OT: Coronavirus (COVID-19) thread

[ohbaby]

Radulov played the other night against the Rangers.

They better have testing ready for the team because if he has it, someone on the Rangers has a decent chance to have it too.

Radulov didn't play. Wasn't even in the building.

 

[17futurecap]

Radulov didn't play. Wasn't even in the building.

Good chance he was around his own team before he was told to stay home though.

 

[JimmyG89]

Sorry guys, could of sworn he was out there, but he was not.

Either way, as others have said, he's been around teammates, and while showing no signs now, could be positive for the virus.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

A Chernobyl era joke that's relevant today.
One corpse says to another:
Corpse 1: What did you die from?
Corpse 2: Radiation. What did you die from?
Corpse 1: Information

 

[will1066]

Good chance he was around his own team before he was told to stay home though.

And is he friends with anyone on the Rangers?

 

[RangerBlues]

I filled a drum with gasoline today. Im not going through the same nonsense I went through with Sandy.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Folks, this is insanity, look at the tone change in 2 days in this thread. I just read the first posts. Holy shit. At first, we had jokes and now it's the apocalypse.

 

[RangerBlues]

Folks, this is insanity, look at the tone change in 2 days in this thread. I just read the first posts. Holy shit. At first, we had jokes and now it's the apocalypse.

If the world around you starts going insane you need to act accordingly. To do otherwise is irresponsible.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

BTW, I worked from home today, will go into the office tomorrow. I'll work from home all of next week as per policy. I will say I hated it, I thought I'll like it, but I hated it. Time just lagged all I did was read doomsday posts. Nothing to distract me. I couldn't get motivated enough to do the work. The interface to access my work computer isn't user-friendly. Ugh.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

If the world around you starts going insane you need to act accordingly. To do otherwise is irresponsible.

Since we're all going to die anyway, I'll tell you something I've always wanted to tell you but figured to leave well enough alone. Your avatar freaks me the f*** out.

 

[Ola]

Lets all be wary of people who pimp fear, division and paranoia.

Yeah, as long as the report of victims of Covid-19 turning into cannibal zombies aren’t true it’s probably not that dangerous for most of us.

 

[will1066]

BTW, I worked from home today, will go into the office tomorrow. I'll work from home all of next week as per policy. I will say I hated it, I thought I'll like it, but I hated it. Time just lagged all I did was read doomsday posts. Nothing to distract me. I couldn't get motivated enough to do the work. The interface to access my work computer isn't user-friendly. Ugh.

I got the order to wfh the next few days at least

 

[will1066]

Folks, this is insanity, look at the tone change in 2 days in this thread. I just read the first posts. Holy shit. At first, we had jokes and now it's the apocalypse.

Myth Vs. Fact: Coronavirus

 

[RangerBlues]

Since we're all going to die anyway, I'll tell you something I've always wanted to tell you but figured to leave well enough alone. Your avatar freaks me the f*** out.

Thank You! Those google eyes have brought many a moment of entertainment.

 

[Kaapo Bustfreniere]

So... It is interesting to see the contrast in responses from different countries. Here in CZE, the state of national emergency was declared today.

Earlier this week, all educational institutions, all sporting events, theatres, cinemas etc were shut down. Also, all public gatherings exceeding the number of 100 participants were banned. After the national emergency was declared today, this number went down to 30 people. All other public spaces were shut down entirely as well, with the sole exception of: kindergartens, domestic public transport (which might be restricted as well in the coming days), restaurants from 6 AM to 8 PM (evening and night time service is banned) and grocery stores (and other shops).

The majority of border crossings were also shut down, with the few crossings that remain open being manned by the army to help enforce the rule that all citizens of Italy, Austria and other severely affected countries are banned from entering the country.

All of this while the total number of confirmed cases had not crossed 100.

These measures will stay in place for at least 30 days. However, epidemiologists at our medical school predict this will last AT LEAST 2 months, possibly 3.

While this is really strict and some of the rules lack clear conception, I am quite happy with our government's response. We are already seeing how the failure to implement these measures in time results in a total collapse of health care system here in Europe: in Italy, to be concrete. As much as our government is incompetent (our minister of health is a damn singer who just barely finished a law school for goodness's sake), it seems like they actually took the experts' advice this time. Thank God (and I am an atheist).

 

[Doctyl]

Is There Really Any Benefit to Multivitamins?

 

[sbjnyc]

If you eat a healthy varied diet and are in decent health this shouldn't be a concern. You'll, for the most part, never have way too much of one vitamin or mineral, or way too little of another. I personally do not eat a healthy and varied diet and I also started taking some vitamins/minerals (bunch of B's, C, D, Zinc, Magnesium etc.) about 6 months ago. I haven't gotten sick once. Usually I'll get some sniffles or cough that lasts a few weeks and is tough to shake, so that's been nice. Hopefully it's not a fluke and continues. I know I could probably adjust my diet and get the same benefit but I also know that I probably won't lol

You have to be careful of taking too much fat-soluble vitamins like vitamin D.

 

[Whoot Whoot]

hey NYR fans stay safe, aware and healthy. Perhaps i’ve read too much Richard Preston in my life but myself and gf have been self quarantined since March 2nd cuz it was easy to see this was gonna go down. Hit costco for like 1000$ of stuff on the first. I get anxious by knowing I could be exposed so I was playing it safe.

Pretty happy with this Rangers season but I’m glad they cancelled it - it should have been done last week.

Expect to stay inside 14 days in the least.

 

[will1066]

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[will1066]

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[will1066]

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[bobbop]

On top of everything else, my cable just went out. Damn good thing I stocked up on toilet paper.

 

[TheTimTamSlammerMan]

Ngl, I was looking forward to watching a game with no crowd. Being able to hear what the players are saying and all that.

 

[Leetch3]

jesus this is how bad things have gotten in italy

The principle they settle upon is utilitarian. “Informed by the principle of maximizing benefits for the largest number,” they suggest that “the allocation criteria need to guarantee that those patients with the highest chance of therapeutic success will retain access to intensive care.”
The authors, who are medical doctors, then deduce a set of concrete recommendations for how to manage these impossible choices, including this: “It may become necessary to establish an age limit for access to intensive care.”

Those who are too old to have a high likelihood of recovery, or who have too low a number of “life-years” left even if they should survive, will be left to die. This sounds cruel, but the alternative, the document argues, is no better. “In case of a total saturation of resources, maintaining the criterion of ‘first come, first served’ would amount to a decision to exclude late-arriving patients from access to intensive care.”

In addition to age, doctors and nurses are also advised to take a patient’s overall state of health into account: “The presence of comorbidities needs to be carefully evaluated.” This is in part because early studies of the virus seem to suggest that patients with serious preexisting health conditions are significantly more likely to die. But it is also because patients in a worse state of overall health could require a greater share of scarce resources to survive: “What might be a relatively short treatment course in healthier people could be longer and more resource-consuming in the case of older or more fragile patients.”

The Extraordinary Decisions Facing Italian Doctors

 

[Leetch3]