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Forgot to mention it's 2 week self-quarantine if you've been away for two weeks or more.
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joeylittle
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Surely - though I don't think that everyone on this thread is being hyper-vigilant. Sometimes discussion is really just discussion...
(Can't speak for everyone, obviously - just myself)
somerandomguy
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One of my coworkers was just in Japan for a week and they made him work from home for three days.
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Sideways
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It's been over a week now that Australia has told anyone coming in from countries with the virus to self quarantine for 2 weeks.
I personally think that the closure of large gatherings is smart. It's worked really well at slowing down the spread of the virus in places where the virus has been so far.
On the other hand, the one place that kept on insisting 'business as usual' when the numbers of infected started to increase was Iran. And that seems to have had devastating consequences. They have now changed their approach.
Self quarantine is an inconvenience. Cancelling events and uni classes is an inconvenience. But it seems to work.
TruthSeeker
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If you need items to stock up on, and don't want to go out...order via Amazon. I don't know....might take a couple of days extra, and be a tad bit more, but I order a lot from Amazon and with Prime, free delivery to my door.
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Indoor or outdoor pool?
Indoor pool I’d take a pass on. The water’s fine (unless it’s a fecal oral issue, then the poop protects the microbes from contact with the chlorine for extended periods of time... ditto certain pus encapsulated skin infections / ie why pools say ‘do not swim with open wounds or infections’ ...nothing to be done about people who swim with skin sores but it’s why pools that have been pooped in are closed until the entire thing can be run through the filter, about 7-21 minutes for most. Clear out the solids and the microbes that aren’t protected die in the chlorine); the close, warm, humid air in indoor pools is like a Petrie dish for airborne vectors (keeping things that die in minutes outside of a host alive in microdroplets up to several hours // things that can live for hours outside of a host alive for days, similar to TB / you can catch it from breathing the air someone exhaled 2 days ago, vicious fawking bug); and the locker rooms have been smeared with every naked surface of a body, across every surface. Since people are washing the chlorine off? Every moment past the showers there’s a higher and higher microbial load. <<< I usually LIKE this double whammy... because it’s a great way to get innoculated with whatever bug is being passed around in teeeeeeeeny tiny amounts, since so much has been killed in the chlorine soup. ;) With most microbes the lesser the exposure? The longer the immune system has to get a jump on it / I used to nearly always be at the lowest end of the spectrum. (Sick for a day instead of a week, sick for a week instead of two). Compared to when I wasn’t swimming and picking up the local bug by prolonged close contact with people (read hours and hours inside of a room filled with the germ factories we otherwise know/love as kids). But it depends on both the bug itself that’s going around, and my own immune system.
Outdoor pools? Unless you happen to take a huge inhale right next to someone doing an explosive exhale? (Which happens a lot in crowded lap swimming)... You’re fine as long as you avoid the locker rooms and shower at home. The water itself is safe, and the air above is constantly exchanging as high as outer space. Any particulates in the open are dispersed across miles in minutes, rather than being held close and constant recirculating.
Indoor pool I’d take a pass on. The water’s fine (unless it’s a fecal oral issue, then the poop protects the microbes from contact with the chlorine for extended periods of time... ditto certain pus encapsulated skin infections / ie why pools say ‘do not swim with open wounds or infections’ ...nothing to be done about people who swim with skin sores but it’s why pools that have been pooped in are closed until the entire thing can be run through the filter, about 7-21 minutes for most. Clear out the solids and the microbes that aren’t protected die in the chlorine); the close, warm, humid air in indoor pools is like a Petrie dish for airborne vectors (keeping things that die in minutes outside of a host alive in microdroplets up to several hours // things that can live for hours outside of a host alive for days, similar to TB / you can catch it from breathing the air someone exhaled 2 days ago, vicious fawking bug); and the locker rooms have been smeared with every naked surface of a body, across every surface. Since people are washing the chlorine off? Every moment past the showers there’s a higher and higher microbial load. <<< I usually LIKE this double whammy... because it’s a great way to get innoculated with whatever bug is being passed around in teeeeeeeeny tiny amounts, since so much has been killed in the chlorine soup. ;) With most microbes the lesser the exposure? The longer the immune system has to get a jump on it / I used to nearly always be at the lowest end of the spectrum. (Sick for a day instead of a week, sick for a week instead of two). Compared to when I wasn’t swimming and picking up the local bug by prolonged close contact with people (read hours and hours inside of a room filled with the germ factories we otherwise know/love as kids). But it depends on both the bug itself that’s going around, and my own immune system.
Outdoor pools? Unless you happen to take a huge inhale right next to someone doing an explosive exhale? (Which happens a lot in crowded lap swimming)... You’re fine as long as you avoid the locker rooms and shower at home. The water itself is safe, and the air above is constantly exchanging as high as outer space. Any particulates in the open are dispersed across miles in minutes, rather than being held close and constant recirculating.
lostforgottensoul
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Holy f*cking hell!
I have been getting a tad bit into emergency prepardness for a while now. Mainly hurricane prepardness cause I live in Florida but I do watch a few prepper youtube channels. Not sure if I am happy I sort of fell off that for a while as it got me really parnoid really fast watching all of these Cronovirus ones tonight. Or sad that it took this long to think to get some basic supplies for a contagion, like N95 masks. Now paint me purple but I swore just a month or 2 ago a box of 10 N95 throw away masks were a few bucks. On Amazon, its a few hundred bucks now! For 10 THROW AWAY N95 masks. The kind most will use with a lot of painting and stuff like that. From every seller. The reuseable, washable, ones are like 10 bucks. So, how exactly does that make sense?
I HATE price gouching. It happens every single hurricane for gas, water, food, tarps, duct tape, etc. Florida will swear there is no gouging but you go to get supplies and it's twice or three times the cost, if not more. Disgusting that people want to get rich at desperate people's expense!
Deanna
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I'd report these sellers. It hurts Amazon rapport Over a word pandemic.. Here.. Ill report them.. No problem. Ill call
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Sideways
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Masks are recommended for people who have been diagnosed with the virus and are self isolating, or those who are caring for a person with the virus.
Wearing masks around in other situations is a waste of masks. Suppliers are having a hard time meeting the requirements of front line medical staff. People buying masks unnecessarily is making that situation worse.
When buying for the virus, try and stay level-headed about what you're buying and why. If you don't need masks? Leave them for the people that do.
If you don't need 8 months of toilet paper right now? Leave supplies available for people living on the breadline, who can only afford to buy what they absolutely need each week.
ETA And for pete's sake, don't get your information about the virus and necessary precautions from social media like YouTube!
Deanna
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Three Amazon sellers at $89.95 for 10 masks. I don't know. I can see Sideways point. These masks are really for China where there's millions upon millions of people but i don't think you're average USA person is to concerned about it.
I was looking more at Amazon's reputation for price gouging. They probably don't care, either way. It's money for them ( 20 percent commission or use to be) but uts not like they need it.
I was looking more at Amazon's reputation for price gouging. They probably don't care, either way. It's money for them ( 20 percent commission or use to be) but uts not like they need it.
masks were so short after the Mt, St. Helens eruption that here in the northwest they were nearly unobtainable. I worked in home construction at the time and people were cutting our fence and breaking into our work vans to hopefully find a few of the masks we were getting from our fiberglass insulation supplier.
Price gouging on masks was a fact of life, because of an airborne volcanic ash with particles you could stop with a scarf or handkerchief. The real driving force behind it was, as now, a misconception of the usefulness of the masks.
Price gouging on masks was a fact of life, because of an airborne volcanic ash with particles you could stop with a scarf or handkerchief. The real driving force behind it was, as now, a misconception of the usefulness of the masks.
Deanna
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It should be mandatory that everyone get their flu shot. Everyone in the world.
A flu shot won't prevent coronavirus, but it could help our response to the outbreak | Live Science
A flu shot won't prevent coronavirus, but it could help our response to the outbreak | Live Science
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