Coronavirus - Overall
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This is all so fucked. I swear i have a constant headache just from banging my head against family and friends that isnt taking this seriously. Brothers travel agent is a fucking retard, they all seem to think 'the worst is over' 'it'll blow over tomorrow'. Optimism bias from living a life of luxury for too long. They've just arrived in London and gone to get a canadian flight for a few days time (agent can only authorise changing flight a few days in the future) and ticketing staff have said despite what the walking-vajayjay Trudeau might have said in the Guardian Canada is closing borders tomorrow. Their agent then booked them a flight via Dubei, for when you say?....fucken Tuesday! I do a basic google search and see UAE too are closing borders on Tuesday. They talk to ticketing staff who find out that is true and wonder why im getting info faster than they are.
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Oh, the irony...
Mexico is considering closing its border to stop Americans bringing coronavirus into its country as US case count passes 2,000.
This would be a perfectly valid thing to do from a health perspective as in Mexico there have only been 16 confirmed cases and no deaths.
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@Bovidae said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Oh, the irony...
Mexico is considering closing its border to stop Americans bringing coronavirus into its country as US case count passes 2,000.
This would be a perfectly valid thing to do from a health perspective as in Mexico there have only been 16 confirmed cases and no deaths.
They should build a wall to at least keep those disease ridden Californians out too, pandemic or no pandemic!
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@Rembrandt Yeah, I get that people aren't concerned about the virus itself, (I'm not to tell you the truth), but the politics surrounding it is crazy. Things literally change as you go with borders closing everywhere with the fear of being stranded in random countries as I was in the situation myself.
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@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Bovidae said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Oh, the irony...
Mexico is considering closing its border to stop Americans bringing coronavirus into its country as US case count passes 2,000.
This would be a perfectly valid thing to do from a health perspective as in Mexico there have only been 16 confirmed cases and no deaths.
They should build a wall to at least keep those disease ridden Californians out too, pandemic or no pandemic!
Mexico will be most worried about the US college students going there for spring break.
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My bro and his family were due to move to LA. He was going first on Tuesday to start getting them set up but that isn't happening now. We had a yarn last night and he's going to push his ticket back to April - just to see what the state of play will be before making longer term plans. Who knows what travel restrictions will be in place by then.
Meanwhile a work colleague has just reached Dubai on the way to the UK for a family trip... unsure if they second guessed going as they missed the latest NZ news. Now they'll have an extra 14 days of isolation (at least) once they return, and who knows what their trip will be like or if they will be able to make it back. Suspect they caught a case of wishful thinking but hope things go well for them.
All the best to the family and friends of our Fern community - hope thing work out for anyone in transit or trying to get back to NZ.
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A long read but one of the better I have seen so far, I don't think the author has any expertise but what he puts together makes sense. Makes NZ look good for taking early action.
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca -
@Paekakboyz Yeah for sure, China has shown the blueprint, to think you can do it any other way is probably naive. Italy has shown the worst outcome at the moment if you don't act quickly.
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@Bovidae said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Rembrandt said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
@Bovidae said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Oh, the irony...
Mexico is considering closing its border to stop Americans bringing coronavirus into its country as US case count passes 2,000.
This would be a perfectly valid thing to do from a health perspective as in Mexico there have only been 16 confirmed cases and no deaths.
They should build a wall to at least keep those disease ridden Californians out too, pandemic or no pandemic!
Mexico will be most worried about the US college students going there for spring break.
Not to worry, someone built a wall to keep them out didn't they?
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Anyone actually believe those China figures, just 11 new cases yesterday?
@chimoaus said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
This site is worth checking for up to date stats.
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@Davesofthunder said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Anyone actually believe those China figures, just 11 new cases yesterday?
@chimoaus said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
This site is worth checking for up to date stats.
Conspiracy theorists probably say no. But I'd say there is no good reason for them to lie now, and from what I read in the article about Taiwan they allowed Taiwanese observers in pretty early. And while they didn't necessarily fully disclose they allowed them more than enough access for the Taiwanese to come to the correct conclusions. Factories are starting to re-open which is a good sign, and based on anecdotal reports from people I know people are still restricting their movements over there
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@Bovidae said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
Oh, the irony...
Mexico is considering closing its border to stop Americans bringing coronavirus into its country as US case count passes 2,000.
This would be a perfectly valid thing to do from a health perspective as in Mexico there have only been 16 confirmed cases and no deaths.
Couple of things.
1/ I assume this is racist?
2/ Of course it is justified if numbers are trhe, but if you trust those Mexican numbers I have a bridge to sell you -
@chimoaus said in Coronavirus: should I be panicking yet?:
I'm interested to know how Germany have such few deaths given the number of cases? Healthy population, good healthcare?
I hear they've popped those infected into a goods train wagon and sent it off to Poland. Worked for them before (for a bit).