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No coins to share! I’m here in Colorado and it seems there’s a bit of people going mad buying every single thing they can i.e. shopping carts full of cabbage and eggs or they’re surprisingly calm buying a roll of toilet paper and walking out of the store shaking hands, then there’s the rest of us that are not going completely over board but are being diligent about our actions.

We shall see what the next few weeks Brings, be safe all!

 

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So far so good here. I'm more worried about my son and his family in Belgium. They just went to France a week or so ago. I hope he starts taking this a little more serious.

 

I am waiting my last CNG coins win this week too and have bid in à today auction in Belgium too sending by mail like all bidders as 24 hours the auction house Elsen inform us that the physical auction will be close because of coronavirus and only paper and mail bids are ok. Elsen didn’t have live internet auctions as you know surely.

I will still hunt for coins but on internet and I will escape from home just to meet my dealer Elsen that keep for me some nice coins. Their offices are safe in a posh very quiet part of the city and I don’t have to travel to go there. For sure will be alone in the street and no risk in quiet streets.

 

In Belgium no bars and restaurants opens , no shop opens this on weekend, hairdressers only on appointment so the risk is limited as most people chose to stay at home. Order online food at online supermarket. School and University stop to switch to online courses.

By lack of business many corporations ask their employees to stay at home and do remote working if they can.

No anymore social life as the moto is less you do social interactions less the coronavirus will spread.

It is safer in Belgium that in Italy or France (in France they got clusters so only some part of France to avoid not all ) and people seems to follow the new rules.

 

LOL The VIRUS reverse is hilarious

 

I don't watch the news (no TV), and don't watch it online, either, so I'm blissfully ignorant about all the panic. All I'm aware of, since I'm a hockey fan, is that the NCAA national hockey tournament has been cancelled. That's bad enough for me.

 

Schools in our county will be closed from Monday onward (and starting "distance learning" the following week), but the much larger and more populous county next door is keeping schools open. We're basically one big metro area (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill), with a lot of suburban and rural territory included in the counties. We've had a number of cases already, but no confirmed instances of community spread. Realistically, that must already be happening -- but with some folks never showing symptoms, and no widespread testing, it's not surprising that we aren't "confirming" it yet.

Our state university system is also switching over to home study. So my wife has "reverse empty-nest" syndrome; suddenly, we're back to having two kids in the house, all day, every day. I'm still expected to take my laptop to a desk at work every day and sit there typing instead of sitting here at home typing. Our company is already getting some bad press in its home country for this policy.

 

Here in Maryland, all big gatherings have been shut down. This means the Baltimore Whitman Coin Show that was scheduled for next week has been cancelled. FFIVN and I are pretty bummed since we were planning on getting some new ancients.

Schools are closed for the next two weeks so he will be home with mom, sister, and brother. I am in the military and we are still working but the DoD has cancelled all out of area leave, travel for training or other stuff as well as Permanent Change of Station orders.

Here is a Justinian Follis. Hopefully this whole Covid19 stuff doesn't get as bad as poor Justinian's plague.

 

Anyone of you having news from @Cucumbor ? It seems they have been hit badly in France. Hoping Mr.Jean-Claude and his family are OK.

 

Well I just got back from the supermarket, and there really has been a run on toilet paper - and everything else it seems. There were long, empty aisles everywhere. It reminded me of shopping in the Soviet Union, back in the day.

 

I wish you all the best in these hectic times! It amazes me how medical persons do all they can for their patients, even though it can be dangerous for themselves. Truly heroes.

 

I have a Godson who went to school with my Kids who lives in Wuhan and I spoke to him about 3 weeks ago, its difficult to make contact as the Chinese can't phone out. He told me that whatever we hear multiply it by 100 times.
I live in Wales and yesterday a major Rugby game was cancelled as it was deemed too risky to have 75,000 people in one stadium. The economic impact of this is profound and I already know of two long established firms that will be going out of business on Monday because all of their income has dried up with the cancellation of all sports fixtures for the rest of the season.
My trip to Tulsa in April is already cancelled and my main focus in the past week has been organising strategy for clients to cope with the inevitable disruption. The stats are pretty useless, we are told that 80% of the population will contract the virus but there is only a 1% risk of fatality. In crude terms that is over half a million people in the UK.
We are also told that 20% of people tested positive will be very sick but of course what is a real gamble is which 20%? We need truck drivers to deliver food, doctors and nurses to administer care and engineers to keep power and water moving.We police by consent so in rural areas we wont miss them because we don't see them anyway.
Best advice I heard was from a virologist who said that the virus thrives on bacteria so keep hands clean as you can pick it up from hard surfaces so if you kill the bacteria you lessen the chance of transmission. Also it is not a great idea to visit contained communities such as care homes for the elderly as the virus would spread quickly in such an environment.
We are going to see the very best and the very worst of people in the coming months but I have great faith in the common goodness of most people.
I am sure Vespasian would be praying to Jupiter, best and greatest if he was around today.

 

THIS IS A PLOT BY BIG POOP TO CORNER THE TP MARKET I TELL YA!

 

Good news!

 

I'm in the Midwest of the USA. Been prepping (what some news media want to say was 'panic') since near end of January, expecting it to hit sometime. Was difficult because sometimes I was feeling like maybe I was just wasting my money on things I would not use or need. But I then told myself that any food I did not use if it did not come (like people were trying to say) I would simply then donate to the local shelter. And accept about a 100-200$ loss on non-food items.

I started prepping as soon as China locked down Wuhan and a few other cities, totaling then, about 35-58 million people. And were tanking their economy. I did not believe the stories that they had it contained. 5 million people were estimated to have 'escaped' the lockdown before it went in effect. That's 5 million possible vectors, going to places all over the globe. And when the person gave the Germans the virus that set off warning bells.

I am sad it's here, but I have now put myself into #StayTheFHome. I pray for my family, friends, and people I know and don't know.

I probably won't order or buy any coins for awhile and my post of searching rolls is going into hibernation because I both can't afford to do so now, and I really don't want to maybe get coins that have this virus on them. So....

And yes, I'm scared. Actually terrified. Because I have seen things on videos I can't unsee and I have read about what it does and it really can't be stopped. But though terrified, I am also going to be at peace because once someone realizes that there is no more to prepare for and has to accept what happens, then that is all one can do. But let's all battle this as best we can. Don't let it just defeat us.

Got to live to collect more coins.

 

I wouldn't worry about the virus on coins. It can only live on surfaces for 3 days. If you're worried, deposit any packages you receive in a dry corner of your garage for 3 more days and by that time, it should be close to a week since ordering. The virus will have died and you'll be just fine.

 

Minor issues so far for me - all precautionary.. a holiday we had booked has been cancelled, my daughter's hockey season ended abruptly right in the middle of playoffs.. driving the 6 hours to pick up my older daughter from University today.
Will be happy to have everyone close.

We have an aunt and uncle in their 80s that live in downtown Toronto. I worry for them. I am driving the 2 hours to visit them next Wednesday.. will stay over and spend a couple of days helping them out (2 doctor's appointments, stocking up their groceries, household repairs, plan on showing them how to order everything online, etc). Would love to take them back with me but they are from a pretty tough generation - nothing will get them out of that house. (My aunt keeps telling me "I lived through scarlet fever epidemics... this is nothin'".

But the numbers keep climbing daily... this could get very bad, very fast (if it isn't already).

 

The University of Toronto shut down all classes yesterday or the day before, but my son still has plenty of work to do (papers, etc.) to finish his courses. And the library is still open. But mostly he's been staying home in his apartment. I know Canada has its own problems, but to be honest I'm much less worried about him than I would be if he were down here in the New York metropolitan area. Not least because I believe that the hospital system is considerably less likely to be overwhelmed.

Me, I'm strenuously practicing "social distancing" -- I'm a lifelong expert! I've left my apartment in the last week only to go to the supermarket and drugstore, both of which are within a block of me. For whatever reason, there's no problem so far around here with supermarket inventory. The shelves are still full. All the toilet paper one's heart could possibly desire! And, fortunately, I've never been the sort of person who gets easily bored. There's always something else to read or research, whether it's about coins or any of my other interests.

 

For those of you who like data (like me), check out this site:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/