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I have refund requests in for my Italy trip and Orlando, flights and hotels. We shall see. I didn't have any travel insurance. I may rethink that decision going forward. But the problem is having to read 29 page legal docs to figure out what's covered and what isn't. I'd think if travel is curtailed by government order and/or company decision, that if no service is provided they have to refund. As long as they're not insolvent. Which is another concern...

I'm no leftie Bernie Bro but...this guy in the WH is not a good leader. I've worked for people like him. It's a circus. Cuomo is doing a decent job, as much as it pains me to say that. I agree that some unity is needed. Cuomo is acknowledging the need to get business restarted ASAP but by using public health metrics and a more vertical strategy once we know more. Which we will soon with testing expansion, which (without pointing fingers) we were ridiculously inept getting going.

I was telling a friend that you could see he wants to lift the restrictions ASAP. He can almost taste it...but i don't think anyone in the health/medical industry would recommend that until we see data supporting such a move. Areas of China were in lockdown for 6 weeks so i could see roughly similar duration in the worst affected areas. We don't want to call it off too soon. But OTOH we can't sit here like this indefinately. Trump just doesn't inspire confidence that he'll make a rational decision although I think he would cave in when ALL his advisors tell him not to be a jagass.

My nephew and I just shoveled and snowblowed the driveway. It was faster shoveling. I let him do that.

Snow "backbuilding" over us now. Not heavy but keeps the party going a bit longer. We are at 6" here.

Well, i guess depends on pain / discomfort level? Fortunately there's not a lot of Corona around here so you've go the odds in your favor if you decide to go in. Might want to contact Dentist just to see if they're taking anything right now?

Not that there's much Coronavirus around here but that's one of the last places I'd want to go right now, other than a hospital.

I see 3-6 weeks of statewide lockdown. Some areas could get relaxed after 4 weeks depending on infection progression. Thats about how long China kept areas in quarantine. Cuomo is right, some form of precautions will be kept for months. OTOH, keeping whole state on lockdown for "months" isn't practical. Noone can afford it.

Just measured out back on deck. 4.75" a d SN+. Where da rain? I'm naming this the CoronaStorm.

That sucks. Best wishes, and like Wolfie said...take advantage of whatever programs that are out there.

But...its Spring! I think. The virus nightmare has me dazed and confused.

1.5" of snow here, still light snow

China solved the problem. Everything back to normal. Nothing to see there. Markets vomited at the close today. Again. And not just the markets. Full on panic will reduce GDP to a fraction of previous. Get ready for the end of the past salad days. We are headed to 0.

Still holding out hope for one last dump (or two). I've thrown in the towel on 100" but 90" still doable!

I stocked up an Ramen noodles. It's back to college days for me. By the time the panic is over, none of us will be employed anymore. But i'm sure it's worth it.../sarc

Short but Informative Vox Media presentation and background on why China is a hotbed for virus formation... ...and a 60 Minutes Australia undercover exposé on China’s Wet Markets and Corona Virus China need to fix this sh!t.

3 sailors in my son's nuclear power school base tested positive (1 in his class) and 20 are under quarantine. Navy had everyone sign papers saying they would avoid public places, other than the prototype training sub they are at...very Navy response. On the bright side (?), they pretty much think this is all a sad joke as Corona is mainly a "Boomer Remover". LOFL. Navy never changes.

Don't get me going about Faceberg. I'd take Gates over that turd anyday.

I give him credit for that...but those of us old enough to remember his f*ckery with Apple have a more "nuanced" view of him as some sort of savant. Give me a few billion and I could sit around lecturing people and doing presentations on things I know jack sh*t about also.

Did you see where the 5 story hotel they commandeered for patient surge collapsed and killed a bunch of people? That place is unbelievable. But they make cheap sh*t we need to buy cuz we hollowed out our industrial base.

I don't disagree with what you say but...once you get into the game of regulating what people can eat, drink etc., it's pretty much the final straw to living in an authoritarian society. We're already sliding into Canada and UK's thought and speech crime society. Just in my lifetime (50s), I've seen an amazing amount of increased societal regulation designed with good intentions, from seat belt laws to banning this and that, all with the intent of protecting us from ourselves. The aggregate effect is lost on most people, because well, they're ignorant AF. They have accepted the surveillance culture we now have. This is what facist systems do, gradually regulate, monitor, and control everything down to the minutae of everyday life until just waking up and breathing is some sort of crime (environmentalists and their ever increasing regulation are front and center of this trend). Creeping facism is what it all amounts to. I hope everyone enjoys it cuz its it's the only facism you got.

Bill Gates needs to stick with something he knows...which is ripping off other's intellectual property and making Billions off of it.

I've been watching and observing everything and come to the potential conclusion that this a all being handled wrong and something seems off. I'm thinking it might be better to just isolate the at-risk population rather than destroy the global economy, cause a global depression and enact various draconian "shelter in place" policies for everyone... that are unsustainable in an open society. We don't even know the actual mortality rate as we've tested relatively few and only those symptomatic. South Korea (who have tested a large cross section of people, reports 0.7%). I think the 2-3% estimates are too high. But...no data is no data which gives me pause. This virus has likely been in circulation for months. China knew about it as early as mid November but didn't announce until 12/31. There's no way this is spreading from individual point sources at this point. There is no "patient zero". What we are seeing now is positive tests as there are now more tests being done...though only on suspected cases (unless you are rich NBA players/teams that can afford to pay for the tests themselves apparently). It is becoming evident that this virus may have been circulating earlier than mid November as a patient zero has never been identified. In fact, it makes me question my 3 to 4 week upper respiratory and occasional mild fever illness back in October as soon as I returned from europe, where I was in and around throngs of Chunese tourists in Prague, Salzburg and Amsterdam. I even took antibiotics which seemed to not help, though it probably was something other than Covid-19. It'll be interesting to see how this develops but frankly, the media and political panic is driving panic buying in stores and intentionally destroying the economy. I'm beginning to think this is being approached wrong, from a macro level...(edit: and this isn't to defend the President, who has been doing his level best Emporer Nero impersonation for weeks...)

Is it possible for your wife and child to self quarantine on their own? You would have to live elsewhere (friend, family), which she and/or you may find completely undoable but just thinking of options.

I dont know if the young person rate of infection is less but certainly the effects are reported to be on the less severe side. Of course with minimal testing having been done to date, I don't think we know if susceptibility to infection varies any with age grouping.