't make posts like this one, GI symptoms are common even though it's a respiratory disease (other respiratory illnesses cause GI issues, too) No one should panic either way and everyone should just assume that they are a vector that can infect others
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zer0spunk posted:honestly, all the ways this thing works i feel like its all the same risk at this point. I'm pretty sure the airborne thing is only for aerosolized fluids, which doesn't happen when you cough or sneeze, only during certain medical procedures
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Maccas is closing all its ‘restaurants’ in the UK from Monday. Maybe the idiots will finally begin to take it seriously now.
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Picnic Princess posted:Dear lord Seems like by march 11 Doctors should have known better. OTOH, curling! 
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