Coronavirus:

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Have you guys seen the News photos of empty Manhattan streets, even at Times Square?
Wow.

And the Las Vegas Strip empty of people.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Have you guys seen the News photos of empty Manhattan streets, even at Times Square?
Wow.

Yes. Film I saw had a few cars and some police out, but next to zero on foot.

And the Las Vegas Strip empty of people.

No, have not yet.

Here's a question to ponder - where have all homeless gone?

[rogruth]

Yes. Where have all the homeless gone?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yes. Where have all the homeless gone?

That's a very good question . I have heard them mentioned only a couple times on the major channels. They are expected to become a significant portion of the infected and terminally ill population.
I heard, years ago, that there is present a pretty steady population of them of approx. 40,000 in NYC .

Some of them find their ways into the subway tunnels . I haven't seem them atop the grates that exude heat from the skyscrapers alongside them, for quite a while, now.

In NJ, numerous homeless house themselves under the highway overpasses and interchanges and exit ramps. I help supply and a friend goes there to give clothing and blankets to them. It's a dangerous avocation, so one person must stay vigilant while the other gets out of the car or uses it's windows to distribute the items.

[sleepmac]

Murph, thank you for helping those less fortunate.
BTW, I read today that the homeless in Calif. are going into abandoned houses.

Dan Weinhold

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes. Where have all the homeless gone?

That's a very good question . I have heard them mentioned only a couple times on the major channels. They are expected to become a significant portion of the infected and terminally ill population.
I heard, years ago, that there is present a pretty steady population of them of approx. 40,000 in NYC .

That's less than 10% of the national number; another vulnerable population........

[HONDO74]

[HONDO74]

[robert.]

Maybe the homeless have a better understanding of the term social distancing.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Maybe the homeless have a better understanding of the term social distancing.

I would imagine they do, distancing themselves as they do, or have inflicted upon them, from the mainstream of society.

However, I have noticed that many tend to socialize and collect into small groups, seemingly huddling for camaraderie and safety.

It will be interesting to see if the very fact of their distance from mainstream society turns out to have been a fact-of-life, built-in protection for them from the virus(!)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maybe the homeless have a better understanding of the term social distancing.

I would imagine they do, distancing themselves as they do, or have inflicted upon them, from the mainstream of society.

However, I have noticed that many tend to socialize and collect into small groups, seemingly huddling for camaraderie and safety.

Just what was thinking about.......and that acting as a transmission and reservoir.

It will be interesting to see if the very fact of their distance from mainstream society turns out to have been a fact-of-life, built-in protection for them from the virus(!)

Or, once into that groups, have just the opposite impact.

[HONDO74]

Illinois Gov. Pritzker slams 'profoundly unamerican' 'racist speech' about coronavirus

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker appeared to implicitly criticize President Trump during a Saturday coronavirus response briefing in Chicago.

Pritzker, a Democrat, outlined his forthcoming "stay-at-home" order for the Land of Lincoln and closed with a pointed critique of some of the rhetoric being used to describe the coronavirus.


Apparently, this guy has never heard of ‘Spanish Flu’, ‘Asian Flu’, ‘Hong Kong Flu’, ‘German Measles’, etc, etc

[up148]

Call it what it is. Tired of this political correctness. His state is the crotch of the USA and he has no right to make any comments. Typical Dem though. Look in the mirror idiot..........you're no better.

[HONDO74]

Why was Italy such a breeding ground for the Chinese virus ?

Coronavirus: The Price of Luxury
Fashion’s “Made in Italy” tag is connected to a Chinese disease.
https://spectator.org/coronavirus-the-price-of-luxury/

In the world of fashion, the “Made in Italy” tag has a distinct value associated with luxury and status. Merchants can charge higher prices for clothing, shoes, handbags, and other fashion goods manufactured in Italy, and that value was coveted by certain Chinese entrepreneurs. During the past three decades, more and more Chinese investors bought into textile and leather-good factories in northern Italy, and they brought over Chinese laborers to work in those factories. By 2010, there were reportedly 60,000 Chinese in Prato, an industrial suburb of Florence. To accommodate Italy’s new foreign labor force, nonstop flights were established between China and Rome.

it is customary for Chinese to travel home for Lunar New Year celebrations, which fell on Jan. 24 this year, and the incubation period for coronavirus is about two weeks. How many of the Chinese workers in northern Italy traveled to China in late January and returned to Italy — without symptoms but already infected with COVID-19 — in early February?