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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (International) – Sunday/Monday, March 29/30

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Looks like Russia’s response will combine all the worst features of China *and* Italy:


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Let’s hope this isn’t the first of many…

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  1. 1.

    p.a.

    I appreciate and rely on these posts, but after, I need abt 6 hours of kitten videos.

    Thanks to the redstate geniuses for making ‘flatten the curve’ become ‘flatten the waves’.  And of course they’ll blame (((New York)))

  3. 3.

    Joey Maloney

    The Haaretz story is infuriating. I hope King Bibi really does drop quarantines on the heavily infected Haredim neighborhoods. No way to stop them from soaking up scarce health care resources, though.

    And given their notorious pigheadedness and disregard for secular law, probably no way to enforce a quarantine without deploying the army to form a literal cordon sanitaire around urban neighborhoods. And then giving them orders to put down the riots.

    No way Netanyahu has the stomach for that.

  4. 4.

    Chyron HR

    two carriers potentially mission-killed by an adversary without a single missile in its arsenal

    Does calling yourself a “war president” work if you’re losing the war?

  7. 7.

    Joey Maloney

    Lest you think I’m exaggerating the Haredim’s contempt for civil authority –
    4 arrested, dozens fined as police crack down on violations in Mea Shearim 

    Police crack down on violations of government restrictions against gatherings in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood, arresting four people and fining at least another 30…“During this [operation], the officers took out and broke up crowds of dozens and hundreds that had clustered in synagogues and informal houses of worship,” police say.

    In police footage from the operation, residents of the neighborhood can be heard calling the officers “Nazis” and “criminals,” and referring to the female officers as shiksehs, a slur for non-Jewish women.

  8. 8.

    MagdaInBlack

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Joan Baez has a nice little tribute singing “Hello In There”.

    Which I am for some reason unable to post, but its on YouTube >> For John Prine

  12. 12.

    OzarkHillbilly

    I’ve got tears running down my face: Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device

    “After scrapping that idea, I was still a bit bored, playing with the magnets. It’s the same logic as clipping pegs to your ears – I clipped them to my earlobes and then clipped them to my nostril and things went downhill pretty quickly when I clipped the magnets to my other nostril.”

    Reardon said he placed two magnets inside his nostrils, and two on the outside. When he removed the magnets from the outside of his nose, the two inside stuck together. Unfortunately, the researcher then attempted to use his remaining magnets to remove them.

    “At this point, my partner who works at a hospital was laughing at me,” he said. “I was trying to pull them out but there is a ridge at the bottom of my nose you can’t get past.

    Before attending the hospital, Reardon attempted to use pliers to pull them out, but they became magnetised by the magnets inside his nose.

    “Every time I brought the pliers close to my nose, my entire nose would shift towards the pliers and then the pliers would stick to the magnet,” he said. “It was a little bit painful at this point.

    “My partner took me to the hospital that she works in because she wanted all her colleagues to laugh at me. The doctors thought it was quite funny, making comments like ‘This is an injury due to self-isolation and boredom.’”

  14. 14.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Amir Khalid: I loved the

    “I accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you move your hand close to your face,” he said.

  15. 15.

    Anne Laurie

    @OzarkHillbilly: I *swear* I put up the next post before I read this, Mr. OH!

    (One of my favorite books in early childhood was Little Men, which includes the probably no-longer-widely-shared old wives’ tale about the kids who put beans up their noses purely because their mama told them not to… followed by grown-up Jo March telling her kids that the story inspired her to try shoving a pebble up her nose, which didn’t turn out well either.  Even at age 8 or 9, I had a pretty clear impression that Ms. Alcott was speaking from personal experience there!)

  16. 16.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Anne Laurie: Kids and orifices…

    A friend of mine woke up screaming that a cockroach had crawled into her ear. Everybody laughed at her. A week later she had an ear infection. Mom took her to the Doc. The Doc…

    The Doc pulled….

    The Doc pulled a cockroach out of her ear.

    I’m not sure Mom ever quite recovered from the experience even if Baby Sister did.

  20. 20.

    Ken

    The entire crew of a nuclear submarine placed in coronavirus quarantine

    two carriers potentially mission-killed by an adversary without a single missile in its arsenal

    Sounds like we could divert some funding from the Navy budget to vaccine research, considering the Navy will be useless until there is a vaccine.

  22. 22.

    ziggy

    OzarkHillbilly: The Doc pulled a cockroach out of her ear.

    A similar thing happened to me. I was putting my hair up in the mirror, after being outside working in the yard. Thought I saw a spider crawl into my ear. Screamed for my husband who took a look and said there was nothing. A couple days later my ear began to itch so I rummaged around with a pair of tweezers (not recommended!) and pulled out a very dead spider. Ugh! Fortunately I don’t have a terrible fear of spiders, just another bug.

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