Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #31

[CoverMeCagney]

Key worker: official list of UK personnel who can still send children to school

i.e a massive proportion of the UK workforce!

 

[momrids6]

This is soooo true. Quiet teachers make for quiet classes even at younger ages provided that teacher can control the room.

He is hearing impaired. I've been in his classes- he is at a normal level in there. His kids are super well behaved 99% of the time. For some reason being on speaker phone, he gets louder. Maybe because he doesn't have it at his ear? He doesn't hear himself well anymore, so ?
Most of it is probably me as well. I'm used to a very quiet house when I'm working. I took him off speaker- and I can no longer hear him upstairs!

I'm hearing less than stellar distance learning reports from parents for other classes and especially the middle school. Upsetting that some aren't putting forth the effort

 

[Trino]

Coronavirus live updates: Quarantined cruise ship passengers reportedly refuse tests
Seriously, what's wrong with people? I wanna go home vs. maybe I will give the virus to everyone in my home town. 300 tested. 545 refused.

 

[Elley Mae]

Found this while looking for info.

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

Coronavirus Update (Live): 250,735 Cases and 10,256 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer

 

[musicaljoke]

Netflix Party: could this group-watching tech gimmick be a lifesaver?

Netflix Party is a Chrome extension that allows users to chat while they watch the same film at the same time. You log in, share a viewing link with friends, choose one person to be in charge of picking what you watch and, as your chosen show plays out in the bulk of the screen, a chatroom pops up on the right-hand side. You can discuss the show with the people in your room, or argue, or flirt, or veer wildly off-tangent because you’ve realised that you’ve picked an absolute dud to watch.

 

[Tadpole12]

Forgot to acknowledge the first day of Spring, in the northern hemisphere,
yesterday, Thursday March 19.
Welcome Spring!

Canada,

Renters Can’t Wait. Here’s Why Canada Needs a National Rent Freeze Now

Coronavirus: Toronto epidemiologist modelling COVID-19 says the school year may be done

Air Canada temporarily lays off over 5,000 employees; B.C. reports eighth COVID-19 death, Alberta its first

Cannabis sales soar as Canadians hunker down to stop coronavirus

Where Canada is falling short on its coronavirus communications - Macleans.ca

 

[zecats]

I saw one hipster Millennial kid in the middle of Midtown East a couple years back, legit doubling over (including bent knees?!?), spasming like he was trying to hork up a hairball. I could scarcely believe my eyes. I was legitimately dumbfounded. I said to myself "Whose parents raised a spoiled mollycoddled brat who was never told 'no'?"

PSA: I'd like us to all make a real effort to remember to keep tissues handy in our vehicles, pockets, and bags, lol.

If you watch professional baseball players, they often spit. Even into their hands. Guess they could be considered mollycoddled (my new favorite word) brats.

Also when I was teaching high school, I did side co/curricular jobs like timing the school track meets. Those high school boys spit everywhere. Creeped me out to the max. No coach or officials ever addressed it. Normal stuff.

Note - Girls teams did NOT spit.

 

[Tadpole12]

Coronavirus live updates: Quarantined cruise ship passengers reportedly refuse tests
Seriously, what's wrong with people? I wanna go home vs. maybe I will give the virus to everyone in my home town. 300 tested. 545 refused.

"Only 300 passengers quarantined at Travis Airforce Base in Fairfield, California, have agreed to be tested, while the remaining 545 have declined, according to KGO. They were reportedly told they are not required to be tested"

 

[amandab]

Coronavirus live updates: Quarantined cruise ship passengers reportedly refuse tests
Seriously, what's wrong with people? I wanna go home vs. maybe I will give the virus to everyone in my home town. 300 tested. 545 refused.

Could this just be fear? "If I don't get a positive test, then I'm fine."?

 

[gregjrichards]

Spain: death toll surpasses 1,000

More than 1,000 people have now died in Spain from coronavirus, according to the Spanish government

Coronavirus live updates: death toll in Spain reaches 1,000 as France extends lockdown rules

 

[musicaljoke]

"Only 300 passengers quarantined at Travis Airforce Base in Fairfield, California, have agreed to be tested, while the remaining 545 have declined, according to KGO. They were reportedly told they are not required to be tested"

People probably figured that they wouldn't be repatriated if they tested posituve. I wish that they could have been released from the ship only if they had a negative test, then isolated at home and tested again in 14 days.

 

[Trino]

"Only 300 passengers quarantined at Travis Airforce Base in Fairfield, California, have agreed to be tested, while the remaining 545 have declined, according to KGO. They were reportedly told they are not required to be tested"

Not required. Not doing testing because if they test positive, they cannot go home. So, better to test positive at home while endangering plane passengers, relatives, communtiy members. And, many of them are older. Except for the age difference, kinda reminds me of the kids on the FL beaches.

 

[Skigh]

'Just stop it please': Tearful nurse urges the public to stop panic buying food after she was unable to buy basic items following a 48-hour shift

Tearful nurse urges the public to stop panic buying food | Daily Mail Online


Pictured: Man standing forlornly next to empty shelves in Sainsburys is 79-year-old retired seaman | Daily Mail Online

 

[musicaljoke]

Ambassador Bridge Traffic Conditions | ezbordercrossing

Scroll down to see the webcams showing traffic entering Canada or the US at the Ambassador Bridge.

At the moment, it looks like just transports going are back and forth. I'm concerned about the 400,000 snowbirds coming back up from Florida. I wish there was mandatory testing at the border and mandatory education.

 

[Tadpole12]

'Just stop it please': Tearful nurse urges the public to stop panic buying food after she was unable to buy basic items following a 48-hour shift

Tearful nurse urges the public to stop panic buying food | Daily Mail Online

That's her breaking point.
Very upsetting to watch.
My heart goes out to her.

 

[Skigh]

'Pubs are packed... not a brain cell in there': Anger as young revellers STILL ignore calls to stay at home - as Wetherspoons boss insists his bars WILL stay open during coronavirus crisis


Coronavirus UK: Pubs packed despite calls for social distancing | Daily Mail Online

 

[Skigh]

First arrest on UK soil for 'failing to self-isolate due to coronavirus': 26-year-old male faces £10,000 fine and three months in jail after arriving on Isle of Man then 'refusing to go into 14-day quarantine'


First arrest on UK soil for 'failing to self-isolate due to coronavirus' | Daily Mail Online

 

[gregjrichards]

Belgium has recorded its biggest daily rise in deaths since the beginning of the epidemic, a spokesman for the Belgian health ministry said on Friday.

Authorities recorded 16 new deaths on Thursday because of coronavirus, for a total of 37 in the country, the biggest daily rise since the beginning of the epidemic.

Belgian lockdown measures were imposed on Wednesday to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Coronavirus live updates: death toll in Spain reaches 1,000 as Germany threatens further curfews

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

Restrictions 'likely' to last more than two weeks, 300 new garda recruits: Today's Covid-19 main points

(Ireland)

THE CHAIR OF the HSE’s Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group has said that ongoing restrictions related to the coronavirus outbreak are “likely” to last beyond 29 March.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Prime Time last night, Dr Cillian De Gascun also said that Ireland had not yet seen the impact of social distancing measures announced by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar last week.

On the same programme, Professor Sam McConkey, Head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons said that Ireland may see up to 2,000 new cases of the disease every day within ten days.



He suggested the state would “probably need to do things differently” if there wasn’t an improvement in the increase by next week.

Meanwhile, more than 300 new gardaí will be deployed to stations nationwide to help respond to the crisis.

The new recruits will bring the Garda’s numbers to almost 15,000.

Here are today’s main Covid-19 points:

• Ireland will “likely” have to impose social restrictions beyond 29 March, the head of the HSE’s Coronavirus Expert Advisory Group has warned.
• More than 300 new gardaí will be deployed to help respond to the crisis.
• 191 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in Ireland last night, as well as a third death from the illness.
• The government has announced plans for a temporary ban on evictions for the duration of the crisis.
• Irish citizens stranded abroad due to restrictions implemented as a result of the coronavirus have called on the government to help them return home.
• The deputy Mayor of Bergamo, the Italian town which has been hit hardest by Covid-19, has warned Ireland to prepare for the outbreak to worsen.
• Dublin City Council’s chief executive has said that businesses who can pay their commercial property rates should continue to so.

 

[astheworldfallsdown]

'Prepare yourself and your hospitals': Deputy mayor of worst-hit Italian town warns Ireland over Covid-19

'Prepare yourself and your hospitals': Deputy mayor of worst-hit Italian town warns Ireland over Covid-19

THE DEPUTY MAYOR of Bergamo, the Italian town which has been hit hardest by Covid-19, has warned Irish people to prepare themselves for the outbreak to worsen.

Sergio Gandi has been living in isolation with his wife and two children since earlier this month, and is only allowed leave his home to go to the supermarket two or three times a week.