The COVID-2019 Thread

[HermantheGerman]

Iranian parliament has decided to suspend sessions over coronavirus threat in an unprecedented move. The decision comes after a bunch of top Iranian officials, including lawmakers, contracted the killer virus.

[HermantheGerman]

Tough call

TEHRAN, Iran

Iran's Health Ministry asked Iranian authorities on Thursday to cancel the Friday prayers and any other congregations due to fears of novel coronavirus.

The Iranian IRNA news agency quoted the Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour saying that all forms of congregations must be canceled till further notice.


Will be interesting to see what will happen tomorrow

The U.S. is supposedly loosening the sanctions because of the virus.

Iran cancelled the main Friday prayers in Tehran and 22 other cities for the first time in decades to limit the spread of the new coronavirus disease.

[Chittychangchang]

Wales has its first case.

That's my plan B fvcked then.

[AntRobertson]

NZ too if it hasn't been noted already

[NamPikToot]

That's my plan B fvcked then.

You ain't borrowing my booze to rub on yourself either

I think that we could have a need for a Corona virus cookery thread - ration special

[Chittychangchang]

Pickle yourself with the alcohol from the inside out, also rubbing it on yourself is not a bad idea as it is absorbed quickly.
Eyeball the vodka and bathe the feet in a bowl of Gin.

This canned Covid19 ration dinner thread could be a blinder of a thread. Gonna have to get real creative...

[NamPikToot]

Chitty i think your predictive text is playing up again

[Chittychangchang]

[NamPikToot]

Gonna have to get real creative...

I blundered by not bringing my usual 20 packets of spicy pork nodden back, they usually sit there go out of date and then make their appointment with the bin but i now find myself regretting not ponying up for that great End Of World staple.

[harrybarracuda]

Iranian parliament has decided to suspend sessions over coronavirus threat in an unprecedented move. The decision comes after a bunch of top Iranian officials, including lawmakers, contracted the killer virus.

Did you not see the Deputy Health Minister's speech? After which they diagnosed him as positive?

[Klondyke]

Geneva Motor Show canceled after coronavirus causes government to ban large events

The 2020 Geneva Motor Show is canceled after the Swiss government banned gatherings of 1,000 people or more on Friday due to concerns over the coronavirus. The ban is effective immediately and runs at least until March 15th. The 90th edition of GIMS was scheduled to start next week.

Geneva Motor Show canceled after coronavirus causes government to ban large events - The Verge

[Chico]

Corona Beer sales in the US down because of the virus,just about sums up the stupidity of the fiasco.

Americans are avoiding Corona beer amid coronavirus outbreak, survey finds

[armstrong]

Pickle yourself with the alcohol from the inside out, also rubbing it on yourself is not a bad idea as it is absorbed quickly.
Eyeball the vodka and bathe the feet in a bowl of Gin.

This canned Covid19 ration dinner thread could be a blinder of a thread. Gonna have to get real creative...

I used to snort red aftershock at university as some kind of weird 'please like me' party trick.

[harrybarracuda]

I wonder if this is the man who was always on Sky bemoaning the overreaction to the virus?

A BRITISH man on board a cruise ship in Japan has died from coronavirus.
The Japanese Ministry of Health said the man was the sixth person to have died on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been quarantined off the coast of Japan.
He is the first Briton to have died from coronavirus, also known as Covid-19.
In the UK, 19 people have been diagnosed with the illness.

First person to die of coronavirus in the UK confirmed | The National

[NamPikToot]

So the useless wankers of the health committee have finally agreed something


Virus alert level 'at its highest'


Dr Mike Ryan, the WHO’s director of health emergencies, has explained that the global risk level of "very high" is the highest alert the organisation can declare.
He said earlier that it would be "unhelpful" to declare a pandemic when the world was still trying to contain the virus.
"If we say there's a pandemic of coronavirus we're essentially accepting that every human on the planet will be exposed to that virus. The data does not support that as yet," he said.

[misskit]

^^ Earlier, I told about my brother on a South Pacific cruise which the authorities in Tonga wouldn’t let the passengers off the ship. This cruise was to go on around NZ and Australia, then to Indonesia, Malaysia, and end in Singapore. Now Crystal is having everyone disembark in Sidney and refunding the rest of the trip. No one is sick...yet.

[NamPikToot]

^ probably for the best Kit, i wouldn't want to be stuck on a quarantined ship.

[knowsitlike]

Listen up, everyone is going to get this virus, doesn’t matter where you live, how much money you have, how high the walls are, or how wide the seas.. it’s just a matter of time. Get it now or get it later, what life will be when all the infrastructure and systems start to get fucked? the virus itself may kill 100m odd, but the chaos if it goes too quick will be more significant. Don’t panic, but start looking at what it means to live with it. Over and out Amigos

[NamPikToot]

^ great, i'm still happy i have me 3 months beer and whine supply though Knowsit

[Chico]

I'm off to the Pitcairn islands then, maybe can get a bit of my genes into the interbreeding community before it all goes Pete Tong.

Then again maybe new Zealand.

[panama hat]

Then again maybe new Zealand.

No. Simple. Pitcairn, you can go to.

But here is one place that is safe:

[Cujo]

No. Simple. Pitcairn, you can go to.

But here is one place that is safe:

No shit, what a bunch of clowns.

The US health department sent workers to assist Americans evacuated from China because of the coronavirus outbreak without proper training or appropriate protective gear, according to a whistleblower complaint filed by a senior department official who said she faced retaliation.

The workers were “improperly deployed” to two military bases in California where Americans who had been in the center of the outbreak, Wuhan in China, were being processed, according to a complaint first reported by the Washington Post.

The whistleblower’s attorney, Ari Wilkenfeld, confirmed the Washington Post accurately described allegations made in a complaint filed to the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and said his law firm was hopeful the case would be investigated in a “timely and comprehensive manner”.

“This matter concerns HHS’s response to the coronavirus, and its failure to protect its employees and potentially the public,” Wilkenfeld said in an email to the Guardian. “The retaliatory efforts to intimidate and silence our client must be opposed.”

The staff in question were from the health department’s Administration for Children and Families, or ACF, and were not medical workers. They were “not properly trained or equipped to operate in a public health emergency situation” according to the complaint, which said they had face-to-face contact with evacuees on multiple occasions.

After potentially being exposed to the coronavirus, the workers moved freely off the air force bases and at least one left California on a commercial flight. About 14 personnel were sent to March air force base in Riverside county, California, and about 13 personnel were sent to Travis air force base in Solano county in late January and early February.

Solano county is the first location in the US to see coronavirus confirmed in a person who had not traveled to an area where the illness was spreading and who had no known contact with someone diagnosed with the illness.

The whistleblower, who reportedly received two awards from the health secretary last year, said she was unfairly reassigned after raising concern about the workers.
“We take all whistleblower complaints very seriously and are providing the complainant all appropriate protections under the Whistleblower Protection Act,” an HHS spokeswoman, Caitlin Oakley, told reporters. “We are evaluating the complaint and have nothing further to add at this time.

US coronavirus staff were untrained and unprotected, says whistleblower | US news | The Guardian

[panama hat]

The whistleblower, who reportedly received two awards from the health secretary last year, said she was unfairly reassigned after raising concern about the workers.

How very different to the Chinese doctor who first raised the alarm about the coronavirus . . . peas in a pod, except this pod can go to the courts

[harrybarracuda]

Get it now or get it later

Problem is you can get it now AND get it later.

[Bettyboo]

^ yeah, that's bad news...

594 news cases in the last 24 hours, and the government saying there's a lot more to come - Korea is bringing it's a-game to this competition...





& China is claiming very few if any new cases per day over the last week or so - imagine how high the real numbers in China must be!!!


61 countries...