COVID-19 Coronavirus...

[dannyy315]

Surprisingly we’ve held up pretty well in the Kleenex and toilet paper aisles. But it’s been a couple days since I’ve been in the store, let’s see how it looks tomorrow.

 

[essie]

Here’s some numbers for all you uneducated snowflakes who believe what the media tells you..

Fatality rates among virus
Ebola: 50%
MERS: 34.4%
Smallpox: 30%
SARS: 9.6%
Coronavirus: 3.4%

That’s right! A whopping 3.4%! Such a pandemic!!

oMg WeRe AlL gOnNa DiE

WTF do you think the media is telling us? They're reporting what the doctors, scientists, epidemiologists, infectious disease specialists, etc. are saying. Joe Reporter is not pulling stories out of his ass (and even if he is, I'm sure he's not getting international health officials to fake interviews to cover him). Jesus, do you even listen to the people tHe MeDiA is quoting?

 

[Nauzhror]

Surprisingly we’ve held up pretty well in the Kleenex and toilet paper aisles. But it’s been a couple days since I’ve been in the store, let’s see how it looks tomorrow.

We had toilet paper yesterday morning.
Today? Lolnope. Not sure if it the case everywhere though, I'm in Michigan, and we got our first 3 cases of coronavirus here in the past 3 days, so it fits that that's when people went full crazymode here.

 

[Rarejem]

Here’s some numbers for all you uneducated snowflakes who believe what the media tells you..

Fatality rates among virus
Ebola: 50%
MERS: 34.4%
Smallpox: 30%
SARS: 9.6%
Coronavirus: 3.4%

That’s right! A whopping 3.4%! Such a pandemic!!

oMg WeRe AlL gOnNa DiE

The term "pandemic" has absolutely NOTHING to do with mortality rates and EVERYTHING to do with how widespread the disease is. The progression is outbreak, epidemic, pandemic. You can call me an educated snowflake.

 

[turncloak]

Here’s some numbers for all you uneducated snowflakes who believe what the media tells you..

Fatality rates among virus
Ebola: 50%
MERS: 34.4%
Smallpox: 30%
SARS: 9.6%
Coronavirus: 3.4%

That’s right! A whopping 3.4%! Such a pandemic!!

oMg WeRe AlL gOnNa DiE

lol sure hope you don't have any loved ones who are high risk. i really, honest-to-god wish i had the luxury of not giving a shit but i am in fact extremely concerned for people other than myself.

 

[Karen Potts]

I wish people would become educated. It’s really not that bad and it’s being over exaggerated thanks to the media.

Good thing we have fearless leaders like you who are paid to inspire us in challenging circumstances.

 

[dannyy315]

We had toilet paper yesterday morning.
Today? Lolnope. Not sure if it the case everywhere though, I'm in Michigan, and we got our first 3 cases of coronavirus here in the past 3 days, so it fits that that's when people went full crazymode here.

Well that could explain it, I went in at 8am.

 

[Dplymkr88]

Called them a snowflake, you really owned them.

 

[balthrop]

Last time I checked, CEO has authority over ETL. Call his or her bluff.

ahah ahahahah and get no hours or fired for thee silliest of reasons. we are low end peons. Target no matter at what Management level has zero concern for our well being. the CEO is blowing smoke. The added hours for the cleaning are coming from the store Corp did not give us any hours we are going to have to make all those hours up.

 

[daemon]

Here’s some numbers for all you uneducated snowflakes who believe what the media tells you..

Fatality rates among virus
Ebola: 50%
MERS: 34.4%
Smallpox: 30%
SARS: 9.6%
Coronavirus: 3.4%

That’s right! A whopping 3.4%! Such a pandemic!!

oMg WeRe AlL gOnNa DiE

3.4% chance of DEATH. When was the last time you ever delt with such odds that wasn't because you were doing something stupid? Be my guest, you run around and touchy feely everything.

 

[RedcardReba]

Target team member in Kentucky tested positive. They completely sanitized the store and are continuing to run it. Target NEVER closes stores.
As for Team member, they can always borrow from other stores. Target will absolutely not close a store for this. We may be making big money today but it is going to be at the expense of sales tommorow.

Target will abide by local health dept. Period. Given it's KY, then no closure.

 

[jackandcat]

So here’s the issue, the rest of those viruses are a lot less contagious. Coronavirus is a lot more contagious than the flu......Let’s look at Swine Flu. That infected about 60 million Americans in 2009-2010, or about 20% of the US population. Let’s say Coronavirus also infects 20% of the population, which is actually well below estimates. There’s about 350 million Americans today, so that would be about 70 million infections......Assuming the death rate stays at 3.4%, we’d be talking 2,380,000 American deaths.

This is a major concern. The speed at which COVID-19 is proliferating locally and world-wide is nerve-wracking. Theoretically one could argue there are worse calamities than COVID-19 which could face humanity, but what if you lose your own brother, sister, spouse or BFF to the miserable, painful symptoms of COVID-19?

 

[Tessa120]

3.4% chance of DEATH. When was the last time you ever delt with such odds that wasn't because you were doing something stupid? Be my guest, you run around and touchy feely everything.

The flu has a death rate about 1/20th of COVID-19. 3.4% to 0.1-0.2%.

 

[SallyHoover]

The flu has a death rate about 1/20th of COVID-19. 3.4% to 0.1-0.2%.

and around 35,000 die in the US from flu each year. That means 350,000-600,000 people in the US are potentially at risk to DIE in the US. I think people are taking the hand washing and social distancing more serious than regular flu season but still. The flu also has a vaccine and this doesn't. This is pretty serious. I am the primary care giver for my 100 year old grandmother. Yes, I and my kids are washing our hands constantly at home and hopefully that will help but I am thinking she only has a 1 in 2 chance of making it through this.

 

[Tessa120]

The flu vaccine is a crapshoot and there have been years it's been barely effective, and few are religious about getting a shot every year.

If you're going to snark off about my quoting of the flu death percentage and how COVID-19 is serious because it's 20x morelikely to kill, keep the snark, don't switch mid post to agreeing that yes, this is rough stuff.

 

[Ringwraith917]

It's a government conspiracy to reduce medicaid/care and social security expenses. And it "coincidentally" started in China, who we've been in a trade war with.

 

[SilentCrow]

I think they need to re-evaluate the team member purchasing guidelines in my area. We have to make sure the items is on the shelf for the guest and wait at least 15 mins after opening time. So overnight TMs have no chance. Also the shelves is whipped 10 mins after opening. So team members have no chance, yet if they get sick it’s call out city and no one showing up.

At least let it be one per team member or something. Or I don’t know provide TMs with free hand sanitizer etc.

In my area we’re running like regular with an emphasis on the morning rush and packing out chemicals as much as possible. However, TMs are calling out more and more resulting in a lot of workload building up because the company hasn’t stopped piling more work on us despite knowing we’re in a sticky situation.

It is what it is as they say

 

[Tessa120]

Anyone have a perverse longing to (off the clock if you are still at Target) have a coughing fit worthy of a cat with a hairball if there is a Karen that has shown her nature nearby?

 

[BoxCutter]

Yesterday I had a Karen on her phone walking around the Tech area coughing her head off. 😠

 

[Black Sheep 214]

Since Karen thinks she’s immune to all rules, she probably thinks that extends to viruses, too...🤮

 

[Captain Orca]

Hey bitch, you're parked 12 ft from the cart corral, get up off your tight gym toned ass and put it where it belongs not in the parking lot, asshole.

 

[Logo]

If it can take up to 14 days once exploded to the virus for you to exhibit symptoms then Brain C will have to self quarantine himself as trump was exposed to someone who tested positive and they shared a podium today.....

 

[TheCartGuy]

Hey bitch, you're parked 12 ft from the cart corral, get up off your tight gym toned ass and put it where it belongs not in the parking lot, asshole.

Amen.
I figure it's about two parking spaces to return it.
I also figure they're going right by it to get to their car, but alas...

 

[happygoth]

Hey bitch, you're parked 12 ft from the cart corral, get up off your tight gym toned ass and put it where it belongs not in the parking lot, asshole.

There's always carts left all over the parking lot, which always sucks, but it is even more rage-inducing when you are the one out there collecting them and guests all but flaunt it right in your face. Such lazy, inconsiderate assholes.

 

[Bosch]

I wish people would become educated. It’s really not that bad and it’s being over exaggerated thanks to the media.

I have an old folks home here in Kirkland WA that could use some new staff.. I live and work less that five miles from there. What you miss is that ones who do get it bad, get really fucking sick where they need major medical treatment. And if you avalanche cases of people who do get it bad and need major medical support there simply isn't enough beds, doctors or equipment to treat them. So getting a lid on this will hopefully slow down the number of bad cases so they can keep people flowing through the system so it doesn't implode from just "not enough".