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Mike Ashley refusing to close SportsDirect stores.

Boris Johnson press conference in 1 hour at 8:30pm. Could announce lockdown.

Sounds like India are having trouble getting people to follow lockdown rules.

German state must be feeling guilty for blocking exports of medical supplies to Italy a couple of weeks ago.

Once we knew about it we did very little so it doesn't matter a great deal when we found out. We could have done more, we didn't take it seriously. China were building an entire hospital in a week and still westerners were going around saying the flu is worse.

Spain 434 deaths so far today alone. 2355 in intensive care.

You should go out for walks but there's no need go get in your car and go to the beach or the park at typical prime time. Just a 10-20 minute walk around your streets should suffice.

I'm going to go the opposite way and say the outbreak in China wasn't taken seriously in much of the west because they are thought of as alien due to being racially and culturally different. However Italy closed their borders to the whole of China well before they had an outbreak of their own. They were the first western country to do so.

The only positive in it all is that they are changing tact fast. At least they are amenable to internal and external pressures. What is fascinating in the public side is I have seen people go from "the flu kills more" to battening down the hatches. The only people left to catch up are the contrarian's who will probably never change and seemingly a bulk of young 20 somethings.

What about us downplaying it for the last 2 months despite having the evidence as well?

A better plan to mass test. It's too slow and we have no idea the extent to which this virus is in the community and which community. The reality is everything is slow because the government spent a couple of weeks behind the scenes believing in herd immunity. We've only ditched that 6 days ago! We are playing catch up and that is their fault. The public inquiry after this is over will be damning.

Jesus. In the last 3 hours New York state cases have risen to 22000.

Political tactic perhaps. Lock everything down and people whine at the government. Wait for the emergence of a group of ignorant tossers ignoring advice and then locking down becomes an approval rate winner. Though most leaders are surging in approval ratings in this crisis anyway. Some of those who started with the worst approval ratings such as Macron and Trump are getting great gains.

I don't think what he's saying there now matters. The people watching are those isolating. The french had to enforce lockdown because of a proportion of people not listening. We are a couple of days from that. The ice cream van has just been down my street ffs.

Looks like New York state is in massive trouble. 12000 cases. Saying they will be out of medical supplies in 10 days.

New York has 10,000 cases. US on the whole have over 700 currently in intensive care.

I reckon London will go into full lockdown on Monday.

Northern Italy went into lockdown March 8th, the rest of Italy March 9th.

106 in intensive care in London. Something like 75% men. Funny as I reckon my gf has what I have now but she only has sore throat and occasional cough whereas I reckon I've got very mild pneumonia if such a thing is possible.

1600 in intensive care in France. 50% are under 60. The obsession with age group fatality risks making people blind to how they can take up hospital beds. Stay in doors.

There's still 2800 in intensive care as well.

The best bit is that lad trying to justify it by saying people will lose their jobs if he doesn't go to the pub... 4 hours after the government guaranteed every bar tenders job in the country Keep up