You non-essential folks

I work from home and have for years, and our business is up because we are internet based and have gotten busier. Nothing has changed for me, but I am nervous if this lasts into May and later.

I have 6 kids,no job.

Government pays for my house, food and I just got $4200 direct deposit check.

Life is good

By the way. I often come off as a stupid bitch & yeah that’s ok. I have coping issues. Just want to understand the other side as I’m sure everyone has issues right now.

I’m WFH this week (I’ll be back next week we are rotating to keep the desk with less people on it)
No salary reduction, not sleeping more still have the same routine, haven’t seen many issues, just assumed most white collar jobs are now able to let people work remotely (this is going to change sales and trading big time since we’ve been moving with literally no issues

In our little county of 125,000 we have 6 active cases of Covid-19 and have had 39 cases overall. It seems more than a bit silly to shut down the county over 6 people being sick with a mild upper respiratory viral infection that appears to be very treatable.

The next county over has almost half a million people (477,000) and has 37 active cases. Again, why are we staying shut down.

Of the 7,000,000 people in the state less than 4,000 are actively infected. 40% of those infected have recovered and 98% of all infected are expected to make a full recovery. Again why is the state shutdown?

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In our little county of 125,000 we have 6 active cases of Covid-19 and have had 39 cases overall. It seems more than a bit silly to shut down the county over 6 people being sick with a mild upper respiratory viral infection that appears to be very treatable.

The next county over has almost half a million people (477,000) and has 37 active cases. Again, why are we staying shut down.

Of the 7,000,000 people in the state less than 4,000 are actively infected. 40% of those infected have recovered and 98% of all infected are expected to make a full recovery. Again why is the state shutdown?

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This is the realization politicians are going to have to come to rather quickly. We have less than .1% of the population that has this, and we can't keep shut down much longer. Kentucky already protesting, so has Michigan. Others will join in soon, and you will see private businesses open back up on their own.

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98% of all infected are expected to make a full recovery. Again why is the state shutdown?

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The latest figures I've seen show a 97% recovery rate. Which sounds great until you realize the non-recovered are dead. Mild respiratory illnesses don't kill you 3% of the time. If we can keep our hospitals from getting over whelmed, like they are in NYC, I fully expect that our death percentage will drop like a rock. You do that by flattening out the curve.

The reason the infected rates are so low is that by and large people have been good about social distancing and isolating. This can spread rapidly if that breaks down. Take a gander at some of the church groups that went ahead and held services only for half the congregation to come down with COVID-19.

In my little county, which is smaller than your little county, we have 116 cases and that number is expected to rise as we get more testing kits. In my little state we've had 509 people recover and 34 die. Which is much better than the national average believe it or not.

No one is happy with staying home or what this is doing to the economy. I also don't think anyone is thrilled that 2500 people keeled over dead from this yesterday. Opening everything back up when the experts say we are sitting at peak infection rates is a wonderful way to kill a lot of people.

We stay hunkered down for the next two weeks to let this burn itself out and then, after the 1st, those places where COVID-19 infection rates are dropping, we open up a bit. If it comes roaring back in those places we shut down for a couple more weeks.

It sucks. It really sucks. But we can, as people, recover from an economic downturn. Unless you are the son of God recovering from dying is a lot more difficult.

My County has about 95 infected 4/8 or 4/9. Now 228 infected as of 4/15. It’s still exponential in many areas. I don’t give a frick about my over 50 abused body. Still care a great deal about passing the buck to my live-in grandchildren & live-in mother-in-law (okay strike the last part as she is not my favorite person now or ever).....


Glad folks are working things out. I’m really stressed today for many work-related reasons. I could simply feign illness & get 2 weeks off for no other reason than a cough. My pride wills me to now return from lunch and face reality.

Hope everyone is safe and works through this.

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At the end of the day it's a treatable upper respiratory viral infection and with reasonable precautions for the high risk groups is nothing.

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I guess. If your Mom/Dad lived with you or if you worked in a nursing home or other extreme environment would you be so cavalier? I once was. I have a cruise deposit and a different airfare deposit booked right now. The frick if I would ever do either at this time. I’ll show you mine (personal) info redacted. Doubt you have ever been all in financially as I was.

His treatable problem is Trump-think. OMG. I am an eternal optimist. I really want us to simply mitigate the issue. It’s beyond that beautiful world now. We own the solution. Sad