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

Some would say an yuge performance, the best performance.

i'm assuming the spanish are driving massive dildo-shaped bulldozers around to kill anyone on the streets who shouldn't be there. it's only logical that they procured these from germany, which means there's a 98-99.9% chance some of the dildo germs will have been sprinkled in france.

utterly chilling

Has James washed his hands while singing happy birthday?

Teaching unions going to crack down pretty hard on this.

Isolation is treating you well I see

212 per 100,000

London's population? 7 million?

Has James washed his hands while singing happy birthday?

Frankly I've struggled with communicating the importance of this to him.

and vitamin D!!!

What’s this have I missed something?

Yes - an in joke that Vit D is a panacea.

oooooooo peeeeeetah wabbit

the germs are on my door handles the government should have taken decisive action WAY BEFORE BONFIRE NIGHT

how dare they come on my television set and tell me what gyms and restaurant i must close?

I have a NHS friend that is a decision maker, they are very scared. Another in the USA who is an ER doctor and is shitting it. They know that theyre going to have to choose who lives and dies.

VitD is in pancakes??

Basic little dashboard for the PHE data made by a data bod at the ONS:
https://fryford.github.io/corona/

@fizzy.bleach I know this is the chat / wild speculation thread, but knock it off eh?

i'm fine i've had my bcg

Nah, there’s room. If parking stands run out, they just get shunted to a remote apron, or taxiways and unused runways get closed off and they go there. Airfields are big places.

Occasionally this gets taken to extremes, like on 11/9/01 when the USA closed its airspace abruptly and a lot of transatlantic traffic had to land at Gander in Canada:

Won't be any remote parts of Scotland at this rate. In Glasgow every camper van I've seen has been out and about filling up on tins of random stuff and looking like they are heading for the hills. Whole place will look like the busy parts of Skye in summer.
Currently have zero working cars, so will stay behind and probably have half the neighborhood to ourselves.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2020/mar/20/why-not-encourage-cycling-during-the-coronavirus-lockdown?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0hP1bSqbW1AFeQ_efPRYV-LlZ6IfdlLVlWkQRnmhcm0Lc08WtCDzk79nQ

Earlier this week, a group of nearly 50 academics and experts on
public health and transport wrote an open letter to the government,
urging ministers to not discourage walking and cycling amid the
pandemic, noting their vital importance in the wider public health
issue of combating inactivity.

Link to the letter

A homeless man arrested for not staying at home is good?

Here in Finland, the head of the National Institute for Health and Welfare said it would be preferable to walk or ride a bike for transport when possible.

The public bike share isn't in use during the winter in Helsinki, but season will be opened just a bit earlier to give an option to using other public transport, starting on Monday instead of April.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/03/12/boom-new-citi-bike-stats-show-cycling-surge-is-real-but-mayor-is-not-acting/

https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/the-safest-ways-to-travel-amid-the-coronavirus-outbreak-according-to-experts/

https://nypost.com/2020/03/13/citi-bike-struggling-to-keep-up-with-coronavirus-ridership-spike/

BBC changed the article like always. Wish they'd stop doing that. It didn't say he was homeless before or that he turned himself in

Britain, a nation of shopfighters, presided over at a time of mortal peril by a newspaper columnist, who has for three decades moonlighted as his generation’s leading liar. Still, as the words clawed into the side of the plague pit probably once read, “We are where we are.”