Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

[ticapnews]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Because Prince Jared and Secretary of Hate Stephen Miller put it in the prompter and President Ron Burgandy read it. <a href="https://t.co/2YOcZDf797">https://t.co/2YOcZDf797</a></p>— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1238090817035587585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's "Doctor" Jared to you.

 

[Handyman]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

I didn't say it was intentional, I said somebody is making a fortune. They are swooping in and making buys low (or they will). That IS how the market works, and you know it.

"He treated me like I was stupid I'm not stupid."

A little ironic coming from you

 

[Handyman]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump misstated his own policy in an Oval Office address touching off a mass panic that led to large crowds gathering in enclosed spaces. <a href="https://t.co/GBN0fx2yiO">https://t.co/GBN0fx2yiO</a></p>— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1238096149610999809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Good god...as if CDG didnt suck enough as is during a mass panic I wouldnt go anywhere near that place.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE: Westchester County Police have just shut down Glen Island Park, site of COVID-19 Mobile Testing Site for New Rochelle Containment Site (about 4 miles away). Heavy equipment rolling in, lights, more. <a href="https://t.co/lF3TTP7IPB">pic.twitter.com/lF3TTP7IPB</a></p>— Talk of the Sound &#55356;&#56826;&#55356;&#56824; (@TalkoftheSound) <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkoftheSound/status/1238109937789628416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This seems ominous.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

Had a fever yesterday, not very high, and it seems to be gone today, although today I've got a pretty good case of the chills. Have a doctors appointment for later today that was made last month, so I'm gonna see about getting tested anyway. If I have it, I don't want to be running around spreading it. And after all, Donnie said anyone that wants one can get one, right?

At some point, just lie and say you flew out of europe last week.

 

[unofan]

While you're not wrong, neither is he. Not entirely. SOmeone is either covering a margin, hedging a short, or buying at a fire sale price. The people who can do those right now are a fairly small subset of investors.

But when people say the market lost a trillion dollars, it's not like someone cashed out and collected that trillion

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE: Westchester County Police have just shut down Glen Island Park, site of COVID-19 Mobile Testing Site for New Rochelle Containment Site (about 4 miles away). Heavy equipment rolling in, lights, more. <a href="https://t.co/lF3TTP7IPB">pic.twitter.com/lF3TTP7IPB</a></p>— Talk of the Sound ���� (@TalkoftheSound) <a href="https://twitter.com/TalkoftheSound/status/1238109937789628416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This seems ominous.

Just wait til we can’t have an election

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

Just wait til we can’t have an election

Ugh.

 

[Kepler]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

But when people say the market lost a trillion dollars, it's not like someone cashed out and collected that trillion

The paper value is fictitious, but it is true that somebody now has equities whose volume translates to that (paper) value once the market recovers, which, eventually, it will.

I wasn't trying to be conspiratorial and I regret that interpretation was put on this. I thought what I was saying was non-controversial but I suppose in this climate everything is going to be interpreted in the worst possible light. Please forget I said anything.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

Thank y'all. She's starting to improve, thank God. She woke up to a fever/dry cough last Tuesday. We had went to Vanderbilt University Children's Hospital like four days before her symptoms started, which is where I think she caught this unknown virus. Her fever got up to over 103 last Friday, so she went to urgent care. Urgent care tested for flu/strep (negative). Told her to go home, drink fluids, etc. On Monday, she started having trouble breathing. Went back to urgent care: pneumonia. Flu/strep negative again. Started her on antibiotics, said she should start feeling better by yesterday. Yesterday, her fever spiked to 105, which, when we called the doctor, prompted them to tell us to go to the ER. I think that was the last hurrah for her fever, as she's feeling better today. I will say, I was extremely frustrated by the utter resistance to test her, ESPECIALLY after everything else they tested her for came back negative. It's entirely possible that she has some virus they don't test for (like, Covid-19) that caused her to have a fever for 9 straight days, but why take the risk at this point? I was exasperated that they wouldn't test her because she supposedly didn't meet criteria. So, that said, she's the first person they tested in our town.

Good to hear. I'd say keep us posted, but honestly, spend the time with your family. These are scary times.

I suppose I do have one question. How did the hospital handle your presence? I have asthma and am quietly scared to ****ing death of my soon-to-be wife contracting this and getting hospitalized. I don't want to be anywhere near the hospitals treating this for obvious reasons. But I also need to be there to support her if it happens. This sounds like textbook COVID.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

Just wait til we can’t have an election

For the first time ever, I can actually see this as a remote possibility, not a loonball insane fantasy.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

For the first time ever, I can actually see this as a remote possibility, not a loonball insane fantasy.

Yeah. We’re a long way from that but I’m still surprised at how bad he’s handling this, so absolutely nothing would surprise me

 

[Kepler]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

So since some of us are still reasonably far away from retirement- and while the recovery will be slow, there will be one- while it's down, if you still have a job, all of us will be buying at a big discount.

I don't lose any money until I sell, and I don't plan to do that for a few more years.

Careful 401K owners can do quite well in this market.

Yes. Crashes are opportunities as long as you have time.

 

[Kepler]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

I'm starting to get a teensy bit worried.

 

[rufus]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

Yes. Crashes are opportunities as long as you have time.

And money.

 

[psych]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

Good to hear. I'd say keep us posted, but honestly, spend the time with your family. These are scary times.

I suppose I do have one question. How did the hospital handle your presence? I have asthma and am quietly scared to ****ing death of my soon-to-be wife contracting this and getting hospitalized. I don't want to be anywhere near the hospitals treating this for obvious reasons. But I also need to be there to support her if it happens. This sounds like textbook COVID.

Definitely spending time with my family. We're chilling on the couch watching our free trial of YouTubeTV. Assuming she continues getting better, I continue to show no symptoms, and infants are seemingly unaffected by whatever she has (even if it isn't Covid-19), this situation definitely makes me realize how much I appreciate my wife, and my life in general.

Honestly, the hospital I went to seemed completely unprepared. Not one nurse or doctor wore ANY PPE, not even a mask, until after all their tests came back negative for everything else. Only then did they start wearing a mask (not a N95 respirator mask, mind you) when they came into our room. They came in a few times to ask if she had used the X-ray machine out in the hallway, where else she went in the hospital, etc., so that they could really clean the ******* out of those areas and tell those people they may have been exposed. I could hear one of the nurses outside saying "I'm going to have to contact everyone I know because I may have been exposed." Honestly, it made me irate. It's like they did EVERYTHING backwards. Why couldn't they assume it was Covid-19 first, and taken the proper precautions, and THEN tested for everything else AFTER they had sent off the Covid-19 sample? We were in the ER for 7.5 hours, and only at the 6.5 hour mark did she get tested, after originally deciding she wasn't a qualified candidate. How the ******* is she NOT a qualified candidate?? We would have never even went into the ER if her fever hadn't spiked to 105 at home, and we would have just rode it out at home. Her pneumonia/fever spiking forced our hand.
**Disclaimer** - I live in a red state, with a blue governor, but red state hospitals. I hope this isn't the experience for every hospital. I was the one telling the nurses/doctors she needed to get tested, not the other way around. That shouldn't be how it unfolds, especially when she displayed literally every symptom.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

Definitely spending time with my family. We're chilling on the couch watching our free trial of YouTubeTV. Assuming she continues getting better, I continue to show no symptoms, and infants are seemingly unaffected by whatever she has (even if it isn't Covid-19), this situation definitely makes me realize how much I appreciate my wife, and my life in general.

Honestly, the hospital I went to seemed completely unprepared. Not one nurse or doctor wore ANY PPE, not even a mask, until after all their tests came back negative for everything else. Only then did they start wearing a mask (not a N95 respirator mask, mind you) when they came into our room. They came in a few times to ask if she had used the X-ray machine out in the hallway, where else she went in the hospital, etc., so that they could really clean the ******* out of those areas and tell those people they may have been exposed. I could hear one of the nurses outside saying "I'm going to have to contact everyone I know because I may have been exposed." Honestly, it made me irate. It's like they did EVERYTHING backwards. Why couldn't they assume it was Covid-19 first, and taken the proper precautions, and THEN tested for everything else AFTER they had sent off the Covid-19 sample? We were in the ER for 7.5 hours, and only at the 6.5 hour mark did she get tested, after originally deciding she wasn't a qualified candidate. How the ******* is she NOT a qualified candidate?? We would have never even went into the ER if her fever hadn't spiked to 105 at home, and we would have just rode it out at home. Her pneumonia/fever spiking forced our hand.
**Disclaimer** - I live in a red state, with a blue governor, but red state hospitals. I hope this isn't the experience for every hospital. I was the one telling the nurses/doctors she needed to get tested, not the other way around. That shouldn't be how it unfolds, especially when she displayed literally every symptom.

I think I'm going to be sick...


Glad your wife is doing better. Hope you don't catch it. Stay away from people (obviously). Wishing you all the best.

 

[aparch]

I'm starting to get a teensy bit worried.

It's just a bad flu. Allegedly.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

My company has been quietly working behind the scenes to talk with management about limiting travel to sites, conducting meetings remotely, no visitors.

Gee, you think this would be good info to publish to everyone? That last email they sent was a ****ing disgrace. I get you can't make all of your plans public, but jfc, if you are locking everything down, maybe make it clear to your employees you think it's ****ing bad and it's not "just business as usual"

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Re: Covfefe-19 2020 part the second: Wash Your Hands

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">THE BRITISH HEALTH MINISTER LITERALLY HAS CORONAVIRUS <a href="https://t.co/WHaJpkzdKo">https://t.co/WHaJpkzdKo</a></p>— Adam Blickstein (@AdamBlickstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamBlickstein/status/1238120744942546946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>