03-22-2020, 11:51 PM | #41 |
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I don't think anyone is doing that, or at least I HOPE not. But on FB and elsewhere I see tons of people who need to vent, and for a lot of people here this is probably the place where they feel the most comfortable doing so, for one reason or another.
But yeah I don't think this is where anyone is getting their Updates on the situation. That would be pretty ridiculous.
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I was going to say the same thing.
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03-23-2020, 12:19 AM | #44 |
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Tough break man. Really sorry to hear.
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03-23-2020, 12:35 AM | #45 |
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Fingers crossed for an actual furlough and not just plain layoff. That may be a lot hairier to come back from.
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Looks like Ottawa is in bad shape. Officially we have 27, and unofficially
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It's weird to watch the panic set in like this. I live abroad and everything is running like clockwork here. The virus dominates the news, but the country closed some schools. Obviously, there's concern over whether a lack of quarantine is a good idea. So far, we haven't had a mass deaths like Italy, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?
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03-23-2020, 02:53 AM | #48 |
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Maybe the title should just have the virus name, I don't feel the intent was to be a news source but more to talk given the impact on everyone.
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As of right now I still have it. But I fully expect to arrive to horrible news this week.
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Yeah after I replied I went to have a look, and yeah all restaurants fully shut from 7pm last night. Wonder if BK or KFC will see an upturn in deliveries?
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03-23-2020, 05:22 AM | #51 |
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It's kind of ironic every sci-fi movie you ever watched about a disease that wipes out half of mankind is so eerily similar to what is happening now. Of course thankfully most people are not dying from Coronavirus and the death toll is only at 7,000 at the moment compared to the 70,000+ that recovered from it, but the whole thing with quarantine zones and how quickly it spread across the globe is scary.
All this proves is if there really was a deadly disease in real life that had a 70%+ fatal rate, the entire human race would be effectively screwed. Every sci-fi movie you ever watched about half the human race being wiped out by a disease would come true. The sci-fi dystopian writers were right. |
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I'm not sure we should be that surprised. This has happened more than a few times in human history. It will certainly happen again. Doctors have been sounding the alarm about the growing ineffectiveness of antibiotics. Bill Gates made the rounds a few years ago criticizing our inability to handle this exact situation.
That goes for every other rare but known disaster. Just wait until a comet slams into an urban center or a solar flare takes out our power grid. We'll be just as shocked despite having known full well this stuff is out there and waiting to happen. As a species, we are awful at long term planning.
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My state just closed schools for the remainder of the year! Next week district administration will devise a distance learning plan for the last seven weeks. I still need internship hours with the degree I am going for. This distance learning crap hopefully will get me a waiver on hours that I need.
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03-23-2020, 01:38 PM | #59 |
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It's also the issue of convincing the average Joe that this isn't a tinfoil hay issue but the real deal too.
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UK on Lockdown for 3 weeks
We can leave house for food shopping, medical needs, exercise. Can go to work if it's absolutely necessary. Can't be with more than 2 people outside.
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