Coronavirus

[Charu]

Re: Coronavirus

I'm just relieved that the United States is under strong leadership at the moment. Can't say the same about Canada.

Yeah man, so strong that our president believed this wouldn't effect the US and it'd go away in a few weeks.

[benguino]

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I'm just relieved that the United States is under strong leadership at the moment.

Yes if by "leadership" you mean leading the country in a negative direction both economic and health-wise.

Maybe I'm living in an echo chamber, but as far as I see, this situation has really shined a light on Trump's inability to handle things during a time of crisis.

[SputnikOwns]

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I think he's doing great! His approval is spiking as a result.

[psychoangel691]

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I think he's doing great! His approval is spiking as a result.

You clearly aren't seeing what's actually going on.

[Arntonach]

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His leadership made the leaders at my job extremely lazy and apathetic. It's a VA with a hospice center, and had employees (including me) get exposed with no protection to someone with symptoms.

And in these last few weeks I've been in pain from breathing.

So tell me his leadership is good, cause if you just default to the generic "the market is great" well it's cause he propped it up with emergency provisions and financial safety nets that are vanishing now at a point in time when we need them the most.

Just stop being a cock-sucking sycophant and realize how fucked up things are right now.

[Psychotik]

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Yep, Canada seems to be handling the situation.

Canadians can expect to get $2,000 per month within 10 days from new emergency COVID-19 benefits, PM says

Latest news from parliament today, this is for the next 4 months, available starting early April.

[DaBackpack]

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I'm just relieved that the United States is under strong leadership at the moment. Can't say the same about Canada.

I'm like pretty sure you're baiting but if you actually believe this I'm willing to throw down with you. This has to be the worst take I've ever seen from a person in the wild.

[TC_Halogen]

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Got another potential avenue of exposure; a coworker who was asymptomatic last week missed work on Friday and has been home since, despite us having an alternating work schedule. I've been in the same room as them on at least one occasion last week.

They tried reaching someone else at our office and got me, and after I said that they sounded like shit over the phone, they told me that they were showing multiple symptoms matching common COVID-19 symptoms.

I hope they can get tested. It's legitimately unnerving having a potential positive case that close.

[rayword45]

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I'm like pretty sure you're baiting but if you actually believe this I'm willing to throw down with you. This has to be the worst take I've ever seen from a person in the wild.

his entire belief system is baiting

[Funnygurl555]

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Yep, Canada seems to be handling the situation.

Latest news from parliament today, this is for the next 4 months, available starting early April.

what

edit: mn w/ the stay at home order starting friday let's gooooo

also shit halogen. i'd suggest preemptively self isolating if that's something you're able to do so you don't get your loved ones sick but also what would i know? or at least beginning to decrease contact, because it sounds like you're at high risk of eventually getting the disease

got my mom to agree to letting my grandma stay at her place today so that was good
last i heard my grandma doesn't like my bro so i'm hoping to hear nasty grandma comments but who knows, who knows what my grandma's heard about me now

[TC_Halogen]

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what

edit: mn w/ the stay at home order starting friday let's gooooo

also shit halogen. i'd suggest preemptively self isolating if that's something you're able to do so you don't get your loved ones sick but also what would i know? or at least beginning to decrease contact, because it sounds like you're at high risk of eventually getting the disease

got my mom to agree to letting my grandma stay at her place today so that was good
last i heard my grandma doesn't like my bro so i'm hoping to hear nasty grandma comments but who knows, who knows what my grandma's heard about me now

Most of us can do our software development at home (with minor impedance due to VPN issues), and my location is literally disallowing everyone who aren't key/essential employees, but guess who falls in that...

Because of this essential requirement, they're trying to strike a medium of having in-office separation and teleworking -- partially because of infrastructural capacity and partially because of occupation-specific stuff.

We've been relegated to half time in, half time out - for now. I imagine things will change immediately if said person comes back positive.

It may also lead to the most anxiety-inducing, unsettling, terrifying next few weeks of our lives.

[LvsL]

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Initially when China got that virus first, I was like, yeah, I know the Chinese there who never really pay attention to things like hygiene, wearing mask, and their government being the shady type who are 'officially' being known to cover cases and events if possible, controlling the media etc and such such.

And eventually, the virus was so serious that even the government had to block those in wu hang from leaving the area. Fast forward to ....

A shortage of masks until they came back to supply eventually. Tissues out of stock. Soccer matches being either put on hold or cancelled. Players being affected by the virus. And worst off.. people who casually sit and talk and getting close to each other without wearing masks, especially those who are either tourists or western foreigners. Number of cases that all of a sudden went skyrocket etc.

Perhaps someone is getting something wrong, and the world has to pay for it.

[-LiquidGreen-]

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Initially when China got that virus first, I was like, yeah, I know the Chinese there who never really pay attention to things like hygiene, wearing mask, and their government being the shady type who are 'officially' being known to cover cases and events if possible, controlling the media etc and such such.

You realize you just described every country that’s ever existed, right? Not just China...

[LvsL]

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You realize you just described every country that’s ever existed, right? Not just China...

All I can say about this comment is, you really shouldn't say that. You have taken country and government issues too carelessly. Let alone the intensity and the danger that the virus presents.

You really do not know a little bit of a picture, or is too ignorance as to what communism countries look like. Seeing you just jump in as your first post, lets go in a bit of detail, but without derailing too much. Or, maybe you are a bit lucky living in a free country.

A bit off topic, but the coverups that China and those free countries are a lot different from each other. So generalizing that other countries covering up their cases too, means you are quite rash in concluding that China is just as good or bad as yours. The fact is, there is *immense* difference between part freedom, and simply no freedom. You really need to go back and educate yourself.

For the least, hospitals and medias in places that got more freedom, will report cases and their reliance is much better than the China ones, where the Chinese government will simply murder anybody who ever tried to attempt to disclose the problem -- their media is zero reliance, and even their own people knows it. If their media did tell you something, it means it's too widespread that everyone might have already known something about it, that it is already impossible to hide.

That's it. You believing me or not, is your own business. I don't want to go too deep on this. All I can tell you is, people in China might not even know what we commonly knew solely because of their media and government.

So the bottom line is, the westerners will have their media reporting what is happening and something related to the virus. The Chinese media in China will not.

In where I live at least, medias are totally trustworthy in something like the case of the virus. We still trust that there are individual independent press that will strive to report *at least* public issues, minus politics, that matters to the people that live in where I do. And thus we still have a reliable source of info when it comes to the coronavirus. Although some press in my place are turning towards being controlled by China, there are at least still sources that are reliable. We still have the freedom to ignore those newspapers that are China controlled. It's not our only way to read news.

And kudos on free internet in my place still lol. And perhaps for you too. The poor Chinese in China cannot even get to facebook, let alone other sources of news.

Ps: If you still insist that other medias from other countries does cover up something as well, I have nothing to say to you.

[MarcusHawkins]

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All I can say about this comment is, you really shouldn't say that. You have taken country and government issues too carelessly. Let alone the intensity and the danger that the virus presents.

You really do not know a little bit of a picture, or is too ignorance as to what communism countries look like. Seeing you just jump in as your first post, lets go in a bit of detail, but without derailing too much. Or, maybe you are a bit lucky living in a free country.

A bit off topic, but the coverups that China and those free countries are a lot different from each other. So generalizing that other countries covering up their cases too, means you are quite rash in concluding that China is just as good or bad as yours. The fact is, there is *immense* difference between part freedom, and simply no freedom. You really need to go back and educate yourself.

For the least, hospitals and medias in places that got more freedom, will report cases and their reliance is much better than the China ones, where the Chinese government will simply murder anybody who ever tried to attempt to disclose the problem -- their media is zero reliance, and even their own people knows it. If their media did tell you something, it means it's too widespread that everyone might have already known something about it, that it is already impossible to hide.

That's it. You believing me or not, is your own business. I don't want to go too deep on this. All I can tell you is, people in China might not even know what we commonly knew solely because of their media and government.

So the bottom line is, the westerners will have their media reporting what is happening and something related to the virus. The Chinese media in China will not.

In where I live at least, medias are totally trustworthy in something like the case of the virus. We still trust that there are individual independent press that will strive to report *at least* public issues, minus politics, that matters to the people that live in where I do. And thus we still have a reliable source of info when it comes to the coronavirus. Although some press in my place are turning towards being controlled by China, there are at least still sources that are reliable. We still have the freedom to ignore those newspapers that are China controlled. It's not our only way to read news.

And kudos on free internet in my place still lol. And perhaps for you too. The poor Chinese in China cannot even get to facebook, let alone other sources of news.

Ps: If you still insist that other medias from other countries does cover up something as well, I have nothing to say to you.

But it's true. Every government of every country in the world is nitpicking information for their own personal gain. As much as they try to help stop the virus, they still have agendas to push.

I side with LiquidGreen here