As plenty of you probably know, the Commie Coof™ has had some cases confirmed in Michigan, starting with Wayne county (i.e. Detroit, surprising absolutely no one.) and since yesterday the number of cases jumped from 2 to 12, and it just popped right the fuck up a county or 2 away from me, because of course that's what it does. And you can bet your ass I'm blaming fucking Illinois for that. Aside from its appearance in my neck of the state, any blame should be rightly directed at the Chinese government.
In the meantime, my workplace seems to be one of the few hospitals that are responding to the situation semi-competently. Any non-employees (including contractors) are being screened at the door, visitors are being limited to one at a time per patient, our cleaning supplies and PPE are under tightened security, there's foam dispensers every 20 feet, all that shit. On the other hand, my department has to huddle for briefing on the situation every day before shift now instead of twice a week, so if a single one of us gets it, the whole department is gonna be fucked -H-;
As for preparedness, I did the non-blithering-fuckwit thing and got my supplies weeks ago, so the rabble's panicked TP raids aren't going to make it difficult for me to continue wiping my ass after shitting. For those of you who have yet to take that measure for one reason or another, or no reason at all: -Dry rice and beans -Canned goods (soup, vegetals, meats, oysters*) -Iodized salt -Cheese, probably -Plenty of water if applicable (I have a well pit so this isn't really an issue for me).
