Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I notice you are joining the #covidgolfclubpeppers

One positive, in the UK at least, is that it's mainly rich people who take cruises and go on skiing holidays that are contracting it.

Don’t ski but have cruised

Edit wrong cruising

I think I probably know the answer to this already, but I’m meant to be flying to Malaga on the 25th to ride for a week in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It’s not going to happen, is it?

Golf club gold >>>>>>

Same day I fly to Australia for work, let’s see if we both end up staying here.

The other factors is whether your insurance will still be valid when travelling.

I'm going to predict with a 99% degree of certainty that you won't be making those flights.

I read something about the US is difficult to be tested in - if you want a test it'll cost a thousand (or whatever) dollars, then if it's positive you get quarantined at a cost of thousands of dollars per night.

I don't know how much of that is true - do they have a public health care that would cover the cost and testing?

That is basically how their healthcare works out there. No insurance, no care. You'll get to a hospital and they start asking questions about your insurance, which ringfences the level of care you can get. Every nurse, doctor or consultant you speak to has their own charge for that bit of time which is added to the bill, then porterage charges, consumables etc etc. So yeah, if your circumstances are that you don't have insurance to cover it and you won't be able to pay for it yourself, you can't go to hospital or you'll get a bill that will land you in court and then prison when you can't pay it.

The John Hopkins GIS data is down. What is another good data source?

Deserves #rep

This is exactly what I'm thinking.

Also I didn't book on a credit card because I'm a fucking idiot.

Also - flights to see family in the US are looking unlikely at the end of the month aren't they?

Are you better off catching it now, then should you get complications, there may be a chance of an available IC bed. Because in a couple of weeks every bed will be taken.

When I was young we had chicken pox parties so that all the kids got it over with*, Covid rave?

*This was 50years ago!

In lieu of my Osaka work trips I thought I’d book a short break to Oz next Monday. Not sure if it’s the right thing to do right now.

Although to be honest it doesn't even seem real yet.

Worldometers

Did the weekly shop last night, some people wandering about buying copious amounts of handwash, loo roll and pasta.

1. Fair enough. 2. It doesn't make you shit, that's Norovirus. 3. If it didn't help the Italians, it won't help you.
   
   

Girl on the checkout said someone tried to buy a full pallet of loo roll earlier in the day, but were refused. Are people just trying anticipate the next thing they can flip off on ebay for 5 times the price?

Something something Freud.

Something something repressed collective subconscious.

Work have told me if I come into contact with the gf, I've got to self-quarantine for two weeks. Probably need to move out.

Can't you work from home. Seems likely that'll be ordered before long by Gov.

If Italy has got it so bad in the north. Why have we not heard a peep from Switzerland, France and the bordering countries?

France is currently ranked at #5 for confirmed cases (1,000+).
Gatherings of 1k+ peeps are now banned, 150+ schools closed, Corsica is having it big time it seems and so is the East of the country.
Obvs the UK media are concentrating on stories impacting British citizens as this resonates most with their audience.
I was planning to go to Paris on business end of this month and the trade fair has been pushed back to June for now. I was also hoping to go see my family next month but that's on hold till further notice. For now I'm totally happy to stay put and do more staycation (indoor).

A very minor thing but this evening our PTA, which I chair, has a planning meeting for the school's spring disco which is scheduled for Thursday 2nd April.

I'm very much intending to just say "Screw this, the school will almost definitely be closed by then and parents will have a lot of other things to worry about. We should cancel now, rather than waste time on something which is quite insignificant."

school's spring disco

A very minor thing? Screw you! I've already picked out my dress!

This is precisely why I want to cancel now, rather than when people have actually done some preparation.

And anyway, you can wear your dress just for me honey.