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18. I just heard a story this morning

Sun Mar 15, 2020, 02:34 PM

Mar 2020

A man got into his son's truck. The son works at a power plant and asked if Dad had been to Dallas. "No, why?" "If you had been I would have to self quarantine. A group came down from Big D yesterday and one tested positive. We've been told that if we come into contact with any recently from Dallas to self quarantine."

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After 2 months who will run the electric plants? Thx in advance [View all] uponit7771 Mar 2020 OP

Immune Utility Robots? Newest Reality Mar 2020 #1

Hmmmmm, that's not a bad idea ... easier to clean and distribute food. uponit7771 Mar 2020 #2

After that presser... Newest Reality Mar 2020 #4

+1, they don't give a damn about us at all. There's enough wealthy people in the US to buy test uponit7771 Mar 2020 #13

Not everybody will be dead or hospitalized. There will be employee shortages The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #3

How? People will be sick with CV19 ... again, if we don't have unfettered testing in 2 weeks we uponit7771 Mar 2020 #5

Even Italy still has electricity. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #9

in 2 months at their rate do you think they will still have electricity? thx in advance uponit7771 Mar 2020 #15

I have no idea. It might depend on whether their rate slows as it did in China. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #16

China made people work the plants, we can't do that with sick people here IE the question. uponit7771 Mar 2020 #21

Djever look at the parking lot.. jberryhill Mar 2020 #29

That's doesn't address the question and we're worse off than Wuhan at this point because our leaders uponit7771 Mar 2020 #31

The White House is not running power plants jberryhill Mar 2020 #32

And thank God for that. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #34

The bosses who do wont let those with CV19 come in contact with those who don't have it either. uponit7771 Mar 2020 #39

It's not going to bother most people jberryhill Mar 2020 #14

They can't run the plant from their house, are people thinking this through? You get sick you go uponit7771 Mar 2020 #17

No jberryhill Mar 2020 #26

You get tested sick with CV19 you go home and stay ... period. Maybe I'm asking the question wrong uponit7771 Mar 2020 #33

If you have no or minimal symptoms you won't be tested. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #37

That's not the question, I said UNFETTERED meaning everyone gets tested seeing we're so far uponit7771 Mar 2020 #40

That's not going to happen. Even people with symptoms can't get tested in some places. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #44

Sigh, then we need to think about running without electricity cause if we only test those right uponit7771 Mar 2020 #47

We are not going to lose electricity, as has been explained ad nauseam. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #50

Thank YOU! smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #62

Poster seems determined to have a panic attack about electricity outages.. cwydro Mar 2020 #120

No, I do not need to think about running a power plant jberryhill Mar 2020 #56

+++++++++++++. emmaverybo Mar 2020 #101

You are free to believe we are doomed jberryhill Mar 2020 #49

What the !!? The president of the country is to this hour talking about someone emails and the ... uponit7771 Mar 2020 #74

The president does not run the electrical grid jberryhill Mar 2020 #80

I'm doing my critical job entirely from home Generic Brad Mar 2020 #41

I have cousins who are line workers, Here's what I'm hearing from them (inside) uponit7771 Mar 2020 #76

Don't get in the way of a good panic. Tipperary Mar 2020 #96

Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking. jberryhill Mar 2020 #116

Yup. This isn't the zombie apocalypse. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #20

Let me see if I can put this another way jberryhill Mar 2020 #22

Its not the dead or hospitalized its those who are sick that will need to be isolated for as long as uponit7771 Mar 2020 #25

Containment is not the strategy here jberryhill Mar 2020 #27

Not everyone has CV19 so those KNOWINGLY do will be isolated. uponit7771 Mar 2020 #35

Yah, they don't stay there permanently either jberryhill Mar 2020 #51

There's no immunity to CV19, there are cases in Japan with reinftected people uponit7771 Mar 2020 #65

You are worked into a lather jberryhill Mar 2020 #77

You're not and that's alarming uponit7771 Mar 2020 #81

You are drawing conclusions about... jberryhill Mar 2020 #83

I don't run a power plant. jberryhill Mar 2020 #117

No one should be in a lather obamanut2012 Mar 2020 #125

We'll see, Chinese government admitting Wuhan wont be 100% till the end of April. We're behind the uponit7771 Mar 2020 #87

And yet, they still have power jberryhill Mar 2020 #92

Because they got to testing and isolation quicker than we did ... right? tia uponit7771 Mar 2020 #95

People are NOT becoming reinfected by this, stop spreading this misinformation obamanut2012 Mar 2020 #124

Cases in China of reinfections (LA Times link inside) uponit7771 Mar 2020 #130

I agree. StarryNite Mar 2020 #8

Those 80% will need to be isolated, are people thinking this through?! uponit7771 Mar 2020 #19

But they won't be jberryhill Mar 2020 #28

"But they won't be" ... this is a claim with nothing backing it up or no logical reasoning behind it uponit7771 Mar 2020 #36

And if all the operators test positive jberryhill Mar 2020 #118

Remember the panicky guy on Dave Letterman? cwydro Mar 2020 #121

I am personally thinking, yep, it could happen, upon - although, Wuhan never lost their Leghorn21 Mar 2020 #6

As far as I know Italy, which is in dire straits, still has its electricity and running water. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #11

Right - I know I'm going too far with my doomsday thoughts, Ocelot - and of course I surely Leghorn21 Mar 2020 #23

Good point, I'll watch that area ... looks like things have not peaked there uponit7771 Mar 2020 #66

The same people that are running them now, former9thward Mar 2020 #7

They can work from home Brother Buzz Mar 2020 #10

Covid 19 won't incapacitate most people jberryhill Mar 2020 #12

I just heard a story this morning TexasProgresive Mar 2020 #18

THANK YOU!! I don't think people are thinking this through. Those who have CV19 will be quarantined uponit7771 Mar 2020 #38

Evidently you just have to be exposed to someone from Dallas TexasProgresive Mar 2020 #64

The automation will run them. Turbineguy Mar 2020 #24

+1, thank you for the fact based answer uponit7771 Mar 2020 #48

Wow. I guess we have nothing to worry about. captain queeg Mar 2020 #111

Most will get sick and then get better janterry Mar 2020 #30

In two months, power plants will be OK, IMO. KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #42

... sprinkleeninow Mar 2020 #93

Four to six months will be another issue.... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #99

Power plants are largely automated... brooklynite Mar 2020 #43

not all workers will be sick all at once and many things can operate on skeleton crew beachbumbob Mar 2020 #45

+1, that's where I got this question from. Grocery stores are being closed down if there's an ... uponit7771 Mar 2020 #54

I agree duforsure Mar 2020 #127

I think that most people who work at electrical plants are young enough that they are not totodeinhere Mar 2020 #46

Spain showed us that youth doesn't matter, its underlying conditions that got the older people sicke uponit7771 Mar 2020 #60

But that doesn't change the fact that the average age for deaths in China is 80. totodeinhere Mar 2020 #61

The higher death rate in Spain over the last week because they held mass people events. That's uponit7771 Mar 2020 #63

I've been concerned about this ecstatic Mar 2020 #52

Not everybody is getting very sick. There will be people well enough to work. nt gollygee Mar 2020 #53

in 2 - 4 weeks we'll be behind Wuhan China's testing stage and way behind SK and Singapores ... the uponit7771 Mar 2020 #57

No one, but shortly after there will be no need for electricity sarisataka Mar 2020 #55

Heh jberryhill Mar 2020 #58

Math matters and so does reading the original question about testing, bookmarked uponit7771 Mar 2020 #59

I am quite good at math and thoroughly read the question sarisataka Mar 2020 #67

In both your post your logic skips phrase "unfettered testing", either way snark noted & bookmarked uponit7771 Mar 2020 #70

You've been "noted and bookmarked" jberryhill Mar 2020 #85

I shall endeavor to sarisataka Mar 2020 #88

Yep, some of what I asked about in OP is already happening (link) ... but keep snark at 10 uponit7771 Mar 2020 #110

Oh bullshit jberryhill Mar 2020 #114

Strawman, never said it did but.... I know people who are work in this ... uponit7771 Mar 2020 #115

Buy a generator. cwydro Mar 2020 #122

! demmiblue Mar 2020 #68

Started great but the denouement left a bit to be desired ... mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #82

I did consider cannibalism sarisataka Mar 2020 #90

I see you're new at this ... mr_lebowski Mar 2020 #98

Damn, I got it all wrong sarisataka Mar 2020 #104

Not sure how threads like this accomplish anything. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #69

Automation still needs oversight and intervention, look if we don't get to this point that'll be uponit7771 Mar 2020 #72

Not addressing the power plant subject, but kinda do lean toward what you say regarding sprinkleeninow Mar 2020 #97

On the plus side (bizarrely), the federal government does not Hortensis Mar 2020 #71

+1, do you have a link to the the 40% stat? thx in advance. uponit7771 Mar 2020 #73

I think it was this one, though I was browsing around Hortensis Mar 2020 #86

Electric Utility Workers madville Mar 2020 #75

There's no immunity to CV19, there are cases in Japan with reinfected people uponit7771 Mar 2020 #78

And? madville Mar 2020 #84

The point about unfettered testing is everyone who needs or wants a test can get one since we're so uponit7771 Mar 2020 #94

Noone has been reinfected, no one can get reinfected obamanut2012 Mar 2020 #133

This is 100% false on its face, you need to keep up with your responses (link) uponit7771 Mar 2020 #134

It'll be more of a problem for people in rural areas where power lines go down a lot flibbitygiblets Mar 2020 #79

+1, maybe I should've added line workers too because people think power plant they think just the .. uponit7771 Mar 2020 #89

Food, gasoline, telephone, cellphone, trains, airports, repairs,,, much, much more. keithbvadu2 Mar 2020 #91

+1, right! I had only addressed direct sickness of workers but what if their loved one gets sick uponit7771 Mar 2020 #105

I can tell you one thing: the organization I worked for which supplied a great deal of the region captain queeg Mar 2020 #100

Thx for this, I worked ops for decades and was always short, never any elasticity in staff uponit7771 Mar 2020 #108

Hasn't changed. And not like you can just grab someone and turn over a plants operation captain queeg Mar 2020 #112

+1, they don't have back ups standing by uponit7771 Mar 2020 #113

I noticed this thread still going. A lot of experts here... captain queeg Mar 2020 #129

"Management rubbed there hands and said well we got that figured out." This is EXACTLY my experience uponit7771 Mar 2020 #131

Yeah there's operations and there's maintenance and never the twain will meet captain queeg Mar 2020 #132

From what I've seen MissB Mar 2020 #102

I'm sorry you are this alarmed about the virus The Genealogist Mar 2020 #103

I'm shocked everyone else isn't this alarmed. We're 1 - 2 months behind where Wuhan was at uponit7771 Mar 2020 #106

At any time, many facilities are offline from lack of demand jberryhill Mar 2020 #119

Nuclear is forever! Mwhahahahaha! n/t zackymilly Mar 2020 #107

+1 uponit7771 Mar 2020 #109

The people who survive after being sick with the Coronavirus will be able to lunatica Mar 2020 #123

Otto Throck Mar 2020 #126

its not the living dead..there can still be healthy humans to run the plants..i dont think its.. samnsara Mar 2020 #128