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A California nursing home was evacuated after its staff didn't show up (old folks community)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/us/califo...index.html
Dozens of patients from a nursing home in Southern California were evacuated to other centers Wednesday after employees stopped showing up for work, officials say. Magnolia Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Riverside, California has been hit hard by coronavirus, with at least 34 of 84 patients and five staff members testing positive, according to a news release from Riverside County Public Health Department. Wednesday is the second day in a row employees didn't show up to care for patients.
Sex toy sales triple during New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown (down under community)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...s-lockdown
INTRO: They were warned by the officials against stockpiling toilet paper or flour. But that’s not all New Zealanders have been hoarding, according to the nation’s largest retailer of sex toys, which said sales of its products tripled after Jacinda Ardern announced a month-long lockdown of the country.
New Zealanders are permitted to leave their homes only to access essential services or take walks during the national shutdown, which began a fortnight ago and will remain in place for at least a further two weeks. The measures generated mirth on social media about a possible baby boom nine months after the stay-at-home rules lifted, and worried family planning specialists as access to various forms of birth control dwindled.
The restrictions also prompted a tripling of sex toy sales in the 48 hours before the lockdown was imposed on 25 March, and the prospect of a boring month indoors seemed to have prompted New Zealanders to stash adult products that they might not have tried before, said Adult Toy Megastore, a New Zealand-based company. “We’re selling a lot of beginner toys ... all our beginner ranges are very popular,” said Emily Writes, a spokesperson for the business. “It definitely looks like people are saying: ‘I’ve got time, I might try something new.’”
Sales of condoms, lubricant, and menstrual cups were among the other purchases that spiked after Ardern announced the lockdown, as well as adult board games and – perhaps reflecting a wider trend towards disinfecting behaviour – sex toy cleaner... (MORE)
Dr. Fauci says we should never shake hands again, even when this pandemic is over (Yank community)
https://bgr.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-p...ing-hands/
SUMMARY POINTS: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Trump administration’s most public expert on the coronavirus pandemic, is strongly recommending that everyone avoid shaking hands ever again, even after a vaccine arrives for the virus and things start going back to normal. Dr. Fauci made that recommendation during an interview when asked about what behaviors might linger, even in a post-coronavirus world.
EXCERPT: . . . Absolutely no more handshakes [...] “As a society, just forget about shaking hands,” Fauci said during a new television interview. “We don’t need to shake hands,” he continued. “We’ve got to break that custom. Because as a matter of fact, that is one of the major ways you can transmit a respiratory-borne illness.”
He was making that point as part of a larger discussion about how he thinks some of the behaviors and habits we’re practicing now will in all likelihood become facts of life going forward, in a post-coronavirus world. And in the case of doing away forever with something like a handshake, which can easily spread germs, that’s a good thing. “I think what we’re going to have embedded and imprinted in us forever is the realization that something as catastrophic as what the world is experiencing now can happen,” he said... (MORE - details)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/us/califo...index.html
Dozens of patients from a nursing home in Southern California were evacuated to other centers Wednesday after employees stopped showing up for work, officials say. Magnolia Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center in Riverside, California has been hit hard by coronavirus, with at least 34 of 84 patients and five staff members testing positive, according to a news release from Riverside County Public Health Department. Wednesday is the second day in a row employees didn't show up to care for patients.
Sex toy sales triple during New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown (down under community)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...s-lockdown
INTRO: They were warned by the officials against stockpiling toilet paper or flour. But that’s not all New Zealanders have been hoarding, according to the nation’s largest retailer of sex toys, which said sales of its products tripled after Jacinda Ardern announced a month-long lockdown of the country.
New Zealanders are permitted to leave their homes only to access essential services or take walks during the national shutdown, which began a fortnight ago and will remain in place for at least a further two weeks. The measures generated mirth on social media about a possible baby boom nine months after the stay-at-home rules lifted, and worried family planning specialists as access to various forms of birth control dwindled.
The restrictions also prompted a tripling of sex toy sales in the 48 hours before the lockdown was imposed on 25 March, and the prospect of a boring month indoors seemed to have prompted New Zealanders to stash adult products that they might not have tried before, said Adult Toy Megastore, a New Zealand-based company. “We’re selling a lot of beginner toys ... all our beginner ranges are very popular,” said Emily Writes, a spokesperson for the business. “It definitely looks like people are saying: ‘I’ve got time, I might try something new.’”
Sales of condoms, lubricant, and menstrual cups were among the other purchases that spiked after Ardern announced the lockdown, as well as adult board games and – perhaps reflecting a wider trend towards disinfecting behaviour – sex toy cleaner... (MORE)
Dr. Fauci says we should never shake hands again, even when this pandemic is over (Yank community)
https://bgr.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-p...ing-hands/
SUMMARY POINTS: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Trump administration’s most public expert on the coronavirus pandemic, is strongly recommending that everyone avoid shaking hands ever again, even after a vaccine arrives for the virus and things start going back to normal. Dr. Fauci made that recommendation during an interview when asked about what behaviors might linger, even in a post-coronavirus world.
EXCERPT: . . . Absolutely no more handshakes [...] “As a society, just forget about shaking hands,” Fauci said during a new television interview. “We don’t need to shake hands,” he continued. “We’ve got to break that custom. Because as a matter of fact, that is one of the major ways you can transmit a respiratory-borne illness.”
He was making that point as part of a larger discussion about how he thinks some of the behaviors and habits we’re practicing now will in all likelihood become facts of life going forward, in a post-coronavirus world. And in the case of doing away forever with something like a handshake, which can easily spread germs, that’s a good thing. “I think what we’re going to have embedded and imprinted in us forever is the realization that something as catastrophic as what the world is experiencing now can happen,” he said... (MORE - details)