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Visiting audio stores?

This is probably the last concern on many people's minds, so I'm raising this just in case anyone feels like relaying their experience.

I've become pretty cautious about where I go and why. So, for me, I'm not going to any audio stores to listen to gear, out of caution about the virus. I do feel concern for these stores and how it will impact them. Are folks going? Anyone running an audio store who wants to comment? How are you coping? Are you changing any policies or running any more sales online? Changes in trial periods to help more people try out gear remotely?

Again, this is a minor concern given the larger dimensions of this virus situation, but I thought I'd reach out with a question.
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glupson
7,842 posts
 
"No matter how eloquent the answer, or how pointed the barb, it was like water on a duck."
I'd call that whole description of event not overly eloquent.
glupson
7,842 posts
 
"Schubert, go listen to some Bach!"
Did Bach write a Requiem, too?
glupson
7,842 posts
 
Why does every coronavirus thread have to involve anger about politics. Varietas delectat, guys make it more interesting than politics.
dseltz
163 posts
 

From an Italian Doc: [exerpts]


Lessons Learned from the Front Line of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Northern Italy: An Emergency Physician’s Perspective:

Andrea Duca, MDEditorial Board, Emergency Medicine Practice Attending Emergency Physician, Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
  • Prepare to initially receive patients with upper airway symptoms, followed in the next days by patients with persistent fever, and finally, patients with interstitial pneumonia. The proportion of patients needing admission increases day by day. As of March 10, 2020, up to 60%-70% of patients presenting to the ED with suspected COVID-19 infection needed to be admitted, primarily for hypoxia.
  • Be...
  • In the first days, the critically ill patients will be mostly older than 65 with comorbidities, followed by younger patients in the days/weeks after. Do not exhaust all of your resources with the first patients. Patients will need to stay in the ICU for weeks.
  • Patients come in waves, usually in late afternoon. For every 100 patients coming to the ED, expect to have 5 with severe ARDS, 10-20 with mild/moderate ARDS, and 40 patients needing oxygen to treat hypoxia.
  • Do...
  • Prepare in advance to have 10% of staff becoming ill. Personal protection is hard to maintain during long shifts in a busy ED, but it is feasible, and constant vigilance is mandatory.
  • Most...
  • In large health systems...
  • Lung ultrasound...
  • Tell all the...
  • Prepare psychological support for the staff early. You will need it.

Look at China.  Would never trade our society for theirs, but their ability to completely lock down a region (basically house arrest) with a population that follows the orders almost to a 'T' the social isolation has stopped COVID in it's tracks.  Only 1 new case today.  
chrshanl37
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It gets political because politicians are in the drivers seat instead of scientists.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-r...
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