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Let's play a game: as Covid-19 goes up what else will go up?

CryomatrixCryomatrix Member EpicPosts: 3,223
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You can only choose one thing.

I will choose.

As Covid-19 goes up so will video game time . . . (Except for me, i work in healthcare in a hospital).

What else will go up? Add something new and unique.
Catch me streaming at twitch.tv/cryomatrix
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  • NarugNarug Member UncommonPosts: 756
    edited March 2020
    Unemployment

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/here-s-how-much-coronavirus-is-costing-the-world-so-far/ss-BB10KYhG?ocid=msedgdhp

    Here's how much the coronavirus is costing the world (so far)
    People will lose their jobs

    So, just how much money will it cost us? Early estimates from Bloomberg put it at $2.7 trillion — but that was before coronavirus was declared a pandemic, all of Italy went on lockdown and the United States started canceling everything.
    When businesses are shuttered, they aren’t making money … which means there isn’t any money (or, at least, there’s less of it) to pay employees. As a result, there will be layoffs. Small businesses will also be particularly susceptible to the effects of people staying home, away from crowds and away from businesses, and some will be forced to close for good. As the Independent writes, “Coronavirus’ economic danger is exponentially greater than its health risks to the public. If the virus does directly affect your life, it is most likely to be through stopping you going to work, forcing your employer to make you redundant, or bankrupting your business.”
    The gig economy will also pose problems for many workers, as they won’t be hired during this virtual shutdown — and therefore won’t be getting paychecks. According to Deutsche Bank, 15 million workers, including independent contractors, on-call workers and temp-help agency workers in a wide range of industries, are at particular risk.
    Sports are benched
    It started with March Madness and quickly spiraled into the NBA, the NHL, the MLB, and U.S. and European soccer. All of your favorite sporting events have either been canceled outright or suspended for at least the next month. Here’s a little perspective from a financial standpoint: According to Fox Business, the NCAA raked in an estimated $933 million during 2019’s March Madness when factoring in media rights, ticket sales, and sponsorships. And that’s just for one college-sports championship.
    Disney has closed
    The happiest place on Earth is no more … at least for now. Disney World and Disneyland have only closed a handful of times in their entire histories due to major world or weather events, and now, they will be closed through the end of March. How significant is this? In early February, Disney warned that the closure of its parks in China alone could equal a $280 million loss in the current quarter. Disney has said that it will pay its cast members during the closure, but this doesn’t account for the many other people employed by the parks.
    More cancellations
    Events are no more. Aside from personal business trips and conferences, some of the bigger and more public cancellations include: music festivals SXSW and Coachella, Facebook’s Global Marketing Summit, Japan’s Azalea Festival, global fashion weeks, the China Grand Prix, all Live Nation Entertainment and AEG Presents music tours, and the Tribeca Film Festival, to name a few. Plus, there are concerns that the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, which are set to be held in Tokyo in July, might be canceled. That would be an enormous loss not just for the athletes but also for Japan’s economy, networks around the globe and related industries.

    Sorry couldn't resist  ;)
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  • malikhigh1978malikhigh1978 Member UncommonPosts: 45
    I really miss Asheron's Call, both of them. The allegiance system was unlike anything else, and allowed bonds of patrons and vassals to generate great friendships.
    NarugScot
  • UngoodUngood Member LegendaryPosts: 7,534
    Well, so far, stock in Toilet Paper, Bleach, Hand Sanitizer, and Disinfect Spray has skyrocketed.

    So far, Retailers are seeing better sales now then they do at Christmas, so, money and the economy is booming.

    But.. for me.. I think I will just get more time to play games.
    Egotism is the anesthetic that dullens the pain of stupidity, this is why when I try to beat my head against the stupidity of other people, I only hurt myself.

  • UtinniUtinni Member EpicPosts: 2,209
    Ungood said:
     the economy is booming.


    ?????????????????????????????????????
  • UngoodUngood Member LegendaryPosts: 7,534
    Utinni said:
    Ungood said:
     the economy is booming.


    ?????????????????????????????????????
    As fucked up as it sounds.. Stock market just had a record high, thanks to the panic buying.

    Egotism is the anesthetic that dullens the pain of stupidity, this is why when I try to beat my head against the stupidity of other people, I only hurt myself.

  • UtinniUtinni Member EpicPosts: 2,209
    Ungood said:
    Utinni said:
    Ungood said:
     the economy is booming.


    ?????????????????????????????????????
    As fucked up as it sounds.. Stock market just had a record high, thanks to the panic buying.

    Ahh you're trolling. Got me.
    Waan
  • NarugNarug Member UncommonPosts: 756
    Hopefully this nugget will stop the panic once it circulates.


    Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will begin Monday, according to a government official.

    The first participant in the trial will receive the experimental vaccine on Monday, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the trial has not been publicly announced yet. The National Institutes of Health is funding the trial, which is taking place at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, the official said.

    Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine.

    Testing will begin with 45 young, healthy volunteers with different doses of shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc. There’s no chance participants could get infected from the shots, because they don’t contain the virus itself. The goal is purely to check that the vaccines show no worrisome side effects, setting the stage for larger tests.
    bcbully

    AC2 Player RIP Final Death Jan 31st 2017

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  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383
    My electric bill. 

    Kid's school just got canceled for ???. So he will be home on the you tube all day.
    CosmoguardUngoodWaan
  • vegetableoilvegetableoil Member RarePosts: 768
    Protective mask, guns (people might loot you especially if you are Asian) and biohazard mask (when the surgical mask is depleted), and also non-perishable food for a long period of isolations, Food delivery cost if you use online food purchase, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, bleach, soap. and if you have little kids then baby food, diaper. This is like survival game but real huh.
  • CosmoguardCosmoguard Member UncommonPosts: 11
    edited March 2020
    It's definitely crazy. My son's school is closed until mid April. I hope everything levels out soon enough. We humans are very unpredictable and this is a new, somewhat intense situation that we are in so hopefully we all just keep our heads on straight and stay safe.
    NarugTuor7
  • bcbullybcbully Member EpicPosts: 11,843
    Husband suicides 
    TEKK3N
  • KumaponKumapon Member EpicPosts: 1,605
    UngoodCryomatrix
  • CaffynatedCaffynated Member RarePosts: 753
    edited March 2020
    Birthrate 9 months from now. Always happens after a big hurricane when there's no power or gas to go anywhere. People stuck inside are going to find things to do.
    Naruganemo
  • TEKK3NTEKK3N Member RarePosts: 1,115
    bcbully said:
    Husband suicides 
    As also women domestic abuse.
    NorseGod
  • NarugNarug Member UncommonPosts: 756
    DMKano said:

    A year away.... it won't help as by that point 80% of the population will already have gone through the infection. 

    There is no stopping it, just flatten the curve so we all don't get sick within like 2 months and completely overwhelm the hospitals.

    The WHO the CDC - they all know that the only thing that can be done is to slow down the spread - but there is no stopping it - so the base assumption is that 80% of the global population will be infected sooner or later.

    As it goes through the population the recovered people will be a natural buffer to stop the spread due to their immunity. 

    So this vaccine is too far out to stop the panic
    Yep like I said “hope”. Psychologically hoping I should’ve clarified.

    Guess as Gandalf says it’s a fool’s hope.

    Have to go work now with the job I still have thankfully.

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    Refugee of Dereth

  • BruceYeeBruceYee Member EpicPosts: 2,556
    I hope this terrible event pushes companies like Disney, Warner Brothers & others to re-evaluate their stance on not giving too many fks about game development. They are all losing their shirts by not being able to make money their usual ways and guess what millions upon millions of kids & adults are forced to stay home/indoors now only if they had a wide variety of their products to play/buy...

    They added stuff to disney plus just so ppl would sub and they licensed some movies to regular stations. Depending on how long this lasts maybe someone should suggest to them they should relaunch all those games they shut down like Marvel Heroes, Hero UP(Super Hero Squad), Battle Lines, SWG.

    Good time to relaunch also every other game too like AC2 people in this thread are longing for plus throw in a legit NCSoft COH & UbiSoft Shadowbane relaunch as well into the party mix.

    W101 is frggin' PACKED today more than it's been in such a long time. Imagine how packed games will be after everyone gets fully caught up/done watching all the shows/movies on their lists.

    People being focused on games and other entertainment will keep their mind occupied so they don't freak out and start robbing their neighbors so it's kind of like a public service maybe game companies can ask for federal money lol
  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,164
    edited March 2020
    Divorce rates and arguing at home as tempers get frayed.
    Cryomatrix

  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    Many people in just about every society on the planet entertain the idea that we could live to see some sort of apocalypse. The media which today is all about drama, emotion and narrative lap this up and magnify it beyond all proportion. This sort of event plays directly to that fear but the previous generation thought the same, as did the one before that. We are still here, nuclear war has not destroyed the earth, the world has not become so populated that every country faces starvation, the millennium bug did nothing, the oil crises (I forget how many we have had) never wrecked the world economy, the machines have not taken over (that gets put on the list for real in questionaries' about future threats to the planet), viruses will not wipe out mankind and climate change will not destroy the earth.

    Some of those I mentioned are real threats which we have solved or are solving with a science based approach and good infrastructure management. Others like the millennium bug and machines taking over the world show how easily we can be swept up into a culture of fear.

    This is a serious event but it is not the end of the world as we know it, carry on gaming.
    Narug
  • TiamatRoarTiamatRoar Member RarePosts: 1,688
    edited March 2020
    IIRC, during the last viral outbreak, internet services and video game sales reported record sales because people needed something to do while staying at home.  Most other types of businesses crashed hard though.
  • Vermillion_RaventhalVermillion_Raventhal Member EpicPosts: 4,198
    Recent reports have found the virus is spread through toilet paper.

    The economy is not booming.  I doubt the panic sells are making up for closed and extremely slow service industry.  

    I am assuming that there are lot more people sick unreported with stealthy symptoms and/or doctors unwilling to test. Not sure how much it matters in the scheme of things.

    My biggest fear is that the virus maybe chronic and reemerging as a few people have become reeinfected.  
    Narug
  • NarugNarug Member UncommonPosts: 756
    edited March 2020
    @DMKano or to whom it may concern,

    Exactly & sorry got back from work & was gonna link all that.

    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/coronavirus-infectious-diseases-professor-grahame-medley-185144010.html

    Coronavirus: The simple advice for dealing with COVID-19 from an infectious diseases professor

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/herd-immunity-stop-coronavirus-uk-105109217.html

    Sir Patrick Vallance acknowledged there are fears that clamping down too hard on the spread of the virus through tight social distancing measures could see it return in the future.

    With no vaccine available for Covid-19, herd immunity relies on enough people in the population becoming infected to lessen the impact of the disease.

    Sir Patrick told Sky News that around 60% of the UK population will need to become infected with coronavirus in order for society to have herd immunity from future outbreaks.

    This mass hysteria nonsense says this:


    Visualizing Stephen King's THE STAND

    Current Reality:

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=current+deaths+of+coronavirus&qs=AS&pq=current+deat&sk=LS1AS1&sc=8-12&cvid=A65CA18E07B548D8A3C57C891BAD3567&FORM=QBRE&sp=3

    Deaths from Cov-19: 7081


    The coronavirus' estimated fatality rate appears to have risen to 3.4%, but experts think it could drop again

    Edit:  The Chart in that article shows less % fatalities with more countries for COVID-19 & the other diseases have less countries involved with more % fatalities End Edit

    Deaths from just the common flu 10/1/2019 - 3/7/2020: 22k to 55k

    https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

    Death rate of Ebola: between 50% and 90%



    Ebola has claimed the lives of more than 1,600 people in the last year since a new outbreak spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

    The 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak claimed the lives of 11,310 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

    There are approximately 10,000 survivors living today.
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  • NarugNarug Member UncommonPosts: 756
    edited March 2020
    For the those who can't understand what this does to you psychologically or what I was trying to do.....(Looking at you those who lol'd my experimental vaccine link)


    “This could be the last bar we go to in a long time,” said Avina, 40, a bill collector for Spectrum, the internet and cable company.

    For older Californians, the hard-won pleasures of their golden years — outings with grandchildren, breakfast at a diner with friends, dressing up for the opera — were being snatched from them.

    “We need a place to clear our heads. We don’t like to feel like we’re in a war zone,” Avina said.

    Ken Coon and his husband, Michael L. Miller, eat at Millie’s almost every day. But this would be the last time for a while. The virus is “just blowing up too much,” said Coon, of Atwater Village.

    “Our lives should still go on. We shouldn’t let the virus make us stay home,” said Maly Lee, 52, who works in merchandising. “We shouldn’t just sit home and be depressed. The more you think about it, the more depressed you get.”

    “Normally, I’m a really active person,” she said. “Now, everything, it seems, has been taken away
    from me.”



    'Don't panic' says US woman who recovered from coronavirus

    Again I say, "Thou shall not pass!"




    How long will social distancing for coronavirus have to last? Depends on these factors.

    How long are we going to have to keep this up? The closed schools, work from home, six feet of personal space and zombie-apocalypse empty streets?

    Two and half months after the virus emerged, China has partially lifted its draconian lockdowns in many areas. Schools have started reopening, and authorities have taken down the makeshift hospitals built in Wuhan at the height of the outbreak.

    But new cases continue popping up. And the government has continued its use of temperature checkpoints and pervasive digital surveillance programs that track people’s movements, and the streets even in its megacities are not as crowded as before.
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  • Vermillion_RaventhalVermillion_Raventhal Member EpicPosts: 4,198
    DMKano said:
    Narug said:
    DMKano said:

    A year away.... it won't help as by that point 80% of the population will already have gone through the infection. 

    There is no stopping it, just flatten the curve so we all don't get sick within like 2 months and completely overwhelm the hospitals.

    The WHO the CDC - they all know that the only thing that can be done is to slow down the spread - but there is no stopping it - so the base assumption is that 80% of the global population will be infected sooner or later.

    As it goes through the population the recovered people will be a natural buffer to stop the spread due to their immunity. 

    So this vaccine is too far out to stop the panic
    Yep like I said “hope”. Psychologically hoping I should’ve clarified.

    Guess as Gandalf says it’s a fool’s hope.

    Have to go work now with the job I still have thankfully.

    As far as keeping hope - this virus is far too weak to doom humanity - so it will be just a bump on the road.


    Look at China - after 2 months it's gone through most of the population and their cases have slowed down so much that there are more people coming in infected from abroad than local cases in China.

    So it takes about 2 months for herd immunity to really slow this virus down - same will happen globally.

    So hope is real in this case - covid-19 ain't shit in the big scheme of things, sure we have a months of things being less than great ahead of us - but we'll make it just fine
    The big deal is to not have hospitals overwhelmed.  
  • ScorchienScorchien Member LegendaryPosts: 8,914
     The amount of useless threads on forums ..
    jimmywolfanemo
  • UtinniUtinni Member EpicPosts: 2,209
    DMKano said:
    Narug said:
    DMKano said:

    A year away.... it won't help as by that point 80% of the population will already have gone through the infection. 

    There is no stopping it, just flatten the curve so we all don't get sick within like 2 months and completely overwhelm the hospitals.

    The WHO the CDC - they all know that the only thing that can be done is to slow down the spread - but there is no stopping it - so the base assumption is that 80% of the global population will be infected sooner or later.

    As it goes through the population the recovered people will be a natural buffer to stop the spread due to their immunity. 

    So this vaccine is too far out to stop the panic
    Yep like I said “hope”. Psychologically hoping I should’ve clarified.

    Guess as Gandalf says it’s a fool’s hope.

    Have to go work now with the job I still have thankfully.



    Look at China - after 2 months it's gone through most of the population and their cases have slowed down so much that there are more people coming in infected from abroad than local cases in China.

    So it takes about 2 months for herd immunity to really slow this virus down - same will happen globally.


    First case of COVID-19 in China was in November 2019. Not 2 months ago.
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