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Speaking of Big Brother. How do ya all feel about e.g. this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/more-scary-than-coronavirus-south-koreas-health-alerts-expose-private-lives?

It's a beautiful day to be outside today. I biked. Quite a few people on the trail with dogs or running. One of the perks of working from home.

Some of my most favorite seasons of Survivor are those with James, the big macho grave digger. I'll say for those who didn't watch it that he struggled a lot initially. Might explain why I'm so concerned of how you eat, live and don't run out of cash.

Here's a fresh thought: "Once interventions are relaxed (in the example in Figure 3, from September onwards), infections begin to rise, resulting in a predicted peak epidemic later in the year. The more successful a strategy is at temporary suppression, the larger the later epidemic is predicted to be in the absence of vaccination, due to lesser build-up of herd immunity."

I'm bored of this topic. Let's watch something cool instead.

Nah, it was novel. They've operated on the statistics they've had at that time, you're accusing them based on the fact you came to know only now.

Yeah, yeah, it didn't work, they've changed the plans, I already said it. Still it was a novel way of thinking. This quarantine doesn't do much either yet. The curves are still shooting for the stars. May have helped in China, but China is China.

I liked the Brit's ways of dealing with the virus. Isolate the elderly, let everyone else catch the bug and get over it ASAP, then end the quarantine altogether and treat the serious cases, 'cause anyhow everybody's got to have it. Felt like wow, a reality TV show, will it work?? Too bad they've abandoned the plan.

I like the greeting. "Welcome to zuuuuum". I bet they're enjoying themselves these days.

Jeez, who’s coming out as an asshole here? Looks like you live in an aparthotel or something. Good then.

No, seriously, does he have a microwave in his room? Is he stuck with chips and salads from now on?

What are you eating these days, btw?Cooking is out, and so are the bars, are we to be prepared for GSS doubling in size by November?

As a recap, eat was saying that hysteria around the virus is killing businesses along with stock market and is making things worse because people either way use time off school to fly to Florida, and kill each other raiding supermarkets. eaf also remembers predicting before the trip that toast would end up in a quarantine instead of party. He just thought that the quarantine would be mandatory as was already the case in Russia at that time. Finally eaf was saying that GSS is doomed staying behind locked doors not for two weeks as he hopes, but for a year, in an on/off fashion.

You should really brush up your reading and comprehension skills. May want to take a whole package and include social skills as well so that you don't bark at people all the time. I did say about the curve sky rocketing, hence implied flattening that the sitting may achieve. What concerns me here is that stay for two weeks at home or don't stay, it's not gonna end in two weeks. So, the general message that every closed venture is trying to communicate about this being for two weeks at most, so please forgive us for this temporal inconvenience, is fake. It's gonna come in waves. That's depressing by itself, but what people are gonna do in-between the waves? Trying to accomplish what they couldn't while everything was forced to be closed. So whoever may be shifting their dental or any other appointment will rush into the office, mall, what not, with the interactions now X times more than they would've been, to account for the time wasted and in fear that the time until the following closure is running out. Fun, right?

Btw, I don't grasp the concept of "let's all sit home for a week or two". What's gonna happen in two weeks exactly? I imagine, most of the folks who are infected will realize that they're and will either end up in a hospital or an extended quarantine. But it's not gonna eliminate the danger fully. Two more weeks pass, and we're gonna have the curve sky rocketing again. And what's next? New two weeks of national emergency? Then again and again until either everybody catches the virus and recovers, or a vaccine is found and mass-produced (which as some say is gonna take at least a year)?

IDK, aren't dentists still doctors? Hippocratic oath and all comes to mind? I am not talking here about the closure of a Dunkin Donuts around the corner, or a massage salon, these are doctors who decided to sit it out.

Heh, they closed my dentist today. Whether you have a follow up appointment, some new work done, or a true dental emergency, sorry, can't help you. But if someone can please find N95 surgical respirator masks, do tell them, and then they'll reconsider. Ain't that splendid? 'cause on the other hand I'm looking at a family not far away posing and smiling for app.com, in quarantine due to one member tested positive, saying that it's all going on not too bad for them, with none being seriously ill.

How do they even come up with these numbers? 1% recovered in the US? That's just plain deceiving. Yeah, they probably mean that the people are still showing some symptoms and hence cannot be counted as fully recovered, but still this 1% draws a gloomy picture, like OMG we're all gonna die. Plus it's static, doesn't show the trend, no idea if things are accelerating or slowing down.

Sure you can. All casinos are online these days. Plus there is even bigger gambling place called stock exchange.

Seeing how CB is out, I just waxed my skis and put them away for storage. My Aspen business trip's been cancelled as well, so chances that I'd hit Loveland or Abasin early May are nil.

Oh good, ‘cause I started to worry if it was a symptom or something... Carry on.

Did toast just compliment GSS? The world is definitely ending.

Did they announce alien pass yet? Haven’t seen that anywhere this year.

I’m holding my breath for a “just kidding” post 😳

Not necessarily buying, just filling the void with the entropy of negotiations with the sales, then their manager, then the manager of the manager. I bet, even if no car is bought, all parties end up thoroughly satisfied by the process. 'Cause where else to go?? I actually envy them. We just got banned from work. Can't even come to the building. Have to stay and work from home.