Coronavirus (NO POLITICAL OR SOCIAL COMMENTARY PLEASE)

[Batman90]

I wonder if this will effect the mail? Honestly I don’t go to the store a whole lot and it has nothing to do with the virus. Besides my wife does all the shopping now she’s worried to get out a lot. But I just Order my stuff from amazon or other websites.

[rdodolak]

Originally Posted by ctujackbauer

We'll see with San Francisco and the Bay area.

May have to deploy the national guard and military. Its mostly up to the states and local governments anyway.

The national guard and military isn't large enough to enforce keeping everyone in place.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by jtu128

$180 on movies each month?

I assume he means 180 Brazilian Real. That's about $36 USD.

[AaronJ]

I received Frozen II today.

I have Chernobyl coming at the end of the week.

I have 1917 and a couple others, which I ordered a while ago, coming a bit later.

I am pretty sure that's it, as far as films on order already. But I certainly won't be holding back if something comes up. How delivery will work, who knows?

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by Captain Flint

How would a mandatory nation-wide quarantine work? Is it even possible to keep over 350 million people inside their homes at all times? Especially without retaliation? All this talk about one sounds dumber and dumber the more I hear it.

If we couldn't contain this virus when it was just in China and then in a few countries thereafter, how on earth are we going to contain it now that it's WORLDWIDE!! It's too late; nothing we can do about it now. We're screwed!

We only have two ways of getting through this-

• Hopefully with warm weather around the corner, this virus will die down
  
  -OR-
  
  
• GET A DAMN VACCINE READY ASAP!!!!!!

[Syrena]

I'm still buying, my job doesn't give a *bleep* about me, so I'm stuck here until I keel over anyway.

[Lemmy Lugosi]

Originally Posted by AeroK

Hello Fresh is another option to consider. I reactivated my subscription last night.

Same here. Quality stuff.

[HotTastyChili]

Originally Posted by TheBoss062

Plus, I have medical bills for a recent femur fracture surgery.

Ouch. That's one of the worst bones to break. Wishing you a speedy recovery in these crazy times.

Originally Posted by Geoff D

I've got the big Star Wars 4K boxset and all the individual SW 4K releases on pre-order (I want them in proper cases but also want to get a peek at the boxset for myself), looks like I'mma be cancelling the boxset!

This may be a stupid question, but bear with me because this is only the second time I've heard tell of this box. Is there any word yet whether the box set is going to contain the theatrical cuts of the original trilogy?

As for the original question, I guess I'm not doing much differently. I don't buy that many Blu-rays a month, but I bought a few yesterday for the HPB sale. Got a couple cool CDs too, as that's where my collection stretches into the thousands like people's Blu's on here. And that's just CD's. Don't even get me started on records/tapes/8-tracks/etc. I need to thin out! A lot of stuff I used to listen to as a kid that embarrasses me now. At least when I hear it, I'm taken back. But no, I'm really not curbing my habits too much. I'm not super worried, maybe I'm being naive or too optimistic, but I'm not panicking. I'm being careful, but I'm not living in fear.

[Shingster]

Completely stopped ordering blurays. No point putting any expectations on etailers/distributors to supply when in all likelihood we're all heading towards total lockdown if we're not there already in our respective location. I just don't see the point in making purchases that will be up in the air.

Saying that though, I guess the argument could be that, if this thing lasts 2yrs (not saying the lockdown, just the pandemic) then smaller etailers/distributors are probably going to be relying on pre-orders to get them through the bad months of lockdown, so perhaps we might need some transparency between dealer and customer where they tell us "look, we need your help, if you can just order now and we will ship ASAP" then that could potentially save businesses.

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by HotTastyChili

Is there any word yet whether the box set is going to contain the theatrical cuts of the original trilogy?

It doesn't.

[bruceames]

Originally Posted by MrHT

If we couldn't contain this virus when it was just in China and then in a few countries thereafter, how on earth are we going to contain it now that it's WORLDWIDE!! It's too late; nothing we can do about it now. We're screwed!

We only have two ways of getting through this-

• Hopefully with warm weather around the corner, this virus will die down
  
  -OR-
  
  
• GET A DAMN VACCINE READY ASAP!!!!!!

Actually China and Korea have done a good job containing it.

[MifuneFan]

The entire point of all of this is to try and prevent hospitals from being overrun. You lose the hospital system, everything else crumbles, and people start dying left, and right, which then causes even greater panic, which probably leads to an increase in violence, and crime, and so forth

So if we can flatten the curve, we can mitigate the spread, and manage it so that hospitals are still able to run okay. In some places like Seattle it might be too late,. It that's not the case for most places in the country yet.

[MrHT]

Originally Posted by bruceames

Actually China and Korea have done a good job containing it.

Highly doubtful. If so, then it wouldn't have spread like this in the U.S.

[Scottishguy]

[TheBoss062]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

It doesn't.

Who’s actually surprised? They’ll never see the light of day again as long George Lucas doesn’t want them to.

Originally Posted by HotTastyChili

Ouch. That's one of the worst bones to break. Wishing you a speedy recovery in these crazy times.

This may be a stupid question, but bear with me because this is only the second time I've heard tell of this box. Is there any word yet whether the box set is going to contain the theatrical cuts of the original trilogy?

As for the original question, I guess I'm not doing much differently. I don't buy that many Blu-rays a month, but I bought a few yesterday for the HPB sale. Got a couple cool CDs too, as that's where my collection stretches into the thousands like people's Blu's on here. And that's just CD's. Don't even get me started on records/tapes/8-tracks/etc. I need to thin out! A lot of stuff I used to listen to as a kid that embarrasses me now. At least when I hear it, I'm taken back. But no, I'm really not curbing my habits too much. I'm not super worried, maybe I'm being naive or too optimistic, but I'm not panicking. I'm being careful, but I'm not living in fear.

I appreciate that.

[rocknblues81]

I’m not changing anything as of now.

[paulymerase]

Some of the responses here are missing the point a bit, particularly the lamentations because the current measures won't "contain" it. I have some experience with virology, and told my wife when it was first well described (in December & January) that it would not be contained in China and would become a pandemic, no matter what was done Tbh, it was never likely to be contained due to the characteristics of the virus.

Thus, these measures are not meant to contain the spread, or even to reduce the number of overall infected over the course of the pandemic. Instead they are designed to reduce the rate of spread, so that hospitals are not overwhelmed. The mortality rate seems to rise by around 3x when medical infrastructure is overwhelmed (as was in Wuhan, or parts of Italy now). That is what is meant by "flattening the curve."

[El_Fez]

Originally Posted by Batman90

I wonder if this will effect the mail? Honestly I don’t go to the store a whole lot and it has nothing to do with the virus. Besides my wife does all the shopping now she’s worried to get out a lot. But I just Order my stuff from amazon or other websites.

It was funny, how adapted we are to touching things. I was at my mom's this afternoon when a UPS guy showed up with a package that needed a signature. He had gloves on, didn't let me sign for the package with his little datapad thing - instead the signature was him putting a dot on the line and me giving him my consent. A very odd transaction.

And then, on the way home, I stopped by a local Very Fancy Restaurant that had shut down, but was doing a makeshift drive-thru so they could remain open, keep their staff employed during a rough time, and provide a service to the community all in one go. And as I went to take the ipad to swipe my card without thinking, she pulled away - and I didn't even make the connection: "Yes, of course. No touching! Quite correct."

Crazy times, my friends. Crazy times.

[Tony208]

Originally Posted by bruceames

Actually China and Korea have done a good job containing it.

China's statistics are completely bogus. There's way more deaths than reported. What you're seeing in Italy happened in Wuhan first.

Korea does seem to have a handle on it.

[Scottishguy]

Originally Posted by Tony208

China's statistics are completely bogus. There's way more deaths than reported. What you're seeing in Italy happened in Wuhan first.

Korea does seem to have a handle on it.

I'm atchually inclined to believe the Chinese numbers. I've not spoken to a doctor yet that doubts them.