Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[MifuneFan]

I was recommended by a social worker to wear gloves in a car service while traveling to a hospital on Monday. Not sure if it makes a difference, but if I do, I'll certainly be careful when removing them, and immediately sanitize after.

[veritas]

Originally Posted by BeastCreatureTrapper

What good are gloves? Does the virus not stay on glove material?

the main benefit of gloves is that they are disposable and a very good reminder not to touch your face etc It also would allow you for example to remove them before you go to the hand sanatizer so you wont infect the top of the hand sanatizer for example. If you are using gloves properly they should give you more protection then washing your hands since the virus never gets on you to begin with also I suppose.

[BeastCreatureTrapper]

Originally Posted by veritas

the main benefit of gloves is that they are disposable and a very good reminder not to touch your face etc It also would allow you for example to remove them before you go to the hand sanatizer so you wont infect the top of the hand sanatizer for example. If you are using gloves properly they should give you more protection then washing your hands since the virus never gets on you to begin with also I suppose.

Yeah, I just don't see it for the average person.The top of the hand sanitizer pump being infected wouldn't be an issue if you think about the obvious steps after dispensing (and you could just wipe said top at that point too, as part of your habit).

How do you remove gloves without one bare hand eventually touching a potentially infected glove? I'm sure there's gymnastics involved to comedic levels....

The gloves might work as reminders in the beginning, but I'm willing to bet that people just fall back into face-touching anyway. I'm also worried that wearing the gloves gives people a false sense of protection, so now they are touching more surfaces than they normally would. I know I do the same when wearing gloves.

You couple all that with the immense waste/potential shortage issue, and I say leave the gloves to the professionals who actually need them.

[BLUEGRASS]

Two of the three biggest film exhibitors in the United States – Regal Cinemas and AMC Theatres – have announced that they will be reducing theater capacity to 50% in the wake of the coronavirus scare. The measures are currently scheduled to be instituted from March 14th through to April 30th.

In California, public gatherings of no larger than 250 have been instituted with other States expected to follow suit. As a result, AMC and Regal will cap ticket sales for each showtime to an amount equal to 50% of the normal seating capacity. In auditoriums with more than 500 seats, AMC and Regal will further cap sales to a maximum of 250.

They are also actively complying with all local authorities’ directives which include ‘social distancing’ which provides additional space between guests within all U.S. cinemas. Staff will be under stricter guidelines about proper handwashing, cleaning high contact points more frequently, providing hand sanitizing soap in all restrooms, and more thorough cleaning of every auditorium between every showtime.

SOURCE: https://www.darkhorizons.com/u-s-cin...apacity-by-50/

[Lee A Stewart]

[Bigdog]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

Just once I would like to own pallets of these supply's and have nothing but needy Game Stop owners come and try and barter with me haha....

[Scarface32]

[HotRats]

This is a good piece https://www.questmedianetwork.co.uk/...cts-not-fears/

[ctujackbauer]

Brawls break out at Costco, Sam's Club amid coronavirus outbreak tensions

Starting to look like Venezuela.

[Lee A Stewart]

New Coronavirus Test 10 Times Faster Is FDA Approved

U.S. health regulators have approved a new coronavirus test that will speed up by tenfold the ability to test patients, helping solve a significant obstacle to American efforts to contain the virus.

The Food and Drug Administration granted “emergency use authorization” to the test, which runs on Roche Holding AG’s cobas 6800/8800 systems. The 8800 system is capable of testing 4,128 patients a day, and the 6800 version can test as many as 1,440. The tool also is available in Europe and countries that accept its CE marking for medical devices.

Roche shares traded 11% higher at 1:29 p.m. in Zurich, the steepest intraday increase since 1997.
“We are increasing the speed definitely by a factor of 10,” Thomas Schinecker, head of the Swiss drugmaker’s diagnostics unit, said in an interview.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/hea...cid=spartandhp

[The Great Owl]

Seattle has tested 4807 cases. They have had 457 positive results. Of those positive results, 31 have died.
6.8%...

Oh, and...

Satellite images show Iran has built mass graves amid coronavirus outbreak
(article from The Guardian)

[Spooked]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Seattle has tested 4807 cases. They have had 457 positive results. Of those positive results, 31 have died.
6.8%...

Oh, and...

Satellite images show Iran has built mass graves amid coronavirus outbreak
(article from The Guardian)

I love living in Washington.

[Unknown450]

This morning I went to Dollar General that is near my place to get a couple of things (not toilet paper or water cause I'm no hoarder). Well a delivery truck had just arrived and ppl suddenly flooded into the drive way, went into the toilet paper boxes to grab bags of rolls out.. the poor employees didnt even have time to get them out and put them on the shelves...

It's so ****ing ridiculous...

[ctujackbauer]

Originally Posted by Unknown450

This morning I went to Dollar General that is near my place to get a couple of things (not toilet paper or water cause I'm no hoarder). Well a delivery truck had just arrived and ppl suddenly flooded into the drive way, went into the toilet paper boxes to grab bags of rolls out.. the poor employees didnt even have time to get them out and put them on the shelves...

It's so ****ing ridiculous...

All the extreme couponers and doomsday preppers with stockpiles of toilet paper, 200 bottles of free mustard and a case of those really bad tasting instant mashed potatoes - they're all laughing at us.

[Unknown450]

Originally Posted by ctujackbauer

All the extreme couponers and doomsday preppers with stockpiles of toilet paper, 200 bottles of free mustard and a case of those really bad tasting instant mashed potatoes - they're all laughing at us.

How dare you hate on instant mashed potatoes! I happen to like the Idahoan's if you use milk.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Hayabusa85

Trudeau holding an isolation press conference and saying nobody that has been in contact with him lately is at any risk because he shows no symptoms yet when the chances are high he has got it from his wife. How did this moron get re-elected?



Not to mention the flaw in self isolation not meaning gather the media in front of you and have people draw straws to decide who gets to touch and disassemble the stand and microphone he just spit all over

He did the conference from home, not with media present. Since he's in isolation already, it doesn't really matter if he gets tested or not, since nothing really changes. If he becomes symptomatic, then obviously he has it, and can take the necessary steps after that.

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Seattle has tested 4807 cases. They have had 457 positive results. Of those positive results, 31 have died.
6.8%...

Oh, and...

Satellite images show Iran has built mass graves amid coronavirus outbreak
(article from The Guardian)

Let's tell the full story, many of those deaths were in a single nursing home.

[MazeRunner]

Originally Posted by ctujackbauer

All the extreme couponers and doomsday preppers with stockpiles of toilet paper, 200 bottles of free mustard and a case of those really bad tasting instant mashed potatoes - they're all laughing at us.

[MifuneFan]

Watching a Times Square live cam. Still plenty of people crowding around one another. Stupid tourists.

https://www.earthcam.com/cams/newyor...e/?cam=tsrobo1

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Watching a Times Square live cam. Still plenty of people crowding around one another. Stupid tourists.

https://www.earthcam.com/cams/newyor...e/?cam=tsrobo1

I hate tourists so much, they are so effin slow! Not only are they slow, they often walk next to each other and take up the ENTIRE sidewalk width, so it’s either walk in the street and get hit by a car, or stay behind them. Why can’t they walk faster?