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Post by GBGav on Mar 22, 2020 6:17:53 GMT -5
As I live with my mother, we have 64 days according to that. We weren't hoarding paper, it's just that she had knee surgery a few weeks ago and got 18 extra rolls in to cover her being housebound just before everybody started losing their minds. I haven't seen any paper anywhere for almost two weeks now.
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Post by snowjorden on Mar 22, 2020 8:39:27 GMT -5
Used 3 trips per day, for 3 people (advanced option)... we have 20 rolls (they are double rolls and stuff), good for 36 days. Woo hoo!
Seriously though, people are crazy. Our wal-mart here in Central/Southern Illinois looks ridiculous it's so baren.
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Post by Valbroski on Mar 22, 2020 14:08:37 GMT -5
Management from my job sent out a group text and we're staying open, despite the mandate for all non essential businesses to close. We'll see how it pans out.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Mar 22, 2020 15:02:51 GMT -5
Management from my job sent out a group text and we're staying open, despite the mandate for all non essential businesses to close. We'll see how it pans out. What kind of work do you do?
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Post by Valbroski on Mar 22, 2020 15:48:52 GMT -5
Management from my job sent out a group text and we're staying open, despite the mandate for all non essential businesses to close. We'll see how it pans out. What kind of work do you do? I work for a dietary supplement manufacturer. It's not an essential business.
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Post by K5 on Mar 22, 2020 16:16:58 GMT -5
What kind of work do you do? I work for a dietary supplement manufacturer. It's not an essential business. yeah it's strange. my buddy works as a chemical engineer in a plant that they product high fructose corn syrup and he's being listed as mandatory. pretty sure the world would do just fine without over processed sugars in products that we don't need.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Mar 22, 2020 16:34:25 GMT -5
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Post by Valbroski on Mar 22, 2020 16:58:49 GMT -5
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Post by hbkjason on Mar 22, 2020 16:59:58 GMT -5
Many public places here in the UK have been packed today and people are acting like they are shocked!!!! Well, I am not! My wife is a teacher and I worked in a school for many years myself so this selfish, ignorant and just dumb behavior from the British public does not shock me in the slightest! This has been years coming, we live in a day and age where it is "cool" to not give a about others, think you can do and say what you want. It is a badge of honor to be scummy, rough and go against what is deemed to be good and normal. Even if we do have a mandatory lockdown here in the UK, which we need. Many people will ignore it, go out and then act all offended and like they are being persecuted against when they are called out on it. I am 38 and I know this makes me sound old, but what the has happened to society? When did manners and common decency become something to avoid?
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Post by Valbroski on Mar 22, 2020 17:04:26 GMT -5
I work for a dietary supplement manufacturer. It's not an essential business. yeah it's strange. my buddy works as a chemical engineer in a plant that they product high fructose corn syrup and he's being listed as mandatory. pretty sure the world would do just fine without over processed sugars in products that we don't need. Yeah, there is no justifable reason as to why my company should stay open. Everybody has been set up to work from home and we are already working from home for half the week. We're actually doing 6 day work weeks now with 3 being at home and the other 3 being in the office. If this lasts for as long as they are anticipating, I can't imagine the state not cracking down on enforcing the stay at home mandate.
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Post by GBGav on Mar 22, 2020 17:20:13 GMT -5
Many public places here in the UK have been packed today and people are acting like they are shocked!!!! Well, I am not! My wife is a teacher and I worked in a school for many years myself so this selfish, ignorant and just dumb behavior from the British public does not shock me in the slightest! This has been years coming, we live in a day and age where it is "cool" to not give a about others, think you can do and say what you want. It is a badge of honor to be scummy, rough and go against what is deemed to be good and normal. Even if we do have a mandatory lockdown here in the UK, which we need. Many people will ignore it, go out and then act all offended and like they are being persecuted against when they are called out on it. I am 38 and I know this makes me sound old, but what the has happened to society? When did manners and common decency become something to avoid? I can't believe how many people are treating being off work as an excuse to go on holiday to seaside and countryside towns. The roads are packed with people trying to get into Cornwall and Snowdonia for example. These are little towns that don't have the resources to cope with an outbreak and they've got hundreds of selfish twats potentially bringing the virus into the town. Stay at ing home!
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Post by Mongo Bears on Mar 22, 2020 17:32:31 GMT -5
I finished my shift at my job today and then got the call I was laid-off after. I work for my family business. We shut down shop. My state doesn’t require it yet but it probably will soon anyways
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Post by charabro on Mar 22, 2020 17:42:11 GMT -5
Still at work tomorrow, although I've heard a few sites have closed
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Post by mikey1974 on Mar 22, 2020 18:46:01 GMT -5
Going to throw a staggering statistic out there...
This thing has a mortality rate of roughly around 3% ...
More and more we hear it's going to be impossible for near everyone in the world to NOT get affected...
We have roughly 8 Billion people in the world...
3% of 8 billion is 240 million
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Post by shanieomaniac on Mar 22, 2020 19:06:08 GMT -5
Going to throw a staggering statistic out there... This thing has a mortality rate of roughly around 3% ... More and more we hear it's going to be impossible for near everyone in the world to NOT get affected... We have roughly 8 Billion people in the world... 3% of 8 billion is 240 million No, the really really scary part is that, judging by the website worldometer, the 3% number is wildly off. Taking into account the total number of "Closed" cases (Meaning either the person or the illness terminated) compared with survival/death rate, and removing all other variables? The fatality rate isn't 3%. It's 13%
That isn't 240 million
It's 1.4 BILLION
But, you know, try not to panic...
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Post by snowjorden on Mar 22, 2020 19:41:32 GMT -5
What's classified as essential is ridiculous. My father in law works at Hershey Chocolate, how's producing candy "essential?" My gf, McDonalds.. uh.. don't think Happy Meals & McDoubles are essential. One of the reasons she's heard is so they can provide food for truckers. Which, would be very noble of those workers to brave this to feed delivery drivers, except.. semi's can't go through McDonalds drive-thru, walk-ups aren't allowed and the lobby is closed. So essentially she's risking her life around other employees and people thru drive thru, just to serve people IN TOWN.. who could be making food at home. Stupid. Also, yeah, the fatality rate brought up a convo between my girlfriend and I. She thought, well that numbers small.. till I explained 3% of 8 billion, isn't actually small. She told me 3%. Is the number actually 13% Many public places here in the UK have been packed today and people are acting like they are shocked!!!! Well, I am not! My wife is a teacher and I worked in a school for many years myself so this selfish, ignorant and just dumb behavior from the British public does not shock me in the slightest! This has been years coming, we live in a day and age where it is "cool" to not give a about others, think you can do and say what you want. It is a badge of honor to be scummy, rough and go against what is deemed to be good and normal. Even if we do have a mandatory lockdown here in the UK, which we need. Many people will ignore it, go out and then act all offended and like they are being persecuted against when they are called out on it. I am 38 and I know this makes me sound old, but what the has happened to society? When did manners and common decency become something to avoid? Wow.. it honestly sounds like you're describing a LARGE portion of the United States populace as well...
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Post by kennyw86v2 on Mar 22, 2020 19:54:32 GMT -5
What's classified as essential is ridiculous. My father in law works at Hershey Chocolate, how's producing candy "essential?" My gf, McDonalds.. uh.. don't think Happy Meals & McDoubles are essential. One of the reasons she's heard is so they can provide food for truckers. Which, would be very noble of those workers to brave this to feed delivery drivers, except.. semi's can't go through McDonalds drive-thru, walk-ups aren't allowed and the lobby is closed. So essentially she's risking her life around other employees and people thru drive thru, just to serve people IN TOWN.. who could be making food at home. Stupid. Also, yeah, the fatality rate brought up a convo between my girlfriend and I. She thought, well that numbers small.. till I explained 3% of 8 billion, isn't actually small. She told me 3%. Is the number actually 13% Many public places here in the UK have been packed today and people are acting like they are shocked!!!! Well, I am not! My wife is a teacher and I worked in a school for many years myself so this selfish, ignorant and just dumb behavior from the British public does not shock me in the slightest! This has been years coming, we live in a day and age where it is "cool" to not give a about others, think you can do and say what you want. It is a badge of honor to be scummy, rough and go against what is deemed to be good and normal. Even if we do have a mandatory lockdown here in the UK, which we need. Many people will ignore it, go out and then act all offended and like they are being persecuted against when they are called out on it. I am 38 and I know this makes me sound old, but what the has happened to society? When did manners and common decency become something to avoid? Wow.. it honestly sounds like you're describing a LARGE portion of the United States populace as well... Food is essential, and with people panic buying, a lot of it is hard to find. Those mcdoubles are crucial tbh. It sucks and it's not worth the risk for the pay, but that's what the doomsday people have done.
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Post by shanieomaniac on Mar 22, 2020 20:25:20 GMT -5
What's classified as essential is ridiculous. My father in law works at Hershey Chocolate, how's producing candy "essential?" My gf, McDonalds.. uh.. don't think Happy Meals & McDoubles are essential. One of the reasons she's heard is so they can provide food for truckers. Which, would be very noble of those workers to brave this to feed delivery drivers, except.. semi's can't go through McDonalds drive-thru, walk-ups aren't allowed and the lobby is closed. So essentially she's risking her life around other employees and people thru drive thru, just to serve people IN TOWN.. who could be making food at home. Stupid. Also, yeah, the fatality rate brought up a convo between my girlfriend and I. She thought, well that numbers small.. till I explained 3% of 8 billion, isn't actually small. She told me 3%. Is the number actually 13% Ok, I should have mentioned I failed math. I did. In school. Literally failed algebra, and passed statistics by a tenth of a percent. So my math, and especially my statistics could be wildly off. I'm just going by the listing on the site I saw that, out of the confirmed closed cases so far, 13% have resulted in fatalities. But, here's the kicker (and I just thought of this after that initial post). The confirmed closed cases is in the tens of thousands. The confirmed current cases is over 200K. So that stuff you heard about "Well, due to poor testing abilities, we don't really know how many closed cases there actually are" could very well be true. For all we know, there could be 200K people who already had this and healed. But since they never showed symptoms, and healed before the "rush" so to speak, we likely won't know to add them to the statistics. Personally, I've heard sources claim on the record anywhere from 3% to 7%, but they always seem to add that bit at the end of "Time will tell" and "We don't really know much yet", so take everything, and I do mean everything you hear with a large heaping teaspoon of salt. Oh, and about the truckers thing. Many fast food restaurants have been changing the walk-up policy. I've heard reports nationwide that they are catering to truckers these days. Just edited to throw that in.
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Post by vampiroporvida on Mar 22, 2020 20:38:27 GMT -5
Keep the faith. Science is coming down the pike with antibodies and other such treatments. Not a cure all, but hopefully will get here fast enough to save a lot. In my opinion, the hospitals shouldn't be clogged by people with no sypmtoms, or ones with little reaction to it. Go home and stay home. 2 weeks and you should be good. Now, these spaces should be saved to protect the elderly and extremely affected populus, and the ones that are doing things like cancer treatments. We must have a chance to save our elderly; they took care of us, now it is time for us to do that for them. Live long and prosper. This too shall pass. But if I lose my loved one, my only family, my grandpa, I may go catatonic, in all honesty.
VPV
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Post by Mongo Bears on Mar 22, 2020 20:40:49 GMT -5
What's classified as essential is ridiculous. My father in law works at Hershey Chocolate, how's producing candy "essential?" My gf, McDonalds.. uh.. don't think Happy Meals & McDoubles are essential. One of the reasons she's heard is so they can provide food for truckers. Which, would be very noble of those workers to brave this to feed delivery drivers, except.. semi's can't go through McDonalds drive-thru, walk-ups aren't allowed and the lobby is closed. So essentially she's risking her life around other employees and people thru drive thru, just to serve people IN TOWN.. who could be making food at home. Stupid. Also, yeah, the fatality rate brought up a convo between my girlfriend and I. She thought, well that numbers small.. till I explained 3% of 8 billion, isn't actually small. She told me 3%. Is the number actually 13% The 13% fatality rate as of now is only out of about 112,000 closed cases worldwide not 8 billion. 3% of 8 billion is much higher than 13% of 112,000
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