Would self quarantine be a challenge for an Audiophile? Home detention even a punishment?


With all the talk about people having to self quarantine, I started to think about what that would mean for an audiophile, and Would it even be much of a challenge?
Normal human being - “I had to self quarantine for 14 days and I’m ready to strangle somebody.”
Audiophile version - “I cleaned so many damn records I had been meaning to.... adjusted my VTA and azimuth and my system sounds better then ever, and after listening to the entire Miles Davis and Coltrane’s recorded output, I realized I could have left the house 2 days ago.”

And would some white collar criminal on home detention even be considered being punished? I’d be so content stuck at home with great audio system, home theater projection, laser light and planetarium show, pinball machine, infrared sauna, massage chair, I may decide to commit some “victimless” financial crime just to play with the toys I don’t always have time for.
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For the skeptics it was very well proven fact that conscious perception exist out of the brain; if you dont know that your reading habit are thin or bad oriented...

I don't consider my reading habits thin or bad except perhaps my affinity for murder mysteries.
"You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." 
Francis  Crick 
Unraveling consciousness will be done in the laboratory not in a metaphysical debate. We are physical beings created by natural forces which can't seem to accept that this physical body in its fragile frame is all there is.
I can't really believe anything that comes out of Faux news but Dr Grace is saying the same thing I have read elsewhere, there is hope it might help it seems to have in other countries and they are starting trials I believe. 
Shubert the brain is a very complex organ and we're just on the edge of learning about it. My grandmother who underwent a similar do or die heart operation back in the 1970's had a similar story. Near death experiences are very similar to brains deprived of oxygen stories one day unless we kill ourselves off we'll probably get a fairly good understanding of what's happening. If the belief in life after death gives someone comfort then there's no harm in it at least until people start bombing in order to get to paradise . 
It's not my place to do anything it's simply the way science works. I don't reduce what we are to atoms the way the universe formed did. 
New York is going to begin testing that malaria drug as soon as they get it. Hope it helps them. 
Widespread testing at the start would have helped with contact tracing and  with containment. Which is why they wanted and needed it then, now unless you're older or have health problems there's no point as containment through tracing is moot. 
They wouldn't have tested everyone who wanted it but everyone they needed to. I don't  live in a vacuum, I remember the heath professionals saying they couldn't do adequate contact tracing for lack of tests. Stop the virus no, slow down and prevent what's coming maybe. 
Yes, months not weeks,  that was known in February as soon as we knew it was community spread and  how contagious it was. It has a serial interval of a few days, It's like the flu in that way.
Right wing has been using dog whistle words for 60 years and when they get called on it they fall back with the " what poor me l'm the victim here ". Jack boot John Birchers and to damn dumb to know it. 
It is not a flu and it is a social threat
You just now figuring that out? Where have you been in a cave? 
Our state public health director was talking about those door to door delivery services today, he called them bumblebees. 
I quit smoking when a pack of cigarettes went up to 50 cents, I think it was 1978. 
They have started limiting amounts you can purchase here it must be helping the store shelves are not near as bare. 
I'm never envious for new gear but I like putting things together. I have assembled and troubleshot a lot of computers for family and friends I've been looking at these little raspberry pi's for a while look like they would be easy to do I'll connect it to a USB dac see what it can do. 
Should be a lot lower the computer is in another room connected to the endpoint by ethernet.
The police put a leg wire on someone here who tested positive but wouldn't stay home in quarantine. He still claimed it wasn't anything worse than having the flu cause the President said so on TV. He didn't need to stay home in quarantine  more than a day or two the local news showed an ambulance taking him to the hospital yesterday. Another one of these nuts the police put a 24 hour watch on him because he kept leaving his house. Drink the kool aid baby it's going to be over by Easter. 
Yeah I'm sure Holcomb shut down Indiana because he's in cahoots with the media to bring down Trump.
They better hurry and make those snorkel mask adapters our Dear Leader said it’s back to work and all's well by Easter.
Biden is an erudite wordsmith compared to Trump, which I admit isn't really saying much. 
Depends on the 5 minutes I listen. He comes across as either a conman, a clown, incoherent or insane or all at once. I came to these conclusions during 2016 primaries he's only gotten worse since. Make America as great as maybe South Korea! 
I went out to work today and will tomorrow my wife has go to the office for a short time tomorrow. 
How many have family that have to go out? Family in nursing homes to worry about, friends and family  who have to self quarantine because they were exposed etc.. it's about everyone not just me. At least in my opinion.
Just saw an ad on TV for a car maker (forgot the name) who’s going over to ordering online and making arrangements to pick it up by appointment. There’s also a large grace period on when payments start.
 
Dealers here will bring the papers to sign to your home and disinfect the car before you pick it up.
I guess because some laughed and joked about his posting links to crazy conspiracy theory sites claiming the virus was smuggled into China and they made the coronavirus , yes I did, he assumes no one took the actual virus seriously. Most here and anyone with a brain, so that leaves Dear Leader out, knew what could happen if the virus couldn't be contained. I knew it couldn't be contained from reading what experts were saying in January. The only thing that did surprise me a little is how this administration didn't take it seriously, "there's only 15 cases now and will probably be none by next week " . I knew they were incompetent but the level of incompetence and disregard for the people was depressing. 
Those are the official numbers out of Italy. Was just watching a show where they said people are at home who have high fevers and coughing but they tell them not to come to the hospital unless they start to have trouble breathing then call for an ambulance but some are dying at home these people are not in the official results. 
The 500 billion for corporations was changed a bit 425 billion of that is loans through the Fed Reserve so it limits the ability of Mnuchin handing it out. Since it's loans hopefully some will be paid back the other 75 billion is grants. Don't  take this as gospel until it's signed off by everyone it could still change. Unless I'm out of it and it's already been signed haven't kept up today been working.
Some people live in perpetual conspiracy theories. SARS-Cov-2 is not a manufactured biological weapon. To many experts from over the world have looked at it and dismissed that idiocy. 
New York Presbyterian began ventilator sharing today like was mentioned earlier on this thread. There are ventilators not being used because there is no federal coordination using their power to distribute needed healthcare equipment where its needed. Instead we have states bidding against each other in a bizarre lassiez-faire free for all.

I read where a 101 year old man in Italy recovered from Covid-19. 
I know it's only one guy but at least it was a little good news 
This has changed since, income levels are higher and the federal government designates the TEA.
Like everything Trump says the GM ventilator order is a cluster. GM was partnering with Ventec who makes ventilators, GM was providing manufacturing space and bodies to help increase production. If it wasn't so serious it would be a hilarious 3 stooges episode.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/27/1931806/-Trump-orders-GM-to-make-ventilators-without-cont...
Under the old rules which this case is, the investment of 1 million didn't require investment in a TEA (targeted employment area). The investment of half a million did require investment in a TEA. The requirements of the TEA designations were set by state and local governments so I am not sure what they are in this instance, usually it's by income or unemployment or both. 
Vaccines against pneumonia, such as pneumococcal vaccine and Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib) vaccine, only help protect people from these specific bacterial infections. They do not protect against any coronavirus pneumonia, including pneumonia that may be part of COVID-19.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/coronavirus-resource-center