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Nightingale
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Date: March 11, 2020 10:40PM
NBA cancelled for the season due to coronavirus. Yow!
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-03-11/nba-suspends-season-indefinitely-over-coronavirus-pandemicSo let's get the story straight: The Q12 had a major revelation and led the world in cancelling a major meet-up. Oh - wait... (they weren't the first ones). But still, at last they saw the light. It's the right thing to do, just letting time go by and minimizing possible wildfire spread of the virus.
On another note, two major supermarkets in my area were sold out of TP today. Another that has been sold out for three days - vast reams of empty space - suddenly is restocked today and the price has tripled.
Now that is price gouging in the midst of a pandemic. Not nice. I will not pay 3x the price. Until I get more desperate that is, maybe. Now I realize I should have stocked up, a bit, the last 14x I went shopping and bypassed the TP aisle so I could lead by example in not panicking (slaps head).
Re the NBA: I don't watch BB much but wow - this is huge. Losing a season? Right when a Canadian team is the defending champion? Wah. And a big fat blank in the sports history books.
Re travel restrictions: I heard a bureau chief (journalist) being interviewed who has become stuck in Italy due to a total clamp-down of exit from that country, without warning. That's a scary part - no notice. That's why it's good to prep for at least a week to have emergency supplies and to stay home in the first place if you can. Of course, journalists are out after stories and not likely to be the ones staying home. He said he was going to go stir-crazy getting trapped in his apartment for weeks. Here's hoping he has a few good books to read to help pass the time.
Re the most important thing in all this: All best wishes to those most seriously affected, the ill, the quarantined, the anxious, and families who have lost loved ones. To hear that more may be lost due to lack of medical supplies is utterly heartbreaking. Put yourself in that place, if it was your elderly loved ones. Oooh, so sad.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/11/2020 10:41PM by Nightingale.