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RenegadeMonster said:
The Senate Recess has now been cancled.

thehill.com

McConnell cancels Senate break over coronavirus

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced Thursday that the Senate will cancel next week’s recess to stay in town to craft coronavirus legislation. The decision comes after gro…
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It’s nice to know at least some Republicans can still occasionally be shamed into doing the right thing sometimes (maybe).
 
On another form I am active on, they have a Coronavirus thread with over 200 pages of posts already.

Discussion and posting of news articles and tweets regarding government inaction and our broken system have now been barred.

Republican members of the forum community were getting ticked off that all the news was "one sided" and that political discussion is not allowed on the the forums so posting things that touch government but aren't direct political discussion should not be allowed as well.


It's crazy about how even the Cronavirus is dividing us down party lines.
 
The NHL has now officially suspended now as well.

NASCAR will compete with out spectators in Atlanta and Homestead-Miami this weekend and will reassess what todo moving forward as they learn more information from working with Public Health Officials.
 
ranbalam said:
I was wondering if we should have one here. Or is this thread the (hopefully) temporary home?
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It might be worth creating a different thread. I think it would invite a lot more people into the discussion. Many people might not be checking this thread because of it's political nature or that it's focused on America rather than the world. Let me get one Started.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
It might be worth creating a different thread. I think it would invite a lot more people into the discussion. Many people might not be checking this thread because of it's political nature or that it's focused on America rather than the world. Let me get one Started.
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Thank you for pulling the COVID-19 discussion out of the politics thread.
 
It's no longer just my department. My whole company is now officially working from home until further notice. Not just my company, but our holding company as well. Anyones who job allows for it will be working from home until further notice.

This unprecedented in my opinion. Crazy times we live in now.
 
My sister in Richmond, VA, just had her third child in the fall. She's a nurse practitioner and her husband is a high-school teacher. Their two sons are both daycare age. After my sister's comically short maternity leave finished in January, my mother took a leave of absence from her job to move to Richmond for six months to look after the baby during the day. She's living in a city where she doesn't know anyone else, far from her doctor and our universal health care system. I'm terrified for my mother.
 
Thanks for creating this @RenegadeMonster

I have to say this whole situation is dominating my thoughts. Same with my wife, who works in a large hospital. At this point she's assuming it's not if, but a matter of when she is exposed to it.

Meanwhile my son (24) texted me today to cancel dinner plans because he has a fever of 101 and a cough. His panic level is like 1 out of 10, if that. He said he thinks it's just a bad chest cold because he's been having trouble breathing off an on for two days. I don't want to put him into a worried/stressed out state, he's not even thinking it's Covid, whereas I can't help but immediately think of it. So I just said to monitor himself, rest, stay home and away from others and keep me posted. What else can I do? I'm not even sure he could get a test if he asked for one.
At this point there are only a handful of confirmed cases in Michigan but I assume that will change drastically in a short time period.
 
Us and the in-laws had a trip planned to Boston over Spring Break. I have wanted to cancel it once the first case came the USA. They finally got the message this afternoon during Gov. DeWine's (Ohio) speech. Luckily we were planning on driving so no plane tickets to cancel. Only hotel at this point, which shouldn't be an issue. The governor's team's estimates look like a late April to mid May peak. My mother in law is a principal and based on that she's thinking school will remain out for the rest of the year. Their last day is this coming Monday.
 
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