Pandemic Panic. Is Everyone’s State Freaking Out?

[mopartaz]

Ah yes youtube censorship--- that's why everyones going to BitChute and Brighteon  for news.
Anyway, Gov over here in NJ just closed all non essential businesses effective tomorrow night.

[Racer57]

Illinois Governor just announced "Stay in Shelter" or whatever the hell it is. He did say that Ag was an "essential" so it wouldn't be effected. Since I farm, I think I'll get in my John Deere tractor and cruise with it checking on everyone else.   

[Brads70]

Ah yes youtube censorship--- that's why everyones going to BitChute and Brighteon  for news.
Anyway, Gov over here in NJ just closed all non essential businesses effective tomorrow night.

Thanks for that! I had never heard of BitChute and Brighteon before! Bookmarked!

[7E-Bodies]

@JH27N0B I'm betting Pritzger will hit 2001# by the end of this because I'll bet none of the kitchen staff at the governors mansion got laid off.

[Brads70]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/opp-warns-businesses-social-distancing-1.5505439?fbclid=IwAR18T8mq2u_3HWtkV9tIyA01gyXoKO7sSEsp4_bxycHDS4Xzri_bxuZ5ZDw


news to me, you can get fined now. Crazy but they are still flying in daily from China, Italy where ever and no one is checking them!

[Matt13]

Video was removed from YouTube for violating guidelines. Lol

[GoodysGotaCuda]

Here's a great graphic representation of what we are trying to do with distancing people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/?fbclid=IwAR2b0byJm-eKs06IQxlaWWwr24_6_JKhot-OCMXEcbaghkytrVjEjn5i0tA

[GoodysGotaCuda]

Maybe I've asked this before, but what type of work do you do? Looks like a Class 5/6/7/8 type heavy duty truck chassis.

[JH27N0B]

The model on my modem is a little fuzzy in my picture, but it's an International Workstar.
I'm in a custom engineering group assigned to the Workstar (now HV) line of class 8 truck chassis.
My manager started his career at your company in Denton around 15 years ago and got a job at Navistar in custom engineering in Garland after getting laid off from Peterbilt, and transferred to IL before the Garland plant was closed.
He is always boasting about how well the Peterbilt design process worked.  Our chassis are so complicated now with about 5 different 10" frame rails and 1 12", along with different frame ladders for each different suspension family, custom engineering keeps busy setting up new designs for everything customers request and cleaning up things the programs release.  So hopefully my job will survive if the economy doesn't collapse...
Sorry for going off topic.  I got an email this morning from the liquor store chain that they are considered essential and thus will stay open.   My run over there yesterday was unnecessary, but it was nice getting out of the house for a half hour.
I'm pondering what I might run out to buy today that won't be open after 5 today until who knows when.  Home brew supplies?  Paint and glue to build one of the 50 models I have sitting on shelves in my utility room?

[Dakota]

As most of you have probably seen, NY is now leading the nation with the # of confirmed cases at over 8000.   In the county that I live in that surrounds Buffalo, there have been 47 confirmed cases to date with about 300 test results still pending.    The vase majority of the cases are in and around New York City.

I had annual test done at a local hospital yesterday (nothing related to the virus).   Patient appointments had been spread out so there was maybe 30% of the normal nubmer of people around the lobby.   There was only one way in and one way out, with a forehead temperature check and an interview before you could get very far.  Masks and sanitizer and social distancing were everywhere.   It was both impressive and a little scary, but overall the medical folks around here have remained very professional, especially those that have volunteered to staff a hospital that is being set up to be 100% dedicated to handling Corona virus patients.   I had another appointment set for late next week that was rescheduled to the beginning of the week.   Based on the explanation I heard, the days of non-critical anything being treated at hospitals are going to be coming to an end for a while due to reduced availability of staff and supplies.

With all but "essential" workers being sent home, the economic fallout is starting to hit.   The stores that are still operating are starting to layoff staff due to the reduced hours.   Where I used to work, we had a payroll system change that was an absolute train wreck such that people were not paid correctly and sometimes not at all.   That history easily validates the statistics that I've read that nearly 80% of the U.S. population is living paycheck-to-paycheck (2017 data).

I continue to see small clusters of parents, grandparents and kids playing outside, & people walking dogs.   With nowhere for most to go, there are signs that some people are rediscovering that they have a family around them.   This is maybe a faint silver lining to this big pile of crap that's landing everywhere.

[7E-Bodies]

Living fairly near @JH27N0B (just outside of Peoria), I'm now more grateful than ever to be into my RT neck deep. I sprinted out yesterday and got some odds and ends ppg related chemicals and various supplies for the project. Very grateful to have the shop (my peace) to disconnect. With my job being considered critical infrastructure, I get dispatched to various electric substations from home, which is where I was requested to bring my company truck. I got up at sunrise today and hit the elliptical for two miles, tended to the chickens, got the wood stove going in the shop and headed in for fresh eggs and coffee. In a few minutes I'll head out to a warm shop and the R/T. This being said, I'm taking notice of the things I do have, not what seems threatened. My wife and three kids are here and well, we're in close contact with a few small-community members that are sharing (safely) and looking out for each other. Our local grocery was panic stricken yesterday when the shelter in place was announced, mainly by out of town creeps that came to horde and strip our shelves. I then headed to a Costco about ten miles away and saw what humanity SHOULD do. No panic. No rushing. Reasonable limits on average need purchase quantities, people being polite and kind to each other. My moral here? Take note of what you DO have, reach out (safely) and help someone, share positives, help calm people even if only in words, call people and check on them, share something they may be doing without and thank God for the moment and the opportunity. We're people that bring back rusted wrecks from the jaws of crushers, we've got this. If anyone needs to vent, my phone number is in my profile. This thing is another day closer to ending.

Kevin

[7E-Bodies]

34,157 people Americans died of the flu during last year's influenza season. Perspective. I don't remember panic or shutdowns.

[JH27N0B]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coronavirus-vs-the-flu-its-just-like-other-viruses-and-we-should-go-about-our-normal-business-right-wrong-heres-why-2020-03-09

[dodj]

34,157 people Americans died of the flu during last year's influenza season. Perspective. I don't remember panic or shutdowns.

That is with the assistance of an immune system that has seen a form of the seasonal flu over the years and whatever %age of Americans that get flu shots.
Now take the corona virus, with no human immunity, no shots, and seemingly about double the contagious-ability (is that a word?) and you have the potential for much worse.

[anlauto]

I'm sure the families of the 12,948 people   who have died so far from Covid-19 will feel better knowing more people die of the flu every year