# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 11, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758 "2020-02-11T01:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 49
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/962 "2020-03-15T21:52:34Z")
The story of South Korea’s patient 31 is incredible. Don’t be a patient 31… > **[2019 coronavirus: The Korean clusters](https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html)** > > How coronavirus cases exploded in South Korean churches and hospitals ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/963 "2020-03-15T21:52:40Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > The wife and I noticed something yesterday. While all the wipes have been sold out for a while in the stores we frequent, there are still lots of pet wipes, in the Pet section. Any reason those wouldn’t work well? Are those pet sterilizing wipes? I think they might just be grooming or cleaning wipes. If you’re just looking for wet wipes, check out the baby section. I’ve been carrying some baby wipes, foaming soap, and paper towels in my car for when I’m out and need to wash up. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/964 "2020-03-15T22:16:50Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > There are rumours that the airport[s] will close, which would be a first in Europe. The chancellor has just announced that all air traffic into, out of, and within the country will indeed be cut off very soon. He’s put out an urgent call to Austrian residents abroad to return immediately. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/965 "2020-03-15T22:25:35Z")
Ireland: All pubs and clubs closed. I’d guess we’ll be totally locked down apart from food, health and required work trips outside soon. Some pubs have already closed and a few of the big ones have said they’ll continue to pay their staff. The others will be covered by a new payment being rushed through to deal with people load off. The banks have also said that if you are effected you can take a 3 month mortgage or loan break. 169 cases and rising fast. 2 dead. Hopefully we have closed things down enough to hold off the horror of Northern Italy. Beds have been cleared in hospitals in readiness but there is no where near enough if this gets bad. All the best guys. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/966 "2020-03-15T22:26:52Z")
My kids’ school district has closed entirely, along with the local university, for at least two weeks. Son’s job is entirely gone during that span. He works at the campus dining hall. His side gig is also kaput, as the business and technical manager of a band that plays in bars and frat parties and such. He’s supposed to graduate in May, and has accepted a job to start immediately afterwards. At Universal Orlando. Hopefully, he can qualify to work another campus job, or collect unemployment. Teen daughter works at a small regional grocery chain. This afternoon, their logistics chain shit the bed. They’re scrambling to get anything in place to get truck orders. Fortunately, daughter has just started another job, but wanted to pick up hours at both during her suddenly free time. That might not be possible. And I have one aunt in stroke rehab, another in cardiac critical care, and an uncle in memory care. My parents and in-laws are all older, with health problems that put them at risk. And I managed to overdraw the bank account by forgetting that the car insurance auto pay was due the day I bought “emergency groceries.” Those are just groceries now. Gonna be a stretch, with the little ones out of school. (The girls get free lunch, and the local district provides free breakfast for all students.) Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/967 "2020-03-15T22:31:21Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > The story of South Korea’s patient 31 is incredible. Don’t be a patient 31… > > [2019 coronavirus: The Korean clusters](https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html) Wow. Typhoid Mary goes to church. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/968 "2020-03-15T22:41:02Z")
Talk about bad timing. My Boston friend was in northern Thailand for several months and supposed to fly back home via Germany yesterday … the first day of the European travel ban. He had to buy a one-way ticket through Dubai on Emirates. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/969 "2020-03-15T23:03:32Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > Ireland: All pubs and clubs closed. Isn’t that like a death sentence to the Irish? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/970 "2020-03-15T23:17:32Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > > [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > > > The story of South Korea’s patient 31 is incredible. Don’t be a patient 31… > > > > [https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html](https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTERS/0100B5G33SB/index.html) > > Wow. Typhoid Mary goes to church. My mother-in-law, a very nice lady living in Busan (she’s Korean) refers to that “super-spreader” as “That stupid c~”. [Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shincheonji_Church_of_Jesus) is information on the church the super-spreader is a member of (Shincheonji, Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (_Shincheonji_ means _New Heaven and Earth_). They have a unique way of prarying, explained in [this video from Arirang News](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yNxqgfqJE). And [the mayor of Seoul was seeking murder charges against that church’s leadershp just two weeks ago](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/seoul-mayor-shincheonji-church-of-jesus_n_5e5d3a30c5b67ed38b364023). ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/971 "2020-03-15T23:27:33Z")
[I’m sure, based on past performance, that this will calm the American public down:](https://apnews.com/c94f009b46741786a0fa3307a4841ba7) > [@](#): > > Trump assured Americans, after speaking with leading grocery chain executives, that grocers would remain open and that the supply chain remained healthy. Speaking at the same White House news conference, Vice President Mike Pence urged Americans to only buy the groceries they need for the week ahead. > > “You don’t have to buy so much,” Trump said at a news conference. “Take it easy. Just relax.” ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/972 "2020-03-15T23:57:04Z")
[ISIS tells terrorists to steer clear of Coronavirus-stricken Europe](https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-isis-terrorists-europe/). ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/973 "2020-03-16T00:07:00Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [I’m sure, based on past performance, that this will calm the American public down:](https://apnews.com/c94f009b46741786a0fa3307a4841ba7) My ears perked up when he said this. I tend to be a weekly shopper, but I picked a few extra items just in case I’m too sick to go to the grocery store in the next week or so. I also have three weeks of food in my pantry, because a month ago I knew shit was going down. Does he want a lot of sick people going to the grocery store? Because urging people to shop only for the week is how you get a whole bunch of sick people at the grocery store at the end of that week. That said, I know why he said what he said and I don’t envy the situation he’s in. People really are panic-purchasing like crazy. Maybe those words will help them to calm down. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/974 "2020-03-16T00:37:28Z")
The [World O Meter site](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) seems to have been hacked. At the moment, it is showing 56,799,999 new cases in Vatican City with 89,204,500 deaths. I sent them an email; I’m sure I’m not the only person who has done so. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/975 "2020-03-16T00:57:58Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > My ears perked up when he said this. I tend to be a weekly shopper, but I picked a few extra items just in case I’m too sick to go to the grocery store in the next week or so. I also have three weeks of food in my pantry, because a month ago I knew shit was going down. Does he want a lot of sick people going to the grocery store? Because urging people to shop only for the week is how you get a whole bunch of sick people at the grocery store at the end of that week. > > That said, I know why he said what he said and I don’t envy the situation he’s in. People really are panic-purchasing like crazy. Maybe those words will help them to calm down. See, your problem is that you’re looking for anything that comes out of this administration to _make sense_. You gotta stop that. You’re gonna hurt yourself, And then something [bad](https://imgur.com/HE68MhD) will happen. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/976 "2020-03-16T01:03:36Z")
This is hard to read. So if you’re already really anxious about this thing, you may not want to click. [A deleted tweet written by someone who claims to be relaying information from a Seattle hospital worker.](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1239290389963714562.html) An except: > [@](#): > > Seattle has 12 machines, which is less than what’s needed. So a central committee there is deciding: you can’t go on ECMO if you’re \>40 yrs old, if you have another organ system failing, or… incredibly… if your BMI is\>25. Turns out these are all major poor prognostic signs. > > (Note: that doesn’t mean that anybody with a BMI \>25 is in trouble if they get COVID. Just that if you’re critically ill from it, that is apparently a poor prognostic marker. Not sure anybody has a clear idea why.) > > Meanwhile the combo of exhausted health care workers & no open ICU beds has made a very hazardous health situation for the entire region. If you have a stroke, a heart attack, etc., it will be hard to get the best care. There are patients in ERs for hours waiting for ICU beds. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/977 "2020-03-16T01:08:55Z")
Is there anything we can really do for the health care workers besides keep healthy and out of their hair? I mean, usually, one suggestion would be to send them food, but delivery services going to overcrowded ERs isn’t the best idea. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/978 "2020-03-16T01:13:53Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Is there anything we can really do for the health care workers besides keep healthy and out of their hair? I mean, usually, one suggestion would be to send them food, but delivery services going to overcrowded ERs isn’t the best idea. According to that tweet I just posted, some delivery services are refusing to serve hospitals out of fear of contagion. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/979 "2020-03-16T01:18:59Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > The [World O Meter site](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) seems to have been hacked. At the moment, it is showing 56,799,999 new cases in Vatican City with 89,204,500 deaths. > > I sent them an email; I’m sure I’m not the only person who has done so. It looks like they got it sorted. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/980 "2020-03-16T02:12:23Z")
[Looks like the stock market will react to today’s interest rate cut the same way it reacted to the last one.](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-stock-futures-tumble-limit-221736058.html) Heck of a stimulus there, Brownie. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/981 "2020-03-16T02:37:29Z")
The only stimulus we really need is to straight up pay people to stay home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=48) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758.md?page=50)