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Hopefully. Italy's new cases jumped a bit from yesterday, but still well off of their peak on Saturday. Hopefully we'll continue to see the overall trend there pointing downward.

My job has already been furloughed. The wife just got off a call with her boss where she was basically told that it's not a matter of if but when she gets laid off. They'll be doing waves of layoffs on a weekly basis. I hope any company that has jumped the gun on layoffs is eliminated from any benefit from this stimulus bill once passed.

I would assume those companies are already running at 100% capacity and cranking out as many as they possibly can. If this pandemic goes as bad as it possibly could go, then we're not talking about needing a few more. We're talking about needing exponentially more than we currently have.

I still see a lot of people talking like this is all going to pass and we're going to be back to normal in a matter of weeks. That's delusional. All you have to do is look at this $6 TRILLION stimulus bill that looks set to pass. That's essentially one third of our entire GDP in a stimulus package. That sends a very loud and very clear message that we're going to be dealing with this for a a loooooong time.

The federal government has massively dropped the ball, but does anyone really think that they're sitting on massive warehouses stacked wall to wall and floor to ceiling with ventilators? The ball was dropped on the mitigation effort. Now we're forced to try to catch up on the treatment side and it's just not possible.

Our county goes to shelter in place restrictions on Thursday. That pretty much means the majority of the Denver metro area is on lockdown. That'll be Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Boulder and Jefferson counties all with shelter in place mandates.

Yep, the root cause of the big outbreak in the Colorado ski resort towns was traced back to a group of Australian tourists who tested positive here and were ordered to isolate themselves while efforts were made to get them back home. Instead of following that order, they instead went skiing and bar hopping as previously planned. Honestly, people like that should be facing criminal charges. How is it not reckless endangerment?

Here you go: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200320192755.htm Touching copper is going to do absolutely nothing except infect that copper for up to four hours.

Bullshit. The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can survive up to 4 hours on a copper surface so how in the hell is regularly touching copper going to minimize anything? Hint: It won't.

A potent in vitro anti-viral. There's very little research (everything I've seen points back to one study involving slightly over 100 people and it involved preventing the common cold) that indicates it's effectiveness as an anti-viral when administered orally. As for copper, yeah it's well known that copper has antimicrobial properties. That means microbes don't survive well on a copper surface. Wearing a copper bracelet is going to accomplish absolutely nothing on that front.

California: Shelter in place NY: Shelter in place Denver: Shelter in place Florida: First inaugural Dade County Coughing Contest at 6pm this evening!

The NY diaspora is a problem. On the one hand, I can't blame those with the means to get out for getting out. On the other hand, this is going to spread a lot of carriers.

You're still not understanding that it's not about the kids getting sick. It's about the kids basically being super spreaders.

Yep, because absolutely no one who works in the school system is in a high risk group. The bottom line is that if a ton of kids get in then it's going to spread BIG TIME. Good luck getting kids to listen to social distancing measures and getting them to diligently wash their hands and not touch their faces. It's not a lack of self control, it's just called being a kid. Those kids are going to give it to their parents, those parents are going to go to work and so on and so on.

Denver has already amended it's shelter in place guidelines. Originally, liquor stores and marijuana dispensaries were going to be deemed non-essential and would be closed. There was such a mad rush overwhelming them that they've now been deemed essential. LOL!

I don't think he is wrong about the deaths. The issue with his premise is that young kids by and large have very mild symptoms making them likely to continue going to school as carriers and spreading this thing like gasoline driven wildfire. That's the problem.

China took super aggressive containment measures. If people would just listen to the damn social distancing guidelines we could greatly reduce the spread, but Americans be all like YOLO! still gonna do what I do!!!

Italy

5560 new cases yesterday. 4789 new cases today. The math seems to be holding up.

Not sure exactly what he thought he was accomplishing there. "Don't have guns or the people coming with guns will shoot you!" Were they just going to sing kumbaya with you and leave you with a few rolls of toilet paper if you were unarmed? LOL!

The city and county of Denver (CO) just announced a stay at home order through April 10th. I wouldn't be surprised if the state follows suit soon but right now Polis is staying the "blame Trump" course. I think everyone but the most diehard of Trumpers fully understands the federal government has horribly dropped the ball on this, but that's no excuse for a state to drop the ball and pass the blame. Polis is failing. .

Glad I special ordered some ammo for my old school Winchester Model 1873 and 1892 last summer. Defending the homestead old school frontier style seems more sporting.

Schools aren't opening back up this school year. People just need to go ahead and accept that.

Oh, the Master's? Absolutely. That's a different ballgame. I was simply talking about locals playing golf locally in my post.

My wife's boss is a complete moron about this. She still wants everyone in the office. They are certainly not an essential business. My wife can easily work from home. She already works remotely one day a week. I'm sure tomorrow's plan of action will be to figure out how they can claim to qualify as an essential business. Meanwhile, the boss has done absolutely nothing to change her usual daily routine and doesn't like the fact that everyone else in the office is trying to maintain social distancing standards. She has an out of state vacation planned soon and absolutely still plans to go.