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

An NBA game will be played with no spectators.
Edit: cancelled now
The National College basketball championships will be played with no spectators except families.
Some schools are being closed for 14 days, some universities are going online.
This is a real turning point for the USA. They have started taking it very seriously.

OMG CNN is playing clips of Trump's greatest Coronavirus bloopers!! Literally hilarious, tragic, and total lying bullshit. His address to the nation is in a few minutes.

Anyone travelling to US in the next four weeks?

Trump said youre not coming in

Actually, UK is exempt. For now. You can still go.

I'm at San Jose airport waiting to board a plane. Three of the bag check staff tested positive yesterday. 😷
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ktvu.com/news/3-tsa-officers-at-san-jose-airport-test-positive-for-coronavirus-42-agents-now-on-leave.amp

No cargo or passengers from Europe allowed in for 30 days effective midnight Friday.
All euro bike industry will be hurt with no access to US market. Retailers in USA will be hurt too. A lot of Chinese manufacturing is shut down too.

NBA has just suspended their season until further notice. Thousands will be out of work.

TSA recently took away healthcare benefits from part time screeners. Those people are at more risk than anyone because they are in physical contact with so many people.

This will make many of them come to work while sick. And they will pass it on to people they are frisking.

NBA season suspended.

I am reading in a German article that Italy has a much higher antibiotics resistance than other
European countries and this could contribute to the high death rate from secondary bacterial infections.

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/science_tecnology/2019/03/13/italy-top-for-antibiotics-resistance_f0042073-b347-4787-978c-2e642c0255d1.html

Guy on the plane just been told that his connecting flight from London to Madrid is not going to be going ahead!

Most cases of COVID-19 are reportedly “mild,” but that term can be misleading. As the World Health Organization adviser Bruce Aylward clarified last week, a “mild” case of COVID-19 is not equivalent to a mild cold. Expect it to be much worse: fever and coughing, sometimes pneumonia anything short of requiring oxygen.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/where-do-you-go-if-you-get-coronavirus/607759/

Do not want.

Tom Hanks tests positive for Coronavirus

Here's the Homeland release on the travel ban

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHS/bulletins/280ab33

Perm Residents are not affected (but might end up in quarantine). I was wondering about that since I am in Switzerland but am a LPR (legal prem resident) in the US. Not sure I'd want to sit in quarantine though, sounds more likely I'd end up getting the damn virus there than being remote in a small town in Switzerland

Turns out cargo will still be allowed, just no people from Schengen countries.

Asked to sanitise their equipment “more than normal because of the virus” today in the gym.

Asking the important questions - will weekend bike rides have to be virtual?

Empty at the station this morning...

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London Bridge is quieter.

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I'm going onto.work to pick up a monitor for the laptop

Well, @Soul, it is early.

When's this cobra meeting happening today? Half expecting schools.to get closed

Early Easter holidays I'm guessing.

Important bquestions to answer:
Will the bunny be able to deliver chocolate?

Meanwhile, on sneeze fetish forums...

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There’s usually over 100 people at the station for the 6.54 into London. No more than 15 by the time the train came.

As long as you stay clear of snot rockets, surely cycling is one of the safest ways to get around?

Memories of going to school.
School was like a virus.