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- PonyBoy2
Quarantined in their homes due to the coronavirus outbreak, people in Naples, Italy, sang together and chanted "don't give up" from their balconies, filling the empty streets with joyful noise. Similar scenes were captured across Italy, as the entire country of 60 million people remains on lockdown.
- https://youtu.be/0nW…pango
- Lolz... it would be so much worse than that! :PPonyBoy
- lowimpakt3
i know the link to news article was posted below but this image of Italian military trucks carrying coffins out of Bergamo because crematoriums are full punched me in the gut.
- Nairn0
So yesterday I was talking with someone (fairly young female) who was complaining that their sense of taste and smell had totally disappeared.
I've just been told, and then read upon, people with C-19 losing their sense of taste and smell.
ho hum.
- Uh-oh. Et tu, Nairn?Continuity
- Does it come back?drgs
- @drgs - Not sure - too early to tell, I suppose. My father lost his sense of taste and smell permanently after a bout of flu years ago, so ... yeah.Nairn
- uan0
- Continuity2
I find it a little disconcerting that my fellow Munichers don't seem to be taking this idea of social distancing and self-isolation very seriously.
A couple of stats:
Population: +/- 1.5 million
Current number of infections (as of 18 March): 509, up 150 from the previous dayYesterday, it was (as it is today) sunny and 19°, a perfect — if really not normal for the time of year — late spring day. I decided to take a walk by the river, because I knew the weather was supposed to turn super-crap at the weekend and wanted to take advantage of it whilst I still could.
The problem is, everyone else in the city seemed to have the same idea. People out in large-ish groups walking, cycling, jogging, hanging out in parks and on the grassy terraces along the Isar river. You would never have known there's anything remotely unusual going on.
Now, I'm guilty of having gone out. If I'd been sensible, I'd have stayed home, but I was already getting really shack-wacky on Day 2 of our state of emergency. But, I was out solo — not with a group of mates, and certainly not lounging in a park or along the river with another group of people less than a metre away from me on any given side.
Meanwhile — next door in France (which I believe still has fewer cases than in Germany by a good margin*) — cops are issuing citations and fines to anyone caught being outside their homes for an unvalid reason.
Is this really what Germans want, too? By the looks of their behaviour in Munich, anyway, it certainly seems like it.
*Weirdly, France has had far, far more deaths than Germany so far, despite having +/- 4000 fewer cases. I don't get it.
- same in the UK. The people not taking it seriously are just hastening a full lockdown. Now's the time to prove you're not an idiot.Fax_Benson
- If people keep behaving like this, they're just prolonging the shit-shwo that will be this life disruption. I know it's a shock to find ourselves here to ...Continuity
- I'd say number of cases is completely unreliable. It just depends on testing.yuekit
- ... begin with, but we've got to get over that shock ASAP, and act.Continuity
- *shit-showContinuity
- Germany could be a few weeks behind Italy and Spain due to the weather the virus is able to thrive in. Some scientists did a study of weather patterns andyuekit
- @yuekit: understood and agreed, but it's the only available data we've got right now, so one does what one can with what one has.Continuity
- suggested Germany and the UK will become more vulnerable during April as it warms up there. Not trying to alarm you but stay safe!yuekit
- https://papers.ssrn.…yuekit
- But yeah, it could be that the virus is more lethal in some areas due to factors we just aren't aware of. So many unknowns.yuekit
- The unknowns specific to the illness, I can more or less live with. It's people's continued behaviours I'm having trouble stomaching.Continuity
- same in austria, the cops dispersing more than 5 people in a crowd since monday..neverscared
- UK said 'avoid' pubs and bars rather than a ban. People had the chance to meet a friend and have a pint - not go on a works jolly-up for St P's day.Fax_Benson
- Bluejam14
- He must have made millions selling his bucketsBeeswax
- I wish I had his buckets now. To shit in.NBQ00
- you could kill a man with that potato soup as a weaponBluejam
- I wish God shanked him in jail.PhanLo
- lol NBQsrhadden
- magnificentpedromendez
- https://www.youtube.…elahon
- Dude is a business maninv
- "1.95 Billion people" or "99%" as Bennn would say.NBQ00
- The Trumptards eat this shit up like candyutopian
- fucker looks like a lizard. Reptilian confirmed_niko
- I need to throw away my My Pillow set asap.fooler
- Iam afraid of AmericansBennn
- webazoot0
Coronavirus: How the government hopes to stop you touching your face
The government is using "Nudge theory", a branch of economics designed to get us to do the "right thing" by making it easier, more normal and more obvious.
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), a company part-owned by the Cabinet Office, is advising ministers on how best to do it.
- from the same scientific team that brought you herd immunity! this is more their level of expertise.kingsteven
- kingsteven1
- Is this in the book you're woking on?PhanLo
- hah, i did just come across a note from the author (presumably to herself because wtf do i know...) saying [insert suitable image]kingsteven
- sted1
- So Pango is The Dark Knight?Nairn
- So batsGnash
- Yes but no batsoup. Batsoup because internet.pango
- Oh, so It’s a pet market. My bad, I must have read it wrongGnash
- vampiresoupneverscared
- https://pbs.twimg.co…********
- Continuity2
Don't break the internet, kids. We don't need civil unrest added to the list of shit.
'Netflix urged to slow down streaming to stop the internet from breaking'
- they should definitely downgrade all 4K content, if they haven't already. i personally would be ok with 720 quality tooscruffics
- yuekit0
Airport traffic down but still a million travelers a day in the USA alone
- grafician1
via kottke.org
- it's in the infographics thread and use the sauce -> https://www.visualca…sted
- So what exactly happened during the swine flu. I can't remember us panicking like this or shutting down everything in 2009/2010?NBQ00
- Aaah, alright, didn't knew thatgrafician
- @NB well, we killed lots of animals, but yeah, no shutdownsgrafician
- During the swine flu social media wasn't thriving and most people didn't have a smart phone, yet.Maaku
