I think what has created the extreme reaction to this virus...which did not happen with previous viral outbreaks...is the fact this virus popped up during an election year when the USA has such hysteria about this election. The hysteria latched onto this virus and politicized it.
I predict that almost all deaths in the USA from this virus will be elderly people who already have an underlying health concern. The death toll will not be anything close to the 30,000 - 80,000 deaths we see each year due to seasonal flue.
In the meantime, some households will have hoarded enough toilet paper to last until 2024.
This is a very interesting take on the situation, any updates on your analysis? I’m eager to hear experts summarize the situation as well as you do!
Why are fast food places still allowing forks and spoons and napkins to be in stacks where all customers have to touch them to use just one service ?
Why are fast food places not providing customers to have wipes for the table?, I see no employees wiping down the tables after each patron leaves ,nor offering customers that chance to do so.
Pret a Manger , Starbucks, Fresh & Company ,Paris Baquette ,Pizza parlors etc.& etc.are you listening to me?
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The virus droplets mostly fall down.
If things get really bad I’ll wear snorkeling mask. The snorkel sits mostly above the crowds.
If we New Yorkers want to learn from Chinese who have finally controlled the outbreak over there.
1. Close schools for 2 weeks. Don't wait.
2. Cancel all public events.
yes it will be painful but this is the only way to slow down the outbreak.
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"Let’s be very clear:I am absolutely going to a Taylor Swift concert."
Absolutely. If I go, with the seats in my price level - frankly, I'm not that concerned about droplets from the Jumbotron screen. (although Tony Bennett did sweat on me in the crowded lobby at the "David Gest presents Liza concert" at Town Hall when he shoved me aside trying to get to John Kander.. I'm not complaining. I just love talking about it.)
Tune of “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”
Ever since the first time that we met - online.
Life with you felt good as life can get - so fine.
But today we dare not go outside.
So let’s set the webcams up
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
I love you so much I could spit.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
This plague is plaguing me, plaguing me
—— [crowd joins in]
Noooo -
We are never ever ever making out together.
We are never ever ever making out together.
Your face, not with my face,
You’re at your place
Not with me.
Could be, we’re never ever ever ever - making out together.
Honestly sad to see increasing numbers of racial assaults correlated with the Coronavirus. Just the other day, I saw a young black man pushing an Asian student in the train station because he was wearing a mask. The student was merely wearing a mask to protect himself and others! The CDC advised people to not wear surgical mask and N95, but how do you contain the virus if you dont take any precautions! After all, symptoms of the virus can be unnoticeable for up to 2 or 3 weeks. Who knows if the person next to you has the virus or not.
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Got some people in denial here. its not cool or macho or new yorkish not to "freak out". Cutting down community spread POTENTIAL is an obligation of everyone. I stopped going to the gym a week and a half ago. Crazy to go to a knicks game or TS concert. Its not a show of bravery.
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Look, we're New Yorkers. While it's true I have shopped for staples just in case, I am not ready to lock myself indoors. I am not snuffling or sneezing; so far, so good.
But then there's this:
"BOSTON — When an employee of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire showed signs of possible coronavirus last week, a medical worker who had examined him told him to avoid contact with others, pending further tests. Instead, he went to a mixer at a crowded music venue."
How stupid could he be? With stupid like that, the rest of us do have to look twice before we get within six feet of people.
Perhaps now that he's endangered others, he needs to be locked up, fined severely, or both.
What's the penalty for being that dumb?
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I don't understand why de Blasio is not showing more leadership! We KNOW Coronavirus can be transmitted even if the carrier doesn't have symptoms. Our city (and subway) is among the most densely populated in the world. Do we think we're somehow immune? That it hasn't spread here yet is only because of timing. Why not instruct New Yorkers to limit all non-essential travel and encourage employers to allow employees to work from home?! Aside from emergency and health care work, there is literally nothing so important it can't wait a few weeks or until we have a better handle on this. Not reacting to mitigate the spread is painfully irresponsible - why are we waiting for hundreds or thousands of cases and deaths before acting? We'd take more precautions for a snow storm!!!
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this is a real test for leadership... so far, what have we seen?
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"Alternate-side parking: In effect until Tuesday (Purim)."
Yikes, we've got less than a week, then, to figure out how to wear our dual purpose Purim masks, combining safety with merriment, so that we don't share the Hamantashen particles. (I'm practicing right now, but am very concerned about a Hamantaschen shortage in Food Emporium, and there don't look like enough to last until Tuesday)
I've been unsuccessful saying "Shushan" without spitting, so I think "In Shu, Shu, Shushan Long Ago" maybe off the playlist this year.
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Someone just mentioned this here on the floor, that it's almost impossible to say "spitting" without spitting - that's it's why so many recording studios have that guard thingy (a technical term) so you don't ruin the sound with the letter P - so just describing the need for the mask requires great care.
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When my dad took German at Brooklyn Tech, back in the 1930s, the teacher instructed students to put their handkerchiefs in front of their mouths while speaking. Lots of spitting, I guess. The teacher didn't want messes.
Achtung!
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In Hong Kong everyone is doing their bit and the spread has slowed significantly (hardly any new cases at present). It has been massively disruptive, however.
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If Andrew Yang runs for Mayor, he has my vote, hands down! #YangGang
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Count me in as one of the city's crestfallen when it comes to the lack of snow this winter.
In fact when looking at pictures of the candidates trudging through the snowy landscapes of Midwest and New Hampshire, I actually found myself tearing up and growing nostalgic.
Oh well.
At least we still have pizza-filled potholes.
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Attending a baseball game is not the same as basketball or hockey: sitting in the stands fans are outdoors where the air circulates. Most of the concessions face the open air. The elevators are probably easy to sanitize. Even those luxury boxes have large open doors that let in fresh air. Of course the bathrooms are a priority...
I suspect it is the players, coaches and other team support staff who spend long periods of time in the clubhouse with its humid gym, showers and lockers who will be at risk.
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Indeed, I have cousins and friends who pay good money to go to gyms. On a good day, I wouldn't be caught dead in one. I get exercise from paint touch-ups, which require carrying the ladder and stretching to spackle and paint the cracks, from watering (many) houseplants, from bending to sweep up errant cat litter, and from taking long walks.
I know. I don't have a rowing machine. But then, I also don't have to inhale others' armpit aromas. Or their germs.
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