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Fantasy Leagues => NHL Leagues => Franchise NHL => Topic started by: 99WildThing on March 17, 2020, 10:27:17 AM
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Hey guys, how are you all handling the COVID-19 measures being implemented in your community? How are people reacting to them? What are you doing to keep safe and get through this challenging time?
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I'm personally working from home and have been since last week. I also travel some for work and have been grounded indefinitely, in fact I told my boss I'm not going anywhere near an airport. Honestly, whether it's an international or domestic gate, it doesn't matter because both are bring travellers who have been locked on a tightly packed plane for a period of time.
I do find it tough to be constantly surrounded by news and updates of the COVID-19 situation here and abroad.
Ordering food and basic necessities online. Kudos to the front line medical personnel and those in food service and pharmacy industries and all those in the delivery business.
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Probably my biggest issue is handling zero hockey. Tough.
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Ghost town. Few people out and about these days. I think that's what's needed to combat the spread of the virus and ensure we don't have an outbreak that gets out of hand. Safety first has a whole new meaning.
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I think it's really impressive how communities are coming together.
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In the UK were still at work, but if have continous cough or high temp to self isolate for 2 weeks at home. Be advised not to go to pubs, restaurants and venues.
Just waiting a week until these are ordered to close (Insurance then covers them). UK about 2 weeks behind Spain and 4 behind Italy on what COVID-19 is doing there.
Goverment plan is to delay peak until late May early June to help minimise problem to the NHS.
All pregnant woman advised to self isolate for 3 months and people over 70 for atleast a month.
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I find people are very dismissive of the situation and almost daring the virus to find them. The younger they are, the more daring seems to be the trend which is dangerous. Our company has asked everyone to work remotely and use video conference tools. I've seen empty store shelves for milk, tissue paper, paper towels and toilet paper. I've been ordering groceries online and tipping the delivery people generously for being front line.
Hope every Franchise NHL owner is feeling healthy and well.
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People have been acting a little nuts imo. I've seen the grocery store hoarding. Really sad. I've also been ordering my groceries and some meals online. Food delivery has been great with all the different Apps like UberEats, Skip and Foodora. Overall, I think the gov has been slow to take a hardline on the spread but I have to applaud the Trump administration's banning of flights from Europe well ahead of his counterparts globally relative to the advancing spread of the virus in respective regions of the world. To everyone here, stay safe and respect social distancing and stay in for now to help slow down this nasty virus.
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Anyone seen the vid clips of Spring Breaks in Daytona Beach FL? There’s a pandemic due to a communicable illness spreading fast and the university kids are out partying in droves. :rofl:
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I have a feeling lots of businesses are going to shutter!
Talked to a few restaurant owners and the walk in diners have dried up while there aren't enough takeout order to compensate for the lack of eat-in people.
Same for shops. Every non-essential retailer has been asked to close it's doors. How are they expected to pay rent and commercial taxes and POS monthly fees.
All that is bubbling under the surface.
Like they say, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
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Some locals say schools will be closed until end of May or early June. Many were closed a few days ago which took too long in Fla.
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I have been out in public working, I am a distributor of Cameron’s Coffee. So I have one of the “essential” jobs, my clients count on me. So in 2 weeks I have sold $33,000 worth of coffee. The panic is crazy I need the vacation I was supposed to be on last week! And of course the absence of hockey is heart breaking. Stay safe my friends
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I'm starting to see people getting a little selfish and nasty.
People need to treat this situation like a marathon not a sprint.
Acts of kindness or general kindness toward your brothers and sisters. That's all it takes.
My next post will be a little more political.
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Personally, my pet peeve during this time of urgent need for level headedness is how governments in US and Canada are taking advantage of the everyday person to unlock executive powers that will benefit corporations and hurt regular people especially those still working the frontlines to keep health, food, transportation and other essential services going.
When the Feds roll out the next phase of tax bills to pay for everyone staying home / laid off / etc, it's going to hurt regular people and line the pockets of banks and corporate America/Canada.
Anyone else feel this way? Thoughts?
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I don’t watch the news, I stopped watching shortly after the 2016 election. I knew there was a fake news/propaganda aspect to some news outlets before the ‘16 election. However it’s hard to find the truth, suddenly journalism no longer includes facts. There is lots of hearsay and opinion and flat out falsehoods. I mostly research what I hear on the radio while driving from stop to stop. Some of what I think has come fro the rabbit holes my research has taken me. Some of it is well beyond comprehension. There is no doubt that corruption is present In Our government. Just look at phase 3 of the coronavirus bill in particular what Nancy Pelosi came in and stuffed into the bill in the 11th hour. All will be tied to money laundering in the near future. The Hoax President speaks of is the MSM and Democrats who are pushing the fear aspect of covid-19. Yes it’s contagious it needs us to move in order for it to move. That said what about this covid-19 have we learned? It is most dangerous to the elderly (70+) and those with compromised immune systems. Another thing there has been people get covid and get better, this doesn’t get reported. I don’t think a total shutdown is warranted but isolation is. A total shutdown will cripple this country beyond repair which is what the Democrats want. I’m sure you can tell what party I support, some may not like it. I don’t worry about that or the things I get called for it. I live in a septic field called Illinois, it’s been run into the ground by corrupt democrats for decades. As long as 6 Left leaning corporations with the same agenda as the Democrats have owning a majority of our media companies we will have a divide. God help us. God Bless the United States of America.
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I'm not impressed with hospital administration that have the task of planning for such events. Supplies are short. Personnel are not well trained for these emergencies. Lots of people caught with their pants down IMO.
I worked in a hospital to pay for university ages ago and I know how some doctors, nurses, patient attendants, house keeping staff, diet offie personnel are very lax about hygiene when caring for the sick. Sorry but you don't want to end up in a hospital, you'll probably get sicker if you do. Best thing to do is stay home if humanly possible, practice universal health precautions, and practice physical distancing for the 2 mths duration when it hit your area of the world.
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I'm not impressed with hospital administration that have the task of planning for such events. Supplies are short. Personnel are not well trained for these emergencies. Lots of people caught with their pants down IMO.
I worked in a hospital to pay for university ages ago and I know how some doctors, nurses, patient attendants, house keeping staff, diet offie personnel are very lax about hygiene when caring for the sick. Sorry but you don't want to end up in a hospital, you'll probably get sicker if you do. Best thing to do is stay home if humanly possible, practice universal health precautions, and practice physical distancing for the 2 mths duration when it hit your area of the world.
:iatp:
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There's some nice signs of humanity and plenty of A-holes running around out there thinking they're above the rules set out to protect all of us.
What's troubling is the standstill the economy has been hit with. How the hell will most people recover from this type of work stoppage? Rent/mortgage, car payments, basic groceries on a weekly basis. Credit card bills, utility bills, what else?
I think this pandemic will make us all rethink how we live and spend money.
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There's definitely more reporting of "neighbours" for break guidelines of self isolation and public gatherings. It's good news / bad news to see people calling each other out but in this case it's all for the greater good to reduce stress on the health system.
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Only today did Canada recommend the use of masks for ppl. I thought it was a no brainer to put a personal filter on everyone. Just common sense.
Sad how slow Canada has been to learn lessons other countries learned during SARS in 2002-03.
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Problem is that the masks that medical services use are N95 masks, the others won't stop the viral microparticals as their filters are to large, and 3M can only make 100 million a month, and about 3rd of production are made in china, all the 3M plant in us can only produce 35m, so not enough masks.plua trump at one point wanted all 3M global production until they likely told him if he did that the plants in other countries would put export bans on them.
Largest manufacturess of masks is china.
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Tough times for all of us during this COVID-19 pandemic. Read that in Montreal they've banned gathering until July 2nd. So even if the NHL restarts in June or earlier, the Canadiens would need to find new digs to play home games. Perhaps off island? Either way, looks like hockey in mid-July is the earliest possible return at this point.
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I do not believe a tournament format for the NHL Play-offs in a limited number of cities would work as the home team would want to properly profit from their existing home games. A tournament format would mean rental of facilities and lost revenue for a home arena.
What would actually work is an NHL re-start with "pre-season" games played in select designated neutral cities while waiting for all NHL cities to lift guidelines for "no public gathers" and ensure enforcement of public health and safety measures are put in place to allow arenas to be filled safely. Having worked in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo during the SARS outbreak of 2002-03, I can say that screening and checkpoints are key to keeping COVID-19 in check.
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This is what I feel strongly about. My personal feeling is that unfortunately, federal governments have already completed their modelling of economic impacts given various scenarios. The US and Canada who I follow closely are working towards the dump debt on the public, keep the banks in control of the general population and the party in office wins while banks and corporations win long-term with everyone owing them money while staying compliant in underpaid desk jobs for years to come. It's a terrible economic play by Governments.
The worst part of all this, the frontline workers in all essential services are going to be taxed heavily down the road because they are the only ones generating earnings these days.
All IMHO.
- DD
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It's a joke in Miami. Construction sites are open and there's a lack of physical distancing. Makes me sick to see.
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Happy Easter/Passover hockey family. This too shall pass. Tomorrow be thankful for the gift of life we have been given, love those that are here, remember those that are not. Smile be safe
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:iatp::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Happy Easter, Blk. Well said!
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL FNHLERS!
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In Quebec, this pandemic has exposed a huge F-up in the management of our long term care system where most of the deaths have occurred ... they are mostly Provincial Gov managed.
It begs the question how the Provincial government uses money if there is such a lack of personnel to help Quebec long term care patients compared to other Canadian provinces.
The topper... Quebec government tried to deflect blame to doctors. Sad.
I really find it interesting how COVID-19 is exposing big flaws in our society.
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If you notice, banks and construction seem to be sectors that are profiting and allowed to reopen first respectively. That seems interesting that the two areas where money changes hands fluidly behind closed doors are protected and encouraged to restart before all other sectors.
COVID-19 has pulled back the curtain on lots of shady nonsense to be sure. LOL
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Gents! Please don't drink hand sanitizer! No matter what the President tell you. LOL
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Interesting findings from Iceland where a company has been tracking genetic predisposition to various illnesses and keep a blood bank of samples of all citizens.
https://www.genengnews.com/news/icelands-aggressive-covid-19-testing-helped-curb-outbreak/
They've essentially been able to trace genetic predisposition to COVID-19 and dive deep into tracing origins of various strains of the virus as it's mutated while making it's way around the world.
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Interesting findings from Iceland where a company has been tracking genetic predisposition to various illnesses and keep a blood bank of samples of all citizens.
https://www.genengnews.com/news/icelands-aggressive-covid-19-testing-helped-curb-outbreak/
They've essentially been able to trace genetic predisposition to COVID-19 and dive deep into tracing origins of various strains of the virus as it's mutated while making it's way around the world.
That's interesting stuff BB! Thanks for sharing.
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Is it my imagination or are schools, school boards and government bodies responsible for schools seem to be clueless as to how to handle COVID-19 this Fall?!!?!?!??!?!?! :soapbox:
Also, it feels like people have forgotten we're in the middle of the 1st wave of the pandemic still. :rolleyes:
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Is it my imagination or are schools, school boards and government bodies responsible for schools seem to be clueless as to how to handle COVID-19 this Fall?!!?!?!??!?!?!
Agree; also feels like the weight of the political system is interfering w sound decisions. They don’t plan on screening kids for schools in certain Missouri districts.
Pretty disappointed folks aren’t all in on safety.
I feel for those educators that aren’t as agile to provide e learn. We’re all in it together!