outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

ffs

he's probably figuring out how to use this as an excuse for starving several million muslims to death

yeah the easter island case isn't traceable either.

just not really sure how this is all going to end really. talk of reopening countries and drifting back towards normality seems fanciful, whatever date you plug in: may? june? july? august? all seem unlikely. then we're starting the descent back towards winter and presumably another worldwide spike

silby jeez I didn't say *credit* him

I mean let these people imagine their precious dow jones index at @2,000 e.g.

Yeah how do you prevent a new epidemic just ripping through a country or a region, even if its abated somewhere else?

Sorry I know I just. Yeah.

you....learn from the last one?

Hadn’t realised quite how relaxed Sweden was being on this. Much like the UK’s first, abandoned/belatedly accelerated plan https://www.thelocal.se/20200324/while-most-of-europe-is-in-lockdown-sweden-is-going-its-own-way

Boo hoo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/nra-to-cut-salaries-brace-for-layoffs-as-coronavirus-disrupts-fundraising-internal-memo-states/2020/03/24/4a7d47ac-6d63-11ea-96a0-df4c5d9284af_story.html

Thoughts, prayers.

heh

you....learn from the last one?

Good luck with that. Without widespread testing we could be seeing major cities moving in and out of lockdown for 18 months. Maybe it's better not to maintain the pretence of going back to normality in the first place.

xp Matt DC:

Mostly travel restrictions.

Israel was first to call for a 14-day quarantine of all incoming travelers, including its own citizens. Visitors have to provide proof that they have a 14-day reservation at a hotel and means of paying before they can board inbound flights. That sort of siege mentality for all travelers has its merits, as so many transit through third nations. Some other countries have followed suit with the same policy.

There won't be short-term business, artist touring, family or leisure travel for quite a while, perhaps until a vaccine or effective treatment is available. International travel will be as time-consuming as centuries past.

And if this does become endemic in some countries (cough, the US) those sort of travel restrictions may extend well past the period of medical crisis. Its an order of magnitude worse for airlines than 9/11. None of those 737 Max planes will be needed.

Man, that first destination vacation is going to feel so good ... in 2027.

None of those 737 Max planes will be needed.

fsck getting on one of them anyhow

Thinking now about countries entirely dependent on destination tourism. Maldives, Aruba, Seychelles... Rough times ahead, and I can see how their leaders might be entertaining the "lets go endemic and get this over with" plan...

Many of the aforementioned are practically underwater now anyway, aren't they? Like, literally?

Holland America Cruise Sailing for Florida Has 87 Flu-Like Cases

Passengers, all with less than sound judgement, embarked in San Antonio, Chile 21 Mar and had a port of call in Coquimbo, Chile on 22 Mar. Seems they'll be missing shore excursions and jewelry/cigar/tourist crap shopping in Ecuador, Honduras, Panama, Aruba, and the Bahamas.

Is this the fourth, or fifth, cruise ship with an outbreak?

We’ve had more than that in Australia alone.

JH Christ, the Zaandam makes it 15 plague ships.

That list doesn’t appear to include the Costa Favolosa, responsible for 43 of Trinidad’s 57 cases.

.@GovAndyBeshear says that one person in Kentucky has tested positive after attending a coronavirus party

— Ben Tobin (@TobinBen) March 24, 2020

Congratulations?

wtf is a coronavirus party?

If they were the one who started the party then that's a pretty poor achievement tbf

lol

ppl getting deliberately infected with the 'vid to own the libs

i dreamt of going to kentucky the other night, and surprisingly that has not dissuaded me

one day of lockdown and you're desperate to party

kind of sighing right now thinking about the two dudes who had one of the large item carts at costco with about ten boxes of corona beers loaded up on it three weeks ago

First teenage death in the States:

http://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/health/us-coronavirus-updates-tuesday/index.html

Teenagers and kids is something nobody wants to even contemplate. (Not meant in any way to minimize the lives of over-60s, which I almost am myself.)

Freemantle is now up to 3 doomed cruise ships.

WTF is horse racing still going on in Australia. (someone at a horse racing thing in VIC is being testing for corona)

Horse racing is still going on in a lot of places, like Ireland.

It would be one thing if the horses were organising it themselves but I doubt this is happening

In other news SBS word news tells me that Indian police are making lockdown breakers do squats as punishment for going out.

Horse racing is still going on in a lot of places, like Ireland.

all sporting events banned as of yesterday

they should ban it now and never bring it back

The snakes and spiders have saved us. Apparently our vets have more ventilators per head of population than any other nation because of all the animals that get bitten.

> all the animals that get bitten.

The animals?

Gotta save those horses

that’s good to know, i’m asthmatic and it adds an extra level of concern

(oh, I missed the vet part)

Australian League finally cancelled? That just leave the Premier League in Belarus as last league standing, and they only started last weekend!

Hmm and a bunch of friendlies in Russia and Sweden

International - Club Friendlies

March 25

17' Saturn Ramenskoye 1 - 0 Rotor M Volgograd
11:00 Smena Kazan ? - ? Dinamo-18 Kazan
13:00 Kuban Holding Pavlovskaya ? - ? FK Chita
17:00 FC Odintsovo ? - ? Torpedo Zhavoronki
18:00 Oskarshamns AIK ? - ? FK Almeboda / Linneryd
18:00 Sandsbro AIK ? - ? Ingelstads IK
18:15 Skegrie BK ? - ? Uppakra IF

uk symptoms tracker: https://covid.joinzoe.com/

(full in daily even if well)

Thinking now about countries entirely dependent on destination tourism. Maldives, Aruba, Seychelles... Rough times ahead, and I can see how their leaders might be entertaining the "lets go endemic and get this over with" plan...

19,534 people applied for unemployment in my home state, Hawaii, today :(

i applied last week, but i'm ahead of the curve having been laid off last february

240,000+ in Australia so far, and that’s on top of everyone who was put out of work by the bushfires. It would be way more if the Centrelink site hadn’t been overwhelmed.

That’s not just tourism, that’s airlines and hospo and everyone all mixed together.