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Quarter of Italy's population

artappraiser — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 08:02:25 +0000

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Quarter of Italy's population put in quarantine as virus reaches Washington DC plus some endtime-style updates on UK, Australia, China; my underlining

Giuseppe Conte signs decree early on Sunday after 1,200 cases confirmed in 24 hours

Helen Davidson, Lorenzo Tondo , Verna Yu and agencies @ TheGuardian.com, March 8

Italy has formally locked down more than a quarter of its population in a bid to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, as the outbreak reached Washington DC and a political convention attended by Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

More than 5,800 cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Italy, after an alarming increase of more than 1,200 in a single 24-hour period. Two hundred and thirty-three people have died. Almost 100 countries are now responding to outbreaks.

In the early hours of Sunday, Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte signed a decree enacting forced quarantine for the region of Lombardy – home to more than 10 million people and the financial capital, Milan – and multiple other provinces, totalling around 16 million residents.

Affected provinces include Venice, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, Pesaro and Urbino, Alessandria, Asti, Novara, Verbano Cusio Ossola, Vercelli, Padua, and Treviso.

The lockdown decree includes the power to impose fines on anyone caught entering or leaving Lombardy, the worst-affected region, until 3 April. It provides for the banning of all public events, closing cinemas, theatres, gyms, discos and pubs. Religious ceremonies such as funerals and weddings will also be prohibited, and leave for healthcare workers has been cancelled [....]

In the UK, the government is preparing its own emergency response measures, including emergency legislation allowing people to switch jobs and volunteer to work in the NHS or care homes, and for courts to use telephone and video links.

The banning of people over 70 attending public events is also reportedly being considered by the Cobra emergency committee, which meets on Monday [....]

Australian authorities are also searching for people, including government employees, who came into contact with two defence force personnel since diagnosed with the virus. Three people have died in the country, with more than 70 confirmed cases. On Sunday, the federal health minister urged people to avoid panic buying, which has seen two people charged for fighting over toilet paper.

The rate of new infections in China, where the outbreak began, has slowed.

But Professor Yuen Kwok-yung from the University of Hong Kong, who has been advising authorities on control measures in the city, said the worry for mainland China and Hong Kong was reverse-imported cases, and urged Hongkongers to avoid travel until the end of the year.

“We think the epidemic will probably not come to an end,” Yuen said. “There will be what we call reversed imported cases. In the beginning other countries feared us, now we fear them [for bringing in the virus].” [....]

contingency plans being made

artappraiser — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 07:20:31 +0000

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contingency plans being made for virtual conventions:

Contingency plans are being made by both parties https://t.co/9oOudNZ4D8
— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) March 8, 2020

Every one of these sentences

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 21:47:54 +0000

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Every one of these sentences is astonishing. This is in Italy's biggest economic engine. https://t.co/VPidSXr4c2 pic.twitter.com/WYTNvrJ0n1
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) March 7, 2020

this is the equivalent of what the Chinese did when they blocked off Wuhan https://t.co/n95dI1hH4a
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) March 7, 2020

I presume you are referring

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 19:22:22 +0000

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I presume you are referring to a club named after the movie Eating Raoul. Movie triggers bad memories. There was a friend from France visiting, antiques guy into the hippest stuff, about 5 yrs. older than me. I so wanted to impress him that I was a cool hip chick to stay with and hang around with, I said let's go see it, seems to be quite the thing. I was trying to stay open minded, but 20 minutes into it he said we gotta go, walked out said that's possibly the worst movie he ever saw. We liked what was going on at punk clubs, etc., found that exciting. But that movie, boomers didn't get it, a bridge too far, I think that's when you lost us and the generations really separated.

I'm not a Boomer', I'm GenX,

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 18:05:00 +0000

I'm not a Boomer', I'm GenX, the fuck you generation. Old enough to know all the 60s heroes, but the Detroit we got was a darkened cityscape under foreclosure, "last one to leave turn out the lights", not "We can change the world" but helicopters lifting off the embassy, not Woodstock but disco. Put a sweater on it and do with less. Ending in Compton riots, "why can't we get along". I'd be bitter, but it was a blast overall. I'll trade those down-in-the-gutter-but-loving-it values for any woke generation bullshit. We still knew how to work on cars, hack computers without toolkits, find a flat abroad w/o Uber or AirBnB. Party at Ground Zero/Eating Raoul.

But the message is same for

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:57:00 +0000

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But the message is same for millennials and Gen X. Even 2008 was a mild distraction. World War I ended for Spanish Flu to begin, wiping out 2-3% of nearly *every country on Earth*. Equal opportunity annihilator. Then depression era/WW2 - 60 million plus killed. China experimentation was 2 bouts of 10 million each, along with an occasional Indonesia, Rwanda, Congo, Cambodia. And then there's the extreme poverty that we mostly got rid of. Imagine our booming population had the 30% extreme poverty of 1980 - 2.1billion? Fuck. Instead it's 8% - 600million. Big difference. Part of why EU's floundering right now is no Soviet Army scaring the shit out if us. Threats produce resolve, calls to action. Calm makes people bored, they create problems (and steal more than acceptable). Global warming has come up too slow, we're complacent. A pandemic will catch our attention. Danger sadly is not enough will die so we'll think we always dodge the bullet. Upside will be if we feel more involved, on edge, call to action. We were heading towards a relative Utopia in the 90s, and we let it slip away. It can be done again, even though it feels a long way from Jerusalem right now.

I see lots of blaming the

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:52:50 +0000

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I see lots of blaming the media for fearmongering for ratings. Okay, but I am thinking something like this protest is not helpful along those lines, either:

Overpass above deserted Seattle freeway at rush hour 3/5 #COVID #coronavirus #seattlecovid19 #Seattle #CoronaVirusUpdate pic.twitter.com/maqZGdkdtd
— Mary Larson (@marylarsonart) March 7, 2020

Might win an election but lose the war?

Krugman:

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:47:34 +0000

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Krugman:

Boring but possibly useful thread on economics of Trumpvirus. Econ 101 tells us that there are two kinds of macro shocks: demand shocks like 2008 financial crisis and supply shocks like 1979 oil crisis. Policy implications differ 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) February 28, 2020

Ok boomer. (Copyright 1965,

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:43:01 +0000

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he not busy being born is busy dying....

you discover you just be one more person crying...

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred....

Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you

You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear.... Etc.

Trump spin ain't going to do

artappraiser — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 17:27:59 +0000

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Trump spin ain't going to do the calming trick-- ala It's Alright, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding? It's the "everything Trump touches dies" thing and it's the panic stupids.

I don’t want to say the supply chain issues are a red herring, but the “interest rates can’t fix supply chains” people are missing a huge, cascading series of negative demand shocks. https://t.co/GkkH1N703s
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 7, 2020

https://t.co/PLJAc3ykzZ
— Austan Goolsbee (@Austan_Goolsbee) March 7, 2020