Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
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This Thread Blows - C19 and beyond
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The Kalmyk
Well-Known Member
Peeling paint and Grade D beef.
Shaggz
A strong 7
bergsnj
Well-Known Member
take it out of service, re-name the ship, clean the fuck out of it, let some time pass and hysteria end and it will be business as usual. Some people really love cruises. Not my thing but many people really love it.
jklett
Well-Known Member
We all got this with our paycheck today. Wow, management is being proactive....
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OMG LOOK AT THAT F8 KEY!
The World Has a Plan to Fight Coronavirus. Most Countries Are Not Using it.
The World Health Organization is supposed to coordinate the global response to epidemics. But the U.N. agency cannot force countries to play by international rules.
By Selam Gebrekidan
March 12, 2020 NY Times
...The most obvious examples are the global flouting of international travel restrictions. More than 70 countries have instituted the restrictions, according to the W.H.O., including the United States, where President Trump announced on Wednesday night restrictions to travel from the European continent.
Yet in four advisories it has issued since early January, the W.H.O. has consistently advised against them, cautioning that limits on international movement during public health emergencies are unlikely to stop the pathogen’s spread.
The rules do not apply to domestic travel restrictions or to decisions made by private airlines, but the W.H.O. has repeatedly warned that international bans can block needed resources, or delay aid and technical support. Such restrictions are only justified at the beginning of an outbreak to buy nations time to prepare, the agency said. Beyond that, they are more likely to cause significant economic and social harm.
Meanwhile, only 45 of the more than 70 countries who have adopted international travel restrictions have fulfilled the requirement to report their actions to the agency, a spokesman said.
Restricting travel “is a good political placebo. It’s going to make people feel safe,” said Clare Wenham at the London School of Economics, a scholar who has studied the health regulations for more than a decade. “Why are we not learning that this doesn’t work?” Dr. Wenham asked about travel restrictions...
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www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/coronavirus-world-health-organization.html
The World Health Organization is supposed to coordinate the global response to epidemics. But the U.N. agency cannot force countries to play by international rules.
By Selam Gebrekidan
March 12, 2020 NY Times
...The most obvious examples are the global flouting of international travel restrictions. More than 70 countries have instituted the restrictions, according to the W.H.O., including the United States, where President Trump announced on Wednesday night restrictions to travel from the European continent.
Yet in four advisories it has issued since early January, the W.H.O. has consistently advised against them, cautioning that limits on international movement during public health emergencies are unlikely to stop the pathogen’s spread.
The rules do not apply to domestic travel restrictions or to decisions made by private airlines, but the W.H.O. has repeatedly warned that international bans can block needed resources, or delay aid and technical support. Such restrictions are only justified at the beginning of an outbreak to buy nations time to prepare, the agency said. Beyond that, they are more likely to cause significant economic and social harm.
Meanwhile, only 45 of the more than 70 countries who have adopted international travel restrictions have fulfilled the requirement to report their actions to the agency, a spokesman said.
Restricting travel “is a good political placebo. It’s going to make people feel safe,” said Clare Wenham at the London School of Economics, a scholar who has studied the health regulations for more than a decade. “Why are we not learning that this doesn’t work?” Dr. Wenham asked about travel restrictions...
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www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/world/coronavirus-world-health-organization.html
serviceguy
Well-Known Member
Ah. Wait. Oh, it's the NY Times. Right. Meh.
Anyone over 60?
I’m concerned for our MTBNJ elders. Might be a good time to take one of your Florida trips.
Paul H
Fearless OOS Poser
Not sure how it is now... But everyone in ROK smoked.
53 year old man, not sure of the other person. This info was from a friend who's best friend is a nurse at hospital.
not to be alarmist, but that’s alarming. I would really prefer that no one else gets sick, in even the slightest sense.
Tim
aka sptimmy43
This is the beginning of the outbreak.
