Corona Virus. What's going on where you live?

[Made In China]

I work in housing at a major public university, and the university just announced to everyone, including us low level staff, that all Spring classes will be held online. Now we have to deal with the impact on our offices from students and parents freaking out, along with all the personal shit that comes with this pandemic.

The city I live in isn't super affected and there's only a handful of cases so far, but people are still panicking and our major supermarkets have been hit hard. We'll see how everything plays out but my house is starting to take a bunch of precautions too.

[jack burton]

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Sweden is not doing Well. Our largest airline just let go of 10.000 people today.. Im not scared of the virus itself, and pretty sure I already have it since tuesday or so, but the economical hit does. Im lucky to work in a field that should manage this, but its international so who knows. Working from home for a while know though.

[close]

Yea, this. The virus itself isn’t so scary to me personally as a 31 year old (I am thinking about older family members of course), but this shit definitely gonna cause problems. I work in sales/account management for a coffee roaster meaning I talk to cafes and restaurants all day long. I’m worried how long some of my fav coffee shops and restaurants can really survive social distancing. One of my guys already called me and said to skip his normally huge order for this week because no ones coming in. All the offices around him closed.

Also I know mad people who are just guessing if we have allergies, a cold, or corona, myself included.

Same I've been feeling kinda out of it and been getting headaches the past two days. Would really hate to get either of my parents sick since I live with them. My mom went to the hospital today for some unrelated corona things and im kinda nervous she went in without it and will be leaving with it.

[sexualhelon]

I just keep thinking: look at the numbers for Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Thailand. Consider their proximity to China and how well they've been able to contain this. What the f* was the rest of the world thinking?

Take Taiwan for example. As soon as there was a semblance of this being at all serious, they restricted flights and closed schools. People were filling out questionnaires and checked for symptoms upon arrival from international travel - if they showed symptoms they were quarantined for 14 days. If violated, 30k USD equivalent fine.

Necessities such as face masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer were equally distributed based on national id numbers and if caught re-selling these things for marked up profit, stiff fines like mentioned above. Before entering most any establishment, there is a health check and then you must wash your hands. Distancing is enforced in places like restaurants. These are things European countries and the USA should be doing now, no matter pre or post lock-down.

Now, since they took these preventative measures, life is able to continue as normal aside from said rules being implemented. Other countries are just reacting with drastic measures once it's gone too far to ignore and thus comes mass hysteria. The Spanish flu wasn't THAT long ago. Come on, get your shit together.

Stay safe out there. Will be interesting to say the least as to how this transpires day by day.

[pedro_mayn]

South Wales is essentially following what the rest of the UK is doing; fuck all, really.

Although it seems they were umming-and-ahhing to cancel the rugby whilst all other major sporting events got cancelled, but it did actually get cancelled in the end. Logical.

Got a few gigs lined up that might be off the list...One being in London. Hmm. Cash loss is nothing compared to anyone getting wiped out with what is essentially flu 2.0.

I work in social housing, mainly working over the phone and it involves interacting with the general public in person, too (reception being one of my role's duties). We might end up closing up our offices soon, the company is prepping us to work from home.

Shit will get worse. It doesn't help idiots are panic buying stupid shit.

[lady fanny]

Sweden is not doing Well. Our largest airline just let go of 10.000 people today.. Im not scared of the virus itself, and pretty sure I already have it since tuesday or so, but the economical hit does. Im lucky to work in a field that should manage this, but its international so who knows. Working from home for a while know though.

aren't they in trouble because of that anti Swedish commercial? that was some Get Woke Go Broke if i ever i saw it and not related to the CoronaV

[duniwayRobber]

Live in Seattle, the store's aren't as bad as cali (surprising, since we are the 'epicenter'), but business's are nosediving. Tons of restaurant closures (some long overdue, others not-so), Microsoft's getting ready to release 10% of its work force, stock market has ruined a large portion of resident's eggnests, plus entertainment/tourism (a major part of Seattle's economy) has completely dropped off. Fucking mess for everyone in this city, rich or poor.

[fakie nollie]

Blasio essentially banned everything in NYC. The world is coming to a screeching stop.

[VHS ERA]

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Sweden is not doing Well. Our largest airline just let go of 10.000 people today.. Im not scared of the virus itself, and pretty sure I already have it since tuesday or so, but the economical hit does. Im lucky to work in a field that should manage this, but its international so who knows. Working from home for a while know though.

[close]

Yea, this. The virus itself isn’t so scary to me personally as a 31 year old (I am thinking about older family members of course), but this shit definitely gonna cause problems. I work in sales/account management for a coffee roaster meaning I talk to cafes and restaurants all day long. I’m worried how long some of my fav coffee shops and restaurants can really survive social distancing. One of my guys already called me and said to skip his normally huge order for this week because no ones coming in. All the offices around him closed.

Also I know mad people who are just guessing if we have allergies, a cold, or corona, myself included.

Welp.
https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/15/21180713/restaurant-bar-shutdown-nyc-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR0x60q2MIyeuXJ_FRQYAnMQOrBePTmf3Osd22ar94eOU2iHnjwxA4zmn6k
Cafes can do takeout coffee if anyone shows up but all my other accounts are pretty much shut down. How are they supposed to survive this?

[Francis Xavier]

Schools closed for two weeks,no classes for me. Bars are closing up, grocery store is a mad house. Whats funny is that I drove by the beach and it was like nothing was going on at all. Typical crowds and surfers. My neighbors said they got some sort of text saying there will be a CA lockdown for two weeks,but it looked like spam.

Edit: looks like theres been 6 deaths and 335 infected in California,not much compared to others,but growing.

[Ghost Lurker]

Worked the shop all weekend, people still came in buying boards and shoes.

I am normally of work on Mondays/Tuesdays/some Wednesdays... sure hope we get to stay open.

Kids are of school now for a few weeks, so skating more,
hopefully coming in to buy more decks,
wheels etc. It was a ghost town outside Sunday for most part.

[Hex]

Panic-buying is sweeping the town. Should I stockpile decks & griptapes?

[Kylo Send]

How many people in the US have or are about to lose their job? Over a million? This shit is going to be so fucked.

[Hex]

How many people in the US have or are about to lose their job? Over a million? This shit is going to be so fucked.

Losing job is better than losing life. Find new demands and switch job. Online shopping & home delivery is all the rage. If you are writing on this forum you have access to the Internet. You stand a chance.

[iKobrakai]

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Sweden is not doing Well. Our largest airline just let go of 10.000 people today.. Im not scared of the virus itself, and pretty sure I already have it since tuesday or so, but the economical hit does. Im lucky to work in a field that should manage this, but its international so who knows. Working from home for a while know though.

[close]

aren't they in trouble because of that anti Swedish commercial? that was some Get Woke Go Broke if i ever i saw it and not related to the CoronaV

Stockholm, Gay Europe:

The public transport is near halved. I still go to work but they split us into halv, two separate buildings. No food shortages or none of that crazy shit. My gym is still open but I don't count on it staying that way


I'm in finance and the market is not doing too well. We'll see what happens.

[RoaryMcTwang]

It's pretty crazy to read all these posts from here (Shenzhen, China), where we seem to (fingers crossed) have things pretty much under control now. Very few new cases have been reported over the past few across China. Wuhan is still under total lockdown but even there things seem to be easing up.

Most people started going back to work pretty much as usual two weeks ago. Restaurants, cafes etc were closed since late January but gradually opened back up also starting about two weeks back. Schools and unis are still closed though, and there are still mandatory temperature checks everywhere. Also, people from outside are not allowed to come into our high-rise complex, but I've moved most of my tutoring students online anyways. I've been staying indoors mostly but the kids from the Civic Centre crew are killing it everyday in the streets from what I can see on Chinese social media.

How the rest of the world (with very few examples like Taiwan and Singapore) has not seen this coming and prepared better is beyond me, they had almost six weeks' warning. It's kind of hard not to see it as based on an idea that China is somehow exotic and far away and what goes down here won't affect the rest of the world, when precisely the opposite has been the case for decades.

[iKobrakai]

Can I just say that the numbers the Chinese are putting out are near damn worthless? I don't trust those at all.

[rawr1922]

Schools closed for two weeks,no classes for me.

Same. The major universities transitioning online for rest of the semester. Community colleges off for 2 weeks, going online, and a big question mark if it continues for rest of semester.  Both my teachers acknowledged bad with technology plus never taught online class before. Scary.  How everything playing out unprecedented. I'm a wacko and 100% think this virus is a conspiracy.     

[rawr1922]

Can I just say that the numbers the Chinese are putting out are near damn worthless? I don't trust those at all.

 
100%

[KoRnholio8]

Can I just say that the numbers the Chinese are putting out are near damn worthless? I don't trust those at all.

Every nation's numbers are essentially worthless, since tests are not available for all and mild cases are advised to stay at home and not get tested before the symptoms get severe.

[Mr.Jenkins]

Sweden just announced that if you are letting people go for a short period of time, they are going in and pay half the amount of the salary, if the company takes the other half, the worked gets to keep 90% of thesalary. They will also pay the sickleave for companys for the next two months. They also said they are ready to let companys not pay the taxes for a year. That alone will cost 300 billions.


The amount of money this is going to cost is astonishing -  but Im happy that we can do this. I cant imagine how the virus will hit US who probably wont be able to do these things down to the single worker and private companys.

[boyan]

Belgium: Most schools are closed. Restaurants and bars are completely closed. Shops are closed on the weekends. Advised to work at home and see as few people as possible, especially avoiding the elder. All events are cancelled: concerts, sports, etc. So it sucks if you're employed in the hospitality, entertainment, sports and events business. I work in (online) marketing and half of my clients are putting their activities on hold.

You think it's all pretty straight forward in theory, but in reality it's quite chaotic. People are acting in extremes. They either don't give a shit: lockdown parties, private gatherings, going just across the border to shop and go to restaurants and bars. Or they give too much shit: just buying as much food and toiletpaper as they can. Seriously, what's up with the toilet paper?

[OldieButFrenchie]

I've read countries that were hit by SARS were much better prepared for this.

As for me, I'm in Brussels and bars/restaurants/schools/cinemas etc are closed. My youngest son was sick for a few days with fever + cough so we were starting to panic a bit. But he's better now and I think it was actually the flu  (his cough wasn't dry like it's supposed to be with Coronavirus).

Stay safe everyone.........

[excitableboy]

It's pretty crazy to read all these posts from here (Shenzhen, China), where we seem to (fingers crossed) have things pretty much under control now. Very few new cases have been reported over the past few across China. Wuhan is still under total lockdown but even there things seem to be easing up.

Most people started going back to work pretty much as usual two weeks ago. Restaurants, cafes etc were closed since late January but gradually opened back up also starting about two weeks back. Schools and unis are still closed though, and there are still mandatory temperature checks everywhere. Also, people from outside are not allowed to come into our high-rise complex, but I've moved most of my tutoring students online anyways. I've been staying indoors mostly but the kids from the Civic Centre crew are killing it everyday in the streets from what I can see on Chinese social media.

How the rest of the world (with very few examples like Taiwan and Singapore) has not seen this coming and prepared better is beyond me, they had almost six weeks' warning. It's kind of hard not to see it as based on an idea that China is somehow exotic and far away and what goes down here won't affect the rest of the world, when precisely the opposite has been the case for decades.

It's just about money, right? We were watching Italy underreact after what happened in China, and the past two weeks we simply repeated their mistakes. Our PM wanted to keep schools open, now finally has issued the decree to close as specialists all insisted on it. It seemed obvious he just wanted to push it one more week for (short-term) economical reasons. Perhaps the Chinese are also more accepting of the rules? Cafes and restaurants were bustling here until yesterday, few heeding the call to stay inside. Even though something like 70% of the population were polled as favoring lockdown measures. We have to be forced to be free, I guess.

It's encouraging to read things are slowly turning around over there. Korean friends of mine reporting the same from Seoul. Hopefully the US can cope with this too. It's dreadful to think millions are facing this thing out of pocket. Maybe it will change ideas about public health care over there?

I also have yet to comprehend the toilet paper thing.

[legion]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/health/us-coronavirus-sunday-updates/index.html
"The CDC recommends organizers cancel or postpone events with 50 people or more for 8 weeks"

[essal]

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Sweden is not doing Well. Our largest airline just let go of 10.000 people today.. Im not scared of the virus itself, and pretty sure I already have it since tuesday or so, but the economical hit does. Im lucky to work in a field that should manage this, but its international so who knows. Working from home for a while know though.

[close]

aren't they in trouble because of that anti Swedish commercial? that was some Get Woke Go Broke if i ever i saw it and not related to the CoronaV

no, SAS has been up and all good since. people quickly figured out that the "i'm so angry" narrative was ran by a global anti-globalism network of racists on twitter.

this however, just like any airliner, is because of the virus. look up any airline and tell me of anyone doing better today than 1 month ago.

this is the main issue with this virus as far as the worlds concerned. 2008 is childsplay compared to this. the fact that governments all over are trying to plug holes with shittons of money is a very clear sign that we are all sinking together.

[Hevonen]

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It's pretty crazy to read all these posts from here (Shenzhen, China), where we seem to (fingers crossed) have things pretty much under control now. Very few new cases have been reported over the past few across China. Wuhan is still under total lockdown but even there things seem to be easing up.

Most people started going back to work pretty much as usual two weeks ago. Restaurants, cafes etc were closed since late January but gradually opened back up also starting about two weeks back. Schools and unis are still closed though, and there are still mandatory temperature checks everywhere. Also, people from outside are not allowed to come into our high-rise complex, but I've moved most of my tutoring students online anyways. I've been staying indoors mostly but the kids from the Civic Centre crew are killing it everyday in the streets from what I can see on Chinese social media.

How the rest of the world (with very few examples like Taiwan and Singapore) has not seen this coming and prepared better is beyond me, they had almost six weeks' warning. It's kind of hard not to see it as based on an idea that China is somehow exotic and far away and what goes down here won't affect the rest of the world, when precisely the opposite has been the case for decades.

[close]

It's just about money, right? We were watching Italy underreact after what happened in China, and the past two weeks we simply repeated their mistakes. Our PM wanted to keep schools open, now finally has issued the decree to close as specialists all insisted on it. It seemed obvious he just wanted to push it one more week for (short-term) economical reasons. Perhaps the Chinese are also more accepting of the rules? Cafes and restaurants were bustling here until yesterday, few heeding the call to stay inside. Even though something like 70% of the population were polled as favoring lockdown measures. We have to be forced to be free, I guess.

It's encouraging to read things are slowly turning around over there. Korean friends of mine reporting the same from Seoul. Hopefully the US can cope with this too. It's dreadful to think millions are facing this thing out of pocket. Maybe it will change ideas about public health care over there?

I also have yet to comprehend the toilet paper thing.

I guess you can't really force people to stay at home by threatening them with jail time in a democratic western country. Pretty tough situation to go through politically. If you react quickly enough to prevent it, then people will accuse you of destroying the economy by over reacting. A little bit easier for the other countries to follow now, by pointing at italy as an example of what might happen.

[legion]

Yeah. Odds of doing into global recession are probably scary high.

Just had this thought concerning travel/vacation industries. Cruises are shutdown for at least a month, 2 months seems more realistic. Air travel will be down for 1-2 months. Hell.. Fewer ppl driving, perhaps fewer buses/trains running.. Factories shutdown.. Reduced energy consumption..
This could be really good for the environment and air quality.


Fwiw, Spain is also having problems similar to Italy.

[excitableboy]

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It's pretty crazy to read all these posts from here (Shenzhen, China), where we seem to (fingers crossed) have things pretty much under control now. Very few new cases have been reported over the past few across China. Wuhan is still under total lockdown but even there things seem to be easing up.

Most people started going back to work pretty much as usual two weeks ago. Restaurants, cafes etc were closed since late January but gradually opened back up also starting about two weeks back. Schools and unis are still closed though, and there are still mandatory temperature checks everywhere. Also, people from outside are not allowed to come into our high-rise complex, but I've moved most of my tutoring students online anyways. I've been staying indoors mostly but the kids from the Civic Centre crew are killing it everyday in the streets from what I can see on Chinese social media.

How the rest of the world (with very few examples like Taiwan and Singapore) has not seen this coming and prepared better is beyond me, they had almost six weeks' warning. It's kind of hard not to see it as based on an idea that China is somehow exotic and far away and what goes down here won't affect the rest of the world, when precisely the opposite has been the case for decades.

[close]

It's just about money, right? We were watching Italy underreact after what happened in China, and the past two weeks we simply repeated their mistakes. Our PM wanted to keep schools open, now finally has issued the decree to close as specialists all insisted on it. It seemed obvious he just wanted to push it one more week for (short-term) economical reasons. Perhaps the Chinese are also more accepting of the rules? Cafes and restaurants were bustling here until yesterday, few heeding the call to stay inside. Even though something like 70% of the population were polled as favoring lockdown measures. We have to be forced to be free, I guess.

It's encouraging to read things are slowly turning around over there. Korean friends of mine reporting the same from Seoul. Hopefully the US can cope with this too. It's dreadful to think millions are facing this thing out of pocket. Maybe it will change ideas about public health care over there?

I also have yet to comprehend the toilet paper thing.

[close]

I guess you can't really force people to stay at home by threatening them with jail time in a democratic western country. Pretty tough situation to go through politically. If you react quickly enough to prevent it, then people will accuse you of destroying the economy by over reacting. A little bit easier for the other countries to follow now, by pointing at italy as an example of what might happen.

Yeah it's a tightrope. They have implemented hefty fines for being on the street without valid reason (and documentation) in Milan, too.

 

Yeah. Odds of doing into global recession are probably scary high.

Just had this thought concerning travel/vacation industries. Cruises are shutdown for at least a month, 2 months seems more realistic. Air travel will be down for 1-2 months. Hell.. Fewer ppl driving, perhaps fewer buses/trains running.. Factories shutdown.. Reduced energy consumption..
This could be really good for the environment and air quality.


Fwiw, Spain is also having problems similar to Italy.

Milan air quality is famously bad, but has apparently improved considerably already these two weeks.

[johnes]

The smoke shop that i supply with kratom, asked me for a very big order. People have already gone to their shop and stocked up and bought most of their inventory.
But I don’t want to risk not having a couple months supply for myself.
I think I’m going to have to tell the shop that I’m not going to get them their order until I get a new full shipment, which idk when that will be.
I have enough to last me 3-4 months at the moment.
This might fully end my little kratom side hustle.

[JudoOrigami]

if you think the russian facebook troll teams are exclusive to russia you are sorely mistaken.

america's military defense is so overpowered the nations looking to destabilize the west have taken to sneaky covert tactics like infiltrating our online communities and online video games (using VPN) to mentally harass americas vulnerable youth to the point that they do things like shoot up fucking schools.

What China would like to do to white westerners would make the holocaust look like a school shooting.

You have been warned