2019 Novel Coronavirus

[Road Guy]

I guess if this is still an issue 12 months from June I have bigger problems than $1500 bucks in airline tickets -

How did Italy get so blown up? Did they have a shit load of people go to China?

 

[RBHeadge PE]

How did Italy get so blown up? Did they have a shit load of people go to China?

Normal flow of tourists to/from Asia. But Italy has a notoriously poor public health system - at least with respect to communicable disease. They simply don't have the infrastructure or governmental controls to deal with an epidemic appropriately.

 

[JayKay PE]

Yeah, my sister and I are trying to convince them.  My sister worked in NYC DEP Haz response/CDC team and she was like, "Italy's public health sector is really weak.  They're not going to be able to contain this" and that her confidence about it not spreading in Europe went down the crapper once she saw it landed in Italy.  And now Italy has 12 confirmed deaths linked to the virus.  Uhhhhhhhhhhh.  Elderly parents please don't travel into a shit show.  This is just like when they landed in Vegas like 3-hours after the rooftop shooting in 2017.

@RBHeadge PE, that's pretty much exactly what my sister said at the beginning of this.

Also, didn't know what everyone was talking about with S&P...and then I saw the shit-show with Russia and Saudi Arabia and...yeah.

 

[Orchid PE]

Also, didn't know what everyone was talking about with S&P

Well from Feb 19 - Feb 28 it dropped 12.76%. Essentially all the gains since Oct 2019 were gone in just a few days.

 

[JayKay PE]

Well from Feb 19 - Feb 28 it dropped 12.76%. Essentially all the gains since Oct 2019 were gone in just a few days.

I just keep shoveling money into it from my paycheck.  I've got at least 25+ years until retirement.  I'll start worrying about that number when I get closer.  Until then-shovel money in, buy more shares.

 

[Supe]

The organization that hosts my Miami trip in April just pulled the plug.

 

[Tiger15]

We have zero cases of coronavirus in louisiana. But yeah, stores have been selling out of toilet paper, cleaning supplies, and bottled water. It's not like a panicked run on stuff, but people seems to be stocking up.

Also, hurricane season is only a few months away, so I feel like people are just starting their yearly hurricane prep early

I spoke too soon...

https://www.wdsu.com/article/louisiana-governor-confirms-first-presumptive-case-of-coronavirus/

 

[mudpuppy]

I guess if this is still an issue 12 months from June I have bigger problems than $1500 bucks in airline tickets -

It's 12 months from when you first bought the ticket.  So if you bought the tickets in December for a flight in June, you have until December to use it, even if you don't cancel the flight until May.

 

[Road Guy]

fuckers!  - I am cancelling that SW card today!  But same sort of sentiment about bigger problems.. - We were supposed to fly to Tampa then visit some family in Gainesville before going to the Keys.  

Where we go is not near Key West (Cruise Ship central) so Id like to think it would be okay but just getting there and back through Tampa and Fort Lauderdale might be risky - and I dont want to risk being infected or infecting other people if its not essential travel (unlike how most boomers are acting right now)

 

[Road Guy]

So we just got a weird email "ordering" us to take our laptops home every day in the event the decision was made that we needed to work from home full time.... 

 

[csb]

So we just got a weird email "ordering" us to take our laptops home every day in the event the decision was made that we needed to work from home full time.... 

But don't you have to go through the security training about NOT taking your laptop home because everything gets stolen and blah blah blah. 

We just got the message that three members of our legislature, which is currently here in town still in session, were at the same Ted Cruz party. They aren't being quarantined, though. 

 

[Roarbark]

@Dleg Another good option. 

 

[tj_PE]

It's 12 months from when you first bought the ticket.  So if you bought the tickets in December for a flight in June, you have until December to use it, even if you don't cancel the flight until May.

i bet with this shit going on you could sweet talk them into extending the deadline. i've seen datapoints of success with this. 

 

[tj_PE]

But don't you have to go through the security training about NOT taking your laptop home because everything gets stolen and blah blah blah. 

We just got the message that three members of our legislature, which is currently here in town still in session, were at the same Ted Cruz party. They aren't being quarantined, though. 

makes total sense.

 

[Roarbark]

But don't you have to go through the security training about NOT taking your laptop home because everything gets stolen and blah blah blah. 

We just got the message that three members of our legislature, which is currently here in town still in session, were at the same Ted Cruz party. They aren't being quarantined, though. 

Ain't no party like a Ted Cruz party. Oh boy.

 

[Dleg]

Yeah I am dreading the whole travel issue. We recently booked a trip to my daughter's graduation in Alaska for the very end of April, with a stop in Denver to see the family. No foreign stops, but long overseas flight nonetheless. Now I am worried that all air travel will shut down and won't be back up by then, and my biggest problem is my son. That trip is basically the only thing he is looking forward to in life right now. 16 years old, autistic, and fighting off major depression / emotional problems right now, with meds, psychiatrists, etc. A cancellation would be hell for him. 

 

[P-E]

Yeah I am dreading the whole travel issue. We recently booked a trip to my daughter's graduation in Alaska for the very end of April, with a stop in Denver to see the family. No foreign stops, but long overseas flight nonetheless. Now I am worried that all air travel will shut down and won't be back up by then, and my biggest problem is my son. That trip is basically the only thing he is looking forward to in life right now. 16 years old, autistic, and fighting off major depression / emotional problems right now, with meds, psychiatrists, etc. A cancellation would be hell for him. 

That’s a real bummer.  We’re supposed to go to universal next month.  I’m not seeing that happening. 

 

[P-E]

this really is the apocalypse      CNN reports:

A Komodo dragon with no male partner gave birth to three hatchlings

 

[Dleg]

Nope. Just the birth of lizard Jesus. He has come to save us all.

 

[JayKay PE]