Or imagine your schools, colleges, churches etc. are all closed down but you share an island with a bunch of Boris Johnson acolytes in the North of it who are busy doing nothing but praying…
Well I imagine the DUP are also busy giving emergency relief funding to themselves and their friends. Because that’s what they do best.
Despite what Trump says, in the US of A not even Heide Klum can get tested for coronavirus.
On-brand. Yep. Same in the States.
Next up [probably]: bailing out the hotel industry 
obviously
Not counting on Cult45’s crew to reconstitute the actual U.S. agency whose singular mission was oh I dunno … addressing epidemics or something… the one our so-called government eliminated back in 2018:
Here’s a reporter asking Trump about the matter at a WH presser, with predictable–i.e. morally bankrupt, delusional denying–results. The look on Pence’s face is so robotic and craven, ye gods:
Meanwhile, back in reality, here’s this comparison between our current circumstances and another rather famous virus:
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But - if you gave people money- they would spend it on things that companies produce.
I know - dreaming my dreamy little dreams.
“The stock price was amazing for a week!”
“Then what happened, History Bot?” said the little lizard.
“Everybody died.”
But the corporation lived?
Obviously. This isn’t a horror story!
One question that nobody in the U.K. seems to be asking yet is: Do we have the burial capacity to cope with the government’s policy? The normal death rate is about 600,000 a year spread evenly over 12 months. If we max out the NHS and the 5% of covid-19 patients who need (but can’t get) critical care die, and 70% of the population get the disease, and this all happens in the space of three months then the burial rate will have to increase by a factor of 10. I doubt there’s that much slack in the system.
If things get that bad - there will be mass graves. And pyres.
Isn’t this the plot of a Brian Moore novel?
I’m ashamed to admit I had to look him up. I had no idea what he wrote even.
Carlisle United’s statement on Coronavirus and the suspension of the remaining EFL games
Postponing the games was absolutely the right decision, but it is is really bad for a lot of lower league clubs. Carlisle will survive but teams like Macclesfield Town, who have already had points deducted for not paying staff, may go the same way as Bury.
The National League (the league below the EFL) is still technically playing, but half the games were postponed because of quarantine. It’s only a matter of time before they shut down too.
Maybe since he spent most of his career in Canada he is not viewed in Ireland as an Irish writer. Or maybe after Catholics he was officially expunged?
Even if they kept playing they’d have had to do it in an empty stadium, which doesn’t help with revenue (or player morale). It is also very strange; I watched the PSG-BVB UCL match on TV the other day, you could hear the ball being kicked.
Barely fluent. Doctors must state things compactly in their notes. Yes. Am attempting to get up to speed. One of my jobs is in a technical field w science in it, so my learning curve is tedious but not impossible.
I was transfixed. [insert slowmotion_trainwreck.gif]
The cardiomyopathy and the relapse details I found useful.
Hoping like hell that our nation’s belated attempts to flatten the curve will buy us some margin of manageability.
The cynical / blasé hot take “this is a self-sorting problem,” that Fox “News” consumers and Trumpers are only getting what they deserve, does not account for the overworked, at-risk healthcare professionals who are required by oath and by law to treat all sick people, regardless of how medieval and destructive the patients’ mindsets.
Thus, just as you say, the capacity of the system can become swamped, as we U.S.ians are made to pay collectively for the mistakes and bad choices of the dumbest, most cavalier among us as well as the vulnerable, medically fragile, and oh hey yeah the rest of all of us who get sick.
Because, dangit, it would seem we are all connected after all.
Who’da thunk it?!?!? 
Lordy.
The thing that has just struck me is the duration of hospitalization and ICU stays this beast has required. These patients don’t turn around in a couple days and free up resources (cold way to phrase it, but where we are.) They are there for weeks. No health system is set up for that. None.
Easy to suspect that people were inadvertently released early (to clear bed space) before they were genuinely free of the coronavirus.
Having lived there, I am rather cynical about Chinese doctors.
Aspirin is bad for people with high blood pressure! If you have had chicken pox, you don’t need the Shingles vaccine! Don’t drink cold water, if you have been physically injured! All pronouncements from Chinese doctors and pharmacists.
The other, probably more likely, possibility is failure to account for the sensitivity of the test. No lab test is perfect, there are always a certain percentage of false negatives. Far more likely than reinfection but at the risk of repetition, we just don’t know.
Number cited here is 71%, which honestly, for a screening test, kinda sucks.
