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2008 according to Snopes. But Snopes also says the virus is not man made. Which is uncertain. Genetic assay of SARS-CoV-2 shows it to be unbelievably unlikely to be man made. The genome lacks telltales of deliberate modification and has a lot of the traits of natural evolution. SARS-CoV-2 is about ...

So I'm doing my daily cruise of the news outlets and run across this: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/08/heal ... index.html

People are testing positive for a hepatitis E virus found in rats in Hong Kong, and they don't know how it is being transmitted.

Things here in Kentucky still seem under control. 6288 infected, 298 dead as of today. The state starts opening back up Monday, but face masks will be mandatory and social distancing guidelines will still be enforced. Right now health care providers can resume treating non-emergency cases in office ...

Anybody else having a hard time finding yeast?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv8MHO8ZxJM Protestors caused a ruckus at the Kentucky Capitol building during the Governor's daily Covid-19 briefing. Now protestors have to raise a ruckus in their cars. https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Dr-Stack-says-protesters-at-Ky-Capitol-will-have-to-stay-in-th...

The pandemic hasn't peaked here yet. That's expected to happen by the end of this month, though.

Took the first household member to get tested and told to self-isolate until results are back. Second household member has come down with fever, so whatever it is, is spreading. Not going to say it is the virus till we know, but am thinking it is the virus. Now officially off work with free emergen...

1,693 cases, 90 dead in Kentucky.

Locally things are about the same. Right accross the border in Wise, VA a town has put a building on quarantine: https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Polic ... 46181.html

1346 Cases and 73 deaths here in Kentucky though I don't trust this number. The local news is reporting more cases in this county than has been announced by it's sister station in Lexington. I took a weekend trip to Wally World to grab some grub. They had one entrance completely shut down and strict...

I remember reading something about false negatives with Covid-19 tests "Even if you test negative for COVID-19, assume you have it, experts say": https://www.livescience.com/covid19-coronavirus-tests-false-negatives.html, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.11.20021493v2.full.pdf Turns o...

https://www.wymt.com/content/news/From- ... 64061.html

Another Kentucky distillery making hand sanitizer. You can already get Buffalo Trace.

I don't fault anyone for their plans, but I plan on spending it. Why? Because that's kinda the point of the stimulus. There's a few things on my wish list I'd like to buy from local merchants.

Anyone else think of that Futurama episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_Big_Boys?

https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/LIVE-Gov-Beshears-daily-COVID-19-update-569259281.html 594 cases and 18 deaths in Kentucky, +at least one more case here in my home county: https://www.wymt.com/content/news/LIVE-Health-Officials-in-Perry-County-hold-news-conference-569264891.html They say this is t...

https://www.wymt.com/content/news/New-w ... 28851.html

Governor of Kentucky has ordered that people who leave the state for non-authorized reasons must self-quarantine.

https://us.cnn.com/2020/03/29/us/dare-county-north-carolina-state-of-emergency-trnd/index.html A North Carolina county is taking extreme measures to prevent coronavirus from spreading in its community. Dare County, a popular summer vacation area in the state's Outer Banks, has established checkpoint...

I work at an Intuit call center. This week I finally got internet so I can work from home. I was pulled off of the product I had trained on, and now I'm being trained on another product. It seems the Intuit call center in the Philippines that handled that product was closed by order of the PI govern...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/health/kentucky-coronavirus-party-infection/index.html SMH. On the personal front, I'm now working from home, and my company building is being shut down by the end of the week. Another confirmed case in my old hometown. that brings the total for Breathitt County to 2. ...

https://www.wymt.com/content/news/Gov-B ... 98251.html

Confirmed case in my AO. I just moved out of Breathitt County 2 years ago, and the patient is in the local hospital.

Our governor is giving daily updates. Right now KY has 63 total cases with 2 deaths. Most cases have been in counties on the I75 corridor or in Louisville. A church defied the order to shut down. Now 40 of them are in quarantine because a church member tested positive. I went out grocery shopping to...

The Kentucky Derby has been postponed until Sept 5th

Kentucky had it's first death. Daycares have been ordered to close. Restaurants are to serve carryout only. Walmart and other 24 hour stores are now only open from 6am to 11pm. On the personal front, the option to telework instead of coming in has now become mandatory for those able to work from hom...

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Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:50 pm

He said some Asian Americans are being targeted because of their race.

Curious. Do you have any media accounts of this actually happening?

A quick Google search for "Coronavirus racism" brings up multiple reports from multiple news outlets.

18 confirmed cases in KY, though none around my immediate AO. Schools are closed or doing NTI days (internet class). My employer has started sending people home to work. Store shelves are ok, except for disinfectants and tp.

8 confirmed cases in Central Kentucky. Hand sanitizer is hard to find in the stores, and I couldn't find a 5lb bag of flour at two different stores.

My employer is starting to talk about work from home options.