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Nope. That's why I was looking for them.

And my rubbing alcohol isn't strong enough. Ah, well - I have plenty of soap.

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Ontario is now in a state of emergency, through March 31. Restaurants are now closed (except for takeout). Bars are closed. Private schools are closed. Daycares are closed. Indoor recreational programs are closed.

Dine-in service in restaurants have been suspended statewide in Colorado now. Gyms, casinos, and theaters are also closed statewide.

(03-17-2020, 07:23 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: [ -> ]EDIT:  I haven't been to a liquor store in a while, but I wouldn't be surprised if vodka and Everclear have been completely sold out as well.

Turns out vodka's not strong enough.

I some absinthe at home. That'll do the trick.

It'll do something. <grin>

I think I might swing by the closest liquor shop to us on my way home tonight and see if they have Everclear...

So.

NY, NJ, CT have all ordered all pubs, bars, and restaurants to go to take-out/delivery only.

All venues have had their official capacity halved, or reduced to 50, whichever is smaller. Large gatherings are discouraged.

Local gaming shops have closed their gaming space and are offering curbside pickup -- pay with credit card over the phone and they'll bring it out to your car.

My employer is starting to transition everyone to work from home, but their call centers are in GA and UT. I've been working from home for over a year now, so not really affected much.

So far, no symptoms. But my parents are in Florida and in their 70's... and my nephew is diabetic. A guy worries.

(03-16-2020, 02:43 PM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-16-2020, 12:42 PM)robkelk Wrote: [ -> ]Canada just closed the borders, to anybody who isn't a citizen or permanent resident.

EDIT: "If you're abroad, it's time to come home." While you still can.

No, wait - Americans are still allowed in. For now.

Not any more. And the closure is both ways.

A couple of infographics, from this article

I heard a radio DJ talking about one of the big music festivals that had been canceled due to Coronavirus, he then mentioned a new 'Corvid festival', featuring the Flu Fighters, Rage Against the Vaccine, (a couple others I forget), and the headliner that everyone wants to see, The Cure.

I saw the first of those infographics in an article earlier today.

It is INCREDIBLY unhelpful in determining which disease you've got.

And we now have our first county asking people to shelter in place, San Miguel until April 3, basically over two weeks.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/03/18/c...-in-place/

Um, Lynn, they're basically asking that of us now, with the whole closing everything.

That I know, but now we're to the point of, "no, really, you must stay home, we don't care about anything else," in places here in Colorado.

We've been staying put here since we're on vacation. I'm not sure what it's going to look like come Monday - unless the metropolitan area basically tells us we must shelter in place we're probably both going to need to go to work, because late stage capitalism. Thankfully, I don't need to be within 6 feet of pretty much anyone at work. I'll definitely need to make sure I sanitize every time I come back from leaving the room.

Clearly, this is the perfect time for my HDD to start throwing a bunch of errors and fail when I run its built-in diagnostics with the error code that means "Go buy a new one, and hope you backed up recently." Even if three reboots later it's behaving relatively normally, unless I try to poke the files that I first noticed being problems...

Yes. The perfect time to need to unexpectedly buy expensive(-ish) parts made in China and have them shipped around by dozens of warehouse workers who are in contact, if at a remove, with loads of other people in between.

Grumblemuttercurse.

Buy it from Amazon, it's mostly robots doing the work around there. Remember the Doctor Who episode, "Kerblam"? It's like that, but with less explosions. Plus the insides of HDDs now are fairly well sealed so the helium doesn't get out.

Also a lot of HDDs are made in Thailand. That's why they were expensive for a while, due to flooding in Thailand. Anyway they're pretty cheap now still, I'd just go ahead and buy.

Scam alert!

Yeah, the scum think there's no reason not to take people's money at the best of times, so why should they stop now?

A few things that should be obvious, but apparently need to be pointed out:

• The Red Cross does not have time to contact you directly right now.
  
• Health workers do not have time to contact you directly right now.
  
• Anyone going door-to-door is breaking quarantine.
  

Thought for the day:

"The best antidote for fear is competence - knowing what to do."
—Chris Hadfield, on Twitter, March 18, 2020

And those of us in the office have just been told to work from home tomorrow and keep doing so until further notice.

Broke a fucking tooth and the dentist is closed to non-emergencies.

It's fine now, but it won't be long before it gets uncomfortable.

I wouldn't call a broken tooth a non-emergency.

Then again, my dentist rescheduled my appointment from last week of March to beginning of May, so...

And now the governor, Gavin Newsom, announced a Stay At Home order on all of California.  Which I have been doing for the past week, because I live with people at high risk, and because I could kind of see this all coming.

The last time I was at the dentist, about a month ago, I was telling the assistant cleaning my teeth about how we were all going to die from coronavirus.  She laughed it off, saying, "C'mon.  We're not a third-world country."  And here we are.

For now, I've been very lucky.  My job is remote, and they still seem to have plenty of work for me.  I have six months of salary saved as cash.  My retirement fund has been invested in cash since July 2018 -- well mostly, I guess I screwed up the configuration.  I have a full pantry, and three cubic acres of toilet paper (sorry world).

This is going to be a long haul.  We keep talking about the Spanish Flu, which probably originated in Kansas but whatever.  You know what we call that now: Influenza type A, H1N1.  It's still around, and many variants show evidence of gene transfer with it.  We still give annual vaccinations against it -- albeit not this variety every year -- and it's still a major killer.  Given that immunity against other coronavirii only lasts for a year or two, we could see the novel coronavirus become a standard fixture of our society, and need to give annual vaccines against it.  None of which is to say that we'll repeat the 1918 pandemic in terms of deaths or waves of the virus, but the transmission vectors and epidemiology do show parallels.

The models say that without shutting the state down, 25 million Californians would get the virus out of a total 40 million.  Not everyone would even get sick, but for those who get very sick, there's no way we could handle that many cases.  If we have to flatten the curve, that's what we'll do.

Mayor Garcetti ordered the city of los angeles into shelter in place mode.

Problem is so many cant. They have to work or starve or wind up homeless. And they have to use public transit to do it.

I've been ordered home from work. It's annoying, but I'm not paid per hour, so not a problem that way.