Singapore and Hong Kong, both noted for successful early containment measures, are now curving up.
McDonald’s ending all-day breakfast
Society starting to buckle
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Borders closed 25 years after Schengen
On 26 March 1995, the Schengen Area - a huge zone allowing people to travel across huge swathes of Europe without border checks - came into force.
But 25 years later to the day nearly every European state has closed or restricted its borders, in a bid to tackle the spreading coronavirus outbreak.
article from 2006 for reference
“So tell us Dr. Fauci, what effect will social distancing have on pick and roll execution?”
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I know people who were laid off but whose job is giving them one more paycheck for this week so they haven’t even filed yet.
That’s the curve with artificially deflated numbers due to lack of tests.
Can you imagine the actual graph if accurate numbers were available?
Soviet level shit is business as usual for every government everywhere in times of mass crisis. Minimize panic and maintain social order is the number one goal. Japan’s government lied their asses off during Fukushima. Mass panic probably is more dangerous than anything this virus can do.
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I’m not sure that’s a problem. I’m actually trying to comfort myself that the graph looks artificially steep because of testing. That is, if we’re accelerating testing, then the steepness reflects a combination of virus spreading plus accelerated testing rates, rather than virus spreading alone.
I think we’re still flying totally blind about prevalent this is or how rapidly it’s spreading.
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Russia, China, Brazil and the US are the only countries I’m aware of to claim ‘nothing to see here’, ‘fake news’ etc
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Sorry but the NSC had a specific plan for dealing with this that if followed would have made a massive difference in the availability of medical supplies.
This administration could have been taking action to bring medical supplies up for months now and get testing up to speed and done nothing.
It is absolutely ignorant to claim it wouldn’t matter who was running the country. It is also disingenuous to be comparing the responses of other countries to the alleged richest country in the world.
If you think we would have the same number of masks, gowns, gloves, ventilators et al regardless of who was in the Whitehouse you are horribly wrong.
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oh nos - what will become of them?
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Speaking of the CR, we just had the largest number of new cases so far (291). At a 20% increase, it’s the largest increase since the 19th.
That sounds like bad news but that increase is due to the fact that we’ve increased our testing output. On the 22nd, we conducted slightly less than 1,800 tests. On the 25th, over 4,000 tests were conducted. Those 30 minute tests from China are starting to pay off.
In actual bad news, we’ve had death #7. Like the number of cases, I suspect we’ll eventually stop counting the dead when they become too numerous. But at this point, it’s good to know things about them so the people know for sure who’s most at risk. In this case, it was an 80 year old man with lymphoma.
It’s weird that there are so many admissions among the young in America while here most people admitted in hospital are elderly and all of the deaths have been 65+ and/or dealing with a chronic comorbid condition.
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Iran
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Wait, which European governments are telling their populations to wear surgical masks if they have to go out?
The tough part about real time inventory for grocery stores is you have online shoppers competing with in store shoppers. If you order something online and a minute later someone comes by with their cart and takes all those items, it is simply no longer there.
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Bob is going to be so drunk.
I know multiple people in S. Florida who claim to exhibit all the symptoms but are unable to get tested because they don’t fit specific criteria, i.e., been out of the country or have had contact with someone who has tested positive.
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Czech Republic has been requiring that people cover their nose and mouth when going out in public since March 18th. A mask isn’t necessarily required (see my avatar above). The penalty for being caught outside without one is 10,000 koruna (about $405).
Last time I went out, I saw zero people breaking that law.
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