New Coronavirus - COVID-19

[Xist]

The nice lady at Family Dollar said that O'Reilly's still had blue shop towels.

Do those flush? I am asking for a friend.

[oil pan 4]

Of course it will flush at least to the point where it's not in the toilet.
Being a plumber pays really good and business will be booming after people run out of toilet paper.

[NeilBlanchard]

A 17yo high school junior has one of the best data pages on COVID-19:

https://ncov2019.live/

[Fat Charlie]

Originally Posted by Xist

New Jersey may be responsible for expiration dates on water bottles, but they may be redeeming themselves by passing a law to make it illegal to return hoarded food, claiming that they could be spreading coronavirus. The CDC says that it is unlikely, but I am satisfied with that excuse:

Trying to return the food you hoarded for coronavirus? New N.J. bill would make it illegal.

Do they even need a law for that? I think even the lamest, most beaten down cashier would find a...



... in his or her pocket, and the offender would be lucky to get out of the store without being lynched.

[redpoint5]

I'm told Costco started a 1 package of TP per family policy.

I made a deal with my sister to trade my abundance of paper towels for her abundance of TP.

A few weeks ago I had gotten into the habit of visiting a coffee shop once a week and finishing my work day there just to be around people. I miss people.

[Xist]

9,274 deaths in 2.5 months! That averages 3,709.6 deaths a month. The flu caused 12,000 deaths in 4 months.

That is a pretty good site. This one is run by a grad student: https://bunker-report.com/incoming-data/

I woke up at 6:30 each day this week just to see what Safeway had in stock. Today I woke up at 5:50 to be there as early as possible, but I spent twenty minutes cleaning snow off of my car! They finally had potatoes, but no cabbage or oatmeal, just a small tub of Quaker for $5!

When I went to leave another truck pulled up. Should I wait? Come back? What treasures does it bring?!

I went to Dollar Tree shortly after it opened. Yesterday the cashier said they would have toilet paper and there would be a line of people when they waited. They had plenty when I got there and the lady went and got me hand sanitizer!

I am rich, rich I tell you!

Who wants some $1.01 hand sanitizer?!

Big Lots did not open until 09. Should I have gone back? It would have been annoying, they are just a couple of doors down from Dollar Tree.

I snuck into Mom's room and brought out her phone. My sister is panicking because she is having food shortages, sick people are going to overwhelm the hospitals, and the medical staff will be sick when they are needed most.

Let Mom deal with that after she yells "What did you get me?!"



What a weird world this has become! Mom wakes up and I show off the groceries that I scavenged!

Where did the time go?! It is well past when I should have been able to call about electrifying the shed!

[freebeard]

It is over 9,000?!

I understood that reference.

www.usatoday.com: Playboy suspends iconic magazine after 66 years over coronavirus pandemic — Cydney Henderson USA TODAY

www.usatoday.com: USA TODAY analysis: America's coronavirus 'curve' may be at its most dangerous point

Although it's too early to draw definitive conclusions about which countries will ultimately weather the COVID-19 storm best, public health data shows that nations that are so far faring well at suppressing the outbreak's spread have done so through this combination: easy access to testing, rigorous contact tracing, clear and consistent science-based messaging, and a commitment to studiously abide by quarantines while clamping down on socializing no matter how tempting it may be to stray.

[redpoint5]

SA calls the elbow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NeHpbvqhOk&t=2m0s

[Xist]

CNN just said that Italy has had more deaths than China. Italy had 60.48 million people in 2018! China had 1.386 billion in 2017!

[redpoint5]

Tragic. What factors has made the virus more deadly in Italy than other places?