It’s getting worse, to no one’s surprise
Meanwhile, Trump seems to be implying on Twitter that he will order an end to lock downs at the end of his “15 days” shit.
What a fucking mess
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Every press conference is 80% talking about himself. And I’m being generous.
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You’re thinking of the 1st Battalion (airborne wing).
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I’ve been speculating that the spread in Northern Europe was due to skiing holidays in Italy, but I was wrong. It is actually due to ski holidays in the Tyrolean Alps, especially one tourist town:
Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) and other media have also tracked down many of those bringing Corona to Norway, and a large portion of them point to bars in Ischgl in Austria that specialize in after-ski parties. Ischgl, described in promotional brochures as Tyrol’s “entertainment central” and “the Mallorca of the Alps,” is a popular destination for Norwegians and other Nordic ski tourists. Large groups who skied and partied in Ischgl in late February and early March also brought the Corona virus back on a large scale to Denmark and Iceland.
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Robert Grønnslett of Trøndelag, who traveled to Ischgl with a group of six colleagues, told DN . He described a bar called Trofana Alm as “so full of folks that we were all pressed up against the walls, there was dancing and jumping. If the virus was there, it had great possibilities. There wasn’t a millimeter between folks, and impossible to protect yourself.”
Frode Forland of the state public health institute is now calling the Corona outbreak in Norway as “a ski holiday epidemic.” DN ‘s eight-page article on Saturday tells the stories of not just Grønnslett but also four men from Kolbotn south of Oslo, several doctors from Kristiansand and Oslo, a real estate broker from Stavanger and a firefighter from a small town in southern Norway.
Apparently over 25% of the cases here can be definitively traced back to Austrian ski resorts.
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Epidemiology FTW. Just brings up the idea that fairly small actions can have ginormous consequences in a situation like this.
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It is pretty shocking. However, I’m also impressed with the kind of detailed detective work that the “virus hunters” here are doing. It reminds me bit of the medical detection articles that Berton Roueché used to write in the New Yorker.
Incidentally, here’s the photo that dn.no, the Norwegian equivalent of the Wall Street Journal, used for their story on this:
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Here’s Piers being the voice of reason… which in itself is a sign that the world is going mad from all of this.
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Heres the next one to get tbe boot
Props for reality check. It’s not actually bad yet. That is still coming.
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He seems to actually know what he’s talking about. How did he get to be Surgeon General?
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On 2020-03-07, a medical congress (okay, sports doctors, but still) started in St. Christoph am Arlberg (there’s a map in the linked article) and wasn’t broken off by the organizer until the 10th. However, the majority of the 130 doctors attending the congress chose to stay for a couple of days for a bit of skiing. So far, nine are ill now.
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In old people not caring about other old people dying news
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Oddly enough my wife and I suffered one of the worst flu’s ever in the nearby town of St Anton am Alberg three years ago. It was preseason at the time and we were lucky enough that there was one ski town doctor present. We think we picked up something in Ireland. I blame the crowds at the Guiness factory.
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Well, I had one of my worst flus in East Tyrol, for what it’s worth.
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The “no comment” at the end of this article causes me concern. This guy is truly the voice of reason, even if his voice in pretty much minimized. If he gets the boot, that may well be a sign of the end.
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It’s a miracle he’s been at his current post for any length of time at all, given his core competencies and Cult45’s antipathy toward same if not its antipathy toward educated, logical, fact-based, truth-telling thinkers in general.
At least his life partner is in all likelihood very sympathetic:
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Maybe they saved on uniforms by heading to the Spirit Halloween Emporium on November 1st and buying up all the unsold “Sexy Soldier” costumes.
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