Belgium (I’m Belgian and my family is there but I live in UK) just announced they are closing all schools (kindergarten to universities) until after Easter.
Food stores and pharmacies will be open as usual (Monday - Saturday), but all other shops closed on weekends. No more festivals or big gatherings of any kind.
When you compare both, the UK’s response is very mild still. Guess they are modelling differently…
In other news, my company is still very reticent to consider letting people work from home and, even for us in the software dev department (which really doesn’t require being in the office), there is no priority on getting the WFH infrastructure updated and ready. Commutes through packed trains and underground in London it is. Awesome.
One interesting thing I saw is that Washington DC has the highest number of hospital beds per capita by a pretty wide margin, so maybe triage won’t start as early there…
Dammit, I stand corrected!
Is your duty of care to keep the most people alive or ensure the best RAROC on your investments? As I said earlier, view this through the lens of a disaster capitalist or hypercapitalist. We can’t forget what the Tories have been doing, or what ideologies dominate Johnsons nationalist party before we had heard of coronavirus. There’s no evidence that are government who killed 200,000 through austerity have the peoples best interests at heart.
CraigM
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All the above, except the beer I haven’t had, are not only things I would try, but even my preference. Dark chocolate peanut butter cups? Hells yeah!
My normal breakfast is yogurt with granola and flax seed so…
I suspect that in Portland all your choices would find greater purchase. In fact I’d wager the flax cereal would be sold out.
I would still think that keeping the death toll to the lowest possible number by having multiple smaller peaks would be better even for investors because of a smaller shock to the system overall.
Doesnt shock doctrine allow them to reach where they want to be even quicker?
Ha! Good point. What laws do you think they’re going to pass while the public is in shock though?
That’s why the optimal strategy is to camp in your house and hit overwatch all day.
Massive reduction in workers rights, regulations and rules in order to kickstart the post-Corona economy?
Maybe it’s just about managing their own accountability? If they just let it spread on purpose, they can’t be accused of having failed to slow it or something?
XFL players are being told the season is cancelled. For those who care. :)
Nesrie
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So can we even… hold of a census? I’m thinking it might not be the best time to have people go door to door.
I just want to thank you for posting this. It’s really great. Everyone should read it and share it.
draxen
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I can only speculate…
The way they explained it in the press conference is that they will try to both blunt the peak and extend it so it lasts over a longer period of time. I assume they’ve calculated this will cause less deaths than multiple higher peaks.
Menzo
2851
From my cold, dead hands.
Simply ridiculous. Pretty much all the school systems around DC are closing down. I reckon government offices will be shuttered in a handful of days, which means that most of the sites your field trip was hoping to see will be inaccessible. I think the Smithsonian is a private institution, but I can’t imagine it will be open too much longer – it would end up being the single largest potential vector in the city.
Teiman
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When theres not much left to close, then we wait. Is called a quarantine.
I have decided to work from home. Coronachan, please ignore my house and my mom and pa.
