Wuhan Coronavirus: Lockdowns, Quarantines, Cancellations

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Irish Defence Forces (Freestate Army) personnel have been given notice to prepare for immediate deployment.
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The Mormons have cancelled all Church related public gatherings, worldwide.

To help combat the coronavirus pandemic, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is suspending public gatherings of church members worldwide “until further notice,” the Utah-based faith said in a statement Thursday.

That includes Sunday services and midweek activities for more than 30,000 congregations across the globe, not just in the faith’s Beehive State headquarters.

“Beginning immediately, all public gatherings of church members are being temporarily suspended worldwide until further notice,” the Salt Lake City-based faith announced in a news release. "This includes: stake conferences, leadership conferences and other large gatherings; all public worship services, including sacrament meetings; local congregational activities of branches, wards and regional stakes.

Local LDS leaders, where possible, should meet “via technology,” the governing First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said. “Bishops should counsel with their stake president to determine how to make the sacrament [communion] available at least once a month.”
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https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2020/03/12/lds-church-suspends-all/
 
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About a third of the people I see on social media are still regurgitating the "yo the flu has killed more people" lines. I wonder how many of them have parents or grandparents in retirement or nursing homes.

Mainland Europe is fucked but England is not far behind and neither is the US. There's too much community spread and our governments aren't competent or citizenry not smart enough to have taken the South Korea route. The more airline flights get shut down the better because they're just metal tubes where people infect each other but it makes no sense to shut down Europe but not the UK as if they're without cases.

Shield Breaker said:
It’s what the CDC requested.
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Ah, they have been a bastion of wise and useful recommendations. That's why we're doing so well and definitely not dealing with community spread to every state, because we immediately started testing and tracing exposures. It's definitely not like we stuck our heads in the sand and refused to test anyone who might have indicated community spread. Oh wait.

Hmm. Who appointed the head of the CDC?
 
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Well, finally got kicked out of the office for a few weeks. I'll be glad to be safely on the other side of the internet from my corona-scoffing boomer peers.

Kornheiser said:
So when does martial law start? Just asking since I work in an important industry will I be fine?
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A Kiwi here guessed August some time ago and at this rate, I'd tend to agree.
 
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FuckedUp said:
So my state school is switching to online for three weeks, but all the big-name private universities like Harvard, MIT, Tufts, etc. are all doing so for the entire semester. They won't even have their finals in-person. I don't even see how those are valid course credits at that point, I think they should just pull the plug entirely and make the grad school applicant pool much less competitive this fall.
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Odd, in my field the applications for the Fall are all due before the previous Spring even starts. So we're not affected by this, other than, I suppose, graduation and also whether or not the schools reopen in time to start classes.
 
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Eurozone getting hit hard with shutdowns, more yet to come
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“BREAKING: Estonia declares state of emergency, closes schools, and bans public gatherings due to coronavirus”
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“BREAKING: Belgium closes all schools, bars, and restaurants due to coronavirus and bans all recreational events regardless of size”
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First lockdown outside of italy?
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“BREAKING: Catalonia orders lockdown of Igualada and several other municipalities in northeast Spain due to coronavirus”
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News from the states is moving too fast to post individual updates for each state, dont expect any schools to be open by monday.
 
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