I would like to know how factories are exempt from the state and federal recomendations. I go into work and in my office we can't even meet the 6 feet spacing requirement. Every machine operator and engineer in the place touches the same mouse and keyboard on every piece of equipment in my area. Heck even with the normal viruses they go around like wildfire because of this. 

Asked my boss today about what it will take to shut us down. Reply was "It would take a positive test result on an employee." Fantastic, by then its too damn late.

"Every machine operator and engineer in the place touches the same mouse and keyboard on every piece of equipment in my area. "

Could you try working with rubber gloves?

Yep, gonna get worse before it gets better

Hang in there everyone...

Governor Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California has projected that almost 26 million residents will be infected by the coronavirus.  “We project that roughly 56 percent of our population — 25.5 million people — will be infected with the virus over an eight week period."

If I knew how to start a thread this might qualify as a new subject. but. hitting the reply button to an existing one works for me.  

I have the "self confinement racing blues".  I keep hiring Dire Straits and the haunting "I want my MTV".  only for me they are saying "I want myOpen red Podcast".  I think I need that vurtual connection of talking racing.. maybe even feeling like i'm getting some dirt on my shoes...... wait..   I can smell the fumes.....   ahhh back in the day

The CDC on 3/15/20 said that all events over 50 people should cancle or postpone those events for 8 weeks. So I don't see any thing happening till at least May 15th and I doubt any major sporting event will be back on track even then. I think this will last longer than what most of us think it will. Sucks, but it is what it is.

Rod 

We can look at what they're doing in other countries for an example of opening things back up.  It hasn't been a pronouncement that the coast is clear and immediately going back to normal.  It has been a slow rollout so that the authorities can react to any resurgence of cases. I expect it to be a while before we see full arenas and stadiums again.  Maybe as long as next year based on interviews such as the pandemic disease researcher from the University of Minnesota who's name escapes me.

Eventually we will get to a point where we reach what is referred to as group immunity.  Thst term is normally used in conjunction with a vaccine becominnlg available and protecting 60-70% of a population.  The same principle replies when no vaccine is available but the outbreak has still reached that same number of people.  What happens is that everyone who has had it develops an immunity and there aren't enough hosts left for a virus to continue to spread. 

Stan Meissner

Wow, that sounds high to me... HOPE its not true....

A bit off topic 

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2020/03/24/coronavirus-claims-larry-rathgeb-chrysler-engineer-who-oversaw-first-closed-circuit-200-mph-lap/?refer=news&utm_source=edaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-03-24

Death Toll is starting to look bad, here is the last seven days(daily death toll) in the USA

Mar 20th-----49

Mar 21-------46

Mar 22-------113

Mar 23-------141

Mar 24-------225

Mar 25-------247

Mar 26-------268

Mar 27-------401

This data is from world o meter.

Rod

I get my numbers here(not just for the Covid-19 numbers)

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

As I said the numbers I posed was for daily death toll, not total death toll. Total death toll is over 1000 in the states.

Rod