Lesson from Germany, where few have died from Coronavirus, similar to Japan: “Don’t count your blessings — or your data — too soon.” Via ?@nytopinion? ?@annakatrein? https://t.co/IsGU7eDB86
— Motoko Rich (@motokorich) March 29, 2020
Update: according to Polish media, about 8000 people crossed the border yesterday, things have calmed down and border guards are still letting people go through (despite Zelensky saying the land border would fully close at midnight yesterday) https://t.co/jjr7jmvV75 https://t.co/sg8kjsxDGb
— Fabrice Deprez (@fabrice_deprez) March 28, 2020
Coronavirus: Belarus president refuses to cancel anything – and says vodka and saunas will ward off coronavirus https://t.co/Iu0WbxbGNv
— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 29, 2020
Probably good time to remind you Belarus is a dictatorship
— Lamp Shade ???????????????????? (@diaspora_lost) March 29, 2020
The entire crew of a nuclear submarine placed in coronavirus quarantine #NorthernFleet #ZapadnayaLitsa #COVID-19 https://t.co/sNARRsNN0M
— The Barents Observer (@BarentsNews) March 28, 2020
Looks like Russia’s response will combine all the worst features of China *and* Italy:
Moscow goes full lockdown. No leaving the house except to the nearest shop or pharmacy, you can take out the trash and walk pets up to 100m from the house. Special pass system to be developed soon. Unemployed to receive 19,500 rubles ($250) per month. https://t.co/FucYNrbzFh
— Andrew Roth (@Andrew__Roth) March 29, 2020
Videos of police telling people to get off the streets in Moscow region are appearing on social media. Meanwhile, several top journalists at Russian state media reporting there is no curfew in Moscow region. https://t.co/C1CteJv7ub
— Andrew Roth (@Andrew__Roth) March 29, 2020
A possible hint to how Russia has performed so many tests but id’d so few cases? A doctor fails to appear to test a young Russian under self-isolation for coronavirus, but when her results appear, the test reads negative anyway. Doctor is listed as Ivanov, A.A (like Smith A.A.) https://t.co/YaKQhdlzXl
— Andrew Roth (@Andrew__Roth) March 28, 2020
A 32-year-old man in St. Petersburg is the first person in Russia to be charged with a felony for violating the terms of his coronavirus quarantine. He literally escaped from the 4th floor window of a care facility. https://t.co/53Qypa0KGT
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) March 28, 2020
two carriers potentially mission-killed by an adversary without a single missile in its arsenal: https://t.co/NluFdyNOTm
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) March 30, 2020
India’s three-week national lockdown has caused tens of thousands of migrant workers to flee major cities after they lost jobs. pic.twitter.com/5ptIj8TuUG
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) March 30, 2020
India's COVID-19 lockdown hits HIV+ and chronic patients hard https://t.co/ZzM7mop40O pic.twitter.com/Q8viBICcfi
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) March 30, 2020
This is so bleak. https://t.co/TVdQ939S6s
— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) March 29, 2020
"41 of the most recent 70 cases were travellers; 15 linked to previous clusters and 14 (20%) of the cases were unlinked"
Singapore's #COVID19 cases exceed 800 with 70 new infections https://t.co/8HpwXMcKtA— ??? ? ??????, ??? ?????????? (@MackayIM) March 29, 2020
Coronavirus: why so few infections in Singapore’s health workers? https://t.co/czG4SpWcNY
— SCMP News (@SCMPNews) March 28, 2020
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) March 30, 2020
'We can't let up': Hong Kong battles complacency amid new wave of Covid-19 https://t.co/4Jtbs72Pqn
— ??? ? ??????, ??? ?????????? (@MackayIM) March 29, 2020
Japan to 'ban all travellers from US, China, Europe' https://t.co/1yr3iBwVUS
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) March 30, 2020
Some reading: https://t.co/k9d8H549a1 https://t.co/82cNUrt7op
— Motoko Rich (@motokorich) March 30, 2020
Famed Japanese comedian Ken Shimura, described as "Japan's Robin Williams," has died after contracting novel coronavirus https://t.co/iwSTP64vjI
— CNN (@CNN) March 30, 2020
Thread:
I spent a heart-breaking Shabbat afternoon in Bnei Brak and Sunday morning in Mea Shearim and Geula. I’ve spent 23 years writing about the ultra-Orthodox community and I doubt it will ever be the same after the rabbis’ terrible response to coronavirus https://t.co/sXSdnLMECL
— Anshel Pfeffer (@AnshelPfeffer) March 29, 2020
Africa could be justwo to three weeks away from the worst of the coronavirus storm https://t.co/riTQZ1tUcU
— Bloomberg Africa (@BBGAfrica) March 29, 2020
COVID-19 : UPDATE IN AFRICA, 29 MARCH 2020 – 9:00 am EAT
Countries (46) reporting a total COVID-19 4,282 cases, 134 deaths, and 302 recoveries by region#COVID19 #FactsNotFear #AfricaPrepares #AfricaRespond pic.twitter.com/gqhZny931l— Africa CDC (@AfricaCDC) March 29, 2020
Police in Kenya fired tear gas, beat people ahead of a curfew imposed to curb the spread of #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/TYxLseQ9Po
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) March 29, 2020
2/2 After the Covid-19 deliveries around Africa @flyethiopian ground its fleet for the 1st time in 75 yrs. “It survived the Ethiopian civil war, the 2007-2009 financial crisis, the years of horrible famines, everything, except now Coronavirus”, an Addis-based diplomat tells me. pic.twitter.com/tWtbmjtMJF
— Charles Onyango-Obbo (@cobbo3) March 28, 2020
Let’s hope this isn’t the first of many…
A Guatemalan man who was deported from the US late last week has tested positive for COVID-19, Guatemalan officials say https://t.co/eOdE6OFrhz
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) March 30, 2020
p.a.
I appreciate and rely on these posts, but after, I need abt 6 hours of kitten videos.
Thanks to the redstate geniuses for making ‘flatten the curve’ become ‘flatten the waves’. And of course they’ll blame (((New York)))
OzarkHillbilly
John Prine: singer-songwriter critically ill with Covid-19 symptoms, family says
Joey Maloney
The Haaretz story is infuriating. I hope King Bibi really does drop quarantines on the heavily infected Haredim neighborhoods. No way to stop them from soaking up scarce health care resources, though.
And given their notorious pigheadedness and disregard for secular law, probably no way to enforce a quarantine without deploying the army to form a literal cordon sanitaire around urban neighborhoods. And then giving them orders to put down the riots.
No way Netanyahu has the stomach for that.
Chyron HR
Does calling yourself a “war president” work if you’re losing the war?
bjacques
I hope Belarus’s secret police follow government guidelines to the letter.
OzarkHillbilly
@Joey Maloney: Bibi has a fine tuned sense of self preservation and where his legal interests lay.
Joey Maloney
Lest you think I’m exaggerating the Haredim’s contempt for civil authority –
4 arrested, dozens fined as police crack down on violations in Mea Shearim
MagdaInBlack
@OzarkHillbilly:
Joan Baez has a nice little tribute singing “Hello In There”.
Which I am for some reason unable to post, but its on YouTube >> For John Prine
OzarkHillbilly
@MagdaInBlack: The Guardian has it in their article, just listened to it. One of the saddest songs ever written, still brings a tear to my eye.
MagdaInBlack
@OzarkHillbilly:
It was my husbands favorite, and always makes me weepy.
danielx
Aside from his multitudinous personality and character flaws, one thing the pandemic has thrown into sharp relief: Trump is an appalling bad manager.
Add to list
Trump administration’s coronavirus response is ‘abysmal,’ ‘infuriating,’ Washington region’s leaders say
ETA: I know, not news.
OzarkHillbilly
I’ve got tears running down my face: Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device
Amir Khalid
@OzarkHillbilly:
It reads like one of Mr Bean’s misadventures.
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: I loved the
Anne Laurie
@OzarkHillbilly: I *swear* I put up the next post before I read this, Mr. OH!
(One of my favorite books in early childhood was Little Men, which includes the probably no-longer-widely-shared old wives’ tale about the kids who put beans up their noses purely because their mama told them not to… followed by grown-up Jo March telling her kids that the story inspired her to try shoving a pebble up her nose, which didn’t turn out well either. Even at age 8 or 9, I had a pretty clear impression that Ms. Alcott was speaking from personal experience there!)
OzarkHillbilly
@Anne Laurie: Kids and orifices…
A friend of mine woke up screaming that a cockroach had crawled into her ear. Everybody laughed at her. A week later she had an ear infection. Mom took her to the Doc. The Doc…
The Doc pulled….
The Doc pulled a cockroach out of her ear.
I’m not sure Mom ever quite recovered from the experience even if Baby Sister did.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s like the Cat in The Hat book where they get something pink on one thing, and then they try to wash it out and the whole tub gets pink, and so on.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s the stuff of nightmares. Ugh.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: Fortunately I’ve never been that bored.
Ken
Sounds like we could divert some funding from the Navy budget to vaccine research, considering the Navy will be useless until there is a vaccine.
joel hanes
@Anne Laurie:
You can’t hear a thing with beans in your ears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8iZIVZmsU
ziggy
A similar thing happened to me. I was putting my hair up in the mirror, after being outside working in the yard. Thought I saw a spider crawl into my ear. Screamed for my husband who took a look and said there was nothing. A couple days later my ear began to itch so I rummaged around with a pair of tweezers (not recommended!) and pulled out a very dead spider. Ugh! Fortunately I don’t have a terrible fear of spiders, just another bug.