COVID-19 Updates & Discussion

[Miaou 39,013]

We need the lockdown of the country NOW 

 

[AnnaNicoleSmith 32,155]

1 hour ago, Miaou said:

We need the lockdown of the country NOW 

 

lol we are very undisciplined unlike Italians 

[Thrasher 22,980]

1 hour ago, Miaou said:

We need the lockdown of the country NOW 

 

There's still people going for walks on the street without masks in Italy one week after the lockdown. I wonder how much time will be required for France then.

[Franch Toast 23,516]

20 hours ago, MonsterMom said:

Texas declared a state of disaster and all schools are closed here . 

So does this mean you stay home with the MonsterTots? I understand the rationale for closing schools, but I wonder what working parents do in these cases. 

3 hours ago, kyanewest said:

Being a hypochondriac in this time is so hard 

My throat is really dry and I feel it being dry whenever I breathe, and now Im starting to think it could be the virus growing slowly 

I hear you. I had a mild sore throat last night, and my temperature was 98.8 Fahrenheit at one point (I don't know what that is in Celsius, but "normal" temp is 98.6), and I freaked out. I was sure I had the virus. But today, no sore throat, temp is below normal, and no headache, no cough, no shortness of breath, so likely not. But I am becoming so paranoid. What's helped me is to limit my media consumption (as this is all the news talks about). 

[MonsterMom 12,647]

9 minutes ago, Franch Toast said:

So does this mean you stay home with the MonsterTots? I understand the rationale for closing schools, but I wonder what working parents do in these cases. 

 

My work is still open but the kids will be staying with their dad because he is working from home because of all this virus stuff...the good news is if I need to work from home I can. I don't know what parents will do that still have to go to work 

[sarahb 14,517]

So weird how there's about 300 cases in Australia and two of them are Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson 

[Runway 27,876]

There’s a case of corona in my city, some woman who came back from spain days ago was put on quarantine just now. She has probably been wandering around the city infecting everything

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

Cases in Scotland have gone from 121 to 153 cases

[Guest Adarsh]

Here we go  I just got a call from the HR and they said don't come to the office till the 4th of April 

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

UK wide, its gone from 1140 to 1372... but they have only tested a further 600 people. A jump of around 200 makes this a 1:3 ratio 

[steven 3,600]

Canada is now reporting 299 confirmed cases.

[BABYL0N 2,839]

I think there are way more corona cases than registered and I also think some countries like germany are lying about death numbers if you compare the death rates to other countries it just does not make sense to have 5000 people infected and only 9 people dead. Russia for example claims to be having 34 invected people and Turkey says they have only one case meanwhile their state borders to Iran didn’t close and Iran has tenthousands of infections. China claims that 70% of the infected people just recovered. What is the truth seriously...

[Maleficent 6]

currently out east wondering if i should return home to the west coast. My uni is closed for 2 weeks, and they’re not sure if they’ll reopen or move online at the end of that period. 

would really love to be with my family, but also don’t want to put myself through the stress of flying back and forth repeatedly. 

young and able bodied, but i’m kinda paranoid that i’ll run out of food and supplies. 

[Maleficent 6]

1 minute ago, JohnWayne said:

I think there are way more corona cases than registered and I also think some countries like germany are lying about death numbers if you compare the death rates to other countries it just does not make sense to have 5000 people infected and only 9 people dead. Russia for example claims to be having 34 invected people and Turkey says they have only one case meanwhile their state borders to Iran didn’t close and Iran has tenthousands of infections. China claims that 70% of the infected people just recovered. What is the truth seriously...

i think what we’re seeing is a lot of infected ppl with incredibly mild symptoms (symptoms they might even associate with anxiety and placebo) so they are not getting tested. 

this is both good and bad, it’s bad because these ppl will probably go out and risk infecting vulnerable ppl. it’s good because that means that the severity of the virus, and it’s fatality rate, are actually much lower than we currently believe. 

[Franch Toast 23,516]

2 minutes ago, Maleficent said:

currently out east wondering if i should return home to the west coast. My uni is closed for 2 weeks, and they’re not sure if they’ll reopen or move online at the end of that period. 

would really love to be with my family, but also don’t want to put myself through the stress of flying back and forth repeatedly. 

young and able bodied, but i’m kinda paranoid that i’ll run out of food and supplies. 

I think there's a very good chance your university will move online, based on what most universities are doing. I have a lot of friends who are university professors, and all of them have been told they'll be transitioning to online teaching for the rest of the semester. 

Keep in mind that Trump might be imposing domestic travel restrictions, so if you want to travel, better to do it now than later. 

You can't be the only student at your school in this situation.