outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

An update on the Prime Minister. pic.twitter.com/jS8bEvynnt

— Cameron Ahmad (@CameronAhmad) March 12, 2020

A good start

Well then.

Yesterday: One confirmed case in all of Ottawa.
Today: The Trudeaus might have it.

The Spanish PM's wife has tested positive too.

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.

chance that trump has it, far higher possibility that bolsonaro does

The guillotine appeared in the form of a shadowy handshake.

I’m skeptical, seems unlikely the healthiest president in U,S. history would come down with this

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

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.

Map's down: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

rip american sports

Bolsonaro got it apparently 😎

source

Sauce?

i think he got tested, results unknown, i think.

but yeah, hope he gets it bad, what a fucker

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.

Yeah sorry, Twitter. Unconfirmed

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

a well organized government certainly would have.

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic doesn't appear too well.

what if this is the rapture

Some verified dude deleted his tweet about Bolsonaro having it, now says he’s being tested.

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.

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.

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

I mean I certainly advise not visiting Seattle right now

what if this is the rapture

HOUSE OF! CORONA--*yanked violently off the face of the earth by a giant cane*

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

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

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.

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.

this isn't a rapture; as tt said ages ago, it's much closer to a biblical pestilence

speaking of new mexico: meow wolf needs to shut it down, right quick

Yes, if somebody gets a little bit out of control.

“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"....

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.

never been more grateful to control my own work schedule

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

lol disneyland is specifically exempted from california's ban on gatherings of 250+

France shutting down all schools from Monday. From crèches to universities.

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.

Our lot say the same. They don’t get sick so much, and it’s really mild when they do, but they are contagious as hell.

just realized trump STILL hasn't declared a national emergency - despite repeated calls to do so from WA, and i would assume other places as well.

i thought about this while reading a MLB press release on the delay to the start of the season, which referred to the current "national emergency"

Netherlands finally taking some measures as well. Ppl should WFH, don't seek out social contacts, schools are staying open though, all events w/ 100+ cancelled etc etc.

reports are that children are more likely to be asymptomatic but still contagious, right?

so if this starts going wild in elementary schools post-spring break, one asymptomatic kid in a classroom could send the virus home with all their classmates

argh

lol aren't we still in a "national emergency" because of border crossings or whatever

My own state is taking drastic steps w/52 confirmed cases:

Actually only 5 confirmed cases in OH so far, but wait 1 or 2 weeks

All OH schools to close until April 3rd