The RNA vaccines i.e Pfizer and Moderna are very easy to alter for new mutations. Astra Zeneca and Johnson johnson will work as long as the outer capsule doesn't change too much.
I....what? You do know that not everywhere has the same covid experience right? The position of the stars and planets isn't different for different places on the planet but each place was different.
*continues to live in covid free middle of the nowhere* I drafted strixhaven at my LGS a couple of days ago it was pretty great :).
Okay, despite there being no Virus here apparently FNM has died at my LGS. 1 Zendikar draft in a Month. Apparently, people just bought boxes of set-boosters then the chase card of the set got banned and no one seems to care about the set anymore.
I don't really know what to make of it, because it isn't related to the pandemic, unless there is a sort of delayed effect of running out of money or perhaps people are just going to parties and travelling because we can.
Maybe WotC have achieved their goal and killed all formats that are not commander? Since you can play Standard and Limited on Arena.
My government did its best to save businesses from the worst of the COVID. As I said earlier in the thread there is no COVID here, because the border is closed and all cases tracked and quarantined (currently 8 active). They also announced further financial aid For example: small businesses here get free electricity until September (from April) as we still have government-owned power utilities.
Perhaps you should petition your government for help for local small businesses.
We have had the CARES Act and the Paycheck Protection Plan Act passed that combined is several TRILLION dollars of aid and low interest loans to small businesses. Some states have granted aid to small businesses as well. Our border is like Swiss Cheese with Mexico, covid travels freely into the country from the south and from air travel just about anywhere in the world. Western Australia I see has about 2.6 million people spread out over a HUGE area, with 2.0 million of that in Perth. (Basically a city and thousands of square miles of uninhabited bush country) Much easier for WA to contain and reduce over a population of 330 million concentrated in large cities all over the country.
Petitioning our government for help is about like pissing into the wind, near pointless as they do what they wish. And when they do something its slow and packed with pork riding legislation that increases the beuaracracy.
We lost 33% of our GDP in the second quarter. Shattering the record of the Great Depression. (Of the largest market on the planet) and we have over 26 TRILLION dollars in debt. Comparing Western Australia to the United States is like comparing raisins to grapefruit. Don't get me wrong, at this time I'd probably rather be living in rural Western Australia. Fixes here aren't simple.
I live in the capital city and I was talking about that, just the store that closed was in the country.
Federally sure politics is trash, ours isn't great but at least took COVID threat seriously since March. I am suggesting you go to your State and even local governments they are much more responsive to citizens. They need to keep their small business running or they might never recover.
How to stop the spread: 2 months lockdown, everything except supermarkets/pharmacies closed, 2 person groups only, mask orders. I am not sure if the USA constitution allows the closing of state boarders, but there needs to be people checking every single border and giving out 2 week stay at home orders.
Once you stop community spread you can start testing and carefully tracking sporadic outbreaks that will continue. locking down apartments and suburbs following the persons travel history to find where they got it from. Test and Track. just doing testing isn't enough you need to track where they got it from. The testing needs to be free or people won't get it done.
A further 2 months of slowly allowing more businesses to open and larger groups to meet.
The economy is just gone its too late to save it, forget it! save lives instead. You effectively need to hibernate the economy until the emergency is over. No rent, no rates, no power or water bills, no one gets fired but everything is closed. You need to have your local small business to still be there when you get out of lockdown so their bills need to go away until they can open. The economy is dead just go into however much debt is required to solve the problem, doing nothing or doing a huge amount are both bad but only once saves lives.
"G Cubed (Bunbury, Western Australia)"
Sad to lose this one :/ but small-town stores have a lot of pressure on them. I lost my localest store last year and have since completely stopped playing standard without regular tournaments. But I am happy to travel a little further for FNM drafts. I think there might have been a bit of over-expansion of game stores locally going from 1 in 2010 to 9 in 2017 and then a chain store has started to dominate the market so we are down to 4 now.
My government did its best to save businesses from the worst of the COVID. As I said earlier in the thread there is no COVID here, because the border is closed and all cases tracked and quarantined (currently 8 active). They also announced further financial aid For example: small businesses here get free electricity until September (from April) as we still have government-owned power utilities.
Perhaps you should petition your government for help for local small businesses.
Feeling bad about not "growing up" was a component of my anxiety problems at least when it got to crisis levels a couple of years ago (The major one was my younger brother dying of cancer). So I hopped on a plane and went and fended for myself for a while, travelling alone, and despite the occasional bad day, I did just fine with no one to fall back on. Most of the time more than fine since I am hypercompetent with the over planning habits of someone with anxiety.
It is rather bizarre to feel like you haven't achieved anything when you literally have a PhD but its just that PhD took a lot longer than you thought it would and your scholarship had run out for several years before you finished. To escape the stress I would just go play magic in my lunch break for however long a Commander game would take.
I have always found shuffling physical cards to be super relaxing, I actually always have a deck next to me at my computer so I can just shuffle it and deal out a hand, maybe play out a few turns before picking it all up again and shuffling some more.
There are enough things to worry about before getting to biological warfare (or what God thinks of you). You might just have anxiety, something that this virus is making worse, maybe seek some professional help. Seriously, you don't need to pull on those bootstraps yourself, Maybe, you just need some help because your brain doesn't produce the right amount of serotonin.
I was talking to you as if you were sane but you are a Peterson Fan *facepalm*
Nope, I mean I was the only person to bring my own hand sanitizer. Although people were reticent to touch each other decks and there were no cash purchases. The hot chocolate resturant across the road had a sign-in process so they can track you down if there is an outbreak. MTG events track everyone in the event so they can find you if there is an outbreak.
We will be having an instore prerelease for M21 (although with limited numbers)
Okay, so the way our lockdown went was Late March into early April we quickly moved into lockdown. State borders closed, forced 14-day quarantine for anyone entering into the state. LGS was closed through April. The store opened again in May for purchases but not play. Then at the start of June, our lockdown was cautiously lifted. There was no increase in cases after 3 weeks.
Because our local authorities acted quickly, late March, we managed to avoid community spread and all cases were tracked. Mostly returned travellers or cruise ship passengers. If you happen to be one of the lucky people in a place where the virus is yet to touch make sure your local authorities are ready to act quickly.
edit: just to brag I also won the draft BG(u) Mutate ramp. Got a Blood crypt in my prize booster. Just had a great night.
Understandable concerns. The official advice is for no masks, because they are being rationed for medical professionals. Borders are closed, there are very few flights (charter only) and everyone coming in must quarantine (14 days) and it has been this way since late March. It's not going to come in unnoticed.
Well, I left the house, went into the CBD, and poked my head into my original LGS (it's close to my Alumni) and bought a booster pack of Ikoria like I was a newbie again. There are still store patron limitations and all stores have hand sanitizer on the counter.
Oof, best of luck. Wear your mask, bring wipes/hand sani, do all the things recommended to keep yourself and others safe. Do you have a plan for social distancing?
Things are actually super under control atm. Under 600 cases total. We got down to just two cases but then a plague ship turned up last week but they are all in quarantine. Reminder... I live in the middle of nowhere. Basically there is no community spread everyone with it is in quaratine.
I'll bring hand sani but masks are only for people who are sick.
Well, this seems like it went way off-topic.
Hey, I don't live in the USA, I live in Australia, we might even be able to do instore events in about 3 weeks when our lockdown fully ends (Provided this partial unlock goes well).
I am trying to work out how I am going to decide to obtain Ikoria. I want paper cards for my Peasant Cube, normally I just get the required cards from drafting for a few weeks but I have no paper drafts available. Then due to living in the middle of nowhere shipping costs a ton so if there is an online order we typically collect multiple peoples orders together to get what we need.
Update: We unlock June 6th :), I ordered two prerelease packs from my LGS. I'll go flip through the singles. I am not certain if there will be a place to play though since there is still space requirements and not a lot of space in the store. Might go across the road to the hot chocolate store to play.
Well, this seems like it went way off-topic.
Hey, I don't live in the USA, I live in Australia, we might even be able to do instore events in about 3 weeks when our lockdown fully ends (Provided this partial unlock goes well).
I am trying to work out how I am going to decide to obtain Ikoria. I want paper cards for my Peseant Cube, normally I just get the required cards from drafting for a few weeks but I have no paper drafts available. Then due to living in the middle of nowhere shipping costs a ton so if there is an online order we typically collect multiple peoples orders together to get what we need.
I....what? You do know that not everywhere has the same covid experience right? The position of the stars and planets isn't different for different places on the planet but each place was different.
*continues to live in covid free middle of the nowhere* I drafted strixhaven at my LGS a couple of days ago it was pretty great :).
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
I don't really know what to make of it, because it isn't related to the pandemic, unless there is a sort of delayed effect of running out of money or perhaps people are just going to parties and travelling because we can.
Maybe WotC have achieved their goal and killed all formats that are not commander? Since you can play Standard and Limited on Arena.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
I live in the capital city and I was talking about that, just the store that closed was in the country.
Federally sure politics is trash, ours isn't great but at least took COVID threat seriously since March. I am suggesting you go to your State and even local governments they are much more responsive to citizens. They need to keep their small business running or they might never recover.
How to stop the spread: 2 months lockdown, everything except supermarkets/pharmacies closed, 2 person groups only, mask orders. I am not sure if the USA constitution allows the closing of state boarders, but there needs to be people checking every single border and giving out 2 week stay at home orders.
Once you stop community spread you can start testing and carefully tracking sporadic outbreaks that will continue. locking down apartments and suburbs following the persons travel history to find where they got it from. Test and Track. just doing testing isn't enough you need to track where they got it from. The testing needs to be free or people won't get it done.
A further 2 months of slowly allowing more businesses to open and larger groups to meet.
The economy is just gone its too late to save it, forget it! save lives instead. You effectively need to hibernate the economy until the emergency is over. No rent, no rates, no power or water bills, no one gets fired but everything is closed. You need to have your local small business to still be there when you get out of lockdown so their bills need to go away until they can open. The economy is dead just go into however much debt is required to solve the problem, doing nothing or doing a huge amount are both bad but only once saves lives.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Sad to lose this one :/ but small-town stores have a lot of pressure on them. I lost my localest store last year and have since completely stopped playing standard without regular tournaments. But I am happy to travel a little further for FNM drafts. I think there might have been a bit of over-expansion of game stores locally going from 1 in 2010 to 9 in 2017 and then a chain store has started to dominate the market so we are down to 4 now.
My government did its best to save businesses from the worst of the COVID. As I said earlier in the thread there is no COVID here, because the border is closed and all cases tracked and quarantined (currently 8 active). They also announced further financial aid For example: small businesses here get free electricity until September (from April) as we still have government-owned power utilities.
Perhaps you should petition your government for help for local small businesses.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
It is rather bizarre to feel like you haven't achieved anything when you literally have a PhD but its just that PhD took a lot longer than you thought it would and your scholarship had run out for several years before you finished. To escape the stress I would just go play magic in my lunch break for however long a Commander game would take.
I have always found shuffling physical cards to be super relaxing, I actually always have a deck next to me at my computer so I can just shuffle it and deal out a hand, maybe play out a few turns before picking it all up again and shuffling some more.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
I was talking to you as if you were sane but you are a Peterson Fan *facepalm*
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
We will be having an instore prerelease for M21 (although with limited numbers)
Okay, so the way our lockdown went was Late March into early April we quickly moved into lockdown. State borders closed, forced 14-day quarantine for anyone entering into the state. LGS was closed through April. The store opened again in May for purchases but not play. Then at the start of June, our lockdown was cautiously lifted. There was no increase in cases after 3 weeks.
Because our local authorities acted quickly, late March, we managed to avoid community spread and all cases were tracked. Mostly returned travellers or cruise ship passengers. If you happen to be one of the lucky people in a place where the virus is yet to touch make sure your local authorities are ready to act quickly.
edit: just to brag I also won the draft BG(u) Mutate ramp. Got a Blood crypt in my prize booster. Just had a great night.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
We currently have exactly 2 people with Covid-19 in my state (both in quarantine)
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Well, I left the house, went into the CBD, and poked my head into my original LGS (it's close to my Alumni) and bought a booster pack of Ikoria like I was a newbie again. There are still store patron limitations and all stores have hand sanitizer on the counter.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Things are actually super under control atm. Under 600 cases total. We got down to just two cases but then a plague ship turned up last week but they are all in quarantine. Reminder... I live in the middle of nowhere. Basically there is no community spread everyone with it is in quaratine.
I'll bring hand sani but masks are only for people who are sick.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Update: We unlock June 6th :), I ordered two prerelease packs from my LGS. I'll go flip through the singles. I am not certain if there will be a place to play though since there is still space requirements and not a lot of space in the store. Might go across the road to the hot chocolate store to play.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
Hey, I don't live in the USA, I live in Australia, we might even be able to do instore events in about 3 weeks when our lockdown fully ends (Provided this partial unlock goes well).
I am trying to work out how I am going to decide to obtain Ikoria. I want paper cards for my Peseant Cube, normally I just get the required cards from drafting for a few weeks but I have no paper drafts available. Then due to living in the middle of nowhere shipping costs a ton so if there is an online order we typically collect multiple peoples orders together to get what we need.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own