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[TD1]

I live in the countryside. So at least I'm able to go out for runs and walks. And I've been catching up on my reading list. Honestly it was a big blow to me at the start, cutting off all my social activities. But I sometimes find it relaxing, and I'm writing a lot more and learning theory. So that's all fun. And my offer of a funded doctorate at least offers me a firm future for the next few years.

To clarify, I don't have it. I just really, really don't want it.

Oh, and there's always something to do on the farm. For instance, Roberta, a 16 year old cow-who-was-mainly-a-pet got very, very sick with a fever, so we were going to her pen daily to turn her over. (She died yesterday though).

[nenjin]

I'm still going to work, going out for lunch. Most fast food restaurants are doing carry out only at this point, but several others are going to remain open until instructed to close.

We're only at 19 confirmed cases as of right now. That's almost double from Friday of last week. So it seems so far we're doing ok here, but I don't know the story behind testing kits and what not. Town is certainly taking the social distancing fairly seriously though.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Also still at work and eating takeout in my car, though I have almost nothing to do and the hammer could fall any day now.

[Dostoevsky]

I'm generally a non-social recluse by nature, so my adventure in self-isolation feels more natural than going into work every day did. Working from home.

(That said, I suppose I'll see if this response ages well in the weeks to come.)

Metro ridership (our DC-area public transit) numbers are down 80% compared to last year, so I guess people are taking things relatively seriously here. Nature of my job means working from home is quite easy, which I appreciate is quite a luxury to have.

[TamerVirus]

Work continues until the end of the week because the state still needs their damn sales taxes
Lots of local businesses are shuttered/on hiatus for the time being so there's noticeably less people wandering the streets.
A good 80% of the people I see out and about are wearing surgical masks, with the occasional N95. Some scalper goons trying to sell individual masks on the streets

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Going to work this morning was creepily desolate, though this was the first day it was like that.

[Iduno]

I think its that you need lockdowns because otherwise people wont socially isolate. Even with the lockdown, even with the pandemic, some people try to dodge the rules and do their own thing.

People are really, really stupid and selfish yes

The number of people who came back home sick and infected hundreds before anyone figured out the sick person was sick says that's probably the problem.

I hope our governments don't spend all their funds on compensating company losses, but invest in majorly expanding disease control capacity as well.

Hope it works elsewhere, the US has made it clear which people matter here.

[Enemy post]

I wonder what effect all this effort to fight the coronavirus will have on other diseases.

[ChairmanPoo]

I think its that you need lockdowns because otherwise people wont socially isolate. Even with the lockdown, even with the pandemic, some people try to dodge the rules and do their own thing.

People are really, really stupid and selfish yes

The number of people who came back home sick and infected hundreds before anyone figured out the sick person was sick says that's probably the problem.

I mean the main problem is that many people dont even figure they're sick and they spread the disease.
This would be less of a problem if people were aware of this and didnt ignore the recommendations because they felt fine

I wonder what effect all this effort to fight the coronavirus will have on other diseases.

I have second hand info about a major hospital in Madrid: organ transplants, oncological surgery... all cancelled.
Some of those people will die. We wont see those deaths as covid deaths. Doesnt matter one iota if you're one or the other

[martinuzz]

Netflix will likely be forced to lower it's video quality because the internets are overloading.

[McTraveller]

I have second hand info about a major hospital in Madrid: organ transplants, oncological surgery... all cancelled.
Some of those people will die. We wont see those deaths as covid deaths. Doesnt matter one iota if you're one or the other

I know the US they were talking about cancelling the huge number of elective surgeries - I didn't know places were considering (or implementing) cancelling any kind of emergency / critical surgery.

[mko]

I have second hand info about a major hospital in Madrid: organ transplants, oncological surgery... all cancelled.
Some of those people will die. We wont see those deaths as covid deaths. Doesnt matter one iota if you're one or the other

I know the US they were talking about cancelling the huge number of elective surgeries - I didn't know places were considering (or implementing) cancelling any kind of emergency / critical surgery.

Italy run out of ventilators, patients that were old or with complications were not fully treated in at least some hospitals.
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“We recognize based on current data that our local Covid-19 trajectory is likely to be similar to that of Northern Italy,” read an email one hospital in the Seattle area sent to its surgeons.

"Alison Krupnick had surgery scheduled to remove early stage cervical cancer, but because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, her surgery was being postponed indefinitely to keep hospital beds open" (...) "Dr. Simmonds said slow-growing cancers, like prostate and cervical cancer, were more likely to be delayed. "

"An older person who has a total hip replacement may need to recuperate at a skilled nursing center — institutions that have been hit hard by the coronavirus. “As you can imagine, in this time, that’s probably not the best thing for that patient,”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/coronavirus-covid-surgeries-canceled.html

[nenjin]

"Alison Krupnick had surgery scheduled to remove early stage cervical cancer, but because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, her surgery was being postponed indefinitely to keep hospital beds open" (...) "Dr. Simmonds said slow-growing cancers, like prostate and cervical cancer, were more likely to be delayed. "

Great, I'm taking my mom to the hospital tomorrow for Uteran Cancer. With our numbers being low here still so far, maybe they won't delay her. But that's like, the last thing she needs to hear, that she's going to have to wait to remove her stage 1 cancer which will inevitably become stage 2 and on.

[Bralbaard]

 I guess coming in for treatment now would be better than in a week or two. You might be fine now, but down the line, things are likely to get worse and it would be more likely for treatments to be cancelled. Best wishes for you and your mother.

[ChairmanPoo]

"Alison Krupnick had surgery scheduled to remove early stage cervical cancer, but because of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, her surgery was being postponed indefinitely to keep hospital beds open" (...) "Dr. Simmonds said slow-growing cancers, like prostate and cervical cancer, were more likely to be delayed. "

Great, I'm taking my mom to the hospital tomorrow for Uteran Cancer. With our numbers being low here still so far, maybe they won't delay her. But that's like, the last thing she needs to hear, that she's going to have to wait to remove her stage 1 cancer which will inevitably become stage 2 and on.

Talk it through with the team