Covid-19

[Masterofreality]

If you want to support our favorite campus establishment, Dana Gardens is selling gift cards/certificates. BJ can mail them. I'm sure they would appreciate the business while they are shut down. I'm remote but buying some that I'll use next year/summer.

BJ, please post an address and phone number where we can order some. We all need to help everyone right now. Be kind.

[xubrew]

When I first heard about the coronavirus I was fairly dismissive. Even when the first cases were reported in the United States I wasn't worried. I was sorry for what happened to the nursing home patients up in Seattle, but I still chalked it up as an individual tragedy and not a national emergency. As recently as a week ago I was thinking about how I hated that the fear of the virus would sort of hang over the tournament and take away from it a little bit.

Yeah, kind of underestimated this one....

[chico]

When I first heard about the coronavirus I was fairly dismissive. Even when the first cases were reported in the United States I wasn't worried. I was sorry for what happened to the nursing home patients up in Seattle, but I still chalked it up as an individual tragedy and not a national emergency. As recently as a week ago I was thinking about how I hated that the fear of the virus would sort of hang over the tournament and take away from it a little bit.

Yeah, kind of underestimated this one....

You're definitely not the only one. Still haven't cancelled a golf trip for early next month - holding out (unrealistic) hope.

[Xville]

Very concerned about the impact this is going to have on small business right now. Amazon and Walmart will be fine, but many of the businesses around us may close their doors for good due to this.

[GoMuskies]

When I first heard about the coronavirus I was fairly dismissive. Even when the first cases were reported in the United States I wasn't worried. I was sorry for what happened to the nursing home patients up in Seattle, but I still chalked it up as an individual tragedy and not a national emergency. As recently as a week ago I was thinking about how I hated that the fear of the virus would sort of hang over the tournament and take away from it a little bit.

Yeah, kind of underestimated this one....

I was at a gathering (which is probably a mistake right there) for my son's baseball team last night, and I listened to one of the coaches say that cancelling the NCAA Tournament was "definitely a money decision because the NCAA realized people would see how great the NCAA Tournament was on TV and wouldn't buy tickets anymore." I didn't have the heart to tell him about the TV contract for the Tournament. Also, the coaches were scrambling to find a replacement baseball tournament this coming weekend for the baseball tournament that was cancelled. They don't realize yet that the whole season is going to get cancelled.

So yeah, you're not alone.

[chico]

Never been to South Boston so I figured Good Will Hunting was kind of a stereotype, but maybe it was more realistic than I first thought.

https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/03/...al-distancing/

The state thankfully closed them yesterday.

[JTG]

Heard Minnesota infectious disease expert Dr. Osterholm being interviewed on CBS this am. He said one of the "bad practices" stemming from the precautions is the closing of schools. His point was children have been shone to be mostly unaffected by the virus. Closing schools takes out roughly 20% of the healthcare workers who now have to stay home with their kids. This is the same Dr who predicted 48,000,000 Americans could contract the virus and half a million could die, so he's not someone who is taking the whole thing lightly.
But the scariest thing I saw about this whole mess is a picture of long lines at gun stores of people wanting to stock up on ammo.

[GoMuskies]

But the scariest thing I saw about this whole mess is a picture of long lines at gun stores of people wanting to stock up on ammo.

Got to be honest: in the midst of this, I kind of wish I was a "gun person". I'm pretty sure I've never even touched a gun, but I'm feeling like this is going to be a stretch where having one on hand isn't a terrible idea.

[drudy23]

Even after an entire weekend of constant news updates explaining what is really going on here, there are still a whole bunch of people who simply don't grasp it.

At this point, the government will be forced to intervene to protect us all from the stupid. There's ALOT of stupid.

[xubrew]

Got to be honest: in the midst of this, I kind of wish I was a "gun person". I'm pretty sure I've never even touched a gun, but I'm feeling like this is going to be a stretch where having one on hand isn't a terrible idea.

It is something that seemingly no one else in the world feels the need to do, and that could pretty much only happen here.