outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

badass tbf

One can hope xp

They cancelled the St. Patrick's Day parade here, so I guess some people do know what they're doing.

I posted earlier on this thread about how I liked Naomi Campbells' airplane sanitizing routine + the video (gloves, personal blanket, wiping everything down, facemask). I just saw something where she is now wearing goggles and a disposable hooded coverall. I like it.

Basically when this epidemic peaks only Naomi Campbell, industrial workers and really hardcore warehouse rave dudes will be equipped to survive.

Before I leave the house, I just give myself a quick head-to-toe Scotchgard spritz, making sure to thoroughly saturate all of those hard-to-reach mucous membranes. Two coats will usually do, although I'm doing a third and occasionally even a fourth these days just to be on the safe side.

Anybody know where they sell those full-body spandex suits you see freaks wearing at NHL games?

Your local fetish site, I’d imagine.

Went to a Sainsbury’s just now. Pasta and rice cleared out, some toilet paper there, people picking up a lot of tinned tuna and biscuits as well.

Basically when this epidemic peaks only Naomi Campbell, industrial workers and really hardcore warehouse rave dudes will be equipped to survive.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 13:37 (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://philthorntoncasuals.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/casuals-cover.jpg

yesterday I crawled into bed for a brief read/nap still wearing my work clothes, and it occurred to me that that was bad, and then I thought of how one should probably install a special antechamber to one's mansion in which one would remove contaminated outside clothes every time one came in and shove them into bags for thorough decontamination by robots, get hosed down with some kind of cleansing spray, and select a fresh new set of clothes from an endlessly renewed wardrobe

in the real world in a small open-plan flat with a limited set of clothes, nowhere to put extra dirty laundry, and no desire to be constantly doing laundry (at clothes-shrinking temperatures, just to be sure?), welp, may as well just come home and snuggle a few more germs under the duvet and into my pillowcase

welp

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/coronavirus-conference-gets-canceled-because-of-coronavirus

xp I’m sure detergent would work in the same way as soap to dissolve the outside of the virus? Anyway, isn’t there dispute about how long it lives on surfaces?

xpost I have houseclothes that I only wear in the house and change into as soon as I get home (Pants off Dance off etc). I am also one of those people that cannot go to sleep without taking a shower, which was problematic when I was younger and did not drink responsibly and would have adventures in the shower at night (although I have never fallen!). I still strongly endorse this routine.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1237627716196683777

The University of Dayton in Ohio announced on Tuesday that it is suspending all classes and closing all on-campus housing amid coronavirus fears. Online courses will commence after spring break. Within hours of the announcement, hundreds of students had gathered on Lowes Street on the campus and police were called. Officers in riot gear attended the scene and shot pepper balls at students, according to student-run publication Flyer News.

lol college?

jesus

krakkemikkige otm

Dutch TV news refers self-evidently to the “krakkemikkige Amerikaanse zorgstelsel”—the “ramshackle American health system”—as a #COVID19 risk.

— Matt BREAKING NEWS Steinglass (@mattsteinglass) March 10, 2020

huh. a few places (Harvard, Trinity Dublin) have suspended in-person classes but evicting students from their housing at short notice is... I can see how that might be unpopular

(xps) yeah, as far as I know detergent at just normal wash temperatures is fine, which would make sense re the whole lipid coating thing as you point out, sorry!

and there is def a happy medium to aim for without going full Naomi Campbell Joins Altern-8, but sometimes it feels kind of futile, like washing my hands thoroughly before lunch and then picking a paper towel off the uncovered stack of paper towels that everyone else has handled and touching 3 different door handles to get back to my office which is only literally just the other side of a wall from the sinks (finally a good point to being so short that my sleeves are always too long, I've been using them as handy door-handle gloves)

but, still better to try than not to try, and hopefully it isn't really hanging around on surfaces for long

Imagine sharing a border with the krakkemikkige Amerikaanse zorgstelsel.

I can't even imagine saying it.

I’ve reported on plenty of outbreaks incl. Ebola in Liberia and the experience has always affected me on some level. How could it not? But with #covid19 I’m experiencing a kind of mental anguish I’ve not really felt like this before and I think same goes for many of my sources.

— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) March 11, 2020

It’s the feeling of seeing something play out that will cause huge human suffering, is in large parts predictable and to a certain extent avoidable and yet key people are not listening. We’re all shouting into a hurricane of public and political complacency.

— Kai Kupferschmidt (@kakape) March 11, 2020

This is amazing:

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/coronavirus-norwegian-cruise-line-leaked-emails-show-booking-strategy-11590056

Other script lines simply reassure customers not to be afraid.

"The only thing you need to worry about for your cruise is do you have enough sunscreen?" one of the suggested talking points reads.

my supervisor just checked himself into the hospital with flu-like symptoms

Rumours that someone in my work has tested positive. I could well believe it tbh.

Another case just a couple of miles from my house, which potentially exposed an entire school.

BREAKING: An Israeli rabbi who visited Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood in late February has tested positive for COVID-19. https://t.co/MbsyluAeC9

— Cleveland Jewish News (@CleveJN) March 11, 2020

Imagine sharing a border with the krakkemikkige Amerikaanse zorgstelsel.

― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:47 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I can't even imagine saying it.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:49 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://voca.ro/8WLuFQPmwdg

attn Britishes!

Dr Jenny Harries, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, came into Downing Street to answer some of the most commonly asked questions on coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/jByRhFFfat

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) March 11, 2020

first cases in new mex

I'm lucky enough to work from home normally, but my partner (who is immunocompromised) has been angrily texting me all the insanely misinformed & racist coronavirus chitchat shes overhearing in her office all week, including "just get a flu shot and you'll be fine", "only 100 people have it, whats the big deal", and "it only affects asian people"(!!!)

If she winds up on a ventilator because one of these clowns I swear... I'm gonna write a strongly-worded letter to someone.

going by what my relatives are relaying to me from Barcelona the government and media have not been taking this very seriously at all until like yesterday.

they were told that the virus just dies when it gets warmer! SMH

people in this thread made the same argument last week

well that's pretty stupid

My wife is supposed to be going there in a month, but it's hard to see it actually happening

it's been locally transmitted in chile and it's hot and dry as shit here.

i was wrecked by the flu one summer, it was the worst!

i'm supposed to be going to cdmx in a month -- according to the cdc that's Not A Problem Yet but can't really see that holding

just declared a global pandemic by the WHO

Keeping the kid home from school today due to the sniffles, which is more of an excuse; normally he’d go but I’m worried LAUSD is going to shut the barn door after the horse has bolted as it were. Assuming the schools will be closed down sooner rather than later regardless.

just seen some children playing tag calling out “you’re gonna get corona” each time they tag each other.

which means that’s it. we’re done for. #ringaroses

omg

this is the last day I'm going to be teaching in person for a spell I think, the kids are not to be trusted

The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered U.S. government’s response to the contagion, according to four Trump admin officials https://t.co/LoQmWZyGez

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 11, 2020

Co-worker’s husband is negative so that’s something.

i will be working from home from next week for the foreseeable.

good to hear, enbb.

When a reporter in the Capitol asked Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, 85, what precautions he was taking to protect himself from the disease known as Covid-19, he said none — and extended his arm with confidence: “Wanna shake hands?” https://t.co/JOrdZ5n7p8

— Josh Barone (@joshbarone) March 11, 2020

The reason the flu drops down in warm weather has less to do with the temperature and more to do with people spending less time in close quarters indoors, iirc.

"my governor's a republican and i don't mind dyin'!!!!"