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According to the Guardian article, the statistics regarding the very sick and dying African Americans are from Montgomery, Alabama. I tend to trust them myself, but if you are able to find different statistics, please share. MOO

About the masks issue: It might be a good idea for stores to take a slightly different approach. For instance, those who wear a mask get a 10% discount. More shoppers would wear masks, especially those who just don't like to bother. Of course, those who are against masks on principle would...

I had heard that at least some of the stores were reducing hours so they could do a more thorough cleaning. Also, maybe they have lost some of their staff, who don't wish to work, or feel ill.

When I go back to eating in restaurants, I would prefer one with servers wearing masks. It would not have to be a hospital type setting, but they could have nicely decorated masks (they can be sterilized and reused several times). I could see a vegetarian restaurant where carrot and radish...

I sort of wish it wasn't called "opening up the country," or "liberating the state," or similar here in the U.S. I wish it would be called something like "first step," or "partial isolation." My fear is that too many people will not understand that we should still have some reasonable and...

Protesting is fine when it is for a cause. However, if the cause is to put others at unnecessary risk, that is different. Right now, if people wish to protest against a president, for example, they are not allowed anywhere near the target of their protest. Often they are cordoned off in...

I may be wrong, so take this as my opinion only. As I recall, I saw an article about this quite a while ago, so I'm having trouble finding it. I think there were a few problems with the drive-in church. One was that people were not all staying in their cars, but there were photos of people...

I hope this does not turn into a generic comments only kind of thread. While I enjoy many of these, I come here mostly for information, worldwide, state-wide, small towns and counties not excluded. MOO

I teach adult students. For the past two weeks or so, each class has a number of students, coughing, sneezing, blowing noses. I now find myself interacting less, and also leaning back a bit when students wander up after class with their questions, and sometimes want to lean in very close to...

If you don't have a stylus, it seems like a q-tip would also work, and you could just toss it after using.

I do hope that now that VP Pence is in charge, we will be receiving regular updates about what is being done to prepare us nationally for this outbreak. I hope for specific information, such as hospital rooms being readied, etc. What is most disconcerting to me is silence from those in charge...

O.K. Here's what scares me. All those photos of streets being sprayed. Has this ever happened with any epidemic before? People don't lick the streets or sniff them. Does this mean that if you walk on the street and then into your house, germs on your shoes will infect you? If you drive on...

Although the spring weather should help slow things down, I do hope governments are not relying on that to stop this virus. I do hope that all governments are putting in place emergency measures in case they are needed. I fear that hospitals everywhere, including the U.S. could be rapidly...

Wow. So it is generally 9-20 days for recovery. No wonder everyone is so worried. I have not heard that any of the U.S. patients who were hospitalized have been released yet (but maybe I missed it). I can see how hospitals could easily become overwhelmed as the numbers increase and people...

I just have the feeling that this is different from the regular type of flu in some way. Either it lasts longer, has more complications, has other kinds of side effects. I'm not sure, but the speed of all the quarantines and the shutting down of so many borders strikes me as unique. At least...

Harley was a smart 14-year-old kid who made a foolish decision. Tragically, it cost him his life. In my view, this is no different from many other young teens who do all kinds of dumb things at that age, whether running into traffic, diving into shallow pools, etc. Sometimes I wonder how any...

Although I have followed this case closely, I never had the heart to watch many of his videos (too sad for me), so I was not aware that he was into exploring abandoned houses (as per a poster above). That makes more sense to me now that he would decide to go down that chimney. However, it...

Did Harley think every old house must have a fireplace? Had he never been in an older home without a fireplace? If he had planned this out, it seems like he would peer into the windows and see that this house had no fireplace on the first floor. So then he went down the chimney expecting to...

I do hope that LE check for any evidence that Harley may not have been alone. We assume he went on to the roof and into the chimney all on his own. But there should be a check to make sure that no other person was with him (either friend or foe). I think he was probably by himself, but then...

I think any 14-year-old deciding to go down a chimney would do it feet first. There is no way anyone would lunge down a chimney head first unless they were pushed. The only way (in my opinion only) that this could be homicide and not accidental would be if someone forced Harley to go up on the...