Corona Virus, How Has It Affected Your Area So Far?

If in 4 weeks this virus has lead to exponential death counts and is not leveling off, more actions are needed. If the death count has risen but it's not an excessive increase then we need to get back to normal. I guarantee you most people will agree with this.

That some of you want to destroy the economy and many peoples buisnesses over so few deaths is crazy. What you're arguing for is actually MORE crazy than banning all cars (cars literally kill 3.7k people every day in the USA)

You don't want to destroy the car industry, you just want to destroy all industries. Over something that is killing far less people.

If you burn your house down to win the war you lost the war regardless.

Everyone attacking him isn't helping either. I can tell you, many people are very skeptical at the moment. You have the media that blows literally everything out of proportion, a president telling people it will magically disappear and don't worry hes ending it in a few weeks, then you have the media again telling people only the elderly and people with existing conditions are in danger.

Most people are more worried about the fact they are out of work and have rent due in a week and bills to pay. They just aren't posting on this forum, all of you are living in a bubble it seems and think we can hole ourselves up for another two months. It just is NOT possible, people cannot live when there are bills to be paid, we had careers and lives. If the media is telling people that only elderly and sickly people are getting the brunt of this, they won't take it as something that will impact them and they will not care as much and only see the economic side.

A lot of posters here are also caught up in the media spin, I just don't agree with most of you as it seems you're fear mongering.

If in 4 weeks this virus has lead to exponential death counts and is not leveling off, more actions are needed. If the death count has risen but it's not an excessive increase then we need to get back to normal. I guarantee you most people will agree with this.

That some of you want to destroy the economy and many peoples buisnesses over so few deaths is crazy. What you're arguing for is actually MORE crazy than banning all cars (cars literally kill 3.7k people every day in the USA)

You don't want to destroy the car industry, you just want to destroy all industries. Over something that is killing far less people.

That reply literally makes no sense at all, which is expected from you.

It doesn't matter if you want to or not, if it's extended beyond 4 weeks it will happen whether you like it or not. Irreparable damage will happen.

It doesn't matter if you want to or not, if it's extended beyond 4 weeks it will happen whether you like it or not. Irreparable damage will happen.

Sexy talk only in PM.

Is this your word of the day? You are using it all over the place when it makes no sense.

Desire has nothing to do with it, if I don't want to run someone over but do it anyway I still ran someone over.

You just post random things, you have dementia or something.

there is no stopping it, stay in quarantine for 6 months, economy tanks, break it too early, people die, economy tanks.

Seems you missed So I'll try to explain it to you. We DO care about the flu. We take precautions and that's why there's only 100k that died from it in a year. If we didn't care, there would be WAY more dead. For Covid, we're still figuring it out. So people are working on it and you are being asked to make some sacrifices while this is happening.

Our grandfathers were asked to go to war. You're just being asked to sit on your couch. Seriously, stop being such a baby about it.

Damn, this dude is not funny on his best day. But without an audience laughing on cue, it just becomes painful to watch.

People are losing their jobs, LONG TERM DAMAGE is approaching for many people. What do you think is funny about that to say "stop being a baby?" It isn't just some "sacrifices" they are quite big. Businesses are going under, people are heavily relying on credit and building debt, the economy is suffering hard.

A lot of misinformation is going around. I specifically remember watching all the news broadcasts and them saying this will barely have an affect on younger people aged 20~40 that don't have pre-existing conditions. So people are worried about the future and how they will be suffering economically. People who are facing the streets or no food and you're calling them babies, just to be clear. A tiny check from the government that won't even cover most peoples rent cost for a month in NYC alone, not to mention other expenses. The threat of doing this for another 2~3 months is real and scary, more than the virus here.

The resource that is holding most nations together is the internet.

The internet provides information that can keep you alive. Like how to grow quick foods, purify water, which common weeds can be used as food or medicine, how to make masks, etc.

Money is important in a civilized society but meaningless in a crisis.

However, food, water, medicine and knowledge are essential commodities during a crisis.

The internet provides an entertainment and education venue to keep minds focused elsewhere and socializing.

Seriously, be a hero, stay home and get entertained and educated!

Get crafty and learn how to make a face mask and decorate it!

If I must make a trip outside, I'm making a Hattori Zukin face mask like my Ninja!

Get healthy and learn how to harvest your own sprouts and micro veggies.

If you can grind ingame, you can grind in real life and learn to make it an adventure.

And by all means, keep arguing with Kireek. It keeps both you and him entertained and quarantined.
Good job Kireek!

The quarantine is in place not only to contain this highly contagious disease, but to conserve medical resources. More people will die needlessly if we all get sick at once. We will overwhelm medical resources.

Coronavirus hysteria is like some of the start-up LSes I've been seeing lately managed by players who bought lots of gil, new gear and clears. They fail because:
1)They enter Dynamis [D] without a great support team to cover their DD and tank.
2) They overwhelm 1 WHM in an unbalanced alliance.
3) Support and leadership is so new that they have no clue how to administer buff protocols.

Let the medical community develop medical protocols to cure the sick of this novel disease.

I'll post this again:

A Ladysmith salon owner who tested positive for coronavirus has been charged with attempted murder, for continuing to work at his business and disregarding an instruction to self-quarantine.

Democratic and Republican governors, as well as local officials, are pushing back against President Trump's signals that he wants to restart the economy by Easter, warning that ending strict social distancing practices could put millions of lives at risk.

Governors have ordered residents to practice those distancing procedures, to varying degrees. Many have ordered residents to stay at home, ordered nonessential businesses closed and banned gatherings of all but a few people.

And several say they will keep those orders in place even if Trump rolls back the few national restrictions he has put in place.

"Whatever messages that are coming out of Washington, we are going to make sure we take care of the needs of New Hampshire first," Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said at a briefing Tuesday. "What we aren’t going to do is overly accelerate or loosen regulations just for the sake of the economy and at the risk of public health."

Trump has said he wants the economy to reopen by Easter, April 12, though public health experts do not even expect the country to have reached the peak of the outbreak by then.

"I hope the president's right, let me just say that," Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) told reporters on Tuesday. "But the reality of it is, we’re planning this much longer than two weeks here in the state of Missouri. And I think that’s how you do — to make a good plan — how you’re going deal with the crisis."

In neighboring Kansas, state Health and Environment Secretary Lee Norman was taken aback by Trump's projections of reopening the economy by Easter.

"Did he say what calendar year?" Norman asked.

Trump has increasingly raised the prospect of lifting the restrictions, casting the economic damage from the coronavirus as a cure that's "worse than the problem itself." Governors warned that such steps could encourage the virus's spread.

"We don't think that we're going to be in any way ready to be out of this in five or six days or so, or whenever this 15 days is up from the time that they started this imaginary clock," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Tuesday on CNN.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) has been similarly blunt in his rejection of Trump's optimism.

"When people are dying and people don't feel safe, the economy is not going to come back. We have to #FlattenTheCurve so that when the wave comes, it's not as big as it would have been and we are prepared for it," he said Tuesday on Twitter. "We are going to get our economy back, but we have to get through it, protect as many lives as we can, and then move forward. I'm looking forward to that day, but it's not here yet."