re: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ***W.H.O. DECLARES A GLOBAL PANDEMIC***

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You obviously aren’t very bright. I’m done arguing with morons. Too nice of a day outside

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You're literally the only person in the whole thread that thinks its a good idea/no problem to be going to the gym right now.

The President has said multiple times on TV that staying away from group establishments etc is in the best interest of the country and its well being.

I've never once said you need to lock yourself inside. But putting yourself and others at risk because you have a fricking body building competition is beyond stupid.

Pretty sure everyone here would agree with that sentiment.

Anybody else make a small home gym yet? With all the time I'll be at home the next month(s), I'm going to put it to good use.

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I informed my employer and suggested that I quarantine. They don’t find it necessary for whatever reason and they seemed to think I was insane for even suggesting it without having direct contact.

I’m not going to argue with them about it. I think they are wrong, but what can I do? Not many options.

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Your employer sounds a lot like mine.

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if you were a real ot baller you have a gym in your house

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I certainly will when I buy a house next year

Pretty unreasonable to buy a house in your first year out of school

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So here’s how I try to put this in perspective. If we take no measures, then come middle of June the situation is going to be equivalent to being in a full Tiger Stadium and there are about 200 people in Tiger stadium who need critical care and we won’t have the capacity to give it to them. But there isn’t just 1 Tiger Stadium, there’s 3,300 Tiger Stadiums all having a game at the same time, and in all of those stadiums about 200 people are going to need critical care and won’t get it. 200 people in each of the 3,300 Tiger Stadiums in the middle of June are basically going to be left to die.

Assuming that’s the situation we are faced with if we do nothing, is doing what we are doing the right move? I think so. frick my 401k. People are not going to starve on our streets due to the recession. People who need help will get it. Yes, we are all taking a hit financially, but if it’s your loved one who is being left to die when critical care could have saved their life all the trillions of dollars in the world won’t mean a damn thing to you.

I get that we may just be delaying the catastrophe to the Fall, but at least that gives us more time to up our capacity, better strategize, and research potential treatments.

Trump just tweeted

"15 days to slow the spread!"

Yeah. He knows as well as all of us that this country cannot take more than that amount of time.

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Assuming that’s the situation we are faced with if we do nothing, is doing what we are doing the right move? I think so. frick my 401k. People are not going to starve on our streets due to the recession. People who need help will get it. Yes, we are all taking a hit financially, but if it’s your loved one who is being left to die when critical care could have saved their life all the trillions of dollars in the world won’t mean a damn thing to you.

I get that we may just be delaying the catastrophe to the Fall, but at least that gives us more time to up our capacity, better strategize, and research potential treatments.

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Can you clutch your pearls any harder?

I mean...assuming we're taking that chart at face value.

It's either don't wreck the economy and everyone dies in June. Or wreck the economy, and just about everyone dies in December anyway.

Not to mention if you wreck the economy, all of the 70+'s that you're buying another 6 months for are going to wish they were dead anyway because they'll have no retirement, no retirement homes to take care of them, and will be living their last 6 months in miserable poverty. Suicide rates spiked absurdly in the great depression, just fyi.

Call me heartless (and yes, I have plenty of older family highly at risk to this virus that I would do anything for); but on a macro level, I sum that up about right?

It'll take time for people to come to terms with the fact that we're between a rock and a hard place for this.

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He knows as well as all of us that this country cannot take more than that amount of time.

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yet some how during WWII we rationed for years and sent most working age males off to war, yet someone how we can't take more than two weeks of social distancing?