Coronavirus 2019

[CLWheeljack]

@Nesrie

putting neosporin on their nose

Wow. Galaxy brain stuff right here.

[Gordon_Cameron]

[forgeforsaken]

MIT following Harvard and going virtual classroom, undergrads told not to return to school after spring break.
http://news.mit.edu/2020/letter-regarding-escalating-response-covid-19-0310

[Strollen]

@ChiTownBluesFan

Actually, as someone who bought two last year, Toto doesn’t make the ‘round’ variety anymore - only the ‘extended’ version. We had to get an off-brand for the round toilet, and I just bought an extended toilet to replace the other one, as that’s the one I use and, well, it’s nice to have a little more space for, um, the boys - as it were.

But the ‘off brand’ one upstairs works fine.

I’m very happy with my off-brand also. The only issue was having to run a plug to where my toilet is. Just replaced the seat, didn’t even need to replace the whole toilet.

[Strollen]

@forgeforsaken

MIT following Harvard and going virtual classroom, undergrads told not to return to school after spring break.
http://news.mit.edu/2020/letter-regarding-escalating-response-covid-19-0310

Hmm, so all this top notch universities are going virtual. Why do people need to pay 50-100K a year to go there again?

[Nesrie]

And just in case we decide to keep giving people the benefit of the doubt, remember who we’re dealing with:

Missouri man breaks coronavirus self-quarantine to attend father-daughter...

She and her family were instructed to self-quarantine, and Page said officials relied on “common sense and goodwill,” assuming the whole family would comply.

Don’t give the public the benefit of the doubt. You have to be clear. This is why almost everyone else is saying it the way they are.

[wisefool]

Wait. Payroll taxes are like… medicare and Social Security taxes. So… our answer to the coronavirus is to… cut medicare and social security funding? Please explain, I don’t understand taxes.

ABC News (ABC)

Edit: okay. I see. Trump wants to cut payroll taxes to 0%. House + senate told him to fuck off. (WSJ)

[rei]

It’s OK. He bought Jim Bakker’s silver so he’s inoculated.

[Lurb]

@Strollen

Hmm, so all this top notch universities are going virtual. Why do people need to pay 50-100K a year to go there again?

Non top notch universities will have trouble going fully virtual. I’ll have to stretch the hardware to the max on mine, and we have a grand total of 1 online learning user support guy for 2k teachers and 30k students, who is already stressed in normal times. Our budget is 20 times smaller and we have 8 times less non academic staff for a similar number of students and profs. I bet they do better than us.

[Tortilla]

@Strollen

Hmm, so all this top notch universities are going virtual. Why do people need to pay 50-100K a year to go there again?

Because by paying that the schools have the resources to protect them better than more plebian students.

[SlyFrog]

@Nesrie

Don’t give the public the benefit of the doubt. You have to be clear. This is why almost everyone else is saying it the way they are.

I’d prefer that people tell the truth. There is far more danger in telling people not to freak out, you get it from surfaces and not washing your hands after you touch things, if the thing is actual spread by airborne inhalation.

Because telling people things like that are exactly what leads the public to not self-quarantine, and instead wander off to father-daughter dances.

Because, you know, those scientists are saying not to panic, and you can’t get it through breathing, so I just washed my hands real good and made sure not to touch anything or anyone.

[Nesrie]

@SlyFrog

There is far more danger in telling people not to freak out, you get it from surfaces and not washing your hands after you touch things, if the thing is actual spread by airborne inhalation.

You know how I know people are being told the truth, with the droplets in the air, because of the 6 feet distance that keeps coming up. They’re not hiding a damn thing. They’re telling the truth, and they’re probably worried about being too “aggressive” to tell that asshole, his daughter and his whole damn family to stay home and not go anywhere because otherwise they might kill someone, and certainly not go to a dance full of people.

You don’t get it both ways. You can’t tell people to inform nicely and then also accuse them of not telling people the truth and just telling them not to freak out.

Freaking out helps no one.

You can sure as hell bet your last dollar that man was told the facts, but he didn’t give a damn.

No one is telling anyone to wash their hands and all good. That is the primary method to keep it from spreading, but it’s not the only thing people are being told to do.

[Teiman]

@Woolen_Horde

Oh, fuck

Public Health confirms 10 nursing homes with coronavirus on Tuesday

Public Health — Seattle & King County confirmed Tuesday that is working with 10 nursing-home facilities where residents or employees have tested positive: Life Care Center, Issaquah Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Emerald Heights, Aegis Living at Marymoor, Redmond Care & Rehabilitation Center, Ida Culver House Ravenna, Boulevard Park Place Active Retirement Community, Madison House Independent & Assisted Living Community, The Gardens at Juanita Bay (Kirkland), Columbia Lutheran Home.

In addition, the public health agency reported 74 new coronavirus cases today, bringing the total for King County to 190.

Two new deaths were reported, making a total of 22 coronavirus fatalities in the county. Of those, 19 have been associated with Life Care Center in Kirkland.

“We’re going to see increasing cases for the forseeable future. It will not be unusual for us to see a doubling of cases on a weekly basis, if not even more frequently,” said Patty Hayes, director of Public Health Seattle & King County. “I’m assuming that we have it occurring low-level throughout the county.”

Hayes stressed that 80% of people who have the virus will experience only mild symptoms.

I guess it should be illegal to use the same group of people to attend many different nursing homes.

[newbrof]

@Gordon_Cameron

and those displaying symptoms of sickness must WFH

I noticed, that the ability to work from home resulted for me to work from home being sick instead taking a sick leave. lol. This I will not do again, if I don’t feel well, I stay at home and will not work, promised.

[Nesrie]

At least 44 dead from drinking toxic alcohol in Iran after coronavirus cure...

Don’t believe in false rumors… there are so, so many of them. Get your information from official sources.

[Diddums]

@Nesrie

my favorite, running around feeling safe with masks that are not on correctly at all.

This is your hobbyhorse, but facemasks, even the surgical kind, do assist in preventing disease transmission. China aside, Taiwan, Korea, and Singapore (the latter three all democracies) are issuing facemasks and asking for compliance for a reason.

Aside from handwashing, the use of facemasks is also valuable in infectious disease control, especially in circumventing droplet transmission.(14,15) For example, the effectiveness of surgical masks and N95 masks in blocking the transmission of SARS are 68% and 91%, respectively.(7) Facemasks, when fitted properly, effectively disrupt the forward momentum of particles expelled from a cough or sneeze, preventing disease transmission. Even if the facemasks are ill-fitting, they are still able to interrupt the particles and airborne viruses sufficiently, such that these pathogens do not reach the breathing zones of people nearby.

To be fair, the next paragraph states:

Outside the hospital environment, the effectiveness of facemasks in containing the spread of airborne diseases in the general population has been diminished largely due to improper use and lack of user compliance.

E.g. not enough people wearing facemasks, and the study goes on to explore why.

[Menzo]

Feel kinda bad saying it, but honestly, that sounds like a Darwin situation.

[Nesrie]

@Diddums

This is your hobbyhorse, but facemasks, even the surgical kind, do assist in preventing disease transmission. China aside, Taiwan, Korea, and Singapore (the latter three all democracies) are issuing facemasks and asking for compliance for a reason.

A few things. Don’t call it a hobby. I am as serious as a freaking heart-attack.

This information isn’t coming from me. Everything I have said is backed up by official sources. You can easily find them.

And…

@Diddums

Outside the hospital environment, the effectiveness of facemasks in containing the spread of airborne diseases in the general population has been diminished largely due to improper use and lack of user compliance.

No shit.

[Diddums]

Their argument is explicitly for more facemasks in the general public, and the thrust is why the public isn’t adopting facemasks, precisely the opposite of what you are saying.

The point of 100% facemasks is not to prevent infection of the wearer, it’s to slow the spread (reduce the peak). Normalizing facemask wear allows for all people including asymptomatic carriers to wear facemasks and again, reduce the spread of disease.

[playingwithknives]

Awful, awful woman, nasty right wing trash.

Health minister tests positive for coronavirus

and she’s been in No. 10. I guess the idea is to give all the Tories the virus as quickly as possible do it burns through them or something.