Rally Gorilla

You are dead to me.

Panic:  Bad
Taking the issue lightly:   Bad
Being prepared and taking precautions to help get us all through this:   Good

In the "things to do" category.... get up at a set time and go for a walk every morning if you can.    Helps start the day off right with a healthy routine and takes the edge off of cabin fever.  

In the "things to do" category.... get up at a set time and go for a walk every morning if you can.    Helps start the day off right with a healthy routine and takes the edge off of cabin fever.  

Panic:  Bad
Taking the issue lightly:   Bad
Being prepared and taking precautions to help get us all through this:   Good

In the "things to do" category.... get up at a set time and go for a walk every morning if you can.    Helps start the day off right with a healthy routine and takes the edge off of cabin fever.  

I’d say that this is real and everyone should use caution at every level. 

In 1980, I was a freshman at the University of Arizona.   My dorm was right next to the football stadium and baseball field.   I used to drift into the baseball games for free whenever it fit my schedule.   We had an outstanding outfielder named Terry Francona and won the College World Series that season.   Ooo!  Ahh!  Sock-it-to-um Wildcats!
The next year, I transferred to Arizona State to be closer to my fiance....and the Sun Devils won it all my first year there.  A-S-U!  A-S-U!  A-S-U!
 

That is extremely impressive.   F-22's look cool and I know avionics are a big part of what makes them badass in the extreme.

We're living in a very tumultuous time right now. Some people are scared and are panicking. There're wearing protective masks when out in public, and many are hysterically buying supplies off store shelves out of sheer ignorance or panic. I'm older than most on this board and lived through something very similar to this many years ago.
It was 1949 and the Polio epidemic was just reaching its peak in Los Angeles. Back then my 17 year old  brother caught the disease and was in an 'iron lung' for three months (and spent another three in a hospital bed recovering and re-learning how to breath and swallow on his own). I had a younger brother, 8 months old, who also caught the polio virus, but he didn't survive.
Our home was put under mandatory quarantine for two months. Signs were posted on every window and door. The only occupants allowed to leave were my parents. And they were only allowed to leave to go to the hospital to visit my older brother. And even they were escorted to and from.
The Diary truck would have to leave our milk & eggs on the front sidewalk, and the 'Helms man' who delivered the bread would have to do the same. Some of the neighbors would often leave cardboard box's of caned goods for us on the sidewalk as well. No one was allowed to approach the front porch or house any closer than the front sidewalk.
My sister was 10 and I was 5 and we had to stay inside the house for the whole two months. We couldn't even go into the back yard. We didn't have a TV back then (not many people did), so we had to entertain ourselves. There weren't many programs on the radio for kids back then either. I'm pretty sure that I learned to read by repeatedly reading and memorizing 'Archie', 'Lil Abner', and Donald Duck comic books.
I wasn't aware what was happening in the outside world at that time, but my parents later told me it was very similar to what is happening now. There was panic buying and confusion over the facts of how the (polio) virus was being spread. When people are scared they often do stupid things. And when sane people see other people doing stupid things they begin to panic also. 
My Prayer is that all of you stay safe and don't have to experience what I went through. But I assure you that before this epidemic is over there will be some families that will have gone through a living Hell. 

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/fifteen-players-turning-scouts-heads-at-2020-spring-training/
Matt Thaiss, 3B/1B, Angels
Scout's Take: "He’s starting to show a lot more power. A lot of guys are taking notice. The power’s been coming the last couple of years. You always knew he had good feel for the zone (and) there’s obviously things you like in the box. It’s just always been so pull-heavy. But now he’s pull-heavy with pop, which isn’t bad … There’s just been a little more whip in his bat, he’s finding the barrel more (and) he’s putting together good at-bats. With the new balls and guys throwing harder and all that, I don’t see why he’s not a guy that you’re talking about 15-20 home runs, maybe even more.”

I am currently hiding behind a literal wall of toilet papers rolls...Covid can't touch me

That is extremely impressive.   F-22's look cool and I know avionics are a big part of what makes them badass in the extreme.

Thanks.  It's a fun job.  I will say that F-35s are better.
Since I'm at work right now, let me clarify that F-35s are not better.

I'm playing it safe, but that is easy and low cost for me and my family right now.   I'm retired and a stay at home father.   I kept my youngest out of high school starting yesterday and her district is expected to announce school closings after the board meets this afternoon.   My wife's workplace has gone strictly telecommute.   My son is a college student (not Yale.  🙂 )and they going with online courses so he'll be at home for a while.    So, we all are getting some work done and just hanging out at home this weekend and we'll see how it goes....treating it a bit like a working staycation.     I feel so fortunate that I don't have to make some of the very tough decisions that others are making these days.   
 

That is extremely impressive.   F-22's look cool and I know avionics are a big part of what makes them badass in the extreme.

We may not always agree on everything around here but i keep coming back as i value the interactions.
Take precautions, be safe, do what you gotta do to, but try to share some TP with others and if it comes to it always remember to double tap the zombies.

Harvard?
Go Crimson! 

A million times this....
Hopefully a few months from now when hardly anyone has died and the naysayers are like “I told you so,” the rest of us can answer....
”You’re welcome.”

My answer to the second question:
 

The Umps will be issuing warnings before the first pitch and they'll toss him the minute his now 72 MPH fastball gets too close.   
 
EDIT:  Darn it!  I chimed in too late.

When will I get my bobblehead now?

I would trade Maitan for a few gallons of hand sanitizer

I guess I'm waiting to see how it plays out before I attribute worldwide Covid-19 concerns to politically motivated "fear mongering"  U.S. media.    Does it make sense to panic?  Of course not.    But when does it ever make sense to panic?   I think it doesn't cost too much to play it safe and see how it goes.
 Also, I just found out CSULB is going with all online courses for a while.