It looks downright weird to see absolutely no cars in the bar’s parking lot today - especially since it’s St. Patrick’s Day. 
Then again, they should have been closed last week.
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Fire Department asks people to leave circulating in bars in Rio due to coronavirus.
Agents were at points in busy places like Copacabana and Lapa. Throughout the day, the company’s cars are also on the city’s beaches.
On Monday night (16), men from the Fire Department were in bars in Copacabana and Lapa asking people to leave the premises and return home.
The request was made through a recorded message and transmitted through a loudspeaker:
“The State Civil Defense asks the population to avoid agglomerations. Please, for the safety of your neighbors, friends and family, come home,” said the message. The moment is for awareness. Do your part to help prevent and control the coronavirus. You always count on firefighters. Can we count on you? "
About 150 cars are mobilized in the action. The planning foresees the extension of this alert coverage by other municipalities in Rio de Janeiro.
A similar action had already been taken in the morning on beaches such as Recreio, in the West Zone, and Vermelha, in the South Zone.
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That’s pretty optimistic.
Gathering mobs together to go after insurance executives might get easier, though.
“Having determined that Aetna’s intransigence led to 5000 deaths during the outbreak, this people’s tribunal finds you, Mr. Smith, guilty of being number 2371 down from the CEO.”
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It is pretty despicable when one person’s suffering is politisized for personal or ideological gain. It is downright goulish and inhuman when the suffering and fear of the entire planet is used for this while the boddies are not just still warm but actively dropping.
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Somehow the Tesla factory in Fremont has been declared an “essential business” and has been allowed to remain open even with the whole Bay Area being on lockdown.
Plus Elon has been sending out ridiculous tweets and emails minimizing the risk from this virus, and offering no incentives for sick or concerned workers to stay home. He said that sick workers should “feel no obligation” to come in to work. Libertarianism at its finest.
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Again, there are good guys out there
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And there are assholes
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As if Trumpkins cared about proper football.
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Earlier on Tuesday, the chairman of fellow National League club Boreham Wood, Danny Hunter, criticised what he perceived as a lack of clarity from the government around the virus.
In a statement, Hunter said: "I’ve listened intently to every piece of advice given by government, I’ve followed every piece of advice from every health authority and in truth we are getting no clear instruction or leadership.
"What does the government regard as social massing numbers - is it 50, is it 100, is it 200?
"If I get no guidance in the next day or so, I’ll have to make my own mind up based on what I read, what I hear, on common sense.
“If we cannot get any clear leadership from government, then I will have to make incredibly tough decisions that will affect people’s jobs and people’s lives.”
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Yet again, I am glad that I don’t drink because I would be needing a liver transplant after the last decade.
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Doesn’t name the foreign entity.
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-_-
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And then there are assholes
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I wonder what they intend to do about the Euro Women, who were supposed to have their cup in 2021.
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Just FTR, if I not completely misunderstood, the head of the virology at the Charité hospital dismissed the Ibuprofen (and other anti-inflammatory drug) discussion as - I paraphrase - unimportant in clinical practice, since concentrations are too low to have an effect on an acute Covid-19 infection.
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