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Yeah, I wouldn't be taking ibuprofen with this stuff. Even if it's only anecdotal info that it could worsen the disease, acetaminophen is a perfectly fine substitute.

Can't right now. She's still safe at the moment. If (when) she gets laid off I'll go full scorched earth.

An update on my wife's employer's incredibly fuged up approach to this situation. Not only are they laying off people in droves, but once those positions are reposted, laid off employees will simply be invited to re-apply. Not brought back automatically. Not given preferential treatment. Literally just treated as any other applicant.

They're specifically trying to avoid FMLA claims due to schools and a lot of childcare providers being closed. They'll probably target employees with kids which would probably turn into a discrimination lawsuit.

So are we. With our limited testing, there's a helluva lot more cases out there than the reported number.

Times like these reveal who people (and businesses) really are, the good and the bad.

This is good and expected given the time of year. It'll both serve to reduce the strain on our healthcare system as well as hopefully make COVID-19 cases easier to identify. If you got this stuff a month ago, it was pretty much assumed to be a cold or flu until proven otherwise.

She hasn't been laid off. Yet. I wouldn't be surprised in the least though if she is laid off early next week to just beat the deadline. She has some crucial projects going on right now that she's really the only person there who has the ability to complete them and I pretty much told her to make sure they don't get wrapped up prior to next Wednesday.

If you understood the business she's in you'd realize this isn't applicable. That's all I'll say in a public thread.

My wife got direct confirmation this morning from their controller that all of the layoffs they're announcing today and tomorrow are with the specific intention of beating the April 1st deadline outlined below. Beginning April 1, H.R. 6201 will require employers with fewer than 500 employees, with some exceptions, to provide 12 weeks of protected leave to eligible employees who are unable to work, including telework, because their child’s school or place of care has been closed or their child care provider is unavailable due to a public health emergency. The new requirement, which amends the Family and Medical Leave Act, will expire Dec. 31. The 500-employee threshold under the emergency FMLA is a significant change from the current FMLA threshold of 50 or more employees. It's straight up fuging evil. Pay attention to the companies that have been laying people off in droves this week. Don't give them your business in the future. They don't deserve it.

Can y'all quit bickering over a joke about a damn haircut? This is why American politics are such a fuging joke. In a thread about a fuging global pandemic we have people bitching and moaning over whether or not a joke about a haircut is racist or not. WTF?

The entire state of Colorado has now been issued a stay at home order through April 11th.

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.