I'm fairly certain Trump did cough quite audibly during his presidential address.

 

Do you believe my rhetoric about the evil landed gentŕy swines yet? x

 

mate I'm just as breadpilled as you are I just sometimes take a more bourgeois tone for style purposes and the ideal of not alienating our potential audience

I do wonder if every country in the world had banned flights from China, Italy and Iran when it was only in those three countries, what would have happened? Would it not have spread outside these three countries?

 

Yeaaah, not a single one of those countries is an island... And ships and cargo still exist, too, soo

The person who ate the bat, died.... right?

Yeaaah, not a single one of those countries is an island... And ships and cargo still exist, too, soo

 

So if the whole world would have banned flights, ships and cargo from Italy, China and Iran when only these three countries had it that might have worked.

 

Sorry, I know this is in the past now but I like thinking of alternate history!

The person who ate the bat, died.... right?

 

China has found patient one, the first human who got it from another human, but they havent been able to track down patient zero, the first human to get it from the animal...

So if the whole world would have banned flights, ships and cargo from Italy, China and Iran when only these three countries had it that might have worked.

 

Sorry, I know this is in the past now but I like thinking of alternate history!

Given the fact that a lot of people show very mild symptoms, I suspect it had arrived in many countries before it was even identified.

Hi Iz,

 

how's situation in China right now...are numbers still going high or it slowed down?

France is going into lockdown as well

France is going into lockdown as well

 

 

Surely it's only a matter of days now until we do then I bet the panic buying gets even worse with queues to get in to every shop or supermarket.

From BBC News:

 

 

Concerns about crowds certainly seem to have struck shoppers, with a number of shopping centres and high streets noticeably quieter than an average Saturday.

 

Birmingham's bull was kitted out in full St Patrick's Day garb but the usual selfie-taking shoppers gathered around the local landmark were nowhere to be seen.

 

The city's Bullring shopping centre was markedly quieter than usual early on Saturday.

 

In London, there were still plenty of shoppers in the capital's major retail areas like Oxford Street, but things were quieter.

 

The same goes for tourism hotspots like Buckingham Palace where visitors could be seen taking in the sights wearing face masks.

 

London's public transport system - known for its rush hour crowds - has been emptier in recent days.

 

Retailers in Above Bar, Southampton's main shopping street, said they had been feeling the impact.

 

Boots optician Carol Betts said five of her patients had cancelled on Saturday morning, which she put down to fears about close contact.

 

"I haven't seen any patients for more than two hours.

 

"We can't keep hand sanitiser in the store for love nor money - as soon as you put it out, it's gone."

 

Stall owner Vinnie Singh said footfall was down and blamed news coverage.

 

"You can see it today. The media is making it sound worse. Scaring and frightening people is not the way forward," he said.

 

 

Edited March 14, 20205 yr by Crazy Chris

Catholics in my diocese (and across Ireland) have been dispensed from going to Sunday Mass for the next few weeks, so will be web-camming Mass for a few weeks, and no Eucharist. :(

If they announce a ban on all gatherings over 100 surely all Sunday masses will have to be cancelled. Most get over that I'd have thought.

If they announce a ban on all gatherings over 100 surely all Sunday masses will have to be cancelled. Most get over that I'd have thought.

 

 

My understanding is that in our parish, the priest & a few celebrants will still carry out the Mass, with the faithful being able to stream it online if they so wish.

Hi Iz,

 

how's situation in China right now...are numbers still going high or it slowed down?

 

Official numbers have slowed down and there are now less active infections than in Italy. Xi visited Wuhan at the beginning of this week and that seems to have been a signal that things are safe to come off the highest alert. Most provinces outside of Wuhan don't have many if any reported active infections and for my city, there's systems in place that excessively track people and their temperatures in public places to ensure that if any new cases show up they can be swiftly identified. Hearing a lot about people coming in from abroad needing mandatory quarantine whatsoever, and same if you move between cities/provinces. So coming off a pretty high level of social distancing, pretty draconian but apparently effective.

 

I don't have any restrictions on my movement right now as long as I stay in Tianjin, but there are still some things closed. Schools are not reopened yet.

Official numbers have slowed down and there are now less active infections than in Italy. Xi visited Wuhan at the beginning of this week and that seems to have been a signal that things are safe to come off the highest alert. Most provinces outside of Wuhan don't have many if any reported active infections and for my city, there's systems in place that excessively track people and their temperatures in public places to ensure that if any new cases show up they can be swiftly identified. Hearing a lot about people coming in from abroad needing mandatory quarantine whatsoever, and same if you move between cities/provinces. So coming off a pretty high level of social distancing, pretty draconian but apparently effective.

 

I don't have any restrictions on my movement right now as long as I stay in Tianjin, but there are still some things closed. Schools are not reopened yet.

 

Have to be careful when they ease restrictions so there isn't a second wave of the virus in China. Also maintain travel bans from Europe and US would be a good idea for China for the next few months.

Edited March 14, 20205 yr by The S***e

France shuts all bars, cafes, pubs, night-clubs and restaurants until further notice. Now 4,999 cases there.

 

Some will never re-open. Same here if the same happens soon. They still have rents to pay whilst closed so won't be able to survive long.

Edited March 14, 20205 yr by Crazy Chris

I think I’m a step or two behind France in Germany. Things are changing rapidly. We very rapidly went from banning gatherings of more than 500 people to banning anything more than 50. A lot of the controls are on a state rather than federal level here so I can’t talk for what’s happening elsewhere but Berlin has really really ratcheted up the stakes in the past 36hrs. Schools are closed and effective immediately this afternoon they forced all bars, clubs, gyms, brothels, sports centres, pools, pubs, restaurants that qualify as “smoking” under the anti-smoking rules, theatres, cinemas etc etc etc all so shut. So there goes my workout plans while on mandated WFH.

 

We were due a public transport reduction, according to the schools closing announcement of Friday morning, but that was reversed Friday afternoon. I’m not sure we will make it far into next week before the BVG starts shutting off some if not all services

The idea of saying 'leave it all to herd immunity' is so profoundly stupid and if not, coldheartedly dismissive of the vulnerable people who will be victims of the virus that I can barely believe public representatives are advocating such for something we don't know enough about yet.

 

Hopefully this will make them rethink about the herd immunity idea

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51892402

France is going into lockdown as well

 

Just heard from my mum, not far from Toulouse :(

 

Can someone please share the link again where you can check number of confirmed cases in your area?