COVID-19 - Coronavirus 2019-nCoV

[moguy1973]

On 3/16/2020 at 4:02 PM, Jerry Rapp said:

Quill and I discussed this morning the websites that can be utilized to monitor the corona.  They are not easy to find, you would think it would be general public knowledge readily available.  Other discussions I have had with others seems to lean heavily that not enough testing has been done yet.  But....with all the media hype and political points being made to address this situation you would have to think that there would be solid statistical numbers to back up all the hoopla.  The CDC website on Friday had 1624 cases listed for the United states, with 41 deaths.  Today(it is only updated Monday through Friday) it shows 3487 and 68 deaths.  For the ENTIRE country.  Here are the 3 websites if you would like to follow along and try to comprehend what the heck is going on.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fcases-in-us.html

https://ncov2019.live/data

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

 

Here's a good one also:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

 

They are closing the casinos in Missouri tonight at midnight.  Means I get to work from home for at least a week and a half if not more.  Seems like the right thing to do though since they are non-essential businesses that attract two of the prime candidates to die from this virus, the old people and the smokers.

[Gavin]

Casino's are certainly non-essential.  Money is hard to get, and casinos are the saddest places in the world. Filled with losers. Have seen customers waste millions at the casinos & horse tracks over the years. Stupid waste of money. Like to play poker with friends though. and we play for cash. Limited risk, and time with friends. 

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Working from home on VPN.  Most people love it.  I actually like going to the office.  Whatever.   I wish it would stop raining!

[Jerry Rapp]

for the last two days(24 hour periods) the death number due to corona has risen by approximately 20 for each time period.  This data is from worldometer and ncov2019.  Just stating facts.  Being a retired engineer, this is not indicating an exponential rate increase.  Time will tell.  Carry on, I will be self isolating again, especially while I watch the MLF finals.

[Phil Lilley]

Posted this on Facebook yesterday.  Thankfully it is something we can still do.

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I’d sure like to be there, @Phil Lilley!!

[Quillback]

56 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Working from home on VPN.  Most people love it.  I actually like going to the office.  Whatever.   I wish it would stop raining!

Had to do a lot of remote work when I was working, installing software and doing training.  Same here, would've rather have gone to the customer location, and probably 50% of my job involved travel, I was either working out of the house or flying somewhere.  Got real tired of flying and airports and all that goes with that stuff, so now I am retired.  😀

Don't miss work a bit.

[Terrierman]

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

Had to do a lot of remote work when I was working, installing software and doing training.  Same here, would've rather have gone to the customer location, and probably 50% of my job involved travel, I was either working out of the house or flying somewhere.  Got real tired of flying and airports and all that goes with that stuff, so now I am retired.  😀

Don't miss work a bit.

I don't miss 45 minute commute or the office time.  I do miss the problem solving aspects of what I did.  Big problems and not so big ones - just feels good to figure something out and get it working.

[JestersHK]

I've been away for a bit buried in work and prep but here's my insight to my fishing friends...

I recently switched to a job in the healthcare sector as some of you who know me personally know.  Working now for a major hospital Network in Missouri.  This has given me some insight into the healthcare workspace and what were about to face.

I watched my place of business go from zero to pants on fire crisis in 2 weeks time.  I write this message here from my house which we are all now working from home indefinitely.  In the midst of trying to prep a hospital for the coming pandemic we were hacked and seeing attacks on our networks prompting a lock down and corrective action.  Who the heck attacks a hospital during a crisis... Before I left they were stripping our IT building down of all furniture and setting up reading rooms for doctors and hospital staff.  It's simple math really there are not enough beds or space if this truly turns into the outbreak that the media is fear mongering it to be. 

I for one have never feared the virus, I do fear the strain all of this panic is placing on our economy and the supply chain system for meds and food.  I'm fortunate in that I'm well prepped for this and could afford to go out and top off all our preps.  Many folks will struggle trying to get food from the stripped bare bstores here outside saint Louis.

I feel we are just seeing the beginning of all this, the shutdown will escalate. Interstate travel will be the next thing shut down as I've already seen the letters coming out for the DHS and travel passes.  Won't be long before a shelter in place order is in effect and the guard would likely need to enforce that to keep people contained to their homes.

I am not panicked, I'm not a doomer.  I'm actually quite calm as I am however prepared when most of the rest of society is not, and you should keep your eyes on the bigger picture if they start locking us down to our homes.

Please take care out there friends.  I hope to see you guys soon if that's still a possibility.  Everything is so fluid right now I think we'll know more in a few weeks.

 

 

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Okay I've been on the fence about this whole deal but my wife just called from the store and they don't have any fresh meat!!!  Totally stripped bare.  She is at the third place, a small out of the way meat market and she took her number when she got there.  Number 89 and they are serving #32.  She said it's absolutely nuts.  She grabbed the last pack of leg quarters and now there isn't ant chicken at that place.  She hopes there'll be burger and sausage by the time she gets served.  We did a moderate stock run last week "just in case" so I think we're good for a while but sheesh!!!