AUSTRIA - lockdown - 1000 cases
Stay at home.
walking dog ok, taking a walk alone or with family ok, no groups larger than (5) - social distancing
non-essential shops close
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EU - ALL - most countries will shut down at NOON March 17
Go home stay home.
Shops, schools closed. Second round of elections postponed
St. Peter’s Square closed for Easter Services
Cemetaries struggling to cope. Grieving relatives required to social distance at services
Panic buying.
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SPAIN - Army is enforcing a lockdown. Health system is overwhelmed.
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GERMANY - no non-essential incoming travelers (but people are walking across the border). Schools closed until end of April. All non-food to shut down.
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ENGLAND -
notable quote from idiot group, Pause the Planet
‘What we need is to pause the system. We need to go into lockdown to give us a break from this economic system that is crippling us and the planet.” (nothing says class like exploiting a pandemic)
England is adding pregnant women to the stay inside crowd.
Effective Wed, the stay inside crowd should remain home for 30 days.
Running out of masks, PPE, o2 but still haven’t reached peak.
Issue brought up: Separating seniors is an artificial construct - some 70yo’ds healthier than 50yo’ds.
Second issue: infrastructure to make self-isolation sustainable and feasible ?
Third: Anything we do today won’t have an effect on spread for two weeks because of incubation, and have to keep that in mind as the cases rise exponentially
Channel 4 News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESzzIvmIIO0
good news: EMPLOYMENT
AMAZON looking to hire 100,000 people. Warehouse and delivery (except from the warehouse that would have gone into AOC’s district, but oh well, she was so smart)
Amazon looking for entrepreneurs to set up local delivery services. Giving warehouse employees $2/raise. If you’ve been furloughed, they have a job for you.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/amazon-to-hire-100000-warehouse-and-delivery-workers.html