Quarantined on military bases, U.S. evacuees resort to Zumba, stairwell races, accounting classes

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/quarantined-on-military-bases-us-evacuees-resort-to-zumba-stairwell-races-accounting-classes/2020/02/06/359d9df6-490e-11ea-bdbf-1dfb23249293_story.html

Jarred Evans has explored every inch of the Air Force barracks where he has lived under federal quarantine for the past eight days. He has measured out its exact length: 0.45 miles. He has run through every stairwell, hallway and parking lot row hundreds of times, trying to keep in shape and stay sane.

“It’s all in the mind. You have to stay mentally strong,” said Evans, 27, who was playing American football professionally in Wuhan, China, before he became one of 195 evacuees now living at the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, Calif.

Twice a day, the evacuees have their temperatures checked by medical staff in protective gear. They are forbidden to stray from a small patch of land on a base filled with armed military personnel. So they have found creative ways of filling the days.

“When people hear quarantine, they think of the zombie apocalypse, movies like ‘World War Z,’ ” said Matthew McCoy, 55, another evacuee. “But the reality is it’s what you make of it.”

[underpants]

1. This is incredible

They have American football in China?

I had no idea.

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3. Oh yeah. The American Football League of China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Football_League_of_China

Surprisingly popular there. I'm partial to the Hong Kong Combat Orcas (yes, really).

[underpants]

5. I wonder if this is like a Cleveland steamer

Zhengzhou Steamer

Looks like Shanghai has the best teams.

Hong Kong Combat Orcas

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7. The mascot seems to be a locomotive

Maybe trains are important to the history of Zhengzhou? I'm afraid my knowledge of northern China is pitifully small.

Guangzhou Apaches seems like an odd choice, though.

[brokephibroke]

2. Killing time with accounting classes?

Oh yeah, income statements, balance sheets and fund flow statements are fun!

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4. I've got several friends from the State Department quarantined in Miramar

Since it's Miramar, they've been doing nightly showings of the 3D-remastered version of "Top Gun", but that gets old quickly. They're a good bit luckier than the group in this article because they get a whole section of base with a gym and a library and stuff. But the days can still really drag.

[underpants]

6. As someone with an accounting degree let me say....

That I agree with you.

[brokephibroke]

8. LOL.

Perhaps they mix it up with some managerial cost accounting, trying to get to the fully loaded cost of maintaining their time in quarantine.

[underpants]

9. I just hope they don't become depreciated

[brokephibroke]

10. There you go with deprecation.

Is that a source or sink of funds?

[underpants]

11. Fixed ass

Sorry assETS

[brokephibroke]

12. But how do you account for it on a funds flow?

As an engineer that always confused me in my acct classes. Never got it.

See, accounting can be fun...

[underpants]

13. Uh

I understood there be no math