Looks like torches and pitchforks time in the UK. The Department of Health and Social Care plans to stop tweeting the location of new cases as they are discovered and instead switch to reporting once a week.
Latest news -
Global (over 70 countries around the world) infection number is over 90,000 with over 3,100 deaths. Iran is temporarily releasing 54,000 prisoners to stop the spread. Chile has its first case of infection. Google cancels its annual developer conference. Twitter asks its employees to work from home.
10-Year Treasury bond yield is below 1% for the first time ever.
Yup. Lot of conferences are being cancelled - including an SAP one that I was likely going to.
Travel industry right now... is... fucking hurting.... bad. Hotels. Flights... Car rentals. Airports (and the restaurants at them).
But who knows, people here are posting that some are starting to return to work in places like China, so maybe it will blow over in a month?
Fat chance though, I'm betting on a lot more of the market hurting between now and the end of this.
YET I CANT GET A DAMN RENTAL CAR AT CTL IN A MONTH FOR LESS THAN 50 A DAY. GD.
The US response has so far been pretty sad. The lack of testing for weeks is a huge issue. How incompetent is the CDC that they cannot even get a test out?
Is this what they mean by Universal (studios) Healthcare? Waiting 6 months to get a virus from a busy theater so it wipes out your family around the holidays during the next flu season?James Bond film, 'No Time To Die,' gets pushed to November due to coronavirus concerns
"No Time To Die," the upcoming James Bond film, is being pushed to November due to concerns over the coronavirus' impact on the global theater marketplace.www.cnn.com
Mr Khan said it is ‘important we don’t spread panic or alarm’ and urged politicians to ‘reply upon the best advice we have from the public health experts and from the chief medical officer’. He told Good Morning Britain today: ‘There is no risk in using the Tube or buses or other forms of public transport or going to a concert.’
Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan accused the London mayor of ‘spreading mixed messages’ over his relaxed tone. He interrupted Mr Khan and said: ‘No disrespect but how on earth can you say in a city of 12 million people there is no risk given that we know it’s here and it’s beginning to spread here?’
The Mayor of London answered: ‘Because I rely upon the advice I receive from Public Health England the chief medical officer and the advice is you’re not going to catch it if you’re washing your hands regularly.
About 2,500 test kits from IDT — each containing supplies to test 500 people — will be available for ordering by the weekend, said Robin Patel, president of the American Society for Microbiology.
Staying home depresses me. I keep sitting there thinking about how much that rug really tied the room together and who ultimately took THAT from me.Works out to 1.25 million. If you get tested & you're positive...then what? Stay home? Take medicine?
Works out to 1.25 million. If you get tested & you're positive...then what? Stay home? Take medicine?
You can order it, but it'll be on a slow boat from somewhere (not likely China).I edited to reflect this. Available for ordering "by the weekend" does not fill me with enthusiasm however.
The US response has so far been pretty sad. The lack of testing for weeks is a huge issue. How incompetent is the CDC that they cannot even get a test out?
Quite a few docs in the US are in their 50s-70s....when it comes to infectious disease, they're in the high-risk side of the population for these. I'm nervous for my wife...she works in an office and they're already getting low on masks for seasonal flu because they've not been able to get them from their supplier. She sees flu every day or every other day....She stashed a few of them, but usually reuses the same mask....sprays it down with sanitizer and lets it dry.The Economist has a two pages article about how countries around the world handles this virus and it is pathetic across the board. The article discussed how things would go bad if this virus is widespread such as how doctors would have to pick and choose which patient for respirator machine (death panel anyone?), how test kits were made by a couple companies (in US and EU, and other countries), how vaccines are slow to come out, shortage of masks, gloves, gowns, and on and on.
Scary about "what if" and "coulda, woulda, shoulda".