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You don’t think experts are calling for the cancellation of the NCAA tournament?
Source?
Yep. Already put out the bottled water I fought for on the sinks for my boys to brush their teeth. What a mess and now I have less bottled water! Once it clears we’ll go back to the filtered water. The basic filters don’t do Ecoli.
Princess now also shutting down for 2 months.
I turned on MSNBC after the speech and lasted all of 2 minutes and about the same amount of time going to Fox with Hannity. Wound up watching Family Guy from Sunday. to get away from it all. Is there any news channel that can handle this in a non-political way?
To be fair to Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, they were tested in Australia and are quarantined there now.KarmaPolice said:
I would assume BBC, but at this point I just think I'm past listening to newscasters. What's the point anymore? The only time I care is if there is something I want to see visually. Other than that, we have all the info we need online (for now), why take in whatever they feel like telling us?
Yeah I saw him with Kasich. He was over the top cutting him off and pissed off. I get his point but the way he was acting wasn't helpful. What I wouldn't give to have Kasich in charge instead of Trump right now.
If I'm watching a news show, I want to see an expert opinion on how the virus spreads and what the risks are. Barkley can sound off on his opinion on an opinion based show, or a sports show. If you want to listen to Barkley's opinion on the virus, OK for you, but it shouldn't be shared on something passing as a legitimate news show.You don’t think experts are calling for the cancellation of the NCAA tournament?
I’d say, if that was Barkley’s opinion, that there was nothing close to “irresponsible journalism.”
Cancel. Isn't it mandatory to grow your hair long in apocalyptic situations anyways? Time to get crackin'.Scenario I’m facing. My buddy’s wife cuts my hair and I have an appointment tonight with her. Buddy just told me he’s been off work the past two days with flu like symptoms. Do I cancel the hair cut?
Had breakfast with the guy Saturday so I could be screwed anyway.
Sometimes ... you have to react to the reaction, if you know what I mean.belljr said:
Perceived inability to get out of the house over an indeterminate time period. Or else not wanting to go to stores during war-zone time. Stock up on stuff you don't want to run out of in the short term.
Besides some extra Advil, I bought a little extra Robitussin / nighttime cough syrup. We usually have none in the house until someone gets sick (it's just my wife and I). But now I have 4 bottles. Stores never have a big stock on that stuff, and I could see bare shelves.
"Airborne" can mean many things, but in this case it's about catching COVID "on the wind" by being within the same general area as a coughing COVID carrier. Like someone coughs at the 50-yard line, and the droplets from their mouth move through the air all the way to infect you in the end zone.
It does actually make sense to have celebrities explain this. People trust the opinions of like minded people and people they like. They don't always trust experts. There's plenty of anecdotes in here of people saying "I didn't believe you're was a big deal until I saw/heard X and then I knew this was serious". Barkley will be that moment for some people.
I'm a big fan of regular psuedo and advil, tbh. That and a coffee. You got a recipe for a day right there.
I do think this is sensationalism -- yes, there will be young, healthy folks that succumb to this. In fact, throughout the Chinese outbreak to date, it's been very roughly 1-in-500 dying of COVID among the 20-50-year-old folks infected ... though one has to imagine smoking, undiagnosed underlying conditions, etc. had a lot to do with individual cases. But the one-off cases where some 30-something year old passes away (especially a doctor or nurse taking in viral loads working with COVID patients) are not particularly informative to the public.
I'm getting lots of these questions myself. Would short term disability kick in if employees are quarantined and can't go to work, no matter if sick or not?
What this mean? Was the kid like "yeah, I got that ####", and the school system shut down?
Or an infected person touching their face, blowing their nose without handwashing or holding their infected child's dirty hand and then opening a door or using a card reader.
My only caveat here is that you want to elicit community-thinking behavior among lower-risk folks, not "I gotta save my own skin!" reactions.
+1 to these. Nyquil is amazing to get a good night sleep when u feel awful. Sleep/rest is the ultimate medicine. I have mixed results with mucinex (the high dose stuff gives me awful jitters). Sudafed is basic but really helps dry out sinus. Add some fever reducer and you can control symptoms and get rest.
Probably had mid-terms.
No clue which mod is posting this - I love FBGs - you tell people they can't make jokes and I'm out. It's dumb. And I completely understand people are concerned, I'm concerned but you know what - that's how people deal with life. You want to stop jokes at peoples expense that fine - if we can't even make light-hearted jokes like I did about hiding toilet paper from my family then what are we even doing here?
First, some apparently healthy people are getting very sick and needing ICU attention. Some of those are dying.
not only that, but the guy who came in here and shat 20 posts a minute out, including one where he stated that he is "hoping karma hits those in charge" posted unabated well into the wee hours.
That’s a great quote and so true. In retrospect, the best course of action would have been to ban all foreign travel 2 months ago into the US for foreign nationals and require a mandatory 14 days quarantine for all Americans coming in on international flights. I have to imagine that if we had done that though, loads of people would have been outraged saying it was way over the line.Sometimes ... you have to react to the reaction, if you know what I mean.
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I saw a quote yesterday attributed to a 'Mark Leavitt' ... unsure on the name. Anyway, it goes:
"Everything we do before a pandemic will seem like an overreaction. Everything we do after a pandemic will seem inadequate."
I would ask everyone to be skeptical as frack about any overly-negative or "gamechanging" Coronavirus news. Especially science-based news filtered through a journalist. Always go straight back to the original study or paper if you can -- thankfully, online articles are good about providing links.
