OT: All Things Coronavirus Covid-19 - Part XI - MOD ADVISORY POST 1

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Gee Wally

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Its a collision course of factory workers getting ill from side by side job stations. To a reduced supply chain already in lack of truck drivers. A d3cade long issue now. Growing daily as they get ill.
Next up various pharmaceuticals.
We have daily worldwide Zoom. As of last week > 600 confirmed positives. Meaning over 5000 forced into 14 day quarantine. Shifts being lost.
170 in the hospitals. 4 deaths.
 

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On another forum I joked one should spend their $1200 stimulus on a $400 freezer and $800 worth of meat, I may have to take back a wink emoticon?

It's really not a bad idea, TBH. We have a freezer unit in our cellar, and we stocked up on things when it first started. Scary to think that there may be shortages though because even though we have a freezer full of protein, it's not going to last that long.
 
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Its a collision course of factory workers getting ill from side by side job stations. To a reduced supply chain already in lack of truck drivers. A d3cade long issue now. Growing daily as they get ill.
Next up various pharmaceuticals.
We have daily worldwide Zoom. As of last week > 600 confirmed positives. Meaning over 5000 forced into 14 day quarantine. Shifts being lost.
170 in the hospitals. 4 deaths.

I'm hearing the meat plants already used PPE but workers habits outside plant control and in some cases worker housing caused problems?

Yes and I humbly note the housing and worker habits are based on how we treat and pay these people who keep us fed.
 
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I'm hearing the meat plants already used PPE but workers habits outside plant control and in some cases worker housing caused problems?

Yes and I humbly note the housing and worker habits are based on how we treat and pay these people who keep us fed.

like everything else too little too late. PPE, unidirectional flows, daily decon of locker rooms, lunch rooms. Temp scanning on entrance for all employees and transportation providers.

Too little too late. Gotta wait it out now . It will bounce back based on how much longer society can be vigilante. We really dont have any other answers for now.

Really need to have a 1980’s HIV mentality. Anyone thats touched you now links you anyone they and they and they have touched . And so on. Until it ramps down and new social habits become norm. Later will be hopefully medical advances. Vaccines? Maybe but much longer shot.
 
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This is why reopening the states right now is stupid. This is why people going to the beach should be throat punched...

https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurgence
I’m going to respectfully disagree, maybe.

People not social distancing to the best of their ability are obviously at fault. Nobody’s perfect but doing your best is expected. But you should be able to do that at a beach. If you don’t, that’s on you. I don’t see it as a reason to close a beach.
 

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Another week Another heart breaking record broken.
Sunday’s Boston Globe runs 21 pages of death notices as coronavirus continues to claim lives - The Boston Globe


“Sunday’s main news and sports sections together were 60 pages, and we set aside 20 pages for death notices,” said Mary Creane, assistant managing editor for production at the Globe, who was in charge of production Saturday night. “When I logged on yesterday at noon, I had a message saying we’re going to need more space.”

Although the print edition ultimately ran just one page more than budgeted, Creane said that’s because the layout was modified to accommodate the overflow.
“It could’ve gone over more, quite honestly,” she said.

“When we were looking at it earlier, we said, ‘Twenty pages — that’s got to be enough; there’s no way it’s going to go over that,’” Creane said. “And then to see that it went over. . . it’s terrifying.”



Again it was 6 pages a month ago. The norm for years was 3 pages.
 

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I’m going to respectfully disagree, maybe.

People not social distancing to the best of their ability are obviously at fault. Nobody’s perfect but doing your best is expected. But you should be able to do that at a beach. If you don’t, that’s on you. I don’t see it as a reason to close a beach.
Where do they go to the washroom? Just wondering....
 

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Where do they go to the washroom? Just wondering....
I don’t know...am I supposed to have an answer to that? Can’t there be a public restroom like there is in my grocery store and Dunkin’ Donuts, that people still use?

It’s on them to figure that out. But if they can social distance, I think people should be allowed to go anywhere.
 

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I don’t know...am I supposed to have an answer to that? Can’t there be a public restroom like there is in my grocery store and Dunkin’ Donuts, that people still use?

It’s on them to figure that out. But if they can social distance, I think people should be allowed to go anywhere.

This is my point, hundreds of people on a beach using the public restrooms in a world where people have to be told how to wash their hands. Are you kidding me? Social distancing...lol The people who don't heed the social distancing rules already?
 
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