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Typical Belgian fatalism. Delhaize, a supermarket, has a buy two get one free beer offer on Coronas and Mort Subite while the government(s) are doing sweet fuck all.

https://twitter.com/Katika_Munoz/status/1234840358267301888

I'm not aware of any major risk to supply chains, at least not sufficient to disrupt food (and bog roll) supply.

Not taken as a whole, but stockpiling of staples like said bread and luxury bog roll will still result in some empty shelves no?

If they run out of their heavenly rugbrød Danes will re-invade England just to vent their rage.

I’d rather eat the toilet roll than that bread

You´re just... wrong.

A Danske Radio reporter just reported from a supermarket queue in front of a bloke holding a pack of bog roll...

Copenhagen

Keep us posted if can be arsed.

He used to have EPO injections, so he had better be a decent cyclist when he is older

Dibs on surplus stock.

I’m in Denmark right now, be interesting to see what it’s like tomorrow.

Whereabouts?

Denmark again: all cultural institutions to shut as well. Assuming Denmark is anything like Finland and Sweden, this means (publicly funded) theatres, concert venues, libraries and so on and forth.

Also, ban on indoor gatherings of more than 100 people.

She told the public not to panic and said: "We can (carry on) buying goods in shops, these (goods) will (carry on being) produced, transported and sold."

"There is no reason to stockpile rye bread or TOILET ROLL." (My emphasis.)

Prime Minister live on telly.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/live-t­v-foelg-seneste-nyt-i-corona-udviklingen­-statsministeriet-holder-pressemoede

In Danish

Quite a few measures, including sending home non-critical public-sector staff, closing schools and daycare centres.

Denmark is shutting down. Crazy.

The media do love terms like lockdown and shutdown. Reality is quite different.

Depends on the colour of your skin and where you are in the world

Oh yes of course. Whitish, Flemish Brabant.

Dr Campbell has got good advice too.

Take vitamin D3 to optimise your immune system.

That vijeo´s too long. How much should I take?

Dr John Campbell is worth a watch for proper science

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2­TExg3QIBupFtBDxg

(Soz if reep)

Thanks for this.

In his latest post he allows himself a morbid chuckle when he summarises Giacomo Grasselli´s findings in Lombardy: median age of intensive care unit patients with Covid-19 is 65, kids don´t get sick but likely carry the disease up the age cohorts. Grim.

Last night Snow asked Grasselli whether intensivists were having to decide who gets tubed and who dies to which the good doctor essentially replied "we do that all the time anyway".

Google "ATO squat toilets" at your peril. Those facilities look posh though, will need study trip to Melbourne before bathroom refit. Air fares should be nice and low now...

Or maybe that's exactly what happened, who am I to judge?

I´ll ask my friend...

As a househusband I also find that wearing gloves some of the time helps you stop touching your face. I tend to wash hands thoroughly when I come home before liberally applying greasy hand cream and then putting rubber gloves on for cooking, cleaning and bike fettling. This also prevents your skin from cracking when out and about.

That´s it, I´m refitting the bathroom. Going with a space/water/bog roll-saving walk-in shower/squat toilet combo with a post-Great War-era soap-on-stick fitting screwed to the wall pointing up because reasons. Also, Finnish arse shower lower down for when a full-body shower n shite is not called for.

“Wash hands for 20 seconds” = “Yeah I can spare 20 seconds, I’ll do that” and you end up with at least some hand washing happening. “Wash hands for 40-60 seconds” = “That’s fuckin ages, I’ll not bother washing at all”.

Precisely. Try slicing some habanero, "washing" your hands for 20 seconds and then having a wank. Not a good idea, a friend tells me.

If you actually read the first document you linked to, it says (for the handwash): "Duration of the entire procedure: 40-60 seconds". If you watch the NHS video in your second link, you will see it is 41 seconds long (41 is a number between 40 and 60, by the way). The 20 seconds refers to the part where you rub your hands together; the video even times it and plays Happy Birthday twice!

I stand corrected. In my defence, however, if the public are constantly being told "wash hands for 20 seconds" surely many if not most take said timespan to refer to the duration of the entire procedure and won´t bother with watching NHS vijeos?

Regarding the duration of hand washing, 20 seconds has been mentioned on here as well as elsewhere so many times that I had to check the NHS website. Worryingly, it does say 20 seconds. Did they just copy the WHO guidelines (40-60 seconds) and just cut n paste 20 seconds from the same organisation´s HAND RUB guidelines?!

https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Hand_Hygiene_Why_How_and_When_Brochure.pdf

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/best-way-to-wash-your-hands/

There is no fucking way anybody could possibly cover all those steps in a mere 20 seconds.

What happens to the gulf due to the post -glacial land uplift ?

It´s going to first split into two (the top half will become a lake) and eventually the bottom half will be cut off from the Baltic, too, and then finally the two lakes will dry up/drain. All this in a couple of thousand years, a blink of an eye in geological time.

So rapid is the rate that lots of fishing towns are now far inland. My mum went to uni in a city called Vaasa/Vasa. Her favourite beach when she was a student is now a wooded area. She´s in her sixties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvarken

https://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/research/interesting-topics/land-uplift

https://www.vaasa.fi/en/living/freetime/naturevaasa/nature/land-uplift/

I once heard a joke that, as the original Finno-Ugric-speaking tribes were schlepping West out of the steppes, they came to a sign saying "Go North." And everybody who could read, did. Fella that told me was Hungarian, as it happens.

We (Finns) have a number of self-deprecating versions of that joke. One goes that reconnaissance parties reported the lush, fertile Danube valley in the southwest and a barren, cold granite rock in the northwest and that the mouth-breathers chose the latter. They schlepped from the steppe as well as from the Ural mountains though.