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I believe in China they were taking a gradual approach. I think in a few weeks, if things go well, we'll see the whole thing basically go in reverse. 75% employees, 50% employees, back to normal. Then they'll start reversing the gatherings restrictions a little bit at a time. I think we're going to be doing some level of social distancing until the end of May at best.

They actually just uploaded game one of the Sens series! Check that account's Twitter feed for the rest of the Philly series, they're all up.

Got two rolls of government issue spec toilet paper at Wegmans!

I'm blown away that people keep finding toilet paper places. I can't find it anywhere.

I think they think public opinion doesn't matter because Buffalo sports fans are too attached to their teams and will accept pretty much anything to keep them.

It's all speculation, unfortunately. The individuals responsible for getting out in front of this didn't do their jobs, so now our data set will really never be complete and we'll probably never know just how deadly this thing is. All I know is that in places where testing his really high, the percentages for infection as well as deaths are lower. South Korea's numbers are really good. A lot of the places that aren't testing as much look a lot worse. California looks worse compared to NYS right now.

It honestly feels like they're doing this on purpose. Like they want to see just how many PR Losses they can take before people actually stop giving them money. My bet is Bills fans will keep shoveling cash at them and Sabres fans wont cancel season tickets despite all their complaining. The Pegulas might be scum, but they might also be right that we're scum right along with them.

Even just back of the envelope math using NYS numbers so far (where it appears testing volume is highest) seem to align with the idea that the death rate is probably less than 1%. All of this could have been avoided if testing had been ramped up like...a month ago. We'd probably have a much better grasp of reality.

I believe chiselers are exempt from the workforce reductions

Yeah, they're definitely essential. Same with most infrastructure work, finance, health services, etc.

I was asking around on Twitter today what people recommend as a first-person shooter I can play online because the last game I played like that was SOCOM 2 on PS2 like...17 years ago? I have an XBOX One, but I'm really not getting my money's worth out of it ?

Looks like the lockdown is here folks

Woody can correct me if I'm interpreting his stuff wrong, but based on info from him and the science sources, this thing looks like it spreads the easiest through high volume direct contact from things like coughing, sneezing, etc. So I would say perhaps do your best to limit the chances of contacting the virus in those ways?

This happens to me with stuff all the time. It's very creepy.

Basically the same as what is being reported in Erie County too.

Soon:

My schedule has stayed pretty much the same. Still going to the office since our suite has so few people in it anyway. I did get a new game, Jalopy, for my XBox just for funsies. It's really janky but actually pretty hard/fun. And the story is really intriguing...

Interesting...

It's freaky deaky quiet here today. We're right on Sheridan Drive and there's a lot less traffic noise outside. The office buildings are pretty much cleared out. I think it's our company's two suites and maybe one or two other companies running bare bones staff. And Homeland Security has a couple suites here.

The dynamic here is about 80% people who are reasonably concerned but not panicked, and then about 20% who are acting like total sociopaths. There is definitely a sub-set of the US population (that does not follow any particular political or ideological bounds) that thinks this is funny and is enjoying poking the concerned people, which is really unkind.

This is my company right now. Apparently half my office has had it ?

For sure. It'll just be interesting to see if the lack of reaction by leadership months ago, in order to quash over-reaction, ends up creating an over-reaction that is far worse.

My boss had something like this back in November. That's kinda why I'm curious. Increased testing is going to give us a much better picture.

Is it possible that COVID-19 has been here longer than we think, and that some deaths previously attributed to the regular flu were actually from this virus? It'll be interesting to see what the curve looks like as testing ramps up. NYC jumped significantly overnight.