COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[bedlamite]

Make sure you get plenty of exercise while you can't go anywhere:

[K Frame]

"and tiki torches to represent Bunsen burners too."

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew wants you to know that that's racist!

[charby]

So I just heard on the radio that because of the virus, 200K less people are crossing the Southern border. I'll be interested to see if numbers stay lower, at least for a time, after this is over. Seems like their might be a lot of citizens looking for work.

I was wondering that with all these restaurants that are closed to dine in traffic, need less kitchen staff.

[Ben]

I was wondering that with all these restaurants that are closed to dine in traffic, need less kitchen staff.

I just edited the original post. I meant to say 200K per day.

[AJ Dual]

"and tiki torches to represent Bunsen burners too."

Dr. Bunsen Honeydew wants you to know that that's racist!

Dr. Honeydew is fully committed to diversity, he hired Beaker (whatever he is) after all.

[WLJ]

[Hawkmoon]

Not necessarily.  Diamond Princess had over 3,000 passengers. 900 ended up positive.  It would have been much lower had they allowed it to dock and isolated the sick, quarantined the rest sooner.

True, but the berthing arrangements on a cruise ship, particularly for passengers, are a lot more spacious than on a warship. On the Diamond Princess, passengers were isolated in their cabins. On an aircraft carrier, only the officers have cabins.

[WLJ]

"Breaking"

    BREAKING: China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report https://t.co/5tdbtMT158 pic.twitter.com/vjtNw174SN

    — Bloomberg (@business) April 1, 2020

https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/04/01/guys-bloomberg-has-some-breaking-news-on-china-that-you-just-wont-believe/

[K Frame]

I had a math teacher in high school whom I absolutely despised (and she, in turn, hated me equally).

She looked, and sounded, a lot like Beaker.

So that's what I called her.


Matter of fact, here's an article from the local newspaper with her picture at the bottom...

https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2013/04/susquenita_high_school_reunite.html

[dogmush]

Turns out green is the color of "compassion".
Somebody better tell the army.

We already know.  We are very compassionate.  We just love folks to death.

[WLJ]

FL on lockdown

[TechMan]

FL on lockdown

The horse has left the barn on that one.

[WLJ]

It would appear the dems are trying to cook up another impeachment over this.

[K Frame]

And all of Pennsylvania is now on a stay at home order.

They were doing it county by county before, but a couple of hours ago extended it to the whole state.

[charby]

And all of Pennsylvania is now on a stay at home order.

They were doing it county by county before, but a couple of hours ago extended it to the whole state.

Iowa is still a big fat nope, even with every other question from reporters to the governor, "Are you going to shelter in place?".

[WLJ]

Turkmenistan bans use of word 'coronavirus,' threatens jail for anyone wearing a mask: watchdog group
https://www.foxnews.com/world/turkmenistan-coronavirus-word-use-banned-masks-arrest-former-soviet-republic

The France-based group said Tuesday that the autocratic ex-Soviet nation made sure the word also was removed from health information brochures distributed in schools, hospitals and workplaces.

[Jamisjockey]

It would appear the dems are trying to cook up another impeachment over this.

Trump did a bad job initially but what in holy *expletive deleted*ck is a high crime and misdemeanor about mismanagement of a pending crisis?

[charby]

Trump did a bad job initially but what in holy *expletive deleted*ck is a high crime and misdemeanor about mismanagement of a pending crisis?

I can "sort of" understand the first time but holy jeebus smoking a cigarette and drinking a PBR did Trump do this time?

[Ben]

Schiff already has a list of "crimes" - he just needs to get a group together that will "find" them.

If this were legitimate in any way, he (they) would wait till this is over and they actually have evidence and a chain of events. We're doing "Minority Report" again though.

[Perd Hapley]

Trump said Democratic criticism of his Chinese virus response was a hoax. How do we know he's right? Congressional Democrats are calling for an investigation. 

[WLJ]

I'll be back

A county in central China has reportedly gone into a mid-sized lockdown amid fears of a second coronavirus wave as Beijing is trying to emerge from the deadly outbreak and revive its economy.

Roughly 600,000 residents near the city of Pingdingshan in Jia County were told to stay home as curfew measures went into effect Tuesday. The county is located in the Henan province, some 500 miles south of Beijing and just north of the Hubei province where the pandemic originated in December 2019.

County in China locks down amid concerns of potential second coronavirus wave
https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-county-locks-down-amid-concerns-of-potential-2nd-coronavirus-wave

[WLJ]

Will the Stupid Fairy please take a day off?

   This pandemic is exposing structural racism in our country. Regions with past and present inequities in employment, wages, health care, and housing are being hit hard.

    — Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) April 1, 2020

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/04/01/rep-rashida-tlaib-reminds-us-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-exposing-structural-racism-in-the-us/

[Ben]

Can the Stupid Fairy please take a day off?
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/04/01/rep-rashida-tlaib-reminds-us-the-covid-19-pandemic-is-exposing-structural-racism-in-the-us/

No kidding. I'm also getting tired of "conservatives aren't self-isolating like us smarter liberals". I had to read a story in my local rag where they were talking about how good Boise was about it (via cellphone tracking) and how bad us hicks in the rural areas were, and of course Boise is all hip and liberal, so that's why.

Nothing at all to do with crowds and having a neighbor with a shared wall or with their house 10' from yours. Conservative me would be locking myself in the house if I lived in a densely populated city. If they had room to roam, don't tell me progressives would still stay inside their homes.

[Cliffh]

I missed this yesterday:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas_legislature/article/Gov-Abbott-orders-schools-closed-until-May-4-15170403.php

Which was clarified by this today:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Gov-Abbott-clarifies-order-saying-it-15172996.php

In short, TX now has a stay-at-home order, even if the Gov. doesn't want to call it that.

[MikeB]

I had a math teacher in high school whom I absolutely despised (and she, in turn, hated me equally).

She looked, and sounded, a lot like Beaker.

So that's what I called her.


Matter of fact, here's an article from the local newspaper with her picture at the bottom...

https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2013/04/susquenita_high_school_reunite.html

Small world. The other PA High School they mention getting the idea from is the one I went to during the 80’s.