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No dude, prepare to witness the effects of an escaped bioweapon.

HeadSet says

SunnyvaleCA says

Commuting to work is so pleasant now! That's surely a sign of a lot of people "working" from home. I expect that, especially until people adjust, a bunch of software development deadlines are going to be missed.

Now that is scary. I would have presumed that software development experts would have an easy time using remote and collaboration software. And I also thought such tools would have been enhanced or developed in-house.

For some people, working at home can be very productive. For others, it's difficult to concentrate and group discussions are difficult (especially until the kinks of video conferencing have been worked out). If working at home were generally more productive, then every company would have mandated it years ago.

CV cases arent spreading. That can only mean orange man bad

CovfefeButDeadly says

Every major online retailer is sold out of TP completely.

Now I don’t doubt it’s an artificial shortage created by unnecessary hoarding combined with jerks attempting to misery profit, but it seems quite real.

People are being smart asses. My own wife bought a package and so did my neighbors just because of the hype (we literally already have 60+ rolls before Corona was a known thing). You can always wet a towel and wipe your ass and then wash it. It's not complicated.

It's amazing how stupid people have become. I think it should be mandated for people to travel to a 3rd world country. See how the crafty people do it that can't get TP and experience it yourself. Costa Rica I don't think is technically 3rd world and in Tamarido at most establishments you shit at, you're tossing the tp in the garbage. 80% of Americans don't get to experience that and yet bitch about everything. Sewer systems are expensive and more technical than most realize, yet they bitch about their water/sewer bill. Get over it.

If working at home were generally more productive, then every company would have mandated it years ago.

Also office politics. At my company, there is absolutely no reason all call takers cannot work from home. We have a few remote workers, including blind (a split headset, one ear reads the screen "Windows Narrator" style while the other ears hears the customer). The Call Center Manager does not want remote workers, since he "cannot manage them" despite the auto call distribution and very detailed dashboards.

Most Americans could lose some weight so a few weeks without potato chips and hot dogs would be a good thing.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Patrick says

In China, 59.5% of men smoke!

You ever have a Chinese cigarette?

It's not smoking. It's like inhaling burning trash. I can't imagine what's in it.

Russian ones were like smoking wet socks. Awful. That was back in 1985, but they are probably not any better now.

Invest in crematoriums! Short nursing homes! MAGA!

Use dead seniors as blubber? Eco-friendly business opportunity!

Patrick says

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/ITA/italy/smoking-rate-statistics

According to the CDC, as of 2015, a total of 15.1% of U.S. adults (16.7% of men and 13.6% of women) smoke

I'd guess it's probably closer to 13% men and 10% women now. I would have been part of that crowd in 2015. God damn it's a nasty habit. My professor neighbors pound a 6 pack of Sierra Nevada and American Spirits everyday. Surprisingly in decent health at 49.... I'd guess they're in the borderline risk category of dying from this though because of the smoking. Glad I made my decision to quit about 3 years ago now.

Read the last sentence, which is gold.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/11/814550474/missouri-sues-televangelist-jim-bakker-for-selling-fake-coronavirus-cure

How come Trump didn't think of this? His name branding is just too slow on the trigger these days.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/australia/australia-chinese-restaurants-coronavirus-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

Chinese restaurants are losing business over coronavirus fears


Photos of Chinatowns across Australia, Canada, the US, and other countries show empty restaurants and quiet streets. Staff are the only ones seated at the tables, playing cards and waiting listlessly for customers.
Some restaurants have signs on the windows announcing that the interior and its surfaces are disinfected daily, in an attempt to reassure worried diners.
But these efforts often aren't enough. Shark Fin House, a well-known Cantonese dim sum restaurant in Melbourne, closed last week after reporting an 80% drop in business, according to CNN affiliate Seven News.

Ying Hou, the owner of Melbourne Chinese restaurant ShanDong MaMa, has seen her business drop by about half since January -- but many neighbors had it much worse, with only a handful of customers on any given day, she said.

When she told some fellow restauranteurs that she had lost 50% of business, "they said, 'You're doing well,'" she told CNN.

And it's not just Chinese restaurants -- other Asian businesses have also been affected. The Vietnamese restaurant Bia Hoi, also in Melbourne, has seen an 80% drop in business, said owner Jerry Mai in an Instagram post last week. Mai's other venues in Melbourne's central business district are down by 50%, she said.
"Chinatown and Glen Waverley (district) are ghost towns right now," she said in the post, blaming "fears of illness" for the decline. "I'm not exaggerating when I say that restaurant doors will close unless something happens right now."


https://www.eater.com/2020/2/10/21131642/novel-coronavirus-american-chinese-restaurants-explained

The Effect of Coronavirus on American Chinese Restaurants, Explained

The Times reports that NYC’s three main Chinatowns — in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn — have seen business drop from 50 to 70 percent in the last two weeks. The owners of restaurants like historic Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Manhattan describe their environs as a “ghost town,” telling Grub Street that business had reached a five-year slowdown last Monday.

Steve Ip, owner of Yin Ji Chang Fen, tells the Times that he’s been expecting crowds of international students visiting New York-based family during the Lunar New Year: They haven’t materialized, and business at Yin Ji Chang Fen is down by half.

The phenomenon is widespread. Restaurants in Boston’s Chinatown are suffering, too: At a time when businesses like New Golden Gate Seafood Restaurant are normally bustling, that establishment and others are practically empty, Boston radio station WBUR reports. Business leaders in Houston’s Chinatown are seeing the same situation. The owner of Houston’s Shabu house, Debbie Chen, tells Houston TV station KPRC2 news that she’s worried about being able to pay her staff. Internationally, Chinatowns in London and Sydney observe declining business as well.

In San Francisco, Chinese Merchants Association spokesperson Edward Siu says foot traffic has dropped 50 percent in Chinatown.

zzyzzx says

Chinese restaurants are losing business over coronavirus fears

"If your dish bites your back it means it's fresh!"

He didn't propose cutting anything for infectious disease transmission, only for chronic self-imposed diseases like AIDS:

https://patrick.net/post/1330755/2020-03-13-democrats-lie-about-proposed-cdc-budget-cuts

And it's just a proposal, won't pass the house.

zzyzzx says

Most Americans could lose some weight so a few weeks without potato chips and hot dogs would be a good thing.

I'm already on the corona virus diet!

Get Michelle Obama to crop dust Covid-19 from bi-planes with the Immense Prehensile Penis! It's not spreading fast enough, and the Patriot Act needs to extend definitions of terrorism to anybody who coughs!

Vote Trump 2020. He will deport all the Realtors to China.

rd6B says

Just wait 'til he starts pimping out his classmates to the Globalists. He'll be in kebabs up to his neck.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

YES! FINALLY! THE TRUTH IS OUT!

HE IS BETTER THAN JESUS!

GOD!IS!JEALOUS!OF!TRUMP!

Serves all the imperialist white slavers right for all the populations they murdered with European viruses.

jazz_music says

rd6B says

Use dead seniors as blubber? Eco-friendly business opportunity!

Why not software engineers?

Have you never seen them?

Why not both? Lets be as inclusive as possible!

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS GIFT THIS YEAR IS A BOX OF 20 KEROSENE SOAKED SENIORS that the discriminating cigar smoker can use to light his cigars.

At all the best shops - and AMAZON!

Limited CORONAVIRUS Edition, hand-wrapped by Indonesian pygmies in sustainably harvested balsa tree bark cloth!

jazz_music says

Heil Trump!

Bolsonaro has infected him with corona from what I hear, so we can sell his blubber as well!

Patrick says

He didn't propose cutting anything for infectious disease transmission, only for chronic self-imposed diseases like AIDS:

https://patrick.net/post/1330755/2020-03-13-democrats-lie-about-proposed-cdc-budget-cuts

And it's just a proposal, won't pass the house.

yep, that's for sure. Democrats are full supporters of alphabet people and their idiotic choices.

I'm about to get laid off from my job at AT&T (and as far as that's concerned it's goodbye and good riddance). Anyway, because of the Cornoa virus, they suspending layoffs until further notice. All this really does is give me more time to look for another job. As long as hiring activity isn't frozen elsewhere (and I'm pretty sure it isn't). I can still quit before my last scheduled day and get my severance, so this only increases my probability starting a new job without interruption and still collecting my severance.

DOW up 1985 points today.

Orange County California UPDATE:
Several school districts here and in the surrounding area have cancelled classes for a month! My kids are now home for a month. This should be fun.
Oh and also the Boys and Girls clubs are closing.
Fortunately my wife’s college has also cancelled classes and so she’s teaching 100% online. That means she has to work from home, and anyone who works from home knows that doing so while “watching” kids can be a nightmare.
I’m still sick, couldn’t get a Covid-19 test even at the ER, but I think I’m getting better now. I’ll probably go back to work next week.

OccasionalCortex says

Original article: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3869940

That's brilliant actually!

That's great! The US and Mexico finally agree on the wall!

I heard that the CDC reported that only eight tests were done in the USA yesterday.
8!

That guy was right... it is far easier to get an AR-15 than a test for corona virus.

Those are the tests done by the CDC. The state labs have taken over long ago with rapid tests. Hardly any test goes through the CDC anymore takes too long. They have the capacity of 17k tests daily currently and rising. If you don't show symptoms it's def easier to get an AR 15, but that's expected.

See, this is how Trump will get Mexico to pay for the border wall! Win Win!