At what point did you / will you take the coronavirus epidemic seriously?

[Uncle Ted]

Apparently New York, Las Vegas, the NBA, the NCAA, and all religions will have to cease to exist.

COVID-19 has already killed the XFL... stoopid virus.

[swampfrog]

This is potentially good news. Of ~300 studied outbreaks in China, only 2 of them occurred in an outdoor setting. The rest were indoors or in a transit system.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....04.20053058v1

I wouldn't mind eating or meeting more in an outdoor setting.

My local refuge is closed--which is my go to for decompressing. Open the outdoor spaces back up. Most avid enthusiasts that use these spaces are responsible, post some guidelines and let people use these spaces.

[wapiti]

She was ill-prepared, no doubt. I'm guessing she didn't prepare much at all, which was a huge mistake. She had to have known that the reason CNN wanted her on was to make her look like an idiot Trumper.

But she's correct that it's not the government's job to come up with a plan setting forth the way these places will operate. These are huge, multi-billion dollar operations--they will (and have) come up with those ideas and propose them, and the enforcing agencies (not the mayor, btw--all of these casinos answer to a gaming commission and other regulatory agencies) will alter, adjust, approve as they see fit. Also, she's not wrong that Anderson Cooper is an alarmist. Still she should have been prepared to discuss the ways in which gambling can be carried out in a socially-distancing responsible way. Because it can, and it will. So yeah, she was inarticulate, at best, and she's paying the price of public shaming. This was probably her last term as Mayor anyway.

On March 14th I went to iHop for dinner on my way back from a trip to St. George. That's 3 days post-Gobert and just a few days before Utah shutdown dine-in restaurants. iHop was seating everyone with at least one table buffer. They also cleared all the condiments and things that would normally be at each table and brought individual portions to customers who requested them. The server said there were also a lot of changes in the kitchen that we couldn't see. Service was a little slow due to the newness of the process. I figured I have never been safer at a dine-in restaurant.

Businesses will adjust to keep themselves and their customers safe. Most businesses can adjust their operations to open safely. If the state wants them to present plans to the health department and get authorization to open, that's fine. That's how China did it.

The point isn't to stop every case of transmission. That just isn't going to happen. But we can re-open many businesses in ways that prevent major outbreaks or super-spreading events. There is no reason to force Best Buy, Dick's, or Michaels to stay closed or be limited to curbside pickup. That not only hurts those businesses but it hurts their entire supply chain. If grocery and hardware stores can safely operate these other retail stores can as well.

I'm skeptical of the calls to reopen gyms and churches but I haven't seen the specific plans to keep their patrons safe.

[Walter Sobchak]

My local refuge is closed--which is my go to for decompressing. Open the outdoor spaces back up. Most avid enthusiasts that use these spaces are responsible, post some guidelines and let people use these spaces.

Several of the more hard-core open-water swimmers in my community started swimming in one of the nearby lakes last Saturday (still WAY too cold for me - even with a wetsuit). By the following Monday, the city has posted a new sign on the beach stating that swimming in the lake was prohibited "to prevent the spread of COVID-19". Really? Come on.

[Northwestcoug]

Now you're talking!

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Helluva lot more expensive than Hydroxychloroquine, but it's science!

Parenthetically, this technology is the backbone of cancer diagnosis. I use it every day in my practice. The researchers who pioneered it won the Nobel Prize in 1984.

[Omaha 680]

Now you're talking!

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Helluva lot more expensive than Hydroxychloroquine, but it's science!

Parenthetically, this technology is the backbone of cancer diagnosis. I use it every day in my practice. The researchers who pioneered it won the Nobel Prize in 1984.

this is going to work because it's what I do every day!

Kidding of course. Sounds awesome. I am very hopeful there will be a breakthrough therapy that can get us back to normal far before a vaccine is available.

[Omaha 680]

NY haven't release their results yet but Cuomo said a 3,000 person sample at grocery stores across NY state showed 14% have the antibodies. It will be interesting to see what the number is with a more representative sample and increased sample size. I'm very curious about NYC specific data, which should be even higher than the statewide %.

I know Sweden pulled their report about expected infection rates in Stockholm and will be revising with an explanation of the "error".

Preliminary data says 21% infected in NYC. I believe these were tests only of people who happened to be out getting groceries, so I don't know if the actual % will be higher with more representative samples. If these numbers are accurate, the fatality rate drops to 0.5%.

[UVACoug]

Here is the recording of the mom who got arrested on the playground in Idaho. The whole thread is pretty funny:

https://twitter.com/scottiepipm/status/1253152043688230913

This is my favorite one:

https://twitter.com/scottiepipm/status/1253203783334707200

[Omaha 680]

Here is the recording of the mom who got arrested on the playground in Idaho. The whole thread is pretty funny:

https://twitter.com/scottiepipm/status/1253152043688230913

This is my favorite one:

https://twitter.com/scottiepipm/stat...03783334707200

LOL. Name and badge number. WTF is this a law and order episode from 1997? You have like 15 camera phones on them. I'm pretty sure he can be identified if you want to make a complaint.

[Northwestcoug]

Preliminary data says 21% infected in NYC. I believe these were tests only of people who happened to be out getting groceries, so I don't know if the actual % will be higher with more representative samples. If these numbers are accurate, the fatality rate drops to 0.5%.

Then again:

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We need a standardized serologic test, and we need to test millions. It's depressing that our president and others think it's a sideshow.

[old_gregg]

Here is the recording of the mom who got arrested on the playground in Idaho. The whole thread is pretty funny:

https://twitter.com/scottiepipm/status/1253152043688230913

This is my favorite one:

https://twitter.com/scottiepipm/stat...03783334707200

500:1 odds they're not mormons

[BigFatMeanie]

500:1 odds they're not mormons

And I learned a new term/meme/insult: "Karen". I didn't know people had attached a special stigma to that name these days.

[Omaha 680]

And I learned a new term/meme/insult: "Karen". I didn't know people had attached a special stigma to that name these days.

I learned that from my millennial brother about 3 weeks ago. I am old.

[SeattleUte]

Preliminary data says 21% infected in NYC. I believe these were tests only of people who happened to be out getting groceries, so I don't know if the actual % will be higher with more representative samples. If these numbers are accurate, the fatality rate drops to 0.5%.

How did you get .5 percent? Can you show your work? There are 8.6 million in New York. 21 percent of that is 1.8 million. The coronavirus meter says there are currently 20,861 deaths in the whole state of New York.

[myboynoah]

Here is the recording of the mom who got arrested on the playground in Idaho. The whole thread is pretty funny:

https://twitter.com/scottiepipm/status/1253152043688230913

This is my favorite one:

https://twitter.com/scottiepipm/stat...03783334707200

Like I said, gotta screen for nutjobs when seeking spokespeople.