Movie theaters and gyms as well.

/e on the bright side, I just got an email from the bus company:

This afternoon a meeting was held between ************ Management and ***** Schools. We are in the process of negotiating terms to get our ***** school bus employees paid for school cancellation days as a result of COVID-19. This would go into effect beginning Monday, March 16th. We are in the process of working through the specific details and you may need to be available during this time to provide special requested bus service during this closure. We ask for your continued patience as more information becomes available later this week. In the meantime, we hope this helps to alleviate some of your concerns regarding your lost wages as a result of this pandemic.

Thank you,

Meanwhile here at the dealership, we sent home the entire express lube staff at 11 AM, stating it was bringing too many customers through at a time.

This post was edited by Santara on Mar 16 2020 04:50pm

Look like you are butthurt and without a single point. Nothing to do in coronavirus section.
Your signature, otherwise, is nice.

Looks like the whole world is trying to hype this up to make Trump look bad.

italy/spain news spooked everyone
china and iran both have both kept numbers of sick/dead lower than reality as happens with closed secretive countries

This post was edited by low-ki on Mar 16 2020 05:50pm

Italy realy took one for the team and served as the cautionary tale for the rest of the Western world.

How do you know they are doing that with the numbers? I get the feeling because I dont trust them but are you sure?

Personally, I trust neither China's nor Iran's numbers... about anything.

Ours suck too. The numbers are just no good in countries who are paranoid and manic about control like China, or unorganized and lacking infrastructure like the US. Its wild that Vietnam is better at testing for this than us and that South Korea can test more people in one day than we have this entire episode.

I think you need to compare SKs testing numbers to a "state" of similar size, and not the entire US. Just the physical distribution of test kits is a much bigger problem in the entire US.


/e Keep in mind that disinformation campaigns are nothing new, either.

This post was edited by Ghot on Mar 16 2020 08:17pm

loooooooooooool copy pasta of Trump quotes:

January 22: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
February 25: “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
February 25: “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
February 26: “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
February 26: “We're going very substantially down, not up.”
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
February 28: “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
March 2: “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2: “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5: “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5: “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6: “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6: “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 8: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9: “This blindsided the world.”
March 13: "I am declaring a National Emergency."
March 13: “I don’t take responsibility at all."