Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) (SARS-CoV-2) [2020]

1st World Problem here in Denmark. The website used for remote education (math) of my oldest daughter can't handle the load.

Cheers

 

you line up outside, keeping a distance from each other. I'll see how well it works in practice next time I leave the house

 

Over here everything keeps being sold but you are requested to keep 1.5m distance from each other.

 

[Slight OT]
Zoom is a work-from-home privacy disaster waiting to happen

https://mashable.com/article/zoom-conference-call-work-from-home-privacy-concerns/

 

I finally got permission to work from home. I mean, I had to convince the boss, that it really didn’t matter if I SSH’d into a remote server from work or at home ...

 

Not really. Did you read it? They complain about attention tracking? In a real meeting you would start watching Netflix?

 

While other countries lost precious time, Taiwan mobilised to keep COVID-19 at bay

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/w...-to-keep-covid-19-at-bay-20200316-p54ah8.html

 

So don’t enable it?

 

I have this weird feeling that the president is going to announce the US is going on lock down at his press conference just before the markets close today, that and a friend of a friend of a pilot (not actual relationship ) who wanted to let me know there was a rumor going on among pilots and management that the US is going on lock down soon.

I'm not sure what that means though, what would a country wide lock down actually entail?

 

No difference, since people can't follow important instructions. "You can't stop mah freedumbs! 'Merica! Fuck Yeah."

 

I’ve seen this confirmed in several respected newspapers now, so I think it’s not sensationalism.

 

they be crazy

 

'Mericuns

 

And from my state Governor ...

I would say to those at home: If you hear a crazy rumor, it's probably a crazy rumor. We are not closing the grocery stores.​

Grocery stores will remain open. You will have access to the essentials in life. That's why we are doing what we're doing - to limit the non-essentials so that we still have the essentials in life.
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This is not surprising though. The recent new cases in Taiwan are all people returning from international travels, many were after the epidemic was becoming very serious in Europe (because, of course, the plane ticket is so cheap!).
The government now put many countries on level 3 alert and warned that if people go there and got contracted with the virus, they'll have to pay out of their own pocket for the quarantine.

 

Meanwhile in Bananistan (aka Brazil) our Moron-in-charge (aka president Bolsonaro) actually asked for nationwide marches and demonstrations in his support, going against the advice of every health organization in existence.
So, many of his dumb and fanatical followers went to the streets yesterday, since they believe that coronavirus is just part of a worldwide communist plot.

 

I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...st-britain-herd-immunity-coronavirus-covid-19

 

So far, they seem they're doing pretty good.

 

Isn't that a bit like saying someone falling from a 100 Story Building is doing good if they only reached Floor 40?

 

(sorry, couldn't resist)