High Quality Chainsaw Bars Husqvarna Toys

Who has been affected by the corona crap

kingOFgEEEks

Pinnacle OPE Member
Local time
8:20 AM
User ID
843
Joined
Feb 9, 2016
Messages
1,723
Reaction score
7,447
Location
Tioga County, PA
Country flag
Pennsylvania business is shut down. I was called in to work today to pack my desk and prepare to work from home. By the time I got home, they laid off the entire company, right on up to senior managers.

I guess it’s time to file for unemployment and see what needs done around here.
 

Deets066

AKA Deetsey
Local time
8:20 AM
User ID
290
Joined
Dec 28, 2015
Messages
15,435
Reaction score
73,471
Location
Illinois
Country flag
I got to watch a little of the press conference, before the local St. Louis station switched to the Mo Governors press conference. I wish they would have stayed with Illinois. The Mo Governor talked a lot but didn't say anything.
What does the Illinois lock down consist of?
Only certain things will be open, gas stations, grocery stores, pharmacies, police, fire department, and actually a bunch of other things. I’m actually ok to go to work being a necessary union tradesman for infrastructure.
 

Lightning Performance

Here For The Long Haul!
Local time
8:20 AM
User ID
677
Joined
Jan 26, 2016
Messages
10,991
Reaction score
28,050
Location
East of Philly
We shut down today. She does not want to stay open.

Stores like ww went from 24 to 13 hrs.

Our governor is trying to figure it out on the fly and doing pretty good. We are in bad geographical location for this. Big ports add to the headaches I'm sure. The Guard is rolling in the needed stuffs now. A few people always act like azzholes on the web and make ignorant comments about our military personnel wtf.

Zip lines should make things easier and a solo performance. Lots to get done at home and in the pines. Dead *s-word everywhere and logs to mill and stuffs to sell.

Stay hermiting :DJ::laufband:
 

srb08

Doesn't play well with others
Local time
7:20 AM
User ID
1905
Joined
Sep 30, 2016
Messages
2,489
Reaction score
8,661
Location
Mid Mo
Country flag
Only certain things will be open, gas stations, grocery stores, pharmacies, police, fire department, and actually a bunch of other things. I’m actually ok to go to work being a necessary union tradesman for infrastructure.
Good deal, glad to hear you can continue working.
 

srb08

Doesn't play well with others
Local time
7:20 AM
User ID
1905
Joined
Sep 30, 2016
Messages
2,489
Reaction score
8,661
Location
Mid Mo
Country flag
Pennsylvania business is shut down. I was called in to work today to pack my desk and prepare to work from home. By the time I got home, they laid off the entire company, right on up to senior managers.

I guess it’s time to file for unemployment and see what needs done around here.
Damn, hate to hear that. Are they going to open back when this is over?
 

GCJenks204

"Special Buns"
Local time
7:20 AM
User ID
367
Joined
Dec 31, 2015
Messages
14,423
Reaction score
89,607
Location
Winnipeg, MB
Country flag
Pennsylvania business is shut down. I was called in to work today to pack my desk and prepare to work from home. By the time I got home, they laid off the entire company, right on up to senior managers.

I guess it’s time to file for unemployment and see what needs done around here.

That sucks to hear. What industry?
 

kingOFgEEEks

Pinnacle OPE Member
Local time
8:20 AM
User ID
843
Joined
Feb 9, 2016
Messages
1,723
Reaction score
7,447
Location
Tioga County, PA
Country flag
Damn, hate to hear that. Are they going to open back when this is over?

That sucks to hear. What industry?

I’m an estimator. The company does excavation, paving, etc.

My office focuses primarily on natural gas exploration support, so we are hoping to get waiver letters and at least resume some work.
For now, the home office laid everyone off, even themselves, hoping to leave a company to come back to. My office is 40 employees. The whole company is about 300.
 

Lightning Performance

Here For The Long Haul!
Local time
8:20 AM
User ID
677
Joined
Jan 26, 2016
Messages
10,991
Reaction score
28,050
Location
East of Philly
The boss is waiting till noon tomorrow for his press release. You can not close New Jersey... impossible. We already know this. They must be having the big breakfast meeting early.

PA delaying the shut down till Monday or Sunday night.

Get your *s-word right tomorrow and Sunday looks like the deal. Then changes... bet on that.
 

00wyk

Here For The Long Haul!
Local time
12:20 PM
User ID
4606
Joined
Nov 16, 2017
Messages
1,613
Reaction score
9,215
Location
Ireland
Country flag
I think there will be hundreds of thousand or even millions of cases in North America. The thing we need to be mindful off is that a positive test isn't a death sentence. Of our 17 local positives only one is in hospital and that is not because of the Covid itself but more so the poor reaction to the diagnosis and being unable to care for his/her self at home. More than half our positives are over 70 yrs old and 16 of 17 are confirmed travel related.

Let's not forget that in 2009-10 more than 59 Million Americans had contracted H1N1 and some 12 000 died as a result. Before this current outbreak had anyone thought about H1N1 recently? This too shall pass and the herd will be stronger on the other end. Yes I feel for those that get sick and the families of those that don't survive but we will get through this.

We need to compare apples to apples. I have been seeing epidemic vs epidemic a lot lately. The reason we have pandemics is because the virus is different from the last pandemic. Otherwise, we'd all have immunity and there'd be no pandemic. Even in this case with Corona, it is a different version from the previous SARS corona virus pandemic from the early 2000's. Having said that, 80% of fatalities from the 2009 H1N1(swine flu) were UNDER 65 years old because older folks still had some immunity left over from the previous strains of H1N1, giving some herd immunity to the elderly and a few younger. This differs hugely from the current virus. In this current pandemic, so few people had the previous version of SARS there's no chance of herd immunity even if the antibodies were effective against this new version, regardless of age. This strikes close to home because I have had that 2009 H1N1 version myself, and it nearly killed me. And I was 39 and in great health before I got it having worked the last 6 months in the UK in logging and forestry before returning back to Texas. I had a very bad fever(and loads of other issues) for a long time, bad pneumonia for a couple of weeks, and walking pneumonia for months. Literally months of coughing stuff up. I had back spasms for a year. My business partner, who was 25 years my elder, shrugged it off in days.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/burden-of-h1n1.html

In the US, there's not many stats yet. We can't say anything yet how it will go until more data comes in. That's the problem with a new pandemic - you won't really know how it treats you until it washes over you. Every health care system has their own curve, and every country is taking their own measures, and people are reacting differently. So this will affect each differently.

Ireland is in quarantine. We're still 'allowed' free movement, but the state has given us guidelines on how to go about it. Children and teens are still acting like idiots, though. The Irish president had to tell people to stop letting their kids roam about the place like they were on holidays. Pubs have shut down. Pubs don't even shut down for Christmas here, and they are to be shuttered for up to 6 weeks now. Restaurants have rearranged their seating, or only do delivery or take out, or have closed altogether. I've noticed traffic is not what it used to be. Gov is giving out welfare payments to about everyone. Banks have placed a moritorium on mortgage payments. So renters and landlords have a bit of a breather. Even our cable company has given us some breaks. And the banks and local businesses are trying to work things out. Still, airlines are gonna collapse and businesses are gonna disappear :(
I recall stating in the now deceased previous corona virus thread that this will hammer the economy back when most folks there said it was 'just a flu' and I was seeing some horrific stats from China. But, I honestly didn't think it would be this bad. Good luck to us all.

Our cases are slowing so far. We have drive through testing in the larger cities. One county has no instances of the virus yet. It's a county I haven't visited in 22 years - Monaghan. Apparently no one there travels. Many folks are wearing masks and gloves out in public. I was getting groceries yesterday and used a 75% alcohol gel on the cart and on my hands often. I'll prolly still get it tho :( With lung damage from swine flu, who knows what will happen to me if I get it. But ya got to eat, and I got to bring food to the family. One woman actually brushed up against me. So folks still not used to avoiding each other, or I am far more sexy than I previously thought. We're considering using Tesco's home delivery now. Even so, at the rate of demand, it will take weeks before they can begin to deliver to us.

A good friend of mine is a health care worker here, and I know a few doctors personally both here and abroad, as well as the US. He's informed me there is at least one case in his relatively small ward. They only have one isolation room available. One doc I know stateside has told me he and his staff are absolutely exhausted already. This is only the tip. The health care system in Ireland is incapable of handing any epidemic. And most of us are well aware of this as the state of our hospitals was a key point in the recent elections(where the leading party losts it's majority afterwards). There are people waiting in hallways on trollys as we speak for other illnesses, and we do not have a lot of respirators. So if this gets out of hand, you will see the lethality climb similarly to how it did in Italy - where some areas reported relatively high double digit fatality percentages. Actually, as a whole, I think Italy is at 8.5% lethality so far. Italy is a good example of why you want to keep the infection under control - AKA flattening the curve. As were the early days in Wuhan where the reported rate was close to 17%. Every health care system has their own curve, and every country is taking their own measures, and people are reacting differently. So this will affect each differently.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports

One thing to take away from the situational report, and one of the resons why Trump mentioned Germany recently, is the Germans have this completely under control...so far. But a lot of this is how they are controlling their population, and how their population is acting, and how awesome their health care system is SNIP Political Content. The gov has nearly placed everyone and everything on lock down. 20 deaths so far of over 11,000 reported cases(admittedly, most of which are recent). Testing everywhere since the beginning, and stern government control of travel and public behaviour since the outbreak.

I dunno what you guys are getting on the news there, but here they are saying the labs are furiously working on a vaccine and for treatments, and they've already started some clinical trials. Because someone's president said they were going to buy vaccines from Germany recently, Germany, as well as nearly all other European labs, have stated they do not intend to export anything until they have a handle on things locally in the months ahead. So, hopefully, the labs in the US won't take too much advantage of this pandemic :( I used to work in health care in the states. Unless the feds or states step in, I dunno...
 
Last edited:

ammoaddict

Pinnacle OPE Member
Local time
8:20 AM
User ID
4713
Joined
Nov 29, 2017
Messages
1,341
Reaction score
4,827
Location
NC
Country flag
I went to the doctor Monday for my 6 month check-up. I asked them their opinion on how severe it would get. They said they had no confirmed cases in our county because not one person had been tested. They said there were only 6 test kits in the whole county, 3 at the hospital and 3 at the health department.

Sent from my moto g(7) power using Tapatalk
 

stihl_head1982

Here long time
Local time
8:20 AM
User ID
168
Joined
Dec 24, 2015
Messages
4,152
Reaction score
14,536
Location
USA
Country flag
I went to the doctor Monday for my 6 month check-up. I asked them their opinion on how severe it would get. They said they had no confirmed cases in our county because not one person had been tested. They said there were only 6 test kits in the whole county, 3 at the hospital and 3 at the health department.

Sent from my moto g(7) power using Tapatalk

We have no orders for a "shelter in place" in our state -- thank God.
We have 3 confirmed cases that are in quarantine in our area amid a population of 377k+
People have pretty much gone nutz. The retailers are racking up pretty big. I pray you guys in other states get back to normal soon!
 

Agent Smith

Hack of all trades
Local time
8:20 AM
User ID
5180
Joined
Jan 28, 2018
Messages
3,054
Reaction score
18,126
Location
Northeast ohio
Country flag
We had our first confirmed case in my county the other day. I went today to tractor supply to get supplies for the ducks and i swung into Aldi's to see what was left and to my surprise they had things stocked including poop paper, paper towels and cleaning supplies although the staff there,atleast in my local store, has put limits on just about everything thankfully
 

GCJenks204

"Special Buns"
Local time
7:20 AM
User ID
367
Joined
Dec 31, 2015
Messages
14,423
Reaction score
89,607
Location
Winnipeg, MB
Country flag
We had our first confirmed case in my county the other day. I went today to tractor supply to get supplies for the ducks and i swung into Aldi's to see what was left and to my surprise they had things stocked including poop paper, paper towels and cleaning supplies although the staff there,atleast in my local store, has put limits on just about everything thankfully

I think the purchase limits are getting to be pretty universal. Our largest national grocer announced today that all staff were getting a 15% pump in pay for the duration of this crisis.
 

Steve

Excellence!
GoldMember
Local time
7:20 AM
User ID
639
Joined
Jan 21, 2016
Messages
7,985
Reaction score
42,391
Location
Missouri
Country flag
I think the purchase limits are getting to be pretty universal. Our largest national grocer announced today that all staff were getting a 15% pump in pay for the duration of this crisis.


They need to start a national purchase limit. Getting real tired of all the shelves being bare of everything. Not just paper products.
 

srb08

Doesn't play well with others
Local time
7:20 AM
User ID
1905
Joined
Sep 30, 2016
Messages
2,489
Reaction score
8,661
Location
Mid Mo
Country flag
All of our local stores have limits on the items in short supply.
Most people understand the limits and are acting decently.

I'm starting to lose patience with people who go to the store with the whole F'ing family. I guess they just don't care about the health of their families or anyone else's.
 
Last edited:
Top