Sssshhhhh! Don’t tell anyone!
If you need food, Frontera is your best bet. But if you’re a sausage and beer kind of guy, then the Berghoff Cafe instead.
Anyone using it as a codpiece?
At a convenience store in RI, I saw a guy wearing a mask with a hole cut in it for his cigarette.
Although that’s a lot of face touching so should be frowned upon.
Good news, but I hate the fact that it’s left up to individual corporations to make the decisions that will help the public, rather than starting with a committed, targeted, federal response.
Tiered levels of infection notification is so on brand.
As a construction equipment aficionado, I’m fully on board with this.
JFC.
This is the image shown up there, available in Wikipedia:
The important point is that slowing the spread saves lives. Going on with our normal life and social interactions can overwhelm the medical system. Wash your hands, increase social distancing, stay at home, telecommute, avoid traveling.
The following plot clearly shows that the situation is out of control outside of China. We are not taking this seriously enough:
There is something that we can do to save lives: we can do our best to slow the spread down.
What period of time, she asks? That’s damn vague advice.
CDC advice seems intentionally vague and I suspect political considerations are taking priority over clear advice. The response has been to give accurate but fuzzy advice and hope we can read between the lines. Stupid fucking timeline.
I’ll stock up of the necessities.
“Avoid nonessential long plane trips.” That would be easier if the airlines cooperated. I have a transoceanic trip scheduled for a couple of weeks from now for a research collaboration, I would happily cancel it except I’ve already bought the ticket, and if I don’t go I have to eat the cost (if I go a grant covers it).
Contact them - many of them are being more accommodating than usual.
Fully refundable tickets going forward for me.
I probably will at some point, but since neither my current location nor the destination are especially high-outbreak areas I don’t expect much satisfaction.
Fully refundable tickets going forward for me.
Not an option when you are traveling on someone else’s nickel.
