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Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 6:55 pm
by tree_
Illinois and Missouri
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 6:58 pm
by dimejinky99
digster wrote:A huge jump could also just be due to an uptick in testing, or a mass # of results being reported, even if it's not necessarily indicative of that huge a jump in cases?
No testing being carried out in turkey or Russia. Hence no cases.
When in fact it’s probably rampant and unchecked in both.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 7:16 pm
by Simple Torture
My wife is an academic advisor at a small private college, and they're about to move classes online--she teaches, too, so she'll have to get used to the online environment. But her advising is 100% in-person, and she's still not clear if they actually want her on campus. She also has her dissertation defense scheduled for two weeks from tomorrow, and that university is about to suspend all on-campus classes as well--but no word yet if they'll allow in-person defense meetings. Just a big clusterfuck. And the thing is, all of these schools are moving classes online, but they've still got to keep dining halls and residence halls open, so it's not as if you still aren't going to have hundreds of students together at the same time.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 7:19 pm
by BurtReynolds
Seems like the global economy is not designed to withstand all these cancelled events.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 7:23 pm
by bune
going out on a limb and saying local economies are pretty fucked as well.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 7:23 pm
by digster
dimejinky99 wrote:digster wrote:A huge jump could also just be due to an uptick in testing, or a mass # of results being reported, even if it's not necessarily indicative of that huge a jump in cases?
No testing being carried out in turkey or Russia. Hence no cases.
When in fact it’s probably rampant and unchecked in both.
I meant when you see a huge jump as in Norway. It's the same here in the States; everyday a bunch of states are now registering their first cases because we're finally starting to test - it's not that those are actually the first instances in those states.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 7:35 pm
by dimejinky99
digster wrote:dimejinky99 wrote:digster wrote:A huge jump could also just be due to an uptick in testing, or a mass # of results being reported, even if it's not necessarily indicative of that huge a jump in cases?
No testing being carried out in turkey or Russia. Hence no cases.
When in fact it’s probably rampant and unchecked in both.
I meant when you see a huge jump as in Norway. It's the same here in the States; everyday a bunch of states are now registering their first cases because we're finally starting to test - it's not that those are actually the first instances in those states.
Oh I know. Same here.
The parameters for being tested have just today been expanded.
Previously you had to have met someone infected or been to an infected region.
How th truck do you know someone is infected?
This didn’t take into account endless plane journeys to or from infected regions nor the airports.
We’re headed for a proper disaster in terms of how our economy and societies work. And it’ll come with a break in supply chains and roll down from there.
Not a catastrophe but definitely going to cause massive problems top to bottom.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 7:38 pm
by doug rr
good thing i still have all my mattress money from '08
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 7:41 pm
by bada
According to Tampa Bay News 8, lawmakers on Capitol Hills were given new instructions on how to protect themselves from the virus. The House of Representatives’ attending physician has been asking them to stop shaking hands or touching people during greetings. He recommended they begin using the split-fingers Star Trek greeting instead when it comes to direct contact with others.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 7:45 pm
by tree_
I like the bow. I'm gonna bow.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 8:17 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Simple Torture wrote:My wife is an academic advisor at a small private college, and they're about to move classes online--she teaches, too, so she'll have to get used to the online environment. But her advising is 100% in-person, and she's still not clear if they actually want her on campus. She also has her dissertation defense scheduled for two weeks from tomorrow, and that university is about to suspend all on-campus classes as well--but no word yet if they'll allow in-person defense meetings. Just a big clusterfuck. And the thing is, all of these schools are moving classes online, but they've still got to keep dining halls and residence halls open, so it's not as if you still aren't going to have hundreds of students together at the same time.
Preach.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 8:27 pm
by verb_to_trust
Academia really needs to weed out all the bloated administration anyway. Let em work.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 8:53 pm
by McParadigm
Seattle public schools are officially down. They say it's for two weeks, but they're having them gut their lockers.
We went from first reported case to no longer functioning as a city in...what was it, thirteen days?
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 8:55 pm
by Monkey_Driven
verb_to_trust wrote:Academia really needs to weed out all the bloated administration anyway. Let em work.
The state's budget cuts did that for us years ago.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 9:00 pm
by doug rr
McParadigm wrote:Seattle public schools are officially down. They say it's for two weeks, but they're having them gut their lockers.
We went from first reported case to no longer functioning as a city in...what was it, thirteen days?
the day we moved here..
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 9:23 pm
by bune
well we're fucked.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 9:51 pm
by EJ
McParadigm wrote:Seattle public schools are officially down. They say it's for two weeks, but they're having them gut their lockers.
We went from first reported case to no longer functioning as a city in...what was it, thirteen days?
most schools across the country are not far behind. it's going to be a more widespread precaution that will take place in wifi capable areas than not.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 9:54 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
I have some kind of head cold. Flying home from Denver today, people looked at me like I was patient zero every time I sniffled or coughed.
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 10:06 pm
by Chris_H_2
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I have some kind of head cold. Flying home from Denver today, people looked at me like I was patient zero every time I sniffled or coughed.
you could've had a lot of fun with that
Re: Anybody want a Corona?
Posted: Wed March 11, 2020 10:07 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Chris_H_2 wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:I have some kind of head cold. Flying home from Denver today, people looked at me like I was patient zero every time I sniffled or coughed.
you could've had a lot of fun with that
And get quarantined? Nah. Flying with a cold is brutal enough