How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Sequential Art

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Free]

Not from The Onion.

Texas teen saves COVID-stricken family who couldn’t smell smoke from massive house fire

One of the most common coronavirus symptoms almost led to tragedy last week. A Texas family who lost their sense of smell because of COVID-19 escaped from a massive fire after the only person in their home who is not infected was able to…

www.nydailynews.com

A Texas family who lost their sense of smell because of COVID-19 escaped from a massive fire after the only person in their home who is not infected was able to smell the smoke and help them get out of the property in time.

Bianca Rivera, 17, smelled something burning around 2 a.m. Friday and rushed out of her room to alert her three family members.

“I started smelling burnt plastic, and that’s when I got more alert and ran outside of my room,” she told local news station KWTX-TV. “I couldn’t even pass the hallway because it was filled with so much smoke.”

 

[Beebo Brink]

Privately concluded? Is the plan to tell everyone "Sorry, we're closed." when they show up?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

They apparently didn't tell the IOC.

IOC chief declares 'there is no plan B' and that Tokyo Olympics will go ahead

The International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, said the Olympic Games will go ahead in July despite a state of emergency being declared in Tokyo

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

They apparently didn't tell the IOC.

IOC chief declares 'there is no plan B' and that Tokyo Olympics will go ahead

The International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, said the Olympic Games will go ahead in July despite a state of emergency being declared in Tokyo

www.theguardian.com

No one wants to be the one who takes the inevitable decision.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ministers consider paying £500 to everyone with Covid in England

Exclusive: universal payment is ‘preferred position’ of DHSC in effort to help people self-isolate

www.theguardian.com

Not quite sure how they check that anyone who collects the payment will self-isolate, but at least it helps out honest people who self-isolate.

Bit worried, though, about the number of healthy people -- particularly in the late teens or early 20s -- who might like the prospect of collecting £500 in return for running the very low risk, at their age, of developing serious symptoms, and set out deliberately to get themselves infected.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Verifying Device

Evernote link because paywall

In a way, I guess the Hasidim in Stamford Hill are a Jewish version of the Amish, but their refusal to acknowledge that they're living in C21st London rather than C18th Poland sometimes has to bang up against reality, and this is one of those occasions.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This is not good news

New UK Covid variant may be 30% more deadly, says Boris Johnson

PM warns that B117 may increase death rate as well as being up to 70% more transmissible

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

At this point, I'll take misworn to the assholes who still aren't wearing their fucking masks - and 99% of them are entitled white assholes [male and female].

 

[Isabeau]

Covid-19 Sound Map

COVID-19 SOUND MAP
Three days after the first lockdown began in the UK, I put out a call via social media to ask for help capturing sounds which had changed as a result of governments’ actions around the world to curb the spread of the virus. It struck me that the extraordinary times in which we found ourselves would be worth documenting as far as the changing soundscape was concerned.

In recent years, I have become fascinated by how sound maps allow us to preserve non-permanent sounds, or ones that are about to disappear altogether–for example, capturing the soundscape of a location where a new road is about to be built. I believe this is the modern-day equivalent of what Canadian composer and researcher R Murray Schafer referred to back in the 1970s as “museums for disappearing sounds.” I wanted to preserve the temporary sounds of lockdown for the future, while, at the same time, encouraging people to really listen.

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

Privately concluded? Is the plan to tell everyone "Sorry, we're closed." when they show up?

No one wants to be the one who takes the inevitable decision.

I think Innula's got it. I think they all know the trigger needs to be pulled but nobody wants to be the gunman.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Those shamans can be a right bloody nuisance, it seems

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Sid]

We has one now. A curfew from 9 in the evening until 4:30 in the morning. For at least 14 days.
I will hardly notice the difference. Maybe less street noise at night.

 

[detrius]

Extraordinarily high demand for model trains

Extraordinarily high demand for model trains

www.spielwarenmesse.de

Well, that's nice.

 

[Sid]

If I only had the space for that.
Model trains and the screnery building that goes with it, look like a great hobby.

 

[detrius]

If I only had the space for that.
Model trains and the screnery building that goes with it, look like a great hobby.

Well, visiting this place will eventually be an option again: