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    • SeulS
      Seul
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      I'm slowly stocking up on cheese, bread, wines, apéritives and video games. Got two full fridges of beer… Enough bog roll to
      re-mummify all Egyptian pharaos...

      Fuck it...

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      • neph93N
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        Another measure included is mandatory 14 day quarantine for anyone returning from abroad. Morons can weigh up their cheap holiday against 14 days indoors (potentially without pay).

        «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
        We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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          A high school kid in Seattle made a website to track stats. Not sure if it has all the info you’re looking for, but it’s been getting a lot of attention. [https://ncov2019.live/data[\URL]

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          • DougNgD
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            @sabergirl:

            A high school kid in Seattle made a website to track stats. Not sure if it has all the info you’re looking for, but it’s been getting a lot of attention. [https://ncov2019.live/data[\URL]

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            This is helpful, thanks so much

            If anyone find anything else please let me know](https://ncov2019.live/data[\URL]<br /><br /><br />Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk<br /><br />This is helpful, thanks so much<br /><br />If anyone find anything else please let me know)

            I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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              misfitlife
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              @Giles:

              Tonight Paula and I went to dinner with Haraki and few others, including Akashi, the guy who makes the UHF's.  So guess what?  we got around to talking about them.

              Interesting fact.

              Because UHF is so heavy, if we used a regular shirt pattern to make UHF shirts, the collar would stand far too high on the neck and look ridiculous, this is because the angle of the shoulders would push the collar up, as the double thickness of the material is so unyielding.  So Haraki has reduced the angle of the shoulders (compared to other shirts) to counter this tendency.  The result is that when laid flat, the shirt looks ungainly because the angle is so shallow, but this results in a clean look when worn….

              I know I'm biased and have a "slight" tendency for hyperbole, but I do truly believe that there are so many cool things about UHF's, that I can justifiably claim that they are the best flannels in the world, bar none

              Not to take away from the global chaos Covid-19 is causing, I agree @neph93, these are interesting times indeed!

              On the topic of UHFs, @Giles, the above is a no bullshit statement!

              The first IH shirt I purchased was a IHSH-75 two years ago, I love it! I had just started looking at Ironheart and, at the time was getting more into high end shirts….been doing the denim thing for awhile....so I decided I needed some nicer shirts. I started reading about UHFs in my research on the perfect denim worshirt, hence the above, once I figured out what UHF stood for 8), I set my sights on procuring one. My first UHF was a sale grab from Selfedge, the wonderful purple 130. Without hyperbole, when I pulled it out of the box I was in huge grinning awe! It was stunning. I had never in my life had a flannel like this. They are the heaviest, most comfortable, on point fitting flannels in existence!

              I had found the perfect flannel shirt, many of the past beauty's make me wish much sooner! I now own six and counting 😉

              Thank you!

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              • Y
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                The school I work at is closed indefinitely since yesterday…. so 14 days at least. My wife cant go to work because I work at that school and my kids cant go to daycare for the same reason.... up good old CT of the USA! stuff is getting crazy around here.

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                  Omega Man
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                  Yep.  Getting serious in Canada as well.  Ontario seconday schools will be closed for two weeks after March break.  Our prime minister and his wife are in self isloation mode.  A few universities are contemplating online lesson as well.  No NBA / NHL / MLS games for the time being.

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                  • spitfiredealerS
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                    Quite surprised the schools aren’t being shut in the U.K yet. Thought they would of announced it today. Government seems to think we are a few weeks away from it getting really bad. Dunno how much faith I have in them getting it right. They don’t seem to get much right.

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                    • ChrisC
                      Chris
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                      Did you know Covid-19 can be said to the tune of Come On Eileen?

                      It doesn't make the pandemic any better, but it makes talking about it more fun.

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                      • neph93N
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                        @spitfiredealer:

                        Quite surprised the schools aren’t being shut in the U.K yet. Thought they would of announced it today. Government seems to think we are a few weeks away from it getting really bad.

                        Without getting party political, that shower of shite are not to be trusted to get anything right. It is mind boggling that stricter measures aren’t in place in the UK. The general consensus here is that what happened in Norway today happened about three days too late.

                        Every country is different and there are a lot of variables that will affect the spread but from what I know of both countries and their cultures I’d suggest the risk of epidemic spread and large numbers of deaths is larger in the UK than many others.

                        «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                        We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

                        • Dame Vera Lynn
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                        • GilesG
                          Giles
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                          I am reading an awful lot about CV and trying to understand exactly what is happening.

                          Frankly, I am appalled at the politicization of the situation.

                          I don't want this to become a political conversation.  But for fuck's sake politicians and the media, sometimes it is time to drop the bullshit and focus on fact.

                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                          • Paul9221P
                            Paul9221
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                            I've been using this Johns Hopkins University site for stats:

                            https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

                            Blanket-line all the things!!!

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                            • Paul9221P
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                              @Giles:

                              I am reading an awful lot about CV and trying to understand exactly what is happening.

                              Frankly, I am appalled at the politicization of the situation.

                              I don't want this to become a political conversation.  But for fuck's sake politicians and the media, sometimes it is time to drop the bullshit and focus on fact.

                              I liked that Merkel just came out and said it as the bluntly as possible:

                              https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-merkel/two-thirds-of-germans-may-get-coronavirus-merkel-says-idUSKBN20Y1EY

                              Blanket-line all the things!!!

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                                We are all practicing social distancing or isolation (kids are going nuts) for the most part in my neighborhood and town.

                                I basically have to watch for symptoms for the next 13 days since I may have been exposed, but honestly the way this thing is going I thinks it's more "when" than "if".

                                The exposure was so bad in the town I work, you had 20 people who were directly exposed to a confirmed case and are experiencing symptoms currently who then each interacted with at least 20 people each, so it just grew exponentially in a matter of 6 days….

                                You can't find any cleaning products in any stores or hand sanitizers, so tomorrow I'm heading out to buy more booze, ibuprofen and tylenol (adults and kids) for when the fever hits (and hopefully it never does and I waste a few bucks). So crazy....

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                                  Jett129
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                                  Went to the store at 2PM on a Thursday,which is usually empty. Absolutely crazy how crowded it was,and how much stuff people were buying. I just needed a few things. Took over an hour to get out of there.

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                                  • JDelageJ
                                    JDelage
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                                    Two good articles:

                                    First one is a 20mn careful read with tons of charts:
                                    https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

                                    Second one is a 5mn read of bulletpoint takeaways from an expert discussion (epidemiologists at UC San Francisco):
                                    https://www.linkedin.com/content-guest/article/notes-from-ucsf-expert-panel-march-10-dr-jordan-shlain-m-d-/

                                    It looks like it's going to be a mother. If the epidemiological guesses are correct it's going to make 2008 look like a walk in the park.

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                                    • JDelageJ
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                                      France just announced they were closing all educational institutions as of Monday, probably later than they should have. Belgium is also closing bars and restaurants, night clubs, etc if I'm not mistaken. I expect those measures will spread throughout Europes in the next few days.

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                                      • GCG
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                                        Due to a planned trip to Brazil over April, I’ve been keeping and eye on the growth of COVID-19 worldwide. Found this website yesterday which tracks the cases and outcomes, so a good way to see how fast some countries are being affected and those which are tackling it well.

                                        https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

                                        Stay safe peeps

                                        Insta @eaudepetroleum

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                                        • SeulS
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                                          sneezes

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                                          • gaseousclayG
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                                            Found this from another site, perhaps a silver lining for the future?

                                            Could COVID 19 be stopped by warmer weather?

                                            We still don’t understand why respiratory infections like colds and the flu typically start in the winter and tend to fizzle out by late spring. There are many different theories to explain this, but one key component might be that the dryness of winter air makes it difficult for the lung to defend itself. If you don’t have winter to dry out your schnoz, just get on an airplane, where average humidity is about 12% — drier than most deserts (because the engineering required to humidify an airplane is exceedingly complicated).

                                            We can hope that COVID-19 will tail off with the coming of spring. The 2003 SARS outbreak peaked in March and April and was all but over by May. MERS appeared in 2012, spiked in the spring of 2014, and has just simmered since. It’s been isolated primarily to the Arabian Peninsula, which lacks what most people would recognize as winter.

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                                            WTB:
                                            IHSH-129 size L (blue)
                                            IHSH-19

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