Novel CoronaVirus (COVID-19) Updates & Discussion

[pinball wizard]

You still touch a lot of things - the debit card, car door handle, steering wheel, phone etc. You would need the assistance of NICD to trace all the surfaces that you touched before you used wet wipes.

Yeah, and if I don't lick my fingers or stick them in my nose or my eyes, I'll be ok until I wash my hands.

 

[creeper]

Anyone here had a directive to avoid contact with customer's, postpone meetings where possible etc. ?

It's just business as usual at our company...

yes But I’m in the Netherlands.

 

[theratman]

FFS. Messing with my sports betting . Now will have to bet on ARB sports.. like F1

Here's a Corona bet for you, although the max stake won't be high and the odds might have shortened but worth a look if you have a book that's offering:

Odds Say the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Will Be Canceled, Postponed or Relocated

IOC member Dick Pound says the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could be canceled, postponed or relocated because of the coronovirus. Odds favor yes at -130.

www.sportsbettingdime.com

 

[dualmeister]

Coronavirus Conference Gets Canceled Because of Coronavirus

The Council on Foreign Relations has canceled a roundtable called “Doing Business Under Coronavirus” scheduled for Friday in New York due to the spread of the infection itself.

 

[harties]

Am I the only one thinking social media and the media in general is making this thing bigger than it is?
Yes it is very dangerous but it seems like such an over reaction for the amount of people dying
( Says me that works from home)
But Mr Mila works for a multinational and many people has been sent home to work from home
They have been advised to work shifts. But they forget most people use public transport so if this is going to spread taxi's, buses and trains are going to be stopped.

Maybe I'ts just not close to home yet, but it all feels a bit hysterical.

You have cities and nations with millions of people in lockdown and you still think media is blowing out of proportion?

 

[[)roi(]]

Medical advice on an internet forum, yay. Do not follow this advice if you have high blood pressure, are on blood pressure medication or any other medication that might interact with it. Take your medical advice from a doctor please, not a random idiot on mybb

Shame; if you had any sense you'd have noted that these are over the counter meds i.e. no doctor required.
...but like a typical moron you had to feebly try to dish out some comeuppance -- by regurgitating data on the pamphlet in the packaging +1 btw for proving you're at least literate.

 

[Milano]

Video of guy in Belgium removing mask to lick both fingers so he can rub his spit all over the train’s hand rail:

Passenger licks fingers, rubs them on train pole amid coronavirus panic

A drunken straphanger went off the rails on a Belgian subway train amid the coronavirus crisis – licking his fingers and wiping them on a pole.

nypost.com

 

[pinball wizard]

Video of guy in Belgium removing mask to lick both fingers so he can rub his spit all over the train’s hand rail:

If someone tried that here, I hazard a guess that instead of filming it, another passenger might just insert the dimwit under the train wheels.

 

[pinball wizard]

Medical advice on an internet forum,

Side effects may include anal leakage.

 

[thestaggy]

'America's sweetheart' Tom Hanks could be big for the way the US now views this.

How America woke up to AIDS: Rock Hudson's death, 30 years later

"There was something about Hudson's diagnosis that seemed to strike an archetypal chord in the American consciousness. For decades, Hudson had been among the handful of screen actors who personified wholesome American masculinity; now, in one stroke, he was revealed as both gay and suffering from the affliction of pariahs," the late Randy Shilts wrote in his best-selling chronicle of the crisis, "And the Band Played On."

"Doctors involved in AIDS research called the Hudson announcement the single most important event in the history of the epidemic, and few knowledgeable people argued."

Thousands had already died of the disease by the mid-'80s, but the revelation about movie royalty suddenly made people aware of "children with AIDS who wanted to go to school, laborers with AIDS who wanted to work, and researchers who wanted funding," Shilts noted.

U.S. press coverage of the epidemic tripled once the news broke, according to the 1989 book "Covering the Plague: AIDS and the American Media."

 

[pinball wizard]

The NBA has suspended the rest of the season..

NBA? Nkandla Bongo Association?

 

[[)roi(]]

Are you a doctor?

They're over the counter meds.
Just ask your local pharmacist (at e.g. Medirite, Dischem, Clicks, ...); they'll answer any of your questions; the rest is on the pamphlet in the box.

I don't suffer from any of the side effects, and neither do my family members or my friends. We for example have used e.g. Sudafed for scuba diving during the hay-fever season for more than 20 years -- in short it prevents any problems with either sinus squeeze or reverse eustachian tube blockages.

However I also use it at the onset of any flu symptoms; it basically reduces the inflammation of sinus blockages (i.e. prevents sinus headaches) and dries up any sinus drip i.e. no phlegm build up on your chest and hence no cough.

 

[The_Mowgs]

Yeah he survives being dumped alone on an island for years, World War II and being kept prisoner by a pirate, and now a chinavirus is gonna cap him.

He did say "you never know what you gonna get"...

 

[dualmeister]

Ok, So he's actually in Australia. Missed that.

 

[Pegasus]

'America's sweetheart' Tom Hanks could be big for the way the US now views this.

How America woke up to AIDS: Rock Hudson's death, 30 years later

Magic Johnson was also huge. That was 1991. He is still around.

 

[The_Mowgs]

My thoughts exactly but I do not have time to research this crap, currently I have not changed my behaviors I still avoid humans like the plague.. That has been the case for ever..

Gong to post it here because people are stupid and believe all the crap that is sent to them.

You say you avoid humans like the plague but what about your husband? Is he still coming home each day?

 

[Milano]

You say you avoid humans like the plague but what about your husband? Is he still coming home each day?

True no point in avoiding anyone in that case.

 

[The_Librarian]

At work they have disabled the biometric systems. We have to swipe our access cards and then place our index fingers on a scanner. No longer have to finger the scanner.

R21 Corporate Park have placed automatic hand sanitizers next to the fingerprint readers at the gates. After reading your finger, you can sanitize it.

Not sure what they use, but it smells potent.

 

[Grant]

I’m ****ed. I overreact to those meds.
What about the big whatsapp going around about using Vitamin C?

If all else fails, you could start a meth lab with all the ephedrine

 

[Hamish McPanji]

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Ok, So he's actually in Australia. Missed that.

He's self isolating in a bin. He should keep his hands in though, even though he's wearing gloves