Topic: COVID-19

[bwaller]

COTA GP is re-scheduled for 13-15th of November.

[Stev-o]

COTA GP is re-scheduled for 13-15th of November.

Yes, City of Austin has banned events through May 1st that draw over 2500 people...

https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/events/austin-coronavirus-motogp-grand-prix-of-the-americas-postponed/269-037afa2d-9de5-4e66-8719-e6bb7b75d194

[Robbo]

COTA GP is re-scheduled for 13-15th of November.

Too bad it’s not the same month as the Barber Vintage Festival...both are on my bucket list .


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[Stev-o]

COTA GP is re-scheduled for 13-15th of November.

Too bad it’s not the same month as the Barber Vintage Festival...both are on my bucket list .

But they are nearly 800 miles apart!   Barber is on my list too...

[Robbo]

COTA GP is re-scheduled for 13-15th of November.

Too bad it’s not the same month as the Barber Vintage Festival...both are on my bucket list .

But they are nearly 800 miles apart!   Barber is on my list too...

I’d be driving down from Canada so would make for a great road trip


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[turboguzzi]

guys, since im writing this from the eye of the storm in northern Italy, all i can wish you is that the worst of your problems will be missing out on two classic events.... my 2020 season to which i prepared for months is not in the cards anymore, not even thinking about it honestly. not to mention the economic aftershock...

Seemingly Lombardy is going towards complete lock-down tomorrow, i.e. all businesses closed save for pharmacies and food,
And not so obvious, even going for a nice ride in these strange days is not on the cards. If anything happens to you it could take hours for an ambulance to rescue you, not to mention that you'd be occupying a critical bed in already saturated hospitals putting other patients at peril.

stay safe
 

[bwaller]

Let's hope the measures taken gradually help improve your situation TG. Hopefully as summer approaches the virus spread changes for the better.

[Tintop]

Let's hope the measures taken gradually help improve your situation TG. Hopefully as summer approaches the virus spread changes for the better.

+1, stay safe TG.

[Stev-o]

guys, since im writing this from the eye of the storm in northern Italy...

TG - over here in the U.S. we are hearing the reports of how bad things are over there, worst outbreak area outside China.  How did this happen?

[turboguzzi]

search for Mattia, "Patient 1"  Codogno....
read also here, but the same dynamic will happen everywhere IMHO, we are just a few weeks ahead of others...

 But there are young people who are infected too. Some have been in intensive care, including the first person to test positive in the north who hadn’t been to China, a 38-year-old Unilever worker named Mattia. He came to be known in Italy as Patient No. 1.

At the San Matteo hospital in Pavia, there was a sigh of relief after Mattia began breathing on his own Monday with just a small amount of oxygen assistance, said Dr. Francesco Mojoli, head of intensive care. He was moved out of the ICU to a sub-ICU unit and was speaking with doctors.

Mattia first went to the hospital in Codogno on Feb. 18 complaining of flu-like symptoms. He was sent home but came back the next day after his condition worsened dramatically. He was only tested for coronavirus after doctors learned that in early February he had met with a man who had been to China.

By then, however, he had infected his wife and several doctors, nurses and patients at the Codogno hospital, creating what was thought initially to have been Italy’s main cluster. Since his China contact turned out to be negative, though, experts now believe that the virus had been circulating widely and quietly in northern Italy since at least the second half of January.

[PeWe]

It will happen to more countries since the virus is spreading constantly. No trips to other countries for me until this has stopped.  It must affect all businesses.
I wonder when my company  I work fork for need to reduce....?

Follow the progress. This is just the beginning.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[CR750]

Totally agree Yossef, in the greater schemes of things it's a small sacrifice things get postponed, and this virus will reach all around the world.

One of my interns in my company is Italian and originally from the area in Italy where it started and is the worst at the moment. Her dad is a doctor, and it is not pretty there at the moment in the hospitals, I can tell you from first hand stories.

I am in the Netherlands, but my home area NoordBrabant just became the epicentre for Covid in our country, starting with a few hundred cases and also a few deaths, most related to cases in Italy ( holidays/travels - all budget airlines fly directly to and from Italy daily from Eindhoven...at least they used to)

They are now investigating how wide spread it is here,  and since yesterday the government attitude changed from all will be fine, just wash your hands more often to;

all events are canceled, some schools closed, they strongly advise to work at home, so most companies/streets are more or less empty, no social activities, so restaurants and bars closed...

I am curious what will happen here over the next month, I would not be surprised to a similair spread and lockdown....the only positive is that in China things seem to calm down a bit at the moment...

But after this is all said and done, who is missing their loved ones, and what the world economy has suffered, only god knows.

All the best to you there TG, and all of you around the world who are affected !

[low-side]

Things are shutting down here in Canton Ohio.  My daughter will be off school for at least a month.  I'm on an on-site / off-site rotation at work.  All parades, theaters, etc. are cancelled or postponed.  I've never seen anything like this.
 From what we're seeing elsewhere this is just getting started.  Stay safe everyone.

[carnivorous chicken]

I cancelled my trip to Cuba. Staying in airbnbs -- where you have no idea who might have slept there the night before, and no idea how well they have been cleaned -- isn't reassuring. And they just announced three cases -- all Italian tourists -- yesterday. Likely the tip of the iceberg.

The CDC has published some pretty dire predictions for its spread, dependent on the administration's reaction in the US. Worst case scenario has around 10 million infected by July, with high death rates. Other predictions are much lower, but the administration's inability to get ahead of this is a serious damper to prevention efforts.

Some people continue to downplay it, by making comparisons to malaria, the flu, and other things that can be deadly. This argument ignores that those things are generally pretty constant in terms of threat, and that this is something novel that has not yet finished spreading. We don't know the extent of it. Others are saying we've had other pandemics that haven't had much of an effect, but coronavirus has people such as Tom Hanks and his wife, Justin Treadeau's wife, Iranian elites, NBA players, and other infected. Not that the rate of celebrity infections is any kind of an indicator of the strength of the spread, but it's troubling. And there is the exposure of several US politicans at CPAC.

Things are still pretty calm in Mexico City. Few cases, no panic, no run on toilet paper. Events still going on, and a holiday this weekend. But will see if things change...

[Tintop]

I cancelled my trip to Cuba. Staying in airbnbs -- where you have no idea who might have slept there the night before, and no idea how well they have been cleaned -- isn't reassuring. And they just announced three cases -- all Italian tourists -- yesterday. Likely the tip of the iceberg.

The CDC has published some pretty dire predictions for its spread, dependent on the administration's reaction in the US. Worst case scenario has around 10 million infected by July, with high death rates. Other predictions are much lower, but the administration's inability to get ahead of this is a serious damper to prevention efforts.

Some people continue to downplay it, by making comparisons to malaria, the flu, and other things that can be deadly. This argument ignores that those things are generally pretty constant in terms of threat, and that this is something novel that has not yet finished spreading. We don't know the extent of it. Others are saying we've had other pandemics that haven't had much of an effect, but coronavirus has people such as Tom Hanks and his wife, Justin Treadeau's wife, Iranian elites, NBA players, and other infected. Not that the rate of celebrity infections is any kind of an indicator of the strength of the spread, but it's troubling. And there is the exposure of several US politicans at CPAC.

Things are still pretty calm in Mexico City. Few cases, no panic, no run on toilet paper. Events still going on, and a holiday this weekend. But will see if things change...

This the part that is giving me sleepless nights, given my mother has significant respiratory issues.  Frankly, she gets it she dies.  While it's very draconian, the Italian government has instituted fines & jail for breaking quarantine, even to the extent of saying if your infected & infect someone & they die you can be charged with 'Intentional Murder' with a max 21 year sentence.   While it may sound over the top, given my personal situation I'm not sure I not in favour.

[PeWe]

Maybe a good thing to do. Eat 3 grams of vitamin C daily.  1 gram after each meal, before food can be tough for stomach.

This to keep up the resistance.
According to this thread tested with good results in China and South Korea to avoid getting the COVID-19.

http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n17.shtml

Our government has stopped counting, maybe to stop high numbers documented which can be seen as a huge amount of incompetence which it really is.

[bwaller]

People just need to learn to be responsible. Even if we have a cold or flu, we shouldn't be out spreading it around. This should get our undivided attention. PeWe makes a great point that isn't at all difficult to do.

The elderly are vulnerable and we need to do our best to protect them. I hope your Mom remains healthy Brian. I feel for all those trying to balance work, childcare and every other difficulty in light of the scrambling going on.

However, the need for people to stockpile toilet paper just bewilders me! 

[Tintop]

PeWe, I saw an article about vitamin C as well.  Thing was it was being used to treat the sick by IV in massive doses.  They made the point that IV was 10x's more potent than oral.  Not discounting taking it, but you'd have to be consuming bottles/day to reach the levels they talked about.

[Medyo Bastos]

the need for people to stockpile toilet paper just bewilders me! 

I’ve been wondering that too! Wal-Mart was totally out. All I needed was 1 pack, gotdam! Figger it’s time to start wiping with my hand. An old Sears catalog sure would come in handy



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[carnivorous chicken]

the need for people to stockpile toilet paper just bewilders me! 

I’ve been wondering that too! Wal-Mart was totally out. All I needed was 1 pack, gotdam! Figger it’s time to start wiping with my hand. An old Sears catalog sure would come in handy


People have asked me, "why are you wearing just one sock?"


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[Medyo Bastos]

There might be a baby boom after this pandemic!



Just hope Wal-Mart restocks on toilet paper, good grief!


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[PeWe]

Funny, I piled up with toilet paper a few days ago, 48 rolls of extra large model. A package of 24 rolls contains 1500 meters double layer paper.

People are hoarding food over here. Good times for grocery stores.

Vitamin C can be found as Ascorbic acid in the grocery store which cost less than fancy flavouered pills. 1/2 teaspoon 3 times a day. Just eat it followed by a 1/2 glass of water. This high dose make a difference.

This helped me quit smoking 12  years ago. It removes most of the cravings and make smoking to taste really bad if trying.

It also give some man power increasing the amount of man juice women loves to get injected!!

I also add-on multi vitamin with minerals pill, Great Earth TNT, 1/day to the lunch. No coffee at that time of the day since coffea can have a negative effect on some vitamins. Vitamin D extra important during the dark winter with less sun.

This about how to make us to get more power, stay healthy, not only the bikes.

[NickO]

Guys, this is a serious event, but there is always some good to come out of situations like these:

It is now socially acceptable to let out a loud fart in order to cover-up a cough.

[PeWe]

People farted everywhere when I visited China.  Not that much last time April 2019, 2006 and 2007 horrible. No shame to fart in elevators.

Now I know why