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PCIntern

(25,532 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:25 PM Mar 2020

Hmmm....here in Philly

the streets are quiet. My street vendor from whom I’ve bought lunch for twenty years does not understand why he’s so slow. I told him that people are afraid to eat street food. We are starting to get cancellations in my dental office. (That’s why I have time to write this). We have wedged open the front and connecting doors because people don’t want to touch handles. A woman chastised my assistant for a perceived very minor slight in “sterile technique” which doesn’t really exist here. It is the number one topic of conversation bar none. Everything has been cancelled. Everything involving the assembly of people. We are awaiting the school decisions at the K-12 level, the colleges are almost all shut down.

This is my fourth epidemic in my practice: this is being taken very seriously by the masses. We shall see what occurs: I for one am not optimistic.

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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. Went to Subway to grab a sandwich for lunch....
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:27 PM
Mar 2020

They have pulled all the cups, straws and stuff people handle to behind the counter. You want a refill you ask for a new cup.

Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
2. I've been watching Hong Kong news for a while
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:30 PM
Mar 2020

I've been watching Hong Kong news for a while. They are about 1-2 months ahead of us with the disease. All business (especially restaurants) went down to 5-30% of what they used to. If we have an outbreak as big as it's looking to have, the economic impact will be huge.

Siwsan

(26,259 posts)
3. My niece just told me that a Flint area Aldi was a madhouse, this morning
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:31 PM
Mar 2020

NO toilet paper remains in the store. What is the obsession with stockpiling months and months worth of toilet paper?? I was at my local Aldi, yesterday, everything was normal, and that was after Governor Whitmer's announcement.

We have, so far, 2 presumptive (I think they are still that status) cases in Michigan. I'm taking rational precautions but certainly not going into a panic state. Not yet, anyway.

Vinca

(50,261 posts)
4. I noticed as I drove past some fast food restaurants today that there few cars in the lots.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:31 PM
Mar 2020

There were a couple of cars at the Dunkin Donuts drive-up, but not one in the lot. I have a weird aversion to fast food and never go there anyway, but I thought it was very odd since the southern Vermont town I was driving in hasn't had a reported case yet.

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