Wuhan Coronavirus: Lockdowns, Quarantines, Cancellations

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All patients discharged from USNS Comfort

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The Javits Center Field Hospital will close on May 30th while the USNC Comfort will depart New York on April 30th after all patients onboard were discharged yesterday.

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#Anthrocon, Inc. on Twitter

“It's with a heavy heart that we have to announce that we're cancelling AC 2020. Without an end in sight for the COVID-19 crisis it's not safe or responsible of us to hold the con. All the info we have is at this link. https://t.co/0JX0Yeb3sb”
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Anthrocon, which was scheduled for July in Pittsburgh, has been canceled.
 
The latest Michigan happenings:

With Michigan's current State of Emergency ending this week on 30-Apr, Governor Whitmer is set to request another 28 day extension (and has hinted she'd prefer an even longer one). How the state (and Republican-controlled) house and senate both respond to this request remains to be seen.

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Stay at Home/Stay Safe has already been extended through 15-May, and I believe @CeleryStalks has already mentioned that Governor Whitmer has decided today to allow the construction industry to resume.

Even though there's more of a push to test:
  • Health care professionals,
  • People whose work is deemed essential per state guidelines,
  • People already suspected of having COVID-19, and
  • Minorities in inner-city/poor areas,
There still doesn't seem to be much talk about a comprehensive statewide effort to test more people so they can be cleared to return to work with or without some combination of restrictions and social distancing. That's probably going to be a point of contention/frustration with both the legislature and state residents as a whole. People want to be safe, but those in nonessential positions also want to resume working their full hours at their workplaces as soon as prudently possible.
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Kiwi Lime Pie said:
The latest Michigan happenings:

With Michigan's current State of Emergency ending this week on 30-Apr, Governor Whitmer is set to request another 28 day extension (and has hinted she'd prefer an even longer one). How the state (and Republican-controlled) house and senate both respond to this request remains to be seen.

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Stay at Home/Stay Safe has already been extended through 15-May, and I believe @CeleryStalks has already mentioned that Governor Whitmer has decided today to allow the construction industry to resume.

Even though there's more of a push to test:
  • Health care professionals,
  • People whose work is deemed essential per state guidelines,
  • People already suspected of having COVID-19, and
  • Minorities in inner-city/poor areas,
There still doesn't seem to be much talk about a comprehensive statewide effort to test more people so they can be cleared to return to work with or without some combination of restrictions and social distancing. That's probably going to be a point of contention/frustration with both the legislature and state residents as a whole. People want to be safe, but those in nonessential positions also want to resume working their full hours at their workplaces as soon as prudently possible.
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Whitmer contends her authority to handle the COVID-19 pandemic is not dependent on an extension from the legislature: “I have multiple, distinct, independent authorities of constitutional and statutory power to keep people safe as the governor of the state of Michigan.”

But legislative buy-in is necessary to extend liability protections for frontline workers like doctors, nurses and first responders, Whitmer said.

“It’s better for everyone if we work together to get this right," she said.

Last week, the Michigan Senate voted on legislation that would create a joint oversight committee of the state’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and, in the Senate, vote on bills to repeal the Emergency Powers of the Governor Act of 1945 and limit the number of days the governor can unilaterally declare a state of emergency under a separate law from 28 days to 14.

Whitmer said she’d veto the bills if they make it to her desk.
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Boris is being urged by the treasury to lift the lockdown this following Monday. Prof Neil Ferguson from Imperial London seems to be the only adviser and only educated one saying if lifted so soon he is saying 100.000 will be dead by December 2020 considering we are at 21.000 recorded and estimated 40.000 its very likely. The problem is Boris' inner circle are shills of the treasury so it looks like it is likely.

I think the world in general is thinking once a month of being inside is over, thats it virus is gone but not realising that this virus is mutating and starting to target multiple ages.
 
Not to brag, or rub anybodies face in it... but I’m sitting happily in my (largely empty) favorite local bistro enjoying lunch.
FREEDOM!
 
Phalanx said:
I think the world in general is thinking once a month of being inside is over, thats it virus is gone but not realising that this virus is mutating and starting to target multiple ages.
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It already does target multiple ages. But younger people are less likely to develop severe symptoms and even less likely to die. A virus that mutates into a lethal form gets outcompeted by viruses that mutate into less lethal forms. Someone who's lungs have failed isn't walking around, the guy with a mild cough is.
 
The mayor of New York City has a very interesting choice of words when it comes to enforcing his final solution to the corona question.

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He’s sure to be showered with praise for this. Who could possibly look at such a dictate and say de Blasio’s work will not set them free? Only someone who’s genuinely baked or belongs to an inferior race could think this proclamation isn’t in the sole interest of total extermination of this undesirable pseudo-lifeform from the fair, pure city of New York. What a gas of a life the New Yorkers must be having right now.
 
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The mayor of New York City has a very interesting choice of words when it comes to enforcing his final solution to the corona question.

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He’s sure to be showered with praise for this. Who could possibly look at such a dictate and say de Blasio’s work will not set them free? Only someone who’s genuinely baked or belongs to an inferior race could think this proclamation isn’t in the sole interest of total extermination of this undesirable pseudo-lifeform from the fair, pure city of New York. What a gas of a life the New Yorkers must be having right now.
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Holy mother of ratios....
 
heathercho said:
bars and sporting events will likely never open back up properly. They're picking and choosing what they want to apply restrictions to.
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I expect Casinos to be up and running with the next 2-3 weeks with social distancing rules obviously. Unfortunately the small bars and pubs will have to stay closed because this epidemic the risk of people getting sick is too high.
 
They're closing all the California beaches now - not just the 99% of them that were closed last weekend. I'm grumpy. I can't speak for all the beaches but people were absolutely social distancing at the one I went to last weekend. I feel like a) we can't do anything right, b) our leadership is just trying to upset people now instead of actually making lockdowns practical and sustainable.


Reddit is saying that cops in Orange County are already refusing to enforce the order though. That'll be interesting.
 
Lol I don't know what they were expecting. The past few weeks have been hotter than it's been in months, of course Californians were going to go to the beaches in droves as soon as they were given the go ahead, and of course they weren't going to follow the bullshit "social distancing" guidelines where basically all you could do is walk around 6 feet away from each other. That's not what people go to the beach to do. But you probably don't get that when you're riding out the lockdown in your $3 million Fair Oaks mansion with a pool, tennis court and wine cellar, huh Gavin?
 
Update from France

Our government ends confinement on May 11, unless there is no decrease in hospitalisations / deaths, in which case, we're on lockdown till June 2nd.

  • Elementary and middle schoolers are going back to class within a 3 week span between May 11 and June 2nd. Face masks are mandatory, and classes are limited to 15 students max, which is a pretty big issue since most classes in France are 29-30 students. I suppose the rest will have to study from home, idk.
  • Shops are allowed to open on May 11 if they obey the instructions (spaces between clients, face coverings, etc.)
  • You will be allowed to go outside without reason or permission slip after May 11, but you won't be able to travel for more than 100kms away from your place of residence, unless it is for a medical or family emergency.
  • Workers are kept online whenever possible.
  • Masks are mandatory in all public transport as well as most enclosed spaces.
  • Restaurants, cafés, cinemas, and big museums stay closed until mid June at the very least.
  • High schools remain closed. Their fate will be decided towards the end of May.
  • Unis will stay closed till September. Most of our exams will happen online, I suppose. (It's each uni for its own here. There's no national directive as to how to deal with grades).
Those are the broad national points. Beyond that, each city fends for itself. Being in Paris right now is hell, or so my friends tell me. One of them even fled last week to the South, and took a 135e fine for it.
In my parents' town, the townhall gave out free reusable masks, equipped all public transport with hand sanitisers, and disinfects streets daily, so it's all good.
 
MN is extending its stay at home order until May 18, allowing some formerly closed businesses to open for curbside pickup only.

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Salons and barber shops can open, but only to sell product via curbside delivery, not provide services. The governor also wants people to wear masks everywhere now, and several local grocery stores have also asked customers to do this. The local Chinese grocery store in my town is the only place that absolutely insists that customers wear masks, and will even provide jerryrigged shop-towel masks to customers who don't have one. (Hope they aren't reusing them.) Wisconsin, the state next door, has its lockdown order set to expire May 26.
 
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