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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot closes city’s Lakefront Trail, adjoining parks, beaches, The 606 trail and the Riverwalk; bans contact sports being played in the city https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-chicago-lakefront-parks-closed-20200326-zdqpr2p3vfhqdoucu4hqcrtepa-story.html

JB is mad about people going out.

Yeah, I don't know. Just got it quickly from google images. In any case, the deep South is ******, made worse by the fact that a number of those states don't have heavier restrictions in place at this time.

Numbers in Michigan have really been ramping up.

That is the only positive... not having exponential growth.

Not even gonna post Italy's numbers.

Based on what I just read, it sounds like the checks are not taxable income.

US will have the most reported cases in the world by tomorrow. Key word being reported.

Without reading the details, I have just been assuming that the money will have to be claimed as income.

168 new cases and 3 new deaths in IN. Virus has now been found in about 2/3 of counties across the state.

Becoming interested in this setup. I am always wary of the lake playing games with frontal position at this time of year but I think it will be ok here. I'd say more uncertain with northward extent in northern IL.

US death toll has surpassed 1000. Took 8 days to go from 100 to 1000 but it is accelerating at a pace to get to 2000 in only a few more days. Alarming but in line with what has happened in other countries and what knowledgeable people were saying would happen.

Wx looks crappier overall for the upcoming days, so that should keep some people inside. The thing about non-essential businesses being open is interesting... they are taking a chance.

Much better off just walking around the neighborhood.

Popped over here to read this thread and, well, this is why we try to avoid political discussions on this site. I realize that it is hard to keep politics completely out of the discussion about the virus, but please try to keep your posts focused on the virus as much as possible.

Situation doesn't sound good at some of the hospitals in Michigan.

Many illnesses have covid-19 like symptoms though. I could see it being in the US longer than thought but am skeptical of any idea that it was running rampant all over the place for months. And take Italy as an example. I don't remember hearing anything like what they are going through right now with the hospital strain. If it were spreading throughout Italy a couple months ago, we would've heard something about an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths.

Italy's deaths were down from yesterday's update, but still not far from 700. They are going through a really rough stretch to try to get to the other side of the curve.

It makes sense that it's going to take longer for this to penetrate more easily into small town/rural America than, say, New York City or Chicago. If it's not in the next week or two, it will be when life starts going back to normal.

Several new cases confirmed in neighboring towns this evening. It's coming for us all.

Italy's numbers went up again.

The way you know that the testing still sucks here in Indiana is that if you just take the number of deaths divided by number of confirmed cases, it comes out to 3.3% of people who have died. Well above the current national number. This is before a big crush of people showing up to the hospitals and draining resources. I provided my anecdotal story about my sister's friend but it has also been publicly reported in the media about how the criteria to get tested here is still pretty high. If you are young/otherwise healthy with symptoms of covid-19, you're most likely not getting a test. Who knows how many mild-moderate cases are out there.

100+ new cases confirmed in Indiana along with several more deaths.

We are still pretty far from the capability of everybody who is having symptoms getting a test, let alone people who are asymptomatic. I posted last night about how my sister's friend who works in a hospital is having symptoms and can't even get a test. That is pretty unreal that somebody in that occupation can't get one. I would hope they have decided to stay home for the time being out of an abundance of caution but I don't know. Hopefully anybody who even suspects the slightest hint of having covid19 is staying home right now and not waiting for a test to confirm.