It’s not just Philly.

My wife just reported that the hospital where she works has lifted the fee that they pay to rent a parking space. Since it's Portland, OR, they discourage evil gas-guzzling greenhouse gas emitting vehicles and encourage biking to work or using the train/bus to get to work.

Well now someone got a clue and they don't want the staff to be exposed to public transportation and they are no longer charging the staff for a parking spot until this is all over. Hospital staff are encouraged to use private vehicles to commute to and from work to reduce the risk of exposure.

Nurses got a questionnaire today asking who is willing to work different departments and who is willing to be called in on a 2-hour notice on days off.

Tony.

I wonder if City Hall will have a line painted to mark the entire perimeter of Filthydelphia, so when the reprobates get to that line they’ll know to go no further, being the upstanding and lawful model citizens that they are?!

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Originally posted by Cookster:
Well, we new that it wouldn’t take long for Philadelphia’s new police chief fresh in from Portland, OR to make her mark and thoroughly fuck things up in Philly, so from the proverbial chapter of “What Could Possibly Go Wrong”, sub-chapter titled “What Were They Thinking”, we have this as reported from The Conservative Treehouse -

Thunderdome 2020 Begins – Philadelphia Police Will Not Arrest for Burglary or Theft Due to Coronavirus…

They should have taken a tour of downtown Portland to see what a horror show it is before they hired her.

Tony.

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Originally posted by 1KPerDay:
https://www.womply.com/blog/he...rmarkets-nationwide/

Check out Utah

"We have the TP!"

Work about 40% of my job in malls. Yesterday most stores went from normal hours to 12-6 or 11-7. Today 80% closed, then went to closed for business. One store I was in, Lacoste got the call from corporate while I was in there, assessing repairs needed, lock doors now, leave after disinfecting.

The other 60% of work is electrical work in homes. I had Fridge repairman in today, wife cleaned fridge made me cringe. Cabinet guy texted me at 11pm to cancel tomorrow. No one is going to want me in their house. Pretty much unemployed next week. Got OT this week (today is end of week). End of calendar week is currently scheduled, next week tumble weeds.

My boss will come up with some work, but that will just mean more chances of exposure for me. Wish I could telecommute.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Work about 40% of my job in malls. Yesterday most stores went from normal hours to 12-6 or 11-7. Today 80% closed, then went to closed for business. One store I was in, Lacoste got the call from corporate while I was in there, assessing repairs needed, lock doors now, leave after disinfecting.

The other 60% of work is electrical work in homes. I had Fridge repairman in today, wife cleaned fridge made me cringe. Cabinet guy texted me at 11pm to cancel tomorrow. No one is going to want me in their house. Pretty much unemployed next week. Got OT this week (today is end of week). End of calendar week is currently scheduled, next week tumble weeds.

My boss will come up with some work, but that will just mean more chances of exposure for me. Wish I could telecommute.

I feel for you, I really do. I have had 16 full days of work out of the next 30 days, cancel over the past week. Every day was a high paying day. It completely sucks. In understand why they canceled, but it's still no fun. The largest job a 13 day trip to the Bahamas, they're in Guatamala and can't fly here and back home.

I have little bits and maintenance pieces on the management yachts and routine monthly maintenance, but it's not a whole lot as I caught up on all of the should do's over the last 2 months.

Well my Jrt and myself ride out to the farms, visit with my brother. Lunchtime arrives , then it’s home for a nap , etc. Being an introvert this social distancing thing comes very easy.

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Originally posted by Cookster:
Well, we new that it wouldn’t take long for Philadelphia’s new police chief fresh in from Portland, OR to make her mark and thoroughly fuck things up in Philly, so from the proverbial chapter of “What Could Possibly Go Wrong”, sub-chapter titled “What Were They Thinking”, we have this as reported from The Conservative Treehouse -

Thunderdome 2020 Begins – Philadelphia Police Will Not Arrest for Burglary or Theft Due to Coronavirus…

Posted tonight by a guy I’m friends with in Philly, and I can vouch he would not be posting spam or fake stuff.

Philadelphia is going Mad Max and fast:

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FEATHERMAN: An honest and credible friend of mine just sent me this private conversation. I asked his permission to reprint it. I promised him I would not identify him or his child. He gave permission.

MY FRIEND: My son and his roommates live in an off campus apt at Temple Univ. 2 APT buildings have been broken into. They are kicking in the door or braking in the glass to get inside. These POS know that most of the students went home and left lots of stuff behind because of the COVID-19 Virus. The shit is getting real in North Philly, and police are not responding. I told him he needs to leave NOW, but 2 of the roommates have no where to go. THIS IS CRAZY. He just texted me that maintenance will be out in the morning... SURE after they go APT to APT and take what they want....SMH. These criminals know that the kids left to go home and entered through a basement window they broke out and climbed in. The other building next to him abut an hour ago they kicked in the back door. They know Police will not do a thing.

^^^ If that is real this is what I was concerned was going to happen in the cities. Insanity.

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Originally posted by ridewv:
Well WV finally reported our first case, it is in the eastern panhandle near DC area.

It is not me

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Originally posted by benny6:

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Originally posted by Cookster:
Well, we new that it wouldn’t take long for Philadelphia’s new police chief fresh in from Portland, OR to make her mark and thoroughly fuck things up in Philly, so from the proverbial chapter of “What Could Possibly Go Wrong”, sub-chapter titled “What Were They Thinking”, we have this as reported from The Conservative Treehouse -

Thunderdome 2020 Begins – Philadelphia Police Will Not Arrest for Burglary or Theft Due to Coronavirus…

They should have taken a tour of downtown Portland to see what a horror show it is before they hired her.

Tony.

And the schools are closed...........and warm weather is approaching..........that has always been trouble even in good times........but now..........

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
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And they have the audacity to even try to deny that they (China) are the root cause of these outbreaks. Even going as far as saying we brought it there.

Immunology experts slam government's 'herd immunity' approach to tackling Covid-19 3-15-20

Immunology experts have slammed what they have described as the UK Government's "herd immunity" approach to tackling Covid-19 .

Professor Arne Akbar, president of the British Society for Immunology , has written an open letter to the government to voice "significant questions" about the strategy proposed.

In his letter, Mr Akbar wrote: "The world faces a huge challenge in light of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.

"The UK’s public health strategy differs from many other countries, with an aim to build herd immunity to protect the population.

"Within the immunology community, we have significant questions about this strategy. The ultimate aim of herd immunity is to stop disease spread and protect the most vulnerable in society.

"However, this strategy only works to reduce serious disease if, when building that immunity, vulnerable individuals are protected from becoming ill, for example through social distancing. If not, the consequences could be severe."

Additionally, Mr Akbar added there are "many unknowns in how the SARS-CoV-2 virus interacts with the human immune system and how this might play into current scenarios".

"For example, we don’t yet know if this novel virus will induce long-term immunity in those affected as other related viruses do not," he wrote.

"Therefore, it would be prudent to prevent infection in the first place. More research is urgently needed on this front.

"The UK leads the world for the quality of our immunology research. Given our current lack of knowledge on SARS-CoV-2, our community of immunologists have two asks. Firstly, we feel more needs to be done to ensure social distancing to limit the number of COVID-19 cases in the short term, especially for vulnerable members of our communities.

"This will enable us to buy time until we understand the virus better and can begin to develop therapeutics.

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Originally posted by Cookster:
Well, we new that it wouldn’t take long for Philadelphia’s new police chief fresh in from Portland, OR to make her mark and thoroughly fuck things up in Philly, so from the proverbial chapter of “What Could Possibly Go Wrong”, sub-chapter titled “What Were They Thinking”, we have this as reported from The Conservative Treehouse -

Thunderdome 2020 Begins – Philadelphia Police Will Not Arrest for Burglary or Theft Due to Coronavirus…

A misleading headline, as they WILL respond, collect info and IDs and issue paperwork. It would seem just delaying the in person processing. Given how slow the justice system is, I guess this just adds a month or two to the same net effect.

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Originally posted by Pyker:
I just switched from Valsartan (an Ace-2 inhibitor) back to Norvasc for my HTN, just to be on the safe side. Bit of a bummer since I only went back to Valsartan last month after the Chinese fucked it up a couple of years ago.

Valsartan is not an ACE...it is an ARB.

An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19) 3-13-20

Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies

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Originally posted by f2:
An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19) 3-13-20

Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies

Saw this a couple days ago on FNC. As soon as the study’s PI started to relay the positive results, his voice was garbled and they scrambled to get him off the air. Instead the news desk switched to some foolish blonde on the street that just had to speak to a mother and child about their feelings.
So many in the news media and social media are desperate to keep the mass hysteria going. Instead of listening about a double blind, placebo controlled study (albeit a small one but hey who wants to take a 50/50 chance of getting the placebo) for a previously approved drug (one normally prescribed against malaria) that reduced the symptoms and hastened their elimination for 5-cents a day... let’s instead go to the street where we can hear the lamenting of women & children. No better way to demonstrate the bullshit nature of what’s taking place.

For those interested in the pre-clinical study that preceded the human trial:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0156-0

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Originally posted by AllenInWV:

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Originally posted by DLC762:
Thankfully the restaurants/bars in WV are still open.

I've got some bad news for you....

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — All 50 U.S. states now have confirmed cases of the new coronavirus as West Virginia's governor announced the first positive test in his state on Tuesday evening.
Gov. Jim Justice said the person with the virus is in the state's Eastern Panhandle, a region close to Washington, D.C., though he didn't disclose the county where it was reported.
Justice used a televised address to announce new restrictions, ordering bars, restaurants and casinos to close with the except of carry-out food services. He did not address delivery services.
"This is real and it's really concerning," the governor said.

I’ve been told it’s a nurse in the neighboring county of Jefferson. I can’t wait for the ensuing wave of panic buying... not that it’s not already going on.