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In the USA they plan to defend themselves with guns. In the UK we'll just throw bog rolls at each other.

I hear from family that when you walk past apartments in hong kong you can't see in the windows because they're all walled in with toilet rolls.

Four new countries/states infected WHO Sit Rep 56

I have just received a mail from Morgan Austria that they close down till March 29th (minimum).
One of their staff may have been infected with Covid-19.
I had my car serviced there last week.

The hits are getting closer...

We should keep in mind that the handling of the pandemic remains fair. Here are two examples of where things can go wrong, one at national level and one at professional level.

It would be very, very sad if the pandemic would put the common spirit of helping in the background. And instead, blame and isolation happens where joint action and transparency would be more helpful. Here the example of Italy vs. Germany, on the media level.
Blaming does not help in a situation of common need and common fate. What does it change today if it was a German who should have already introduced the virus in Italy on 21.01.? Did he do it on purpose? Or secretly? Of course, it is unfair of the Germans to accuse the Italians of not testing enough people...when they could not know that the virus was there much earlier than first known. Only...none of that helps now. In addition, I have the impression that there is not enough testing going on here in Germany. Especially not in hospitals among the medical staff. For fear they can no longer work when the truth is known.

Conversely the Germans are accused of writing the numbers of deaths by Corona in small letters and they would close the borders unilaterally. Now we will see if the EU is good and makes sense. And if it only helps that no nationalisms break out now.
Here is an article about the discussion which can easily be translated into English.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesells...en-theorie-um-patient-null-16681959.html

Another aspect of Corona. One gets the impression that the prestige and dignity of doctors and medical staff is seen very ambivalently. At least in the USA. On the one hand they are the first helpers at the front in the ICU. They are rightly celebrated as the heroes of the hour (or should I better say of the year), just like 9/11 2001 the firefighters in NY.

On the other hand, they are afraid of being a great danger themselves. In an article it is described that in the USA in a hospital the doctors in the ICU, most of them freelancers, are not paid anymore if they become positive themselves. But at least the hospital washes their work clothes. How cynical.

Because the nurses in this hospital in the USA have to wash their work clothes from the ICU at home because otherwise it would be too expensive. That is the ugly money-grubbing opposite of solidarity and recognition how the hospital behaves in this situation that affects us all. And it is another spreading source of the virus if they habe to carry the clothes home for a wash.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/...module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Our town is in shock today, as our well respected and much loved Town Crier is currently hospitalised and in ICU as a result of Covid19.

These are horrible times.

If there are any left

Just tapped my post code in the local case tracker - only 4 cases out of a population of 245,000.

Think I will risk going to the pub.

Salcombe Estuary Rowing Club have cancelled all rows, think cornish pilot gigs. My partners eldest a very fit 45 year old and wife in London have the virus, she has not seen her son since he finished the Fastnet. It will impact us all