ATOT COVID-19 victims thread.

[Spacehead]

Speaking of which they are saying people should avoid smoking weed right now and to save it for once it's over, as it can make the infection worse if you happen to get hit.

Man, the hits just keep coming... so to speak.

Well, my dad decided to give us all a bit of a scare this week. Monday night my mom called & said he was in the hospital with the influenza A & pneumonia. He came home yesterday though feeling much better.

 

[sandorski]

You should probably quit smoking.

Speaking of which they are saying people should avoid smoking weed right now and to save it for once it's over, as it can make the infection worse if you happen to get hit.

Bummer.

 

[TheVrolok]

There may be a case in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I'm antisocial.

 

[sandorski]

There may be a case in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I'm antisocial.

Keep swiping left.

 

[Red Squirrel]

There's a huge case of "respiratory illness" at an old age home in my city, but they specified it's NOT covid-19. Still a tad unnerving though. Hopefully they actually tested and arn't just saying that.

Closest actual confirmed case so far was in Sudbury which is 3 hours south of here and that one was very isolated and low risk.

It's bound to come here though, just have to sit tight and be ready. Though lot of precautions they've been doing like cancelling pretty much all hockey and other events etc will help. Schools are closed for like 3 weeks too.

 

[PlanetJosh]

I work on a campus with a few thousand foreign students. A co-worker of mine went to Spain for a vacation about a week ago, he's due back this weekend. I predict an outbreak here before terribly long, and I suspect we're going to lose a few faculty members.

So they will quit for safer jobs or be asked to retire early? Well I wish them well in their new employment and sorry to see them leave. I mean they couldn't really die from it, right?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Hospitals and nursing homes are the best places on Earth to get sick.

Avoid them like the Plague.

 

[pmv]

There may be a case in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I'm antisocial.

At least 15 diagnosed cases reported within a couple of miles of me. And, if the government's claim that the true figures are 10 times those established by tests is true (God alone knows if it is or not), then there would presumably be well over 100 of them in reality.


But the government has officially decided to stop testing all but the most severe hospitalised cases, so from now on I won't know.

I don't trust the tactics the UK government has adopted. They seem worryingly experimental and ideological to me. Driven by behavioural psychologists, a profession I just do not trust.

Interesting to me that our government's response is out-of-step with other countries due to being explicitly ideologically-driven, whereas the US administration's issues seem so much simpler - being down to the fact that Trump is just not up to the job.

 

[Muse]

I worry about my fellows ATOTers.

Disease ridden ATOTers, let us know how you're doing.

Here in Montreal, I am disease free for those wondering.

That is all.

No, you are not disease free for all you know. You feel fine but you might be infected. Glad I'm not in Montreal... Remember, you can be contagious days before you are symptomatic. Do not assume you are not giving this disease to people you encounter. That's why the 6 foot social distancing thing is happening.

 

[Number1]

I was going to see a movie last night but changed my mind. I want to avoid crowds these days. I was also gone go out for super at my other sister's place tonight but she called saying one of her step daughter is getting tested for the COVID19 today...

Staying home for the foreseeable future.

 

[jpiniero]

Interesting to me that our government's response is out-of-step with other countries due to being explicitly ideologically-driven, whereas the US administration's issues seem so much simpler - being down to the fact that Trump is just not up to the job.

Other countries are just feeding the panic at this point. I'm not joking when I say that riots are coming if we actually get Italy/Spain type martial law.

 

[Muse]

Other countries are just feeding the panic at this point. I'm not joking when I say that riots are coming if we actually get Italy/Spain type martial law.

This really is some shit. What I've been seeing the last couple months plus is outta some science fiction movie. A lot of people must be pinching themselves. Looks like it may just be getting more so ...

 

[ultimatebob]

I should start a special "Coolcoin Cares" campaign for the ATOT Coronavirus victims, although I'm not sure how it should work.

Maybe I should send a free Space Kitty T-Shirt to the first ATOT member with more than 5,000 posts who comes down with the virus?

 

[Number1]

I should start a special "Coolcoin Cares" campaign for the ATOT Coronavirus victims, although I'm not sure how it should work.

Maybe I should send a free Space Kitty T-Shirt to the first ATOT member with more than 5,000 posts who comes down with the virus?

What if the victim dies? Can I get their t-shirts?

I should start a GoFundMe campaign for ATOT members who come down with the virus.

 

[Mai72]

Victims?

What about the bats? Weren't they eating bat soup?

 

[Red Squirrel]

My cat sneezed on me, will report back in 14 days to see how I feel.

 

[snoopy7548]

I should start a special "Coolcoin Cares" campaign for the ATOT Coronavirus victims, although I'm not sure how it should work.

Maybe I should send a free Space Kitty T-Shirt to the first ATOT member with more than 5,000 posts who comes down with the virus?

How can you prove they have it, though?

 

[sdifox]

My cat sneezed on me, will report back in 14 days to see how I feel.

Doesn't your cat puke on you or your furniture all the time?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Doesn't your cat puke on you or your furniture all the time?

Oddly enough it's been a while now *touch wood* at least a month.

That means she's probably due for a puking frenzy... it comes in cycles.

They also stopped making the food I feed her so I have to switch to another, so hopefully that won't make her puke a lot. I will have to slowly switch to it.

 

[Azraele]

There's a confirmed case at a college about 25 miles from me. Meanwhile, statewide all k-12 schools are shut down for the next 2 weeks. Crazy times.

 

[pmv]

Other countries are just feeding the panic at this point. I'm not joking when I say that riots are coming if we actually get Italy/Spain type martial law.

Perhaps (re the panic). But do those two countries literally have 'martial law'? Seems as if the 'lock down' is partly voluntary and partly enforced by the usual civil authorities. Is the military directly involved?

I don't trust Boris Johnson, and most of all I don't trust Dominic Cummings. There seems to be a nexus around our ruling elite that involves a very particular sub-culture, which happens to involve a whole lot of people I have always greatly disliked. That this plan is apparently driven by that lot, including 'behavioural psychologists' (who seem to be connected to the type of people who listen to Freakanomics and think they are smarter than everyone else) makes me apprehensive. It's quite a vague feeling, admittedly, but a lot of people I don't like seem to be connected tangentially to this government and its response to the crisis. It seems quite a high-risk strategy, and psychologists have a track record of hugely over-estimating how good their predictions are, tending to base conclusions on very weak evidence.

But there does seem to be some panic going on. I find I have a huge craving for spaghetti bolognaise now, because all the talk of people panic-buying all the pasta has reminded me I haven't cooked that for years, and the more I read talk of it the more I really want to eat some. And sure enough, I went to the supermarket and all the damn pasta has been cleared off the shelves! All gone!

 

[snoopy7548]

But there does seem to be some panic going on. I find I have a huge craving for spaghetti bolognaise now, because all the talk of people panic-buying all the pasta has reminded me I haven't cooked that for years, and the more I read talk of it the more I really want to eat some. And sure enough, I went to the supermarket and all the damn pasta has been cleared off the shelves! All gone!

Just make pasta from scratch! Fuck all those hoarders and their shitty pasta they will never stuff their stupid-ass mouths with.

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[jpiniero]

Perhaps (re the panic). But do those two countries literally have 'martial law'? Seems as if the 'lock down' is partly voluntary and partly enforced by the usual civil authorities. Is the military directly involved?

Don't know if the millitary is involved but it sounded like the European countries are intending to detain people who go outside.

If this happens to the US I would think the National Guard would be the one tasked with enforcing the quarantine.

 

[pmv]

Just make pasta from scratch! Fuck all those hoarders and their shitty pasta they will never stuff their stupid-ass mouths with.

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I'd entirely forgotten that was even possible!

 

[Craig234]

I've had a nasty cough and a mild fever for the past few weeks. I don't think that it's COVID-19, though... not that any tests for it were available when I got myself checked out at the doctor.

If you can get to a civilized country, they'll test you.