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Name and shame...

4207 new cases and 475 new deaths in Italy. Tomorrow they'll most likely overtake the total reported death toll in China.

Those pandemics just look so cute and fuzzy... Even better with googly eyes!

Absolutely.

You want to check the Schland thread

That infographic is so weirdly beautiful!

Don't take the number of confirmed cases as an accurate indicator of how widespread the virus is. Some countries simply aren't testing as much as some others.

crafty fuckers.

The new research clearly shows that SARS-CoV-2 is NOT a laboratory construct or a purposefully engineered virus. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 So hopefully that puts an end to the various conspiracy theories from all sides.

EU decides to close all Schengen borders for at least 30 days.

Similar in the supermarket today; one crazy lady even freaked out and starting screaming at another customer who was just standing there (at least a meter away) minding his own business What's funny is that crazy lady is probably herself one of those who normally stand waaaaaay too close and even ram their trolleys into your back while you're queuing at the checkout Wankers.

Must say I love the empty streets and parking lots though.

I'm omnipresent

Alan, I moved your post into the Schland thread; think that's exactly the place for it I'm actually more busy with work now when I was before the outbreak Other than that, we're currently on a two week quarantine; everything's closed except grocery stores, pharmacies & pet stores. Restaurants are only allowed to do deliveries or takeaways. My personal plans have been all affected by it heavily but I was following the events ever since the start in China and kind of expected it to happen so it didn't caught me by surprise...

Went to a shopping mall today for some groceries and fish food; it's all empty and dark with some music playing from the loudspeakers. Eerie as fuck

Brits abroad

Also this thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1239150215678103552.html

I wonder what's the reasoning for that? Here they extended the service and added "contactless delivery" where they leave the stuff you ordered at your door in order to reduce exposure and limit the number of people going to grocery stores.

3233 new cases and 349 new deaths in Italy...

Change of strategy then?

Oh absolutely - and it's probably true for most Western countries. If there's one country that's capable of pulling that off then it's definitely Singapore, they're essentially a police state anyway.

This is how Singapore implements measures to ensure that people who are self-isolating stay at home. @Bluewolf

People need to work in order to feed their families though. You can make office workers work from home; industries that mostly rely on manual work have no such option. Not to mention that without thousands of people doing their daily work the society couldn't function and would eventually collapse. The whole food production and supply chain, waste collection & management, power networks and supply, water supply and sanitation, telecommunications, and so on and on and on. It's incredibly naive to think that most people can afford to just stay at home and everything will be fine.

Brilliant idea