Ongoing coronavirus happenings

[peregrinus_bis]

Who needs experts, eh?

[vermes82]

Finnish hospitals supplied with face masks nearly 8 years past use-by dates

[anon59592690]

It’s a “laziness” of golf carts.

[d_r]

Opinion | I think the president struck a different tone today, but then again,...

[LutherBlisset]

Why the bleep is this bleeped? What the bleeb? Doesn’t have American other things to worry about which contaminate everyone?

That said, I want a dual language Werner Herzog version. Please.

Also, *FFS, and I can’t stress this enough:
FOR FUCKS SAKE:
Europe is heading for a catastrophic situation in it’s refugee camps

Via tagesschau.de:

Greek refugee camp under quarantine
9:27 a.m.

The Greek Coronavirus Crisis Staff quarantined a refugee camp in northern Athens for 14 days. As the state broadcaster reported, the coronavirus had previously been found in a woman after the birth of her child earlier this week. Subsequently, 20 other refugees in the Ritsona camp were tested positive for the virus. In the Ritsona camp - where an estimated 3,000 people live - the situation is nowhere near as bad as in the completely overcrowded camps on the islands in the east of the Aegean.

If this reaches the island camps, especially the infamous Moria camp, and OF COURSE IT WILL, we have fucked up so massively that I can’t even comprehend the scale of it. Institutions have been warning for weeks now. We need to close these camps right now and distribute the refugees, of course with quarantine, and dissolve the situation.

Fuck it, I am an atheist, but the only thing I feel I can do is pray.

I will write to my MP today. We need to fix this. It is our fucking duty.

[LutherBlisset]

Vote. Him. Out.

Seriously, put this on heavy rotation during the next campaign. With a timestamp.

[robertmckenna]

President of Dumbfuckistan? That beggars belief.

It’s pretty impressive how he tries to deflect from his own ignorance by stating this is new information jusr received and the doctors say it’s a game changer. I mean he’s presenting himself as a responsible conduit of scientific information.

Doomed.

[mr_raccoon]

variety (Variety)

[LutherBlisset]

PSA:

Corona virus SARS-CoV 2 and Covid-19 information resources

So, here I go with my PSA: I invite everyone to contribute similar information from their own areas. If you are in Germany and feel sick, or you have questions regarding the pandemic, use public and validated sources. I don’t say this easily, but governmental sources and health authorities are fucking to be trusted (at the moment, and around here). The non-emergency medical on-call service for Germany is 116 117. The emergency number is 112. Don’t ever call 112 if you are not in an emerge…

[mr_raccoon]

Yahoo News (YahooNews)

[FGD135]

Amazon says it fired a guy for breaking pandemic rules. Same guy who organized a staff protest over a lack of coronavirus protection

Amazon says it fired a guy for breaking pandemic rules. Same guy who organized...

[anon29537550]

Maybe for a very limited definjtion of “we?” Him and the mouse I his pocket?

[vermes82]

Summary

1. New weekly US unemployment claims hit a record high of 6.6m as the effects of the pandemic bite
2. Earlier there was record jump in the number of people applying for unemployment benefit in Spain
3. The sudden increase in those signing up is powerful evidence that the coronavirus crisis is an economic emergency
4. A total of 2,921 people have now died from coronavirus in the UK, according to the Department of Health and Social Care
5. Health Secretary Matt Hancock is expected to outline how the government hopes to achieve “a significant increase” in testing
6. The number of infections globally will reach a million within days, the head of the World Health Organization says
7. There is growing concern in several countries about supplies of protection equipment for medical workers

Coronavirus: World will reach a million infections in days, says WHO - BBC News

[anon48584343]

the president struck a different tone today, but then again,…

Trump Pretends He Never Compared Coronavirus to the Flu: A Closer Look

[anon27554371]

New and very welcome account on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/RishiDesaiMD/with_replies

Pediatric infectious disease physician and Chief Medical Officer at Osmosis: osmosis.org. Formerly worked at the CDC investigating viral disease outbreaks. [emphasis mine]

Got to that account by first watching Dr. Desai in this interview:

Ben Smith

[anon27554371]

I love this…

Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (RexChapman)

[anon29537550]

The look on her face is priceless. “Oh shit he was prepared with facts. This does not compute. Must cut to commercial.” Very good odds he will never be invited back to Fox, I would suspect.

[Faffenreffer]

@mr_raccoon

GOP Rep. Devin Nunes says decision to cancel school in California was ‘way overkill’

“Devin dear, please sit down and shut up. No one gives a rusty fuck what you think.”

-Devin Nunes’ mom

[Barradeno]

@anon27554371

Sandra the orangutang started washing her hands because she saw all the zookeepers doing it repeatedly during the COVID-19 crisis.

Proof that other orange hominids are much smarter than the one currently living in the White House.

[d_r]

In case you didn’t click through my link:

I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone sound so soberly presidential as President Donald J. Trump did today at his coronavirus briefing, but then again, I am a goldfish and I have no recollection of anything that happened more than three seconds ago.*

(Alexandra Petri’s headlines are often a little…misleading, it is part of what makes her writing so funny.)