Illinois shelter-in-place beginning 5PM tomorrow til April 7th.

Yep, and I think anyone who is working from home right now should consider dipping out for a few months until this tides over. If you're out of work and won't get a job in a hospital or can't find remote work, you'll be out of work until at least June, and likely, more closer to August. It doesn't matter what your profession is.

I'm making calls to people I know in other parts just in case I want to dip, though I'll continue to pay my rent so I have a place to come back to where all my stuff will presumably be safe.

Even though the governor said martial law is unlikely, every single restriction in LA and CA were announced at 5pm and enforced at midnight. That's way too much uncertainty. The way our politicians are just dropping sudden bombs like this is horrible.

When people who are normally anti-gun zealots are out looking to buy guns, especially in LA, it's not much longer before it's not safe to stay. A lot of people are out of work, everything is closed, and I don't really know how long it can go before the entire city collapses.

Yeah just go home and infect everyone in your house. And while you're "self-isolating" even though you're not sure if you have C19, your family members are going to work and the grocery store spreading it asymptomatically. That'll work.

USA#9 has *****cted about 35,000 tests in the last 24 hours, and the number of tests seems to be going up fairly rapidly.

Except SF where almost no one owns a car.

Yes, some states are ramping up. But there are still plenty of stories of people being treated like they have C19 who still can't get tested.

The current official policy of the state of Kansas is not to test anyone in the Kansas City region because they just assume everyone there already has it so there's no point.

This is the reason

I hope I don't jinx it but deaths are down today from yesterday.

yeah, it's only the 2nd intermission

Agree. I think we agree also that we should be doing population-level testing at this point.

just wait about six hours and take another look.

Considering your current standing with new roommates I would listen to family. Tough call though. That's a long drive.

Good article about food safety and coronavirus from a chef. Seems really well thought out and well-sourced. https://www.seriouseats.com/2020/03/...ive-guide.html

What about all these other labs around the country that are supposedly cranking tests out? Can Nevada not use them?

Heaven's Waiting Room is going to become express checkout very soon. That is not a joke.

Going to a waiting room at your doctor's office or clinic or emergency room seems like a dick move if you don't absolutely have to.

Thanks guys. My brother said his house is not a go because his girlfriend is freaking out and has asthma and wants to get near nobody. Figures. CA is not a good spot to be in with no job prospects. I went from 3 pending job offers to 0 in a matter of a few days. I figure I'll make a decision by Sunday as I think there will be a lot more information by then.

I agree with Dave that when people who hate guns are out considering getting a gun (I was myself actually and I am not pro gun even though everyone I grew up with is and I've shot a lot) then things are not good.

Like I said yesterday, the government or state needs to come out and halt any bills and not just suspend them for a month, but say they won't have to be paid so people can rest easy and actually sit in their homes knowing its ok not to be at work. It'll hopefully stop the impending pandemonium that will happen in the next few weeks when death tolls start rising.

had 2 doctor's appointments this week, both had an easy videoconferencing setup (one through the app, another browser based on PC)

unless you're at the death door stay the **** home

Amazon is looking to hire 100k ppl. Talk to someone who can hire for Amazon and let them know you are ready now to relocate anywhere in the continental USA and start right away after driving there.

This ****ing MADMAN

My certain northern European land peaks in the second week of May. They are trying to delay it to June. GL with that.

When do you peak?

It's probably a good policy. I mean millions of people have it I imagine. Save the tests for people with actual serious symptoms. If someone is sick and is not sure they have it, they should stay at home anyway since they are sick. Only would make sense to test them after they don't have symptoms or are getting better.

They are doing the exact opposite of what you describe. They are refusing to test anyone from the part of the state with an outbreak in order to test more people in parts of the state with no known cases.

WalMart also hiring 150,000 people.