I can't even imagine saying it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
This is amazing:
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/coronavirus-norwegian-cruise-line-leaked-emails-show-booking-strategy-11590056
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
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.
"The only thing you need to worry about for your cruise is do you have enough sunscreen?" one of the suggested talking points reads.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
my supervisor just checked himself into the hospital with flu-like symptoms
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
Rumours that someone in my work has tested positive. I could well believe it tbh.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
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
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
Imagine sharing a border with the krakkemikkige Amerikaanse zorgstelsel.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:47 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:49 PM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://voca.ro/8WLuFQPmwdg
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
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
― stet, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
first cases in new mex
― gbx, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
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.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:28 (four years ago) link
they were told that the virus just dies when it gets warmer! SMH
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
people in this thread made the same argument last week
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
well that's pretty stupid
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
My wife is supposed to be going there in a month, but it's hard to see it actually happening
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
it's been locally transmitted in chile and it's hot and dry as shit here.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
i was wrecked by the flu one summer, it was the worst!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
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
― gbx, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
just declared a global pandemic by the WHO
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
just seen some children playing tag calling out “you’re gonna get corona” each time they tag each other.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
which means that’s it. we’re done for. #ringaroses
omg
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
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
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
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
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
Co-worker’s husband is negative so that’s something.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
i will be working from home from next week for the foreseeable.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
good to hear, enbb.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link
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
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
"my governor's a republican and i don't mind dyin'!!!!"
Good! Die you old fuck xp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
xpost Man, I wish I had covid just so that I could shake his hand.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
That's good news, ENBB. Was reading upthread and vicariously outraged. I loathe the cavalier, stiff-upper-lip, 'you're all going barmy' attitude of some British people I have spoken to.
Despite the fact that I (as an average tutor) am on 8+ packed buses/tubes every day, none of these umbrella companies have issued a single message about precautions. Today was my last day teaching anything in person.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
Good news E!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
My work is still open, with no more than hypotheticals about closing the office (everybody check your VPN, make sure to bring your laptops home etc). I just wrote to my manager asking for WFH effective immediately.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
We have had team meetings where people are reassuring each other it will just be some coughing for a couple of days and that it "only" seriously affects old people and people with underlying health conditions. Each of those categories is ~20% of the population and also almost 20% of the team being briefed (including me).
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
i work in a MH clinic and one of the concerns we've had is that our patients are often elderly (the median age in my community is 55yo!) and a decent chunk of our patients are, for various reasons, not as likely to abide by our requests to not come to appointments if sick
― gbx, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
my workplace has been very responsive about the situation and we just got ok’d to work from home indefinitely if that’s what we’d prefer to do. expecting this to become mandatory by next week
i feel very lucky and can’t help but feel horrible for the many many ppl whose workplaces are way less flexible and way more ignorant
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
Glad for you ENBB, and happy for everyone who can wfh. Assuming my workplace is going to insist we keep going in, have decided to pick up a few small items every time I go out just to keep us topped up. Not stockpiling, but dry goods that will keep and are useful to have. Have been wearing gloves on public transport as well. My father in law has a number of conditions and we’re used to staying away with colds, if it was my choice I’d have no issue staying in at all.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
Change.org just sent this out to campaign for a reduction in time-consuming reviews for NHS staff amongst other things: http://chng.it/qJHdBrLdJw
(It's almost at target already!)
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
Well that’s my weekend plans ruined. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2020/mar/11/hands-off-can-orgies-survive-in-the-age-of-coronavirus
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
ty :)
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
Between this and the Amersham dogging community cancelling their gatherings, it’s a tough time all round.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
xp I enjoyed the “on the money”
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
Big Ears is cancelled.https://bigearsfestival.org/big-ears-festival-covid-19-cancellation/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
new york's suny and cuny schools are closing . . . but not until next thursday (they might be on spring break now? not sure)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/bqOXGPltRyedrOrB6h/giphy.gif The Yelawolf concert on Friday will happen as planned https://media.giphy.com/media/bqOXGPltRyedrOrB6h/giphy.gif
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
BBC staff all continuing to go to work smh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link