I really hope they don’t close schools. We are already short staffed in the hospitals and if they close the schools there goes almost half of your healthcare workers because they will need to stay home with their kids. So far the virus doesn’t seem to effect children and they don’t seem to get symptoms. So far being the key phrase.
…and there goes the NCAA basketball tournament (not shocking)
Whoops I didn’t add text to the link in my previous post.
…and there goes the NCAA basketball tournament (not shocking)
Now that’s a bracket buster!
Thinking of pulling my kids out of school even if MN does not close them. Hard to know what is prudent at the moment.
I really hope they don’t close schools. We are already short staffed in the hospitals and if they close the schools there goes almost half of your healthcare workers because they will need to stay home with their kids. So far the virus doesn’t seem to effect children and they don’t seem to get symptoms. So far being the key phrase.
But they can carry and spread the virus, that’s that crappy part.
Imagine an entire Kindergarten class sick but without symptoms bringing it home to all the parents.
That will shut the workforce down as fast as anything.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>CaptainMusky wrote:</div>
The last piece regarding resistance to heat came either from a WHO release on their twitter site or some place similar. I made up the part of cranking the heat up in the homes as a solution, but the other temperature and sunlight references were from a reputable source.Good Lord. Just stop typing. Like yesterday.
There is a scroll feature to your mouse. Use it, like last week.
You sure it isn’t just the NCAA BBall conference tournaments canceled?
NM I checked Tweeter.
You sure it isn’t just the conference tournaments?
Nope. It’s the big dance too now.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mahtofire14 wrote:</div>
I really hope they don’t close schools. We are already short staffed in the hospitals and if they close the schools there goes almost half of your healthcare workers because they will need to stay home with their kids. So far the virus doesn’t seem to effect children and they don’t seem to get symptoms. So far being the key phrase.But they can spread the virus, that’s that crappy part.
Imagine an entire Kindergarten class sick but without symptoms bringing it home to all the parents.
That will shut the workforce down as fast as anything.
Take it one step further and imagine everyone they infect and then only half of them being able to be taken care of in the hospital. Trust me you don’t want an emergency triage starting if this thing actually blows up like it has in Italy.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>belletaine wrote:</div>
By the end of business tomorrow we will most likely have lost $100,000 due to this.To quote the movie Airplane, looks like I picked a bad year to retire.
A lot of us are in the same boat- (There that has a fishing reference)
IMHO the Saudis have had more to do with the Stock market crash.
Make that end of business today…
Bigwerm, don’t be too sure on that market comeback in 8 weeks.
This is very bad
Just wanted to chime in with a little background on Michael Osterholm, the U professor in the Joe Rogan podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw). He is the head of CIDRAP and his pedigree is about as legit as it gets: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/about-us/cidrap-staff/michael-t-osterholm-phd-mph
He is tapped regularly, worldwide, to help manage outbreaks and the secondary and tertiary consequences that arise (which are many and include severe problems with our medical and pharmaceutical supply chain.
Last point regarding transmission kinetics; it is not accurate to use China as a model for spread in a Western country. China’s authoritarian govt literally quarantined 100s of millions of people in a matter of days. It is completely unprecedented and something that is impossible in the US. It was so rapid and effective a shutdown that you could observe the impact from space in the form of NOx emmissions (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146362/airborne-nitrogen-dioxide-plummets-over-china).
When all of those people are released back into the streets, markets, subways, and airplanes, you can expect round two to begin.
This is going to get interesting with the travel ban. My son’s teacher left for france on Tuesday. He also has a classmate who left for france in the middle of the day Wednesday – she was probably on the plane when it was announced.
Is his teacher going to self quarantine for 14 days? Is the other student going to stay home for two weeks? What are all these uppity, wealthy white people going to do when they find out that vacation kid came to school?
It hit WI.High School b-ball tournament over night,cancelled.I saw it this morning both girls and boys tournaments.
The distribution curve on new cases went vertical when most people weren’t paying attention. The CDC’s bureaucratic incompetence made sure we were kept in the dark. Those of us that were paying attention know where this thing leads.
You mean the CDC that had its funding slashed and eliminated it’s people and infrastructure dedicated to dealing with epidemics and global health crisis?
The incompetence is at the top.
IBTL
Link please
Can tell who never had to do homework in school……
Fact check
“CDC operating budget plans show that its funding for global public health protection — which includes global disease detection and emergency response and global public health capacity — increased from $58 million in fiscal year 2017 to around $108 million in fiscal years 2018 and 2019. (And that does not include any remaining supplemental funds available for use.) The increases included nearly $50 million more each year for CDC’s global health security initiatives.
Those amounts went up again in fiscal year 2020, when the CDC was awarded $183 million for global public health protection, overall, and $125 million specifically for its global health security efforts. For fiscal year 2021, President Donald Trump has requested that CDC funding for global disease detection and other programs be increased further — to $225 million total, with $175 million going directly to global health security.
With its current funding, Bartee said, the CDC is actually working in “more than 60 countries” — not 10 — to address the threat of global infectious diseases and outbreaks.”
http://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/false-claim-about-cdcs-global-anti-pandemic-work/
Thanks Mr. Beads I had just prepared a response very similar to yours stating very similar budgetary facts that you pointed out. I doubled checked before I hit the post button no one else beat me to it and you had. I figured someone would as that was pretty low hanging orange man bad liberal talking point fruit hanging there! 
Another libtard response. Trump draining the swamp at the CDC most likely had other effects you won’t hear from thur media, funds that went to other entities and trickled down to all of us. We’re WINNING with him, and losing nothing
Go away troll. 3 posts with a name like that we all know what you’re doing.
For those posting links an FYI, DELETE the http:// before your address. It will show up funky like the above linked posts.
Just so we all can read the same stuff 
Bill seems smart…
I realize this is the internet and I’m bound to get called “butthurt” or “snowflake” but can we all stop using “retard” or its derivatives? It’s 2020. We’re better than that.
Carry on fighting among yourselves
I’d like to think we could, but the empty TP aisle at my store tells me otherwise, we cannot be reasonable.
The Company I work for has offices throughout the World and had already closed several of the offices abroad. Now a communication came out this morning that we should be prepared to work remotely starting Monday. Some areas of my office already started today. With technology as it is today, its pretty easy for us to get our jobs done regardless of whether we are in the office or not.
This cannot be said for some fields however.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Donald J wrote:</div>
Another libtard response. Trump draining the swamp at the CDC most likely had other effects you won’t hear from thur media, funds that went to other entities and trickled down to all of us. We’re WINNING with him, and losing nothingGo away troll. 3 posts with a name like that we all know what you’re doing.
Russian 
I realize this is the internet and I’m bound to get called “butthurt” or “snowflake” but can we all stop using “retard” or its derivatives? It’s 2020. We’re better than that.
Carry on fighting among yourselves
I’d be happy politics just stayed out of these threads or the entire forum for that matter but it’s a election year so that won’t/can’t happen. Besides body politics has infected everything and everyone more so than this virus ever will. I’d go as far to say were it not for politics the current hysterics would not be anywhere near what we are experiencing now.
But posts like Matt’s although I’m sure he firmly believes what he posted that once it’s posted it needs to be corrected.
I’d like to think we could, but the empty TP aisle at my store tells me otherwise, we cannot be reasonable.
Totally agree. If the shoe fits…
We have an outbreak of a respiratory virus. So the first thing millions of Americans think of is, Oh my, how will I wipe my @ss?
And so they go and hoard TP. Ok, it’s not nice to call them retards so I won’t.
What a bunch of retreads. America has more to fear from rampant stupidity than it has from COVID. The latter will go away.
Grouse
Totally agree. If the shoe fits…
We have an outbreak of a respiratory virus. So the first thing millions of Americans think of is, Oh my, how will I wipe my @ss?
And so they go and hoard TP. Ok, it’s not nice to call them retards so I won’t.
What a bunch of retreads. America has more to fear from rampant stupidity than it has from COVID. The latter will go away.
Grouse
That and the people clearing out Costco, Walmart, Sams of all disinfectant products, literally filling the box of their truck and then selling it on Amazon.
Why are retail establishments not limiting what people buy for crying out loud?
The incompetence is at the top.
Go away.
My wife who has been in the stores everyday including Wal mart,Target and all the local grocery stores because she distributes and stocks a certain line of products in all of them says Wal Mart and Target have been and still are out of toilet paper and disenfectants for awhile. Bare shelves.
The local grocery stores are well stocked with both like nothing at all is happening. As I said in a earlier post all food stuffs seem to be readily available. Human nature can be a strange.
The incompetence is at the top.
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Putin loves guys like you.
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