Are you worried about the Coronavirus?
- Thread starter pete_c
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I have noticed that in most of my everyday encounters with people. If you make a hypothetical statement or question, most of the non-logical types will ague that is not true or not happening. They just cant hear the word "If".carealtor said:
Computer types are usually familiar with the word "If". Then there is the iUser crowd. :axe:
pete_c
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It's gotten really quiet out there. Seeing a few folks outdoors just walking dogs or themselves.
IT company that my children worked at closed it's doors last Sunday via an email sent out to all employees.
Good news for my son today as he got called back to work this morning.
Noticed that 2 day Amazon deliveries extended to the end of next month a few days back. That and read in the news that this issue has caused a few Amazon warehouses to close.
Here are the current stats.
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BTW and unrelated to OP I am back to using Chrome just for CT as it appears that Firefox is not working again just for CT. Both Comcast and AT&T monthly (not on contract) rates went up $30 per month. Only solution per the CS folks was to sign a 2-3 year contract to save ~$5 per month. I read somewhere that AT&T doesn't want Direct TV any more and will most likely sell it soon. Also read that Plex and Kodi have been removed from Google searches.
IT company that my children worked at closed it's doors last Sunday via an email sent out to all employees.
Good news for my son today as he got called back to work this morning.
Noticed that 2 day Amazon deliveries extended to the end of next month a few days back. That and read in the news that this issue has caused a few Amazon warehouses to close.
Here are the current stats.
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BTW and unrelated to OP I am back to using Chrome just for CT as it appears that Firefox is not working again just for CT. Both Comcast and AT&T monthly (not on contract) rates went up $30 per month. Only solution per the CS folks was to sign a 2-3 year contract to save ~$5 per month. I read somewhere that AT&T doesn't want Direct TV any more and will most likely sell it soon. Also read that Plex and Kodi have been removed from Google searches.
Yeah, we only leave the house now for walks. The number of cases in the state doubles about every two days, but our governor hasn't envoked a stay-at-home order yet, although I'm not sure where you would go anyway. With the numbers in our state, and realizing its probably actually 10 times worth than that, its just playing Russian Roulette to do much. We use the following for supplies...
Amazon - If they list it, it will usually arrive eventually, but most things take a week to 2 months now.
Costco Online - They are pretty much wiped out of most things, but things with "2 day shipping" are arriving in 5.
Boxed Greens - Local company delivering vegetables/fruit and some meat and eggs, and work with local farmers. They deliver once per week, early in the morning before 7am. Got our first delivery today, and I'm very impressed. Only missing one item they didn't have, and all the fruit and veggies really looked good.
Natures Purpose - Another local meal delivery service. Order by Thursday, get food delivered Sunday afternoon. Lots of options and good prices. We will be getting out first shipments Sunday.
Amazon Now/Whole Food - Order online then pick it up at the store. TERRIBLE. Tried it several weeks ago. Wasted hours of our time, and we never got anything.
Grocery Stores - A Mess. They have senior hours but they are a joke. We think going in them is two risky. Pickup service VERY OVERLOADED. Around here, don't bother, but the National Guard started assisting as of yesterday.
Walmart Pickup - Seems to be kinda working, but pickup time is several days out. Will try for prescription pickup, and maybe some food, because some things aren't available in other channels.
On DirecTV, had it for many years, but satellite TV is dead now. I paid $125/month for 3 TVs and a DVR. I now have Youtube TV for $50/month which is better.
Amazon - If they list it, it will usually arrive eventually, but most things take a week to 2 months now.
Costco Online - They are pretty much wiped out of most things, but things with "2 day shipping" are arriving in 5.
Boxed Greens - Local company delivering vegetables/fruit and some meat and eggs, and work with local farmers. They deliver once per week, early in the morning before 7am. Got our first delivery today, and I'm very impressed. Only missing one item they didn't have, and all the fruit and veggies really looked good.
Natures Purpose - Another local meal delivery service. Order by Thursday, get food delivered Sunday afternoon. Lots of options and good prices. We will be getting out first shipments Sunday.
Amazon Now/Whole Food - Order online then pick it up at the store. TERRIBLE. Tried it several weeks ago. Wasted hours of our time, and we never got anything.
Grocery Stores - A Mess. They have senior hours but they are a joke. We think going in them is two risky. Pickup service VERY OVERLOADED. Around here, don't bother, but the National Guard started assisting as of yesterday.
Walmart Pickup - Seems to be kinda working, but pickup time is several days out. Will try for prescription pickup, and maybe some food, because some things aren't available in other channels.
On DirecTV, had it for many years, but satellite TV is dead now. I paid $125/month for 3 TVs and a DVR. I now have Youtube TV for $50/month which is better.
Check this video out. Very funny!!
https://digg.com/2020/trump-impression-coronavirus
https://digg.com/2020/trump-impression-coronavirus
pvrfan
Active Member
pete_c said:
Pete's first post in this thread was about 6.5 weeks ago. As of today, there are over 800,000 cases worldwide--a 12.5-fold increase. Death toll is now over 39,000.
Also, the quote that China was reporting clinically diagnosed cases is very interesting. AFAICT, virtually all other countries are only reporting "confirmed cases" and thus seriously under-reporting the extent of the infections. Lots of people clearly have the symptoms but not sick enough for hospitalization and no need for the official test. Thus never counted as a confirmed case. And, of course, critical testing supplies are in extremely short supply worldwide so again the "confirmed case count" is far below the true number of infected.
Suppose the virus continues to spread (and we test) at the same rate for another 6.5 weeks. That would be 10 million confirmed cases by mid-May. Possibly 500,000 dead worldwide.
Yikes. I'm staying in today.
Craig
pete_c
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Spoke with next door retired neighbor yesterday. His son works in a large University hospital in downtown Chicago. He is a medical records keeper.
Got tested this past week and was positive.
Also tested was his wife and children and they all tested positive.
His daught just came home from college and has been home for the last couple of weeks and she too tested positive.
Trying to ease my neighbor told him that if his son / daughter / kids are healthy best guesstimates that it will pass fast for them. He was depressed and I told him to remain optimistic.
Got tested this past week and was positive.
Also tested was his wife and children and they all tested positive.
His daught just came home from college and has been home for the last couple of weeks and she too tested positive.
Trying to ease my neighbor told him that if his son / daughter / kids are healthy best guesstimates that it will pass fast for them. He was depressed and I told him to remain optimistic.
I think Melania has been staying 50+ ft. from Trump months and years before the virus was even discovered, so she was very insightful. A women well ahead of her time. ^_^LarrylLix said:
In Iceland, they have randomly testing the population, and they discovered 50% of the population had no symptoms whatsoever, so without adequate testing, like in the US, this likely means double the number of people thought are likely infected, actually probably many many more, since many people can't get tested, and I believe only official test positives go into the numbers we see.
pete_c
Guru
I am seeing the numbers go up on the poll of worried folks.
Checked out the delivery options with Amazon and a number of big box and local grocery chains last week. Very low on the WAF relating to product choice and prices.
I have seen that Amazon (in general) now have up to 1 month delivery times on all products ordered locally except for the grocery stuff. That and a number of Amazon warehouses have been closed due Covid-19 outbreaks which would not entice me to use their grocery store.
Have been able to find toilet paper and have noticed that there is price gouging here locally. (low on the WAF). In Indiana one big chain went to price gouging and someone complained to the local politicians and the store was closed until further notice.
I have convinced all family members to purchase the Amazon show to communicate in the last couple of weeks. Works great here.
Weather was so nice this past week did some outdoor spring stuff which I enjoyed. Wife is a happy camper now working from home. (IE: she did not want to do this).
Petrol prices here remain higher than the national average which is expected due to the local willy nilly methodologies driving many folks away from the state.
I have convinced many family members to purchase the Amazon Show in the last couple of weeks and have shown them how to do video calls. Works great!!
Checked out the delivery options with Amazon and a number of big box and local grocery chains last week. Very low on the WAF relating to product choice and prices.
I have seen that Amazon (in general) now have up to 1 month delivery times on all products ordered locally except for the grocery stuff. That and a number of Amazon warehouses have been closed due Covid-19 outbreaks which would not entice me to use their grocery store.
Have been able to find toilet paper and have noticed that there is price gouging here locally. (low on the WAF). In Indiana one big chain went to price gouging and someone complained to the local politicians and the store was closed until further notice.
I have convinced all family members to purchase the Amazon show to communicate in the last couple of weeks. Works great here.
Weather was so nice this past week did some outdoor spring stuff which I enjoyed. Wife is a happy camper now working from home. (IE: she did not want to do this).
Petrol prices here remain higher than the national average which is expected due to the local willy nilly methodologies driving many folks away from the state.
I have convinced many family members to purchase the Amazon Show in the last couple of weeks and have shown them how to do video calls. Works great!!
Most of our family have Alexa Shows but nobody wants to use them. One of the problems is lack of correct mounting angle, or any mounting at all.pete_c said:
One son that does a lot of business usage introduced us to Zoom which works very well. Having seven people's cams at the same time makes things a little small for each frame though.
I have an 8" Show and find it mostly useless. I have transferred my routine vocal announcements back to other Alexa products as the vocal sound is so muffled with too much booming bass I can't understand the voice. Even the v3 Echoes are too bassy, down a tube sounding, for good vocal recognition by humans. The original Echo 1 units are clear sounding. I wish I would have bought more when the market dump happened.
Not everybody wants to just listen to music on a little speaker, I guess. **SIGH**
pete_c
Guru
Most of our family have Alexa Shows but nobody wants to use them.
Yes here not a cloud person.
Utilize Amazon Photos (recently) and uploaded some 300 pictures to it to and enabled the Amazon Show screen saver feature to use this pictures. That said I created a family vault and sharing that now with family members. I have asked for family members to post their pictures in the family vault.
One of the problems is lack of correct mounting angle, or any mounting at all.
See now 3rd party mounts for the Amazon show on Amazon. Much better priced than what Amazon was offering.
Also on Amazon is an inwall mount for the Amazon Show 5.
3rd party mounts are also on Ebay. Just purchased one of these and really did not like the DIY look to it. But cheap.
I have a few of the Alexa Gen 1's (et al) and Alexa Dot's.
Not everybody wants to just listen to music on a little speaker, I guess. **SIGH**
One Dot (microphone off) is connected to the Russound zoned audio system and mixing it with Homeseer TTS / HA TTS and other stuff.
Yes in the master bedroom for local sound (switched over from Whole house sound) use a little squeeze player touchscreen with audio output going to an audio amplifier.
For the computers / laptops have always used Microsoft Skype. Always worked well for me here with relatives in the EU. Last Christmas used used a webcam on top of the TV in the family room connected to a 2nd mini PC next to the KODI box.
Yes here not a cloud person.
Utilize Amazon Photos (recently) and uploaded some 300 pictures to it to and enabled the Amazon Show screen saver feature to use this pictures. That said I created a family vault and sharing that now with family members. I have asked for family members to post their pictures in the family vault.
One of the problems is lack of correct mounting angle, or any mounting at all.
See now 3rd party mounts for the Amazon show on Amazon. Much better priced than what Amazon was offering.
Also on Amazon is an inwall mount for the Amazon Show 5.
3rd party mounts are also on Ebay. Just purchased one of these and really did not like the DIY look to it. But cheap.
I have a few of the Alexa Gen 1's (et al) and Alexa Dot's.
Not everybody wants to just listen to music on a little speaker, I guess. **SIGH**
One Dot (microphone off) is connected to the Russound zoned audio system and mixing it with Homeseer TTS / HA TTS and other stuff.
Yes in the master bedroom for local sound (switched over from Whole house sound) use a little squeeze player touchscreen with audio output going to an audio amplifier.
For the computers / laptops have always used Microsoft Skype. Always worked well for me here with relatives in the EU. Last Christmas used used a webcam on top of the TV in the family room connected to a 2nd mini PC next to the KODI box.
The best we have found yet is VR. I purchased a Vivie Cosmos (about $1100 CAD) along with a new gaming computer (refurb, about $1500 CAD) and tried it out. I played a few shoot'em up games with my kids (42,40 & 34 yoa) and had a night of fun.
I bought my wife and me s-i-l each an Oculus Go ($199.95 CAD) headsets. Delivered the headset to s-i-l on a no-touch drop-off in another city. Was so impressed with the better eye lens I sent the Vive Cosmos headset back to amazon. Colour abreation was terrible and I could only make my eyes focus in one small spot in the centre of the uncoated Fresnel lenses. A slight movement of the headset by 1/16" and the whole thing was blurry again. Then after about 15 minute the sweat from my eyes caused lens fogging...arghhhhh!!
Anyway, you have o experience this to believe it. You meet people in a lobby or a home made room and although you are looking at 3D robotic looking bodies and custom designed faces/hair/glasses etc., you feel as if you actually met in real life.
Of course some games you can throw stuff, shoot each other, ride roller coasters, or visit Le Louge in Paris, or Buckingham Palace, together but after the hour and a quarter the batteries last, you feel like you actual made physical contact with each other.
*** HIGHLY RECOMMEND **** .Oculus Go, at only $200 CAD each, they are still available and not bad resolution. The more expensive units are all the same resolution (slightly better than the Go) despite what they brag. With the CPU, screens etc.. as a Samsung S8 phone there is likely one enclosed inside. Some are adding fans now as the sweating is a real limitation. The high powered PC based ones don't seem to have any features more than the battery/wireless types, if you can find any online. All sold out and I think we know why right now.
Mic and stereo speakers are all built in. You need a cell phone to connect the WiFi and then the headset is stand-alone via 5GHz WiFi. Downloading is done inside the headset in VR. Watch out for VR porn stuff. Too F&%KING REAL!
Now we agree...we hate video chatting! Love VR chatting.
I bought my wife and me s-i-l each an Oculus Go ($199.95 CAD) headsets. Delivered the headset to s-i-l on a no-touch drop-off in another city. Was so impressed with the better eye lens I sent the Vive Cosmos headset back to amazon. Colour abreation was terrible and I could only make my eyes focus in one small spot in the centre of the uncoated Fresnel lenses. A slight movement of the headset by 1/16" and the whole thing was blurry again. Then after about 15 minute the sweat from my eyes caused lens fogging...arghhhhh!!
Anyway, you have o experience this to believe it. You meet people in a lobby or a home made room and although you are looking at 3D robotic looking bodies and custom designed faces/hair/glasses etc., you feel as if you actually met in real life.
Of course some games you can throw stuff, shoot each other, ride roller coasters, or visit Le Louge in Paris, or Buckingham Palace, together but after the hour and a quarter the batteries last, you feel like you actual made physical contact with each other.
*** HIGHLY RECOMMEND **** .Oculus Go, at only $200 CAD each, they are still available and not bad resolution. The more expensive units are all the same resolution (slightly better than the Go) despite what they brag. With the CPU, screens etc.. as a Samsung S8 phone there is likely one enclosed inside. Some are adding fans now as the sweating is a real limitation. The high powered PC based ones don't seem to have any features more than the battery/wireless types, if you can find any online. All sold out and I think we know why right now.
Mic and stereo speakers are all built in. You need a cell phone to connect the WiFi and then the headset is stand-alone via 5GHz WiFi. Downloading is done inside the headset in VR. Watch out for VR porn stuff. Too F&%KING REAL!
Now we agree...we hate video chatting! Love VR chatting.
pete_c
Guru
Very impressive stuff!!! Will have to check it out. Just recently showed mom (90) how to use the Alexa Show to call / drop in on family. Alexa speaks French in her home today. It seems to understand her better than me speaking French to it.
Personally the last video game console I purchased was the Atari 2600 in the early 1980's. Did purchase a video headset in the early 2000's. Showing it to my neighbor one day his daughter (~6 YO) started to play with it while we were playing cards one night and busted the device in half.
Never purchased another one.
My son is in to that stuff and game consoles and personally when he was younger did purchase game consoles for him. (in his room on his TV).
Personally the last video game console I purchased was the Atari 2600 in the early 1980's. Did purchase a video headset in the early 2000's. Showing it to my neighbor one day his daughter (~6 YO) started to play with it while we were playing cards one night and busted the device in half.
Never purchased another one.
My son is in to that stuff and game consoles and personally when he was younger did purchase game consoles for him. (in his room on his TV).