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Princess Cruises are not have any for 60 days. Others to follow suit. That kills them and their employees.
 
Matthew70 said:
The rate one would go thru masks and gloves. One box would not make it past a week. Trust me I’m in the field that provides them. Your talking average of $7 a box for 50 pairs. That’s the average glove. So take that times 4 members in a family.
4x7=28 weekly just in gloves.
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Where are you getting $7 gloves. Ill have a PO tomorrow for 100k
 
My niece has been out of school all this week. She's in the Fulton Co. Schools district. She was supposed to be going back on the 23rd, but now it's been changed to closed "until further notice". They had a teacher at her school who tested positive for Caronavirus.
 
SD said:
I will check tomorrow. I thought the run on gloves last week was crazy but the last 2 days have been ridiculous
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I work in construction. We got lucky and got cases of dust masks for our guys through a supplier after there was a run. We just need them for dust.
 
The Clarke County School District here in Athens just announced that they're shutting down until at least the 23rd, possibly longer.
 
Exactly the point we need to be making. The cases are grossly underestimated and community spread is likely everywhere.

Btw to clarify, this statement is about Ohio only. The expert believes 100k people in Ohio have it.




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Brick Tamland said:
Schools around here are starting to close until April 6.
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we have a thread for the school closings. Do you have a link to a list of closings. It’s interesting that some states closing all public schools and other states have left it up to the local districts.
 
Jon said:
Exactly the point we need to be making. The cases are grossly underestimated and community spread is likely everywhere.

Btw to clarify, this statement is about Ohio only. The expert believes 100k people in Ohio have it.




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If that 1% is the same for every state...
 
Brick Tamland said:
If that 1% is the same for every state...
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If you say that .5% of the US has it or has been exposed to it then that's over 1.5 million people already, if there were adequate test kits available the positive case numbers in the US would probably be in the 10's of thousands by now.....the upside is we are not seeing a lot of critical cases or deaths yet.....of course there could be dozens of people with it in critical care right now and we just have not tested them. The real issue is trying to keep this manageable to handle the increase in severe cases as they develop over the next few weeks and months. There is little chance now that the US does not end up with a widespread outbreak.
 
Jon said:
Exactly the point we need to be making. The cases are grossly underestimated and community spread is likely everywhere.

Btw to clarify, this statement is about Ohio only. The expert believes 100k people in Ohio have it.




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How do they know that many people have it without testing? And I assume this is good news because if 100k or more have it we aren’t hearing anything alarming about those people having issues.
 
Snowflowxxl said:
Just spent over an hour in a Kroger. Madhouse doesn’t describe it. People are going crazy lol
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Yeah I went to Food Lion after work today and the parking lot was full and tons of people there buying up groceries. One lady was actually having a panic attack about what’s going on, never seen anything like it.
 
Arcc said:
Either we will have lots of older people dying or there will be anger like we have never witnessed in 5-10 days.
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At this point there’s no hope in containing this or even trying to slow it down... I say after everything shuts down for 2-4 weeks that we just let life go back to normal and let it run it’s course...at this point if you let the economy shut down for too long you risk causing even greater harm for years if there are tons of jobs lost, businesses closing, etc. How about all the healthy people who could lose everything if we enter a recession and they can’t pay their bills?

To me it seems the message is we are going to shut things down for 2-4 weeks and then let everything return back to normal. I hope that’s the case because shutting the economy down long enough to wipe this virus out simply won’t happen, especially since it’s global.
 
snowlover91 said:
How do they know that many people have it without testing? And I assume this is good news because if 100k or more have it we aren’t hearing anything alarming about those people having issues.
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That is my take as well. Assuming it is correct, we should be seeing atleast some impact in the first or second group possibly third group that caused the cluster if it is as dangerous as claimed.
 
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snowlover91 said:
How do they know that many people have it without testing? And I assume this is good news because if 100k or more have it we aren’t hearing anything alarming about those people having issues.
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It’s an assumption but an educated one, she’s an MD. She’s basing it off community spread and I believe 2 cases of community spread alludes to 1%. You can probably find the press conference online somewhere..


"Just the fact of community spread says at least 1% of the population is carrying the virus," Acton said in a Thursday press conference, alluding to the fact that two of the five patients contracted the virus through community spread. "That gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and is spreading quickly."

Source: https://www.wkyc.com/mobile/article...virus/95-f6d8add8-94b5-42ec-bba1-347e6eed29bd


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metwannabe said:
And if it's the latter, forget anyone taking the next potential threat serious
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My worry all along is that we would find out that there are tons of asymptomatic or very mild cases. Once that cat would get out of the bag with very low CFR people would get angry, go back to life and forget about it and help spread it to those who can't handle it. Then next year when 60-120k people are dead in nursing homes everyone would be shocked because it "wasn't that bad".


This whole thing has definitely got me back into the homestead mindset. If this virus causes this many problems to society, what would a very infectious, novel strain of Ebola do?
 
Arcc said:
My worry all along is that we would find out that there are tons of asymptomatic or very mild cases. Once that cat would get out with very low CFR people would get angry, go back to life and forget about it and help spread it to those who can't handle it. Then next year when 60-120k people are dead in nursing homes everyone would be shocked because it "wasn't that bad".
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That is what I am worried about, too. That's why people calling it all an overreaction are wrong. It might not hurt you, but you could be infected and spread it to others who can be killed by it.
 
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