outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

For those curious how well their locality is practicing physical distancing, Unacast is grading states and counties using mobile phone data. covid19 social distancing scoreboard

Irish government just announced a full lockdown

"for a two-week period everybody must stay at home in all circumstances, except in exceptional circumstances such as work and to get essential goods"

my county got an A rating!

In France the main controversy over the virus concerns the “study” by Didier Raoult, an infectious disease doctor and professor in Marseille, “showing” that hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for the virus. He is a climate change sceptic.

Speaking of which, this is really le pompon:

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2020/03/27/de-yorarien-a-yakekchose-didier-raoult-figure-des-forums-de-jeuxvideo-com_6034716_4408996.html

that's a really neat link, mordy!

(chicago/cook county gets a B)

amazing to see the rural/urban divide

rural areas get a big fucking F in general, which i believe stands for FUCK YOU

Misread that as 'country' and was taken aback for a sec.

Rural areas will have less reliable ratings from the smartphone spyware company due to just having less data.

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― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Saturday, March 28, 2020 4:15 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

To be fair to Scotty the states and territories keep rolling him and once rolled he stays rolled, announces it in a sook and then waits to get rolled the next day. He also clearly listens to his experts (even if some of those experts seem to be lunatic economists). Sad to say he might come out of this quite well, not because he is making the right decisions but accepting them when they are imposed on him. The lack of rent relief is a fucking scandal and I put that down to the Tory premiers resisting because of the mythical ‘mum and dad’ landlords, (and the very real politician and oligarch and party donor landlords).

The ventilator thing is a fucking scandal not least because whilst the number of ventilators is important the time is crucial and the cost is immaterial it’s money going through the economy (a stimulus if you will) and evening if some of it sticks to GM more will end up with workers and in the supply chain. Cost really doesn’t matter at this point.

hey they shut Ireland down

barely felt a thing

my state got a D and my county got a C

argh

A votre avis, Raoult va baiser Lola Taylor ?

lol

:D

Looking at the death surge in Spain and Italy (and elsewhere in the near future), will we ever know how many deaths were likely more preventable were the hospitals not overwhelmed?

bold trump looks to be panicking a bit

I hear he is increasingly assholated.

btw, I noticed his bs no longer automatically pops up on the top of the WaPo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_TKXPPjhRk

So trump signed an order it compel GM to do what it was already doing?

hey they shut Ireland down

barely felt a thing

There's a joke in there somewhere.

Not sure if this has been posted already--pretty amazing story.

http://interestingengineering.com/101-year-old-man-who-survived-spanish-flu-and-world-war-2-now-beats-coronavirus-too

Re the social distancing scoreboard divide between rural and urban, it seems to be most in states where there are few cases. Given that the apocalypse is headed their way, I can imagine that there would be folks needing to drive long distances to stock up on provisions before hunkering down.

Ugh, do I really want to be arguing with a sanctimonious PR woman on Twitter who is having the vapours about farmer’s markets being open this weekend in London? The kind of person who despite a career in words misuses ‘literally’, and won’t accept that they’re on the essential service list, are taking serious lockdown precautions (and it’s been masks/gloves/tongs since early March), and that farmers to table is a much shorter supply chain than that offered by supermarkets? Muted her, obvs.

This is some end of days apocalyptic horror movie shit

Francis, alone in the rain in St. Peter's Square, praying for the world. pic.twitter.com/6DE7YU2Irv

— Joshua McElwee (@joshjmac) March 27, 2020

anyway, i'm just wondering if, for example, the most popular radio host in italy is telling everybody that it's an overblown hoax and not to trust public health officials

The most popular radio host in Sydney / NSW state is telling everybody it’s an overblown hoax, but is not doing so by commuting from his downtown apartment to his downtown radio station. He has moved to a house in the southern highlands, in a town with a population of 200, and his 58-years-younger alt-right “personal driver” is remaining in the city.

A billionaire mining company magnate and shitposter from Queensland who repeatedly runs for office so that he can spend millions on advertising is bragging that he will pay for a million doses of hydroxycloroquine.

Sydney last week also allowed five cruise ships with infected passengers to dock downtown, and untested passengers to simply walk off and hop onto trains four minutes walk away.

I read a "but what about the landlords?" piece earlier that defined "mom and pop" landlords as those with between 2-4 units.

For those curious how well their locality is practicing physical distancing,

since I never go outside idk

I read a "but what about the landlords?" piece earlier that defined "mom and pop" landlords as those with between 2-4 units.

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, March 27, 2020 8:54 PM bookmarkflaglink

even a friend of mine did that today, but because he's a landlord.

I had to fight my estate agent to offer my tenants a rent freeze.

This is objectively true & impossible to deny now. The Q moving forward is, is this (1) uniquely the fault of Trump, (2) existential to the nature of the US system or (3) as I believe it to be: a combination of both.

Lot of money will be poured into convincing you it’s only (1) https://t.co/xobWiEQeG2

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 27, 2020

well considering the President is withholding aid to California and New York who coincidentally have Governors he doesn't like.....

I mean trump is kind of the ultimate embodiment of all the worst aspects of the US system, so splitting hairs there.

it took me a second to figure out what the direction of that tweet is.

and now i am like, 'no shit, dude.'

america is like the 1960s band that once ruled but it kept going and still and live and selling out tours somehow

so like...America?

Sydney last week also allowed five cruise ships with infected passengers to dock downtown, and untested passengers to simply walk off and hop onto trains four minutes walk away.

So far 162 passengers from just one of these ships have been diagnosed with the ‘vid: that’s 11% of cases in the entire state* getting off one boat, in the middle of the city, in half an hour.

*(the state is twice the size of California, or six times larger than England)

not seen the end of market volatility yet with this thing - not going to be pretty when US has to face into full lockdown

thanks everyone who asked about my husband - he’s fine now. i’m encouraging him to stop paying so much attention to the news and he’s distracting himself by cooking and cleaning a lot (which I’m grateful for). the main thing we took away from this is that diagnosing covid is trickier if you have anxiety or related disorders, which really isn’t helpful in the current environment.

Meanwhile, just what the world needs, a potential baby boom: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-malaysia-karex/condom-shortage-looms-after-coronavirus-lockdown-shuts-worlds-top-producer-idUSKBN21E1OJ

Glad to hear it Roz! tbph I have been wondering if my own mysterious short-lived illness might have been anxiety-related as well - the thing it reminded me most of was coming down off bad drugs

america is like the 1960s band that once ruled but it kept going

Cf. "We Built this Country" byJefferson Spaceforce

This is objectively true & impossible to deny now. The Q moving forward is

Having just come from an idle google of coronavirus+pizzgate, the similarity of tone is quite something.

sic nailing the Oz zeitgeist effortlessly in a couple of sentences, Walkley Award territory

withholding aid to California and New York

Now Michigan too - https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-gretchen-whitmer-michigan-coronavirus-feud-032411002.html

this really needs to be a bigger controversy but everybody's too distracted atm with, y'know...tryin to fuckin' eat

I can't fucking believe we have this piece of shit running things. He knows damn well the states can't procure the shit on their own and that innocent people will die, but hey, it's their fault for living in a fake news state, amirite

I'm sure the people of Michigan who defected from Dem party in 2016 are going to show up for him in droves when 25% of their families die due to this

I was gonna say Michigan is lost to him now

2021 is gonna be awesome.

YAY, we're finally free of Trump! now we can go back to our lives!

oh we're in another bad recession! millions of people died!

thousands of positions are unfilled in various government sectors!

I mean....I'll still be happier than the opposite, but it feels like the new normal is every time a Democrat gets elected, they inherit a gigantic crisis.

Glad everything is ok Roz.

Meanwhile.

Things you didnt realize were true until they stopped - A South African refinery has stopped shipping gold to London because of a lack of commercial flights, adding to the disruption that’s upending the physical bullion market. @FelixNijinihttps://t.co/iCE7lccKaR pic.twitter.com/vklQWpDcq7

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) March 28, 2020

IMO the US and other countries should do a reset, seize everybody's funds, then start everybody over with 20,000 dollars in their accounts.

including billionaires.