COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US) (8 Viewers)

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Oye said:
Ontario just closed all non-essential businesses. You can find their list of essential businesses at this site, in case you're curious:

https://www.ontario.ca/page/list-essential-workplaces

There are 74 types of businesses under the following 19 categories:

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That's a lot of people out working. I get that we rely a lot on all of these, but its gonna make reducing the spread of this thing near impossible. Whether it's enough to keep hospitals from exceeding capacity is an open question I would think.
 
Oye said:
I don't think that's likely. This is still quite early in this thing. NYC, alone, had an increase of 5,000 cases yesterday - about a 30% jump from the previous day (though the Sunday count might have been off).
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leadership up here in NY is looking at ways to slowly start to open up more businesses in the next week or 2. i think we are going to slowly see things open up....
 
Krodwhodat said:
leadership up here in NY is looking at ways to slowly start to open up more businesses in the next week or 2. i think we are going to slowly see things open up....
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Good freaking luck with that. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense with cases still growing substantially.
 
Joe OKC said:
Dr. Fauci stated on TV that he had things to do at his real job. And that there are no problems whatsoever and his absence is just do to having to take care of his regular routine. And he would be back.



That's not true...

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Yes Joe, as Oye and Xeno mentioned in their posts above- at the time i posted yesterday, it was very much true... And as I mentioned in my post, I’m not sure if it was their ‘OT Lounge’ which you screenshotted from, or their Political talk board where i saw that particular thread.. in any case, i agree that their mods did the right thing by changing it, though surely their members will see it as the mods ‘cowtowing to the anti-T**** crowd‘ or some such thing (i didnt type the actual word, so as not to veer into politics here.)
 
DaveXA said:
Either they are completely overreacting, or they have a hell of a lot more cases than they're letting on. I think it's the latter myself.
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India lacks the infrastructure, or the cohesiveness as a nation IMO, to deal with this sort of thing from either a testing or containment standpoint. If I had to guess, they have no idea how many people have the illness nationally and the state of their hospital ICUs is probably the only indicator they really have, and that data from different regions is likely even difficult to come by for the central government.
 
you beat me to it Dave. NEw York has rapidly turned into the nations hot spot, heck almost the worlds if not already. They haven’t really even gotten into locking down the population all that well and now they are starting to loosen it up? I hope someone quarantines that area with an enforcement that would make China envious.
 
DaveXA said:
Good freaking luck with that. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense with cases still growing substantially.
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up here we are seeing 2 sides, Darwinism or Matthew 25:31-46 and there is little in between from the amount of people i talk to which in my business is a lot in one day....
 
DaveXA said:
That's a lot of people out working. I get that we rely a lot on all of these, but its gonna make reducing the spread of this thing near impossible. Whether it's enough to keep hospitals from exceeding capacity is an open question I would think.
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I agree.

The thinking is that a lot of these businesses are not going to see much traffic, because people are abiding by the social distancing. And a lot of these businesses are not totally 'open.' They have reduced hours. They have limits on people inside at the same time. There are cleaning practices that increase. There are more worker protections. And so on.

Access to a dentist or a vet is emergency only, for example. Yes, these places are "open" but they aren't as "open" as they normally are.

Just this morning, at the grocery store, they were limiting the number of people in the store at the same time. There were markings on the checkouts, only every other checkout open. Plexiglass installed at cash registers. Staff blocking off certain aisles and 'fetching' goods to abide by store limits. Purell stations throughout the store. Staff wiping down and spraying carts as you entered. Cashless transactions mandated. And so on.

Construction projects have guidelines around what can get done. And so on, down the line. It's still far from 'business as usual'

I think that's all important context because many of these places have limits on them.
 
buzd said:
State leadership?
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our construction association was just in a meeting with the Gov and local leaders and other businesses this morning and they want to ease restrictions starting in the next couple of weeks. i am sure that can change but that was the word this morning...
 
Goatman Saint said:
you beat me to it Dave. NEw York has rapidly turned into the nations hot spot, heck almost the worlds if not already. They haven’t really even gotten into locking down the population all that well and now they are starting to loosen it up? I hope someone quarantines that area with an enforcement that would make China envious.
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Yeah, I'd say rope it off and get NYC under control, but it's probably way too late to do that. Really don't have any answers for them now. It's gonna be really ugly there a week from now. Which honestly makes me sad for those suffering.
 
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