General / Off-Topic The safest place
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And 6,557 new cases.Italy updated it's stats. Almost 800 deaths in the last 24 hours, an increase of 70% compared with Wednesday.
Also, things are escalating rapidly in North-America. As-of-yet unconfirmed reports are coming in Canadians have stopped apologizing to the virus.
We must all have an emotional thought for our Italian brothers.
Local case count:
1, 2, 4, 9, 40... edit 49 ... still trying to stop community spread, in phase 2.
Turned away 2 female patients at the house today. I am not working from home as that would be crazy.
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Our borders are closed from mn 22nd March, precisely one week after I predicted our outbreak back in January. Most accurate prediction I ever made.
1, 2, 4, 9, 40... edit 49 ... still trying to stop community spread, in phase 2.
Turned away 2 female patients at the house today. I am not working from home as that would be crazy.
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Our borders are closed from mn 22nd March, precisely one week after I predicted our outbreak back in January. Most accurate prediction I ever made.
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I saw a photo of mecca the other day. I had no idea the floor was white there because I'd only ever seen it before flooded wall to wall with people and now it's empty, so they're doing something in that part of the world at least - going to mecca is a big deal, so forgoing it to avoid spreading the virus is an equally big deal.
Maybe that is psychologically the same as "doing something".
So far this has been ugly but manageable. Life still continues in civilized context. I genuinely do wonder, though, how many people have a plan in place to deal with acute and systemic civil unrest should it come to that?
First the local rink closed, then the NHL shut down and today the WC was canceled.
No ice and no TV hockey. I washed my gear and put it in the attic today. Spring came way to early this year.
I don't know much about her aside from her stunning good looks and people saying she's as nice on the inside as the out. Has there been any word on her condition or is it complete radio silence at the level? I have to believe that in their age group and overall health they should be fine.
Beyond the usual 'OMG GUIZZZZ I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE' type pub conversations from people who've never had to light a fire in their lives, I guess minimal.
Some of the more militant members of the catholic church are not happy about going without mass as getting together and eating and drinking from the same cup is apparently very important during this outbreak. The head honcho gave a radio interview where he pointed out Jesus would have stayed at home and told anyone else off for going out. Then he gave the example of a Vietnamese minister who spent decades in solitary confinement as a political prisoner and celebrated mass every day on his own.
I thought that was a good message to get across even though I'm an evangelical atheist.
I don't, and for two reasons. Firstly, in my personal experience the grander the scope of a plan or situation you want to plan for, the less relevant it turns out to be when you get there. I've always had some rudimentary plans of sorts, but where I am in life is pretty much due to 50% chance and 50% improvisation. A few months before moving to Belgium to start my PhD research I had neither considered moving abroad nor getting involved in academia. I also didn't plan to stay after finishing, yet here I am. Secondly, there are plenty of far more probable events that I also have no plans for.
So simply put, I don't think it is the best use of my time to come up with extensive plans that are unlikely to work in the unlikely event they are needed.
I walked into my tool shed and realised I'm Doomguy- I have giant chainsaws, garden 'swords', axes, boltguns- I assume Doomguy has a Dremel multitool too.
This means no-one, and I mean no-one gets to my cheddar in the fridge when the end comes (i.e. I run out of tea).
This means no-one, and I mean no-one gets to my cheddar in the fridge when the end comes (i.e. I run out of tea).
I plan to watch it on the telly as I live in the country.
I'm more interested in knowing how this will shape resilience planning for governments and economies in general. C-19 has shown that you need manufacturing bases as well as labs- I wonder if we will see a bigger rebalancing so they are not caught out again? Countries like the UK that are top heavy service based importers look very wonky in times like this.
Covid-19 vaccines and treatments are popping up everywhere. We are testing them all on a daily basis and we have several good candidates to go into production. But it will take at least a year to manufacture and distribute.
Everything is going according to plans. Leaders knew about the Fibonacci level since 2008 (to 2020) on the US stock market hit around New Year (the real reason stock markets are correcting). So they shorted the markets and prepared.
We are on top of everything since Nov 2016.
And thanks to Nov 2016, we will be able to handle every catastrophe that the anti-Nov 2016 people are trying to inflict/incite/blow up.
It will be a wonderful Nov 2020 -> Nov 2024.
We are ready to inject our massive income from the shorts, it will be glorious.
Everything is going according to plans. Leaders knew about the Fibonacci level since 2008 (to 2020) on the US stock market hit around New Year (the real reason stock markets are correcting). So they shorted the markets and prepared.
We are on top of everything since Nov 2016.
And thanks to Nov 2016, we will be able to handle every catastrophe that the anti-Nov 2016 people are trying to inflict/incite/blow up.
It will be a wonderful Nov 2020 -> Nov 2024.
We are ready to inject our massive income from the shorts, it will be glorious.
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Rip and tear, brother.
Considering Singapore, Hong Kong and such aren't that heavy on industry I think this will require more with regards to policy and politics than a reform of the type of economy.
Yep. That's how you deter looters.Today was a good day in the garden....
I think the era of dirt cheap air travel is probably over. Greta will be pleased.
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