Official Coronavirus Thread (any other threads made about coronavirus will be closed) (Ovid: rental, purchase)
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For those of you that live in apartment buildings in NYC, you are playing with fire.
One neighbor with Caronavirus can infect all others. Nothing can stop the spread now.
Your lame governor Cuomo didn't close the state off soon enough.
My better half and our 4 kids decamped for the Hamptons over a week ago. We have friends and neighbors that are 85+ with no children, no family and I've stayed behind to help with food, meds, etc.
The only alternative for many is to make the best of it. NEVER ride in elevator with others. Wear a mask (even though our lying politicians told us not to) and take whatever precautions we can.
Expecting this to go on for more than two more weeks, hoping not more than two months.
Where are you PJohn?
My better half and our 4 kids decamped for the Hamptons over a week ago. We have friends and neighbors that are 85+ with no children, no family and I've stayed behind to help with food, meds, etc.
The only alternative for many is to make the best of it. NEVER ride in elevator with others. Wear a mask (even though our lying politicians told us not to) and take whatever precautions we can.
Expecting this to go on for more than two more weeks, hoping not more than two months.
Where are you PJohn?
Can't offer any hope on the masks, sorry.
I made my own out of bandanas tied around my neck and taped extra gauze on the inside for additional filtration protection. Not the best but heck of a lot better than all those people going into Trader Joe's with nothing.
I think walking in the pathway of someone else who has recently sneezed or coughed and those droplets can linger in the air for hours.
Take 3-4 sheets of bounty not the generic cheap crap. Take some salt and mix it with water and use a spray bottle and spray on the bounty sheets on a table. Let it dry and then start folding the sheets into a face mask that can conform your face. It is as good if not better than N95 masks. The dried salt will coat the towel to prevent particles from getting through. Just make sure you have some type of surgical tape that you can use to tape up the bounty towels to a handkerchief or attach to long rubber band. Make sure you have a good fit and not gaps.
Google up bounty face mask there are multiple how-to guides.
A year to 18 months? Yeah, I can buy that. Humpty Dumpy will need some putting back together, but it will happen, maybe a year after, but not multiple.
This is ridiculous. The travel/hospitality industry is stone cold dead worldwide until this burns out, and then it will go back to being exactly what it was before. And since it blew up big first in NYC (at least in the US), NYC will likely recover first.
No, it’s not. No other catastrophe has ever shut down the city like this before, or other major cities. This is serious economic damage. People like Cuomo and Trump says some businesses will never recover. This is long term economic damage.
A year to 18 months? Yeah, I can buy that. Humpty Dumpy will need some putting back together, but it will happen, maybe a year after, but not multiple.
The only reason people in NYC are not fleeing in far greater numbers is because other places don’t want them.
So yes, this is long term economic damage.
Considering all the suck people out there travel is not even safe until they have effective vaccines. Yes, people cab it risk spreading this virus around after lockdown is over.
No, it’s not. No other catastrophe has ever shut down the city like this before, or other major cities. This is serious economic damage. People like Cuomo and Trump says some businesses will never recover. This is long term economic damage.
Whenever you have a long term interruption of business for any reason there is risk customers may not return. This is why so many small business owners never close to take a vacation or other time off.
After 9/11/01 many either fled NYC or avoided coming here due to perception city was a continuing target for terrorist actions. There is a risk with this Covid-19 epidemic that some people may rethink wanting to live or even visit such a high density place.
Urban areas/cities always get hit hard by plagues and epidemics of disease; it comes it high density populations crowded into small areas. There are reasons (and have been for centuries) that the country is associated with fresh clean air and good health.
Travel wise until reported cases of Covid-19 are zero, and the thing becomes a distant memory don't think there will be a fast return to business as usual. People who live here are another matter; but think going forward even then lessons learned die hard. Many people are likely not going to feel comfortable in large crowds anytime soon, or perhaps ever again.
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