What can be more random than a Virus?

[Intaris]

Well technically, the mere passing of time ensures that each and every moment is TEOTWAWKI.

The world now and the world when I started typing is no longer the same.

[RobertoBozzolo]

Even if I have a generally positive attitude towards life, I line up with Ben: nothing will be the same after that pandemic.

It's not simply the healthcare situation, or the number of deaths that matters, even though they are maybe the most impressive aspects. (According to an article I read President Trump says that USA will have done a good job with only 100000 deaths. One-hundred-thousand people dead! But you may find at the end of this with twice that figure. Are you prepared for that?)

Somebody starts to consider what will we do when restrictions will be removed: will we trust each others the same as before? Will you be as confident as to shake hands with your barber, with that person at a meeting, with a colleague / a customer / a tourist from another country knowing that either one of you can infect the other?

That's the reason why the world will not be the same: all of us will have to learn new ways to relate to each others.

There are also positive aspects I can see. All of us will have its own priorities reconsidered: the lack of human relations permits you to evaluate which of them are the most important to you. The growth in smart working is probably a non-return path. And more are to be counted.

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Intaris wrote:

Well technically, the mere passing of time ensures that each and every moment is TEOTWAWKI.

The world now and the world when I started typing is no longer the same.

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But did what we know about it change?

[Intaris]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

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@Intaris wrote:

Well technically, the mere passing of time ensures that each and every moment is TEOTWAWKI.

The world now and the world when I started typing is no longer the same.

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But did what we know about it change?

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Possibly.

[JÞB]

Too be Frank and honest.   After 17 years of excomunication I was finally restored to the body of Christ. The next day, Churches were ordered to be closed

Go figure 

[jcarmody]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

Of course, it's not Congress that's ordering the closings, it's a bunch of [redacted]...

[JÞB]

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@jcarmody wrote:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

Of course, it's not Congress that's ordering the closings, it's a bunch of [redacted]...

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Better redacted...blessings unto you

I am surprised that it took so long for anyone to quote the phrase 

[jcarmody]

Anybody that quotes the Constitution during this pandemic certainly wants their grandmother to die.

[Ben]

Liquor stores are still closed.

On-line ordering has been crashing everyday for the last week.

Daughter-in-law and sister-in-law both work in health care but I had to supply the N95 masks.

Lowe's is now restricting access to "one person in one person out"

This is starting to get irritating about now. (smiley-wink).

Ben

[LV_Pro]

Let's get one thing straight, while this virus has been portrayed as a "Boomer Broom" getting rid of older people, it isn't selective. 40% of those in local hospitals here are 20-40 years old, and if you are hospitalized it means, at least in this epidemic, that you are very sick. My one daughter, a newly minted doctor working in her first years residency at a NYC area hospital, has lost two of her colleagues, both in their residency programs. The majority of residents are in their late 20's and early 30's. She is working the ICU this week, and it is brutal! They had 5 code yesterday (flat line), they only got one back.

    This virus is very contagious, is essentially 10 times more than flu, equivalent to other coronavirus, like, SARS, MERS and the "common cold" (which actually is 4 or 5 strains of coronavirus). It is so bad because it is novel, never been seen by the human defenses, so it isn't recognized as an invader until it is too late for some, having used human cells as a factory to make more. It is just a string of RNA, not tailored for anything special in infections, just not familiar.

   The local news now has shifted where I live (upstate) to showing number infected and number that have recovered, trying to lessen the gloom, but don't mistake, if you don't isolate you will probably get it, and before you know you have it give it to others.   

   That is why I feel that if folks insist on going to large gatherings, like church services, then they should, as a group, be isolated for a time sufficient to prove they aren't carrying the infection and "spreading the joy" to others.

    No Ben, to remember the "Great Depression" one would have to be in their 80's. As one of the oldest LabVIEWers I know, I haven't met any that are more that a few years older, and they are all essentially Boomers, born after 1945.