Woah, escalated restrictions in Norway just now: two-week (so far) cancellation/closedown of all cultural events, sports events, gyms, swimming halls, hairdressers/skincare/tattooers etc, clubs/pubs/restaurants etc except places serving non-buffet food where people can be kept at least 1 metre apart.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
spoke to soon re hoarding upthread...
Woah, escalated restrictions in Norway just now:
aaand THAT's when the toilet paper at my local store flew off the shelves. Conclusion: people normally save on TP by crapping at gyms, hairdressers, restaurants etc (kidding).
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
Scotland stopping mass gatherings of more than 500 people but only after Rangers vs Celtic on Sunday.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
Only applies to events that tend to need additional emergency services staff so e.g sports events are off but church gatherings are ok.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
"Brazilian official who met Trump in US (on Saturday) tests positive"
― groovypanda, Thursday, 12 March 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
Lol new (not seriously meant) conspiracy theory sighted: The outbreak is caused by a reduced amount of air travel, since They use airliners to spray vaccine down on an unsuspecting populace.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
Justin Trudeau now self-isolating after his wife starting showing symptons
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
An update on the Prime Minister. pic.twitter.com/jS8bEvynnt— Cameron Ahmad (@CameronAhmad) March 12, 2020
A good start
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
Well then.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
Yesterday: One confirmed case in all of Ottawa.Today: The Trudeaus might have it.
― jmm, Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
The Spanish PM's wife has tested positive too.
― nashwan, Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
The Brazilian government has confirmed that President Jair Bolsonaro’s communications secretary, Fabio Wajngarten, has coronavirus just days after meeting Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Dom Phillips, in Rio de Janeiro, reports.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
chance that trump has it, far higher possibility that bolsonaro does
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
The guillotine appeared in the form of a shadowy handshake.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
I’m skeptical, seems unlikely the healthiest president in U,S. history would come down with this
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
This was too beautiful to not share:
Push me, and then don’t touch me, ‘til I can get my, vaccination. https://t.co/QqT1hjmcmq— Daniel (5%) 🔜 EDCLV (@burkah0lics) March 11, 2020
― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
Big Ten and Mid-Atlantic Conferences announced they're cancelling the remainder of the men's and women's basketball tournaments, so that's pretty much gonna be it for March Madness.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
Map's down: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
― coronoshebettadontvirus (Eric H.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
rip american sports
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 March 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
Bolsonaro got it apparently 😎
― nephs and nieces spread diseases (wins), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
source
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
Sauce?
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
i think he got tested, results unknown, i think.
but yeah, hope he gets it bad, what a fucker
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
Source:
#URGENTE | El presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, dio positivo para el Coronavírus. pic.twitter.com/kEQPHzyswE— Nexofin (@Nexofin) March 12, 2020
Weird how irrelevant a figure Trump suddenly seems.
― Alba, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah sorry, Twitter. Unconfirmed
― nephs and nieces spread diseases (wins), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
that world leaders and their nexts in succession weren't immediately isolated from each other is...well, it's something. you'd think they would've carted pence off to camp david or something as soon as it was revealed the trump was exposed
― gbx, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
a well organized government certainly would have.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic doesn't appear too well.
― Sanpaku, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
what if this is the rapture
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
Some verified dude deleted his tweet about Bolsonaro having it, now says he’s being tested.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
On Thursday Major League Baseball announced that effective Friday, March 13 it would be suspending all spring training events indefinitely, and the delay could potentially impact the start of the regular season.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
Via NYT. We need this guy out of office now; he's going to spark a massive panic.
President Trump said on Thursday that he could restrict domestic travel to regions of the United States where the coronavirus becomes “too hot.”Asked by a reporter in the Oval Office whether he was considering limits on travel inside the country to hard-hit states like Washington or California, Mr. Trump said the subject had not yet been discussed, before adding: “Is it a possibility? Yes, if somebody gets a little bit out of control, if an area gets too hot.”He did not elaborate, except to say that a containment zone New York state had imposed around the city of New Rochelle was “good.”“People know that they’re being watched,” he said of the New York measure.
Asked by a reporter in the Oval Office whether he was considering limits on travel inside the country to hard-hit states like Washington or California, Mr. Trump said the subject had not yet been discussed, before adding: “Is it a possibility? Yes, if somebody gets a little bit out of control, if an area gets too hot.”
He did not elaborate, except to say that a containment zone New York state had imposed around the city of New Rochelle was “good.”
“People know that they’re being watched,” he said of the New York measure.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
My own state is taking drastic steps w/52 confirmed cases:
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says mass gatherings are now banned, that's define by gatherings of more than 100 people. Does not include airports, hospitals, shopping malls.— Jen Steer (@jensteer) March 12, 2020
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
I mean I certainly advise not visiting Seattle right now
― silby, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
HOUSE OF! CORONA--*yanked violently off the face of the earth by a giant cane*
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
something a bit specific to santa fe that might actually get a few people killed: it's the beginning of juniper allergy season. this is horrendous normally, in that juniper allergies always seem to be worse than yr typical seasonal allergy, but it's especially bad now because loads of ppl are going to write off COVID symptoms as allergies (even tho allergies are sneezing and COVID seems to be coughing) OR have those symptoms obscured by co-occurring allergies
also even though we've only had a few cases so far, new mexicans seem to be particularly sanguine about this so far
― gbx, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says mass gatherings are now banned, that's define by gatherings of more than 100 people. Does not include airports, hospitals, shopping malls.
which of these banned locations does not fit in with the others
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
sorry, non-banned locations
the new mexicans I know (who are my dad's family and are all delusional Trumpists) are holding firm on their belief that this is a hoax by dems and will only affect horrible coastal elites.
― akm, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
I knew there was no way baseball was really going to open the season on time but I'm honestly kind of shaken now that it's really happened.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
this isn't a rapture; as tt said ages ago, it's much closer to a biblical pestilence
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
speaking of new mexico: meow wolf needs to shut it down, right quick
― gbx, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
Yes, if somebody gets a little bit out of control.“People know that they’re being watched,”
“People know that they’re being watched,”
The language he's using almost makes it sound like he's worried about people spreading it on purpose? Echoes of some other times in the past when infected people were treated like a malevolent "other"....
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
I seriously cannot believe that Johnson came out of this meeting and said oh yeah so up to 10,000 people in the UK might already be infected and lots of people are gonna die but we’re not shutting anything down. My work is business as usual and we’re not being told to work from home yet. I’m scared and then embarrassed about being scared but I am.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
never been more grateful to control my own work schedule
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
uhhhhhhh
https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/touring/9333748/live-nation-global-pause-tours-concerts-coronavirus?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
lol disneyland is specifically exempted from california's ban on gatherings of 250+
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
France shutting down all schools from Monday. From crèches to universities.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
Macron:
nos enfants et nos plus jeunes, selon les scientifiques tous, sont celles et ceux qui propagent, semble-t-il, le plus rapidement le virus
For real? He's essentially saying that younger people are more contagious on average.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link