be honest are you worried about corona

kiokoman

we don't have any food problem for now but .. well numbers here are bad.. 26.000 infected, 2000 under icu and 2.500 already dead, they are big numbers in time of peace. we are also lucky that we have public health care

provels

@kiokoman Fingers X'd.

provels

@kiokoman "Hello from Italy." Is this what I'm looking forward to?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/17/hello-italy-your-future-is-grimmer-than-you-think/

kiokoman

i'm from Veneto like her, that is the gist of it

provels

@kiokoman I hope you are far closer to the end than the beginning.

Allcopstan

absolutely no.

kiokoman

sadly no, it's still the beginnig especially if people don't understand that they have to stay at home and violate the quarantine

stephenw10

Unfortunately I think asking that question this time next year might be closer to reality.

Steve

oliv88

Actually yes, it is not actually adding the number on daily basis.
this disease get the multiplier factor. (everyone should make sure to implement self isolation to overcome this disease)

provels

Trump wants everyone back to work.
10,000 new cases today.
Go figure.
"Must save stock market"

kiokoman

history teaches us, money has always been more important than human lives

provels

@kiokoman said in be honest are you worried about corona:

history teaches us, money has always been more important than human lives

especially to the survivors.

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

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provels

I'm frankly surprised we haven't seen massive slowdowns and outages on the Internet. Even my domestic Comcast 300/20 line is still bursting to 340 with everyone streaming and working from home. Who needs 5g?

Raysh

I'm worried about my parents

francisbaud

@jwj said in be honest are you worried about corona:

Fear is what's left when we abandon reason. So. Today. In Trumpistan. I'm scared sh*tless.

What's scare you the most in/about Trumpistan?

protonwork23

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kiokoman

I see a lot of news here in Italy about the USA and the situation about coronavirus, is it that bad? the news is telling us that there are ppl on the road complaining / a lot of people that lose the job, long lines at the soup kitchen, isn't the government giving any financial help to families and preventing people from losing their jobs? lockdown without any sustenance?

Rico

Any of you guys running Folding@Home?
https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/

-Rico

bmeeks

@kiokoman said in be honest are you worried about corona:

I see a lot of news here in Italy about the USA and the situation about coronavirus, is it that bad? the news is telling us that there are ppl on the road complaining / a lot of people that lose the job, long lines at the soup kitchen, isn't the government giving any financial help to families and preventing people from losing their jobs? lockdown without any sustenance?

No, it's not that bad. Actually, where I live, there is almost zero impact. 33 confirmed cases out of 23,000 people in the county. Three of those did die, but all were elderly and had other serious pre-existing conditions. Only 8 folks have required hospitalization in my county.

It is true that many people are tired of the "lockdown" and ready to go about their daily business because they have seen none of the "end of the world" dire predictions actually come true. Yes, New York City was a little hard hit, but that is a ton of people crammed on top of each other in a huge city that uses packed trains and subways for transportation. That is not so true elsewhere in the USA.

The news tends to always focus on the extreme. The joke we have here in the USA about the news is "if it bleeds, it leads". That means the reporters focus mostly only on the negative or dire or tragic things, and the more negative, dire or tragic the better for the story in their view. So 25 or 50 people protesting something loudly in a city of thousands really is not indicative of anything, but the news (especially TV news) will make sure all the camera shots include nothing but those 25 to 50 people with the shots framed to give the idea the entire city is out protesting. Then, if they can locate the one idiot that is guaranteed to be in any crowd, and get him to say something provocative or "politically incorrect", that's all the better for the "story" ... .