Coronavirus and Walt Disney World general discussion

[HongKongFooy]

Now if we're talking LA County lockup or San Joaquin County jail in California then home confinement would be 2 or 3 steps above.

I haven't heard too much out of Orange County lockup in Orlando.

 

[21stamps]

@trojanjustin you can discus that here-

COVID-19

It is time we put America first. The media made a big deal about the fact that we don't have enough masks and medical equipment but they ignore the fact that it is because of foreign supplies. If we had had the trade war years ago and built what is critical for our health and welfare in the...

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So if you want to see Fake News look at OAN. Ya know, the "news" organization that considers Fox News to be to liberal. Anyways, some human trash of a reporter, Chanel Rion, was actually brave/stupid enough to ask Mango Unchained, "Do you consider the use of the term ‘Chinese food’ racist...

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[Nubs70]

wow, Javitz Center may become a hospital.

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And Madison Square Garden can become the morgue.

 

[Nubs70]

Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Are Growing Faster In The United States Than Any Other Country In The World

As coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads across the globe, each country hopes that it has the ability to slow its growth in their own country.

www.forbes.com

if we just stopped testing, the rate of increased confirmed cases would slow.

 

[ImperfectPixie]

Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Are Growing Faster In The United States Than Any Other Country In The World

As coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads across the globe, each country hopes that it has the ability to slow its growth in their own country.

www.forbes.com

There's an awful lot of "could" and "however" in there. He's a PhD, but in geology...

 

[Andrew C]

A bit lighter.

 

[DCBaker]

if we just stopped testing, the rate of increased confirmed cases would slow.

LA County -

"The nation’s second-largest municipal health system has told its staff that it is essentially abandoning hope of containing the coronavirus outbreak and instructed doctors not to bother testing symptomatic patients if a positive result won’t change how they would be treated."

L.A. County gives up on containing coronavirus, tells doctors to skip testing of some patients

A decision by L.A. County's public health system not to test patients with coronavirus symptoms could make it difficult to know how many are infected.

t.co

 

[DCBaker]

A couple of the latest charts done by FT -

 

[flynnibus]

LA County -

"The nation’s second-largest municipal health system has told its staff that it is essentially abandoning hope of containing the coronavirus outbreak and instructed doctors not to bother testing symptomatic patients if a positive result won’t change how they would be treated."

L.A. County gives up on containing coronavirus, tells doctors to skip testing of some patients

A decision by L.A. County's public health system not to test patients with coronavirus symptoms could make it difficult to know how many are infected.

t.co

Simple solution... record and track "presumed positive" cases.

 

[ImperfectPixie]

A couple of the latest charts done by FT -

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Just curious...what does FT stand for?

 

[DCBaker]

Just curious...what does FT stand for?

Financial Times

 

[Lilofan]

A couple of the latest charts done by FT -

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Italy deaths can be attributed to a huge elderly population and it's an Italian custom to kiss each other on both cheeks as a welcome which can transmit the virus.

 

[Rimmit]

Here’s my worry with this.. let’s say you own a second property, use as a rental, single family home. Now your tenant can’t pay. How long do you allow that? Is it right for the government to tell you to allow it for several months?

There is obviously no easy answer to that, as a previous landlord (ironically of a second property single family home) myself I have been asking myself how I would have dealt with this if I still had my property at this time. If the government had frozen loans and I had no payments due on my property in theory, I would only lose in depreciation of my asset and that would be tax deductible.

If they did not, in all honesty, in my situation I would have just eaten the cost of the lost rental income if the government did not subsidize it as it was not my main income and I could write off the cost. My final tenant I basically did that anyway as I nearly had to evict him and lost a couple months rent anyway.

The larger question would be if rental properties are your primary form of income. It would be tough to eat that cost, but ultimately again if loans were in essence frozen the only loss during that time span would be two months depreciation as you would have no payments due on the property itself at that time and maybe some maintenance. The bigger issue would be income to buy food and pay some bills. If the government sent a check that would mitigate at least some of those issues.

There is no quick fix to any of this. But just some thoughts.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Italy deaths can be attributed to a huge elderly population and it's an Italian custom to kiss each other on both cheeks as a welcome which can transmit the virus.

And what can the US deaths be attributed to?

 

[Andrew C]

And what can the US deaths be attributed to?

COVID-19

 

[UNCgolf]

Things like scanning people’s temperature when entering a building or a venue, people wearing masks everywhere and other safety measures.

This is already happening. There's a local grocery store that has 6 locations around the Atlanta metro area that is using infrared cameras to scan the body temperature of anyone entering the store, and if they are at 100 degrees or higher they won't be allowed to shop.

 

[thomas998]

This is already happening. There's a local grocery store that has 6 locations around the Atlanta metro area that is using infrared cameras to scan the body temperature of anyone entering the store, and if they are at 100 degrees or higher they won't be allowed to shop.

Sadly we have people that will just load up on aspirins or other meds to lower their temps enough to pass through those scans, like the woman that just did it so she could fly from Boston to China... Fortunately in that case she was arrested and the Chinese tend to look harshly on things like that... I understand she is now looking as up to 7 years in prison.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

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Exactly. The same that is killing people all around the world.

This is already happening. There's a local grocery store that has 6 locations around the Atlanta metro area that is using infrared cameras to scan the body temperature of anyone entering the store, and if they are at 100 degrees or higher they won't be allowed to shop.

Is that the kinda world you want to live in though? I mean we won’t have a choice but I don’t even like having to go through a metal detector to get into the parks. I don’t feel any safer in the parks then I do at Disney springs.

The idea of being scanned for my temperature before rising public transit, going to a broadway show, etc. is just creepy to me.

 

[UNCgolf]

Is that the kinda world you want to live in though? I mean we won’t have a choice but I don’t even like having to go through a metal detector to get into the parks. I don’t feel any safer in the parks then I do at Disney springs.

The idea of being scanned for my temperature before rising public transit, going to a broadway show, etc. is just creepy to me.

I assume it's just a temporary measure until the Covid-19 threat passes or is at least significantly diminished.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I live in Nova Scotia, Canada. Our Premier just put in place that renters cannot be evicted during this crisis. That has definitely helped with the not-going-to-work aspect as no one will feel like they HAVE to go to work to pay their rent.