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03-16-2020, 03:53 PM
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Work from home for the next two weeks starting tomorrow for my company. I better gather anything I need now!
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03-16-2020, 03:56 PM
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#1902 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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People can blame whoever they want, but the fact is, Canada's prime minister is Justin, not the Donald.
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03-16-2020, 04:03 PM
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#1903 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Man, laugh tracks make almost any situation seem funny
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03-16-2020, 04:05 PM
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#1904 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero  $1000 is a typical costco run if you've got like 10 mouths to feed like many of the south asian households in vancouver | Yeah I mean that's a Costco run. I'm typically in the $350 every 1-2 months at Costsco if it's just food I'm buying. But this was $500 at Country Grocer, which is insane to me. And yeah I saw people with 5 packs of toilet paper in their cart. Crazy.
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03-16-2020, 04:16 PM
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#1905 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by welfare People can blame whoever they want, but the fact is, Canada's prime minister is Justin, not the Donald. | But trumps the greatest leader of all time. If he is not closing the boarder why should we?
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03-16-2020, 04:41 PM
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#1906 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero just got ordered to isolate for a conference that happened 11 days ago
i'm finding out through news article...still no official word...all my colleagues are unsure if it includes everyone we've been in contact with since then, very frustrating kept in the dark | my gf just got told to be in isolation because of the conference, so now i have to as well. her office is now closed for the week and i'm guessing lots more will be closed.
Been non stop all day setting everyone up for remote work.
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03-16-2020, 05:09 PM
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#1907 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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JT says it’s safe so I’m not worried, live laugh love, off to the pub!
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03-16-2020, 05:41 PM
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#1908 | | Hacked RS to become a mod
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Grocery store shutting down for 3 days to disinfect after a CUSTOMER says they were there before finding out they tested positive.
This is the kind of reaction that increased testing can result in. But really, if every store shuts down when one of their customers shows an infection, every store will be shut down.
It's also a reminder to Hong Kong that the pandemic is STILL HAPPENING and that we should NOT be "going back to normal".
Same with Singapore, Japan, China, and everyone else who experienced it earlier than the rest of the world.
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03-16-2020, 06:58 PM
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#1909 | | JDMEK9Mod | DogWhisperer
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Originally Posted by underscore This is from Bergamo, Italy, a town of ~120,000. Comparing the obituary pages from Feb 9 to Mar 13th. https://i.imgur.com/SYVkJSv.mp4
I don't know how to embed a .mp4 here so the link is the best I can do. | this is really chilling to see...
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03-16-2020, 07:05 PM
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#1910 | | I STILL don't get it
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Originally Posted by lilaznviper my gf just got told to be in isolation because of the conference, so now i have to as well. her office is now closed for the week and i'm guessing lots more will be closed.
Been non stop all day setting everyone up for remote work. | What about the patients who visited the dentist? Should they isolate too?
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03-16-2020, 07:14 PM
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#1911 | | I don't get it
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Gender justice and equality before anything else. He needs to have a gender equal task force before he can enforce any quarantines or close any borders down
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03-16-2020, 07:14 PM
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#1912 | | I subscribe to the Fight Club ONLY
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FYI, I was suppose to get an offer from a new job; they held off due to this.
I'm goign to be in the long haul to be unemployed (since Nov 1, now it's march, i can't see this going well until 4 months from now). I'm blessed to have 1 yr worth of rent saved up; you will soon see roll out of retail people out of a job (zero to virtually no hours) to not have income / can't pay rent and then can't pay for groceries.
It'll be a long haul.. let's see how this plays out. I'm offering no contact pick up food for those who are older within my close friends / relatives / church. No groceries shopping for you (there are free services right now); i'm offered free cooked food.
Let's help those closed one another / loved ones and the less fortunate.
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03-16-2020, 07:29 PM
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#1913 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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03-16-2020, 07:41 PM
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#1914 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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Despite some ups and downs, the Dow Jones lost 9000 points since Valentine's Day https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI/history/
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03-16-2020, 07:57 PM
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#1915 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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I have a family member who is 62 years old and isn't taking this too seriously and continues to travel to work via transit. Should she continue to go to work for a couple more weeks or should I convince her to stay home starting asap?
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03-16-2020, 08:14 PM
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#1916 | | Waxin’ Punks
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^the latter. If she can.
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03-16-2020, 08:15 PM
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#1917 | | RS.net, where our google ads make absolutely no sense!
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Originally Posted by tegra7 I have a family member who is 62 years old and isn't taking this too seriously and continues to travel to work via transit. Should she continue to go to work for a couple more weeks or should I convince her to stay home starting asap? | Convince her to stay home if you can. I don't think anyone will be commuting to work within the next week.
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03-16-2020, 08:19 PM
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#1918 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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People are goin to work to pay the bills. You cant fault her for that. My boss told me its business as usual and we're gonna stay open as long as possible.
Its the government with blood on their hands for not shutting down non essential businesses sooner.
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03-16-2020, 08:20 PM
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#1919 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Helpful when determining if you need to get tested:
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03-16-2020, 08:57 PM
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#1920 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Looks like the US is conducting the first trial for a vaccine. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...doses-n1160836 Quote:
SEATTLE — U.S. researchers gave the first shot to the first person in a test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday — leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges.
With a careful jab in a healthy volunteer’s arm, scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle begin an anxiously awaited first-stage study of a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed in record time after the new virus exploded from China and fanned across the globe.
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03-16-2020, 09:08 PM
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#1921 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer JT says it’s safe so I’m not worried, live laugh love, off to the pub! | That's quite a 180 from a few pages back when u were failing everyone who was being precautions. Telling people they r over reacting, saying all good to go on cruises.
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03-16-2020, 09:31 PM
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#1922 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Well at that time I was legitimately ready to book a flight to join my wife in NY. Shows how quickly things change, im not ignorant enough to not change my view as new information becomes available.
However I still think the likelihood of me or the majority of people I know becoming gravely I’ll is still very slim but as it seems to be, I’m trying to do good unto others and not go out and potentially spread anything any further.
I’m hoping for everything to be over relatively quickly and that major lessons are learned here so we hopefully won’t have to go through this BS again for some time.
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03-16-2020, 09:38 PM
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#1923 | | I contribute to threads in the offtopic forum
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Originally Posted by Hondaracer I’m hoping for everything to be over relatively quickly and that major lessons are learned here so we hopefully won’t have to go through this BS again for some time. | Lots of people still not taking this seriously, more lessons to come. I was at Metrotown today very briefly to get a refund on an item that I only had a couple of days left to return; the food court was pretty packed.
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03-16-2020, 09:49 PM
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#1924 | | RS.net, where our google ads make absolutely no sense!
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Last Call's coming. Friend working in BC liquor store is hearing they may close as soon as end of day tomorrow, following all the other store shutdowns.
My feeling is that it's going to a full shutdown by the end of the week, middle of next by the latest.
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03-16-2020, 09:49 PM
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#1925 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Well, maybe they learn a lesson the hard way.
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