The Melbourne Grand Pricks (pronounced Grand Prix) has been canceled. Sad as it was an excellent location and well managed for spectators and everyone involved.

GF has just flown out of Wellington airport and said only one person had gloves and face mask. It was the cleaning lady - argh clever b1tch, who would have suspected the cleaning lady.

I have to laugh at my weak jokes, I've lost $61,000.00 today so I have to try and be happy in some way.

Jeez,
I was just there on Via Princessa two days ago to pick up a pair of glasses and a bottle of vitamins. 600pm, walked right and was out in ten minutes.

With the news media helping to create that alternate reality.

Nothing different here. I don’t have any hand sanitizer and only enough toilet paper for a few days. Oh well.

I am at a hospital currently waiting to get a CT scan and being very careful.

But honestly I’m more concerned The Rolling Stones tour is going to get cancelled

Our office in NYC just closed for 2 weeks. Everyone to WAH.
That’s a change.

Saw a nurse wearing a mask outside the hospital for the first time ever yesterday.

Sounds like things have changed everywhere except Boston

Schools closed for two weeks.
Wife is 100% telework for two weeks (minimum).
Anticipating telework guidance for myself by COB today.
All rugby practices and matches are cancelled/postponed until at least 6 April.

No major societal impacts yet, but I expect things to get strange this weekend.

My wife is mad.

College basketball, canceled.
NBA basketball, canceled.
XFL football, canceled.
Golf, canceled.

I am saddened that F1 and Sebring 12 hours is delayed until the end of the season.

Well, Hollywood and the majority of film production has shut down for 2 weeks. Most shows with less than 5 episodes left to film have shut down for the season.

The WGA (writer's guild) was getting ready to start negotiations on a new contract and was threatening to strike, I'm sure that's going to have a whole new wrench thrown into it.

Personally I could use 2 weeks off, financials are good and I can get stuff done around the house. The panic is off the charts, it's like things don't change by the day they change by the hour. People need to calm the fck down.

add the NHL to that list and maybe MotoGP. The latter is still open.

First one into the office uses sanitizer on the surfaces and the door knobs. We hit the door knobs on the after visitors. At 5 cents per liter, we can afford it.

Otherwise nothing much has changed. There are under 30 cases in the Houston/Woodlands/Sugarland/Galveston/Baytown area. More than half of those cases were attributed to a single tour group going to Egypt. And the nile cruise ship apparently is now quarantined.

With the school closings, you'd think it was more wide spread. For the most part, the schools here are just extending Spring Break by 2 weeks. This week is Spring break. Most of the universities are following the same.

Hand sanitizer is not effective on surfaces, you need to use the clorox wipes

What reality is that Ted?

Well, we supply entertainment to assisted living facilities, all have canceled, our cruise ships canceled yesterday, my mother was planning on going to a funeral today, was advised against it, I stopped by a few places to try and find a surgical mask for her (and myself as I have COPD and a weak immune system) decided to get some TP and wipes, 4 stores, nothing.
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Now no NASCAR racing at Atlanta. L.A. Times Sports section TV listings today show 8 broadcasts, 3 are horse racing here in SoCal and 5 are soccer in Mexico, Ecuador and Turkey, all on channels I've never heard of.

Nothing else. I've never seen anything like that. Not one broadcast from any sports channel. That surely is unprecedented.

Ironically, given the surplus of free time due to the cancellations, social restrictions, sitting around, etc. most everyone is facing, I find myself coming around these parts (and other social media platforms) less often due to the tiresome abundance of tension, bickering, and hand wringing so prevelant the past few days and getting outside.

As a result, we've met a few nice folks out for similar stroll along Main St. this week.

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so they closed all restaurants yesterday at midnight.
Restaurants just across the border in Holland and France today were filled to the brim, having an absolute great business day. While Here in Belgium everything died down except for food shops being bought empty by hoarders.
They will have to east a lot of pasta the coming month, because apparently that was the most popular stuff, those rayon's were empty.

People are stupid
All this just makes me think i should probably get me new gun permits.
cause they are this stupid and hoarding over a relatively minor national crisis

you can imagine how long it would take em to start looting en masse if there ever was a major disaster that does impact food and other logistics.

I suppose the most immediate change is the liquor store has a lot of empty shelves and is out of good gin. I'm gonna miss my Saturday afternoon martini.
On a more serious note MrsWD is getting nervous, which I'm having to try to tamp down. She's talking about not voting next week.
I called my state rep. and Gov. Dewine and encouraged them to postpone Tuesday's election. Most of the poll workers around here are older - the most susceptible demographic for getting sick. It's not right to expose them to hundreds of people coming through. Some of them may just not show p to work, causing a poll worker shortage.

I'll put money it won't anywhere in Europe that will be the first area of the world to start looting if things get worse. Not read about any looting in Italy and they have it pretty bad over there :(

It will be some hood in the US and it won't be hand sanitizer or toilet paper people will steal but big flat screen TV's and low alcohol % beer :D

I've just been out and about my local town, didn't see any round the block queuing or panic buying but there were a few less people about.

Cases in the UK have gone up by a third to 1145 and deaths have doubled overnight, it's all starting to gather momentum over here

Now, it's getting serious
 

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People have thrown reason out the window. This is a good lesson in CA if we really have a big event like a big quake. A minor inconvenience has made people act like animals, imagine what a real disaster will do? Last I checked the power, water, and internet still worked and stores had supplies until the morons bought he stuff out. funny how the fresh produce, baked goods, frozen goods, and eggs we're still readily available.

COVID-19 shot my day all to hell today.
Our neighbor's husband is in Australia and can't get home because Quantas is packed, and we have been watching over his wife, B, since he left 2 weeks ago. B has serious COPD and MrsWD decided she shouldn't be out shopping in her condition because of the virus. MrsWD doesn't want to be out shopping either, due to her condition of "I have a husband to do that shtt," so yesterday I was volunteered to do today's shopping.
Early this morning we got a call - B's dog Sammy died in the night. It weighed 45 pounds and B called wanting me to help her put Sammy in a garbage bag and get her into her car so she could take her to be cremated. MrsWD was apoplectic. "You are NOT going to take your girl on her last ride in a garbage bag! We need to do something nice for her and you should not be doing this anyway. We'll be right over." Notice she said, "We."
So we got a blanket and I wrapped the doggie up in the blanket and put her in our truck and the three of us drove to the vet and dropped Sammy off. I drove everyone home and got them settled and then went to do the shopping. There were lots of bare shelves in the food stores and not much produce at all. I hit all 3 food stores within a 15 mile radius and none of them had potatoes, but I snagged one of the last five 1/2 gallons of milk at one store, so SCORE! I hit 3 other stores getting the various things they needed. I found out the dog had torn up a kitchen cabinet getting to whatever it was she ate that killer her, so I said WTH I'll fix that and get it over with.
I had planned to vote today, but I heard on the radio on the way to the vet's that voting in Ohio was postponed until some later date.
So, it's 3:30 now and I haven't done a single thing I had on my agenda for the day. So I started happy hour early and came here to whine.

We made a drive past the grocery store with zero intention of trying to shop. The lot had more people in it than I see right before Thanksgiving. We went past on the way to a one man operation clock repair guy that works out of his garage workshop. Two of Mrs. Carrera's many antique clocks were having issues.

The governor of PA today announced that the state liquor stores would be closing at & pm tonight, and that's the only place to by hard liquor in state. Since we're only 15 min. from PA, I did a pre-emptive strike on the local liquor store and scored 3 1.75 liters of Ketel, before the hoards from PA showed up.

A friend just wrote a letter for me stating that I am an essential consultant for a company deemed vital to national security.
If the dumb continues to escalate we'll soon be under police state lock-down and won't be able to pass without the proper PAPERS.



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Please convey to MrsWD my appreciation and respect for her stepping in to do the right thing.

I don't care what crazy events are happening in our world around us - the minute we lose respect and proper dignity for our loved ones it's pretty much over....

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In a note sent to sellers on Tuesday, Amazon said it is seeing increasing online shopping demand from consumers. As its household staples and medical supplies are running out of stock, it will prioritize certain categories in order to “quickly receive, restock, and ship these products to customers.”

Amazon defined five categories as essential products that can continue shipping, including Baby Product, Health & Household, Beauty & Personal Care, Grocery, Industrial & Scientific, Pet Supplies.

The wife is watching the grandkids since school is closed. 8-10 hours with hyper active 4 & 6 year olds is tough. Not sure we are going to make it.

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you are a good man Patrick.

^^^yep

The stupid is multiplying faster than any virus every could.
Orange county.
3.2 million population
29 cases.
2 hospitalized.
No deaths.
Hey, lets panic and over-react!
Good idea.


Good thing I've got my papers.



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how is that an over-reaction?

lack of a min. limit?

So far, PornHub is unaffected by the global panic (so sez pNutz! :eek:); if that site goes down (not like THAT! :eek:), then civilization is undoubtedly doomed!

It's a test of martial law.
McFatburger kills 700,000 people each year.
Not to mention texting while driving.
Or opioids.
Stealing under a thousand bucks is also now okay. As is giving AIDS away for free. No tax write-off even.

(You passed btw. Good boy.)

Local University is somewhat shut down. Public library is shut down. Freeways are mostly empty.

The world's busiest freeway... isn't.

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Noticed traffic was pretty light today.

Took three stores to find potatoes. Red only. No russet.

Preparing for lockdown. On keto diet but if I'm stuck in my crib for two weeks, I be eating some starch.

I see a lot more stoopidity - locally, in the news and on the internet.

Stocked up on Stones?!