The Coronavirus Thread

[Tero]

[Tero]

Three states with 100 cases. The virus seems to live at airports and cruise ships. No cruise ships in Montana! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_co ... ted_States

Technically you could cruise through Idaho and Washington on the Columbia river.

[Tero]

Catholics spreading virus kn Misdouri at school dance
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/schoo ... d=69484627

Trump disinformation at work!

[Tero]

widely contagious influenza (also an RNA virus) spread quickly and then tapered off, usually suddenly

In 1580, another pandemic started in Asia, then spread to Africa, Europe, and even America (despite the fact that it took 6 weeks to cross the ocean). It was so fierce “that in the space of six weeks it afflicted almost all the nations of Europe, of whom hardly the twentieth person was free of the disease” and some Spanish cities were “nearly entirely depopulated by the disease” (Beveridge, 1977). In 1688, influenza struck England, Ireland, and Virginia; in all these places “the people dyed … as in a plague” (Duffy, 1953). A mutated or new virus continued to plague Europe and America again in 1693 and Massachusetts in 1699. “The sickness extended to almost all families. Few or none escaped, and many dyed especially in Boston, and some dyed in a strange or unusual manner, in some families all were sick together, in some towns almost all were sick so that it was a time of disease”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22148/

[Brian Peacock]

All of Italy on lockdown – prime minister

All of Italy will be placed under the lockdown conditions thus far imposed upon the so-called “red zone” in the north of the country, the Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte has said.

The restrictions will include banning all public gatherings and preventing all movement other than for work and emergencies. According to the Reuters news agency, he has said the decision was necessary to protect Italy’s most vulnerable citizens and that the right course of action now is for people to stay at home.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... atest-news

[Seabass]

This man is sick. He is a sick, sick sociopath. This is how he thinks. His ONLY concern is keeping the numbers low.

Trump is reportedly fixated on keeping the number of official US coronavirus cases as low as possible — despite indications the disease has spread wider than he wants
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-r ... ble-2020-3

President Donald Trump has grown fixated on the number of novel coronavirus cases in the United States and has expressed that he wants them kept as low as possible, Politico reported Saturday evening.

Trump has been monitoring the daily counts of US cases and how they compare with other countries', according to Politico.

As of Saturday, 17 people in the US had died after contracting the virus and more than 400 people had tested positive. But the actual number of coronavirus cases is most likely far higher given the US's limited testing capacity.

Trump even publicly acknowledged wanting to keep a quarantined cruise ship offshore to keep the number of US coronavirus cases low.

"I like the numbers being where they are," Trump said during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday. "I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault."

Politico, citing 13 current and former White House officials and people close to the Trump administration, reported Saturday that Trump had handled the coronavirus outbreak by rewarding those who bore good news and spurning those with bad news.

[Tero]

What did he hold back for, then? He has submarines, he has torpedoes.

[JimC]

Bron and I were going to a climate change protest in the city this Friday, but we've wimped out because of the concern at being part of a large crowd. There is a small rally outside a courtroom on Thursday (where people arrested in previous XR events are having their cases heard). I might go to that, perhaps...

[pErvinalia]

Just hold your cardigan across your face, you'll be fine.

[JimC]

It is wimpy, but Bron and I are in the age group most at risk, so I'm doing the "better safe than sorry" thing...

[Tero]

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[laklak]

Ooooo er missus

[JimC]

He needs a sports bra...

[pErvinalia]

[Seabass]

Does Cnut look like that yet? Keep blastin' those pecs, Cunt!