Coronavirus: What Is Life Like Now Where You Are?

[Simon Wood]

It has become strangely silent in California.

Stay safe, guys.

Simon

[GUT]

Wow, sorry to hear that GUT.
In Ontario I've heard all surgery both elective & essential has been halted so as to focus on COVID patients.

Our Premier has ordered all non-essential services are to shut down at 11:59 pm Wednesday night.
My two daughters are under Essential Services, one is a nurse on the cancer ward and the other is a supervisor at a Care Home.
It looks like I may be included, transport drivers have been viewed as an Essential Service. A list of who is allowed to work is to be published tomorrow (24th).

This is like being in a science fiction movie.....

Thanks, I think it will go ahead and if it doesn’t it can wait a bit longer.

[Wickerman]

Wow, sorry to hear that GUT.
In Ontario I've heard all surgery both elective & essential has been halted so as to focus on COVID patients.

Our Premier has ordered all non-essential services are to shut down at 11:59 pm Wednesday night.
My two daughters are under Essential Services, one is a nurse on the cancer ward and the other is a supervisor at a Care Home.
It looks like I may be included, transport drivers have been viewed as an Essential Service. A list of who is allowed to work is to be published tomorrow (24th).

This is like being in a science fiction movie.....

[GUT]

Here in NSW everything is shut down, people are acting like idiots, supermarkets are ripping people off, the Courts have even shut up shop, meanwhile no govt handouts, Mrs Gut still has to trot off to come in contact with 1200 dirty little grits that never wash anything and have no idea of social distancing, while I wait and see if the procedure on my spine goes ahead or not. Great fun.

[barnflatwyngarde]

They say that the great thing about Glasgow, is that you never know where your next invasion of privacy is coming from.

Well, things are pretty dead up here.
Very strange to see busy out of town retail parks pretty much deserted.
No privacy to invade.

However I did read something yesterday that cheered me up immensely.

Some of my favourite books are childrens books:

• Wind in the Willows
• The Giving Tree
• Winnie the Pooh
• The Mysteries of Harris Burdick etc, etc

From The House at Pooh Corner.........Pooh and Piglet go for a walk on a blustery day.
Piglet is nervous, and asks Pooh what would happen if a tree fell on top of them.

"Supposing it doesn't ", said Pooh.

Piglet was comforted by this.

[Joshua Rogan]

The Star 24th Oct 1888
The Malady That Is Upon Us.
Influenza, known in France as the grippe, is just now epidemic in London, says the Medical Press and Circular, and possibly elsewhere in the British Isles. It is quite distinct from the ordinary "cold in the head," to which it stands in much the same relation as cholera does to summer diarrhoea. It is not, strictly speaking, infectious, although it occurs in epidemic form. The victims are stricken down simultaneously, often by hundreds and even thousands. The first great epidemic occurred as far back as 1580, and spread all over Europe. Since that time epidemics have broken out at irregular intervals. The most marked feature of this malady is the intensity of the nervous phenomena. Some years since the entire crew of a man-of-war cruising in the Channel were incapacitated within a few hours, to such an extent, and with such impartiality, that the vessel had to hoist signals of distress and obtain assistance to navigate it. When it invades a town the disease conquers the whole population at one fell swoop. The epidemic of 1847 in one month skipped from Spain to Newfoundland, and from New Zealand to Valparaiso, Syria, Africa, and even to Hong Kong. It usually travels from east to west. Apart from the ordinary symptoms of catarrh, respiration is often extremely embarrassed, and sometimes death results from positive "paralysis of the lungs."

[Harry D]

All because China can't resist their wetmarkets. Literal menageries of animals, dead and alive, pissing, shitting and bleeding over each other in close contact with humans. What could possibly go wrong?

[harry]

I went into my supermarket and was told there was no toilet paper,so I bought a hundred copies of the local paper.

[c.d.]

"Virus Rebels" from France to Florida Flout Lockdown Practices

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...es/ar-BB11xfN1

c.d.

[JeffHamm]

Here's today's article in the NZ Herald. It has included an interactive graph, allowing people to look at different countries and # of confirmed cases over time, which may be of interest to many.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12318914

- Jeff

[Enigma]

[Wickerman]

[Sally]

But we have Boris Johnson in charge and he's a muppet too.

Literally

[c.d.]

Here in Washington, D.C. the mayor has ordered all restaurants and bars closed as well as all gyms. You can still get take out and home delivery but that's it. A couple of restaurants vowed to defy the shutdown order but soon relented when the mayor said we ain't kidding around here guys. This will be enforced.

c.d.

[Wickerman]

Apart from empty shelves of toilet roll and liquid cleaners, everything else is mostly normal. I notice rice & pasta missing but we don't buy that anyway.
So far it's not affecting us, and I have worn gloves all day long at work anyway, plus I work alone which is always a plus even in the best of times (I'm a transport driver).

We'll see what happens on St. Patricks Day, thats 'home coming' time for the student fraternity. Thousands of them take to the streets drinking & partying.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/is-one-...arty-1.4851855

Not a smart idea to do that this year.