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[nenjin]

Let's hope so, because I cannot imagine how terrible it must be for doctors to have to choose who will live and who must die.

Yeah, this decision is typically left up to hospital administrators. :|

[martinuzz]

No they can't leave that decision up to administrators, because administrators aren't trained to diagnose.

Diagnosis is required (except in the case of people over 80 years old) to select who is going to get hospital care and who isn't, so it will be up to the doctors.

[TamerVirus]

Parts of Italy seem to be at that 'war-time' triage point already from what I've read.

[Imic]

I was going to make a joke about how Martinuzz is dead and you’re sending a message from beyond the grave in the hopes of someone noticing your secret code which details the truth of the afterlife and the eternal torture of hell therin, but then there were ninjas, and I coukdn’t figure out a good joke, so instead here’s a highland cow.

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[Quarque]

Are there any B12er's with the virus already, or am I going to be the first?

I had some sniffles and a slight temperature rise for half a day last week so I probably already had it.

You don't know that if you haven't been tested.. it's even still unlikely at this stage, given how low the number of infected people is as of today.

[martinuzz]

Our prime minister is a dumbfuck.
Today he adressed the nation, asking people to stop shaking hands.
At the end of the speech, he shook hands with our healthcare authority director.

[feelotraveller]

Parts of Italy seem to be at that 'war-time' triage point already from what I've read.

Italy shmitaly.  Let's talk about how the Canary Islands aren't part of Spain again. 

[Iduno]

Our prime minister is a dumbfuck.
Today he adressed the nation, asking people to stop shaking hands.
At the end of the speech, he shook hands with our healthcare authority director.

See, in the US people are somewhat happy to learn the Zodiac Killer shook hands with a person with Coronavirus. Our leaders getting sick means someone might care about the problem enough to do something about it.

[martinuzz]

Are there any B12er's with the virus already, or am I going to be the first?

I had some sniffles and a slight temperature rise for half a day last week so I probably already had it.

You don't know that if you haven't been tested.. it's even still unlikely at this stage, given how low the number of infected people is as of today.

I was only half-serious.

Let's just say that there is a possibility that my (and with me a LOT of my fellow Dutchies')  flu-like symptoms were actually mild expression of corona.

No one knows, because no testing was done except for those folks who had travelled to risk areas.
There is a doctor who contracted the virus during ski vacation in Italy, he was only slightly sick for half a day and went back to skiing without even knowing he had the virus.

He was tested positive after returning home, because he insisted he be tested even though he no longer had symptoms, to protect his patients.

EDIT
Meanwhile in my province today, about 10000 children did not attend school, after health authorities asked children and teachers on primary schools that have even the mildest of symptoms to stay at home.
As a result, many parents also did not go to work, since they had to stay at home and watch the children.

[TamerVirus]

Well now Italy is under nationwide lockdown

[Il Palazzo]

Mamma mia! Molto schifo! Mi son strappato i peli del cazzo.

[TamerVirus]

Dammit Mario, you've bought the plague to the Mushroom Kingdom!

[Naturegirl1999]

Dammit Mario, you've bought the plague to the Mushroom Kingdom!

a spin-off of a Mario game where you play as a character to get rid of the plague Mario unknowing.y brought to the Mushroom Kingdom sounds fun. A likely candidate for the player character might be Dr. E. Gadd

[Folly]

Let's hope so, because I cannot imagine how terrible it must be for doctors to have to choose who will live and who must die.

I would imagine the doctors feel about it much like anyone else doing any other job.

[Iduno]

The US's response to the Coronavirus is stupid, even if you don't think the Coronavirus is any worse than the flu (which has killed something like 20k people in the US so far this season).

It doesn't sound like it's going to get better. And, for once, I will suggest reading the comments.