Looks like we may have our first beer flu death here in Ohio, a 76 year old man in the Toledo area. He was tested for the virus and then he passed before the results came back. We are still waiting for the results to confirm, but all signs point to it being positive. That was yesterday on the 19th, as soon as I hear the results good or bad, I'll let you know.

EDIT The governors daily 2 PM press conference/update confirmed the gentleman tested positive. There are now 169 confirmed cases in Ohio, and 1 death.

 

Two days later and now the confirmed cases in Ohio is 351 and we now have 3 bodies. You can now count Ohio as one of the states that is on lockdown. The governor ordered everyone to stay at home unless they are essential. The order takes effect at 11:59 PM tomorrow night. Since I work in a steel mill, my job is not considered essential, so as of tomorrow night I will be unemployed until the lockdown is lifted.

 

I work from a home office so nothing much has really changed for me - but received an email tonight saying no business travel! Not sure how long the company wants people hanging around on the payroll just sitting in their living room....

 

Dallas Has been declared a Shelter in Place County. There will be no travel except for getting food, medicine, or going to attend a sick family member. Harris County is expected to announce tomorrow morning it will also be a Shelter in Place. Bexar County, Travis County, and surrounding counties are expected to be Shelter in Place by Wednesday. Our Gov'r Abbott does not want to quarantine the entire State as some counties have not seen one case yet. Being that the corona virus is temperature sensitive, our predicted temps this week may be just what the doctors have been looking for. Temps of 90F are predicted. Stay safe, stay alive, stay home. https://www.click2houston.com/health...lter-in-place/

 

That's why places like new york and washington state are getting hit hard, the northern half of the country is still in the thirties and forties at night. Yesterday in Cleveland we only had a high of 34 degrees.

 

Washington is being hit hard because that was the first place that the virus outbreaks occurred and because the first outbreaks were in nursing homes full of unhealthy and elderly people in crowded, unsanitary conditions and because the CDC delayed for weeks to test anyone and even then never tested anyone outside of the nursing homes. So not only did they get a very high initial death rate of the nursing home patients but they allowed the disease spread unchecked outside of the nursing home for well over a month before any testing was done. New York was hit hard because one man (the third case in NY) that was supposed to be self quarantining didn't and he spread it all over his home town of New Rochelle and into Vermont where he attended a conference and to people that rode the train into NYC with him. He was so contagious that even the man that eventually drove him to the hospital caught it from him during that short drive.

The daytime temps are already in the upper 80s here in Florida and I don't see that it's made any difference in the spread of the virus here.

 

Just found out that my niece and her boyfriend (both living in France) just tested positive for the virus.....🦠

 

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Pretty much all counties in DFW are on lockdown, still heading into work as usual, but work flow is on the decline as fewer people are willing to come in to drop their car off. Also fewer people driving means fewer accidents on the roads too.

 

I built a fort in the living room out of toilet paper.
We have 745 rolls, no way the corona is getting thru that.

Just hope the stores take them back when this is over.

 

Raoul, You old Dodge driving retiree! How are you doing? How is the Dodge serving you?

 

Hint to the goat herder, They won't take back the brown tinted ones, or any that have the odor of goat cheese.

I"m down to my last 30 rolls of TP, just a few more months before I start printing off Chevy internet forums and cutting them into small squares.

 

Serotta,

You could subscribe to the New York Times. They'll deliver the TP right to your front door.

 

Been putting the 4WD to use, got 8" of snow the other day.
As a long time Ford owner I can say with confidence that Dodge is the best toilet paper hauler on the market,
I loaded up120 rolls before she started to squat.
As my fort material diminishes I am understanding the concept of hunker down.

 

Yeah, but my neighbor has one of those toilet paper eating dogs next door, he keeps getting it as soon as the paperboy tosses it on the porch.