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Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by craz8 »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #15

“Restaurants will be allowed to provide take-out and delivery services but no in-person dining will be permitted. I live an SRO. I don't have a kitchen. I currently don't have a fridge. I have a small grill and some shelving to store stuff. I eat a lot of takeout. I'm glad to see I can still get takeout. But, wow. This is beginning to look pretty scary. I was homeless for a few years. The quarantine/containment measu…

King County is opening an extra space for homeless men to allow them to be more than 6 feet apart in the shelter.

Someone is thinking about it, but it was crappy before, and now it’s crappy and scary.

That’s the only thing I’ve noticed about the homeless population here

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by reedx8 »

enraged_camel wrote: post #76
reedx8 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The relevant facts are, one, only much older people have to worry about it, and two, the cure already exists in washing yourself. This common flu is here to stay, the absolute risk to vast majority of people is extremely insignificant.

I don’t know what makes people like you go online and post this type of incorrect and harmful advice in such a smug fashion. All I can say is you need to educate yourself.

I posted the relevant facts. Please post your relevant facts to counter them. I’ve done my research and until those core facts change my viewpoint remains.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by xref »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #63
tzs wrote: post #61

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Domino’s is allowing no contact delivery. You pay online for the food plus any tip you want for the driver, and tell them where to leave the delivery, such as at the front door. They leave the food without any need for in person interaction.

Thanks. I probably can't do that in my building. It's a secure building and I've never figured out how to get delivered food here. You need a key to enter the building. But it's good info and thank you for posting it. I hope it helps other people.

Just wait in the lobby so when they drop it on the porch you can go grab it?

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by mistermann »

Cyph0n wrote: post #41
Merad wrote: post #8

IMO the only question now is how long it takes the rest of the country to follow suite. Here in NC our governor announced the closing of all public schools on Friday, but I've heard from several friends that in my city (Raleigh) the downtown bars and restaurants were pretty much at normal capacity this weekend. I don't think the general public is going to truly take this seriously until they're told that they have to…

I also live in the Raleigh area, and it has just been baffling how care-free everyone is...

For people like many of us here who live highly connected lives for 15+ years, it's hard to appreciate how some people are disconnected. It can be a very peaceful lifestyle, it comes up often in conversation here. But this, they would find out...but how soon I wonder?

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by troydavis »

Puerto Rico also started a curfew that restricts movement except going to/from work, grocery stores/pharmacies, or health care: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/us/coronavirus-puerto-ric...

I'm in Seattle and, other than these closures, complete movement restrictions would be the next step here.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by DoreenMichele »

xref wrote: post #93
DoreenMichele wrote: post #63

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Thanks. I probably can't do that in my building. It's a secure building and I've never figured out how to get delivered food here. You need a key to enter the building. But it's good info and thank you for posting it. I hope it helps other people.

Just wait in the lobby so when they drop it on the porch you can go grab it?

I live in a very walkable small town. I typically go just pick up whatever I've ordered. Most things are no more than a ten minute walk for me.

Edit: FYI, cuz reasons, there's no lobby.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by grosales »

I have lived in the US for 20 years now - I am a millennial. I am originally from Peru. When all of this started I thought the US was going to handle it. We all were going to rally together and take care of each other. We would exercise social isolation and hold this virus off. The rate the trend is going should be scary for anyone (at least the people reading hacker news). I am surprised of people thinking this won't affect them. If widespread and out of control, it will affect everyone.

Funny enough that my country of birth, Peru, just declared a national emergency and declared quarantine for everyone in the country. Peru is a democratic country - at least for the last 20 years - but it had to enact this to stop the virus from spreading. It's a bold move, it's not a popular one, but it's the right one imho.

We should be doing the same, our current leader is - unfortunately - a coward who will always be afraid of taking a risk. It's on us then, as responsible citizens to make sure we don't go out unless we really need to for a while - at least that we can control. Just my two cents.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by craz8 »

azernik wrote: post #85
zozbot234 wrote: post #22

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> But, wow. This is beginning to look pretty scary. > I was homeless for a few years. The quarantine/containment measures are turning into a really big problem for the homeless population. How so? I assume that soup kitchens and the like will still be open.

It's not just about getting access to services; all of those homeless services are awful for limiting disease spread. Soup kitchens are going to force people into relatively close contact.

And the volunteers tend to not show up in times like this, so it falls apart pretty quickly

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by graeme »

Anyone found any good info on the risks of food itself.

Eg kitchen staff is infected, coughs into meal

1. Do you get if it’s cold food, like a salad or sushi?

2. If yes, do you get it if it’s warm food, like indian food?

3. If yes, do you get if you reheat/microwave the food? If so, what is required/

Have not seen a lot of discussion about this. Did see that in china restaurants would certify the body temperatures of all involved.

Re: Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

eyegor wrote: post #42

This is going to be an economic catastrophe unless there's somehow a nationwide bailout to literally all brick and mortar businesses. I know of several local bar/restaurants that are considering shutting down for good, and a colleague near Melbourne told me of 4 that already have (I'm eastern US). Even if this all blows over in 3 months, we'll have a huge surge in homelessness and folks needing social assistance acro…

Totally agree. The bailout of the banks has started with 0% rates and massive QE, which at the end of the day while I think necessary to prevent a credit crisis will do nothing to help the real economic situation; demand is dead for a while because of the health situation.

We should consider more radical measures like temporary rent/mortgage freezes.

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