outbreak! (ebola, sars, coronavirus, etc)

wait, why do they both have cilantro in their jacket pockets?

https://i.imgur.com/tweQPYX.jpg

trump is like "hand me all of your cilantro"

the hummel. give it to me.

i am going to stare at the sun and count to ten. and when i am done, i want fresh greens in my suit pockets

Passengers waited in line for hours at customs at @DFWAirport. Many concerned about being so close to others during the #COVIDー19 outbreak. The airport saying “CBP officers and the CDC are following federal guidelines to conduct enhanced screening for passengers” @FOX4 pic.twitter.com/4BFUEau0Hg

— Steven Dial (@StevenDialFox4) March 15, 2020

This is the horde of people awaiting health inspections after international flights into @fly2ohare in Chicago. A social-distancing nightmare! (Shared with me by someone in Chicago) pic.twitter.com/hOywwvaWR8

— David Enrich (@davidenrich) March 15, 2020

the "we're just following CDC guidelines" canard is very Brazil

That seems far from ideal.

John Mixon, 86, a retired law professor, said he waited nearly two hours at Kennedy International Airport after arriving from Amman, Jordan, missing his connecting flight to Houston because of the slow screening process.

Mr. Mixon said he and his wife were shuffled into a packed room with more than 100 others for hours before a few C.D.C. officials came in and asked everyone if they had been to China or Italy. Only one man raised his hand, and everyone else was told they could leave after getting their temperatures taken, Mr. Mixon said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/world/coronavirus-news.html

i guess...i'm glad they're trying to some sort of screening now...
?

not looking forward to flying home from Querétaro through Houston on Monday

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— Chuck Tingle (@ChuckTingle) March 14, 2020

mvp

Florida's in trip digits: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241206241.html

Outbreak Seine-Saint-Denis style


Même certains dealers du département semblent désormais prendre leurs précautions face à leurs nombreux clients.

« A la cité, ils jettent les barrettes de shit aux clients et il faut laisser l'argent par terre », jurait hier un client rencontré dans un café à Pantin.

Joke's on them, in Canada you can order weed online legally, 100% human contact-free.

There was plenty of panic buying of ice in the alley behind woolies this afternoon. However our local dealers don’t seem to have adopted any new protocols.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3075249/coronavirus-donald-trump-trying-poach-german-scientists-working

Teaneck NJ told to self-quarantine (just across the bridge from NYC)

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/teaneck/2020/03/14/coronavirus-nj-teaneck-mayor-asks-all-residents-self-quarantine/5051974002/

Um, if you are only allowed to go out for food and necessary supplies, who do you get that food and those supplies from?

I guess maybe you can go over to the next town over, if it isn’t quarantined (yet)

Maybe they expect workers to quarantine themselves in their shops and restaurants?

quite an expectation

Jerseyans will drive to the next town til they keel over

Apparently there were just over 3700 people on the Diamond Princess which is about as close to a petri dish as you can get. Only 696 people have been confirmed with the virus and seven of them have died.

In those conditions so far that's an infection rate of around 18% and a mortality rate of around 1% with a heavily ageing population.

I've no idea if the number of cases among those people is continuing to climb and how quickly but that's actually faintly reassuring?

so, Fauci seems like he's doing an ok job with this, all things considered. Is he like the only competent person in the administration?

He's amazing

i fear he's gonna have a derogatory nickname by the time this is all over, sadly, but yes it's been nice to have one person on-stage who has command of the facts

Speaking as a lifelong NJ resident, we don't really need Teaneck for anything. The Isley Brothers did all their good work in the 70s.

A friend of my parents is a nurse in E Tennessee. He says there are no tests available yet in primary care settings in TN. He says only the Dept of Health will do them and even then you basically have to be dying to get one. He expects that to change in the next week.

He sent this JAMA video. A doctor tells the story about what happened in Lombardy, right from the beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKS1pahoPRU

fauci is a boss, long been an admirer

Speaking as a lifelong NJ resident, we don't really need Teaneck for anything. The Isley Brothers did all their good work in the 70s.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:24 PM (eighteen minutes ago)

Very simple but effective animated models here to see how social distancing and isolation slows and flattens down the curve.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/

In Holland: Schools, pubs, restaurants, sports- and fitness, swimming pools, sports. All closed/shut down for 3 weeks.

I did a bunch of work for NIH in the 90s; I've always liked Fauci (then at NIAID). He's only "in the administration" by accident; his stature is such that he will always be at or near the top of his field, no matter who the president is.

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It sounds like the Governor of NY is ... not happy that people are congregating at bars right now.

Speaking as a lifelong NJ resident

This explains a lot

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Italy at 1809 deaths, 24 747 cases. 7.3%. Keep expecting that CFR to fall.

If you’re looking for a textbook example of panoptic asymmetry, here it is: A Big Brother season in Germany where the participants have not been told about corona and won’t be unless someone gets sick. It’s unbearably literal. https://t.co/OfvSjHX2ex

— Yuliya Komska (@ykomska) March 14, 2020

basically have to be dying to get one. He expects that to change in the next week.

I'm starting to think that this change will coincide with Infrastructure Week.

All pubs in Ireland to close until the end of the month.

End of days

That's it, we're doomed.

Wife’s cousin is in ICU now in AZ. Being tested for it. Has a pulmonary infection. He’s in his fifties.

So shocking how quickly this has become a story about people we know and love. Horrible news, hoping for the best outcome omar

From the NYT:

"The coronavirus continued its assault on Italy, the hardest hit country outside of China, with officials on Sunday reporting the number of deaths rose to 1,809 — a 25 percent increase over the day before and the largest one-day uptick yet of any country.

The 368 deaths Italy reported exceeds the highest single-day number China reported at the height of its outbreak. China’s highest daily toll was on Feb. 13, when the country reported 254 new deaths, according to the World Health Organization."

Jesus, DeWine just said all Ohio restaurants and bars will close at 9:00 tonight.

Wish all other states would follow suit.

Grim milestone: according to the Johns Hopkins global tracker, there are now more COVID-19 cases in the rest of the world than in China. They have 81k cases in a population of 1.45 billion. Italy has 21k cases in a population of 60 million.

Wishing continued strength to all the doctors, nurses and other medical caregivers on the front line of this all around the world. Nurses especially. They are almost all amazing people, ime.