JT!

Honestly I'm still working serving customers and I don't even wear a mask. Why you'd need one outside when you're riding along on a bike is beyond my understanding.

If I knew it was an issue I'd have just put it in my work locker. But now they're letting me keep it inside in the back... I suppose until maintenance guy sees it and tosses it into the trash compactor.

Been cycling back from work every morning (take the bus in) so I lock my bike up on the bike rack while I'm working. I leave the lock locked to the bike rack so I don't have to find a way to carry it back and forth. Didn't think it was a problem until i find it gone today. I believe our maintenance guy decided to cut it off. Not even had it there 1 month.

Just goes to show how insanely ignorant someone can be. Yeah lets just blast the body with UV light inside and out and somehow through every 0.5mm layer of their body to kill coronavirus.

Stimulus checks are being send out in the USA, so everyone is $1200 better off now. However both the ATMs at work are out of cash so I have to deal with bitches being bitches about that.

Martyn Ashton talking about his career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVFYva7APrg

Well sure I'm gonna say 128k people on Earth that have died from it. But this is obviously a leading question so maybe just go right a head and explain to me why it isn't dangerous?

I don't need to watch a 13min long video to tell me that American news sensationalizes everything. Probably not a good idea to get your news from sources that reply on advertisement as their only income. But all I see is over prepared and under utilized. Which given this is a novel virus is exactly where we should be.

I'm not sure what you mean by that... Are you saying just as many people will die this year as last year? The video was pretty interesting, I guess if we did nothing but lockdown the old / vulnerable people, it would rip through the entire population pretty quickly and could have been gone by now. I suppose the only real way of knowing if that that would have worked is after it's all said and done we would look at all the hospitalized cases and see if all of those could have been handled over a few weeks. Everyone running countries thinks that they could not have. When you're playing with peoples lives it's probably just best to air on the side of caution.

I see a lot of money out here being pumped into people's pockets in an attempt to hold off any kind of recession. Given most of the places closed down will reopen and suddenly everyone is going to have a crap load of extra money that'll be a huge kick start to the economy. And all my opinions are based around everyone going back to work at the start of May which probably wont happen at this point.

100% armchair opinion. But I've seen a lot of talk about comparing this to other natural disasters and how the economy bounced back pretty quickly, obviously all those comparisons were smaller scale disasters as opposed to a worldwide thing though. I don't know what's going on in England, but people are actually making more money on unemployment here than if they were working. Obviously that money has to come from somewhere, but it should see us through the next couple of months without too many people struggling financially. I don't think we'll feel the economic effects of this outside of 2020. But I could just be talking out of my arse too.

I don't know if it'll be that bad. We aren't in a recession, we're in the middle of a natural disaster. The economy was doing great before this shit, it'll be fine after. I don't think it'll be anything compared to the crash of 2008.

No. I'd rather not see our grandparents on hospital beds in hallways sharing a ventilator with 5 other people while you have one nurse who's working on 3 hours of sleep checking in on them every 2 hours because she has to watch over 40 patients at once.

Still, pretty entertaining video though.

Schools are pretty much predicted to be done with for the school year here. We're still under a non enforced stay at home order. However a lot of stores are stepping up now. Walmart will be temperature testing all employees, and I've heard my old place of work which is a hardware store will be testing the temps of customers too and have banned under 16 year olds. I think the issue we're having here is that people are taking the whole family out shopping rather than just 1 person going, things like that. I was talking to my father in law this morning because he'd called my wife to see if she wanted to be picked up and go to get something to eat and she said no because of the stay at home order. So he called me to ask about that, he didn't really seem to get the severity of it and didn't understand why he couldn't even come over to ours. He's also been wandering around stores and clothes shopping just for something to do. So there is really a long way to go with educating people with things like not visiting family and going to shops for essentials only etc.

Yeah winter here is pretty much November to April. Literally half the days of the year see temperatures freezing or blow. I'll never get used to it.

Ended up going with a new 2019 Cannondale Cujo 3 27.5+ Bigger tires actually worked pretty well on the packed snow at the higher pressure rating, and I can swap the wheels out for some skinnier 29s down the road.

1-3% mortality rate? Can't be right, we're not going to loose that many people. So I should really think of covid-19 and it's annual mutations to be something that's just "around" from now on? Like the flu and common colds?

Yeah I'm pretty much throwing all my opinions out there so I can come back and gloat if I'm right. Either way we'll have a crap load of ventilators so if something like this happens again we'll be all set!

My understanding is that when something like a flu or the common cold mutates and comes around next season our bodies already know how to fight that type off because it's so similar and needs to do less work to figure it out, it can still make people sick however, but it's much less likely to. Obviously covid-19 is new so that initial resistance isn't there at all.

But wouldn't people get it at the same roughly the same rate as the seasonal flu because we're all are potentially going to be immune to it from this round? So the 2nd wave wouldn't be anywhere near as bad at this one?

No not sure about that at all haha. It depends how long it goes on for and how long people are out of work. I know here a bill was just passed here that's going to give a lot of money to the public and businesses (me and my wife are literally going to get a check for $2400 even though our income has gone up because of the virus) so if that's enough to hold everything over for a couple of months, at which point I think we're going get over the worst of it, then the economy will spring back almost instantly. But if it goes on for longer then who knows.

Because it's spreading so easily, a lot of people will eventually become immune quickly. I think it'll go away as quick as it came because of that. My predictions are, people will start going back to work their non essential jobs around the middle of May after April will be the worst of it. This'll freak people out as we'll start seeing new cases raise again, but they're not rising anywhere near levels that they did in April. Through the summer it'll wind down as more and more will be immune by then. By the end of the summer natural herd immunity will kill it off pretty quickly, start of fall it'll be all in the past.

Trump is actually right on the money here, we (goes for both UK and USA) aren't in a recession, we're in the middle of a natural disaster. Once we get out of the eye of the storm things will go back to normal pretty quickly. I'm not sure a vaccine will be much use by the time it comes out, as easy as this is spreading, most people will be immune to it by the end of the year anyway by means of just contracting it. Exponential growth combined with a 2-3 week delay on symptoms. The UK has been in lockdown only for a week, so all the people who were contagious with no symptoms, going to bars and restaurants and infecting people for that time means 2-3 weeks from that point is where we see the peak of cases and deaths. That time hasn't come yet as the lockdown has only been going on for 1 week. So expect to see a exponential raise over the next 2 weeks, then a peak at week 4, then new cases will start to drop IF a lockdown is actually something that works. Realistically for the lockdown to work, it just needs to flatten the curve enough so that the NHS doesn't get overwhelmed with patents. That's really the only achievable goal as of now.

Trump said he would. Generally if Trump said he'd do something, it has or will never get done. He's too busy doing things he's saying he won't do. Urgent care will not accept you if you don't have insurance. Emergency rooms legally have to treat everyone and anyone. I learned this when I was uninsured so I knew where to go if something happened. But either way, it's disgusting that we have this system here.