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- NBQ000
Spain is increasing like crazy.
- the numbers were so bad last week it was obvious it will rage there :(neverscared
- Very very old and close community, sad.robotron3k
- spain had a problem with the first batch of tests from china.sted
- Khurram1
ah fuck, second wave about to hit Japan. Tokyo preparing for lockdown. Got out of that city just in time but won't be long before it washes over Kyoto, Osaka; time to think about home.
- Are they letting tourists stay?yuekit
- Well they can't kick me out, i got a 3 month visa. How they gonna kick us out? But Tokyo is about to go lockdown, and supermarket shelves are emptyingKhurram
- Arrived in Kyoto today and shocked how its teaming with people. Subway packed out with commuters, everything open like they think nothing can go wrong...Khurram
- Be careful, many countries a couple of weeks ago cancelled tourist visas before their respective lockdowns. Keep your eye on this.Continuity
- *gulp*Khurram
- Would they really cancel existing visas or just stop issuing new ones?yuekit
- You travelling on which passport? CA or UK? If on the CA, just register your trip: https://travel.gc.ca…
I get regular mails about localContinuity - ... advisories in Germany.Continuity
- damnmoldero
- Straight up, feeling cast adrift, lost. Canada is my home, England is my country. My flight to Canada has been cancelled, because i'm a resident not a citizenKhurram
- Will be spending some more unplanned time up north, in England. 2 months, almost 3, was a good run. Whole thing's been surreal dodging lockdowns and entry bans.Khurram
- They should just let everyone stay where they are IMO. Some countries are doing this and offering extra visa extension, not sure about Japan.yuekit
- That's the way it goes, I'm afraid. If I was abroad right now, Germany would never repatriate me, despite having lived here for 8 years; I'm not a citizen.Continuity
- Honestly, I got out of the Philppines by the skin of my teeth. Total lockdown the day after I left for Japan. I have a friend trapped on a shithole islandKhurram
- No way to get off the island. They shutdown everything - surfing, gyms, beaches, restaurants, bars, police checks everywhere - dire internet (1mbs at best).Khurram
- Electricity blackouts every week so they can build some stupid bridge while hospitals and people are without electricity/running water/communicationsKhurram
- She's in touch with the British embassy to try and get her out of there, but it's so bad in these places. My mum's in Pakistan. Same situation.Khurram
- To live through something like this, I've had to rethink everything, my future, my plans, my expectations for the year. Where i'll be, what i'll be doing.Khurram
- Go to the Azores!shapesalad
- Kuz is Patient Zero for the Asian Second Wave SARS2 Pandemic?Nairn
- allthethings2
Facebook <could> donate $1 billion itself to the CDC. Mark Zuckerberg <could> donate some of his estimated $55 billion net worth. But I understand. Analysts have lowered their estimates on Facebook’s sales and earnings to $18.27 billion for the year, and the company's shares are down 24%.
Cue the world's tiniest string orchestra.
- Why are we even donating to a government organization that is already funded by us?yuekit
- ^^hahaKhurram
- So they can then donate it and get the tax break, right?!? Isn't that what the grocery stores do when they ask for a donation/ Same shite...whatthefunk
- Ramanisky20
- haha - guy on the right looks like he's trying to remove the hair with glue and brute forceFax_Benson
- Guy on the left is doing a lot of combing and very little shaving.shapesalad
- nah, I'm good. Imma grow it all outKrassy
- Krassy ... all you need is ...
https://media.giphy.…Ramanisky2 - @Ramanisky2 yup!Krassy
- Ramanisky27
- https://justthenews.…********
- ^He knows about this stuff, if he hadn't been a hotel building shagger his whole life he could have had a tip top career in medicine. He's a smart guy.PhanLo
- The next Jim Jones.********
- https://justthenews.…
- Gardener-2
- nb0
https://www.businessinsider.com/…
Spoiler alert: bad news.
"This will not kill most of us," he said. "It will kill a lot more people than we're used to dying around us."
"The main horrifying thing that I think is keeping every local leader awake is the projection of how many people will get this, the projection of what the mortality rate will be, and how many dead we will have," Garcetti said. "Will we have hundreds of thousands of deaths, or tens of thousands of deaths? That's what keeps us up."
"It will be our friends. It will be our family. It will be people who we love dearly," he said. "And everything I do is through that lens."
- Will we have hundreds of thousands of deaths, or tens of thousands of deaths?nb
- nb0
Any links on how to make our own masks?
- https://www.youtube.…keewee
- ^ the dude is creepy af!Krassy
- ^^ one YouTube comment: "Ok video other than he looks and sounds like he is going to kill someone"Krassy
- @keewee but yeah, tnx for sharing!Krassy
- yeah that guy sounds like a serial killer LOL @keeweerenderedred
- dasohr0
WTF is wrong with people...
- NBQ000
Over 8K dead in Italy so far.
Germany sees biggest increase in new registered cases today: over 6300
- Virus got into Italian hospitals early, majority of deaths are very elderly, with multiple existing diseases & conditions. Dying with the virus not solely from.********
- Cool, thanks for the clarification Robo v63.0mathinc
- Virus got into Italian hospitals early, majority of deaths are very elderly, with multiple existing diseases & conditions. Dying with the virus not solely from.
- grafician4
UK offering support for self-employed - including artists, etc.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-5205…
"Self-employed workers will be able to apply for a grant of up to £2,500 a month to help them cope with the financial impact of coronavirus, the chancellor has announced."
- no reason why this can't be an ongoing thing to support the arts._niko
- Average monthly profits. Not income.monoboy
- And it's taxed.monoboy
- Could be wrong but Net or Gross profit makes a huge difference.monoboy
- Also based on past 3 years. As sky news showed, a guy quit job after 20 years to open hair salon, just a couple months ago, now closed, in debt - screwed....shapesalad
- If your earnings and drawings are high, not for tax purposes but because everything is fucking expensive if you're under 40...monoboy
- You won't have much profit left in the business. So you'll get fuck all.monoboy
- But if you're already wealthy and able to accumulate profit in the business with less drawings, then you're quids in.monoboy
- It's classic Tory. Give to the rich, fuck those that need it most.
If I've understood the measure correctly. Still trying to find definitive details.monoboy - It checks out. Unless you're profitable over the three-year average, you get fuck all. Nothing. Zilch.monoboy
- So if your turnover is good, but your drawings and expenses are high and you struggle to keep profit in your business.monoboy
- Tough shit. Go eat a turd. HMRC.monoboy
- ernexbcn4
I would not pay much attention to number of cases, not every country is testing as much as the others, etc. Best indicator of the advance of the pandemic is deaths. Spain's curve has been worse than Italy, but we knew that since days ago. At least we are in lockdown for over a week already.
- Italy is not growing exponentially anymore (deaths), Spain should hit peak in the next few days, lockdown effect should start making effect later onernexbcn
- Exactly. Reported numbers aren’t close to the whole storymonospaced
- The clock i'm looking at... it doesn't even look like China has updated in a few days. Meanwhile Italy and USA are set to overtake.MrAbominable
- 2 weeks lockdown this sunday Ernesto, at least in BC. In Catalonia the thing is going nuts this now... Stay at home!!OBBTKN
- Como va en Barcelona? Madrid está muy triste.Chimp
- NBQ001
Fuckin‘ bats
- nb0
The outbreak continued to gather pace in New York, where the number of hospitalized patients jumped by 40 percent in one day, Mr. Cuomo said Thursday.
The sharp jump in hospitalizations — to 5,327 patients, of whom 1,290 were in intensive care — called into question optimistic projections that Mr. Cuomo shared the day before, which had suggested that social distancing rules were slowing the rate of hospitalizations.
Mr. Cuomo said that the experts who make such projections note that there are often day-to-day fluctuations, and that it was better to look at longer time frames to make accurate estimates. “So we’ll just continue to watch it,” he said.
- I was just saying in the Predictions thread that this celebrating over one data point was ridiculous!nb
- I think a single rabbi gave it to half New Yorkrobotron3k
- That's because you're an idiot.nb
