The COVID Thread

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Looks like Mecklenburg county will be under a "Stay At Home" order starting Thursday 3/26 at 8am thru April 16.

Wrong, Union County-boy! Since we're Mecklenburg County, we're special and fancy...we were issued a 'proclamation'.
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Charlotte is shut down, Atlanta is shut down, yet here in the middle we remain free to roam. I equate this random shut down procedure to getting a traffic light at a dangerous intersection. "No Ma'am, we can not put a light at 5th and main. We've only had three deaths there and we require five deaths to put in a traffic light. Maybe in a year or two"

My favorite news quote so far. "Yes, go out to eat, go watch that baseball game. Never mind that pile of bodies in the corner" This from a newscaster.
 
Charlotte is shut down, Atlanta is shut down, yet here in the middle we remain free to roam. I equate this random shut down procedure to getting a traffic light at a dangerous intersection. "No Ma'am, we can not put a light at 5th and main. We've only had three deaths there and we require five deaths to put in a traffic light. Maybe in a year or two"

My favorite news quote so far. "Yes, go out to eat, go watch that baseball game. Never mind that pile of bodies in the corner" This from a newscaster.

You can't go out to eat currently. what baseball game? What bodies in the corner? Typical with the fear mongering.
Makes sense to tell the densely packed cities to stay at home....but you won't get it walking around in your yard, going in the woods, driving down the road, walking/cycling/running, practicing good hygene and eating habits, and staying 10ft from other people.
People die in droves from all sorts of stuff...some things they can control and some they can't, every single day.
If you feel you are high risk, you're scared of your own shadow, believe you came in contact with someone who has it, or you are actually sick...then stay home.
 
Turns out AutoZone is an 'essential' business. They had a sign on the door today stating such. I'd wager all of their competitors are, too.
As is HomeDepot, Bestbuy and any Target or Walmart with a grocery store.
 
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The amount of stores that are still open even after they have shutdown all non-essential stores is as if nothing has shut down.
Only thing I'm see closed are malls/clothing stores and what not. Every auto parts store, home depot/lowes, alcohol store, food, what have you still running
 
On March 22, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated who is at high risk for severe illness. People at high risk include anyone who:
  • Is 65 years of age or older
  • Lives in a nursing home or long-term care facility
  • Has a high-risk condition that includes:
  • chronic lung disease or moderate to severe asthma
  • heart disease with complications
  • compromised immune system
  • severe obesity - body mass index (BMI) of 40 or higher
  • other underlying medical conditions, particularly if not well controlled, such as diabetes, renal failure or liver disease

So why shut it all down? I have things to do, bills to pay, work to get done. So do you.
ADVISE people in the above list to stay home. For their own safety. The people in the above list are at high health risks all ready.
Exit your house at your own risk, per usual.
 
Can we limit the rhetorical questions a little, and instead use this thread to show how we're coping? Or maybe if someone is sick and could use a cheer up?

In an attempt to answer your questions, I offer this simple simulation. People in more rural areas are somewhat distanced already, meaning lockdown orders have less impact there, which is why you see these mandates in cities more often than in rural places.

 
I just sort of skimmed through, but it looks like city of Durham not county?

Yeah, guess so. Mayor of the city, not the county, is probably the reason. That and us in the county are more distanced already, haha!
 
Can we limit the rhetorical questions a little, and instead use this thread to show how we're coping? Or maybe if someone is sick and could use a cheer up?

In an attempt to answer your questions, I offer this simple simulation. People in more rural areas are somewhat distanced already, meaning lockdown orders have less impact there, which is why you see these mandates in cities more often than in rural places.



I just got a call about a family member (in another state) being tested for it. Praying that it's just something minor but this is starting to hit home for me.

Please adhere to the social distancing as it's not just about preventing you from getting it but preventing you from spreading it to people on the high risk group directly or indirectly. Remember these are people's mothers, fathers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc...
 
Since this is the Covid thread, figured I'd rant here...

This past Thursday, from VA to NC, 95 & 85 South was inundated with NY, NJ & CT cars packed to the roof like they were going on summer vacation.

They looked like refugees fleeing from conflict. I can't help but think seeing that most of the Kung Flu cases are from those areas that they didn't spread it at every fuel, food and rest stop from the Northeast to Florida.
The JHU spread map shows pretty consistent trail down the interstates. I'm sure the commercial air travel taking the virus from the major airports of entry to the smaller regional ones also facilitated the spread to the likes of Raleigh, Richmond, Roanoke etc...
 

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