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
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.
― stet, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
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"
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
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
― mh, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
lol aren't we still in a "national emergency" because of border crossings or whatever
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
All OH schools to close until April 3rd
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
Los Angeles schools still open. As of less than 24 hrs ago still getting calls regarding how it was cool to send kids in despite oh idk canceling all field trips and not allowing anyone to attend school events who wasn’t student or staff. We’re keeping our kid home, up till the schools close (whispers of them closing Monday for three weeks which seems like not quite long enough...)
― omar little, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
worried about the large, close-knit, multigenerational families of new mexico, esp if the kiddos are vectoring
― gbx, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
the local public schools are announcing they'll be closed until at least march 30 following this week
― mh, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link
Pornhub is making their premium content free throughout Italy, to comfort those in quarantine, plus donating money to hospitals. (via Reddit) https://t.co/vVg63QBXl5— Eric Nelson (@literaryeric) March 12, 2020
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link
Disneyland closes.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
No idea how they got the number, but impetus for Ohio school closures is reportedly an estimated 100k infected, obviously most of them as yet untested.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
i'm having trouble processing those two posts together within the same few minutes
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
xp
today governor made a big announcement that schools are closed for 2 weeks beginning monday and state buildings will be closed to the public, and state employees who can telework are supposed to. i can only partially telework. i am taking tomorrow off for no reason and i want to grocery shop but i'm afraid it's gonna be a mess.
― forensic plumber (harbl), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
Wuhan now recording new infections in single digits for the first time since this started, according to the Straits Times. Apparently only fifteen new cases across the whole of China yesterday and, outside of Wuhan, six of the seven were infected abroad.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
I'm sure Trump's solution will be to drown everybody who gets Coronavirus in the Pacific or Atlantic oceans
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
awesome news from Wuhan.
that's great news for china obv but it sounds like it only came with the sort of control measures that just wouldn't be possible in most other societies
― ymo sumac (NickB), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link
western liberal democracy really killing the game these days huh
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
yeah, plus their government was initially slow to react and denied the existence of it at first, which lead to the epidemic explosion to begin with.
xpost yeah, pretty much never wanna hear how the US is the greatest nation again. we have a shortage of tests because our CDC decided to go rogue and then botched theirs, and our President insists we have the best tests, tests for anybody that needs them, superb tests
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:40 (four years ago) link
the tests were perfect
When it became a scandal that the United States simply didn’t have enough tests to screen people—and that an early version of the test was faulty—Trump said that the tests “are all perfect. Like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect.” It’s a telling comparison: His slow coronavirus response and his extortion of Ukraine are linked together in his mind as two things he needs to narrate as the opposite of what they are.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES8IxqCXsAICn45?format=jpg&name=large
― calzino, Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
feel like I'm bout to wake up Christopher Walken in Dead Zone style
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
good atlantic article about how the coronavirus was a failure of authoritarianism before it was a failure of democracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
yes there's enough failure to go around
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
seems like america has the worst of both systems:-- an obsequious, authoritarian executive branch unwilling to face the unpleasant truth-- lumbering, conflicted legislature delaying needed relief (and to go deeper, unwilling to provide obviously beneficial social programs in general)-- population used to doing whatever it wants all the time, and not used to listening to credentialed experts about anything.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
yeah we go all in
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
yet when it was Ebola, Republican Senators wanted like all of Texas put in a bubble.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 21:57 (four years ago) link
america - don't talk to me til you're bleeding out of your every orifice
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
This is just sad:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/coronavirus-iran-mass-graves-qom
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
felt awkward clicking the "I'm okay with that" eurobutton
― silby, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:14 (four years ago) link
Trump said that the tests “are all perfect. Like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect.”
lolol he seriously said this????? blows my mind that there's ppl who can't spot a pathological liar when they see one. He's sooo bad at it.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
Like, uh, like my tax returns are perfecrt! I mean, perfect!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:26 (four years ago) link
America, where nothing can possibly go worng
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
I saw him throw a perfect spiral
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:28 (four years ago) link
saw Trump having a Pina colada at Trader Vic's
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
what if this is the rapture― frogbs, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:34 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:34 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was thinking about that this morning. There are lots of people in or close to power who have been checking their watches for an apocalypse their whole lives and who wouldn't be minded to avert one.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
2. There's evidence that the vast majority of the population is still susceptible in Wuhan - we estimated around 95% at end of January. As soon as control measures are lifted, there is the risk of new introduced cases - and another outbreak. Source: https://t.co/0nw3zHP8hG 2/— Adam Kucharski (@AdamJKucharski) March 12, 2020
― stet, Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
That's not great.So we're really hoping for a vaccine or an effective treatment, then.
― lukas, Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
Or everyone to die and the population to go down to Medieval levels
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
have we posted katie porter?
Holy shit. Katie Porter holds the CDC Director's feet to the fire and gets him to commit to FREE TESTING for coronavirus for ALL AMERICANS.Watch every second of this.pic.twitter.com/dQMbhR5Oaa— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 12, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
if we survive this and it's worth having kids afterward this is gonna be my "in my day we had to walk backwards uphill in the snow" story for them
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link
xpost That was great. Although when the doctor said at the end ~ "You are an excellent questioner', I just thought, "Obviously this man has not been punched in the throat enough."
― Yerac, Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
I have a feeling the markets will explode the first time the death toll doubles in a single day.
Might actually quintuple based on Ohio's estimates
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
Like if nobody gets through to the caveman in chief soon, people who have previously believed their idiot MAGA friends that this is a nothingburger are going to flip out the moment the toll spikes.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
In an unprecedented move, three of the country’s largest medical organizations demanded on Thursday that President Trump declare the coronavirus outbreak a national emergency.The letter to Vice President Mike Pence from associations representing the country’s hospitals, nurses, and doctors asked that Trump declare a national emergency under the 1988 Stafford Act, which frees up resources and cash for states to more effectively respond to the crisis.Trump’s ongoing refusal to make the declaration has stunned and frustrated state officials either struggling to contain or planning for inevitable outbreaks of the highly contagious respiratory disease. Politico reported on Wednesday that Trump did not want to declare an emergency for fear of contradicting his earlier statements that the virus was similar to the seasonal flu, and that he had instructed son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner to research the issue."
The letter to Vice President Mike Pence from associations representing the country’s hospitals, nurses, and doctors asked that Trump declare a national emergency under the 1988 Stafford Act, which frees up resources and cash for states to more effectively respond to the crisis.
Trump’s ongoing refusal to make the declaration has stunned and frustrated state officials either struggling to contain or planning for inevitable outbreaks of the highly contagious respiratory disease. Politico reported on Wednesday that Trump did not want to declare an emergency for fear of contradicting his earlier statements that the virus was similar to the seasonal flu, and that he had instructed son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner to research the issue."
wtf is his problem? why won't he do it? is he STILL in active denial?
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 12 March 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link