Covid-19

[early]

Originally Posted by rbarata

Things are now becoming more critical with many limitations to everyday life:
Hopefully now they'll start to understand.

Hopefully not just Spain, but the USA is starting to understand. I have a very good friend who owns a foster kids visitation with bio parents. This week a child came in ill with symptoms, and a couple attending her parenting classes who need to complete them to get their kids back by the end of the month. After several months of not having them. My friend, a very compassionate woman and mother, let the couple who were both ill, stay in the class so they could get their kids back. I told her NO NO NO. You have to stop this. And her mother wanted to take the 6 yr old to the movies today. I again said NO. She called the department of Child welfare, to tell them no more sick kids will be allowed, and she then called her mother and said no movie. I have cancelled all appointment in the next month except one that is essential, cancelled everyone coming to my home to visit, making calls instead of visiting an 85 yr old friend who totaled her car two days ago. And I made calls to everyone on my contact list to encourage them to take this very serious. \

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OK for now, Off my soap box. I worked in Mexico city after an earthquake killed 20 to 30,000 residents, doctors and nurse in a hospital that collapsed. Worked helping to recover the dead. So I have seen death on large scales. But that is nothing to what is heading into our 2020 pandemic for our world.

[camille1585]

Rbarata, I'm surprised by how many people are still going to the beach!!

Water Witchin, I'm completely with you on this one. People are more likely to see the inconvenience to themselves rather than the greater good. It's not just about protecting yourself, but especially about protecting the fragile members of society and trying to keep the epidemic at manageable levels for the health systems. While I'm young and mostly healthy, I have asthma, which already puts me in the high risk category during flu season.

Here in the Netherlands, all gatherings of over 100 people are banned as of today and all sports competitions cancelled, people are urged to work from home. Bizarrely, while France and other countries made the choice to shut down their school systems because children can be low symptom/asymptomatic carriers and pose a danger to the adults around them, the Netherlands has chosen to keep schools open because children are not vulnerable to the virus and thus aren't a danger to others... Sems no one knows what the best course of action is.

[AnonYMouse]

SB show news story

I hope the local vendors can work out something with the international and regional vendors, buy out their stocks or third party sales or something.

[Kal2020]

Originally Posted by AnonYMouse

SB show news story

I hope the local vendors can work out something with the international and regional vendors, buy out their stocks or third party sales or something.

Does anyone have any info on those vendors who came from overseas after the Santa Barbara show was cancelled at the last minute? I heard some of them suffered great financial losses and had possibly put them out of business for a while.

[Ray]

77 people attended my wife's band concert last night. We had lots of room to space ourselves out...

[Subrosa]

I was going to do my annual Ecuagenera preorder for pick up at the SEPOS show in a couple weeks, but saw the writing on the wall. The show hasn't been cancelled yet, but with the progression of infection here in PA I fear it's just a matter of time.

[early]

in NM we are doubling cases every day and they have only had enough test to do 127 people per NMDOH and CDC. I am helping an elderly friend, who is older than me, go pick up her things from the car she totaled wed night. She lives close with a 92 yr old, not well man. In a crisis like this, neighbors help neighbors when possible. It is the nurse in me. I want to check her out, she is in pain from airbag.

[Ray]

John, I read elsewhere that SEPOS has officially been scrubbed.

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by Ray

John, I read elsewhere that SEPOS has officially been scrubbed.

Where was that Ray? I've checked a few times but didn't find anything about it being cancelled at this point. Just today I heard my night class is cancelled for the next 2 weeks, so it's not surprising.

[Subrosa]

Originally Posted by Ray

John, I read elsewhere that SEPOS has officially been scrubbed.

Saw it on the show website. Such a shame.