• NL government announced yesterday evening that cafes, restaurants and schools to shut with immediate effect. Bruno Bruins, the health minister, said at a news conference that sexclubs and coffee shops would shut too. The horror. Schools and daycare centres to run skeleton crews for kids of essential workers, others to use e-learning.

    News conference: https://www.npostart.nl/nos-journaal/15-03-2020/POW_04508177

    The running gag here in Flanders is that local authorities in North Brabant, Zeelandic Flanders and Limburg panicked as nice weather saw hordes of thirsty Fleming boomers riding north of the border for their midday post-ride beers.

    There was also some news footage suggesting officials in Friesland had begun acting independently of The Hague.

    One microbiologist told a public broadcaster (can´t find the clip now) that the Washington Post simulation repeatedly mentioned here was realistic.

    Mass hoarding, including of weed.

  • One microbiologist told a public broadcaster (can´t find the clip now) that the Washington Post simulation repeatedly mentioned here was realistic.

    Those infographics have been playing over and over in my head the last 24hrs.

    Good to hear (at least some suggestion) they’re not bollocks.

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