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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby CalvinBall » Tue Mar 10, 2020 15:40:13

06hawkalum wrote:
slugsrbad wrote:Feel like we’re playing through the tutorial stage of an apocalypse video game sometimes.


Yeah, I guess the silver lining is that this will help prepare us for the real thing?

The response has been laughably disproportionate to the threat.


Idk. Italy is a shit show right now and we are probably more behind the eight ball than they were at this stage.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby PSUsarge » Tue Mar 10, 2020 15:42:45

CalvinBall wrote:Coatesville HS now refusing to host a playoff basketball game between Lower Merion and Wilson.

Still salty about Kobe beating Rip Hamilton in the District 1 final all those years ago, huh

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby CalvinBall » Tue Mar 10, 2020 15:47:25

seems pretty dire tbh

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1 ... 2081599489

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby heyeaglefn » Tue Mar 10, 2020 15:56:53

If you haven't watched Netflix Explained Pandemic it may be worth a watch, this feels like SARS where China was late again to tell us and we may have had this virus in the USA for weeks or even months before we knew it.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby slugsrbad » Tue Mar 10, 2020 15:58:13

Pod Save America cancelled their March tour dates.. jerks.
Quick Google shows that GoGo is wrong with regards to the Kiwi and the Banana.

Doll Is Mine wrote:This Ellen DeGeneres look alike on ESPN is annoying. Who the hell is he?

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby Ace Rothstein » Tue Mar 10, 2020 15:59:55

PSUsarge wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:Coatesville HS now refusing to host a playoff basketball game between Lower Merion and Wilson.

Still salty about Kobe beating Rip Hamilton in the District 1 final all those years ago, huh


*Semifinal, Chester beat PW with John Salmons in the other game, amazing crowd at the Palestra

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby PSUPhilliesPhan » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:08:33

Grotewold wrote:At this point just praying for a few days at home before my kids' schools close.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby CalvinBall » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:14:09

Bernie rally in Cleveland for tonight cancelled.

Guess the next week there are going to be many many more closings and cancellations. Really starting to roll in this afternoon.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby momadance » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:15:04

It's the private sectors fault now.

@AaronBlake
Interesting comments from CDC Director Robert Redfield:

"I guess I anticipated the private sector would have engaged and helped develop for the clinical side … I can tell you, having lived through the last eight weeks, I would have loved the private sector to be fully engaged.”

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby CalvinBall » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:21:54

Massachusetts had 51 new cases today confirmed. More than doubling their totals. Going to be over 1,000 cases by the time we wake up tomorrow.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby PSUPhilliesPhan » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:22:42

JUburton wrote:
Bucky wrote:already there, at least from a work perspective

my customer isn't allowing vendors into their facilities
Hospitals are starting to tell our company that no reps allowed unless the OR director and the utilizing surgeon says it's necessary. No new business, no new cold calls.

My company internally just sent out some bullshit saying we are monitoring and prepared to institute whatever measures necessary.


I'm in hospital sales and I've surprisingly not heard this yet. What area are those facilities in? I have a hospital in central jersey that is going to start taking the temperature of all hospital visitors tomorrow before they can enter. Should be interesting. Also, I have a 200-bed hospital that has ZERO test kits available.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby momadance » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:23:55

PSUPhilliesPhan wrote:
JUburton wrote:
Bucky wrote:already there, at least from a work perspective

my customer isn't allowing vendors into their facilities
Hospitals are starting to tell our company that no reps allowed unless the OR director and the utilizing surgeon says it's necessary. No new business, no new cold calls.

My company internally just sent out some bullshit saying we are monitoring and prepared to institute whatever measures necessary.


I'm in hospital sales and I've surprisingly not heard this yet. What area are those facilities in? I have a hospital in central jersey that is going to start taking the temperature of all hospital visitors tomorrow before they can enter. Should be interesting. Also, I have a 200-bed hospital that has ZERO test kits available.


The State of NJ only has two test kits currently. Hospitals here can submit samples for 432 more patients to the state before the kits on finished.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby heyeaglefn » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:26:51

CalvinBall wrote:Massachusetts had 51 new cases today confirmed. More than doubling their totals. Going to be over 1,000 cases by the time we wake up tomorrow.

Odds are we are probably already at like 5,000 cases, just don't have the test kits to confirm the people that had it.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby Bucky » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:39:49

3 more in montco

18 yo daughter of the lower gwynedd person previously diagnosed (she's a GA student)

62 year old resident of the household in upper merion of a prior victime (guessing the wife of the CHOP doctor)

70 yo woman from Cheltenham, they have no cause yet, may be the first case of community-spread covid in montco

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby lethal » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:44:47

Phred wrote:
PrattRules wrote:The partner in my firm is in denial.


I haven't heard that Egypt has any diagnosed cases but regardless, he should get out and dry himself off.


The early Virginia and Maryland cases were people who took a Nile River cruise.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby thephan » Tue Mar 10, 2020 16:50:48

From that town hall I mentioned earlier, the doctor briefing said that every two days the number of cases has been doubling and that models he saw had 500,000 deaths projected. This is the guy we brought in for straight talk for planning. Now what do the thousands of employees now think? I did want him to be optimistic or hide anything, but he straight up scared the shit out of people. Maybe a heads up would have been nice about the plan to put that out there, but then again I am thinking a doctor with an audience is something that is not easy to control.
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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby thephan » Tue Mar 10, 2020 17:01:48

Stopped Stopped by Wegmans, what a sight. Limit on 30 roll toilet paper Wego's brand (no others available), no had sanitizer, isopropyl alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, wipes, bleach, cleaning products, most of the soap products are gone, etc.

I did need TP, just wasn't planning on buying 30 rolls (one size fits all at the moment). The rest was just sort of nuts.
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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby azrider » Tue Mar 10, 2020 17:05:38

not even concerned about catching it. might be nice to just chill for a couple of weeks. more concerned of having to cut up my shirts to wipe my ass. sorting them out right now, as i type.

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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby thephan » Tue Mar 10, 2020 17:07:31

more importantly, what happens with opening day?
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Re: Breakout! A COVID-19 Thread

Unread postby azrider » Tue Mar 10, 2020 17:07:59

thephan wrote:more importantly, what happens with opening day?


bring your own toilet paper i guess.

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