What Does A Quarantine Due To Coronavirus Mean For Truckers?

In all seriousness, it has affected freight. Right now I'm sitting on a load for 3 days because the DC it was going to is severely understaffed. Not even room to drop. They are also taking my temp at gates before letting me in. According to my FM it's really changing the way the freight lanes operate. The ones that used to be constantly busy like Walmarts and Costcos are slowing way down while ones that used to be dead are picking up.

Remy get's serious...

In all seriousness, it has affected freight. Right now I'm sitting on a load for 3 days because the DC it was going to is severely understaffed. Not even room to drop. They are also taking my temp at gates before letting me in. According to my FM it's really changing the way the freight lanes operate. The ones that used to be constantly busy like Walmarts and Costcos are slowing way down while ones that used to be dead are picking up.

I run Walmart Dedicated grocery; we've never been busier. Perhaps Turtle will check-in on this as well, he is WMPF based in Johnstown NY, also a grocery DC. I am assigned to the Pottsville PA DC. GM (General Merchandise), possibly not so much right now.

Remy get's serious...

In all seriousness, it has affected freight. Right now I'm sitting on a load for 3 days because the DC it was going to is severely understaffed. Not even room to drop. They are also taking my temp at gates before letting me in. According to my FM it's really changing the way the freight lanes operate. The ones that used to be constantly busy like Walmarts and Costcos are slowing way down while ones that used to be dead are picking up.

I run Walmart Dedicated grocery; we've never been busier. Perhaps Turtle will check-in on this as well, he is WMPF based in Johnstown NY, also a grocery DC. I am assigned to the Pottsville PA DC. GM (General Merchandise), possibly not so much right now.

Of course I can only tell you what I'm seeing from my pov and what my fm tells me about the bigger picture. Of course if you are super busy that explains why we are backed up. For reference I'm waiting on the Jeffersonville OH DC.

I Had this story pop up when I opened my phone this morning. The Washington Post reports Grocery employees are dying! No way! You mean to tell me Walmart, a company that employs over 2 million people, should be exempt from their employees getting sick?? In the article it also says

“One of the biggest mistakes supermarkets made early on was not allowing employees to wear masks and gloves the way they wanted to,” he said. “They’re starting to become proactive now, but it’s still going to be much tougher to hire hundreds of thousands of new workers. We’re going to start seeing people say, ‘I’ll just stay unemployed instead of risking my life for a temporary job.’ "

no. You're having trouble finding people because somebody will make MORE money by sitting at home than working a near minimum wage job. The additional $600 a week that people are receiving for unemployment is the equivalent of $15 an hr for a 40 hour week. If you factor in what your base unemployment check will be it's no wonder they can't find people to work. As part time or temporary workers I highly doubt anybody is hiring them at more than $15 an hr. If people will make the same amount of money whether they go to work or not why would they? Being part time or temporary they're most likely not getting any benefits. I know several people who are bragging that they're making more money to sit on their butt at home than they did while working.

I'm getting paid the same ahahah

I agree with G-Town. We are super busy at the Johnstown grocery DC. They've done a good job of re-deploying us to different areas to keep up with the ebb and flow of freight as needed. I turn and burn on every trip.

I agree with G-Town. We are super busy at the Johnstown grocery DC. They've done a good job of re-deploying us to different areas to keep up with the ebb and flow of freight as needed. I turn and burn on every trip.

We're slowing down now. About 25% off of last year at this time

Hey folks. I had stopped updating this thread the past week because quite frankly I wasn't sure how to handle it. I've come across a lot of information recently that clearly indicates that what they're telling us about this coronavirus is simply not true. I didn't want to give out information that I felt wasn't true, but I didn't want to sound wildly speculative because the mainstream media hadn't reported the information yet.

Well, now they have. So I feel more comfortable giving updates about this coronavirus now that they've been verified by mainstream sources.

I'm going to embed this video. Though I don't necessarily agree with the title, I can't change it. But watch the footage and you'll find it pretty fascinating.

Hospitals are empty from coast to coast and cutting staff

We've been told that hospitals are overwhelmed with patients in some areas of the country and if we don't stay home it will only get worse. Citizen reporters began filming their local hospitals showing they were empty, and the testing tents put outside to test for coronavirus were empty.

Now the mainstream media has picked up on this too:

Instead of coronavirus patients, Syracuse hospitals swamped with empty beds

In the middle of the coronavirus crisis, many hospitals across the U.S. are suddenly losing revenue. In some cases that means staff are being furloughed, right as the pandemic is worsening.

Some hospitals temporarily cutting staff as coronavirus crisis worsens: 'We were kind of puzzled'

"We were required to take time off; we were required to take our personal leave time," said RN case manager Angela Freshly Fairchild, who was surprised to receive an email saying she would be mandated to take a week off – in the middle of the crisis.

"I couldn't understand it, because all around the country they are asking for nurses right now," said Fairchild. "They're asking for health care workers to come in to work in facilities that are in dire need with the coronavirus and the increased numbers of coronavirus cases. So, we were kind of puzzled."

South Florida hospitals cut back staff and work hours, await surge in coronavirus patients

In what may be an ironic Catch-22, South Florida hospitals are reducing staff hours, forcing paid time off or reducing pay while they await a predicted surge of coronavirus patients.

Hospital Ships Sitting Empty

Remember New York and Los Angeles brought in hospital ships to handle the overflowing patients and ease the burden on their hospitals? Those ships have been sitting empty in the harbor. Each one holds about 1,000 patients, but had only 15 patients in one and 20 patients in the other:

The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients.

Only 20 patients had been transferred to the ship, officials said, even as New York hospitals struggled to find space for the thousands infected with the coronavirus. Another Navy hospital ship, the U.S.N.S. Mercy, docked in Los Angeles, has had a total of 15 patients, officials said.

Can We Believe The Numbers?

More evidence is coming to light that the number of coronavirus deaths has been inflated. In New York they're simply assuming that most people who die are dying of coronavirus and reporting it that way without confirming this to be the case:

After Deaths At Home Spike In NYC, Officials Plan To Count Many As COVID-19

New York City officials will begin to count suspected COVID-19 deaths in addition to cases confirmed by a laboratory, following a WNYC/Gothamist report revealing a staggering increase in the number of people dying at home but not included in the official tally because they hadn't been tested for the novel coronavirus.

"The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) and the NYC Health Department are working together to include into their reports deaths that may be linked to COVID but not lab-confirmed that occur at home," she said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged on Tuesday that the vast majority of deaths taking place at home were likely also due to COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, meaning the death toll could be as much as 70% higher than currently reported figures.

"We do want to know the truth about every death at home, but it's safe to assume that the vast majority are coronavirus related," he said.

Ironically it appears that people are avoiding treatment for serious problems and are dying at home in record-breaking numbers.

More about people dying at home and how the deaths are being counted.

Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone?

We are all asking: Where are all the patients with heart attacks and stroke? They are missing from our hospitals. In more normal times, we never have so many empty beds.

Our hospital is usually so full that patients wait in gurneys along the walls of the emergency department for a bed to become available on the general wards or even in the intensive care unit. We send people home from the hospital as soon as possible so we can free up beds for those who are waiting. But the pandemic has caused a previously unimaginable shift in the demand for hospital services.

What is striking is that many of the emergencies have disappeared. Heart attack and stroke teams, always poised to rush in and save lives, are mostly idle.

In an informal Twitter poll by @angioplastyorg, an online community of cardiologists, almost half of the respondents reported that they are seeing a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction in admissions for heart attacks; about 20 percent reported more than a 60 percent reduction.

And this is not a phenomenon specific to the United States. Investigators from Spain reported a 40 percent reduction in emergency procedures for heart attacks during the last week of March compared with the period just before the pandemic hit.

And it may not just be heart attacks and strokes. Colleagues on Twitter report a decline in many other emergencies, including acute appendicitis and acute gall bladder disease.

The most concerning possible explanation is that people stay home and suffer rather than risk coming to the hospital and getting infected with the coronavirus. This theory suggests that Covid-19 has instilled fear of face-to-face medical care. As a result, many people with urgent health problems may be opting to remain at home rather than call for help. And when they do finally seek medical attention, it is often only after their condition has worsened. Doctors from Hong Kong reported an increase in patients coming to the hospital late in the course of their heart attack, when treatment is less likely to be lifesaving.

So they've scared people so badly that they're afraid to come to the hospitals to get medical treatment because they believe the hospitals are overwhelmed with people dying from some apocalyptic virus. So they stay home, die from other causes, and then get counted as coronavirus deaths anyhow.

So if someone dies we'll just assume it was coronavirus. That sounds legit, right?

Most deaths being counted as coronavirus without verification

The National Vital Statistics System has released a new alert that says any death that may have been caused by coronavirus will be assumed to be coronavirus without verification. You can find this paper here:

National Vital Statistics System Coronavirus Alert

The WHO has provided a second code, U07.2, for clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where a laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available.

The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID- 19 being the underlying cause more often than not.

What happens if the terms reported on the death certificate indicate uncertainty?

If the death certificate reports terms such as “probable COVID-19” or “likely COVID-19,” these terms would be assigned the new ICD code. It Is not likely that NCHS will follow up on these cases.

Should “COVID-19” be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?

COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. Certifiers should include as much detail as possible based on their knowledge of the case, medical records, laboratory testing, etc. If the decedent had other chronic conditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II. (See attached Guidance for Certifying COVID-19 Deaths)

Projections for deaths show another stunning drop

If you recall, I've been reporting all along that the number of projected deaths have shown staggering drops over the past month. In early March some projections showed the potential for 2 - 3 million deaths in the U.S. alone. Then in mid-March that dropped to about 1 million. About a week ago that number dropped to 100,000 - 240,000.

Now the models show that the projected number of deaths will be 60,000, which is exactly how many we had in the flu season of 2018-2019

Wow, Good News – Latest COVID-19 Projections Show Peak on Saturday, and Total Deaths 60,000 (Same As 2017/2018 Flu Season)…

There was another stunning drop in projections by the IHME model; the current model being used by U.S. government officials on the coronavirus task force.

Additionally, the total projected number of COVID-19 related deaths has been dropped to 60,000. That’s the same impact as the regular 2017/2018 flu season.

You can find the current model here: COVID-19 Projections

Keep in mind that the current death count in the U.S. right now is fewer than 15,000 (can we even believe this number?) which is only 1/4 of the way to the current projection of 60,000 and less than halfway to the average deaths each year by the flu with is around 40,000.

Once again the "tyranny of urgency" causes us to let fear and misinformation lead us into bad decision making. It's a lesson that we never seem to comprehend. Untold damage is being done to people's lives, liberty, and fortunes. It's ridiculously sad.

This must be why they had to shut down Alex Jones and all the conspiracy theorist last year. The globalist must of been planning this out for years.