Covid-19 pandemic

[DCI Harry Batt]

Through July, to the end of it. Until August.

Ok, ta. I thought it might have been the other. I may need to rethink everything now.

[Diable Rouge]

On a lighter note, Matt Damon breaks his silence on being stuck in Dalkey for the last two months.

[Satchmo Distel]

The first thing the British people - including the returning soldiers - did in July 1945 was vote Churchill out over serious misgivings about his ability to actually run a country not just dictate a war effort, and vote in a Labour government to implement the NHS. Kier Starmer doesn't need to look far for historical memes to play on if nostalgia is now going to be for post-war, and Boris wants to keep playing Winnie.

Things are getting desperate if Boris is dressing as Mrs Mandela.

[Satchmo Distel]

Thanks. MsD, very useful info.

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1260525209246994432

[San Bernardhinault]

There's talk here about making the wearing of masks obligatory in public spaces.

Apropos of which, this is a short but interesting article:

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...s-culture-wars

I really wish these stories would stop with their jogger-shaming. I've seen so much of it, and it mostly doesn't seem based on what science we have. It feels, to me, like a desire to judge and be critical and feel self-righteous and angry at someone.

[Balderdasha]

Guinea-Bissau and Tajikistan have more than 800 cases.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/PoppyHarlowCNN/status/1260564565089271816?s=20

[Jimski]

https://twitter.com/devisridhar/status/1260289529799495682

[Patrick Thistle]

https://twitter.com/GdnPolitics/status/1260592523954675713?s=19

[Diable Rouge]

Guinea-Bissau and Tajikistan have more than 800 cases.

Which is astounding, given the latter was the last country, before Lesotho, to declare its first infection.

[That Night In Barcelona]

800 is such a meaningless and small number.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Ooh, jolly good, I can move house. Where shall I go?

[Tactical Genius]

https://twitter.com/GdnPolitics/status/1260592523954675713?s=19

The surprise is it is only 800 cases.

[S. aureus]

Ooh, jolly good, I can move house. Where shall I go?

New Zealand? South Korea?

[Amor de Cosmos]

https://twitter.com/nycjim/status/1260525209246994432

That is seriously creepy.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Canada/US border to stay closed to non-essential traffic until June 21. Which is a good thing. As an example why, Detroit has had more deaths from COVID-19 than the entire province of Ontario.

[Diable Rouge]

84% of all Irish cases have recovered, and after deaths, only 10% of all cases are currently infectious.

[Diable Rouge]

I'll try that Spanish antibody map again:

[Balderdasha]

Egypt has more than 10,000 cases.

[Balderdasha]

UAE has more than 20,000 cases.

[Balderdasha]

Ecuador has more than 30,000 cases.

[DCI Harry Batt]

https://twitter.com/GdnPolitics/status/1260592523954675713?s=19

Why does the tweet say "people" rather than "employers"?

[Balderdasha]

Canada and Peru have more than 70,000 cases.

[Balderdasha]

Turkey has 140,000+ cases and nearly 4,000 deaths.