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[Jerick]

I live in the countryside, so there’s very little worry of catching It, if only because there’s very few people to catch it from, and most of them are taking heavy precautions anyway, as am I. My Uncle’s stopped coming for food, thank God, because he’s convinced I and everyone else in the village already have it. The government sent out a speech from the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) a few day ago, and apparently they’re going to provide welfare for those who can’t work or lose their jobs or are at risk, which is nice. They’re acually spending money on the populace for once. It was a hideously scripted speech though, and he quoted Winston Churchill at one point, completely forgetting that he was the shithead who ordered the fucking Black-and-Tans to come over and brutalize us. It was better than it couod have been, a lot better than the responses in the UK and the USA, but christ if I can’t stand that man sometimes.

I agree entirely. Varadkar is absolutely terrible politician but from what I understand is a decent doctor. They're nearly doubling the number of ventilator kits in the country and making agreements with a number of hotels and army barracks so they can turn them into temporary hospitals before the surge in cases hits. A world of difference from the Uk and US response.

[TD1]

I live in the countryside, so there’s very little worry of catching It, if only because there’s very few people to catch it from, and most of them are taking heavy precautions anyway, as am I. My Uncle’s stopped coming for food, thank God, because he’s convinced I and everyone else in the village already have it. The government sent out a speech from the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) a few day ago, and apparently they’re going to provide welfare for those who can’t work or lose their jobs or are at risk, which is nice. They’re acually spending money on the populace for once. It was a hideously scripted speech though, and he quoted Winston Churchill at one point, completely forgetting that he was the shithead who ordered the fucking Black-and-Tans to come over and brutalize us. It was better than it couod have been, a lot better than the responses in the UK and the USA, but christ if I can’t stand that man sometimes.

Hah, quoting Churchill in the Republic. Not smart. Though of course the Black and Tans didn't kill Patrick O'Connell or James McDonnell.

[Jopax]

In other 'fuck this general part of humanity with a hot poker' news, certain asshats have begun dressing in hazmat suits and going around peoples home to 'disinfect' them.

Except in this case disinfecting entails taking their stuff.

And this is before shit has hit the fan, how low will they stoop once we're actually short on basic things is anyones guess.

[TamerVirus]

More people died in Italy in a single day from the Coronavirus vs the number of people killed by SARS’s entire epidemic lifetime.
The numbers coming out of Italy are absolutely dreadful

[ChairmanPoo]

If it helps anyone cope with the isolation, here's a 360° video

https://youtu.be/LBFQ8aTad9I

I didn't record it but it's one of the must-see places in my homeland.
It has been a long, long time since I was there last

[Enemy post]

I also found this virtual tour of the Smithsonian Natural History museum, and this one for the Air and Space museum.

[misko27]

For what I've heard official NYC estimates already stated a week ago that they didn't have enough resources to cope. Even assuming a degree of exaggeration, it will be very very bad. Worse because the fed govt is doing nothing

Yes, this was true. Except now it's moved from projections and hypotheticals to something that is actively happening.

[Jopax]

Welp, starting tomorrow a nation wide curfew is in effect. Probably gonna have to get a permit from your workplace to be able to leave the house outside those hours. There's also talk (very unconfirmed) that they'll be shutting down the roads leading into/out of the city, which, considering my place of work is outside it is gonna be fun and probably another permit or straight up not being allowed to move :S

Also Croatia is in for a fun time, number of confirmed cases doubled today to nearly 200 total. You'd think people would have learned from Italy but it seems nobody was taking the quarantine too seriously and most folks were treating it like a holiday of sorts. Luckily the government was somewhat more prepared in that they started work on emergency hospitals in various big cities around the country. If that will be enough remains to be seen tho.

[MrRoboto75]

and this one for the Air and Space museum.

wow the worse one :p

[Bumber]

If it helps anyone cope with the isolation, here's a 360° video

https://youtu.be/LBFQ8aTad9I

I didn't record it but it's one of the must-see places in my homeland.
It has been a long, long time since I was there last

Link causes tab to crash.

Waterfox Classic doesn't like whatever format that is.

[Max™]

Oh god... I think Trump was such an idiot back when he made that mysterious covfefe tweet--and then said nothing else the rest of the night--that in trying to escape the pain of being trapped inside itself, his mind looked outward and he caught a glimpse of the future.

Fear the COVID
Fear COVID Fear it
COV FEAR FEAR
COVFEFE

Sonofaturd hodor'D us.

I'm going to stay up all night thinking about this.

It's worse, I realized now I was mistaken about things.

"Despite my perfect response, the constant fake news and negative press over whatever covid is hurts my feelings."
"Despite my perfect response, the constant negative press over covid hurts my feelings."
"Despite the constant negative press over covid hurting my feefees"
"Despite the constant negative press covfefe"

[misko27]

Also if you were looking for the official NYC guidance on having sex during the COVID-19 epidemic, look no further.

[Rolan7]

At first I giggled, but the information is actually pretty interesting and helpful.  Mostly obvious, but that's alright.  It feels good (if a bit odd) to see a local government sharing such clear and direct information, even admitting points of uncertainty.

[misko27]

Yes it's actually very useful and reasonable, but I mean, you gotta love it when an official government paper is made on the topic.

And I mean you gotta love this line:

You are your safest sex partner.

How true that is.

[scriver]

*As I tighten the belt necesssry to climax on my own yhese days further around my neck* Yep, definitely