@jleo

Making and offering such masks is real criminal act.

As you need to make custom masks with good replaceable filters and gel (on part touching face). Because you can use such for months.

Italy stops all production, except food, medical and such.

The more it goes - the more it looks like complete reset of economic system.

And it seems like Chinese meltdown will be actually last act in this drama.

Small information for lovers of distant work.

Issue with working from home is that you start to compete not with local citizens as before, but with people living anywhere in the world and with good knowledge of your work area and language. And it is bad for ya. As it means that your salary can become only 1/2 or even 1/5 of current one, and almost instantly.

@kurth

Before panic suggest to read about Varicella Zoster Virus and similar things.

Lot of population has it, and it is smart fella, constantly checking you (can sit idle for 50-60 years!) and waiting for moment that you are especially weak to make big strike.

Why China had been first? This is why. And for containers (that go slowly) February had been pretty normal month, except last week.

China halting production made all other countries lacking even usual stock of necessary things (as smart businesses outsources almost all to China).

The most recent delivery of medical-grade N95 masks arrived from China about a month ago, on Feb. 19. And as few as 13 shipments of non-medical N95 masks have arrived in the past month — half as many as arrived the same month last year. N95 masks are used in industrial settings, as well as hospitals, and filter out 95% of all airborne particles, including ones too tiny to be blocked by regular masks.

@kurth

Yes. Lot of viruses are hiding in nervous system as it is place where immune system can't reach them.

They are doing it for billions of years.

Btw we don't have any real cure for Varicella Zoster Virus still, best drugs just slow down virus spreading as it goes via nerves to the skin. By slowing it down enough immune system has time to restore knowledge (as people who have it got it during small age) on how to kill this shit.

More than a billion people in India have been asked to observe a 14-hour long curfew to try to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the curfew last week, telling citizens that it would be a test in order to assess the county's ability to fight the virus.

Mr Modi urged citizens to stay indoors from 07:00 (01:30 GMT) until 21:00 on Sunday.

India has so far recorded 315 cases.

Mr Modi told his followers on Twitter: "Let us all be a part of this curfew, which will add tremendous strength to the fight against Covid-19 menace. The steps we take now will help in the times to come."

In India, lots of people ran away from the cities to the village. Smartest thing to do. Biggest problem in USA is that people chose to remain in the cities locked up in their apartments. For those of you reading this blog, just find an isolated village to live in for a few months.

In an interview with Bloomberg, the president of the St. Louis Fed, predicted that U.S. unemployment rate may hit 30% in the second quarter because of shutdowns to combat the coronavirus, coupled with an unprecedented 50% drop in US GDP.

IMPORTANT.... taking hydroxychloroquine prophyllactically ....""Because of its longer half-life (40 days), it is a very suitable option in the prevention of Coronavirus at lower doses (400 mg or even 200 mg single dose) administered once every four to six weeks."" .... https://emedz.net/antimalarial-drugs-for-coronavirus-prevention/ ...ok considering starting soon at that dosis. Anyone have anything additional to add ?

we've got to look on the humorous side of things ....