Preppers were right! No toilet paper in the stores due to Coronavirus scare.

[HenOnAJuneBug]

I guess I can understand people wanting to return to their home country in times of crisis. I bet we have Americans flying home from Italy last week. Many years ago, I was stationed in Italy for a tour of duty and know that there are many Americans living over there. I know I would have sent my family back to the USA in times like these even if I had to remain in Italy for my duty. Just hope we have appropriate precautions in place for returning Americans so any possible infection is ruled out before they go back to their home communities. Sounds like we are way behind on the testing kits and need to get that fixed.

Anyway, I think logic was the first causality in this Coronavirus scare.

An overseas Chinese student flew back to China thinking she would be safer there. I guess she had gotten used to life in the western world, because once she got back it didn't go so well.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1239667321008001028

 

[rosemarythyme]

I work for a big company and we likely have over 100 people per shift so not sure how they are getting around the "no gathering over 100 people" requirement unless they decided that as long as people were more than 6 feet apart that they aren't "gathered" so we may have 5 pockets of 20 or so but no group larger than 100.

The "gathering" restriction hasn't been explained well so it does get confusing. It doesn't mean that 100 people can't be in one area in any case, there's a lot of exemptions so it's more like... in places where it can be avoided there shouldn't be 100 people in one area. So grocery stores can still operate normally without having to restrict how many people are inside, or a factory can still operate with necessary staff. Obviously hospitals are still going to want to keep a full staff. Utilities need to keep running. But ideally everyone would stay more than 6' apart or stay in the same work groups.

 

[gtaus]

An overseas Chinese student flew back to China thinking she would be safer there. I guess she had gotten used to life in the western world, because once she got back it didn't go so well.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1239667321008001028

I don't speak Chinese, so I don't know if the subtitles are accurate, or not. If accurate, it seems silly to me that the woman is upset about not getting "mineral water" when everyone is having to drink boiled water. In any case, it appears that China is over the hump on this virus scare and things are looking better for them. That should give all of us hope that this too shall pass.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

I don't speak Chinese, so I don't know if the subtitles are accurate, or not. If accurate, it seems silly to me that the woman is upset about not getting "mineral water" when everyone is having to drink boiled water. In any case, it appears that China is over the hump on this virus scare and things are looking better for them. That should give all of us hope that this too shall pass.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1239743825951760384

 

[igorsMistress]

All of our schools are closed until end of March but officials are considering the rest of the school year at this time. Police will be citing restaurants/bars that allow people to eat in beginning Friday. Bonus, the news reported this morning that the virus can remain alive for up to 3 hours in aerosol form in the air.

Sunday morning is my usual shopping preference and I'm trying to keep that routine. My experience was much like everyone else here, hit and miss.

 

[igorsMistress]

I don't speak Chinese, so I don't know if the subtitles are accurate, or not. If accurate, it seems silly to me that the woman is upset about not getting "mineral water" when everyone is having to drink boiled water. In any case, it appears that China is over the hump on this virus scare and things are looking better for them. That should give all of us hope that this too shall pass.

Don't go there. Trust me, just let it go.

 

[gtaus]

Don't go there. Trust me, just let it go.

I guess I don't understand your warning. But, thanks, anyway.