DryerLintFan
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Because everyone knows him as "the lawyer who tested positive"
It's how he's commonly known since he came back and infected his family and others.
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Because everyone knows him as "the lawyer who tested positive"
It's how he's commonly known since he came back and infected his family and others.
MrPromey
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Among other things, there are three primary reasons:
I don't have a house keeper so I'd love him to at least wait until he gets near a laundry basket so I don't have to go around the house looking for shorts that were cast aside by my little heathen and tossed in some random direction in the same mindless lord-of-the-flies ritual he preforms nearly daily but never in quite the same way.
It makes it really, really super hard when I had plans to go back out, to get him motivated when he must now put shorts back on.
Lastly, it's a little bit embarrassing when other people come over and he forgets and does it in front of them (like, right in front of them). I know I said younger but we're talking reading age so he's quickly approaching the point where non-family are going to view it as odd rather than cute and being a single dad, that kind of scrutiny is something I worry about.
Don't you worry, though - more often than not, he still does it when it's just the two of us.
Kevin_W
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Interesting read, thanks.Thought a few of you may appreciate this
A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data
A fiasco in the making? As the #coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data.www.statnews.com
I think every news article about COVID-19 rates should end with this sentence.
ImperfectPixie
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We had a single dad friend of ours give our oldest a little verbal jab about putting pants on when there's company over (we really don't consider him company, and I'm comfortable wearing PJs if he's in the house). It basically worked a miracle and now all I have to do is announce that company is coming over and both boys scramble to put on (at the very least) pants.
He literally just said "DUDE! Put some pants on when you have company!" in a stern dad voice.
ETA: Sometimes it takes someone who isn't one of their parents to say something.
ImperfectPixie
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I've been sharing that all over in the hopes that the young people who aren't taking it seriously change their minds.
Horizons '83
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But back on topic, I am hearing from my family that their schools are being cancelled for the rest of the school year and I am curious (since this is the Disney related thread) how that will affect the crowds, when WDW does reopen. Will it be insane the first week or will the Summer be brutal with all the cancelled spring break trips?
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PeoplemoverTTA
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Can we please stop the political chatter?
Speculation since nothing is known and just about every possiblity is up at this point.
I still wonder when the stream changes and things are attempting to reopen for business on the scale of WDW and parks around the world, does anyone else think China Parks will either be left closed(they were dragging the company a good bit because they were operating at an increasing loss every year since opening and have troubles even without the virus) or stay closed longer still since China is still more densely populated and cases are going to flucate more there? I also wonder with WDW what would remain closed the longest? I think the Waterparks would as they are not as big of revenue maker as the theme parks and have seasonal closures/lightning storms anyway, so staffing would not take priority for something that produces less revenue. The water parks and hotel wings closed off is how I see the phased reopening happen, but I am just speculating.
I still wonder when the stream changes and things are attempting to reopen for business on the scale of WDW and parks around the world, does anyone else think China Parks will either be left closed(they were dragging the company a good bit because they were operating at an increasing loss every year since opening and have troubles even without the virus) or stay closed longer still since China is still more densely populated and cases are going to flucate more there? I also wonder with WDW what would remain closed the longest? I think the Waterparks would as they are not as big of revenue maker as the theme parks and have seasonal closures/lightning storms anyway, so staffing would not take priority for something that produces less revenue. The water parks and hotel wings closed off is how I see the phased reopening happen, but I am just speculating.
orlandogal22
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RE: Schools / Parks. Good question. I'm thinking it may be a little of both. Possibly ramping up with crowds as more people filter in from out of state, but it will be interesting how they handle deciding on disclosing an opening date (and how far out) and how people will scramble to get reservations and / or amend reservations to align with those dates.
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GoofGoof
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The government would need to step in to fund this. Maybe FEMA or another agency can keep extra supplies and equipment to be deployed quickly as needed for different issues. They will certainly be beefing up the plans and resources dedicated to testing and isolating people on a mass scale. As far as space they will need to come up with a plan to either quickly convert space to temporary icu rooms or live with a certain number of unused rooms when that’s not practical. For staff, more training to make sure that when something like this happens it’s all hands on deck. There were lots of changes implemented after 9/11 to ensure we are ready for a terrorist attack or chemical/bio weapon attack, in this case it’s a virus but same concept. If it’s mandated by the government and funded by the government it won’t damage the hospital’s bottom line. It’s still way cheaper than the trillion dollar stimulus needed in this case.
Patcheslee
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Before you assume 80 year olds look into how many younger people are high risk due to health. My 41yo husband, DD11's 42yo father, are both in that category. Now take into account that losing my husband will result in lose of income permanently, and my kid would be devastated to lose her father. That does not count the 5 of 6 of her grandparents who are in the high risk category all under the age of 70. So in essence the "time" my daughter would have had if any of those were to pass away because of this virus would be taken away from her earlier.
ELG13
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Update: party City is closing due to the virus. My back up plan for masks is gone.Plus that guy with 19,000 bottles of hand sanitizer also horded all the good masks too
Your numbers are off. They have traced back the first case of coronavirus to November, the first death from it didn't happen until January 9th... so in the first 16 days there were zero deaths, in fact it seems to have taken 2 months before the first death. With the Swine flu (H1N1) the first case was discovered in March 17th 2009, the first death was April 12th 2009... so if you want to compare the two the Swine flu was much faster to kill people... Overall it racked up 12,400 deaths in the US alone over the year it was considered a pandemic. At this time the numbers for the corona virus really aren't anywhere near the place they were with the Swine flu... So when you think about it, why are we going so far over the top with this pandemic compared to the one in 2009? Yes it is deadly, but in the swine flu pandemic we also had no vaccine but didn't go so nutty over it compared to this one.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
We’ll never know anywhere near the true numbers from China. Or Iran.Italian deaths will probably pass CHINA soon.
And it’s a much smaller country than China.
Just shows you how deadly this can be if unchecked
Coronavirus live updates: Cases top 197,000 globally - CNN
The novel coronavirus has sent countries worldwide under lockdown, with border closures, school cancelations, and travel restrictions. Follow here for live updatesedition.cnn.com
PeoplemoverTTA
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One more time for the kids in the back -- please take the political commentary elsewhere.
Steve and the mods have been kind enough to leave this thread mostly as-is so that we can use it to share information and come together. Let's not spoil it with unrelated political commentary.
Steve and the mods have been kind enough to leave this thread mostly as-is so that we can use it to share information and come together. Let's not spoil it with unrelated political commentary.
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