Coronavirus MEGATHREAD
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I'm alright. I was sick 2 weeks ago but I gotta ask, are there like 2 viruses? Like one is corona and the other is normal flu?
I've been sick 3 different times since December. One I had for about 3 weeks. I don't think any of them were the Coronavirus though, but I could be wrong. I barely leave my house anyway.
Damn it. It jumped from 17 cases in our state to 32 cases in a single day.
Currents Status:
7000+ infected in U.S
100+ dead in U.S
40,000+ recovered worldwiwe
Wisconsin Status:
Bars, Restaurants, Bakerys, certain Dentists closed. Kwik Trip Gas Station enforces coffee refill restrictions. Schools/colleges are closed or closing. Work places can't have more than 10 people in a confined space. Unsure if employees in closing companies get off-time pay or if they need to apply for Unemployment/Welfare.
Which?
All the dine-in restaurants around here are now being ordered closed. I hope they survive.
Knowing me I'll say (conspiratorial) stuff on this and for that I'll stick with that on YouTube or Facebook.
All I can say is that it feels like I'm dealing (Raccon City atrocity) but as I said before I'm not going to give full detail on how I think on the coronavirus n especially community.
[Inner crab rave commences]
Trump's Stimulus package is set to cost 1 trillion dollars. Stock market is crashing. Rumored Auto-Plants are next to be closed. 500 people in Italy died in one day.
I’ll give it 3-4 months...more or less.
Italy got hit hard by Covid-19 and China the ground zero of the outbreak got the most deaths but at least they got it under control as for Iran 13,000 cases but Iran’s got it under control.
I hear August... Yeah right
Hey all, just want to leave a reminder here that politics still aren't allowed here, posting statistical and important information is fine, but please don't get into why you agree/disagree with X political figure or things of that nature
I'm a fan of cars, some big well name car factories have cancelled producing. Kia, GMC, WW, this really sucks.
Ngl it’s the best thing ever being locked in a house, binge watching the walking dead starting from the pilot, avoiding 10-12 hours of work, just because of a little cough
So my dad and I are watching the first game of the AFL this year and it's being played in an empty stadium. Weird.
And haven’t gone to the gym , Everytime I walk past it looks like a ghost town I see people in the gym not keeping their six feet distance and well that’s just disappointing... I’ll wait until this ends but in the mean time at least I don’t have to deal with people everytime I leave my apartment asking me for a cigarette or money.
Nah gyms are overrated. It’s better to source your own equipment, stash it all in a room, and work out on your own rather than with a bunch of sweating strangers. In other words I have low self esteem.
A city 20 min from where I live just got their first case of covid
I was soooo close to have my very first real date with a girl, who lives a few miles away from my town. I planned to invite her to a restaurant and get to know each other, then this shit virus hit the country and closed all the restaurants. Just fucking great.
I don't think I mentioned this yet... but here's something cool someone did.
About a week and a half ago, my dad brought the family to a local burger joint called Fearless Meats for a special get a free burger promotion.
Now, the story behind this promotion is actually about a nearby flower shop. Whether it's due to casual discrimination or simply due to general panic about catching the Coronavirus, this flower shop -- run by a Chinese couple -- has seen a significant drop in business lately. This prompted Fearless Meats to do a "buy a flower from the flower shop = get a free burger from us" for a day.
Apparently the owner of the restaurant said they had given away close to 400 burgers by the time we got there for dinner.
So, that's 4 flowers for my 4 family members and I, and we each get a free burger out of the deal. I'd say that's pretty nice of them.
cough
Did ask her for her number or your social media to keep in touch with her?
2319! We have a 2319!!!
I met her on a dating site.
LoveMe.net
Nope, Badoo
Gta 4 reference lol
I figured that sounded way too familiar
Hillary Duff isn't wrong
Not all Millennials are partying that’s something I don’t really care about at all and doesn’t describe me at all.
Woah dude...
uhh
So I walked into work today only to find out there was a confirmed case there. Lucky me. I dont have the highest exposure with the actual person who has it, but the problem is the place I work at is pretty high risk when it comes to spreading the virus- the chances of it not spreading a fuck ton is pretty much 0, and I've already interacted plenty with people who have come in contact with the other person in some form this week. Really only a matter of time until the next one pops up there then the next etc.
So basically I have no income and now may being caring corona virus.
Someone I work with has an infected family member. The next closest case I know of is 15 min from where I live abd work
A week ago or 2 some guy was cpughing near my mom in a Wal-Mart...my mom described it as a waterhose considering the way he was moving around.
I'm like for the Fuck sake cover your damn mouth... if only we had a security guard like Peter Griffen points a gun at you and tells.
"Take it outside."
All units be advised we got a coughing hazard at the neighborhood Wal-Mart approach with caution
Cant say for a few reasons but Im not super worried about it. Although I have had contact I have been constantly making sure to take precautions to not get sick before the confirmed case. If I do get it Im not really worried about dying as Im sure I will be fine, I just need to make sure Im not with anyone for a while.
This video made me laugh more than I should have
It devolves into "The politicians I like are the only reason why we're not all already dead, while the politicians I don't like are the only reason this is a problem in the first place and are actively making everything worse!" Both sides use this argument format in each direction, don't understand why the other side doesn't get it, don't convince each other, generally scream at each other and get banned. All political topics follow this format.
On top of the current political climate being as divisive as it is, it's just generally detrimental (in most cases) for non-political forums to have political discussions, unless the users and moderators on both sides of the political aisle can agree to engage in good faith and go by certain rules. If you are too loose, it gets divisive and can sometimes create an unpleasant environment. If you are too strict, it hurts users' perceptions of the forum and make it less fun.
We tried to experiment with stuff like this in the past, but it just resulted in people taking moderation choices related to politics personally. Likewise, for regular users, we had problems of drama where users' perceptions of other users' political opinions carried over into non-political threads. For Telltale's forum to not be a politics forum, we had a lot of... weirdly specific problems that tied back to politics.
At the end of the day, video games are just about escapism. It's better for people to keep stuff casual than to carry over dirty laundry on here. We decided in the end, it was better to not try and be the arbiters of this kind of stuff, and instead to leave it to the people who run political forums.