Posted on 03/13/2020 11:11:42 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread is here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3823939/posts?page=1301
Our local Walmart was out of Toilet paper and low on paper towels. This is likely our last trip to the store for a month or so. We didn’t need any T. Paper anyway, but we did buy some Paper towels to replace what we used from our current stash.
Oh, gotcha. I did t see the whole conversation.
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..ATLANTA, GA Following a national emergency declaration to combat the new coronavirus, Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday signed Georgia’s first public health emergency declaration. As of noon Saturday, one person in Cobb County has died from the respiratory virus, and the number of confirmed and presumed positive cases of COVID-19 rose from 42 on Friday to 66 cases in 15 counties.
https://patch.com/georgia/atlanta/ga-coronavirus-publix-hours-cut-66-cases-kemp-signs-emergency
“How much food and perishables come from China?” Salmon and some other frozen fish... Farm raise fish
RI
Rhode Island Cases including presumptive positive rise to 20 as of 3/13/2020.
https://health.ri.gov/data/covid-19/
AL
7th Alabama case of COVID-19 confirmed in Baldwin County
by Jack HeleanSaturday, March 14th 2020
BAY MINETTE, Ala. (WPMI) The seventh case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Alabama was confirmed Saturday near the Gulf Coast.
The North Baldwin Infirmary in Bay Minette said the patient is isolated in their home and the staff who cared for the patient “exercised universal precautions to protect themselves and others from contracting the virus.”
https://abc3340.com/news/local/7th-case-of-covid-19-in-alabama-confirmed-in-baldwin-county
Local WalMarts (Indiana) just announced no 24 hr ops.
Now 6am to 11pm.
Coronaboat #12
Chile quarantines 1,300 aboard two cruise ships
Modified: 14/03/2020 - 19:32 Santiago (AFP)
Chile has quarantined more than 1,300 people aboard two cruise ships after an elderly Briton aboard one of them tested positive for the coronavirus, the health ministry announced Saturday.
Both ships are cruising the Chilean fjords in Patagonia.
The 85-year-old man showed symptoms of the virus after getting off the Silver Explorer ship in the far southern port of Caleta Tortel, 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) from Santiago.
The man was later transferred to a hospital in the city of Coyhaique where he tested positive for the virus.
“The ship is in quarantine off the port of Castro. The British citizen is in good condition but has tested positive for coronavirus,” said Health Minister Jaime Manalich told a press conference.
The other ship, the Azmara Pursuit — with 665 passengers and nearly 400 crew — had earlier crossed into Chilean waters from the southern Argentine port of Ushuaia.
Manalich said it was currently near the port of Chacabuco after authorities banned it from landing passengers there, on grounds that it was carrying suspected cases of the coronavirus.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200314-chile-quarantines-1-300-aboard-two-cruise-ships
At some point they’ll cremate them. No mortician will want to handle them.
“I researched it, and over 90 percent of bathroom tissue manufactured for the USA, and the supplies it takes to make it, is from right here in the USA.”
Cool, I was hearing from somebody stating the material source was China. Glad to here the material is from the USA.
A friend of my (who is a trucker) took a picture of Trucks back up for a mile to pick up toilet paper from a P&G paper plant in Tunkhannock, PA. So they are trying to get the TP out to the stores. No need to Panic...
Oklahoma Cases 1 confirmed 3 presumptive positive.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Oklahoma Test Results
Positive (Confirmed) 1
Positive (Presumptive*) 3
Negative 36
PUIs Pending Results 37
*Tested positive at the OSDH Public Health Laboratory, pending confirmatory testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Following confirmation at CDC, the case will change to Positive (Confirmed).
lowes has toilet paper.
it’s ‘bulk’, institutional and not cheap. But it would wipe your hiney I guess?
https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=toilet+paper
CNN showing remaining staff of Kirkland Nursing Home (ground zero, metro Seattle) who have not yet been tested, walking in and out of facility and not quarantined...
Facility manager said CDC told him it was ok...
ouch!
OR
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) The Oregon Health Authority added six new presumptive positive cases of the coronavirus to the states total on Saturday, bring the number of people who have been diagnosed up to 36.
Of those new cases, three are from Washington County, two are from Deschutes County, and one more was found in Linn County.
The new case in Linn County is located at a veterans home in Lebanon that already had eight presumptive positives and has since been put on lockdown. OHA said one of the two cases in Deschutes County has been connected to travel, while the remaining cases have been attributed to the community spread of the virus.
https://www.koin.com/news/health/coronavirus/oregon-declares-6-new-presumptive-covid-19-cases/
haha - we’re all thinking the same thing - sawdust !!! the mark of a prepper :)
(for those in Rio Linda and urban areas, that’d probably translate to kitty litter)
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That stuff is awful! ;-)
UK
People in Britain aged over 70 will be instructed soon by the government to stay in strict isolation for four months as part of a planned response to coronavirus, broadcaster ITV’s political editor said.
Robert Peston said the government was likely to enforce a “wartime-style” mobilisation effort in the next five to 20 days.
Other measures being planned include hotels and other building being used as temporary hospitals, privately-run hospitals being converted into emergency medical care centres and commissioning several companies to make respirators that can keep acutely ill victims alive.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-coronavirus-over-70s-told-21694397
wait...the 18wheeler was in line?
That so they can clean the store and restock.
Not a bad thing.
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