Those numbers...800 dead and 12500 infected.

It is true things only resonate when you have an emotional attachement to them.

A bunch of Chinese dying over there...well.

Italians dying next door : I feel it.

Quote from: paulr on 11 March 2020, 06:17:13 PM
The second battalion of von Luck's Panzergrenadier Regiment was also on exercise so initially engaged the British paras with only blank ammunition  

No worries if they were shooting back at the "Rupert" dummy paratroopers then.    

[btw, a comment on Facebook ..... "We thought there would be flying cars in 2020 and here we are, still trying to get people to wash their hands!"    ]

Quote from: Ithoriel on 11 March 2020, 05:50:14 PM
I wonder how sales of the "Pandemic" board game are doing?

The players have never yet won any game of that I've been involved in. Lets hope that's not an omen.

Up considerably, as well as Outbreak and Plague Inc and various others (so people who work in the games selling industry tell me!).

Hope everyone stays safe, and the added load on the health services is managed.

I've washed so much and so often my hands are cracking open, which is lovely :/

We've got elderly folks with underlying conditions of various sorts and a brand new wee one, so this is marvellous timing!

Just ordered "Eldrich Horror".

Good game. Don't sneeze on the pieces

What I do to reduce my likeliness to spread it :
- Pest my relatives to not go out (My mother yelled at me telling me I was annoying, but she bought a lot of food)
- Pest my friends to pest their parents.
- I don't go out at all (I sculpt from home, so easy for me)
- I postponed my sons visits even before the lock-down. (technically, him being bi-national could come over using his french papers, but I chose having him no to)
- I try to convince people online.
- On a funny note, I modified my Tinder profile to help spread awareness, and killed my sexlife. I think there is a market for the major porn sites to have good "free" PR.

What do you do ?

Tell my students to wash their hands.

Wash my hands so much they're literally falling apart, minimise visits to places with people, make sure my asthma meds are up to date! Put off the family from visiting us as the new arrival is very wee. Work from home.

Ahahaha, Pornhub is free for Italians.

I knew it.

 

We made a bunch of soup/stew for the freezer at the weekend so we've something nutritious to eat if we do end up getting sick. My wife has asked me to pick up a few bottles of wine on the way home....just in case!

Republic of Ireland has just closed all schools today. Still open up here in the North, though a few large businesses in the city centre have shut and making people work from home. Had a few meetings in work on how we'll deal with a breakout or shutdown, alas we're perfectly capable of working from home so business as usual for the most part if we do have to shut offices.

I live in the Southern part of the Netherlands and apparently we're doomed... so be it; it's not the bubonic plague; we'll live. Those that died here were people who had severe health issues already and had a low life expectancy. That doesnt make it easier for them but is what nature does...
On a lighter note; (and I really don't want to insult anybody here) I find it somewhat amusing that someone with the name 'Barbarian' is concerned with washing hands and wearing facemasks... I see visions of hordes of rough men with beards and facemasks, wearing furs and latex gloves descending upon towns and howling out that people should keep their distance and stock up on supplies and that they will definitely not r*pe and pillage anybody within two metres distance...
Sorry for that Barbarian; it's nothing personal and I appreciate your concern but it was too good to pass on... I hope you'll forgive me.

Cheers,
Rob

It is funny.

" Catch him and wash his hands ! "

 

I'm currently visiting and working in Detroit, Michigan, and the governor has declared a state of emergency. The chaps here say that by doing this they can now access federal as well as state funds. As one of them said: "When a big decision is made - follow the money trail"  

19th century colonialists playing 5-day cricket:
https://skwawkbox.org/2020/03/12/johnsons-herd-immunity-plan-would-mean-letting-90-of-uk-catch-covid-19-and-a-million-or-more-die/

If you have a god, now would be time to invoke it! FFS

Mark