Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

[Nemo14]

I think I maybe have had a little meltdown. Thanks for asking though.

((social distance hug))

 

[GoofGoof]

I don’t blame anyone. The other countries are facing the same crisis we are. The US maybe should have been better prepared. But we weren’t prepared under Bush or Obama either. Time to put the blame game to bed. Let’s just all do our part now to make things better. Most of the state governors are doing a good job to get us all through this.

I don’t blame anyone either. This was not predictable. The government was definitely slow to respond but I think we adjusted and for the most part have caught up. There will be plenty of time for blame when the dust settles on the crisis at hand. Everyone should collectively be focused on helping those in need.

 

[Angel Ariel]

If what’s happening in the world of higher education is anything to go by, I think it’s safe to assume that schools at all levels are not going to resume for the rest of the academic year. I know that’s sad, but it’s a reality one must face.

Our state already called the year. Distance learning will be implemented on April 14th TIL the end of school. Beyond that, who knows.

 

[LittleBuford]

Most higher education is going online. I know the university here is doing so. All classes have continued, just online.

When I said school wouldn’t resume, I was referring to in-person classes, though I realise I wasn’t clear. You are right that teaching has now moved to online platforms.

 

[Polynesia]

No problem. This mess is making everyone a bit tense, myself included.

Calm to everyone going through this. People can’t sleep or are depressed. At times my anxiety is through the roof. The unknown is very scary. I keep reassuring myself we’ll get through this. I go online and look up covid 19 good news to keep a positive balance. Good health to everyone

 

[LittleBuford]

Also Northern Italy has a high population of factory workers from Wuhan many of whom went home for the Chinese New Year and then flew back to Italy unchecked and unregulated.

As discussed many pages back, this is pure speculation.

 

[orlandogal22]

Our state already called the year. Distance learning will be implemented on April 14th TIL the end of school. Beyond that, who knows.

What state are you in?

 

[Brer Oswald]

I think I’ve made it really clear that I’m not a fan of how anyone is handling this. You people freaking out like the world’s ending, and then you have people going “oh it’s just a cold and it only effects elderly” whilst continuously going about their lives in a way that makes this situation a bigger problem than it was.

This is a time where we NEED to work together, but we’ve never been more divided. It’s not even a hard thing to do, which is the part that absolutely infuriates me!

 

[Lilofan]

Calm to everyone going through this. People can’t sleep or are depressed. At times my anxiety is through the roof. The unknown is very scary. I keep reassuring myself we’ll get through this. I go online and look up covid 19 good news to keep a positive balance. Good health to everyone

Times like these, I miss the local gym and my gym rat buddies, getting out your inner rage in a good way.

 

[GoofGoof]

Anyone who is missing baseball and just bored today and enjoys watching stud pitchers mow down hitters its strikeout Saturday on ESPN. Watching Clemens strikeout 20 right now, next up is Kerry Wood, then Randy Johnson and finally Scherzer from a few years ago. Realizing how much better sports are in HD

 

[LittleBuford]

BBC: The new figures include a further 246 people in England, with patients aged between 33 and 100 years old. All of them had underlying health conditions except 13 people, who were aged 63 and over.

Sobering and alarming figures, though I know you’re trying to make a very different point by sharing them.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Gotta make that tin foil hat before the panic buyers turn from toilet paper to aluminum foil

 

[Nunu]

CV19 is too new to have such tests being done to determine these things.

An enterprising research team can canvass as many hospitals as they can (randomly chosen) and inquire about each critical patient's dosage routine and see if there are any correlations to what was given and what was the result. But then you'd only have correlations. And correlations aren't causes.

The one doctor that raised the alarm about Ibuprofen was based on the sample of his own patients with CV19 who were giving Ibuprofen and made a connection between Ibuprofen and suddenly worsening conditions. Well, that's too small a sample size to draw conclusions. It's enough to for a theory to be tested with double blind studies. Probably in light of no one else seeing the same thing, WHO withdrew it's caution.

Also, given how prevalent Ibuprofen is, one would think that hospitals would be seeing a lot of suddenly worsening conditions (10 times worse!!!) and would also be trying to track down the cause of such a syndrome. Given that lack of Sudden Onset COVID19 Respiratory Failure Syndrome... what that one doctor experienced may be a fluke or caused by some other agent.

There are a lot of medications that don't get along with one another (contraindications), but I can't think of a virus which gets supercharged from a pain reliever (that I've heard of, but I'm not a doctor... just a very well read person ).

Reye's syndrome - Symptoms and causes

www.mayoclinic.org

It is rare in adults, but is still possible.

Thank you.

 

[Angel Ariel]

What state are you in?

virginia

 

[George]

Slight change of topic. Maybe this will help calm things a bit.

I work in a lab with other scientists and we've been talking about this for maybe 10 weeks now. One of the less morose/politically charged topics that we've discussed is long term cultural changes here in the U.S. and worldwide. Before I start, feel free to throw out your own and, of course, discuss the likelihood of any of these that strike your fancy. 1) My boss is a world traveler. He's a geophysicist so some of his traveling takes him to places like Antarctica that are truly irrelevant for this discussion. However, his best friend is Japanese and he loves Japanese culture. He wonders if we will wind up being cleaner like the Japanese. I find this incredibly unlikely as a lifelong slovenly American, but maybe he's right and and I'm wrong. 2) A big lifestyle change in my half century on this planet has been the amount I and my fellow countrymen eat out. It has morphed from a special thing to almost daily in some cases. I conjectured at one lunch that people might cook more. I have bias here too. I like to cook. 3) One person predicted less pleasure travel world wide. I find this unlikely. Of course, it wasn't my idea. I predicted 4) less professional conferences. My field (accelerator mass spectrometry) is an extreme case. So few instruments exist on the planet that we have a meeting every 2-3 years and it rotates amongst the continents. Our next one is in Australia. As I've gotten older, I've really come to question the usefulness of the traditional conference except for a younger person networking. In fact, the most useful work travel I've done in 20 years was visiting a lab in California to learn a new technique before hopping on a plane to continue my travels to Nagoya, Japan and go to a conference. My presentation there went OK with the same people agreeing with me who I knew would agree with me and the same people hassling me who I know would hassle me. 5) Lots of TV folk predicting more working from home and teleworking in general. 6) This is huge for me. I'm a fan of almost every team sport you can think of...except for that handball thing I see in the Olympics. I don't get that one at all. But, I digress. Sports. They are artificial in the biggest sense. We care about people, we've never met before and in Kurt Vonnegut's terminology we're all part of a granfalloon (a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless). Will sports getting cancelled hurt long term popularity or will our emotional and intellectual ties to our respective teams and individuals cause them to come roaring back with a popularity heretofore unforeseen and eventually lead to the incredibly bloody post game riots after mere exhibition and preseason games?

 

[Lilofan]

Trump 'considering quarantine on New York' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52079121

If it spreads like wildfire, nationwide quarantine cannot be ruled out.

 

[GoofGoof]

virginia

When was your school year supposed to end?

 

[Disney Analyst]

And that’s meant to be a good thing?

Anyone belittling this virus or crying about the economy can f@@@ right off so far as I’m concerned.

And pardon my French.

Ive always been of the mindset that economies.. stock markets... it’s all made up human convention. Let’s focus on lives and we can fix our systems after. The world isn’t suddenly poor. The world doesn’t suddenly not have food or systems in place.

It’s all just asinine.

 

[zengoth]

The hardest thing to give up is control. Giving up control is akin, to many people, as giving in or just giving up. But giving up control is sometimes the only thing you CAN do. You cannot control what the economy will or will not do. You CAN control the possibilities of either getting the virus or passing it on by doing what governments, health experts and your fellow Earthlings (what a horrible word. I prefer terrans) are asking and hunker down for awhile.

 

[Angel Ariel]

When was your school year supposed to end?

Varies across the state, but our district was supposed to end June 12