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- drgs2
Daily deaths going down in Italy
21.03 — 793
22.03 — 651
23.03 — 601
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- Opening for business real soon!Ianbolton
- from 15 close to zero infections said the orange turd.neverscared
- It’s at 44,000+ Cases in one dayRamanisky2
- deadsperm2
- the issue was the outside world had very little information on what was going on - and the CCP were suppressing their own doctors from speaking out.inteliboy
- Well. None of these articles aged very gracefully, did they?Continuity
- They have not.
Mark these words.deadsperm
- sted1
- PonyBoy6
I've been quarantined... by my Wife. She's very serious too. :P
I'm not even allowed to go out later in the evening into the thinned out crowds to shop. I'm can walk the dog... but No car... no leaving the property really. :/ I'll do as she says as I admit I have a healthy fear of this shit... I'm in the 'high risk' group... fuck... why'd I sell my playstation?
- utopian0
Will warm weather really kill off Covid-19?
Some people hope that outbreaks of the new coronavirus will wane as temperatures rise, but pandemics often don’t behave in the same way as seasonal outbreaks. BBC Future looks at what we know.
- Well, look: it's late summer and fucking hot in the southern hemisphere, and South America and Africa both have Covid-19 now, cases growing exponentially.Continuity
- I think we can but this particular bit of wishful thinking to bed.Continuity
- *putContinuity
- Good article, this explained it more clearly than anything else I've read.yuekit
- You do realize it's summer for half the planet? This is total fiction, it's been 20+ celcius in Wuhan, Australia has it, etc.zarkonite
- Average temp in Wuhan in January = between zero and 8 degreesyuekit
- Look at the countries that have the most cases. The top 10 countries all have cold climates.yuekit
- You have to get to #16 Australia before you get to a somewhat warm country, and it’s only around 20 degrees there currently.yuekit
- The temperature in Wuhan is above 10 celcius today? You should look at how many tests are being performed and what kind of metrics they use to choose to testzarkonite
- you'll see that australia is not performing as many tests as the "top" countries but if you look at the porportion of positives to tests they're in line withzarkonite
- everyone else. It's basically a case of bad stats due to a test rationing. There is no scientific evidence that this virus is less aggressive in warm weather.zarkonite
- They've observed some seasonality in coronaviruses but not all, so this is a toss up as far as evidence is concerned.zarkonite
- I don't think it's unfounded. Look at the affected regions. Something like 80-90% of the cases are in cold or moderately cool countries.yuekit
- And yes you could say it's a testing issue...but if there was really an epidemic you would expect to see some signs, mass deaths, hospitals overrun.yuekit
- Also if you read the article utopian posted it explains there is a specific reason why coronaviruses do better in hot climates.yuekit
- In order to survive outside the human body, they rely on a membrane to protect the virus as they float through the air. In cold weather the membrane lastsyuekit
- longer whereas in heat it dissolves more easily. Likewise in cold climates the virus can last on surfaces such as metal etc for days longer.yuekit
- None of that means it can't spread in hot climates, just that you would expect to see a more muted impact. At least until the seasons change.yuekit
- Sorry above should read...*why coronaviruses do better in cold climatesyuekit
- gonzalle-1
- And obviously dead from the Coronavirus...gonzalle
- is all over his shirtuan
- lmao uankingsteven
- sted-1
6 million face masks ordered by Germany lost in Kenya
A German army shipment of 6 million face masks needed to protect against the coronavirus has vanished in Kenya, the defense ministry in Berlin confirmed Tuesday.
- Fax_Benson0
- Boo:
https://londonist.co…
*wanted to believeNairn - (I'd just gone to find the text so I could make a stencil out of it - i didn't want to find the above link!)Nairn
- bummer. There's a Pepys twitter feed that posts legit diary entries and I got suspicious as I hadn't seen it there. Make it anyway? Add some profanity.Fax_Benson
- Boo:
- SimonFFM2
My parents emailed me to ask if I needed help with paying my rent. I replied no and asked if they have enough to eat.
Weirdest email conversation I ever had with my parents.
P.S. Still no toilet paper available (7th attempt). I am ok, but I started notes when exchanging a role, so I know how long it lasts. Never had a statistics about that...
- why didn't you ask them for toilet paper and do you have any FFM portraits?********
- u have a lot of playboy mags. so u are fine.neverscared
- Those will clog your toilet!inv
- You can thank Andrew Cuomo for that, he's whipping up a frenzy, everyone is calling me out of the blue also...robotron3k
- no one has called me. my mother facebooked me.********
- old newspaper works too!stoplying
- why didn't you ask them for toilet paper and do you have any FFM portraits?
- dmay3
"Gangs in the Rio de Janeiro favelas have enforced a lockdown from 8pm tonight. The statement reads: "If the government won't do the right thing, organised crime will""
- elahon-1
- Bennn0
Just went to grocery store... So yeah, we're stuck in a loop withe the TP situation... Nothing left on the shelves at the opening... People still buy TP because everyone fear of missing TP. Soy milk and all milk alternatives, gone. Pasta, gone. Canned vegetables, gone. Frozen vegetables, gone. Bread, gone. Now, watch out the peanut butter is the new madness...
- and Kraft Dinner...nbq
- movie The Platform coming to a neighborhood near you.Ramanisky2
- Toronto shelves around me are all well stocked. Chicken seems to me always out, thoughGnash
- The shower is my way from now onBennn
- :( daym! we have everything here, but the supermarket started to only let 5 people in because of social distancing - so it takes longer to shopgrafician
- Yesterday I was told only 1 paper product per and only 2 soup cans per person. Also no creamer, Almond milk or soy milk and I was there when store opened.Ramanisky2
- Gardener0
Old woman phoning into local radio and giving zero fucks:
- She’s gone full KamikazeRamanisky2
- give her liberty and give her death********
- She might change her tune when her husband can't breathe.PhanLo
- ^ nah she’s hated the fucker for decadesRamanisky2
- ^LolPhanLo
- He's probably had a stroke because of herIanbolton