Coronavirus: Iran shuts schools, cultural centres as coronavirus kills six

By artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 3:35am |

Breaking : A sixth case of death from the #coronavirus has been reported in Iran as authorities in more than a dozen affected provinces ordered the closure of schools, universities and cultural centres in a bid to contain the outbreak. #COVID2019 https://t.co/JwNyYyRrKO
— Coronavirus Breaking News (@QuakeFury) February 23, 2020

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/iran-shuts-schools-cultural-centres-coronavirus-kills-200223000740899.html

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Coronavirus: Italy imposes strict lockdown in outbreak hotspots https://t.co/ffkkJfgFIf
— ngoctuanqt (@ngoctuanqt) February 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 3:42am

France has seen a 30% to 40% fall in tourists following the coronavirus outbreak: Finance minister https://t.co/nkmdmTid1c
— CNBC (@CNBC) February 23, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 3:53am

South Korea's number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus more than doubled Saturday to a total of 433—an eightfold jump in just four days. https://t.co/y5S8txs1bW
— ABC News (@ABC) February 22, 2020

Masks, glasses are banned at this church cult. Followers attend even when they’re sick, sit tightly together during services, are taught not to be afraid of illness.
Now 150 members test positive for #coronavirus and authorities can’t locate the rest.
https://t.co/1Q9UVUv8ES
— Rachel Cheung (@rachel_cheung1) February 22, 2020

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 3:58am

Rapture time, cool!

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 9:11am

Well now that you mention that, I just cannot resist being really bad: there is this evolutionary cycle where when a population of a species gets too large..... What would culling like 1/6 of us do?...how would that affect global warming...how about all that extra housing available?...kumbaya everyone, aren't you glad to be part of the human tribe still left alive? why were we angry at each other again, remind me? oh but yeah, medical resources might be a little exhausted, that might an issue..everybody left alive in medical paper pushing gotta switch to medical school stat?

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 6:36pm

Plague took out 1/3 of Europe, Spanish flu infected 1/3 of the world, killed 1-2%, but in a nice egalitarian way.

In 2018 Trump cut the CDC's pandemic team. We're ready.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 12:03am

World is approaching coronavirus tipping point, experts say

78,000 cases confirmed, as Italy and Iran scramble to contain major outbreaks

By Angela Giuffrida in Rome, Patrick Wintour in Tehran and Sam Jones @ The Guardian.com Sun 23 Feb 2020 17.13 GMT

The world is fast approaching a tipping point in the spread of the coronavirus, according to experts, who warn that the disease is outpacing efforts to contain it, after major outbreaks forced Italy and Iran to introduce stringent internal travel restrictions and South Korea’s president placed the country on red alert.

Some of the countries most affected by the virus are scrambling to halt its progress two days after Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), said the international community needed to act quickly before the narrowing “window of opportunity” closed completely.

With almost 78,000 cases of Covid-19 now confirmed across the globe, experts say the situation will soon reach a critical threshold [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 6:41pm

Imagine if we didn't have a W.H.O. to at least attempt to handle and coordinate this right now! Even worst case scenario unsuccessful as they might be, at least someone is trying. So much for ant-globalization. The Steve Bannon types having to be in their bunker in Idaho with the expired MRE's....no more flying around the world giving speeches...

by artappraiser on Sun, 02/23/2020 - 6:45pm

Milan panic mode:

Stunned by Europe’s biggest surge of the #coronavirus, Italy appears to be operating in near panic mode.

Grocery store shelves in Milan are empty. More @business: https://t.co/zkk4kNjYI7 #Covid_19 #COVID19italia pic.twitter.com/qjPPs9KTa5
— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) February 24, 2020

Very empty flight to Milan this morning #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/zlK8eaEs8k
— James Longman (@JamesAALongman) February 24, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 1:47am

Shot: https://t.co/BAQR2Mxir0

Chaser: https://t.co/aR5r1WEknJ
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) February 24, 2020

(The WaPo link, Is this the week that Trump panics about covid-19? It’s going to happen at some point, is an op-ed by Drezner himself, published today)

by artappraiser on Mon, 02/24/2020 - 7:37pm

#BREAKING Iran deputy health minister tests positive for coronavirus: adviser pic.twitter.com/PcOR4UkZ4z
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 25, 2020

and EU peeps, time to start looking to see if there's any face masks left in the stores:

#BREAKING Italy coronavirus outbreak spreads to Tuscany, Sicily: official pic.twitter.com/ryj9VuNeWN
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 25, 2020

#BREAKING Hundreds of tourists in Tenerife hotel lockdown over #coronavirus: officials pic.twitter.com/7VANOoySXe
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 25, 2020

#BREAKING Croatia reports first confirmed case of novel #coronavirus in Balkans pic.twitter.com/4RS1JbmZZ9
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 25, 2020

BREAKING: AUSTRIA confirms first 2 coronavirus cases
— CoronaVirus Breaking News (@COVID_19NEWS) February 25, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 7:05am

Nothing to see here folks, we're coping just fine and dandy?

The nurses who wrote the open letter in the Lancet calling for help in Wuhan appear to have now retracted it. The Lancet says the authors got in touch, said their account was not first hand and asked to have it withdrawn. https://t.co/IisW0saJlC pic.twitter.com/iTncRkAmjd
— Lily Kuo (@lilkuo) February 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 2:13am

quotes Fauci as saying this is "without question"

Some individuals who are infected with the coronavirus can spread it even though they have no symptoms, studies have shown https://t.co/hr4T1oZePy
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 27, 2020

by artappraiser on Thu, 02/27/2020 - 2:17am

Coronavirus: Iran shuts schools, cultural centres as coronavirus kills six

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