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  1. 4 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

    Is there maybe an implied social duty to get tested? You know for data science and shit.

    I think the response from ChiTown and others in the medical community is that if you aren't in a risk group and aren't showing significant symptoms that you can't control with OTC meds, don't tax doctors' offices with testing just for data's sake, so all those most vulnerable and in most need can get tested. 

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Bottlecap said:

    This is the first Austin brewery/restaurant/pub I've seen that has decided to temporarily shutter

    If you want to support some of our local breweries during this time, there's also this

     

    Online Brewery Merch Sales

    I think we'll see more of that.  With a significant decline in patrons, especially with the loss of SXSW, a lot of restaurants may have no choice but to cut costs by temporarily reducing salaries and other overhead just to survive. 

  3. Just now, Gardner Barnes said:

    No. And she will for sure next year. I got one. As did older daughter.

     

     

     

    Makes me feel better.  For you, sort of.  Sucks for your you kid, but at least its not CV. 

    Sort of good news for me, as I got a flu shot, and part of me is worried that whatever I had was a strain of the flu different than this year's vaccine, and I'll get double fucked with the actual coronavirus in the next couple of weeks. I'd feel worse about that possibility if reports of others in the Austin community getting sick in recent weeks turned out to be the flu, and we're all about to whacked again. 

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  4. 58 minutes ago, Brew said:

    We always had only two choices in this. You lock everything down and isolate it to die out or you say f it and everyone hold hands and sing kumbaya and we see who’s left standing. We are getting closer to the second option unless the drug companies hit on something immediately.

    Maybe it was @ChiTownDoc who posted this, but a transcript from a conference call with physicians in California indicate many in the medical community believe we’re past the containment phase, and that containment at this point in the U.S. is futile. So seems like we should be in the “fuck it” phase, but still trying to play it as safely as we can for those more vulnerable.

  5. 6 minutes ago, B00M said:

    If you stop drinking and even just lightly exercise to boost your immune system you'll lose 10 lbs. Drinking heavily right now and depressing your immune system is almost as selfish as the fucks out partying.

    Or if you want to drink—and I’m craving a beer today like never before—take a three or five-mile walk daily around Town Lake or your neighborhood, and do some push-ups every day. No reason to get the fats during this period.

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