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Title: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Cong Fu Man on March 13, 2020, 01:36:56 am
Hey all, I live in Kansas City Kansas.  The Midwest state (wizard of oz) in U.S.  Here it hasn’t hit us nearly as bad yet, with only 4 cases reported and no deaths. Unfortunately, The mayor had just declared a state of emergency, banning all gatherings larger than 1,000.  I manage a restaurant, and we are bracing ourselves for a major reduction in foot traffic as well as the ever likelihood of being infected ourselves.  Please share with us where you live right now, what your situation is like, and how you are coping with this disaster looming in the foreseeable future.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Nep Heart on March 13, 2020, 02:40:13 am
 I personally think people are overreacting. Sure, it has victimized a large number of people, but the media is overhyping it to being the next Black Plague. Thousands is nothing compared to the dozens of millions who died to the latter. Also, my mother asked me to lend her $3,000 last week to stock up, but I flatly said no because that's like a month and a half of my work wages being blown over overhyped bullshit.

 Either way, being the quiet city with a relatively small population that is Erie, Pennsylvania... the worst that happened here are face masks being out of stock.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kolossoni on March 13, 2020, 02:45:34 am
I live in S. Korea... Enuff said...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 13, 2020, 02:49:22 am
Thousands is nothing compared to the dozens of millions who died to the latter.
Italy is losing a hundred people a day. Give it some time.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Nep Heart on March 13, 2020, 03:09:04 am
 I mean, that is still small change compared to over 60% of Europe literally gone in less than a decade, even with comparing hundreds a day being factored in.

 Not saying it isn't tragic and alarming, but I do think it's being overblown to the point that it's causing more harm than good at times.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Neocide on March 13, 2020, 03:13:07 am
I was sent home from work today to make sure our warehouse was prepped for it. I'm in Livermore, CA and I don't think it's as bad as the black plague but thinking it's no big deal is what is making it spread more. It's not really the virus itself it's more the number of cases overwhelming the medical field in sustaining it. Italy literally closed down a lot of their businesses too. And from the trajectory we're on (pretty similar to Italy) we can all be out of work for a bit, and those of us who live paycheck to paycheck will be hit the hardest.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: FeLo_Llop on March 13, 2020, 03:18:23 am
Valencian, but living in Madrid(Spain). A woman from my work was set into quarantine and a possible positive in my sector(a guy who literally works less of 3 meters from me, ouch!).

Also, people is overreacting, at least here in Spain.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on March 13, 2020, 03:44:11 am
Its not as bad as the Ebola virus that hit Africa a couple of years ago, that had the mortality rate of 80%.
It was however horribly quarantined and handled. Some countries that have it are refusing to declare that because they're afraid of scaring their tourists away which is even more horrible.
And the media's coverage of is even worse, I agree. Pharmacies are now fooling people into buying overpriced shitty masks, and canned food is on shortage because some idiots are stockpiling it. While the virus is basically just a glorified Swine flu with no vaccine. Speaking of vaccine, hopefully once its developed, all this hype will die down.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: -Ash- on March 13, 2020, 03:49:57 am
I personally think people are overreacting. Sure, it has victimized a large number of people, but the media is overhyping it to being the next Black Plague. Thousands is nothing compared to the dozens of millions who died to the latter. Also, my mother asked me to lend her $3,000 last week to stock up, but I flatly said no because that's like a month and a half of my work wages being blown over overhyped bullshit.

 Either way, being the quiet city with a relatively small population that is Erie, Pennsylvania... the worst that happened here are face masks being out of stock.

I don't think that people are deliberately overreacting, its just that its easy for the dumb masses to fall for the typical mediatic fear mongering. We've seen this movie before.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: President Devon on March 13, 2020, 06:53:23 am
In New Zealand we have 5 cases. That said I'll be taking this seriously. Keep myself clean, stay home if I get sick.

Don't need to pay attention to media to do that.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Hephaistos31 on March 13, 2020, 07:33:24 am
I'm in Belgium. They closed all school yesterday until 3 april. I'm a teacher so I don't really know what will happen..
To be honest what I fear (as a biologist first) is that a new mutation arise, something more dangerous. If you read carefully about reports, 2 viral strains are already know (and in china they discovered 149 mutations already). So... Basically the more the people will be infected, the more the likelyhood of it to happen will increase.
That's not something we should have fun with, even here in Europe. In Italy it's urgent to block virus progression aand it's the same here in Belgium.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: YugaCurry on March 13, 2020, 08:24:02 am
The virus has arrived recently here in India. Considering our population and state of affairs on cleanliness, it's gonna be a nightmare if extreme measures of quarantine and cleaning drives aren't taken up. I live in Mumbai which is the best city here but it's still crowded and not as clean as it should be. It's gonna be an uphill task keeping people safe so I'm hoping for the best but preparing for the worst.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: FeLo_Llop on March 13, 2020, 01:08:07 pm
Ok, my workmate gave positive. I'm not affraid at all, just follow rhe indications and such.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: SkySplitters on March 13, 2020, 01:39:51 pm
Well, I live in Norway, in Agder, and yesterday the 12th of March all schools, universities and kindergardens are closed until the 26th and will get a new evaluation at that time. So, I don't have Uni lectures for two weeks, so I left Agder and went home to family.

First death confirmed yesterday too.
People are fucking up for others by gathering way too much things; soap, canned food, toilet papers ... why? The shops will all be open. The bus is free (but you have to enter the back door, since you must not be closed to the driver). Those are some of the things affected here.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kazagami on March 13, 2020, 01:54:14 pm
indonesian here. i haven't been keeping tabs on news but last time i heard two people were diagnosed positive with the virus which they contracted from a japanese man they met at a party. there hasn't been any reported case of it in the small island town i live in so i won't freak out just yet. that, and you can't possibly get infected if you confine yourself within the walls of your room 24/7 like i do.

my hope goes out to all the sufferers that they get a speedy recovery.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Foobs on March 13, 2020, 02:30:48 pm
We don't have a confirmed case yet but the government is in full damage control mode, banning the entry of yuros and guanacos. A woman just mysteriously died after showing signs of fever, so it's probably too late already.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mushypepito123 on March 13, 2020, 02:39:56 pm
Philippines got a full blown Case of Coronavirus, 3 were killed, which made the fatalities rise to 5.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Seadragon77 on March 13, 2020, 03:11:38 pm
I live in Southwest Washington (state) and I am in the middle. To the north is Seattle, which is ground zero for the COVID-19 outbreak in the states. To the south is Oregon, where there are cases starting to pop up.. and here I am in the middle.

On a physical level, it hasn't affected me yet. But, on a mental level... woof. I'm a big sports fan and with all the sports (save for one I loathe in NASCAR) being either suspended or outright cancelled, it sucks on a massive level.

All I can do is go on with my life and put my focus elsewhere.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Iced on March 13, 2020, 03:31:39 pm
https://covid19.min-saude.pt/ponto-de-situacao-atual-em-portugal/
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: ViBeZ on March 13, 2020, 03:40:50 pm
New York, they're going crazy over. They're switching to online classes this semester
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on March 13, 2020, 04:48:18 pm
I got infected; I am still going to my job even if I can barely get any work done due to of the fever , because they won't pay me otherwise. I don't want to infect my family so I have been sleeping in a popular hotel  down town.


J/K, there is an infected in my city,  she came from italy  and she went to the city's biggest shopping mall after that; I went to that same mall a few days after she was there, but it's already been 2 weeks after tht and I ahvenot developed any synthomps so the higiene measurements inded do work; something about not touching your face after touching potentially infected  surfaces ( as the virus has to get in your face so it can go to your lungs ) and to constantly wash you hands and surfaces.

My city has not had any affectations, just companies providing desinfectant gelat the workplaceand mask selling out at some places.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Trackiest head on March 13, 2020, 06:36:30 pm
Here in north-eastern Spain the classes are cancelled until 30th of this month (in the event that it gets worse, the closure will be extended indefinitely, which means that it could even cover the spring break).
And yes, people here are reacting as if it was freaking WW3, with the local super-markets being almost emptied at closure time.
I have a hope that because of spring and higher temperatures, the disease will slowly die off just like SARS and MERS (diseases that are said to share 90% of their genetic material with the new patogen). And more, a pharmaceutical company in the north-west part of my country claims to be asking to the government for permission to begin testing on infected patients.

Amidst the negativity coming from ignorants and the fear-mongering media some positive news aren't bad (per example, seriously, why is the recovery rate so seldom mentioned yet the infections and deaths explained at full detail? It just irks the heck out of me).
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: The Sudden Rarity on March 13, 2020, 11:15:34 pm
Trump finally responded to it in a better tone than on the 28th of February, and people are mad it took him so long, since the virus, apparently, touched American soil near the end of January I think.

I fear for my mom and uncle, as they both have compromised immune systems and with how trivial some people are playing this disease off right now I fear for my family even more.

I live in Wisconsin. No serious outbreaks here to my knowledge, but my good friend, I guess you could call him my boyfriend, in Ohio? Ohio has supposedly somewhere over 100,000 known cases and he hasn't been responding to my texts since the 17th of February. Let's just say I'm worried about this virus.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: FeLo_Llop on March 14, 2020, 01:45:12 am
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I totally believe you. The measures taken by the goverment(declaring state of alarm) is what needed in a situation like this(even I disagree with the Deadly Alliance. And I'm not a trifachito voter). Hopefully we don't get to the other scenarios of exception and site. My work is directly with catalans(spanish or catalan speakers) and both shares that hysteria in common. For example, the malls I work for opened today(Friday) in Catalonia, but not from tomorrow(they're closed in Euskadi and Madrid, for example). Luckily, we're keeping open the food trucks for those clients who need it(even we're overloaded of work). So, as my workmate gave positive, all my floor is destined to home up to new advice.

Also, about the company which asks for permission, there's another one here in Madrid(and I totally FLIPÉ) offers 4000€ for people to get infected with the virus and use them as Guinea Pigs. CRAZY as fuck. I hope that's just a hoax, fake or else because it's not fucking funny.

And about the media, just think about our TV channels...They spread that hysteria about the COVID19 with less infected and deaths against to, for example, hepatitis C, HIV...and I'm not watching a fucking campaign of conscience for safe sex in the TV(oh, because now PreP is on! let's do stupid things).

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: All-Star Platinum on March 14, 2020, 02:04:00 am
Canada here,

My university is closed for about 3 days next week and everything is being moved online right before exams.

Fantastic.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: WizzyWhipitWonderful on March 15, 2020, 01:41:57 pm
Reporting live, from Michigan.

I live in a small city right across the famous "8 mile road" called Warren, and my workplace where I am a Security Supervisor was informed yesterday by Michigan Law that there will be NO VISITORS at our hospitals. All Michigan schools are closed for a month, colleges are switching to online classes, and everyone is buying massive heaps of toilet paper here.

Overreacting? A LOT. I just say people need to practice better hygiene; brush your teeth, wash your face, wash your ass, and don't choke your chicken, play in your cooterbox and poke in your own ass before you shake hands or give out hugs.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Joey S. on March 15, 2020, 01:58:58 pm
New York. School shutting down for a whole month, despite there being no confirmed cases where I live. Thanks to Cuomo, the year won't get extended into the summer.

I go to two schools during the day (one for Computer Tech classes, another for regular classes), but only one of them from what I could piece together actually could work well as an online class, since it's what we use even at school.

My dad goes grocery shopping. Paper towels, frozen food products, milk, butter, all cleared out. It's a damn joke.

But hey, at least this gives me enough time to work more on my MUGEN projects lol
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: 1Ultima on March 15, 2020, 07:38:09 pm
Reporting from the UK.

Supermarkets are near empty. Toilet paper, pasta, tinned food etc. All gone. But hey, at least the Easter Eggs are out.

No schools shut yet. Reason being is uhhh

I'm super worried for my mum. She's already unwell enough.

Also, someone stole the handwash from my workplace that we put up for visitors to wash their hands lmao.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Suprizle on March 15, 2020, 08:00:23 pm
Canada here.

I just moved to BC from Alberta, and sure enough we're amongst the top 2 provinces with the most cases in the country... in Vancouver, select schools and businesses have been shut down (someone tested positive at a university) and of course we got dummies buying up toilet paper too, even back home.

With that said, overall I think most people here are generally handling it well.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Handmaiden of the Seascape on March 15, 2020, 11:10:55 pm
Mexico City resident.

Overall the country has had over 40+ confirmed cases, but they're now taking measures: Schools are going to be closed after the 20th of this month until April 20, which coincides with the easter vacations. Since I work as a teacher that means I more likely than not will have no work for 5 weeks. Do note those who have died are people around 75+ years old. COVID is to take into account, but it's nowhere as lethal as other viruses mankind has dealt with before.

There's also the problem of panic buying.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 16, 2020, 01:23:24 am
Do note those who have died are people around 75+ years old. COVID is to take into account, but it's nowhere as lethal as other viruses mankind has dealt with before.
The problem is that hospitals soon get submerged and do not have enough equipment to accommodate everyone and they end up refusing anyone who's not in a critical condition (regardless of the sickness or physical condition) and the doctors end up picking those who have a better chance of survival and just watch the others die right in front of them. Oh, you've got cancer ? You'll have to wait a couple months because this is really not a good time to flush your immune system down the toilets. Broken arm ? Sit it out.
That's what this virus is bringing to you, this is not one puny virus that's only targeting the weak so why should we care, this is the whole system that doesn't have enough equipment to accommodate everyone and anything at the same time. Not enough spots in the ICU, not enough mechanical ventilators for everyone. This is not the flu because the flu doesn't need all that to save you once you catch it and you're a person at risk. That's why Italy is clocking up a hundred deaths per day. That's coming to Spain, and French hospitals are already seeing it coming from a distance.
Every country is becoming a war zone / third world country hospital that simply doesn't have what it needs to handle all the sick and the wounded.
Take it seriously and don't spread it to the people at risk that are going to destroy your hospitals.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: dampir on March 16, 2020, 02:26:11 am
honduras, central america....actually i didn't use to go to places where people gatters, switched from real time classrooms to virtual classrooms,,,soo working at home from now until this global crisis pass...

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on March 16, 2020, 03:45:55 am

Also, people don't udnerstand scale, this is very contagious; the worse stimates, as in, nobody takes care of their comunity means that 70%+ gets infected, with a  5% death rate, that's pretty awful,,that means that if america slips, for example, 200 million will get sick and 10 million people will die, this year.
I prefer the super apocaliptic guys (whom would be normally the most annoying in this situation) over the "idgaf, influenza and ebola kill more people" idiots.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Nep Heart on March 16, 2020, 04:20:00 am
 I think it's less they don't give a damn and more that overreaction causes more harm than good. People cramming stores in a race to stockpile goods has massive repercussions and isn't nearly as wise a strategy as it seems on the surface; you create a breeding grounds for disease to spread more easily (you can't say cramming indoor areas is not a health hazard... it absolutely is), you're not leaving anything else for others (every man for themselves in play here) and massive economic backlash in the aftermath of the epidemic. Not to mention, in a realistic apocalyptic scenario, stockpilers are going to be painted as the biggest target for raids. I think less panicking and more actual helping out should be priority, because the former is really selfish when you think about it. I'm currently working with the local Catholic church I go to every now and then just to do that even if it's only 2 hours a week and I say this as an atheist instead of selfishly stockpiling (ironically, no reports of the disease have entered my town yet).

 We need more of THIS: https://twitter.com/dairyorange/status/1238965825182236672?s=09

 And less of this: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/519393657900630016/688858479770861721/Screenshot_20200315-052405.png

 Next time, don't assume people don't actually give a damn so much as us being frustrated at irrational harm that fear-mongering has lead to. It's ignorant and demeaning.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 16, 2020, 05:06:55 pm
So, the director of the Sorbonne epidemiology center in Paris is sending letters explaining that the belief that only old and weakened people are at severe risks is... false. Urgency centers do have young people, young adults as well as children, in severe condition. Not as many deaths in those age groups, but still requiring intensive care. Hospitals in Eastern France are already getting hit hard.
Keep an eye out for more accurate official information.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Hephaistos31 on March 16, 2020, 05:20:06 pm
Older people dies right now because they are more weak than everyone else, but yes indeed everyone can be infected.
We will have mutation, Byakko. RNA viruses have high mutations rates, because it does not involve DNA pol enzyme that is able to correct mistakes from retrotranscriptions (the biologist is speaking here xD).
So basically what I personally fear is that all the stupid people acting like retards are in fact new chances for the virus to roll the dice and get a new mutation that will increase his dangerosity. Of course everything is random, so it could happen or... not.

So for me, the situation of governments planning to more or less infect 70% of populations but delayed in time is stupid. This is just for economical reasons first, second nothing shows that the number of beds in hospital will be enough (we only have 2000 in belgium for example...), and third it does NOT take into consideration this mutation issue. AT ALL.
Stay at home, if possible do not go to work. Get food for 2 weeks.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Basara Lapis on March 17, 2020, 12:28:29 am
Reporting from Chile. Here, the hysteria takes all and most of the people are overselling the fear. Most of the cases come from the high-class who travelled to Asia and Europe who got the virus here, but since the Chilean press is so tabloid (and with 0 credibility since the 2019 protests) and the govenment is so useless and stupid, the panic got most of the country and now the classes are suspended in the whole country and in some works too. the rate is low until now (156 until today, almost all in peripheral counties where the high-class people lives), but we're the in second place in latin America after brazil.

But also, probably we're in the first place in the world for the memes about this (since the bat soup thing to the mofos who bought all hygienic supplies for themselves or to resell), so we could die here, but hey, at least we had some laughs, right? (https://y.yarn.co/0b34c4df-97ee-4ebf-85cf-84b6722fb133_screenshot.jpg)
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Foobs on March 17, 2020, 05:03:06 am
My country goes into full state of emergency/martial law in just two hours.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 17, 2020, 10:51:43 am
east java indonesia, I'm doing like what I usually do, drawing comic commission at my desk at home by myself, today I have some avocado ice cream that's probably the only highlight of the day.

yeah seems like school are dismissed, business are closed for a week or two, I heard some of the more popular supermarket was cleaned out by panic hoax mongering housewives, I don't know if there is any positive case here since my town doesn't have direct access abroad

I am made of 50% instant noodle and 50% caffeine (have plenty stock of both to survive nuclear winter), didn't even remember when was the last time I contracted common cold, not even mosquitoes desperate enough to suck my blood, I bet the virus would find better host elsewhere.

I would have been more worried if my grandma is still alive.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: President Devon on March 17, 2020, 12:18:56 pm
Went food shopping today and it was pretty intense. No coffee, no flour, no rice, no TP (not that I needed any of this). Supermarket was packed like it was Christmas. Got some moist towelettes and disinfectant for any visitors coming in because my house is generally open to family and I could have around a dozen people coming and going during a week.

NZ confirmed count is up to 11.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: REDHOT on March 17, 2020, 03:00:37 pm
Argentina here, 65 cases, 2 deaths and all the cases from Argentinians who went to risky countries.
For now, 0 autochthonous cases, but in a few days here will come the cold, so we are ready for the worst stage, the people are buying too many products to stock up for weeks.
Schools closed, bars closed.
You CAN´T come to Argentina in ANY case.
Less people on the street.
More home office.

Please, not take this case like a "typical paranoia", we are affront to a virus that we don´t have a vaccune to alleviate the situation. This shit is VERY contagious, you can have the virus without knowing it or spread it to another without knowing it.
This virus is an RNA type virus, which can mutate for the worse or the better, and it is likely that it is already mutating for the worse in Europe.
Italy, Spain and France took this virus like a joke, and look them now.
Comparing this virus with other viruses and at other times is totally stupid,
Just stay in home the more time you can, and wash your hands.
Take care of others, and wait that this shit is totally over.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: DeathScythe on March 17, 2020, 07:22:56 pm
Welp, first confirmed death in Brazil.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mysticus92 on March 17, 2020, 09:05:26 pm
I live in Italy and a lot of bad things happened.
More than 300 deaths have been confirmed.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gacel on March 17, 2020, 09:23:44 pm
Colombia, 65 cases, 0 deaths, 0 autochthonous cases.
And they started to restrict international flights today.
And all the infected are completely isolated.

We have a little bit of paranoia but it's because we are a third world county and we have only a small number of medical facilities that can treat infected, the best we can do is having as little infected as posible so we can give them good treatment.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: TheHateThatHateMade on March 17, 2020, 09:43:46 pm
From the states, Atlanta, Georgia to be exact. We currently have 1 death and 146 cases. The good news is we have some of the best medical facilities around, including The CDC. The bad news is people are only now starting to take this situation serious. We also have the busiest airport in the world which in and of itself is an issue in this situation. Most none essential places are closed and the mayor has limited public gatherings in conjuction with The CDC's recommendations. I predict our numbers will increase here but as long as its not at a rapid pace we should be mostly fine. I do believe this is going to be going on for a few months.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on March 17, 2020, 11:25:38 pm
Will be working from home for a few weeks. the manager is pretty worried about this, so I spent the first halfof the day setting things up so I could work at home starting this afternoon.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Sean Altly on March 18, 2020, 12:02:59 am
I'm in Burlington, North Carolina and unfortunately I work for Domino's Pizza as a driver. Last week was one of our slowest ever, but now that the restaurants here in NC are ordered closed aside from takeout and delivery, I anticipate a ridiculous amount of business. That sounds cool and all, because at least my job is safe for now, but we'll be offering no-contact deliveries and I am sure the tips will go down, plus the area I'm in is pretty conservative and there are a lot of people ignoring the warnings.

My biggest concern is that ever since my sister got evicted, my mom (who was living with her since my dad passed in 2014) has been staying with me. She collects disability for chronic COPD, and at her age, she's a very high risk for this virus. I have some money saved but not enough to miss work. So now I get to go to work and make all these deliveries, exposing myself to the virus every day for $8 an hour plus tips, and worry about bringing it home with me. I wash my hands compulsively and have been following all the suggestions for staying healthy, but I'm still pretty fucking worried.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 18, 2020, 01:15:50 am
I live in Italy and a lot of bad things happened.
More than 300 deaths have been confirmed.
... Holy shit, I got a bit confused so I looked it up, but you mean 300 deaths just today ? God damn.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Iced on March 18, 2020, 01:38:50 am
for those of you that need a bit more social contact while being quarantined, remember that discord has been a blessing for most people.


Discord is both an app for your phone or a browser application for your computer that works a bit like IRC , with channels and stuff, it also has voice chatting.

https://discord.gg/EdKagrw
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Suprizle on March 18, 2020, 02:22:04 am
I'm in Burlington, North Carolina and unfortunately I work for Domino's Pizza as a driver. Last week was one of our slowest ever, but now that the restaurants here in NC are ordered closed aside from takeout and delivery, I anticipate a ridiculous amount of business. That sounds cool and all, because at least my job is safe for now, but we'll be offering no-contact deliveries and I am sure the tips will go down, plus the area I'm in is pretty conservative and there are a lot of people ignoring the warnings.

My biggest concern is that ever since my sister got evicted, my mom (who was living with her since my dad passed in 2014) has been staying with me. She collects disability for chronic COPD, and at her age, she's a very high risk for this virus. I have some money saved but not enough to miss work. So now I get to go to work and make all these deliveries, exposing myself to the virus every day for $8 an hour plus tips, and worry about bringing it home with me. I wash my hands compulsively and have been following all the suggestions for staying healthy, but I'm still pretty fucking worried.

Sorry to hear... that's such horse shit.

The fact that select states and provinces still haven't enforced certain jobs to be put a full stop yet with some financial support is sickening and my hometown is no better. These employers need to be jailed. They've closed down schools, restaurants, major facilities, etc but casinos and overall greed remain in full swing. "Officials" still refuse to support those who could potentially be out for months, but wildly expect people to accept poverty over feeding their family.
My only grandparent (she is highly prone to strokes) that I'm blessed to still have is also at high risk. I trust my family will be okay, but very little is being done to ensure people will be staying home which is crazy to me.

It's getting pretty real in my city too. Our rates are still going up in BC and everything is basically on lock down now for the next 2-8 weeks. But steps are being taken to encourage and ensure people to stay home. Employment Insurance claims being granted to a large majority of workers. There are even reports of Mortgages and Rent being put on suspension until the crisis is over.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: AMultiverseAuthor on March 18, 2020, 04:40:15 am
I'm in Pageland, South Carolina.

According to reports, the virus is in my state. A case was confirmed in Kershaw which is not too far from where I live :(

And on top of that, the schools in my state have been canceled for 2 weeks.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: GLB on March 18, 2020, 04:10:30 pm
I live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Theres been confirmed cases and deaths here already. I work in a grocery store. I manage a meat and seafood department. Let me tell you it's been insanity. They've closed all stores around us, we're the last ones open. I'm on no days off for the forseeable future, dealing with thousands of customers (being in a large city.) I've broken up fights, tried too put meat purchasing limitations on panic buyers, called police several times (without even getting a response at times due too high call volume), and have had too do all my personal shopping during the stores off hours just too be able to have minimal items for myself. In 10+yrs of retail I've never seen anything like this. I'm afraid for my life everyday at work, it's scary. My vehicle was broken into during my shift 2 days ago because someone saw grocery bags after we ran out of everything inside. Our truck loads have been coming later and later every day with less product, we're on a dangerous shortage. Unfortunately our store is refusing too close because we're all everyone has got besides fast food and pizza joints, we've alteted our opening and closing hours but it's caused more violence from customers.

I'm much more afraid of humanity than the virus itself. I bought a gun too protect my household since this block of houses and apartments have been getting broken into.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: HUNGRY WOLF on March 18, 2020, 06:02:26 pm
I Live in California, Santa Cruz County about 1.5 - 2 hours from San Francisco, As of Yesterday we are now on Shelter in place.

Officials are directing the public to stay at home as much as possible, with certain exceptions, such as to go out and get food at supermarkets, pick up prescriptions at the pharmacy, buy gas, “You will still be able to walk your dog, or go on a hike alone or someone you live with, or even with another person, as long as you keep six feet between you bank and check up on relatives.
Certain essential activities are exempt, such as essential government and business services or essential public infrastructure construction, like housing.
All Bars, night club, Gyms, and other non essential businesses have closed. Although there is still people in parks chilling like nothing is wrong.
Stores have been depleted of certain items, people buying stuff all stupid.
Luckily I'm still working and so is my girl friend so our income inst affected like others.
Just hopping people get there shit together or else we might end up like other places and be put on full lock down. 
My county has 13 confirmed cases so far, not sure if there is any deaths, could be wrong. California alone is at 749 cases and 13 deaths.
Stay Healthy people!
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Suprizle on March 18, 2020, 06:45:08 pm
My county has 13 confirmed cases so far, not sure if there is any deaths, could be wrong. California alone is at 749 cases and 13 deaths.
Stay Healthy people!

When all of Canada is still under 600 cases, that is fuckin ludicrous. I assume Florida alone is likely a breeding ground right now...

Please consume good food, take your vitamins/supplements, exercise, and keep your health strong American brothers!
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on March 18, 2020, 07:05:04 pm
population of canada 37.59 million
population of california 39.56 million

and "all of canada", means that the population of canada is more spread than in california, so I say california is not doing much worse than canada , if not otherwise.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Habib987874 on March 18, 2020, 07:51:07 pm
Reporting from Chile. Here, the hysteria takes all and most of the people are overselling the fear. Most of the cases come from the high-class who travelled to Asia and Europe who got the virus here, but since the Chilean press is so tabloid (and with 0 credibility since the 2019 protests) and the govenment is so useless and stupid, the panic got most of the country and now the classes are suspended in the whole country and in some works too. the rate is low until now (156 until today, almost all in peripheral counties where the high-class people lives), but we're the in second place in latin America after brazil.

But also, probably we're in the first place in the world for the memes about this (since the bat soup thing to the mofos who bought all hygienic supplies for themselves or to resell), so we could die here, but hey, at least we had some laughs, right? (https://y.yarn.co/0b34c4df-97ee-4ebf-85cf-84b6722fb133_screenshot.jpg)
What about Bad Mr. Frosty, Boogerman, Tiny, High Five, and CF63 1/3 Lifebars?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 18, 2020, 08:22:11 pm
and "all of canada", means that the population of canada is more spread than in california, so I say california is not doing much worse than canada , if not otherwise.
Yeah, similarly I was thinking, how did it reach Colorado, GLB ? Literal middle of the country with a whole lot of nothing and no one all around. Did it get here through the Denver airport or is there that much passage ?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: GLB on March 18, 2020, 08:50:41 pm
College exchange students on holiday was the first speculation, but not confirmed. I know an elderly lady passed from it fairly recently. Not nearly as prominent as elsewhere but enough too cause community panic.  Lots of traffic due to the legal recreational marijuana also, so any guess is possibe i suppose.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Suprizle on March 18, 2020, 10:31:21 pm
population of canada 37.59 million
population of california 39.56 million

and "all of canada", means that the population of canada is more spread than in california, so I say california is not doing much worse than canada , if not otherwise.

My statement wasn't Cali specific, but a general comparison between Canada and US. But hey, have at it.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: walt on March 18, 2020, 10:51:38 pm
(He actually made a pretty good point, I hadn't even considered population density, which could definitely be a factor)
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Eric The Nihilist on March 19, 2020, 12:00:11 am
I live in the lower mainland area of BC, aka Greater Vancouver. population of 2.5 million, due to the close proximity to Seattle, and population density our cases have started to explode. Right now they are only testing people in critical condition and the numbers are skyrocketing. 180+ already. Our Government waited way too long to mandate anything and even two weeks ago was saying, "oh yeah go outside, spend money."

We just declared a state of emergency today. Thankfully I can work from home, and business hasn't suffered to much. but we already dropped like 25% and I'm worried if it will get worse. Even though its in Canada, we are owned by an American multi-national, so we could all get rolled over so some execs portfolio doesn't dip too low.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Roasted Pheasant on March 19, 2020, 01:16:59 am
Live in Maryland suburbs. Did an accidental Thirteen cosplay (black jacket, red shirt, beige pants with my earloop mask). Busses became free. Bread aisle was still barren. No instated curfews, but all restaurants have banned sit-down eating. Every place is doing free delivery, which I can't take advantage of because I have no money.

There was plenty of people still out and about, but it seems like everyone is stocking up for worse.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kohaku~★ on March 19, 2020, 02:44:12 am
This might fall on deaf ears for the majority of the populace, but seeing as stupidity is more infectious than this virus I just want rant about a few things.

Not saying this to you guys, but people in general need to stop freaking out about this virus and calm their collected shit. This is virus is bad yes, but it isn’t the apocalyptic super virus that many mainstream media and news makes it out to be. They’re so fixated on numbers regarding the number of cases and deaths that they’re indirectly the cause of all the fear and panic that’s been going on the world. It’s ironic that the one number they always seem to omit is the number of people who actually recovered, while yes the virus can be lethal the majority of those who contract it will experience mild symptoms that go away after a week or two.

The amount of lockdowns and and closures going around the world maybe worrisome, but I assure you this is probably the best course of action for the time being. I would rather close everything down and reduce the spread than leaving everything open and risk infecting more people. People have lost their jobs because of it, but plenty of new ones are being opened right now so it’s probably the best time right now to work at places like grocery stores. The government is also actively taking steps to ensure that everyone affected by this will be compensated in some way be it financial aid or freezing payments.

There’s probably a bunch of other things I want to rant about, I just hope that this post helps calm those in this forum who are currently feeling some sort of fear or anxiety over these trying times even just a little. While it’s ok to be concerned and worried, it’s by no means a time for panic as that will absolutely do nothing in this situation. Just take it a day at a time and try your best to stay away from always looking at news. While it’s good to stay up to date, sometimes ignorance is bliss and will make your day by day much more bearable without the constant overly dramatic doom posting that most people will try to shove down your throat. Stay safe and healthy everyone, I have no doubt in my mind we’ll get through this.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Suprizle on March 19, 2020, 03:15:36 am
I live in the lower mainland area of BC, aka Greater Vancouver. population of 2.5 million, due to the close proximity to Seattle, and population density our cases have started to explode. Right now they are only testing people in critical condition and the numbers are skyrocketing. 180+ already. Our Government waited way too long to mandate anything and even two weeks ago was saying, "oh yeah go outside, spend money."

We just declared a state of emergency today. Thankfully I can work from home, and business hasn't suffered to much. but we already dropped like 25% and I'm worried if it will get worse. Even though its in Canada, we are owned by an American multi-national, so we could all get rolled over so some execs portfolio doesn't dip too low.

Yup. BC and Ontario are hot spots right now unfortunately (Alberta is quickly creeping up too). My roommate just lost his job today (closed down) and my private gym just shutdown as well. Not good...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 19, 2020, 03:36:24 am
suddenly social recluse is the new norm, I wonder if it would leave more permanent imprint in society to avoid crowding and wearing mask becoming more normal just like in some asian countries
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: AMultiverseAuthor on March 19, 2020, 03:38:43 am
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When all of Canada is still under 600 cases, that is fuckin ludicrous. I assume Florida alone is likely a breeding ground right now...

Please consume good food, take your vitamins/supplements, exercise, and keep your health strong American brothers!

Speaking of Florida, this popped up in my Facebook news feed:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-florida-beaches-ignore-social-distancing/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-florida-beaches-ignore-social-distancing/)

This is why humans are stupid!
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Basara Lapis on March 19, 2020, 04:15:17 am
What about Bad Mr. Frosty, Boogerman, Tiny, High Five, and CF63 1/3 Lifebars?
I've been disconnnected from MUGEN since november for various reasons, but I'll eventually come back for them...
But this is about coronavirus, which is more important than that

Hey guys, here we went since phase 1 to phase 4 in 3 days thanks to the incompetent shitheads of my government, thankfully most of the business stated their workers to stay home meanwhile... sadly not all, and still are some places like shopping malls that are still open despite of the virus, what a SOABs those entrepreneurs
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Takato-kun on March 19, 2020, 06:30:30 am
I'm still surprised about our country Basara, they're shitheads for real.

To inform the forum, our country is second worst case of total of infected people just after China during the first two weeks. Our health system is terrible, and just think about Italy, they've a decent health system and look at their now. The young people of course is gonna be fine, but the older ones?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Darkflare on March 19, 2020, 09:08:27 am
So here in PR, we had a few positive cases with a more suspected cases on the way.
We got a government imposed curfew, everyone needs to be home by 9PM and only supermarkets, medical places, gas stations and fast foods with drive through are allowed to be open.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on March 19, 2020, 12:44:27 pm
so basically urban areas are fucked , i'm staying at a not so populated area of the city. most here are offices.

good thing i manage to get my family out and flew them back in our home island when i heard the capital was gonna get locked down. still stayed here cause i've got guys who doesn't know what to do or where to go cause they can't live the city,  manage to keep the shop open though limited hours and set up beds for my guys to sleep in inside. profit is the same and i still have contact with my suppliers and they still are working.

heard some big companies are closed for a whole month , fast food is closed for 3 days and they are waiting for whatever the local units will say. good thing it's the summer break , if this happened in september or it spread before it came to japan or korea i don't think my country would take it seriously.


heard some big pharm in the US is having a legal battle with china for the vaccine cause they want to patent the vaccine and sell it to people.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 20, 2020, 02:38:28 am
heard some big pharm in the US is having a legal battle with china for the vaccine cause they want to patent the vaccine and sell it to people.
A few days ago Trump got told to piss off for trying to buy a German company that's working on a vaccine, because he wanted only the US to have it.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 20, 2020, 06:33:27 am
with all this news about US businesses under a pause, still US$ is skyrocketing... what's going on? in the last 2 days my currency is going down drastically being in a country probably not as affected by covid19, obviously not the time to upgrade PC or change cellphone these days.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on March 20, 2020, 03:48:49 pm
basically every countries economy is getting fucked. plus with china's shipment getting banned in a lot of country US has been taking advantage of it plus they are releasing cheap oil in the global market so that's helping them a lot. but don't worry after this fiasco all market will sky rocket too probably even better than what they were before the pandemic. so don't sell your stocks yet guys hold on to them.

heard some big pharm in the US is having a legal battle with china for the vaccine cause they want to patent the vaccine and sell it to people.
A few days ago Trump got told to piss off for trying to buy a German company that's working on a vaccine, because he wanted only the US to have it.

can't believe that it is true... thought it was just propaganda.
there's a lot of countries working for their own vaccine but problem is if it the court sided with the US i don't know what's gonna happen. china has one , france and germany is working a version of their own even my country has having progress with it. i'm not an expert in patents and i don't know what laws apply to what in these type of situation.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: PineappleProducer on March 21, 2020, 12:36:20 am
I live in Kentucky, in a very rural county. Started gettin' concerned about this whole thing about a week ago, and now I'm very concerned. No confirmed cases in our county  yet, although there are rumors of a case in the county. There are cases starting to creep towards us from the outermost counties. Schools are closed, non-essential businesses are supposed to be closed, and restaurants are carry-out and delivery only.

I work at a CPA office, and I don't believe we're going to close unless there's a government mandated shutdown of all businesses. My boss and a coworker are working from home, and half the people at the office are freaking out and considering staying home, which won't make things any easier for me and my other coworkers.

I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about my grandparents. They're in their 60's, 70's, and 80's and all but one of them are in rough shape as it is. As someone who has lived minutes away from their grandparents their whole life, it's killing me to not go over there and see them. I'm afraid to go hang out with my dad and brothers as well, since my dad goes up to take stuff to my grandparents and I don't wanna risk passing it along to my brothers or dad to get it passed along to my grandparents. It's been my weekend routine my whole life to go visit all of them, and now having to abstain from doing it out of fear for their well-being isn't very fun, to put it mildly. It's funny, my daily routine itself hasn't really  changed, but just the fact of knowing what's going on seems to give off a strange vibe.   
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: President Devon on March 21, 2020, 12:42:58 am
Infected count is up to 53 in New Zealand, the government here just announced a daily alert system as they believe there has been community transmission.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Hero on March 21, 2020, 02:40:01 am
My life has not changed much since I don't go outside very much - I rather be inside all day - and since I was doing work from home, plus buying small groceries from the local supermarket from time to time, the only change is that I can't visit my mum.

April is the death month.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: All-Star Platinum on March 21, 2020, 02:43:23 am
Ontario just started a state of emergency about an hours ago.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 21, 2020, 03:21:43 am
I live in Kentucky, in a very rural county. Started gettin' concerned about this whole thing about a week ago, and now I'm very concerned. No confirmed cases in our county  yet, although there are rumors of a case in the county. There are cases starting to creep towards us from the outermost counties. Schools are closed, non-essential businesses are supposed to be closed, and restaurants are carry-out and delivery only.

I work at a CPA office, and I don't believe we're going to close unless there's a government mandated shutdown of all businesses. My boss and a coworker are working from home, and half the people at the office are freaking out and considering staying home, which won't make things any easier for me and my other coworkers.

I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about my grandparents. They're in their 60's, 70's, and 80's and all but one of them are in rough shape as it is. As someone who has lived minutes away from their grandparents their whole life, it's killing me to not go over there and see them. I'm afraid to go hang out with my dad and brothers as well, since my dad goes up to take stuff to my grandparents and I don't wanna risk passing it along to my brothers or dad to get it passed along to my grandparents. It's been my weekend routine my whole life to go visit all of them, and now having to abstain from doing it out of fear for their well-being isn't very fun, to put it mildly. It's funny, my daily routine itself hasn't really  changed, but just the fact of knowing what's going on seems to give off a strange vibe.

as long as you don't feel any symptoms cant you just take a shower and change clothes before going home?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 21, 2020, 03:41:05 am
You can be a carrier and feel no symptom. If you touch your face, you're transmitting it, and it might get to someone who might be vulnerable.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Handmaiden of the Seascape on March 21, 2020, 05:39:17 am
Mexico now has 164 cases with two confirmed deaths.

And China is not wasting time on sending help to Europe aand Latin America.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mysticus92 on March 21, 2020, 10:07:14 am
Mexico now has 164 cases with two confirmed deaths.

And China is not wasting time on sending help to Europe aand Latin America.

And especialy in Italy which now have more than 600 deaths.
Do you have any idea how tragic the situation is?
Everything is closed even after April 3rd and yet a lot of people still go out acting like an idiot, like nothing happened...
It just pisses me off!
All they have to do is STAY at their home including me and my family!
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gladiacloud on March 21, 2020, 11:40:36 am
Everything is closed even after April 3rd
Not anymore. The situation is too serious.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 21, 2020, 11:49:04 am
Total number of deaths in France is 264, including 89 just yesterday. 930 sick people are in critical condition right now, so it's about to rise. We've been in full lockdown since last Sunday, so we're hoping it doesn't get as bad as Italy...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mr.Karate JKA on March 21, 2020, 12:36:07 pm
even when will china continue to spread diseases around the world?

Here at rio de janeiro some streets looks like walking dead...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on March 21, 2020, 01:40:20 pm
i remember an article i read a couple of years ago about sars that could potentially be infectious to humans i think it was in new york times or some other papers. i'll try and search it. it's about a doctor warning other virologist about the dangers of the virus strain if not handled carefully , the research dated back in 01-02 when the first big out break was. probably they cultured it

kinda hard searching for it now. all i remember is that it was a 2015 article about a "new" strain of SARS i don't remember exactly who published it could be new york times or the doctor's name or the group or facility he was warning about but i do remember they were chinese.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mysticus92 on March 21, 2020, 02:09:21 pm
Everything is closed even after April 3rd
Not anymore. The situation is too serious.


I noticed too.
Hang in there my italian buddy!
Soon we'll overcome this huge mess.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gladiacloud on March 21, 2020, 02:36:26 pm
Soon we'll overcome this huge mess.
I hate being pessimistic, but I highly doubt it. Many Italians have made stupid despite the prohibitions.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Seadragon77 on March 21, 2020, 05:00:36 pm
Out here is SW Washington, the county I live in (Cowlitz) recently announced their first two COVID-19 cases. Two older men have it... For the most part, it's all about caution here.

I highly doubt that things will return to normal quickly, but it will come back to some sort of normalcy in the future.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on March 21, 2020, 06:11:49 pm
some are predicting it'll be 6 months max. before it'll all go back to normal.

taxes are now on halt in my country and water and electric bills could be next if things goes even more south. as good as it sounds a good chunk of the population has no means to get pay checks. especially in entertainment businesses like cinemas , concerts , casinos or even businesses that depends on crowds like malls. food business are still active . fast food are still up , restaurants and bistros are still operating but only take outs.

logistics and delivery services are still up but only in select areas and select companies are still operational. the only good thing from the government is politicians are working without any infighting for once in our history. national , regional and local gov't are listening to each other so that's a fucking plus. crime rate is low.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 22, 2020, 09:47:56 am
sugar is a rarity here, at least the common white granuled sugar, I switched to brown sugar for my coffee, but still I was looking for sugar earlier today, found a kilo pack at small minimarket, I bought 1 kilo since other might need them too. on the way out. I saw this young chinese lady, jumped down from the passenger seat of her car driver stayed in the car engine left running, rushed into the minimarket, masked, both hands gloved with small plastic bags, rushing between the racks, ran back to the cashier, ran to her car, took off, all before I even arrive at my car
confirmed case in my town for several days already is 2.

I think she must have binge watching The Walking Dead

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on March 22, 2020, 10:17:08 am
people like that are the reason why the lockdowns are much worse. don't need to hoard just buy whatever you need.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: GLB on March 22, 2020, 01:12:55 pm
Well, an employee at my job has it, been confirmed. Store management pulled us aside yesterday. Supposedly this person has been contained for 4 days as of today; but was at work for 2 days while contagious.

The CDC will be coming in too answer our questions. Not sure if they're closing us or testing us. I'm a little scared. I've got diabetes and heart disease, which I'm told is very dangerous during this time, and they will not allow us too leave work without a doctor's excuse and they don't provide me insurance as a manager until I've done it for 2 years. Which i have 3 months left, haven't managed that long.

I'm a little peeved too, every grocery store gave their employees hazard pay, safety precautions, etc. Our company gave us nothing... Except a 25$ gift card TO THE STORE. And an agreement too file for PTO if we catch the virus..no guarantee though.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on March 22, 2020, 01:59:27 pm
Well, an employee at my job has it, been confirmed. Store management pulled us aside yesterday. Supposedly this person has been contained for 4 days as of today; but was at work for 2 days while contagious.

The CDC will be coming in too answer our questions. Not sure if they're closing us or testing us. I'm a little scared. I've got diabetes and heart disease, which I'm told is very dangerous during this time, and they will not allow us too leave work without a doctor's excuse and they don't provide me insurance as a manager until I've done it for 2 years. Which i have 3 months left, haven't managed that long.

I'm a little peeved too, every grocery store gave their employees hazard pay, safety precautions, etc. Our company gave us nothing... Except a 25$ gift card TO THE STORE. And an agreement too file for PTO if we catch the virus..no guarantee though.
jeez... dude you shouldn't be even touching your doorknob. you're one of the 20% who gets it bad.
why the hell didn't you explain your situation to your superiors? get a lawyer dude.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MCX on March 22, 2020, 06:25:56 pm
even when will china continue to spread diseases around the world?
Don't be a xenophobic.
I'm fucked, I am a tattoo artist, we shut down the shop, to avoid any risks, but tattoo is my only income, I don't know how I will pay my bills.
I'm trying to get some freelance jobs as an illustrator/Graphic Designer, but didn't have any luck.
Also, the president here in Brazil, still treats this as a joke and don't even care.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on March 22, 2020, 08:17:51 pm
I mean, that is still small change compared to over 60% of Europe literally gone in less than a decade, even with comparing hundreds a day being factored in.

 Not saying it isn't tragic and alarming, but I do think it's being overblown to the point that it's causing more harm than good at times.

i understand what your point is , and yes media is over blowing it. but people will react to it in very different ways . for us we're lucky that we can spare a few weeks off cause we can afford it but for people who are living for pay check to pay check it's basically a death sentence for them. so i understand why there are people panicking.

even when will china continue to spread diseases around the world?
Don't be a xenophobic.
I'm fucked, I am a tattoo artist, we shut down the shop, to avoid any risks, but tattoo is my only income, I don't know how I will pay my bills.
I'm trying to get some freelance jobs as an illustrator/Graphic Designer, but didn't have any luck.
Also, the president here in Brazil, still treats this as a joke and don't even care.

probably because they don't have any plan or any utility for such events.

was kinda thinking that my country would be fucked but i am surprised how quickly our government reacted to it. so far there's only

idk if this is accurate but holy shit , USA , italy and china are getting fucked.. i'm surprised how well philippines and india are doing.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 22, 2020, 08:56:51 pm
and yes media is over blowing it
No, they're not. Here in France we've been hitting a hundred deaths per day even though we've been in total isolation for a week, and Italy is at over 600 deaths a day. Germany seems to have just started reacting, after a week of every local state saying "I'll decide if I'm in danger at my own pace, thank you very much" which is exactly what a virus like that needs to propagate super fast, so they'll have a pretty bad curve in a couple of weeks too. People in Florida were partying around like they don't give a fuck, that's going to change real fast.
Different countries are at different stages, but this is serious and yes the media everywhere need to take it as seriously as it is, because every hospital is crumbling already. It's not the Black Plague, but we shouldn't need to compare it to that, it's not a hurdle we're supposed to look at and say "see, it's not as bad as that, so it's fine". We should be able to handle it much better than the worst period in the Middle Ages, if we could all just react a lot faster and take it seriously.
And yes, that worldometer site is accurate.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MCX on March 22, 2020, 10:35:38 pm
The media here is serious about that, but our president is an idiot, he said: "It's just a little flu, people are overreacting"
I really don't know what will happen to us, but I know that if we depend on him, only rich brazilians ill be alive at the end of this world crisis
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: -Ash- on March 22, 2020, 11:20:37 pm
treats this as a joke and don't even care.
You mean like China did in its early stages and how it led the world to this current situation!?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: YugaCurry on March 22, 2020, 11:37:14 pm
i'm surprised how well philippines and india are doing.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

We aren't. That number has already gone up. People are still not taking it seriously and we are now just into our second week from tomorrow. The signs are visible that there's gonna be a massive increase in cases. There are rumors that China still has new cases showing up and most of these figures are fake and highly watered down.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Nep Heart on March 22, 2020, 11:50:08 pm
 In the case of my country, a lot of this could have been prevented if we had a more competent President for this country. Trump had months of warning in advance of an impeding disease before it ever broke news and he treated the whole notion as light jest. Then, when the problem does make an arrival here, he still is taking this lightly and that's why we have bullshit like panic buyings, riots and xenophobia running amok. I think that is part of the reason why I am angry about this whole thing.

 Incompetence of the government and the fear-mongering caused by media misinformation making the problem worse than it already is.

 Honestly, Benjamin Franklin must be rolling in his grave with how far the USA's politics have degenerated.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MCX on March 23, 2020, 01:41:57 am
treats this as a joke and don't even care.
You mean like China did in its early stages and how it led the world to this current situation!?
I will repeat again, don't be a xenophobic.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: President Devon on March 23, 2020, 01:55:43 am
This is NZ's alert system, our PM has just announced we're at Level 3.
(https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/uGqqg7l7np5KyreSktCTbZr3MJA=/620x1057/smart/filters:quality(70)/media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/infographics/3851/ALERTS_OL.jpg)
We have had around 30-40 new cases today. Things are starting to escalate.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: -Ash- on March 23, 2020, 02:00:40 am
I will repeat again, don't be a xenophobic.

I wasn't being xenophobic, just exposing your double standards. Shame on me for trying to argue with NPCs I guess...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: FeLo_Llop on March 23, 2020, 02:22:35 am
Well, Spain:
- Number of infected people: 29.909. 12% of these people are sanitaries(doctors, nurses, etc).
- Deaths: 1.813(1021 of these are from Madrid, where I currently live). So yeah, we're at 6% of death rate now.

And well, I'm pretty worried about a close friend of me, who is a nurse.

Now goverment of Spain has decided to expand the state of alarm 15 days more.  Those dumbasses knew the truth of the virus SINCE Feb. 2nd. They did not take meassures. They allowed mass meetings, so we will never know how many of those deaths or infected may've been avoided.

I'm not getting out of home except for a week buy(food, just that). Aside this, I'm like 300Km from my family, no flat mate or anyone to speak with in person(of course whatsapp is there, but not the same). So yay, skype. Balcony walks, exercice with big flowerpots, leg squats and etc. Also studying, spriting and for the first time in years, drawing in a serious way.

I may become crazy one of these days @_@
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Basara Lapis on March 23, 2020, 02:32:12 am
We have had around 30-40 new cases today. Things are starting to escalate.
Think it could be worse. Here in Chile, we're in level 4 but some people (especially the jerkasses of my government) still treats it like level 2. here they've to make curfew (we're in it now, since 10pm to 5am), as if that would solve something (especially with high class people going to other states to "vacation" and companies still requering people to work during the pandemia)
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Jmorphman on March 23, 2020, 04:00:13 am
I wasn't being xenophobic, just exposing your double standards. Shame on me for trying to argue with NPCs I guess...
Don't call other people NPCs. While we're at it, stop spreading idiotic conspiracy theories.

Grow the fuck up and stop acting like a clown, or you'll enjoy a quarantine from this forum.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Iced on March 23, 2020, 04:17:22 am
More information


https://grafana.sysadm.es/d/Y9Anj9_Wz2dsadasDXCAxz5/coronavirus-spain?panelId=58&fullscreen&orgId=4&refresh=1h&from=1584283212250&to=1584888012250

I reinforce my invitation to join the Discord channel, we've been doing games and other stuff to help pass the time and it will help with isolation.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 23, 2020, 04:32:15 am
hope the summer/ or dry season for the tropical countries come soon. binge watching long plays on youtube while drawing commissions as usual, street traffic is quieter. I need to collect some paper for the car registration at police station but rather avoid public waiting room right now, especially this police station is at the opposite of our public hospital. I hope waste disposal management for this wisely monitored, since mask is rare, I hope nobody don't try to dig into used masks ,wash them in washing machine and try to sell them... those kind of people always exist... 
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: -Ash- on March 23, 2020, 04:37:54 am
@Jmorphman Please do the honours, I want to help you out with building your safe space.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Foobs on March 23, 2020, 04:44:42 am
Just go back to /pol/ on your own, fren. Baiting a moderator into banning you after receiving a justified warning like that is just bad form.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Jmorphman on March 23, 2020, 04:55:05 am
Please do the honours, I want to help you out with building your safe space.
LMAO

See you in a week. :mmhmm:
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: beterhans on March 23, 2020, 04:56:10 am
In the case of my country, a lot of this could have been prevented if we had a more competent President for this country. Trump had months of warning in advance of an impeding disease before it ever broke news and he treated the whole notion as light jest. Then, when the problem does make an arrival here, he still is taking this lightly and that's why we have bullshit like panic buyings, riots and xenophobia running amok. I think that is part of the reason why I am angry about this whole thing.

 Incompetence of the government and the fear-mongering caused by media misinformation making the problem worse than it already is.

 Honestly, Benjamin Franklin must be rolling in his grave with how far the USA's politics have degenerated.

Here at Singapore
we experienced toilet roll run way earlier than rest of the world. now is OK
but masks still.. no where to buy and media is selling mask didn't help propaganda since they don't have it.
but In the meantime, wearing mask is a must in China even official number is "0" now in some cities.

From an outsider point of view trump did a good job to apply the travel ban in the 1st wave, and compare to that SG didn't, and SG suffered in 1st wave reached number 2 on the list for awhile. but your media is just brainlessly play the blame game. every trump did was wrong something like that.

a few days earlier we experienced a food run since Malaysia close border. Since all food is imported, lock down means no food. so people are in real panic mode.  luckily now food supply is back on track

I envy you guys may never need to worrier about food since US is No.1 on food export.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Umezono on March 23, 2020, 05:11:02 am
treats this as a joke and don't even care.
You mean like China did in its early stages and how it led the world to this current situation!?

For the record Wuhan immediately sent out a health advisory about corona virus to all its hospitals when the doctors presented evidence of it, and then the next day China notified the WHO about it. You're an idiot.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: President Devon on March 23, 2020, 06:23:24 am
Looks like our alert level will be raised to Level 4 in 48 hours. Full on lockdown; no air travel, epidemic warning systems etc. Only essential businesses will be open, shops, supermarkets etc. Schools will be shut down. Looks like we'll be locked down for the next month or so.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 23, 2020, 06:28:50 am
I somehow foresee, this is the end of Superheroes movies era, after this mess I'm sure there's going to be more prepper advisor on TV, and more virus outbreak movie again on cinemas, probably all public places would have hand sanitizer dispenser, probably at airport passenger have to walk pass a decontamination booth.
probably stylish masks going to be more in fashion, and commonly worn by people.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kolossoni on March 23, 2020, 06:34:44 am
Please for the love of god, stay home and if you really really have to, wear a mask.

South Korea is finally seeing a decrease in numbers after 3 months of total hell and many professionals say that it's thanks to self-care + social distancing.
My brother's also coming back from the US. He says that some people are still taking the whole thing lightly there. They're having parties during a pandemic!!!
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MaligeX on March 23, 2020, 06:41:34 am
Well the first thing i notice is why anyone un the world use the real virus name formerly known as SARS-CoV-2.
Then i read this article:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1820422/coronavirus-why-wont-who-use-the-name-sars-cov-2/amp/

Here in México we had in 2009 a similar but better contained cousin pandemia, the NH1N1.

When in those days a mexican was or were seen in another country they threated them in the most unhuman xenophobic way possible, now the story change a little and the humans don't learn from the past.

The goverment declare quarantine and everybody took it as early vacation season without accate any warning.

Hotels are at it's full and without be conspiranoic but the food prices at malls raise in price since february.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Takato-kun on March 23, 2020, 07:15:55 am
LatAm is so freaking in danger right now, so many governments taking this like a joke. Here in Chile, our clown president said that we're better prepared that Europe, we're at phase 4, and still not even partial quarantine, our health system is a joke (those poor people working on it fight every freaking year for it, and still, the government doesn't listen).

Bolsonaro and Piñera are not taking this seriously, and I'm so freaking worried.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: beterhans on March 23, 2020, 08:49:08 am
treats this as a joke and don't even care.
You mean like China did in its early stages and how it led the world to this current situation!?

For the record Wuhan immediately sent out a health advisory about corona virus to all its hospitals when the doctors presented evidence of it, and then the next day China notified the WHO about it. You're an idiot.

You've been fooled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfGML4Cl2As (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfGML4Cl2As)
8 doctors has been arrested for spreading fake news that the virus exists. and 1 of them died.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 23, 2020, 08:55:52 am
(https://i.imgur.com/R1dpPYz.jpg)
I'm ready for virus apocalypse
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Niitris on March 23, 2020, 10:10:45 am
Of course speaking from Eagleland perspective.

I live about 30 miles from D.C., in a small city. I'm personally not worried about catching it, I'd have a better chance of getting into a car accident. And fortunately my job is essential, so I'm not out of luck making money. Not as fortunate, I'm the only one working in my family.

Obviously, it's a bad situation all around. Everything's in shutdown, cities are getting hit real bad, and it's legitimately unsafe for the elderly to go outside. The economy being strangled to death is putting it generously. Small business is as good as screwed, and city small shops would need a miracle to survive, given the vicious combo of lost revenue and absurdly high expenses over there.

I'd love to rip on the anti-science GOP (it's just the flu, smart) and the oversensitive Dems (let's just do nothing because closing borders is racist or something) since neither of them show any real competence on anything truly important. But I have to cut it short there, because nothing could've been done to stop this disaster. It would've found a way to penetrate the country no matter what action was taken. And the nature of the virus would've made it spread in mass anyway. Not like any other country has found a way to dodge it. Outside of Antarctica

Best case scenario is a sufficient enough slowdown within the next month to slowly re-establish normality, while waiting on the long-term vaccine. South Korea seemingly were able to get a handle on things thanks to numerous testing kits, but apparently it also utilized methods that some would call an invasion of privacy. Don't think that's realistic in most other areas, but forcing isolation within the big cities should produce a similar effect on a more gradual scale. South Korea still has some issues in Seoul.

Finally, frivolous numbers given the overall gravity of the situation, but I feel it must be said. Experts claim that up to 70% of Americans will get infected in the next 18 months. That's laughably inaccurate, and the natural skeptic in me wonders why they'd use such a crazy high number. Current number of cases in the US are at 35,000. To get to even 1%, that number would have to spike to 3 million. Even that number is lofty, much less 210 million. Even Italy, which inexplicably got hit real bad, is not a the 1% mark yet. So yeah, be careful believing what media tells you and stuff.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 23, 2020, 10:26:36 am
Finally, frivolous numbers given the overall gravity of the situation, but I feel it must be said. Experts claim that up to 70% of Americans will get infected in the next 18 months. That's laughably inaccurate, and the natural skeptic in me wonders why they'd use such a crazy high number. Current number of cases in the US are at 35,000. To get to even 1%, that number would have to spike to 3 million. Even that number is lofty, much less 210 million. Even Italy, which inexplicably got hit real bad, is not a the 1% mark yet. So yeah, be careful believing what media tells you and stuff.
The flu hits dozens of millions of people a year (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html) in the US, and that's with a vaccine AND just counting the people with symptoms. If you think these coronavirus estimates are crazy high, it's because you don't realize how easily those things spread, and how even with proper testing, you still would miss a lot of people that don't have symptoms. I don't know if 70% is accurate, but it's definitely way in the double digits. The flu is in the double digits, and that's contained with a vaccine. This is not fake news, this is not fear mongering.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Niitris on March 23, 2020, 04:53:06 pm
Influenza doesn't cause mass levels of self-isolation. So yeah tens of millions would get infected by that. People vastly underestimate just how little of a number 10 or 20 thousand can be (understandably so), when stacked next to a sizable populace of people.

This is not fake news, this is not fear mongering.

No one said it was, I certainly didn't. In fact, I'll re-emphasize that it's not being taken seriously enough give the enormous strain on the economy, and the flawed healthcare industry as a whole (moreso the people who rely on their services).

But it was an observance that sparked curiosity in me, and how people will use numbers to exploit people's emotion on subject matters. I wouldn't quite know what their motive would be in doing that. Maybe I was simply being paranoid, and they're just using that as a way to tell people how serious it all is.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/coronavirus-trading-house-senate-140260
There are stories about how congress officials were selling stocks knowing how dire things would become, but not using that information to inform the public. And of course subsequently lying about it too. There are definitely people out there trying to game others (or the system) out of it all, right down to silly supply hoarding.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 23, 2020, 10:07:05 pm
Influenza doesn't cause mass levels of self-isolation.
Uh ? We're doing isolation to slow this down. If isolation is done properly, then it might not get as bad as that. but then again, the US is obviously not doing isolation properly.
Second thing is, isolation is done to slow it down, it's unlikely to stop it. Contagion will happen, it's just that it'll happen much slower if people do this right, and if it's slow enough, then it can very easily be handled in hospitals and early care, even if there's still a 1~3% mortality rate. But the total numbers who will have gotten it will still be very high a year and a half from now. It's just that if it's slowed down enough, you won't hear much about it because people will be able to go to the hospital a few at a time and they'll all get proper treatment and most of them will make it out easily. If it doesn't work, they'll all get it at the same time and they'll clog the hospitals and a lot of people who didn't have to die from it will die.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MCX on March 24, 2020, 03:38:44 am
I will repeat again, don't be a xenophobic.

I wasn't being xenophobic, just exposing your double standards. Shame on me for trying to argue with NPCs I guess...
Dude, you're blame China for the chaos that we are right now, how this is not xenophobic? I mean, bring better arguments
We have a president that don't even care, and wow, he blames China. I tried to find any news about what you said, and I found nothing. So you know that's false and a big old fake news. So I sugest to you, find better sources, search for the Doctor who find out about the Covid-19.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Nep Heart on March 24, 2020, 03:46:04 am
 If anything, China is the biggest victim here because of corruption within the government and portions of the wealthy elite that inhabit the country screwing them over. So, yeah, it is fairly xenophobic to pin the cause on them collectively.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mr.Karate JKA on March 24, 2020, 04:59:54 pm
even when will china continue to spread diseases around the world?
Don't be a xenophobic.
I'm fucked, I am a tattoo artist, we shut down the shop, to avoid any risks, but tattoo is my only income, I don't know how I will pay my bills.
I'm trying to get some freelance jobs as an illustrator/Graphic Designer, but didn't have any luck.
Also, the president here in Brazil, still treats this as a joke and don't even care.

Im not a xenophobic. But in fact the vírus came from china. I really dont know how many information was hidden by china about this

About our president, you can ask the oposition then you Will see a joke
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 24, 2020, 05:03:08 pm
Im not a xenophobic.
That's not your decision.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mr.Karate JKA on March 24, 2020, 05:04:55 pm
Im not a xenophobic.
That's not your decision.

Tell me, Its yours?????
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 24, 2020, 05:05:53 pm
Yes ???? It's everyone else's decision. It's not for you to say, it's for everyone else to judge you.
Nobody thinks they're saying or doing something bad.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mr.Karate JKA on March 24, 2020, 05:12:08 pm
So, now you can judge me because my point of view?

I said (and i Will continue) this is a chinese vírus cause Its simple: came from china.

They were negligent about the virus.

If you dont like It, Sorry but i can do nothing about you.

Before i forget: i have some friends for other countries. I never disrespect people for another countries here ok rio de janeiro
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 24, 2020, 05:18:07 pm
So, now you can judge me because my point of view?
Yes ???
The Chinese government wasn't just negligent, they were criminal as usual, shutting down and vanishing the people ringing the alarm bells. But you want to talk about negligence when you're from Brazil with Bolsonaro as your president ? The guy who's still denying the threat of the virus even though he himself is infected by it ?

It's everyone's fault, everyone on the planet found out about it in mid January at the latest and yet the governments of the world still waited a month and a half to do anything about it. Only after Italy cracked, people started saying "let's wait another 2 weeks to see how that goes".
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mr.Karate JKA on March 24, 2020, 05:55:19 pm
So, now you can judge me because my point of view?
Yes ???
The Chinese government wasn't just negligent, they were criminal as usual, shutting down and vanishing the people ringing the alarm bells. But you want to talk about negligence when you're from Brazil with Bolsonaro as your president ? The guy who's still denying the threat of the virus even though he himself is infected by it ?

It's everyone's fault, everyone on the planet found out about it in mid January at the latest and yet the governments of the world still waited a month and a half to do anything about it. Only after Italy cracked, people started saying "let's wait another 2 weeks to see how that goes".

Yes??

Congratulations bro! Even from Miles of distance without know me and my life, in a game fórum you have this super Power... Judge another people. Amazing!

Tell me: why? Or who do you think you are to judge another people? I wont change my mind, what you gonna do? Post things here ? Call me xenophobic? What a joke.

Man i dont know you. And i Dont want. I dont Care about you and your opinion. As a public fórum i Just gave my opinion on this thread.

Grow up kid. See ya, i have a Lot of work to do!
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 24, 2020, 06:04:18 pm
"Kid" lol
That's literally how the real world works, this has nothing to do with online forums. If people who hear you talk think you're being xenophobic, they're going to judge you and call you xenophobic, no one cares what your background is. Go back to school or something.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kolossoni on March 24, 2020, 06:25:16 pm
Xenophobia - dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

FYI, sourcing the root of the disease as a factual point is NOT xenophobic.
COVID-19, AKA Coronavirus, AKA Wuhan Virus did indeed come from Wuhan, China. There's nothing xenophobic with stating facts.
That would be like "Japan bombed Pearl Harbor" and saying "that's xenophobic towards the Japanese". Which is not, cuz it's a fact.

Now what would be xenophobic would be smth like "therefore, all the Chinese are ______" or smth that stirs up hateful remarks.

As far as I can see, nobody here has done anything like that.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 24, 2020, 06:47:00 pm
There's no such thing as stating facts, especially on the Internet. People only say things for a specific reason, and only ever cherry pick the facts that suit what they want to say. That's why people will interpret what you say differently and may decide to call you xenophobic.
And viruses don't have nationalities.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Hero on March 24, 2020, 06:58:06 pm
But they have an origin, and this virus comes from China.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kolossoni on March 24, 2020, 07:03:14 pm
That's a bold statement you're making.
Deciding to call someone xenophobic is fair. But at least use it in the right context.

And as a chemist, I can firmly say that most scientific nomeclatures are well driven from multiple sources including but not restricted to: names, countries, continents and etc.

For example,
- MERS AKA Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus clearly singles out a certain area in the world. That doesn't make it racist.
- JEV AKA Japanese encephalitis also "technically" has a nation's name but it's not due to xenophobic reasons.
- Alzheimer's disease was named after a person "Alois Alzheimer" not to hate on anyone with the name "Alzheimer".
- Black Plague has the word "Black" but has nothing to do with hating on African desecendants.

I can list so many more examples of "hateful sounding" words in science that in fact has nothing to do with singling out, discriminatory xenophobia.
So, I remark once again,

Stating that COVID-19 came from Wuhan, China is NOT being xenophobic.
Heck, even the recent "Ebola" virus is derived from an African tribe's area...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 24, 2020, 07:07:06 pm
What's compelling you to use that as a name instead of the many other names it has ? Coronavirus, Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2. If you wanted to go by where it came from, you could even call it the Wuhan virus. But no, let's not use any of that, let's not use its actual birthplace, let's use a much broader term for no real reason (and pretend that this is more fitting to designate as its birthplace rather than Wuhan), no matter how you try to justify it after the fact.
This is a decision you made, and it's very easy for anyone who hears that to form a conclusion on why you made that decision.
How do you not get that this is a conclusion people wil inevitably make about you, no matter how you try to explain to them that you are only driven by facts and logic (which you're cherry-picking) ?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Suprizle on March 24, 2020, 07:08:15 pm
There's no such thing as stating facts, especially on the Internet. People only say things for a specific reason, and only ever cherry pick the facts that suit what they want to say. That's why people will interpret what you say differently and may decide to call you xenophobic.
And viruses don't have nationalities.

Actually there is. Facts are facts whether you regard them as truth or not. What you're referring to are "opinions" and you claiming Mr.Karate JKA is xenophobic is just that... your opinion, no one else's. Don't speak for people...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 24, 2020, 07:09:50 pm
What you're referring to are "opinions"
No, I'm referring to people deciding what facts to use and what other facts not to use, so that they can justify their opinion.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kolossoni on March 24, 2020, 07:13:15 pm
What's compelling you to use that as a name instead of the many other names it has ? Coronavirus, Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2. If you wanted to go by where it came from, you could even call it the Wuhan virus. But no, let's not use any of that, let's not use its actual birthplace, let's use a much broader term for no real reason (and pretend that this is more fitting to designate as its birthplace rather than Wuhan), no matter how you try to justify it after the fact.
This is a decision you made, and it's very easy for anyone who hears that to form a conclusion on why you made that decision.
How do you not get that this is a conclusion people wil inevitably make about you, no matter how you try to explain to them that you are only driven by facts and logic (which you're cherry-picking) ?

So you basically accuse me of cherry-picking when I just provided you with MULTIPLE cases that the scientific community decided to coin certain diseases based on its origins and yet I'm the bad guy?

ROFL, I think you need to learn how and why science names things as it is. That's why I used AKA for clarification.

and FYI, I use COVID-19 cuz it's the shortest and the simplest.
Five capital letters with two numbers are much easier to write than "Coronavirus" or "Wuhan Virus"  ;D
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 24, 2020, 07:18:27 pm
What ? Nothing of what I said is directed at you specifically. It's a generic "you". In this case, it's about JKA, but I don't even care and I'm not even calling him xenophobic. I'm just saying it's obvious people might take what he says as xenophobic.
So you basically accuse me of cherry-picking when I just provided you with MULTIPLE cases that the scientific community decided to coin certain diseases based on its origins
But they didn't do that for this one, they gave it multiple actual names and none of them are based on its point of origin.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kolossoni on March 24, 2020, 07:22:33 pm
I though, based on your logic: "There's no such thing as stating facts, especially on the Internet. People only say things for a specific reason, and only ever cherry pick the facts that suit what they want to say." clearly goes againt mine so therefore, I kind of automatically grouped myself as the "you", but since you've cleared it up it's fine.

What JKA was doing was spreading propaganda, and whether it's true or not, he needs strong evidence and proof to justify his claims. FYI, still not xenophobic though.

And regarding naming part: No, they didn't but just because the community (which they did numerously in the past) didn't do it for COVID-19, doesn't deny the fact that Wuhan, China was the source of the virus.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Suprizle on March 24, 2020, 07:54:30 pm
What you're referring to are "opinions"
No, I'm referring to people deciding what facts to use and what other facts not to use, so that they can justify their opinion.

Umm... that's what discussions are for. Again, doesn't make what he said any less factual or even hateful if it's based on truth. You coming off like a pompous jackass is more factual based on your own logic, but again that's a matter of opinion and discussion. Just my two cents.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Takato-kun on March 25, 2020, 06:01:33 am
Guys, if you called COVID-19 "Chinese virus", you're at the same level at Trump. Do you wanna be like Trump? Please, if you don't, don't call corona virus "Chinese virus" again.

Thank you, wash your hands, stay inside if you can, and please for the love of Arceus, take this shit seriously.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 25, 2020, 07:50:55 am
This thread has become painful to read, let's come back to sharing your daily experience
come on Byakko stop posing as official spokeperson and moderator of covid-19 thread, just share your daily experience like others

today a truck spraying what smell like Lysol or pinesol in front of our house, left random droplets over my freshly washed car in my carport, and I'm sure plants in my garden would have yellow burnmarks by tomorrow, amidst society in "panic" this kind of placebo helps to calm the housewives I can understand that, but can't help to feel how dumb the method was.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 25, 2020, 09:22:50 am
come on Byakko stop posing as official spokeperson and moderator of covid-19 thread
I'm not, what the fuck.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 25, 2020, 10:45:32 am
would be more interesting to read what you experience or recent development there in your day to day live in your country or nothern europe in general

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on March 25, 2020, 04:38:48 pm
well, people want to turn it into a classes fight there.

This weekend ,in the middle of the quarantine, the president held a public vote to cancel the contract of an international beer company so it does not open in mexico; ofc, his party won. The previous week, his party changed the constitution so reelection of congress member is now legal. The owner of the bank the president uses to  distribute government help spoke on national tv yesterday (his tv station of course) about how covid is not deadly and people should stop the quarantine and go back to work; of course, eh insulted the parties opossed to the government party.

For more context the mexican president has been denying covid to be a problem, he even mentioned that mexico should not take measures until we had the same problems as spain or italy. The places where measures have been taken are states governed by the oposition of the federal government.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on March 25, 2020, 07:18:25 pm
and here i thought my government is fucked up. at least when shit goes down they know what to do.

well my city is on level 4 lock down as of today. top hospitals are on red alert. our district is considering closing all borders except for the main road connecting to the main city and other cities. town folks are organizing and barring the streets and rerouting traffic so we can easily secure anbd monitor who goes in and out our streets. by 8pm only handful of people are roaming in the streets shops are closed at 6pm.

good thing my town is pretty much isolated from the rest of the city , local officials can easily gate keep our whole district if it's necessary.

down south in the islands life is pretty much normal , they closed off all the piers since february only select ships are to be let in. that's a sigh of relief for me if it goes all south in the mainland i know my family is safe.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Handmaiden of the Seascape on March 25, 2020, 09:28:18 pm
For more context the mexican president has been denying covid to be a problem, he even mentioned that mexico should not take measures until we had the same problems as spain or italy. The places where measures have been taken are states governed by the oposition of the federal government.

I don't like the president we have either, but since when did AMLO become the mexican equivalent of Bolsonaro? I certainly lost faith on the right. Can't trust on them anymore after Drunkard Calderon and that closet moron of Peña ruined the country.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on March 26, 2020, 12:03:03 am
I don't like the president we have either, but since when did AMLO become the mexican equivalent of Bolsonaro? I certainly lost faith on the right. Can't trust on them anymore after Drunkard Calderon and that closet moron of Peña ruined the country.

What does that have to do with the right ? Calderon's party is still to the left of usa democrats, and pri (peña) is a left party.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kolossoni on March 26, 2020, 12:29:52 am
Leave politics and propaganda out of this please.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Cyanide on March 26, 2020, 12:46:20 am
We shut down last night. Just about everything is closed. No difference to my life just yet and will be interesting to see how this affects the spread. We're on 200 confirmed. Itll go up but how far and for how long are different questions.

Am hoping its dead quickly but borders stay locked off for a bit as tourists will totally bring it back at the moment
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: The Sudden Rarity on March 26, 2020, 04:34:30 am
Officially announced yesterday that today at 8am, our state went into the "Safer at Home" order. It's effective until April 24th, or until further notice. Can't leave the house unless you need essentials, and hospital help. Going for walks and social distancing (6 feet apart in public) is fine. Still have to pay bills and rent, though, which is absolute bullshit. I ain't risking jail time just because you need my money that badly. Still gotta pay, though >..<

And yes, the jail time is an actual clause in the order. 30 day jail time or $250 fine. All jails here have Covid-19 with improper distancing between other inmates and I can't afford $250 in fines right now. We got a shitty governor. Plus, the government issue stimpacks aren't even in circulation yet. Hell, they're still trying to figure them out, even though they were able to pay 1.5 trillion in bailouts for the poor, defenseless bankers on Wall Street no problem.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 26, 2020, 02:35:58 pm
I just heard siren for night curfew, from my room I heard people on the road are ordered to go home and stay home through megaphone.
also heard from my sister their pizza restaurant is also closed by 8pm , I don't know if it is just a suggestion or would be actively monitored.

I haven't eat... and just find out I'm out of bread, I guess dinner with rice then. :P
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on March 26, 2020, 09:22:40 pm
Yeah, all food places here have changed to take out only, the ones who can't adapt to that are closing.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Basara Lapis on March 27, 2020, 01:16:54 am
Here finally various Santiago's counties have been declared in quarentine, as well some other major cities, but still not in the rest of my country. After getting 1100 cases aprox and 3 deaths until now. Also apart of the curfew, public transport (metro and buses) close at 6pm as well most of the places to shop (food included)
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: PineappleProducer on March 27, 2020, 01:29:23 am
Not much changed where I am. Still no confirmed cases in my county as of writing. Our office lobby has to be closed as of 8 PM this evening, so it's gonna be a lot less noisy anyway. I really hope we don't get ordered to shut down, cuz the last thing I wanna do is work from home.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: walt on March 27, 2020, 04:55:04 pm
I was in contact with a man from Spain on a Flight. Got really paranoid about some symptoms. It's been 15 days since I was in contact, and today I'm ok.

Like my Wife said, now I need to wait 15 days since the last time I was at the office, which would be on 4/04. After that, I'd say I'm in the clear.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Roman55 on March 27, 2020, 05:52:04 pm
Louisiana native here. As y'all probably know we're probably next to New York in terms of how bad it is. That said my Parish seems to be doing the best in regards to the stay-at-home order. Most your gonna see of people is in Walmart or the drive thru at Sonic. Otherwise it's pretty much dead.

Been locked in my apartment for a while but I do occasionally check in on my parents. My dad is fine being stuck at home atm but my mom worries me given she's working at said Walmart and they're not allowing anyone in her department to wear masks or gloves, despite that so far so good though the local hospital has a few cases.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: hatter on March 27, 2020, 09:27:47 pm
State of emergency has been declared today in Montreal here in Canada. My grandfather (who came in from Lebanon) is basically marooned here with us, other than that, we're doing fine.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Hero on March 27, 2020, 11:04:23 pm
We will be on lockdown in 30 hours aproximately. No going outside except for essential workers, going for supplies/food, and medical reasons, wich need a special permission from the police. I don't mind that much to be honest, but people gathered massively to stock supplies, even if was assured that the chain of supplies won't be affected at all (idk if that would be true, I don't see any other part of the world with shortage).

RIght now here the cases are rapidly increasing as far as I know.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: drewski90 on March 27, 2020, 11:24:55 pm
walt disney world's closed until further notice, it was originally gonna be remained closed throughout the rest of march, but now it's closed until further notice meaning until there's an announcement of when this coronavirus goes away
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kanbei on March 27, 2020, 11:49:54 pm
Well on my end I worked Security for Disney and we ended up sending (laying off) more then half of our team. Because of this virus. As for me I am doing fine, just finishing some games I have not finished yet. And I am well stocked on food and paper products.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 28, 2020, 01:46:03 am
In case I forgot to ever mention, I'm from East Java Indonesia, yesterday I found a single loaf of bread on nearby minimarket, I wear gloves more than I wear mask honestly I don't breathe well and feel dizzy with mask on, I just keep distance to people at the cashier, while we can't avoid not to touch thing like atm, money, and trolley, etc. so I wear a bulky grubby motorcycle gloves, also for a reminder not to instinctively touching my own face during shopping.
I heard the state of emergency is prolonged until the end of muslim holiday (one and half month from now?), since my country is predominantly muslim probably the government is very afraid of mass mobilization of people from big cities with more chance of being a carrier or infected with virus to their birthplaces where their elderly parents are living probably small less equipped rural places.

for me easter is obviously canceled.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: inktrebuchet on March 30, 2020, 05:30:07 pm
I was order to close my business until further notice here in Ohio, that was about 11 days ago. I'm expecting this to last at least 6 months, probably longer honestly.

Got another job at a grocery store working in a freezer on 3rds. The managers pretty much won't touch anything on the floor because they don't know who has come through and touched items already. As someone trained in cross contamination I can say for sure you should be wiping down all of your canned and boxed goods when you get home and wash your hands afterwards. Not that it will prevent the virus that can stay in the air up to 3 minutes if you walk through it at a grocery store...

I think this is something we'll be recovering from for years. It's wild to think that the goal is to slow it down, with no real end in sight.

Stay safe friends
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on March 30, 2020, 05:50:41 pm
yeah my business is not so doing well either , but i need to keep my store up for my guys. quarantine in my city will end at 15th of april but honestly idk if that's enough since the infection rate is still going up.

and damn italy is in the 10k... god damn 1/3rd of the death rate.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: inktrebuchet on March 30, 2020, 06:12:17 pm
I wouldn't count on that date. I think they will probably keep extending it out or they should anyways until this is actually under control.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: lui on March 30, 2020, 08:00:33 pm
heya folks, reporting in from california.

shits fucked, everything is closed and everything is basically a ghost town as the rates go up. gf's hospital just had over 35 new cases this past week and the number is rising up a ton every day. 2017 cases here in the bay area and 50 deaths as of today.


meanwhile, i am currently and have been staying in a hotel room for almost a month due to my apartment being renovated, however it has currently been delayed for obvious reasons so i will be stuck here for possibly the majority of 2020. being stuck in a hotel room by myself all day for weeks on end and resorting to eating canned foods mostly because theres no kitchen is soooooooorta making me a lil crazy. just a bit. thankfully i can atleast take a walk once in awhile but generally its way too damn cold here in SF to stay out for more than an hour or two at a time.


Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Roasted Pheasant on March 30, 2020, 09:22:27 pm
Well, its official. The county entered “stay-at-home” mode today for all nonessentials. Thats gonna make it hard to get/keep a job. Fuggin sick. Cant wait for this to be done.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: All-Star Platinum on March 30, 2020, 10:55:59 pm
Ontarian here, just had to take an ROA from work. Cases are rising as I post here, getting pretty scary out in the streets.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: 1Ultima on March 30, 2020, 11:18:24 pm
The Uk's in a kinda lockdown(only leave the house for essentials) until further notice(which experts are saying may be 6 months or more)

At the time of posting, we have 1,408 deaths.

I got furloughed from work because they didnt have the facilities for me to work from home.

Our Prime Minister, the chief health adviser and at least 1 member of the Royal Family have the coronavirus.

Shit's scary.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: DeathScythe on March 31, 2020, 12:04:56 am
4000+ infected and nearly 150 deaths in Brazil. And our president thinks the quarantine is unnecessary and wants things to go back to normal...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on March 31, 2020, 03:00:24 am
although cases number is still relatively low in my country Indonesia, but the death toll in comparison with recovered patients are rather high, I think we are doing great in socializing what to do like washing hand, wearing mask, are adopted well, but social distancing within family is a against culture, so I'm afraid in coming weeks or months since we are heading toward uncertainty, and many young people who work in big cities are laid off and probably struggling to survive the higher living expenses there without monthly income are forced to return to the rural places they come from carrying home virus with them and spreading into rural less equipped communities, we might get into real trouble soon.

I practice self distancing, I have avoided my mom, and also my aunt as they are all in their 70s not to bring any potential exposure to them especially my aunt since she and her husband are both heavy smoker,  here local people see strangers as very potential suspects but when it comes to family all rules are bypassed easily sit together eat together, chat for hours

2 days ago I shortly visited my mom to deliver birthday present for my sister, as I about to enter there was a package coming from courier and my mom treated the package as if it contained radioactive waste, also the day before as I showed my mom the jacket I custom ordered for my sister through whatsapp, she already said it needs washing, so I have washed a brand new raw selvedge denim jacket with detergent and rinse and soak it in dettol for 1 hour, the next day when I delivered the jacket with only slightly damp cuff and collar on a hanger hoping the damp collar would easily be shaped to look right, my mom immediately sun baked it  in the garden for the rest of the day, but she kept offering me something to eat, and asked me to sit close to help her cutting elastic bands to make masks for her friends and relatives (I got 2 masks just being made as I was sitting there), later on that day my sister came home with her new boyfriend she was helping him in his family store that sell food and grains near traditional market place, a very high risk place, I also learn my brother is travelling between two cities to visit his wife's father, so while they put their mom under house quarantine but I think they missed what risk they bring home to her each day, my mom's husband is also a heavy smoker who refuse to wear mask since he obviously cant smoke with one on.

Just hoping summer comes sooner, usually this kind of respiratory virus goes away in warmer month.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on March 31, 2020, 05:42:15 pm
The thing that is scary about the corona virus is how infectuous it is.

Just take a look at your country/state daily graph with the number of cases; if they duplicate everyday, you are screwed, if they duplicate everyother day it's still bad, but shows that something is being done. In my country right now it is duplicating every 3-4 days; thankfully we got there before the number of cases got too high, as the graph was very similar to spain/italy, early this month.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Handmaiden of the Seascape on March 31, 2020, 11:07:56 pm
Teachers in the country, as well as students of all levels were going to be back to our activities fro April 20, but  state of emergency was declared, and we will stay in our homes the endtire month of April.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 01, 2020, 01:29:14 am
Do Japan and HongKong really stop their new cases, their chart freeze since few days with no new cases new death, etc. or they hold back their latest status?

I can imagine less involved countries have successfully contained the situation, but Japan and HK is in the region do they really perform that well?


oops maybe just so happen when I browse they don't have new cases on that day, still a remarkable slow rate

on the contrary new cases in the US is scary
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: The Sudden Rarity on April 01, 2020, 01:43:18 am
When this eventually blows over we're not gonna learn anything from this experience and go back to being exactly the way we were before. At least here in the US, that is.

It's a fucking shame, really.

"Okay, now back to work on the same barely livable paycheck while I continue to line my pockets with your hard-earned cash. What's all this talk about free healthcare, $15 per hour, debt free students, and taxing the rich anyway?" - the 1% 2021
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 01, 2020, 01:48:21 am
The thing that is scary about the corona virus is how infectuous it is.

Just take a look at your country/state daily graph with the number of cases; if they duplicate everyday, you are screwed, if they duplicate everyother day it's still bad, but shows that something is being done. In my country right now it is duplicating every 3-4 days; thankfully we got there before the number of cases got too high, as the graph was very similar to spain/italy, early this month.

hmm I wonder if the new cases found in my country is just the speed they can process the samples, they are pretty stagnant at 100+ cases/ day
I bet there are a lot more unreported cases, since people just take it as a flu.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on April 01, 2020, 12:49:05 pm
doubt it, the test kits that are available is just 60% accurate.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mr.Karate JKA on April 02, 2020, 04:13:38 am
Guys, if you called COVID-19 "Chinese virus", you're at the same level at Trump. Do you wanna be like Trump? Please, if you don't, don't call corona virus "Chinese virus" again.

Thank you, wash your hands, stay inside if you can, and please for the love of Arceus, take this shit seriously.

No...  Its a chinese Vírus because came from China
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Umezono on April 02, 2020, 04:44:52 am
Damn you responded to a 7 day old post after the conversation was clearly over, I admire your dedication to bad posting
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Basara Lapis on April 02, 2020, 04:59:49 am
That kind of comments SHOULD BE EXTERMINATED!!!



Seriously... is someone here from Ecuador?? the thing there is terrible as I saw in the news and some viralized videos out there... and even they have their own Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Ecuador), whoa, so terrible
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mr.Karate JKA on April 03, 2020, 02:23:52 am
Damn you responded to a 7 day old post after the conversation was clearly over, I admire your dedication to bad posting

Well... you cant stop me. Its a public topic and its my point of view

 i will Not change my mind

Thanks
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Takato-kun on April 03, 2020, 09:04:14 pm
Thanks for sharing
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: lui on April 03, 2020, 09:24:35 pm
Damn you responded to a 7 day old post after the conversation was clearly over, I admire your dedication to bad posting

Well... you cant stop me. Its a public topic and its my point of view

 i will Not change my mind

Thanks


It existed before it was spread in China. Calling it "Chinese Virus" paints a very bad picture for China when it's not really warranted for that reason and sorta just shits on its' people who have to endure this way worse than most of the other parts of the world.

It's pretty xenophobic and the reasoning you're providing here already makes you sound worse then when you started being extremely homophobic in the past.

So congrats, because of your stubbornness to not change your mind on your bad posting in this forum, you have not only shown to homophobic views, you now have shown to have xenophobic views as well! Thanks for showing us all :)
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Handmaiden of the Seascape on April 04, 2020, 05:42:26 am
Damn you responded to a 7 day old post after the conversation was clearly over, I admire your dedication to bad posting

Well... you cant stop me. Its a public topic and its my point of view

 i will Not change my mind

Thanks

Don't confuse liberty of experssion with licence.

In other news. Mexico is now around 1688 cases confirmed with sadly 60 dead, though it has to be mentioned among the dead are medics.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on April 04, 2020, 06:08:22 am
do you guys live in a fucking bubble? do your research please and lets not pretend that china is all that innocent here.
lets take a look at how they handled this situation:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382
this doctor tried to warn the world about the virus way back in december. police visited and told him to stop talking about or else he'd be punished by law. he returned to work and caught the virus from a patient and died from it.
they censored him and ignored him instead of starting an early quarantine and saving everyone the trouble of dealing with this nasty disease. instead, they let it spread and blow over their faces.
btw that censorship continues. some legitimate information about the virus has been suppressed by government control over the news and efforts to silence negative coverage. numerous articles have been censored since the beginning of the crisis. online posts and hashtags related to the coronavirus and demands for free speech have been quickly deleted. independent journalists and activists have been harassed by authorities for sharing information about the coronavirus on social media.
people in china have lived under government censorship for many years, but now many are questioning how censorship may have delayed an effective response to the virus outbreak and put lives at risk.
china is 100% guilty of mishandling this situation and there is nothing xenophobic about that. remove your politically correct glasses and look at the wider picture here.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on April 04, 2020, 09:08:21 am
i've read about that guy and there were 2 other doctors who conveniently died aswell and didn't they just killed another guy who criticize ping this last month for being so slow. dude is a fairly known in the business society in asia guy just vanished and nobody is talking about it.

there was a 2015 article about the chinese virologists are handling the virus. i'm having a hard time looking for the exact article all i know it's way back in 2015 and probably was published in new york times. im not sure about the newyork times and it's a strain of corona virus that they injected in bats.

the article talks about how it'll be bad to develop a virus that could easily affect humans. and heavily criticize how they are so casual working on it.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mysticus92 on April 04, 2020, 09:17:50 am
Blame with the police for not listening to this serious problem back in december!
Why are they so stupid? They were so heartless!
And now in Italy, where I live, have 119,827 cases in total.
It's getting hopeless every single day.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 04, 2020, 10:45:38 am
I have some chinese blood with me, I have no problem calling it chinese virus... but it beyond pointing fingers now, the whole world was and still too relax at this, in our country our government didn't isolate the capital for being the most infected and the most qualified to deal with it, instead he allow people to leave the capital by mass transportation and ten of thousands have since fled the capital, dunno what the real number of the infected now since probably our country is too limited in resource to give mass tests, I don't trust the count on that daily graph for my country. I suspect there are a lot more untested and silently spreading.

the only way out for me is when the summer comes.

I really hope there is no terrorist come with an idea to strike with a bomb or anything while public are in panic and medical resource is depleted.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on April 04, 2020, 02:19:22 pm
lets not pretend that china is all that innocent here.
Stop being a dumbass, no one on the fucking planet thinks China is innocent. Just because people tell you to stop being racist, doesn't mean they think China is innocent. Get off with that shit.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 06, 2020, 05:37:36 am
seems like starting yesterday wearing mask is compulsory in public space here, the kind of mask however is not forced because theres not enough supply of standard masks here for everybody , so DIY mask, bandana, scarf, dust mask, anything goes, better than nothing. today I need to buy bread and cat food, I guess I will pull up my turtleneck pass my my nose to function as mask, since I don't have any real mask.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mushypepito123 on April 06, 2020, 05:54:25 am
Somebody said that the Coronavirus is actually a Bio Weapon being planned and conducted by China. But i actually have doubts that this is true.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Umezono on April 06, 2020, 05:59:15 am
thats idiotic
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Seadragon77 on April 06, 2020, 02:39:15 pm
Somebody said that the Coronavirus is actually a Bio Weapon being planned and conducted by China. But i actually have doubts that this is true.

I've heard that among many a conspiracy theory about this... *sigh* There's too many gullible people out there.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: JaySamra on April 06, 2020, 03:35:02 pm
I live down in Long Island, NY.Hicksville specifically. No cases here so far. Though there has been a ton of food gone, so theyve placed limits in some grocery stores. Some of them are only open from 10 am to 5 pm and only let in 6 people at a time. Thankfully, my fridge is packed. I've been cooped up in my basement trying out the MGS series and the new Hyper DBZ characters (18, Krillin, Tien).
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Umezono on April 06, 2020, 06:14:37 pm
I live down in Long Island, NY.Hicksville specifically. No cases here so far. Though there has been a ton of food gone, so theyve placed limits in some grocery stores. Some of them are only open from 10 am to 5 pm and only let in 6 people at a time. Thankfully, my fridge is packed. I've been cooped up in my basement trying out the MGS series and the new Hyper DBZ characters (18, Krillin, Tien).
There are 237 cases in Hicksville. I'm also on Long Island. Nassau County (where we are) is like the third highest concentration of cases in the state.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on April 06, 2020, 08:59:06 pm
Somebody said that the Coronavirus is actually a Bio Weapon being planned and conducted by China. But i actually have doubts that this is true.

its not , most countries are experimenting on the sars virus since the early 00's. but i would like to see if someone will have to answer for the outbreak. seeing it came from china i doubt they'd do a proper investigation.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: JaySamra on April 06, 2020, 09:35:36 pm
I live down in Long Island, NY.Hicksville specifically. No cases here so far. Though there has been a ton of food gone, so theyve placed limits in some grocery stores. Some of them are only open from 10 am to 5 pm and only let in 6 people at a time. Thankfully, my fridge is packed. I've been cooped up in my basement trying out the MGS series and the new Hyper DBZ characters (18, Krillin, Tien).
There are 237 cases in Hicksville. I'm also on Long Island. Nassau County (where we are) is like the third highest concentration of cases in the state.

The fuck?! My parents told me a few days ago there weren't any in the town. That's scary to know. Long as I stay where I am, should be fine though.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MCX on April 07, 2020, 02:40:31 am
Guys, if you called COVID-19 "Chinese virus", you're at the same level at Trump. Do you wanna be like Trump? Please, if you don't, don't call corona virus "Chinese virus" again.

Thank you, wash your hands, stay inside if you can, and please for the love of Arceus, take this shit seriously.

No...  Its a chinese Vírus because came from China
And yet Spanish flu doesn't came from spain.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on April 07, 2020, 08:19:44 pm
I live down in Long Island, NY.Hicksville specifically. No cases here so far. Though there has been a ton of food gone, so theyve placed limits in some grocery stores. Some of them are only open from 10 am to 5 pm and only let in 6 people at a time. Thankfully, my fridge is packed. I've been cooped up in my basement trying out the MGS series and the new Hyper DBZ characters (18, Krillin, Tien).
There are 237 cases in Hicksville. I'm also on Long Island. Nassau County (where we are) is like the third highest concentration of cases in the state.

The fuck?! My parents told me a few days ago there weren't any in the town. That's scary to know. Long as I stay where I am, should be fine though.
yeah, that's what is scary aobut it, it transmits so fast that the measure some of us uses is how long it takes it to have double the infected.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 08, 2020, 01:03:35 am
i doubt that [E], seems like there are just a lot more undetected cases going around from the beginning , its just the testing catches up to the previously undetected cases based on a new patient who shows symptom they reveal suspect patients who is in this patience's social bubble, so with every 1 new cases found they tested a lot more suspects, so the number grows a lot faster. so that's why I don't feel safe by reading low found cases in my town since I believe they are just silently spreading and so far undetected discounted as common flu.

since yesterday I saw a lot more public activities here, both from what I see myself or social media posts of friend and family showing group activities people having fun together, I somewhat feel like a lost japanese soldier who hide in the jungle long after WW2 was over, did I miss any memo?? perhaps #covid19 is out of trending topic ??? people just get bored and stop caring??? I dunno whatsup... my brother is golfing with his friends

how strange two days ago the government announce wearing mask being mandatory, and immediately social activities flares up showing people with no masks gathering, is it somekind of protest? I feel like I'm the last person doing social distancing in my family, really puzzling me.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on April 08, 2020, 01:59:31 am
Yeah, we're in our 4th week of stay-at-home order over here, and the weather has been fantastic all along, and now the government is sad that people have started going out last week-end as well. We've been pretty obedient and supportive of the stay-at-home order for 3 weeks, but last week-end was just too good to pass - but still very reasonable in my city. I went out for restocking today and it's still a lot more empty than usual (it's usually absolutely jam packed where I live, and it's a decently large mall), but there's noticeably more people than the last 3 weeks.
Health workers are afraid that we'll see numbers shoot up again by Thursday because of that week-end - and it was beginning to go down too, we touched a thousand deaths a day for a couple days last week but we were down to just over 600 or so.
The counter at worldometers was super weird at that point, almost doubling the numbers we're getting officially, I haven't even seen any particularly alarming report today yet right now the counter says 1400 deaths, so I'm not sure what's going on there. We were at 500 deaths in a day this week-end, but now I'm seeing conflicting reports about going back up to 900 and 1400, and other reports saying it's still at 600 deaths today. Someone's messing up something. Maybe because they've started also giving numbers of deaths in elderly care places, and it's not clear if that's in addition to the hospital total or if it's included.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 08, 2020, 06:31:47 pm
different countries report their daily status at different time perhaps, or several times a day, so in that world counter the yesterday's data seems more accurate to situation at hand than the today's data since it might not be final at the time you check it.
or maybe the data is mixed up with other respiratory related deaths
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on April 08, 2020, 08:00:39 pm
From what I understand now, there are some elderly care centers that weren't reporting correct numbers before, and some of them are playing catch-up in recent days, that's why the official reports we're getting are saying "total number of deaths in elderly care centers" next to the daily report for hospitals, which is why it looks weird and they avoid saying "X people have died from it today". So yeah, it's an addition and we really are over 10k, but  it's not all from these last few days. Bottom line is, it does look like it's slowing down for us.
That's why there's an upset going on about these elderly care centers, it's basically saying they weren't paying attention and just leaving old people to spread it unckecked and die in their care and we're noticing it only now. (total toll yesterday was somewhere around / under 4000 in elderly care and 7000 in hospitals, that looks really bad for these centers and that messes up our daily curve)
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: GLB on April 09, 2020, 03:27:44 pm
Things are a little better at my store here in Colorado Springs, CO. I've stayed safe myself, however some more employees have contracted. They're taking some preventative measures though. They've installed plexiglass at all check out lanes, placed 6 ft social distancing markers on the floor, hired scabs too disinfect everything, passed out masks and extra gloves, hand sanitizer and gave us a bonus + 4 weeks of an extrs 2 bucks an hour hazard pay. Huge improvement from thr first few scary weeks.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on April 09, 2020, 07:36:56 pm
My state is doing ok, only around a hundred cases; half of them in a single city; a trucker went to that city's government hospital with corona virus syntoms, and instead of isolating him, they kept him in the emergency ward. So it spread up to killing that hospitals director.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 10, 2020, 03:50:00 pm
today I was paranoid enough to finally buy a respirator with cartridge, so far I ve been wearing homemade cotton fabrics mask I can't breathe well in it, after minutes of wearing it becomes wet from my own respiratory and so get heavier to breathe with and fogs my glasses, also I was spraying ants while in cotton mask and I can smell the pesticide so aerosol droplets pass through it,

also because tested positive local cases in my city jumps from previously 4 to19 ( thats only ones that are tested) our country is still one of the least tested population so all the figures really sketchy and doesn't represent the real situation in my opinion, and also by realization how people here in my city despite road access being still closed here and there, are back on the road and gathers in public places like restaurants are back in business probably feeling bored by social distancing.

industrial style respirator is still reasonably cheap compared to disposable medical style n95 probably people don't want to look too weird in it, in proportion those disposable n95 ones are so popular they are priced 10x over their normal price and only 1/3 the price of industrial respirator with replaceable cannisters/ cartridge that surely will outperform them and a lot cheaper in the long run. I will just wear the cotton mask over the respirator to make it look more civil.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Basara Lapis on April 10, 2020, 06:08:25 pm
I'm becoming paranoic already, but not by my choice... in the precint I live (San Miguel, close to the capitol) the cases had increased in so few time at the point we're almost at the point of being declared in quarentine as the high class precints. But that's not the worst part here, about those (assholes of) high class people, they're travelling to beach and other regions for Easter holidays as if nothing happened (https://imgur.com/0Pdn1mE). It's thanks to these ASSHOLES that Chile probably will be wiped out by coronavirus, and I'm scared for that
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Nep Heart on April 10, 2020, 07:08:04 pm
 So far, the COVID-19 cases have risen up to 37 here in Erie (out of the 18,000+ cases in the entire state of Pennsylvania). As I've said before, while I am angry at how slow the Trump Administration is handling the pandemic (relative to its sheer amount of resources that would allowed it to prepare for the disease better than most nations, but squandered the opportunity) and how the Christian Fundamentalists here are attempting to exacerbate the problem further, you still have to consider that the United States is a very large country that would take up dozens of European countries in landmass. You also have to factor that each state here operates on some very different cultural standards that almost makes each one feel like a different nation on their own. So, I can't really generalize my country's citizens due to that and why I'm mostly blaming the political factions instead.

 With that said, I feel a little more secure than most because Erie is not the most popular tourist destination and the local authorities here took this all very seriously the moment that even one case got reported here.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on April 10, 2020, 08:26:01 pm
18000!? you sure that's the correct numbers?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Nep Heart on April 10, 2020, 09:01:01 pm
https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Coronavirus.aspx

 Make that 19,000+ statewide.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 11, 2020, 12:20:36 am
in the middle of increasing virus cases or city mayor starts the project to build new office right in the city center because it is planned to finish by the end of this year, so construction workers working together the whole day eat and drink together right in the city center how nice. oh they wear surgical mask so it stops virus right hahah, who cares the mayor thinks I got my commission, after this post done i get promotion or get a better post elsewhere. and of course a volcano errupts too just for kicks.  :P
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Emerie The G.O.A.T on April 11, 2020, 01:51:33 am
Fuck Corona Virus!
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Snakebyte on April 12, 2020, 11:21:23 pm
Hey all. Haven't been on here for a couple years, been busy with life and stuff.

I'm in a pretty good place regarding COVID-19, have been working remotely for a couple of weeks now. Not being able to get together with my family for Easter is a bummer. One of my elderly relatives died, maybe of COVID-19, maybe of some other lung-related virus, a week ago, but she was nearing the end of her life anyway. The rest of my family is fine.

Hope everyone here is surviving. I was just passing through, digging something up from one of my old posts, I'm probably not sticking around. It just felt weird to log in after years without posting somewhere, so it might as well be here.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 13, 2020, 11:38:13 am
since yesterday the traffic is very low here, I went groceries shopping yesterday wearing industrial respirator, got everything I need, paid all the bills at the ATM, got drinking bottle too so I'm good for a week or two not going out.
cases still rising up here in my country now at 300-400 new cases a day, these last 2 days we have no rain so probably soon it will be over as dry season starts.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: President Devon on April 13, 2020, 12:25:10 pm
The recovery rate in New Zealand is currently higher than the reported infection rate, and chances are in a couple weeks we'll be back to level 2 or level 3 restrictions.

Of the 5 covid deaths in the country 3 have been from the same nursing home.

My mother and I will be going to get tested on Wednesday.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on April 13, 2020, 04:42:23 pm
In some lighter news, after 3+ weeks without football in tv the league decided to be weird and have a tournament with the players playing from their houses... fifa 2020. so now we have a leaugfe of professional football players playing a videogame on national tv, including professional football comentators.
It's the league "well, its' something"
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 14, 2020, 04:02:26 am
yea lots of athletes play the E version of their sport to compete in video game arena. I also saw moto gp e races however boring they are in that format
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Foobs on April 14, 2020, 06:13:26 am
In some lighter news, after 3+ weeks without football in tv the league decided to be weird and have a tournament with the players playing from their houses... fifa 2020. so now we have a leaugfe of professional football players playing a videogame on national tv, including professional football comentators.
It's the league "well, its' something"
imagine when they get hitmen and gang members to form their own fps/battle royale league.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Sheng Long on April 15, 2020, 02:19:10 am
Apparently, Rick May (Star Fox & Team Fortress Voice Actor) just died from the Coronavirus.
That's some pretty sad news to see a video game voice actor go from this pandemic.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 21, 2020, 05:39:47 am
seems like here we havent seen any rain for 4 days probably a real start for dry season, number of new cases also drops here
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: The Sudden Rarity on April 22, 2020, 02:44:22 am
So, conservatives are protesting here in the US to get their governors to open the economy back up.

Our "great" nation was gonna open around the end of May/beginning of June, but that's not gonna happen now.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on April 22, 2020, 04:14:43 pm
saw michigan locals are having rallies and barricading roads to hospitals that hosts covid patients as a form of protests.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 23, 2020, 04:26:16 am
despite decline in new cases, here neighborhood lockdown is applied starting tomorrow, limited access to neighborhood area, closed gate, ID card checked and non resident access limited, temperature checked, mask has to be worn, vehicle get sprayed by disinfectant whatever the purpose of it even shopping from home become a difficulty I guess if their delivery is not allowed entry. Dunno how it applies, I think some adjustments are to follow once in effect.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 27, 2020, 03:01:47 am
so I got picked to do weekly security duty for 2 hours from 8-10 in the evening to help the guard checking vehicles going in and out our neighborhood gate...

 since apparently I'm seen as a youngster (low risk person) with nothing to do at home, just hoping the other real youngsters don't give bullshit excuses and got me double weekly shifts since 42 is not a youngster by age and got many pages to draw.   :thinking2:
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Bastard Mami on April 27, 2020, 04:41:25 pm
Yeah, that kind of suck about working at home, some people cant wrap their heads around that.

in even omre lighter news, it looks like mexico will make a kof tournament and air it in national tv following up ont he fifa 2020 one. Looks like it, bcause while the tournament has been confirmed, it airing in a national tv channel is still nto sure, as for now, it's only been confirmed to air in the national tv channel's social media/webpage.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 28, 2020, 12:08:04 pm
hope you are safe [E] seems mexico have plenty of new cases last few weeks, new cases in my country indonesia is slowing a bit, but in my city area is getting real, vegetable sellers infected, so while before it only reach people who travel abroad, or extremist who insist on doing religious gathering, university students, etc.  now it gets into everyday people, death toll is still the highest here in southest asia, we are in the poorest recovery rate with 8% mortality rate so far way a lot lower than comparable countries like malaysia, vietnam, thailand, and philipines.

so now every thursday I have a responsibility to help guard the neighborhood entrance for 2 hours 6-8PM, not so bad, but perhaps we have to stop and check many food delivery couriers since it is dinner time.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Ricepigeon on April 29, 2020, 02:19:26 am
Anyone who has spoken to me on Discord and/or has followed my Twitter probably already knows this, but seeing as I didn't mention it here yet, I might as well; I tested positive for the coronavirus during the last week of March and was pretty much bedridden for almost 3 weeks.

The last two weeks weren't that bad, but the first week was hell; constantly fluctuating fever, chills, loss of appetite, elevated blood pressure, dizziness & nonstop coughing fits from doing things as simple as standing up, and night sweats that left me dehydrated; due to the latter I had to constantly drink fluids, but because of the loss of appetite I had to drink Gatorade just to replenish whatever nutrients were lost. Once the fever broke and stayed that way for a few days, things started getting better for me for the next 2 weeks, but the cough & shortness of breath mostly remained.

Fortunately I'm back on my feet and things are much better now, but I figured people here would be interested to hear a first-hand account from someone who had it.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on April 29, 2020, 11:37:09 am
Fuck, man. Glad to hear you're Okay.

How do you think you caught it?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on April 29, 2020, 05:10:31 pm
Anyone who has spoken to me on Discord and/or has followed my Twitter probably already knows this, but seeing as I didn't mention it here yet, I might as well; I tested positive for the coronavirus during the last week of March and was pretty much bedridden for almost 3 weeks.

The last two weeks weren't that bad, but the first week was hell; constantly fluctuating fever, chills, loss of appetite, elevated blood pressure, dizziness & nonstop coughing fits from doing things as simple as standing up, and night sweats that left me dehydrated; due to the latter I had to constantly drink fluids, but because of the loss of appetite I had to drink Gatorade just to replenish whatever nutrients were lost. Once the fever broke and stayed that way for a few days, things started getting better for me for the next 2 weeks, but the cough & shortness of breath mostly remained.

Fortunately I'm back on my feet and things are much better now, but I figured people here would be interested to hear a first-hand account from someone who had it.

just asking , did you felt like you were fine in the morning then felt sick again couple hours later? like your fever goes on and off.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: NotAGoodName on April 29, 2020, 05:39:21 pm
I tested positive last week.  Probably had it close to a week before that.  Because of how crappy the weather has been, it was a complete shock.  It's only as I'm coming off of it that I've had any symptoms that I'd call distinct from the normal junk you get when the weather decides to nose dive in the middle of April.  Honestly, the weakest flu-like illness I've ever experienced.  Started with generic sniffles and the very occasional cough.  Had some sensation of pneumonia for a few days.  Now the back of my mouth feels dry.  No headaches.  No fever.  Didn't even trigger my arthritis.  I've basically been using nothing but cough drops and effervescent drinks to make my already mild symptoms slightly less annoying.  It's a bunch of whatever.  Nothing to write home about, but I get plenty of opportunity to stay there... --;

As for life around me?  I dunno.  I hear plenty of traffic out here in the middle of nowhere, so it must not be too boring out there.  Despite being essential, my work place took a couple weeks off and I'm not allowed back for another 4 days after they start up.  Lame.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 30, 2020, 04:00:54 am
Anyone who has spoken to me on Discord and/or has followed my Twitter probably already knows this, but seeing as I didn't mention it here yet, I might as well; I tested positive for the coronavirus during the last week of March and was pretty much bedridden for almost 3 weeks.

The last two weeks weren't that bad, but the first week was hell; constantly fluctuating fever, chills, loss of appetite, elevated blood pressure, dizziness & nonstop coughing fits from doing things as simple as standing up, and night sweats that left me dehydrated; due to the latter I had to constantly drink fluids, but because of the loss of appetite I had to drink Gatorade just to replenish whatever nutrients were lost. Once the fever broke and stayed that way for a few days, things started getting better for me for the next 2 weeks, but the cough & shortness of breath mostly remained.

Fortunately I'm back on my feet and things are much better now, but I figured people here would be interested to hear a first-hand account from someone who had it.

glad you passed it, do you have another family member also affected by the illness? how did you get it?
damn I hope I never get infected, living with only my cat pet, if I get to be sent to hospital my cat would be starved for sure, yesterday I saw a long haired cat looked dirty and matted in front of a restaurant parking lot, I think the owner set it free when they are sent to hospital or the owner died  :'(
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Ricepigeon on April 30, 2020, 05:02:09 am
How do you think you caught it?
how did you get it?

My best guess was that I must have contracted it from taking public transportation into the NYC area. No way to know for sure though.

just asking , did you felt like you were fine in the morning then felt sick again couple hours later? like your fever goes on and off.

Not initially, but later on it started to feel like that. Usually if there was any kind of vertical movement involved (ie: standing up, going up/down stairs, etc), that's when I felt at my worst.

glad you passed it, do you have another family member also affected by the illness?

Fortunately, no.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Niitris on April 30, 2020, 08:12:09 am
My best guess was that I must have contracted it from taking public transportation into the NYC area. No way to know for sure though.

Good to know you're feeling better. :)

I'm highly certain that's how it happened. NYC alone makes up almost 20% of all cases in America, you have to be ultra careful up there. Or any place nearby (Nassau, Long Island, Jersey City, etc).
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on April 30, 2020, 02:28:50 pm
My best guess was that I must have contracted it from taking public transportation into the NYC area. No way to know for sure though.
I know its a cliche at this point but I have reiterate it...
1) refrain as much as possible from touching your face or eyes while out in public. touching one's face is a subconscious habit to most people so a more effective solution is to:
2) keep a small disinfectant bottle with you at all times and use it after handling utilities in public.
3) wear face masks and gloves to minimize the spread to others.
stay safe guys. feel free to edit those instructions in the OP.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 30, 2020, 05:04:04 pm
just finished my first weekly guard duty, 2 hours manning the neighborhood gate, it was busy with food deliveries, its a bit ridiculous, rather than we stop take temperature, lift the portal close it lift it again on the way back since it was dinner time it got quite busy,  it is much easier and less exposure if the resident who order it would come down to the security post to take their food.

I wear respirator, not talking to anybody just standing there for 2 hours lifting and pulling down the blockade bar, I let the security guard to talk and check the temp of the visitors, the other guy I got paired with was a lazy ass youngster, he was just sitting there with his mask down his chin, and there was another busy body older guy who like to hangaround & chat, and brag about his knowabout local theft circles in the neighborhood, there is always bragging guy like that in every neighborhood, he was not supposed to be in the security post but he came and hang around of course not wearing mask, smoke and cough, and spit, I hate such people. 
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Insert Account Name on May 08, 2020, 08:35:13 pm
What a way to start this year. First of all, i almost got sick, but not affected by the corona. I'm all fine now and the rest too. Only a grandpa of mine has passed away of that. He may rest in peace. I'm now stuck with my homies to help together.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on May 16, 2020, 02:30:24 am
Trump is on a roll during this pandemic, lets see what he's up to:

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/g6lvi3/obama_still_no_coherent_national_coronavirus_plan/foapyuv/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/therell-be-more-death-trump-says-urging-economic-reopening/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/whistleblower-complaint-how-denial-cronyism-steered-trump-pandemic-response/

He's creating a monopoly on medical supplies and masks, he's ordering the FBI to seize any shipment of masks that didn't come from the companies that he supports.
He's also speed-running the reopening of the country, ignoring that the US has the highest infection and death rate and non nonchalantly saying "that there will be more death" as if that's okay.
He ignored early warnings from Rick Bright, a immunology expert who has been the head of BARDA for 4 year. Instead, he's trying to fund untested medicines that was developed by his friend. and when he's not doing that, he's encouraging the use of chloroquine for treatment, which was shown to be ineffective in treating the virus. Why is he doing that? for the sole reason of scoring a short-term political victory for his administration. Again. dismissing the fact that the US have the highest infection and death rate.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on May 16, 2020, 03:50:09 pm
trump has no power to begin with , he is just doing what he is told to do.

i'm surprised how the USA had responded on the outbreak and most 1st world countries,  i'm surprised my country is doing better than i expected , i've always thought when shit goes down we will result to looting and stealing and pointing fingers. turns out we could work together and respect the hierarchy of authority and the authorities especially local government officials doing their job and maintaining order without abusing their authority. 
but still some media groups still create scandals over situations that are easily understandable why it came to be and tries to stir conflict between the masses and government officials that aren't aligned to their agendas.

as of today our district is doing fine and we're in the final days of lockdown and will move to a looser quarantine rules.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Basara Lapis on May 16, 2020, 05:59:36 pm
About Trump, I remember few weeks ago our (dumbass) president Piñera was happy saying that Trump contragulated him for the pandemic managing, when here now our levels of contagion are just like Europe and Brasil. Last night FINALLY the whole Santiago district was declared with quarentine, after 2 months of waiting... and that's because we got almost the 40.000 "confirmed" (and I say that since this govenment is expert to modify numbers as seen in other things like the 2019 October protests)

I don't know what to think about that SOAB we have for president, as well other left-wing presidents that suck ass with this matter, as Bolsonaro in Brazil and Trump in USA...

In other news, I've been self-reclused almost since the coronavirus started and rarely I got out to shop some vital stuff like food issues (like twice times the week). But some friends don't have the same luck and they'd to go to work anyway, two of them I'm more worried: one works for fedEx and the other in construction, and about the latter he got 2 infected coworkers and he started to going sick since wednesday, in my friends circle we're all worry about him since we think he could have COVID, and he thinks the same. I hope he got the examination soon to confirm (or deconfirm, I hope so)
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on May 17, 2020, 05:46:47 am
starting today in my town or the whole city district area the self distancing and regulation goes up a notch higher, all mall are closed, except for supermarket which only open until 9, citizen can not be on the street after 9, neighborhood gate are still closed with centralized entrance and monitored with temp detector, sanitizer and stuff, not much day to day control I don't know how well it would be followed but that's the rule

incoming muslim holiday is next week, what I hear they didn't cancel the mass gathering for praying etc. so far what I see mosque are still in full operation  the guy who make me leather jacket go to mosque every single day so I wear mask, and sanitize my hands whenever I visit there to try on the jacket in progress, churches and other religion worship places are closed we do online video,

since muslim is 90+ % of the population here, and lets say half of 90% are males and lets say half of the males go to mosque everyday 27% of the population congregate daily to worship I dunno how effective it would be, sure they should have temp gun and quick test or whatever who will follow that procedure in real world operation the building doesn't even have a door people are just rushing in from all directions, everyday at noon and twilight,
the right to worship and practicing own religion is protected by law, and government cant really force to close any acknowledged religious places of worship like mosque, temple or church, however most minor religions are self closing their operation to support the cause by doing online, apparently the single major religion don't follow the same idea.

so I guess new cases peak is still yet to come here in my country indonesia
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: D. HoChoy on May 22, 2020, 02:33:51 pm
I spent the larger parts of this year isolated at home for something unrelated to the coronavirus.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on May 26, 2020, 12:24:00 pm
Good news!
https://theprint.in/health/chinese-vaccine-shows-promise-in-early-human-trial-generates-immune-response-against-covid/428404/

This vaccine (made by a chinese company) shows promise in producing antibodies and has moved to Phase II. Hopefully by the end of this year it will be ready.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on May 27, 2020, 02:01:55 pm
today I went out to go buy some brown sugar and snacks on specialty shop their parking was full, and so I parked a bit far, and peek the shop was stuffed with people, so I walked back to my car, but decided police station is close enough I would walk there to collect my paper of the car that should have been collected on february but corona was on the headline then and so I postponed till now, the office was closed too... so annoying, nothing went right, so I drove home, along the way I realized today business were all open, beauty clinique, hair salon, cafe, and all well attended, and what a busy traffic too, if not for the mask I would have thought I entered a different dimension where virus pandemic doesn't happen.

seems like our government is set on New Normal since the word is a current trending hype despite our condition here is still dubious, since the test is way too few to give real figure of the status, I don't know what makes them so confident, I live in small city, and the province capital nearby just had their highest peak of daily new case few days ago as 80% of the subjects tested showed positive, if the transportation between cities are all set to open, then I imagine our cases will rise too, maybe they just don't care anymore about local condition, since most other countries are starting up the we just do the same, decide economic pressure and popularity in the eyes of public as higher priority.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: President Devon on June 08, 2020, 01:32:10 pm
Now that New Zealand has no confirmed cases, we'll be moving to Level 1 in about 30 minutes, which is basically normal life but with strict border controls.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on June 08, 2020, 01:53:50 pm
Yeah good for them, the chances of having undocumented cases after all that time is very slim.
Italy has actually reopened and is receiving tourist! New York (the most effected state of USA) is about to be reopened aswell.

I have no idea how can they think this is a good idea. In my country we've reopened (we have very few cases) but the heath minister warned that lockdown will come back if the daily cases rise above 10, which judging by the last guy who got infected a day ago while grocery shopping, is very likely to happen.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Seadragon77 on June 10, 2020, 05:21:52 pm
Out where I live, the state has introduced a phased reopening plan in which the counties (there's 39 in all here) would keep an eye on key stats to lead the way forward.

Currently, there's only seven counties in the 3rd phase. This allows for libraries, museums and movie theaters to reopen; restaurants go from 50% capacity to 75%; bar areas are allowed to open at 25% capacity; sporting events can be held and people can now have gatherings of up to 50 people.

Most counties (including where I live, Cowlitz) are in the 2nd phase. This allows restaurants, hair salons, retail stores, and pet groomers to reopen; It also includes being able to have a gathering of up to 5 people.

There are a few counties (the hardest hit ones like King, where Seattle is) are in a 'modified' 1st phase (AKA Phase 1.5). This allows for some places to open.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Basara Lapis on June 14, 2020, 09:27:11 am
I just left this here since... we're fucked (https://santiagotimes.cl/2020/06/12/with-over-160000-covid-19-cases-chile-surpasses-france-to-become-12th-worst-hit-country-in-the-world/)

And you think Trump is bad, you don't know Piñera...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Takato-kun on June 17, 2020, 05:06:24 am
A few days later, we're nineth <.<
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Basara Lapis on June 17, 2020, 06:07:43 am
That was a Chilean news website in english... but when a renowned site like Bloomberg says your country is f*cked up, then it's the real deal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-13/chile-s-health-minister-resigns-as-coronavirus-deaths-hit-record
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-16/once-a-covid-role-model-chile-now-among-the-world-s-worst-hit

Don't be as these assholes we got in government and entrepreneurship, stay at home and demand to your job bosses not to get out your houses and stay safe, don't be like Chile, please
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Takato-kun on June 18, 2020, 02:35:47 am
As a chilean myself, I can say that Basara is right
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: ZombieNeko on June 18, 2020, 04:15:35 am
As a chilean myself, I can say that Basara is right

^This
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on June 18, 2020, 11:58:23 am
in our country everything is reopen,
#stay at home
is over, there is a big chunk of population who really depend on day to day wage to get by.
sadly during the #stay at home period our official was too relax to monitor and people didn't have awareness or too stubborn to follow, so we are still on the climb, currently number one in south east asia, so not too good.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Insert Account Name on June 18, 2020, 12:38:37 pm
China has been closed again. All schools and stores are closed too.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on June 18, 2020, 04:50:58 pm
i'm contemplating to go back home if 2nd wave comes. heard china and indonesia aren't doing so well right  now and if ever the 2nd wave do happen i'll have to close our shop again might as well be in our home island it's much safer there since it ain't crowded.

we've got lower death rate than we expected.  we were expecting numbers in the ten thousand but as of now we  have 1k deaths most of them are from the capital region where most populated area and a lot of the cases are asymptomatic. the southern islands are fairly safe most of them have strict border patrols , piers and local airports are all on red alert.

we don't have food shortages but we do have problems in logistics causing price hike. seems like this'll go on probably til 1st or 2nd quarter next year.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on June 19, 2020, 01:14:35 pm
yeah, not so good in Indonesia, our province East Java is the biggest contributor to that  :sbt: , yesterday 2 families nearby got infected.

only lately we have more rapid tests available, so I bet a huge number of infected people never get tested as long as their symptoms is mild, I have day maid coming twice a week to cook for me, she has been coughing since last month, I never get in the same room with her when she comes, more likely I lock myself in my room half day until she's gone, I yell thanks from my room and left the payment on the table  :sweatdrop:, the food goes straight to fridge, I only eat them the next day after I reheat them in microwave oven.   
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on June 20, 2020, 01:29:02 pm
brazil passes 1 million cases
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-becomes-second-country-in-the-world-to-surpass-1-million-coronavirus-cases/

fellow brazilians, stay safe.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: lukasfighter1 on July 29, 2020, 11:01:28 pm
Well, I am currently in Germany and the situation is kinda lame over here.
Most people do have home-office and you can´t really do some fun activites like out with friends and do some party, as we used to do in the past.

However, now it seems that the situation is pretty stable and everything should get back to normal if the cases don´t start rising again.

But, it seems that the situation is far better than in some other parts of the world, like USA, India, Brazil etc.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on July 30, 2020, 05:45:35 am
still doing what I do since March here, once a week grocery shopping with mask, otherwise just being at home doing my commissions alone, since last month I visit my family once a week just to stay in touch, no touching just having conversation on safe distant to each other.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Seadragon77 on July 30, 2020, 04:05:00 pm
Things have exploded out here with over 400 cases of COVID-19 in the county and 5 deaths. The latest death is scary since the person had no underlying health conditions where it could amplify the effect. The other 4 deaths were all people who had underlying health conditions.

So, as of now, the county is still in Phase 2 of the 'Safe Start' plan and will be for the future as the governor put an indefinite pause on any movement from one phase to the next one.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on July 31, 2020, 06:43:19 pm
government and who seems like giving up on preventing covid ... it sucks but i understand why ... commerce needs to flow back and a lot of livelihoods are getting affected they are more concerned on keeping the death rate low.

school will start in august but a lot of people are skeptical about it but the department of education doesn't want to open but the department of health insist they should. note that the head of department of health has affiliations with top private schools in the country and probably getting some pocket money from them.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on August 02, 2020, 05:08:52 am
in my province I can open a gps map of recorded patients checked positive for covid, and how they move around town, looks like playing some zombie sandbox game, i pick another route when I see red dots gather, some big supermarkets and mall turned red  ;D especially nearing religion holiday or on weekend.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Cong Fu Man on December 12, 2020, 07:14:51 am
Well, we've got 2 vaccines Pfizer and Moderna rolling out world-wide.  Anyone ready to get vaccinated and return life back to normal?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: walt on December 18, 2020, 03:21:01 pm
Lost my Dad 2 weeks ago today due to COVID related pneumonia. He was 64 years old.

Take care guys, this shit is no joke.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Foobs on December 18, 2020, 05:58:40 pm
Condolences, Walt.

My dad turned 67 last week and works in hospital. I keep telling him he should take this as a chance to retire.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Insert Account Name on December 18, 2020, 06:03:07 pm
Condolences Walt.

My uncle has it now and is now resting.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: sabockee on December 18, 2020, 06:11:06 pm
I'm sorry to hear that. My condolences, Walt.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: yaret on December 18, 2020, 07:11:04 pm
Im from dominican republic, where Im living everythin is ok because there arent so many people aroung so everyone can keep distand from others but sometime people make mini parties with their childrem and that isnt ok, my brother's girlfriend went to make her a test if she has covid19 I dont know what happens yet because my brother and her girlfriend has a company and they has to see lot of people. she thinks she has corona but Ive been telling her maybe it could be her mind because we dont know exclatly the consecuense to has corona virus in our bodies just lot of rumors
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: yaret on December 18, 2020, 07:14:42 pm
Condolences, Walt.

My dad turned 67 last week and works in hospital. I keep telling him he should take this as a chance to retire.

its no easy to retire from what we love because that keep us alive sometimes.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: FeLo_Llop on December 19, 2020, 02:31:27 am
My condolences, Walt. I'm sorry for your loss. Si necesitas hablar, puedes contar conmigo.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Jmorphman on December 19, 2020, 02:49:48 am
I'm so sorry to hear that, walt. My condolences.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mushypepito123 on December 19, 2020, 03:42:05 am
My Condolences, Walt. i'm so sorry...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: 【MFG】gui0007 on December 19, 2020, 04:25:48 am
Lost my Dad 2 weeks ago today due to COVID related pneumonia. He was 64 years old.

Take care guys, this shit is no joke.

My prayers and condolences to you Walt.
My grandma is with this damn COVID and she is fighting bravely against it.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Flowrellik on December 19, 2020, 04:45:27 am
I'm very sorry for your loss Walt and I hope your Grandma lives on Gui. This shit is really getting out of hand.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: dampir on December 19, 2020, 02:49:02 pm
central america.......numbers are risig,  people seems to be in a hurry not for covid , but for consumerism, scary it is , this thing is very real still there, be well people
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Speedpreacher on December 19, 2020, 05:31:17 pm
Lost my Dad 2 weeks ago today due to COVID related pneumonia. He was 64 years old.

Take care guys, this shit is no joke.

Walt, I'm so sorry to hear that. It seems so easy to put this virus out of your mind until it directly comes knocking, I just found out my little cousin got it.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on December 19, 2020, 06:36:23 pm
And you know whats fucked up it? having to bury a loved one in a pandemic, where any sort of gathering is a possible transmission. You can't grieve while you're scared that some idiot might try to hug you and shit.
We had to call people to tell them NOT to come, as we're not making a funeral for our grandmother. And what do you know... some people came and got infected, because turns out one of our cousins was asymptomatic and gave it to her and to a bunch of other people.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: CF7 on December 20, 2020, 03:52:52 pm
I'm a shut-in, so stuff hasn't really  changed, but there's stuff that needs to be said.

Bill Gates, the guy behind the covid vaccines, has in the past, paralyzed thousands of kids on India and Africa through Polio vaccines:
https://twitter.com/Jorge98433363/status/1340312170484162562

He also, had this to say about us:
https://twitter.com/FitnessMamma/status/1330361420421197824/photo/1

https://twitter.com/Mainetain21/status/1330509778238500876

And I'm supposed to believe his, or any covid vaccine, is safe?

BTW, all vaccines used by mankind have MRC-5 (aborted fetus DNA)
https://twitter.com/Drestradamus/status/1284578302271815681
(Not to mention aluminium, mercury and other poisons)

Individuals like the Amish, and other closed societies, that do not take vaccines, do not have the diseases we vaccinate against:
https://twitter.com/Drestradamus/status/1296381632132259840

On 1959, the WHO infected Latin America and Africa with AIDS, masquerating it as combating a disease:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200615132709/https://twitter.com/FreedomCake2/status/1272518982541750272

Throghout the World, the same child was used as a local victim of covid:
https://twitter.com/Joannew68022274/status/1287080350263508993

The real reason governments force vaccinations on their citizens (population control):
https://twitter.com/PaulTheMartian/status/1261008027634642944

What trully is behind Medics without Borders (and like-minded organizations like actionaid):
https://twitter.com/WakeAustralia/status/1313945922431184897

On the forties/fifties, the US government vaccinated their citizens against polio (oficialy that is, because they were infecting the citizens with SV40):
https://twitter.com/_Leitadas_Loen/status/1287980547122302976

Flu shots are altering brain chemicals:
https://twitter.com/Drestradamus/status/1316425451695476741

Italian doctor warns: Covid Vaccines are coming with trackers:
https://twitter.com/agvBruceAdams/status/1298878258973310976
https://twitter.com/agvBruceAdams/status/1299536316674142208

German group warns about covid vaccines and masks:
https://twitter.com/MarleneFFL/status/1299448688142671873

The WHO admits: Lockdown is bad for society:
https://twitter.com/YellowCube7/status/1314832285775003648

The Rockefellers have infected their products with Syphilis:
https://twitter.com/Drestradamus/status/1272373658066051078

Medicine that can combat Covid: HCQ, Nitazoxanida, Doxiciclina, but not Remdesivir:
https://twitter.com/AlessandroLoio2/status/1321893403530022912
https://twitter.com/AlessandroLoio2/status/1321909415541354496
https://twitter.com/AlessandroLoio2/status/1321902258523693057
https://twitter.com/Guilekrahl/status/1317131349250158593

Corona tests are a farce:
https://twitter.com/AlessandroLoio2/status/1322843291587588096

As are the masks:
https://twitter.com/miguelanalises/status/1314925940171059202

PCR creator on PCR:
https://twitter.com/79_gunrunner/status/1337898561216913410

Between 1932 and 72, the US government infected Tuskegee citizens with syphilis, without warning them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

Goverments throughtout the World are starting to state, that if one does not take the vaccine, he will lose his rights as a citizen. Does that make sense? For a disease that has a less of 0,02% death rate? Less people died in 2020 than the 2019 and before averages. Our rights are being taken, as they talk openly about a Great Reset and a New World Order...and we are just...going to accept?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Lasombra Demon on December 20, 2020, 04:58:13 pm
Last year I took a posgraduate course on epidemiology. It was useful. I could forecast some stuff, educate some people, gave an interview for a local radio about herd immunity, and the psychological effect of the virus. I feared for my 94 year old grandma in the covid-ravaged capital of Buenos Aires, so I fiercely defended the quarantine measures in my small town and online. As a union leader, I strongly opposed any gatherings of marches and proposed safer, online activities instead.

I also knew a bunch of denialists and anti vaxxers would start spewing ignorance, as a parallel pandemic of Dunning-Kruger. Sadly, a huge portion of the private media here sided with those. When I wondered about why would anyone fund those nutcases, or why Trump and Bolsonaro would take such a stance, I got these answers:
https://www.ft.com/content/e47090e0-282f-4cfa-a82f-f3b2d4223072
https://www.ft.com/content/62358c60-f3f4-4961-a33f-76ab4ef91350

It's just cheaper for the super rich to let old people die.

Then, my grandma got covid and died. I loved her with all my heart, we were very close. My family got her ashes in a box.

I'm not even angry any more. I'm just sad... But mobilized.

We need healthcare reform, and we need to remove anti-science speech from places of power. And we need to change our mindsets: if you have to get a license to drive, you can't get to have an 'independent' opinion on collective health issues without proper training and supervision.

EDIT: I've just read more of the thread, mis condolencias y un abrazo a Walt.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Takato-kun on December 22, 2020, 04:24:07 am
I'm with you on that point Lasombra Demon. It's hard to believe that people bite the bait with misinformation and Twitter threads. I'm an ignorant regards to health investigations, but I strongly believe in their research and efforts to stop this pandemic as soon as possible.

I'll take this shit seriously and keep being isolated until is really safe. Not for me, for everyone else.

My condolences Walt, this must be really hard for you and your family, you'll have all my support man.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Iced on December 22, 2020, 05:58:13 pm
Its sad to see so many people stsill stuck  in the mentality that its all a lie and they are the ones that are enlightened.
I've an old folks home near me that lost 20+ persons in two months.

My condolences Walt, keep yourself safe.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: OZ on December 24, 2020, 09:19:01 pm
My condolences Walt, I'm sorry to hear that.

This year in particular has really highlighted some of the worst elements of US culture for me (I'm sure this is not a unique phenomenon, but what I'm seeing is so 'American' it hurts)
Convenience is the most important thing in life. Orders of magnitude more important than the safety and well being of others.
The average US citizen lacks the empathy or self control to care anymore and people are dying and will continue to die because of it.
The people I see 'protesting' or making a stink about this situation are, for the most part, not doing so because of the fiscal implications (undeniably a serious issue) but rather because they're being inconvenienced. They're Americans and they are not about to let anyone tell them what they can or can't do. They're going to do exactly what they want, when they want, and if people die because of their actions, that's just fine (until it's one of their own)
If, god forbid, some even worse catastrophe were to affect this country, don't expect the US to make it. It is united in name only.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: CF7 on December 31, 2020, 05:39:24 pm
(...) so I fiercely defended the quarantine measures in my small town and online. As a union leader, I strongly opposed any gatherings of marches and proposed safer, online activities instead.
You think it's normal that the local govenments would shut stores up, bankrupt their owners, leave their hundreds to thousands of employees unemployed only to sell them to chinese competitors (that were exempt of closing)?

You think it's reasonable to shut both healthy and sick people home to combat a...respiratory disease?

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my grandma got covid and died
Are you sure your loved one died because people wouldn't stay at home? Or was it due to hospital negligence? Because the cure exists, and it's hydroxicoroquine. Most of the deaths could have been avoided with that treatment!

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I got these answers
You already don't like them. You only see what you want to see.

It's hard to believe that people bite the bait
I fell for a bait? Your Country literally created a new constitution because a bunch of hoodlums, led by Yang Wanming, started wrecking havok. You guys had the richest and most comfy country of our region. Why do that!?

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Twitter threads
Sure, that's all they are. It's not like they have data and videos (sometimes more than one, and that you both outright ignored) that you can use to crosscheck elsewhere.

Its sad to see so many people stsill stuck  in the mentality that its all a lie and they are the ones that are enlightened.
Dude, I'm not saying the disease does not exist or that I know more than either of you.

I know for a fact that everyone in this thread has more life experience than me (since, y'know, I'm a shut in). Which is something I envy, because I haven't learned anything in these past 10 years. I haven't worked, I haven't had friends, or seen my old ones. I haven't even tried to code anything in mugen. I know my end is grimm. And in knowing that, I am angry and scared, because I know it's my fault.

ALL I'm trying to say is: maybe, just maybe, certain things that governments are doing (in this case, the tackling of the desease), are not being done with our well-being in mind, but with the interests of certain strange bodies, that are against our democracy.

For instance: The original lockdown would only last 15 days. I't now passing 10 months. The Countries with the most severe lockdowns are also the ones with the most infections AND deaths. The Countries that are testing the new vaccines are curiously, the ones with the new strains of the disease. This is not going to be over.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on December 31, 2020, 06:19:50 pm
For instance: The original lockdown would only last 15 days. I't now passing 10 months. The Countries with the most severe lockdowns are also the ones with the most infections AND deaths.
The opposite. The countries with the most severe lockdowns are the ones that are now free of it. New Zealand and such. Those countries did a proper lockdown, and it did go away very fast (South Korea, Japan already had a culture of wearing a mask when you're sick...). Those that did a half-assed lockdown fucked it up and it was useless, that's why you still need more of it.
In France, we did a solid lockdown and it went well (well, we did it late, so it started bad, but it got better after the lockdown), then we loosened the lockdown, and now because we loosened it, we're in trouble again, and we're about to expand the new current lockdown again. It's not too bad because this time we monitored it a bit better so we're not in danger right now, but we're cutting it very close, we're playing on and off with the lockdown because people demand their Christmas, and we now that it can get much worse if we do nothing.
Germany did better faster, but now there are more people that don't believe the virus was a problem (it's not a problem BECAUSE they did the lockdown and it went away) so those people are getting mad at the lockdown that's coming again.
It's literally the exact opposite of what you claim, and it's crazy that you're making up such an obvious lie so easy to check up. The countries that didn't do jack shit or did the least they possibly could are the ones in trouble. Sweden tried to let it run around aiming for "herd immunity", and they announced like a month ago "we fucked up, herd immunity doesn't work, now we're in deep shit, god save us all". They literally had to make an official statement from the government to say exactly how shit of an idea that was.

The Countries that are testing the new vaccines are curiously, the ones with the new strains of the disease. This is not going to be over.
Also the opposite of the truth. The countries that have a vaccine are talking about the new strain, but that doesn't mean you don't already have it.
We're pretty sure that most other countries do have it already, but idiots like you think that if you don't test for it, then it doesn't exist, just because you don't see it. But we all know it's already there. We discovered it BECAUSE we tested for it.

You think it's reasonable to shut both healthy and sick people home to combat a...respiratory disease?
Yes, because that's how it works. It's insane that you don't. You guys are a death cult.
"Just a respiratory disease" ? In case you don't understand, you actually need your respiratory organs to live.

You think it's normal that the local govenments would shut stores up, bankrupt their owners, leave their hundreds to thousands of employees unemployed only to sell them to chinese competitors (that were exempt of closing)?
No, no one has ever said that was a good thing. What people say you're supposed to do goes well beyond that. What you describe is what an incompetent government in denial does. Everyone else that does it properly already has an entire system that existed long before this virus. We're still alive because we've had this system for a long time. This doesn't even have anything to do with the virus, it's literally basic human decency.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Seadragon77 on December 31, 2020, 09:29:14 pm
Hey, CF7... please leave the conspiracy theory crap elsewhere. Okay?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Umezono on December 31, 2020, 10:03:21 pm
guy literally used someone elses dead grandmother to push that bunk hydroxychloroquine shit lol
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Takato-kun on January 03, 2021, 05:37:19 am
I fell for a bait? Your Country literally created a new constitution because a bunch of hoodlums, led by Yang Wanming, started wrecking havok. You guys had the richest and most comfy country of our region. Why do that!?

With all respect don't try to fucking give me lessons about my country. You don't know shit about health, and you're thinking that you know more about my country than a person who lives on that country.

On a side note, our constitution was redacted by people chosen by Pinochet, a fucking dictator. So I really think that it MUST be changed.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kolossoni on January 03, 2021, 06:18:33 am
I'm a shut-in

Yeah, it's pretty clear.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: DarkWolf13 on January 05, 2021, 01:44:12 am
So I found out today upstate NY confirmed their first case of the UK Strain of Covid-19. It's pretty alarming cuz it has been spreading like wildfire quickly. I've been practicing social distancing and wearing face coverings (even though I'm already sick of doing both) and washing my hands often. Almost a year already and I'm still desperate to getting back to my usual routine pre-pandemic. Also, Walt, terribly sorry for your loss.

This virus isn't even a joke. It has infected every part of the damn globe. No one is safe from the virus. The saddest truth: More than 50% of people across the world (just my estimated guess) disregard the seriousness of the virus. Even the perfectly healthy could catch and succumb to the virus in a matter of days. Stay safe everyone and hopefully we will beat this.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: RΣDDBRIПK on January 05, 2021, 02:27:02 am
Sorry to hear about your dad, Walt. My condolences

The saddest truth: More than 50% of people across the world (just my estimated guess) disregard the seriousness of the virus. Even the perfectly healthy could catch and succumb to the virus in a matter of days. Stay safe everyone and hopefully we will beat this.
^This. They are so ingrained in their belief that they are so much smarter because they know the truth. Ignorance is bliss as they always say. So many of these people complain about wearing a mask but don't have a problem wearing clothes. The government says to wear clothes and they listen, but the second they say to wear a mask to protect others, they will go on about how their rights are being infringed upon. Its hypocrisy at its finest.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: CF7 on January 06, 2021, 01:29:23 am
Happy new year, folks.
but idiots like you think that if you don't test for it
Funny how one needs to have a test to know if he has a disease. One would think having symptoms would be enough. BTW, the test has shown to have a 97% failure rate. Meaning, people with the disease are testing negative, and people without are testing positive. Even papayas have tested positive.

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that's how it works. It's insane that you don't.
My point being, that healthy people are being locked with sick people specifically to get sick. While sick people are being denied medicine (hidroxicloroquine, Azithromycin and zinc, as shown by the number of pacients cured by dr Didier Raoult and Dr Zev Zelenko--which was banned from twitter recently) specifically to add to the statistics. Also, sunlight is the main factor for a strong immune system, and one is not going to get it if he is locked home.

On the subject of statistics, I don't know how things work on your country, but on mine, whenever a covid death is written down, the prefecture where it happened receives R$19000. Meaning, all deaths from hit-and-run to cancer went down...and the covid ones went up. How curious.

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You guys are a death cult
I want to live, it's why I won't take the vaccine. If you knew all vaccines have mercury, lead, formaldehyde, aluminium, mrc-5 and monkey kidney, you wouldn't want to take them either.

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What you describe is what an incompetent government in denial does.
No, they are being competent...in fighting us. It's what sold out governors do.

guy literally used someone elses dead grandmother to push that bunk hydroxychloroquine shit lol
In the same way he used her to enforce the lockdown narrative?

Lockdowns are not about public health. They are about power. On my country, there were cases where seniors were arrested for daring to take a walk in the park without the mask. But when a great number of confessed marxists group up to protest about something? The media says, "there was no rist of infection there".

...everywhere else, churches get closed, but not casinos. Huh.

my country
Hm. I'm sorry I let you down.

Yeah, it's pretty clear.
*Smooch*

disregard the seriousness of the virus. Even the perfectly healthy could catch and succumb to the virus in a matter of days.
I'm not disputing that.

The government says to wear clothes and they listen, but the second they say to wear a mask to protect others, they will go on about how their rights are being infringed upon.
Interesting comparison...to say the least. But ok.
The virus in smaller than the masks holes. Initially, the WHO even said using them was benefical for the mind, only.
The only thing the masks are holding are, your saliva, co2, the bacterias from the mouth, the heat where they grow. Now picture breathing that for three, four hours. You are going to pass out.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Seadragon77 on January 06, 2021, 02:03:22 am
I said take that conspiracy crap elsewhere...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: CF7 on January 06, 2021, 02:22:15 am
...fine,
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on January 06, 2021, 03:22:11 am
Funny how one needs to have a test to know if he has a disease. One would think having symptoms would be enough. BTW, the test has shown to have a 97% failure rate. Meaning, people with the disease are testing negative, and people without are testing positive. Even papayas have tested positive.
Funny how your first two sentences imply that if you have no symptom then you're fine, but two sentences after that, you imply you can still have the disease while testing negative but symptoms aren't an issue.
Also, you are several months late. Tests are better and there's more than one.

My point being, that healthy people are being locked with sick people specifically to get sick.
No. No one is locking anyone with anyone. Are you pretending that you never heard anyone tell you to social distance ? What do you even think that means if not "stay the fuck away from each other" ?
Also, sunlight is the main factor for a strong immune system, and one is not going to get it if he is locked home.
lol did you get a medical degree in a dumpster ?

I want to live, it's why I won't take the vaccine. If you knew all vaccines have mercury, lead, , aluminium, mrc-5 and monkey kidney, you wouldn't want to take them either.
Do you not understand that vaccines have been around for hundreds of years ? And yet no one has ever died from any of that.
You have zero idea what any of that is, what it does, and where else you can find any of that. also monkey kidney lol way to show where you get your info from.
I'll just throw that and move on : https://www.publichealth.org/public-awareness/understanding-vaccines/goes-vaccine/

But when a great number of confessed marxists group up to protest about something? The media says, "there was no rist of infection there".
This has never happened. You have never seen anyone on a non-far right media with a proper scientific background say that about a protest in a country that listens to science.

The only thing the masks are holding are, your saliva, co2, the bacterias from the mouth, the heat where they grow. Now picture breathing that for three, four hours. You are going to pass out.
No, you don't. People have run entire marathons with multiple masks on top of each other to show you that if you claim that, you're a pussy and a liar who has never put on a mask. Surgeons put masks for highly stressful surgery that last more than 24 hours and they're fine. People with asthma can wear a mask and be fine.
You have never worn a mask and passed out from it. You have never seen anyone wear a mask and pass out from it.

In a lot of your points, you are mixing together things that your own government does and what science says. You end up straight up lying about scientific information (like the size of the holes in your mask, you have no idea what a surgical mask is).
If you live in a shitty dictatorship, I'm sorry for you, but that doesn't make it alright for you to reject actual science and claim it's all a conspiracy.

ffs your president thinks the vaccine turns you into a crocodile. Wear a mask, practice social distance, wash your hands, and sit this out.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Takato-kun on January 06, 2021, 06:41:44 am
Please CF7, listen to the people, that mindset is not doing any good to you and your surroundings. You can redeem yourself.
Covid is a real diseases, scientist doesn't want to hurt anybody, there isn't a chip, vaccines are good for you and everybody, trust, just trust for once, not in the government, but in science.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on January 06, 2021, 08:24:27 am
I'm surprised how someone who calls himself a shut-in wants to educate us on how the world works! I'm not even gonna waste time telling you how wrong you. Only thing i will tell you is to get out and see the world first before spewing nonsense like that.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: walt on January 06, 2021, 07:26:38 pm
I'm amazed by the dangerous levels of ignorance CF7 displays.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: DJ_HANNIBALROYCE on January 06, 2021, 07:33:26 pm
cf7,people fucking died. you can think what you think. but saying it out loud is just disrespectful to the people that have lost loved ones. this is also why i wear a mask. have a heart.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: T_DR on January 06, 2021, 10:05:55 pm
We all don't want to bash on you CF7, but please take this seriously and if you have any "conspiracy theories" keep it to yourself. Even a year after Covid got discovered, it is still no joke and consider the fact that everyones immune system reacts differently to it.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Emerie The G.O.A.T on January 06, 2021, 10:52:00 pm
Well, Covid-19... really fucked me up! No matter what... I'm not giving up! Trololo, Varo_Hades, Karma & Jmorphman give me A LOT of advice & motivation when I was close to ending my life. I lost desktop, flash drives & my friend. Life is hard af but we can't give up... no matter what!

Never give up!
-John Cena
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Lichtbringer on January 11, 2021, 10:12:16 pm
I'm from Germany and the lockdown is realy annyoing me, but I have to live with it right now until the pandemic is over.

And... I'm sure it would be already over if every country would have treatend the pandemic seriously with hard lockdowns from the start, instead of doing half asset solutions, also people like CF7 are a big problem too.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Niitris on January 12, 2021, 04:51:12 am
Still business as usual where I'm at. I'm in a small sized city.
I'm sorry for everyone who lost someone or had them fall ill.

There's no way country can mass control this thing. Contrary to some of the dum-dums out there, there are countries who've done it right and still can't contain the spread. I don't agree with lockdowns, causes people to lose their job or business (making money is kinda important) over something that has no effective workaround, outside of protecting yourself and others. The problem is too many selfish and inconsiderate people, who are ignorantly anti-science. No cure for stupidity, so can't be helped sadly.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on January 12, 2021, 01:49:50 pm
there are countries who've done it right and still can't contain the spread.
https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries
Bunch of countries in the green and orange. Countries in the red have NOT done it right. Some of those did more or less okay at first and then got a little loose (Germany is going up lately, and it looks like something's going on in Ireland), some did it wrong at first and then started to catch up but are still not doing too well, etc.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: OZ on January 13, 2021, 05:37:54 pm
Well, looks like we're back under full lockdown where I'm at. Cases have absolutely skyrocketed. The situation in much of the US, as far as spread, is almost twice as bad as it was at any point last year. Despite this, I'd imagine we'll see even less people follow lockdown protocol than did in spring of 2020.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: GalFord on January 14, 2021, 02:11:22 am
I'm in the UK, London to be precise and as most of the world knows... it's a bit of a shitshow. For a year I've shielded, been furloughed, gone back to work, had my work push through a huge (permanent!) paycut for staff because of how aviation is fucked at the moment, yet the CEO etc still have the same wages.

I miss friends and being able to teach my community fitness classes, but I stay at home, socially distance if I have to go out/go to work, wear a mask etc and remain vigilant. I know of quite a few that have passed from it, some who were perfectly healthy struck down to a shell of themselves with it. But still there's a large about of people who won't follow guidelines thinking it's "Just a hassle/a government ruse".

Myself and my husband are vulnerable, so we're not taking any risks.

Sorry to hear people here have lost loved ones or been affected. Hopefully the World will slowly recuperate...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on January 14, 2021, 04:33:11 am
I've been living a recluse life the whole year last year, I literally sit in my house 7 days a week, minus few minutes spent on grocery shopping.
I talk more to my pet cat than actual human being, I didn't visit my mom's family they have 5 6 people living in the household, pretty active, so I didn't go there not to spread or receive any potential extra risk, cant afford to get traced and forced to live in corona facility then who would take care of my pet. 

my country is faring rather fine for a 3rd world place with ongoing 1st wave, and from what I see people still doing their normal daily activities as if nothing happen, wearing mask on their chin and chat and eat, people still have construction projects going with construction job labors working together without mask and chain smoking the whole day. 

supermarket, and mall is where mask policy is strict and a relatively safe place to be, while traditional market, eating places, are way less regulated, street vendor still sell their food while smoking cigarette maskless, receving money, and preparing food without desinfecting their hands, I take a risk sometime when I really want to buy traditional food from street hawkers like deepfried cassavas, and such just to put some color into my drab boring days.  take tolls on creativity, I spend more time to finish a page just out of inspiration and motivation.

Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Emerie The G.O.A.T on February 09, 2021, 12:17:47 am
I had Covid-19
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: walt on February 09, 2021, 08:12:06 pm
How long did you have symptoms? Are there any lingering side effects?
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Cyanide on February 11, 2021, 10:23:50 am
NZ has almost completely normalised. Quarantine at the border catches most of it. Some slips through but we're pretty dispersed so the slips are not super serious although we'd prefer there were none.

Right now the biggest issue is the annoyance at people riding the govt. They come in 2 flavours of stupid. Open the borders we need tourism money and close the borders to stop all the slips

Make up your stupid minds. Govt is doing the best possible with human stupidity in the way at every turn.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Rajaa Retired on February 12, 2021, 02:39:40 pm
Lost my Dad 2 weeks ago today due to COVID related pneumonia. He was 64 years old.

Take care guys, this shit is no joke.

Sorry to hear that. You have my sincerest condolences because I know what that's like. My father is almost 90 and had it. Thankfully he survived, but the thought of the alternative happening makes me more-than-enough understand your loss.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Knuckles8864 on February 12, 2021, 04:22:11 pm
I lost my grandmother yesterday due to COVID related problems. Typing this is bringing tears to my eyes right now.

Please stay safe everyone.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on February 20, 2021, 10:20:14 am
condolence for your loss guys

still not hearing further news about vaccination here...  cinema is already open, my sister watched monster hunter the other day wth local gov?
i test my oxygen lvl every now and then using the finger clip device still 98 99% so far still safe dunno for how long, I see as the rainy season is starting more people are coughing in the supermarket, I get jumpy every time I hear someone coughing close by, not sure how effective my mask is. 
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on February 20, 2021, 12:04:22 pm
don't get too paranoid man. your mental state could worsen the disease if you happen to catch it.
take your vitamin d and c, wear a mask, and stay away from people. if you do catch the virus, then it happened in spite of your precautions and its not your fault.
two people i live with caught the virus, guess what? i didn't catch it from them because i took the safety precautions.
living in fear is worse than catching a disease my man.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Insert Account Name on February 20, 2021, 01:05:32 pm
don't get too paranoid man. your mental state could worsen the disease if you happen to catch it.
take your vitamin d and c, wear a mask, and stay away from people. if you do catch the virus, then it happened in spite of your precautions and its not your fault.
two people i live with caught the virus, guess what? i didn't catch it from them because i took the safety precautions.
living in fear is worse than catching a disease my man.

My dad told me this. It's true that fear is the worse has ever come to the humanity. Vitamins are the best and I use garlic pil everyday. My uncle has been better everyday and all he needs is to eat like fruits and vegetables. Plus the masks I wear is only for public malls and other stores that has been open.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on February 27, 2021, 08:21:50 am
don't get too paranoid man. your mental state could worsen the disease if you happen to catch it.
take your vitamin d and c, wear a mask, and stay away from people. if you do catch the virus, then it happened in spite of your precautions and its not your fault.
two people i live with caught the virus, guess what? i didn't catch it from them because i took the safety precautions.
living in fear is worse than catching a disease my man.

I live alone my lung is healthy  it's not survivability I'm afraid off, but if I get infected and traced and sent to quarantine facility, then my cat would be starving. if I caught it better be not traced and just weather it at home that's why I cut my social contact so when they who are more mobile than me got infected then I'm not in their networking suspects to be traced and potentially sent to these camps, thing is extended family like my mum's family and my aunt's is all oldies so I don't visit them, or very rarely over the year. already take vit A,C,E,D, omega3, wearing mask, avoiding dining out, but still, I have weekly maid coming to help me clean the house and garden.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: yaret on February 28, 2021, 05:00:07 pm
corona vaccines is comming where my country will get 60.000 units and people are talking about openning schools again but I dont know because they are testing those corona vaccines because its too early to talk about that and a mexican singer from dragon ball z has died because of corona virus, the news says
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: MAO11 on February 28, 2021, 08:49:36 pm
you mean vaccines? depends where did you guys got them?

heard AZD12222 and sinovac have poor performance, they barely got above 50% success rate. that's basically just gambling a person's health. for us we're still waiting for the J&j or sputnik v vaccine results and gov't would decide whether to use the vaccines we have now for the masses or wait for a better one.

we won't get the phizer's vaccine since they'll prioritize europe first. and china has been bugging the current gov't to use their sinovac but no hospitals are willing to be the guinea pig most well known public hospitals are waiting for department of health's and department of food and drugs for approval still despite that nobody wants anything to do with china except for the national government.

edit: to clarify it's not because of china it's because of budget , most hospitals are on a tight budget right now and it would be a waste of time and money to set it all up just for the vaccines' effect to be sub par.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: yaret on February 28, 2021, 11:18:03 pm
My country will get Sinovac from china but you said isnt good enoght :/ so  I will take care no let any of my family uses that vaccine, I know now why the president of my country wasnt the first one to use it as he said on the news hehe
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Gennos on March 08, 2021, 09:08:37 pm
New covid strains, spike in infection as a results, talks of another lockdown, incompetent corrupt government can't commit to anything nor provide enough quantities of the vaccine for even 1% of the country. I'd say 2021 is shaping up to be just as shitty as 2020.
Seriously guys, if you can get yourself vaccinated, don't even think about it! stab that bitch into your arm!
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: FeLo_Llop on March 11, 2021, 11:42:36 am
I was informed yesterday that TODAY I have to be vaccinated. I thought I should be by next year or so(because of my age, and not being of risk).


Avenge me if I die.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Roasted Pheasant on March 12, 2021, 07:14:33 pm
I started this pandemic in a happy relationship with plenty of friends, career opportunities starting to show, and in a new house.

Now I'm single and barely talk to her anymore, I've been unemployed for months with minimal income, and I moved again after I got assaulted at my "new house".

I just want this bullshit to be over and done with.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Emerie The G.O.A.T on March 12, 2021, 09:11:13 pm
How long did you have symptoms?

For a while...

Are there any lingering side effects?

Prolly... I don't feel the same.

I'm glad I survived :D

I pray for the people they didn't :'(
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: S. Jetstream on March 13, 2021, 04:03:27 am
lockdown got me through several stages of deppression, now i'm slowly recovering but idk if I'm prepared to go back to the outside + the virus left my lungs so weakened
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: BurningSoul on April 13, 2021, 10:30:39 pm
There is a chance that İ got Covid.My test result comes out tomorrow İts been great to be around this forum.and the community
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: AuMiO VXC on April 14, 2021, 01:55:09 pm
Bangladesh. People are being tested positive dramatically. Over 6,000 people are tested covid positive everyday. Our Government has announced the 2nd Lockdown which will be applied from today. 40 to 60 people die everyday on average. Shitty Govt. & it's PM (You will know about it if you follow Al-Jazeera English YT channel), shitty Condition, shitty management, and a totally dark future for us.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 15, 2021, 04:32:33 am
my mom & her husband, my aunt and her spouse, my step mother are all vaccinated last week in our province capital city. I feel a lot relaxed all the older people in my family are all safe. :yippi:
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: AuMiO VXC on April 15, 2021, 04:37:50 am
my mom & her husband, my aunt and her spouse, my step mother are all vaccinated last week in our province capital city. I feel a lot relaxed all the older people in my family are all safe. :yippi:
Glad to know that.
However, the problem is corona is an RNA virus that can change its genomic structure too fast. RNA viruses are unstable. Even after being fully vaccinated, you can still catch the virus (which got new strain). Please, be careful. Be safe.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 15, 2021, 06:01:53 am
my mom & her husband, my aunt and her spouse, my step mother are all vaccinated last week in our province capital city. I feel a lot relaxed all the older people in my family are all safe. :yippi:
Glad to know that.
However, the problem is corona is an RNA virus that can change its genomic structure too fast. RNA viruses are unstable. Even after being fully vaccinated, you can still catch the virus (which got new strain). Please, be careful. Be safe.

yea, we here are wearing mask everywhere still and everybody else while in public, but I hear even when not totally immune at least it will lessen the symptoms to not life threatening that alone is enough just like how we all have partial immunity to all kind of different flu each year even without any flu shots, big relief for small towners living in 3rd world country with not enough medical facilities and infrastructures when major outbreak really hits like this 3rd wave, covid mortality rate here in my town is around 10% due to all the limitations, all the hospitals are very quick to over capacitate just from a small spike in numbers 
hope you and everyone here stay safe.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on May 26, 2021, 11:10:05 am
yesterday got 1st vaccine
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: walt on May 26, 2021, 05:49:11 pm
Congrats man! Still make sure to wear a facemask and take care of yourself til your 2nd Dose.

My mother is getting her 2nd dose tomorrow. We were just talking over the phone and she tells me she keeps dreaming about my dad, who we lost because of COVID. This is an experience I wish for nobody. Please continue to take care.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Kohaku~★ on May 28, 2021, 03:27:07 am
Yes, please take this seriously and vaccinate if you haven't already. I lost my mother to Covid a few weeks ago and then ended up getting the virus myself (a few days after getting the J&J vaccine) which was one of the worst experiences in my life since I was close to needing a ventilator.

Don't let it come to the point where you lost someone close to you to make you realize how deadly this virus can actually be.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on May 28, 2021, 11:57:55 am
my condolence to Walt and A Certain Magical Maid. I have friend on another forum also lost family member due to this virus.

my countrymen surprisingly pretty obedient in wearing mask in public the whole year, hardly we see anyone without mask, would also get denied entry to any public building without wearing it. Still we are the worst struck in the whole SEA region, very late with vaccination program. and 3rd world infrastructure doesn't help either, my city and many other for example has 10% death rate.

yeah some people think getting a vaccine is like getting a medicine that give immunity instantly, many don't get the idea of a vaccine, and self brewing time to form antibody.

AZ vaccine made me shivers the first night, sore muscles the next day, and I'm fine after 2 days. not bad at all.

This would be remembered forever in history book like the plague,  I can almost imagine in the future when people for 22th century want to make a retro movie about year 2020, they would make us look like post apocalyptic people who wear leather armor and gas mask.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Lasombra Demon on May 28, 2021, 03:08:38 pm
Just read some more of this. I'm not replying to CF7 (can't believe the tone deafness of his comments regarding my dead close relative) nor any science denialists today; not in the mood. Our country was overrun by denialists (most of the media in this mindset) and now our health services are collapsing.

My g/f moved in during February, she tends to patients in a local hospital. She got the virus and so did I. She had been vaccinated (SinoPharm, 1st dose). Now she's had the 2nd dose (health workers are high priority). So, we spent most of April in isolation. She got a fever and had to take some meds for it (nothing serious), I was just fine; it was hardly a cold. Had she not shown symptoms, I think I wouldn't even have noticed. Except for the total loss of taste/smell and a random inexistant smell of burning trash for a few days...

My dad+gf, mom+bf, and most +55 ppl I know are already vaccinated with at least one dose (either AZ, SinoPharm or Sputnik).

All paid for by the State, as it should be. Viva Perón carajo.

But... We got our granny's ashes in a box. No funeral. This is extremely sad and I hope we can learn from it.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Handmaiden of the Seascape on June 08, 2021, 03:48:59 am
Mexico. I hate the fact the government is in the need to rush shit up. Schools, while voluntary to attend for both students and teachers, it's dangerous not only because of a third wave that has already arrived to the country, but such irresponsible measures, not to mention children are not vaccinaated yet is just asking for the perfect recipe for disaster.

While my mom, dad and I have been vaccinated (sis takes hers this month), it's too foolish to think we can go back to normality. Pandemics like this take years even with the most advanced medicine to be fully under control. While I didn't receive any order to go back to where I work, it's likely understood teachers don't want to go back with the risks we're facing, plus the school year is about to end, so no real point. Besides, we all here know why the epidemiologic lights were changed to green. Their stupid votings.

So if you can vaccinate yourself, take this seriously.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Jotaro_Joestar on June 18, 2021, 10:26:37 pm
United States. I always miss going outside without wearing a mask from my old times. I was scared of coronavirus when I first heard it. When I first took the shot, I felt a bit worried about something that is going to happen to me. After I took the first shot and stayed inside for few hours, I feel the same as before.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on June 23, 2021, 10:47:55 am
I have a friend an ex classmate 43 yrs old, got fully vaccine with sinovac, and still got positive from recent variant, took 6 days to show more severe symptoms but ultimately didn't need hospitalization, I imagine a lot more undetected asymptomatic positives walking around spreading virus here, and 10% of those infected die... since my country's hospital can't keep up, and most prefer to hide their condition and ran to hospital when they are almost dead already.
 
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Insert Account Name on June 23, 2021, 12:24:11 pm
My mom has been vaccinated, my granddad once, cause he got the Covid before.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: FeLo_Llop on June 23, 2021, 02:11:40 pm
I'm 37, fully vaccinated 2 weeks ago. I'm having some problems now(went to emergencies), and still making tests, so it may or may not related to AZ.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: yaret on June 23, 2021, 03:55:36 pm
I vaccinated with the first one (Sinovac) so I just got a headache for 30 minutes but I'm ok now. I recommend people before going to vaccinate eat  lot of fruits to have better defense in your body for at least 2 months.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on June 25, 2021, 06:31:19 pm
not good in my country indonesia... in my neighborhood roads are being closed again, yet around town young people are sitting around park benches in groups playing mobile phone without mask,. I suspect they want to get infected and be done with it perhaps.
I hope this Delta type would be too lethal and thus become their own undoing, I hope in the long run it will self contain its spreading power when every victim feels ill or dies so fast before they can be passed onto another person, rather than the milder asymptomatic variants that came before.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Handmaiden of the Seascape on June 26, 2021, 09:26:24 am
I'm 37, fully vaccinated 2 weeks ago. I'm having some problems now(went to emergencies), and still making tests, so it may or may not related to AZ.

Hope it's nothing serious, but if you got vaccinated just two weeks ago, it's likely these are the side effects of the vaccine. It took me 3 weeks to feel the aftereffects of my vaccine.

Vaccines take about 28 days to get the max resistance effectiveness.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Lasombra Demon on July 24, 2021, 03:47:07 am
Got fully vaccinated yesterday. Had gotten the first dose around a month ago... And about a week after that, I got the virus. Yes, even after having a mild case before, and with less than a week with the first dose.

It hit me hard. Really hard.

10 days of a non-stop fever that wouldn't go away, diarrhea, and a cough that still doesn't entirely go away. Fucking scary, I tell ya. I still feel weak from time to time, and this has been the closest I got to a hospital in a long time.

This shit ain't a normal flu.

The good side of this? It's given me some perspective on things... I'm kinda zen right now; man I used to worry about some stupid things.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on July 24, 2021, 01:28:05 pm
maan my country is on the spotlight right now, I would get my second shot around this date next month, I seriously worry how I would go there, standing in probably infected crowd (for hours on end)  get into small chamber that has been used and never sterilized inbetween by hundreds of people to get my shot, lingering around among other people who has been vaccined for about 30 minutes to screen out worrisome after effect since it is Astra zeneca...
and NOT to get the fucking live virus instead...  :yuno:
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Handmaiden of the Seascape on July 26, 2021, 01:09:52 am
Got fully vaccinated yesterday. Had gotten the first dose around a month ago... And about a week after that, I got the virus. Yes, even after having a mild case before, and with less than a week with the first dose.

It hit me hard. Really hard.

10 days of a non-stop fever that wouldn't go away, diarrhea, and a cough that still doesn't entirely go away. Fucking scary, I tell ya. I still feel weak from time to time, and this has been the closest I got to a hospital in a long time.

This shit ain't a normal flu.

The good side of this? It's given me some perspective on things... I'm kinda zen right now; man I used to worry about some stupid things.

When vaccinated, you must wait 3 to 4 weeks for the vaccine to have its maximum defenses applied. One week will have limited effectiveness until the process is completed.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Lasombra Demon on July 26, 2021, 02:46:21 am
Yes, I know... Right now I'm taking a ton care for another couple more weeks, so I have full immunity.

This thing will not stop until a higher % of people in Africa are vaccinated, though. New strains will keep showing up.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: rgveda99 on August 23, 2021, 01:32:34 am
Got my first shot of Pfizer. I would've have wanted to wait it out and receive Johnson and Johnson's vaccine but a paranoid family member kept nagging and nagging and nagging to the point I didn't care anymore which vaccine (even the questionable CCP one) my district will be giving out. It was so annoying that even when saying I already registered online this paranoid family member keeps giving absurd reasons and solutions like "Oh, that's gonna take a long time. Get re-registered for vaccination in the village."

2nd day was worst. Feels as if I'm about to almost get a fever with the injection site feeling swollen. Waking up slightly dizzy. Decided to go to the nearest 7-11 for some orange juice. Walking it off for a few minutes actually helped.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on August 26, 2021, 04:45:26 pm
second day after 2nd astrazeneca shot, I was fine yesterday, today I feel muscle sore and a bit of diarrhea, perhaps slight fever too, oh well.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: The Sudden Rarity on September 04, 2021, 10:31:29 am
I've been fully vaxxed myself since the 23rd of August. No effects from the second dose until the night after. All day I was incredibly tired, headache, and a slight fever. That night, however, I had violent vomiting for about 3 hours >..< but the next morning I was nearly 100% better.

Hit me like a stomach virus does.

Even though I had a pretty horrid reaction to the final shot, that doesn't mean everyone will. Get the vaccine!

I got Moderna, btw.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Cyanide on September 11, 2021, 11:18:39 am
Got pfizer 2 weeks ago. Sore arm for 3 days. Nothing else. Second dose end of this month. Apparently second is worse. Will see how that goes.

Right now the vaccine roll out is the only thing my govt has messed up in that its been slow. Still we've hit a good portion of the country with 1 dose now at least.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on October 08, 2021, 04:45:06 am
seems like soon we have medicine for this, and in my country life is slowly turning back to usual just with mask on.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: walt on October 08, 2021, 04:38:48 pm
The thing is starting to affect the company I work for, with some breakthrough cases on vaccinated people.

Apparently people of lower income are being disproportionately affected because they have poor health due to obesity (Poor food habits are correlated with less education -> Diabetes). Some operational key players or their immediate families are affected by COVID, so they need to take time off to take care of them in what could be their last moments  :anxious:
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Cyanide on October 08, 2021, 11:53:57 pm
2nd pfizer is done. 5 days of sore arm. No other symptoms. Probable booster shot in the offing. NZ has got delta embedded now. So masks everywhere and more contact tracing. Previously it was just BAU for everyone. Not any more. Bit annoying but whatever.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Lasombra Demon on December 07, 2021, 08:05:36 pm
Things had been pretty normal in my town for the last month. Shops opening, cinemas showing new movies, bars and clubs. People at the pool, the summer sun.

Until... I had a fever the other week. My g/f too; had to take her to the hospital. I got tested but just in case I cancelled any trips, warned every person I had seen. And I got shit scared considering how bad it was the last time I had COVID.

A couple days later; BAM! Omicron officially hits my town.

But... My girlfriend had just been given the third dose of her vaccine; Astrazeneca. It hit her like a truck. And I just had a normal flu. So... No COVID at home, for now. It was one hell of a scare, though.

And most of all, it was a reminder: the pandemic is not over. Take care of yourselves and your loved ones.

Get vaccinated and tested. Wear a mask. Try to do holiday meetings outside.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on December 27, 2021, 12:29:47 am
i got my 3rd shot (booster) on xmas eve.
I got no side effect this time
stay safe everyone keep your mask in crowded public places
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: The Sudden Rarity on December 28, 2021, 03:24:50 am
Still waiting on boosters where I live, but people like me won't be getting them right away, since I'm 33. Hell, my elderly uncle (mid-late 60s) isn't able to get the booster yet.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Insert Account Name on January 10, 2022, 03:39:45 pm
It's official, i got COVID and had no smell and taste for 6 days. My folks got some too and now my dad is in the hospital. Now just spending home doing stuff. Whatever you do, be careful and wear a mask while outside.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: D.R.B on January 10, 2022, 04:12:23 pm
wish everyone a speedy recovery, got covid from 5 days ago (Scary Thing is that I may have had it even before that) so now i'm stuck home for 5more days
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: TRUEMicah on January 11, 2022, 01:45:17 am
Hi guys!  Long time no see!

Sheesh... Where do I begin?

1st wave of COVID made me realize I needed to quit my dead end job and eventually went and worked another dead end job with my then fiancé.  My fiancé and I continuously argued and eventually were a thing but not a thing... kind of thing, if that makes sense to anyone.  During this time, I also met this nurse who for some reason really liked me.  We started dating eventually.

2nd wave of COVID made me realize life was stagnant and I quit the latter mentioned job along with my then fiancé as well (I was fucking miserable).  I began dating nurse months later and we became rather close.  She understood me.  Somehow.  Later, went active duty and completely left all possessions, my home and old life working with the Army in stations such as Mexico, New York and eventually the Invasion in DC 2021.

3rd wave of COVID I eventually was deployed to various COVID sites vaccinating folks by the thousands.  By a miracle of fate or something, I worked with nurse, had kids and am expecting twins.  Everyone except Nurse and I has COVID at the moment due to vaccination so we are currently quarantined.  I eventually began cross trained in cyber security due to stuffs and in process to GTFO of the Army and work computers as a civilian due to family.  There is like tons more but that's the run down. 
I still see some old heads here and there (StormEX, C.A.N) on FB but I rarely come here nowadays.  Good to see some familiar faces however.

TL/DR I gotz kids and new bae.
 
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: FeLo_Llop on January 18, 2022, 07:31:56 pm
Guess who's covidtose? Yeah, me!! I'm living in Madrid and here there's A LOT of covid positive, but luckily, not as deadly as in the 1st wave. I also have my 2 vaccines, so...I'll spend some days at home. I don't like this a lot, because I HATE to be still, so i told my boss if I could telework. He said that not, that it would be better to me to rest and get fine soon. So I'll be reading and spriting, mostly :/.

Oh, and yeah, the symptoms. I had an intense headache, several pain in my eyes(hipertension, while I'm just the opposite), hard cough, shivers, 39º fever...I'm a total waste hahahaha.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Insert Account Name on January 22, 2022, 06:40:27 pm
It's official, i got COVID and had no smell and taste for 6 days. My folks got some too and now my dad is in the hospital. Now just spending home doing stuff. Whatever you do, be careful and wear a mask while outside.

Good news and a big update. I'm cured from the virus and i got a recovery certificate, meaning i can go to a movie, restaurant, a bar or even things i couldn't go in during the pandemic. I have access for a whole year. As for my dad, he's covid-free, but still in the hospital for some recover. Now i know how it sucks to have a virus like that, some might have the worst, while others are just lucky and have mild-fever.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on January 29, 2022, 10:11:58 am
new cases started to pick up again in my city, since the symptoms is milder so many more maybe are not even registered as covid, we are in the peak of rainy season and normal for people to catch flu so perhaps the two are confused and as long as it's not deadly people don't really care here.

I also see more and more people stop wearing mask compared to before, maybe they don't care about omicron as much as previous variants, however the government still takes it seriously, I suppose there won't be much activity during lunar new year.

so far I m spared these last 3 years, maybe due to being mostly at home.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: SilentRipper on February 04, 2022, 04:04:00 pm
This whole situation made me very aware fo politicians, goverments and global media. Excesively increased my levels of misanthropy. Changed jobs a couple of times, working hard on improving my overall health, got married along the way.

The recent turn of events of how people are trying to get back the rights the wllingly gave away ou of fear, justifiably, has sparked a little hope for the future.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Lasombra Demon on February 09, 2022, 04:46:31 pm
Mom of a friend died today from COVID. Same as a friends' GF.

We have a near 90% 1st dose, 70% 2nd dose and 20% 3rd dose coverage, yet this will keep happening.

Now we are discussing buying and using CO2 measure devices to go back to physical classrooms in our university.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Mog on March 03, 2022, 10:19:07 pm
I split my time between the Pine Ridge Reservation  and Ohio (USA)  to be near Cleveland Clinic.  Since my job the past few years has focused on wildlife relocation, it hasn't really changed much.  Several people I know have died.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: yaret on March 08, 2022, 07:04:05 pm
The president stopped the national alarm about corona virus so We dont have to use mask anymore and live normal life again in my country Dominican Republic. so people are really happy because so many of them hated to use mask all the time.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Lasombra Demon on March 31, 2022, 02:05:52 pm
That's a bad move, when you check the science. We should be wearing masks for a whole other year, at least, when being inside rooms in public spaces.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: yaret on March 31, 2022, 03:42:13 pm
That's a bad move, when you check the science. We should be wearing masks for a whole other year, at least, when being inside rooms in public spaces.

yes, you are right, I still wearing my mask on public transportations
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: Byakko on March 31, 2022, 05:38:22 pm
Same here, the official stance relaxed on masks but then days later there was news of a new wave, my company immediately came back to telling us to wear masks but I think the government hasn't had time to revert the relaxation yet.
I don't know how it's going in terms of hospitals and cases, but I keep hearing about people getting it. My brother's ex-wife a few weeks ago, then my brother, then their daughter, and a bunch of people at work these last couple of weeks - but it's always a mild case of headache for a couple days now.

I've had doubts back in January but I still haven't gotten it myself.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: kakkoii superhero on April 02, 2022, 12:31:23 pm
has become an epidemic here all regulations about pcr test for travelling has been cancelled, cinema, mall, traditional market are open, live events are held in venue with spectators wearing mask still, its current variant is regarded as mild illness, half my family contracted it last month even a baby, and it was over within a week, as long as we are fully vaccinated and have basic protection for it.  I still stay away from cinema and still wearing mask outside and buy takeaway food to eat at home. So far I'm still spared from any of its variants, some people got 2 different variants and proud of it, crazy.
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: The Sudden Rarity on April 04, 2022, 07:07:23 am
I think the mask mandate has been lifted for Wisconsin, but gladly there are (sadly very few) people still masking up. I just wish the "6 feet apart" would have been truly adapted by others, because I always hated the breathing-down-your-neck types while at the register even before the mandate.

Back off Karen! Jeez, you could stick out your tongue and lick the back of my neck if you tried DX
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: FeLo_Llop on June 27, 2022, 08:29:01 pm
Last week my house mate gave positive, I was in charge of cleaning, food, etc of house, we are very good friends so I don't mind. This week I had holidays and expected to go to my city, after one year without seeing my family. I prefered not to go in case I was catching it, for not passing it on my father mostly(he's 66 and not vaccinated because he trusts the vaccines but not how quick this one was done. No matter how many times we explained him that 70% of DNA code was shared with other previous viruses we have defenses for).

So, there's plenty of stuff to do in Madrid, so i could do a lot of things in my holidays. GUESS WHO GAVE POSITIVE TODAY? Yesss...
Title: Re: Corona virus...where do you live and how have your life changed
Post by: OZ on June 30, 2022, 06:19:45 pm
had it a month or two ago; wasn't good, had to cancel plans i'd been looking forward to for ages.
fast forward to this weekend, finally going to get together with the friends i had to cancel with when i was sick
they just tested positive, plans cancelled
not sure why anyone bothers doing anything