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How is COVID-19 Affecting You?

Started By AntsDakota , Mar 13 2020 6:49 AM

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#21 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 13 2020 - 10:17 AM

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Mhm, especially the older people. 


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#22 Offline AntsDakota - Posted March 13 2020 - 10:17 AM

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Update- no school next week, City in state of emergency.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#23 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted March 13 2020 - 10:43 AM

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I think we can all agree though that panicking is probably the worst option...

 

Actually this brings up an interesting topic. How do ants deal with disease?


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#24 Offline AntsDakota - Posted March 13 2020 - 10:58 AM

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They groom themselves.


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#25 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 13 2020 - 11:33 AM

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:lol:  :lol:  :lol: Like a cat?


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#26 Offline AntsDakota - Posted March 13 2020 - 11:41 AM

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Sort of. Their tongue like structures can knock the spores of fungal pathogens off their exoskeletons.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#27 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 13 2020 - 11:46 AM

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Neat! 


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#28 Offline AntsDakota - Posted March 13 2020 - 11:49 AM

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Ants are in danger of parasitic fungi whose spores land on their exoskeletons, grow into their bodies, invade their brains, and mushrooms or other spore-spreaders emerge from the body and release spores to infect other ants.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#29 Offline Miles - Posted March 13 2020 - 12:03 PM

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It's probably not a great idea to spread misinformation (even accidentally) about COVID-19, and this thread should not be used for that purpose.

 

For information about COVID-19, please visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/ and https://coronavirus.jhu.edu.


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#30 Offline Broncos - Posted March 13 2020 - 12:22 PM

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I just got news that my school is closing.


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#31 Offline AntsDakota - Posted March 13 2020 - 12:24 PM

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The city closed pretty much all facilities under its jurisdiction. I think they even cancelled gatherings in public parks.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#32 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted March 13 2020 - 12:54 PM

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My school is on the brink of closing until the end of spring break.


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#33 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 13 2020 - 12:58 PM

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I live a moderate bike ride from the DC line, so we definitely are being hit hard. I am a teacher and just heard that my school district, which is one of the largest in the country will be closed until after Easter. God is good, and my salary is protected. I’m not worried for my health or even my children’s health, but I want to be responsible and not spread anything. All the sports cancellations really shook me, and I can’t wrap my head around the fact that churches are closed during Lent and Holy Week. Thank God for my ants and the bits of normalcy that remain.

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#34 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted March 13 2020 - 1:12 PM

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Praise God. That's good that you are not worried about it. Yeah, my dad is a pastor, and he just announced that we won't have church, or youth group this week. Who knows about next week. 


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#35 Offline BugFinder - Posted March 13 2020 - 1:58 PM

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The school my kids attend closed today;  a state competition they were expecting to in, along with their softballs season, and a theater production they were starring in has all been cancelled.  I have my fingers crossed that this doesn't turn into an extended financial recession that harms my business.  

 

Trump announced today a fund will be available to help people pay rent who are impacted by the virus, but I bet it will be too limited or too hard to access for us to take advantage of.  Waiting tio see how the next few weeks go.  The next few weeks will determine everything.

 

Fortunately Trump announced today a great plan to provide testing around the country in a way that is very fast and easy, and will channel actual cases of the virus into the medical system and keep non cases out of our ERs.  That should help a lot.

 

It's the impacts on the ecomony that really has me worried.


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#36 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted March 13 2020 - 2:26 PM

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It's probably not a great idea to spread misinformation (even accidentally) about COVID-19, and this thread should not be used for that purpose.

 

For information about COVID-19, please visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/ and https://coronavirus.jhu.edu.

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#37 Offline NickAnter - Posted March 13 2020 - 2:34 PM

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My school just announced, well the district actually, is closing for two weeks.


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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

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It's probably not a great idea to spread misinformation (even accidentally) about COVID-19, and this thread should not be used for that purpose.

 

For information about COVID-19, please visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/ and https://coronavirus.jhu.edu.

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#39 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted March 13 2020 - 3:07 PM

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I think most maps showing COVID-19's spread are a little deceiving, especially the ones highlighting entire countries. I mean, in most cases (like the US) it's not the entire country that infected, just a few states (mostly the coasts in the US). And even within those states, it's not the entire state that's infected, and so on.


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#40 Offline BugFinder - Posted March 13 2020 - 3:31 PM

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Walmart and amazon.com are price gouging on necessary items like bottled water.  $40 for a case of water I normally pay less than $5 for.


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