The coronavirus

rhanishane

3rd death in Australia now but we're all quite old people. Panic buying insanity people are seriously mental here🙄2 woman charged yesterday for punching on over a pack of toilet rolls and they wouldn't give up one packet out of their trolley load! And another fighting with an old lady who just wanted one pack of toilet rolls whilst other lady had 4 jumbo packs. So many selfish dumb arses.

Thoughts_Arrive

I went to the supermarket this morning and it was quiet for a weekend. People probably staying at home in fear of contracting the virus. The toilet paper and tissue aisle was completely empty.

CM189191

mcgruff10 said:

josevolution said:

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-italy-to-tell-people-not-to-enter-or-leave-regions-worst-hit-by-outbreak-11952487
Damn that’s a lot of people to be on lockdown..

Definitely the right call imo.  The us is too fucking ignorant to do something like this.  

I suppose that's one way to look at it.

Another way to look at it is: we're a giant country with a huge population and border. 

We can't keep people from coming and going, how can we expect to stop a virus?

But you know, protectionism and isolationism have worked so well in the past...

🙄

brianlux

what dreams said:

brianlux said:

mace1229 said:

what dreams said:

I find it a little disingenuous to ask the average person to chill out at Costco when Wall Street has sold off 40% of their retirement savings in just three weeks time. If I decide not to go to Denver now, it will be because I need to save my money. Jesus.

What does one have to do with the other? I’m sorry you’re in that boat, sucks for everyone who is. But why does that make it disingenuous to ask why are people raiding Costco of supplies? Ive never seen isles in Costco completely empty and sold out like I did this week. To buy shopping carts full of just toilet paper is freaking out. Buying pallets of bottle water when the tap water is fine is freaking out when you don’t need to.

I agree to both points, Mace. 

What dreams, I too am sorry if your savings are taking a hit.  So are mine and at my age, my prospects of building a bigger retirement portfolio are not great.  I'm still working, but because I'm in retail, that may not be for long.  But that does not give me the right nor the inclination to buy shit loads of toilet paper and bottled water.  I'm not going to get caught up in that kind of hysteria.  How long will that stuff last anyway?  And then what?  People are not thinking, they are reacting.  And they are reacting in a typically predictable, senseless manner.   We humans are creating our own undoing. 

I've seen this coming for decades.  Somehow, I'd hoped it would not come down to this.  I'd somehow hoped we would find a way to sensibly resolve our current difficult issues like we have done at times in the past.  Maybe we still will find away out of this mess.  But I'm not holding my breath.

I guess my point is that people may not have started to panic if Wall Street hadn't panicked first. Shit didn't start flying off the Costco shelves until the stock market tanked. 
Just to be clear, I have not panicked. I did go to WalMart to buy Lysol wipes to clean my students' desks at school because one of them gave me ringworm this past week, but that's it. 

I didn't know the market tanked before the panic buying.  It's all happened so fast!  I'm guessing some companies stocks are soaring due to that panic buying while others plunge.   Overall though, you're right, the market has taken a hit. 

Good move buying the Lysol wipes. Schools are a major concern for the spread of virus so I'm glad to hear you did that as well as glad to hear that some schools in general are being pro-active about sanitizing class rooms.  Hopefully parents are teaching kids about general good personal hygiene. 

I too went out earlier in the week and bought a few containers of wipes and what little I could find in the way of hand sanitzer to use at the bookstore. Unfortunately, right now there is none to be had.  Hopefully stores will be able to re-stock soon.  Soap still seems to be fairly available. 

I'm getting a bit nervous about working with the public.  A young couple were in the store this afternoon and the guy was sniffling and snorting and the girl was coughing a lot.  I thought, "REALLY?  You people are out in public?"  I stayed as far away as possible.  People need to stay home if they are sick or appear sick.  It's unnerving as hell to be around them!

rhanishane

11.2 million people in Aus now have compromised lungs after the bushfires. It's spreading from doctors to healthcare workers to patients and schools and nursing homes. Western Sydney is a hot spot for it. Those tested positive in self isolation have continued to work and expose the virus to multiple people including one student who continued to work in a busy hotel. 

brianlux

rhanishane said:

11.2 million people in Aus now have compromised lungs after the bushfires. It's spreading from doctors to healthcare workers to patients and schools and nursing homes. Western Sydney is a hot spot for it. Those tested positive in self isolation have continued to work and expose the virus to multiple people including one student who continued to work in a busy hotel. 

Very sorry to hear that, rhanishane.  I hope you are well.  How is it that people are testing positive in self isolation and continuing to work?  Do you mean working from home?

Thoughts_Arrive

Disgraceful gutter rats are advertising toilet paper and hand sanitiser that they raided from supermarkets in a Facebook buy, swap, sell group I am part of.
Some sick bitch advertised small bottles of hand sanitiser for $50 each. She raided a supermarket shelf and is now on-selling for way more than they are worth.
There's been people selling packs of toilet paper rolls for very high amounts.
These people are scum. 

brianlux

Thoughts_Arrive said:

Disgraceful gutter rats are advertising toilet paper and hand sanitiser that they raided from supermarkets in a Facebook buy, swap, sell group I am part of.
Some sick bitch advertised small bottles of hand sanitiser for $50 each. She raided a supermarket shelf and is now on-selling for way more than they are worth.
There's been people selling packs of toilet paper rolls for very high amounts.
These people are scum. 

That is totally disgusting.  Even if they didn't steal it in the first place and are just selling their own, that's just wrong.  I hope no one takes the bait.

Thoughts_Arrive

brianlux said:

Thoughts_Arrive said:

Disgraceful gutter rats are advertising toilet paper and hand sanitiser that they raided from supermarkets in a Facebook buy, swap, sell group I am part of.
Some sick bitch advertised small bottles of hand sanitiser for $50 each. She raided a supermarket shelf and is now on-selling for way more than they are worth.
There's been people selling packs of toilet paper rolls for very high amounts.
These people are scum. 

That is totally disgusting.  Even if they didn't steal it in the first place and are just selling their own, that's just wrong.  I hope no one takes the bait.

Not stolen, they've been filling their shopping trollies full of toilet paper, tissues, and hand sanitiser.
Maybe you thought I meant stolen when I said raided. 

brianlux

Thoughts_Arrive said:

brianlux said:

Thoughts_Arrive said:

Disgraceful gutter rats are advertising toilet paper and hand sanitiser that they raided from supermarkets in a Facebook buy, swap, sell group I am part of.
Some sick bitch advertised small bottles of hand sanitiser for $50 each. She raided a supermarket shelf and is now on-selling for way more than they are worth.
There's been people selling packs of toilet paper rolls for very high amounts.
These people are scum. 

That is totally disgusting.  Even if they didn't steal it in the first place and are just selling their own, that's just wrong.  I hope no one takes the bait.

Not stolen, they've been filling their shopping trollies full of toilet paper, tissues, and hand sanitiser.
Maybe you thought I meant stolen when I said raided. 

Ah, I see.  Thanks for clarification.  In any case, it's worse than highway robbery.  Highway robbery is bad enough- random theft of random victim.  But this sounds more like plunder, deprivation, and fleecing all rolled onto one nasty ball.  Bad karma!

JPPJ84

@brianlux if you need sanitizer at work you can mix it yourself. The WHO has recipes. You take Isopropyl (at least 70%) and can mix it with hydrogen peroxide (against germs) and glycerol (keeps your hands hydrated). So it’d be a good start to get Isopropyl 

23scidoo

So, i must take out of my mind my Italy trip In May??

JPPJ84

23scidoo said:

So, i must take out of my mind my Italy trip In May??

At least be prepared. I plan to go the first two weeks of June and I’m thinking of alternatives just in case.

23scidoo

JPPJ84 said:

23scidoo said:

So, i must take out of my mind my Italy trip In May??

At least be prepared. I plan to go the first two weeks of June and I’m thinking of alternatives just in case.

Which is??

JPPJ84

23scidoo said:

JPPJ84 said:

23scidoo said:

So, i must take out of my mind my Italy trip In May??

At least be prepared. I plan to go the first two weeks of June and I’m thinking of alternatives just in case.

Which is??

Well I’m thinking about the Shetlands but that may not be your cup of tea

lastexitlondon

Shetlands looks very peaceful

josevolution

https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-coronavirus-testing-death-rate-2020-3?amp I’m sure this administration would rebuke this information!

Thoughts_Arrive

A knife being pulled over toilet paper?
https://au.news.yahoo.com/police-investigating-after-person-allegedly-threatened-knife-over-toilet-paper-025939157.html

EdsonNascimento

josevolution said:

https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-coronavirus-testing-death-rate-2020-3?amp I’m sure this administration would rebuke this information!

This is clearly the case.  They know the numerator but the denominator is “self reported.”   Actually, the administration was pointing this out.  

Spiritual_Chaos

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

52 in Sweden now.  Damn people skiing in Italy.

94 in Sweden now.

137 cases in Sweden now.

161 cases in Sweden now.

203 cases in Sweden now. 

Now the US has joined in, having one being infected over there.