New York City has closed down bars, restaurants, cinemas, etc…
Canada has closed its borders to international travel. You Murricans are exempt (for now), probably because there’s so much cross-border traffic.
Man, I hope that changes soon. This virus is exploding in the US right now, and the last thing we need is for infected people to be coming into Canada just for a fun holiday.
The US border and the enormous pool of infection down south is our biggest problem here in Canada now.
Canada’s biggest problem is the lack of hospital surge capacity. Not sure closing borders will help, but it will further spook the markets. Hopefully it is a very temporary thing.
Idris Elba tested positive for Coronavirus.
The Dutch prime minister just addressed the nation (first time since 1973).
Main points: this is gonna take a while, months probably. We are following experts in the topic, experts and scientist are the key to everything. Large parts of the populace will get the virus, the majority. We hope herd immunity will kick in. The plan is to flatten the curve…no full scale shut down, but schools are closed, as are restaurants, sport clubs, cafés etc.
Felt like being told we are going to war
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Regarding Monstro’s semi-retweet from yesterday: one daughter is an ICU/cardiac RN in a large NE hospital. They have roughly 40 ventilators, with about 30 typically being in-use on any given day.
That’s not a lot of margin.
The person who tweeted the information is a college/medical school classmate of mine, and I have no reason to doubt his credibility. Although no one here has any reason to trust mine, I suppose.
Interestingly, I recently learned of cases of myocarditis/cardiomyopathy in COVID-19 patients, which might explain why the apparent greatest risk factor for mortality is apparently pre-existing cardiovascular disease, not chronic respiratory disease.
The 9 counties of the Bay Area are going to “shelter in place” starting at midnight tonight. That means we have to stay at home and not go anywhere except for “essential needs”, e.g. grocery, pharmacy, etc.
Boris Johnson has asked the people of Britain not to go to bars and restaurants and to avoid social contact with others including working from home where possible. We’re going to do this in the most polite way possible.
Problem is, if he order bars and restaurants to close they would be able to claim on insurance. But since it’s just given as advice to the public he has really put them up against a wall.
I work and live in Santa Clara County. The management team of my firm is in a huddle right now, watching the live broadcast of this. We’re expecting them to tell what the plan is for us employees any moment. We’re a law firm, not an essential business. It’s not looking good.
But damn, the freeways were empty this morning. The commute, usually brutal, was a breeze.
A rather sobering article about a teacher in our county school district(she teaches at the school my son went to for K-3, in fact). (warning, it may autoplay a video).
Had she (and her first responder husband) listened to the advice she was told, they both would have exposed dozens of people. And from what I can tell, their ER trips etc. were all in the past 10 days - when PEOPLE KNEW BETTER. Argh.
A restaurant I frequent sent out an email notice that their dining rooms were now closed; you can enter to pick up your order but you can’t stay. I think we’ll see a lot more announcements like that - it’s not mandated in our area yet like it is in others.
Six counties. Solano, Sonoma, and Napa have not decided yet.
I’m not a public health expert of course, so I accept the experts’ judgement that social distancing, including shutting bars and restaurants (at least in-house dining) is needed. But, holy cow. According to these guys, the restaurant industry in the US employs 15.6 million people and had expected sales of $899 billion in 2020. How much of that is going to get wiped out? :eek: Even if we miraculously avoid a staggering death toll from this, we have to be heading for severe recession at least.
God, what a nightmare.
Do the various national governments of the UK actually have the power to enforce closure? I mean, it’s the sort of thing you’d expect that there is some Act that allows it, but there again food and drink licencing is usually left to local councils to handle. :dubious:
I’m not too concerned about our finances, but I get paid time off and have money in the bank.
Many, if not all retail and hospitality workers do not get paid time off and usually are not paid well enough to have a nest egg. Most of the ones I know basically live paycheck to paycheck. Being told to stay home without pay is going to be a severe hardship for a bunch of people.
I helped a friend move a fridge so she can turn her restaurant into a takeout joint.
DC was a ghost town.
Romney proposes giving $1,000 to every American adult as coronavirus response measure.
The epidemic has become so bad, so quickly that apparently socialism is called for.