| 24 Apr 2020 |
 Steven Jay Cohen | pre-dawn rain
in cold, dreary New England
waiting for the percolator to warm... | 09:07:03 |
 tim_writing_in_Taiwan | Well good morning 😊 | 09:09:21 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | That might actually qualify as a senryu -- maybe | 09:09:36 |
| tim_writing_in_Taiwan | It's 5 pm here | 09:09:42 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | No coffee shops here these days | 09:10:20 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | all closed | 09:10:26 |
| tim_writing_in_Taiwan | No doubt. I have been following the news since my family lives in the US | 09:11:26 |
 dreamrewind | We are not allowed to go to coffee shops here in India | 09:11:50 |
| tim_writing_in_Taiwan | I just think that the hysteria is unwarranted | 09:11:58 |
| tim_writing_in_Taiwan | Yes I heard India is also locked up tight | 09:12:23 |
| tim_writing_in_Taiwan | As of April 24, the Taiwan Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has confirmed 428 cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan. | 09:13:02 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | tim_writing_in_Taiwan: It can aeresolize, which means that it can hang in the air and infect you even minutes after someone else coughs. And, that it can enter through the moisture in your eye. | 09:13:17 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | And, young, healthy peope who show no symptoms can pass it to others who don't have that resistance. | 09:14:23 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | dreamrewind: Any word on how long things will be shut down for you? | 09:15:16 |
| tim_writing_in_Taiwan | Steven Jay Cohen: yes I read that it CAN and does in experiments but I don't think that there is proof of it in the real world. | 09:15:32 |
| tim_writing_in_Taiwan | Luckily I am in Taiwan so it's a moot point for us. | 09:16:17 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | tim_writing_in_Taiwan: The healthcare workers with imperfect PPE who now have the disease might disagree with your emphasis of CAN, since it is what they are being told was the likely vector. | 09:16:55 |
| dreamrewind | In reply to @stevenjaycohen:matrix.org
dreamrewind: Any word on how long things will be shut down for you? Not anytime soon. They said the lockdown will end 3rd of May.
But it might get extended | 09:17:10 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | dreamrewind: I was listening to BBC World Service and they did a story about the thousands of people trying to travel to get home because of the shutdown. I don't think I can truly imagine the scope of what's going on there. | 09:19:15 |
| * Steven Jay Cohen sips coffee | 09:20:09 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | * dreamrewind: I was listening to BBC World Service and they did a story about the thousands of people trying to travel to get home in India because of the shutdown. I don't think I can truly imagine the scope of what's going on there. | 09:20:59 |
| dreamrewind | In reply to @stevenjaycohen:matrix.org
dreamrewind: I was listening to BBC World Service and they did a story about the thousands of people trying to travel to get home in India because of the shutdown. I don't think I can truly imagine the scope of what's going on there. That’s true. Cases in India could be much more than what is being reported.
Lakhs of people travelled together after the shutdown was announced. | 11:07:27 |
| dreamrewind | Thousands of daily wage workers would have run out of supplies. More people in India could die out of starvation than because of covid! | 11:08:53 |
| Steven Jay Cohen | dreamrewind: it is too big for me to really comprehend. New York City now thinks that 1 in 5 residents already have (or have had) the disease | 11:15:49 |
 @pe1son2:matrix.org | out here in Oklahoma, ain't much goin on. only like 1000 cases | 12:05:08 |
| @pe1son2:matrix.org | because all Oklahomans seem to be idiots | 12:05:56 |
| @pe1son2:matrix.org | theres a video of a girl ordering fries at McDonald's, getting the bag with gloves on, and then eating the fries with the gloves on | 12:07:06 |
| 27 Apr 2020 |
| @pe1son2:matrix.org changed their profile picture. | 22:17:02 |
| 28 Apr 2020 |
|  @paracosmic_parascope:matrix.org changed their display name from paracosmic_parascope to WanderingRedPanda. | 18:11:27 |
| 2 May 2020 |
|  @dezponia:tchncs.de joined the room. | 08:51:52 |
