OT: Corona virus

[DD696]

I hope not too much work is needed on your out house in this time of TP shortage.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: DD696

I hope not too much work is needed on your out house in this time of TP shortage.

Yes, fewer large catalogues being sent out and print newspapers are in the decline.

[RFalvo69]

Possibly a fallout of the Roosevelt situation.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4856 ... e-house-on

Way to snuff any outbreak as soon as possible [8|]

Edit: at least this makes sense:

https://kvia.com/news/military/2020/03/ ... each-1000/

[DD696]

If jolly old England still has a lot of out houses then I suspect the Sears & Roebuck catalogs may be more prevalent over that way. Lend Lease, you know!

[DD696]

That article is from 3 March. I appreciate military commanders who are concerned about the troops under their command and who take appropriate measures.

How is Italy? I appreciate the reports you provide. The news channels fail to convey the urgency of what is occurring.

[MakeeLearn]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

[DD696]

Nah. Glue is obviously the only thing that holds you together.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: DD696

Nah. Glue is obviously the only thing that holds your brain together.

There, I fixed it for you. [;)]

[MakeeLearn]

Coronavirus: Three out of four Americans under some form of lockdown
3 hours ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52103066


"About three out of four Americans are now, or about to be, under some form of lockdown, as more states tighten measures to fight the coronavirus.

Maryland, Virginia, Arizona and Tennessee became the latest states to order citizens to stay at home, meaning 32 of 50 states have taken such steps.

Meanwhile governors are quarrelling with President Donald Trump about the availability of testing kits.

The US has more than 175,000 confirmed virus cases and over 3,400 deaths.

The US now has more Covid-19 fatalities than China, where the illness was first reported."

[DD696]

Well, who could imagine an army guy could be so smart?

By the way, my step father was in the 5th Rangers, Headquarters Battalion during the big one. Tough SOB's. He scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

[MakeeLearn]

People should cover themselves in takeout food wrappers.

[witpqs]

She has been "disappeared" for two weeks now.

Concerns Grow Over Wuhan Doctor Amid Call For Return to Work

[witpqs]

Real stand up citizen right here:

Prosecutors: Brooklyn Man Coughs On FBI Agents During Price Gouging Arrest

[MakeeLearn]

It's the Apocalypse...

Mountain goats take over Welsh town in coronavirus lockdown

31 Mar 2020
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/31/mountain ... -12483098/

"Goats have been defying the lockdown in a North Wales town by taking advantage of the quiet streets to mount a takeover. Empty roads in Llandudno proved a tempting habitat for the animals, who have been gorging on hedges and gardens."

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

It's the Apocalypse...

Mountain goats take over Welsh town in coronavirus lockdown

31 Mar 2020
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/31/mountain ... -12483098/

"Goats have been defying the lockdown in a North Wales town by taking advantage of the quiet streets to mount a takeover. Empty roads in Llandudno proved a tempting habitat for the animals, who have been gorging on hedges and gardens."

Baaaa Humbug.

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

Mountain goats take over Welsh town

Isn't that the fault of the voters?

[MakeeLearn]

Well..shhh. what can you do?!

[Encircled]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

It's the Apocalypse...

Mountain goats take over Welsh town in coronavirus lockdown

31 Mar 2020
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/31/mountain ... -12483098/

"Goats have been defying the lockdown in a North Wales town by taking advantage of the quiet streets to mount a takeover. Empty roads in Llandudno proved a tempting habitat for the animals, who have been gorging on hedges and gardens."

I for one welcome our new goat overlords

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: Encircled

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

It's the Apocalypse...

Mountain goats take over Welsh town in coronavirus lockdown

31 Mar 2020
https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/31/mountain ... -12483098/

"Goats have been defying the lockdown in a North Wales town by taking advantage of the quiet streets to mount a takeover. Empty roads in Llandudno proved a tempting habitat for the animals, who have been gorging on hedges and gardens."

I for one welcome our new goat overlords

But they're not keeping 6 feet apart.

[Encircled]

ORIGINAL: obvert

London report.

Here at home. Again. As most of us are. One trip out today. Went to the park, which is a huge luxury. A little place called Wick Wood, a triangle of birch and alder between a Hackney Marshes, the A-12 highway and the Regent's Canal. We took up walking sticks and played hide and seek, and then rode out to tour the ducks in the Lea river on the way home.

I found out a student has had Covid, and her whole family has now become ill. Worrying. She looked concerned on our Zoom call today. Also, a 13 year old boy died today in a London hospital.

Some good news is that new British made ventilators are scheduled to be sent to hospitals next week. The NHS Nightingale Hospital at the Excel convention Center is nearly online, with up to 4,000 beds. The briefing tonight again offered weak responses to why more tests are not being done. They said it is a shortage of chemical reagents to do the lab analysis. I can't imagine that's the whole story if Germany is at ~ 500k tests and are shooting for 200k/day by late April.

The curve of hospital entries seems to be flattening as deaths continue up, but it seems like the lockdown is working. We had some outside work scheduled on out house, re-pointing some bricks and taking out paving. They called to say suppliers have now stopped shipping building materials, so that industry will now be shut down too.

Feel people out again, but the park busy. All keeping distance. I feel like the message is taking hold.

Dunno if you listen to James O'Brien on LBC mate, but he had a succession of very clued up callers who explained rather well (and bloody worryingly) why we are not ramping up the testing.

We just don't have the capacity, and the government are making sweeping statements every day about it rather than talking to the experts......something the UK is becoming ridiculously good at ignoring recently.

I'm sure we will get there, but Germany doing 500,000 and we can't do 10,000 suggests something is badly wrong somewhere