107 dead now in the U.S. The numbers are going to skyrocket now, unfortunately.

It’s mind boggling to me that so many people are still traveling here for spring break! Beaches on both coasts are crowded as well as the restaurants. So selfish.

The young always think they are immortals. Experts in France are now saying that half the people in intensive care are under 60. Earlier reports that younger people had mild cases.

Great Video. I think I'll listen to my kids, they're the leading edge of information on this situation.

Thank you for sharing. I hope a lot of people see this. Yesterday a friend told me a relative (a woman in her 40's) insisted the virus was "fake news." The polling numbers I saw broadcast by NPR and NBC showed a political divide that was shocking--even in this polarized mess we've been living in. So very many people aren't taking Covid-19 seriously. And that's not only dangerous for them, but for the rest of us too.

It's quite obvious that many parents do not have control over their households. (no surprise to me) Millions of teens are out on the town, socializing, partying, and perhaps taking the virus home to mom, dad, siblings, grandparents.

@nickel - Simple but good link, thanks. When talking about teens/kids I liked her line of Biology class will become Instagram which will become TikTok which will become Houseparty. Accept it.

My son lives in Berlin. I just talked to him this morning, as he has been working from home for a week now. He said the people in Germany are taking this very seriously and practicing quarantine and social distancing. This epidemic has not been politicized there like it has here. Yesterday we got some windows delivered for a sunroom we are building and the old man delivering the windows came very close to my husband and touched him, saying that it was a conspiracy and he would not maintain social distances. My husband was furious, yelling at the guy and telling him that he was in the prime age group to have serious consequences from this virus. Shaking my head about how stupid people are.

Confirmed by Ohio Public Health. Two year old toddler confirmed to have COVID-19. Source is known. Toddler is quarantined and contacts are undergoing testing and supervision.

Toddler Case

This morning on the governor's fb page I saw where a child at our children's hospital had tested positive and naturally it was not mentioned in the numbers provided by him.

I am wondering at how badly traumatized the people who are panicking at the addition of one or two confirmed positive will be when the number is perhaps in the thousands.

DIL tells me her mother (80, with cancer) called Friday, reporting on some ladies club meeting she'd just attended. DIL told her, "Turn off that d@mn FOX TV and *pay attention* to this virus!"

I spoke with a California friend yesterday. She's 83 with older DH. I fear for her mind! She said their children were over-reacting, insiting they stay home and delivering groceries to them. She tut-tutted about having lived through bad flu seasons and even polio.

What IS this? Denial?

I posted this elsewhere but will post it here as well. The article which is simple and short, talks about the tensions arising between boomers and their children/grandchildren. The children/grandchildren are getting mad at their boomer parents for not taking it seriously enough.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-not-okay-boomer-tensions-mount-between-generations-as-some-seniors/

Maybe the boomer parents don't care if they die.

They forget however that they may take their little grandchildren and their own children with them!

I'm a boomer parent and I care.

Signed Self isolated Yeona

I'm a boomer and I care. It seems to be the people with a very active social life who refuse to take the situation seriously. I don't understand people who are too willful and stubborn to listen to the facts.

I'm a boomer and I care and my millenial children care! DD is a teacher, off for the foreseeable future and as I stated before son working from home and isolating. I am sickened looking at stories of spring breakers partying it up, vaping and drinking and then they will spread it when they finally get their besotted asses home. My hospital just canceled all elective cases for the next 2.5 weeks, following the lead of our larger hospital affiliate. I can now quarantine, unless I get called in to manage a critically ill patient that needs airway support, at which point I will be in full PPE. That will be a huge risk to me, but I intend to take all measures to keep myself and the people I come in contact with safe.

Many of the younger generations are calling the virus the Boomer killer! I find that extremely disturbing and disgusting. I just saw on the news all the kids on the beach for spring break. One boy said I don't care if I get the virus no one is going stop me from partying and drinking. Completely self centered, spoiled, no cares about anything. They actually said oh its not for us we are safe it's for the boomers. I hope their parents and grandparents are so proud.

Everyone's freaking out....in their own way. Too much fear & precautions.....not enough fear & precautions. Very few standing on the middle ground......

As of this morning cases in Maryland as reported by state: Notice the number of cases 18-64.

Cases by Age Range:

Under 18 : 0

18-64 : 60

65+ : 25

raven, it shouldn't take TV or newspaper "stories" concerning a situation like this to remind us how many brainless morons we have in this country. Of all ages. I saw similar reports of beach-goers and Spring Break attendees in Florida. What idiots.

To a small and insufficient extent, that's what the so-called Darwin Awards are all about. There's never a shortage of awardees, those whose antics take them out of the human gene pool to insure continuing improvement in our human species through survival of the fittest and evolution.

My father used to say it was time to thin the herd. I would have been disowned if I had acted like that.

I'm thinking 2 four-letter words - anybody heard 'em?

"F A K E" ... "N E W S"!!!

We sure have become unwilling to entertain ideas which differ from the ones we've espoused, haven't we?

And often to disparage not only the ideas of people with whom we disagree - but them as people, too.

Such stupidity, heedlessness - can become damned costly!

ole joyful

That's not what the term refers to, as I understand it.

Fake news is intentional disinformation/misinformation to advance a particular point of view, usually politically motivated. Another term for a propaganda piece dressed up to appear as something else, often objective. Something known by the source to be wrong and intended to be misleading.