Congratulations?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
wtf is a coronavirus party?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
If they were the one who started the party then that's a pretty poor achievement tbf
― kinder, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
lol
― coco vide (pomenitul), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:43 (four years ago) link
ppl getting deliberately infected with the 'vid to own the libs
― silby, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
i dreamt of going to kentucky the other night, and surprisingly that has not dissuaded me
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:45 (four years ago) link
one day of lockdown and you're desperate to party
― kinder, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
kind of sighing right now thinking about the two dudes who had one of the large item carts at costco with about ten boxes of corona beers loaded up on it three weeks ago
― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
First teenage death in the States:
http://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/health/us-coronavirus-updates-tuesday/index.html
Teenagers and kids is something nobody wants to even contemplate. (Not meant in any way to minimize the lives of over-60s, which I almost am myself.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 24 March 2020 23:44 (four years ago) link
Freemantle is now up to 3 doomed cruise ships.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 03:55 (four years ago) link
WTF is horse racing still going on in Australia. (someone at a horse racing thing in VIC is being testing for corona)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 06:08 (four years ago) link
Horse racing is still going on in a lot of places, like Ireland.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 07:58 (four years ago) link
It would be one thing if the horses were organising it themselves but I doubt this is happening
In other news SBS word news tells me that Indian police are making lockdown breakers do squats as punishment for going out.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 08:00 (four years ago) link
all sporting events banned as of yesterday
― Number None, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 08:07 (four years ago) link
they should ban it now and never bring it back
― estela, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 08:37 (four years ago) link
The snakes and spiders have saved us. Apparently our vets have more ventilators per head of population than any other nation because of all the animals that get bitten.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 08:55 (four years ago) link
> all the animals that get bitten.
The animals?
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
Gotta save those horses
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
that’s good to know, i’m asthmatic and it adds an extra level of concern
― estela, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:15 (four years ago) link
(oh, I missed the vet part)
― koogs, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:20 (four years ago) link
Australian League finally cancelled? That just leave the Premier League in Belarus as last league standing, and they only started last weekend!
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:20 (four years ago) link
Hmm and a bunch of friendlies in Russia and Sweden
International - Club Friendlies
March 25
17' Saturn Ramenskoye 1 - 0 Rotor M Volgograd11:00 Smena Kazan ? - ? Dinamo-18 Kazan13:00 Kuban Holding Pavlovskaya ? - ? FK Chita17:00 FC Odintsovo ? - ? Torpedo Zhavoronki18:00 Oskarshamns AIK ? - ? FK Almeboda / Linneryd18:00 Sandsbro AIK ? - ? Ingelstads IK18:15 Skegrie BK ? - ? Uppakra IF
― cherry blossom, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
uk symptoms tracker: https://covid.joinzoe.com/
(full in daily even if well)
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:21 (four years ago) link
Thinking now about countries entirely dependent on destination tourism. Maldives, Aruba, Seychelles... Rough times ahead, and I can see how their leaders might be entertaining the "lets go endemic and get this over with" plan...
19,534 people applied for unemployment in my home state, Hawaii, today :(
― davey, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
i applied last week, but i'm ahead of the curve having been laid off last february
240,000+ in Australia so far, and that’s on top of everyone who was put out of work by the bushfires. It would be way more if the Centrelink site hadn’t been overwhelmed.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
That’s not just tourism, that’s airlines and hospo and everyone all mixed together.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jackson-browne-tests-positive-coronavirus-972713/
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
Thread on Swedish deaths:
Out of the 15 that died of corona in stockholm six were persons of somali descent. I just got news from a friend in the ER stockholm that two more women of somali descent passed last night.— Lovette Jallow 🇬🇲🇸🇪🏳️🌈 (@lovettejallow) March 24, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
Meanwhile, in the fourth largest country by population: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-indonesia-response/indonesias-health-system-on-the-brink-as-coronavirus-surge-looms-idUSKBN21C0J6
Indonesia has recorded 686 cases but the data is seen as understating the scale of infections because of a low rate of testing and a high mortality rate. Indonesia has reported 55 deaths, the highest in Southeast Asia.
A study by the London-based Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases released on Monday estimates that as few as 2% of Indonesia's coronavirus infections have been reported. That would bring the true number to as many as 34,300, which is more than Iran.
Other modelers are projecting that cases could rise to as many as 5 million in the capital, Jakarta, by the end of April under a worst-case scenario.
― Roz, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:23 (four years ago) link
fuck
― a struggle to make meat-snacking fit (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:24 (four years ago) link
Indonesia spent a lot of time denying they had any cases and they have a lot more tourism from China (and everywhere) it wouldn’t surprise me if they had way more cases than Iran.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link
the thing is the testing capacity problem just wasn't solved. it could be the case that arguments about how far we should go to contain this are purely academic, because we haven't gone anywhere. https://t.co/Y5QE457FRH— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 25, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:06 (four years ago) link
If only the USA… https://t.co/qwhiqwyTuj— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) March 25, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
I mean, Ireland absolutely will revert immediately afterwards, but the point is taken that there are some thoughts unthinkable in the US.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
ventured out first time in a week (prescribed, essentials stock-up)
pharmacist amused by my ramshackle face mask (he asked why it had sticking plasters on it, was it official advice? actual reason = to hide the rude anti-trump message and hence dodge non-social-distancing bespittled arguments with hackney maga types, i gave him a brief version of this)
(he is a lovely man i see a lot of, given my meds regime, i worry for his safety and his staff's, they are all nice ppl)
no flour to be found (except like chickpea flour and similar)some TP (scented but what can you do) interestingly all the grated cheese is veg grated cheeseeggs are back (but i don't need em yet)
in general the local stores are well stocked i think
the hipster bakery place is still open! i didn't go in tho, i make my own bread now (extremely badly until my flour runs out)
― mark s, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
hackney maga types
Words, usages, and phrases that dismay the shit out of you
I can vouch for chickpea flour btw, apart from using it in Indian breads (not that I personally know how do that) mixing it with other flours adds a bit of protein, or so I choose to believe
― rob, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
Gram flour is for pakoras (cheers for reminding me I have some pakora mix in my cupboard).
― santa clause four (suzy), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:09 (four years ago) link
you can also make burfi with it iirc
this would be a much more informed post if my partner was awake lol
― rob, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
News on the ground tells me Japan seem to think they've licked the virus, so it's largely business as usual. One of my in-law relatives sent us a karaoke video of her singing with three friends, no doubt it's a similar story across the country. I'd like to think they don't have a major outbreak coming, but I kind of suspect they do, and afaik the government haven't spent the time they've been gifted by the rest of the world in preparing an economy-saving aid package. Maybe they have, and are keeping the plans under their wigs for now, but at the moment it's looking like complacency has set in big-time - in the nation with the oldest population in the world.
― akb23 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
Tokyo is just about to lockdown, radio is saying
― stet, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
Everyone should be tested to see if they had it ASAP. That's what lulls are for (-D. Warwick).
The stories I've heard from doctor friends and acquaintances have been mixed. Some places seems to be non-stop but managing and preparing for the worse. Other places seem to be busy but getting ready for the worst. Other places don't seem to be busy yet and/or have yet to see their first cases. Ideally there is a lot of coordination going on between hospitals in the same regions so that those less busy places can be prepared to help with the overload, should it arrive.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Wait, is Japan business as usual, or about to go on lockdown? That's some mixed rumors!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
tokyo has a fair level of social distancing as normal, and theres been plenty of restrictions as practiced fairly widespread without official hard measures being set out acc to ky resident brother
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
I'm just going by personal communications by friends/family there, hopefully it's better than I think. They're going to need to enforce any lockdown better than the UK have done though!
― akb23 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
Looks like Tokyo reported c. 40 cases today or yesterday and is going into lockdown as a result. They're still keeping it under control better than almost anyone else.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:00 (four years ago) link
jackson-browne-tests-positive-coronavirus
Sorry to hear but also seriously trying not to make a Doctor My Eyes Joke
Japan seem to think they've licked the virus
Exactly the wrong thing to do to a virus btw
― love will keep us apart (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
is there an update on the Hackney Maga types situation?
― anvil, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
The French plan is to blood test everyone for the antibodies once the period of confinement is over.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
Tokyo is definitely not under lockdown. The mayor suggested similar language to shelter-in-place but nothing formal. Will be interesting as this weekend coincides with peak hanami for the region.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link