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You know, I’m not against the “let’s open stuff back up” argument, but I’m completely against the reasoning for it. If the reasoning is to try and save lives by building up herd immunity, great. If your reasoning is because you believe the virus will hurt you politically, or that the economic dangers outweigh the safety of at risk people, then fuck off quite frankly. Trump and and the GOP openly called for millions of people to attend Easter mass in person, and for the elderly to sacrifice themselves for the American economy. It’s completely insane and it’s a real tell of the times we live in. It took the US Congress until today (or late yesterday) to pass a emergency bill for Coronavirus relief funding. The argument was over how we should save the economy. How fucking pathetic is that? This is the problem with electing ineffective leaders everyone. Please stop electing idiots to be the Presidents of your country. 

I can’t stress enough that Hantavirus is a well-known/studied virus. I read that human to human transmission is basically impossible. I hate to say this, but this is China bashing at this point. This is just people seizing on an opportunity to scare everyone. We should probably make sure others aren’t getting hantavirus, but from my understanding, there’s nothing to worry about here.

Reading and watching videos about this subject, I would love in 3 months we all look back and say it was an overreaction.  I just lost my mother and my aunt (my closest relative) in the last year to cancer.  Now I live with my dad who isn't super old, but is within the danger zone.  To think of losing him to COVID now is painful.  
 
Moving the Olympics a year sucks because I was really looking forward to it as always.  But priorities have shifted.  I am a history teacher.  It's not names and dates, it's the people.  I always said this to my students, but now more than ever: We are history.  What will they read about us?  
 
It's never been easier to be a hero.  Literally, do nothing.  And wash your hands!
 
Stay safe, friends!

No, we must wait for April 

We will soon have sneeze and cough thread.

Voted.

No, you’re not old. You’re ancient 

Good, less work for me

Especially the U15 World School Games will be hit hard by this.

Next year? No way, we've still got a full year of sports we can't watch ahead of us!

The IOC cannot postpone the Olympics! What will happen to all the copies of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 that will look outdated now?
 
 

I'd be bigly worried indeed!
 
His conferences everyday are the same....we are doing the best in the world at fighting this invisible enemy, our economy will bounce back so fast and so hard like no one has ever seen.... and so on.

Oh and American news channels having almost literally non-stop BREAKING NEWS  I know Americans fap their brains out on 'BREAKING NEWS' and all-caps headlines and stuff, but it's just not 'breaking' if it goes on forever  

What kind of measures did Slovakia not take yet?  

Once this is over, I hope we'll never ever hear 'social distancing' again. I am getting so freaking tired of those two words  

I am just getting tired of "COVID-19".

Good thing they’re getting moved 

2020 seems impossible now

This is a useful collection of tweets

Is it animated, or live-action? I know a little Spanish, so with some subtitles on, it might be enjoyable for me.

Very good series, the second season was TOOOO political correct but, well, is a bad thing of this times.

I’m not a huge fan of animated/cartoon shows, but I’ve been rewatching Avatar the Last Airbender on Netflix and loving it (thanks vpn). I really forgot how awesome that series was. I’m on Book 3 (season 3) now, so I’m hoping to finish it by the end of this week, and the move onto the Legend of Korea. I’m also eagerly awaiting Netflix’s live-action adaptation.

I’m not a huge fan of animated/cartoon shows, but I’ve been rewatching Avatar the Last Airbender on Netflix and loving it (thanks vpn). I really forgot how awesome that series was. I’m on Book 3 (season 3) now, so I’m hoping to finish it by the end of this week, and the move onto the Legend of Korea. I’m also eagerly awaiting Netflix’s live-action adaptation.

Unfortunately I got infected through my roommate who came back from Austria about 1,5 week ago after the town he visited got quarantined due to a Corona outbreak. He and all of his friends he went on the trip with all got sick after returning to the Netherlands. Fortunately, my roommate has already recovered in full and I'm slowly recovering as well, and luckily we both only had mild symptoms. However, I've been locked inside with my roommate for more than a full week now and I'm already slowly going crazy. We can't even go outside to buy groceries or medication and have to rely on friends and family to drop that off at the door. Although I'm very thankful for everyone's support, I can't wait to go outside again in a few days when I'm fully recovered, even if it's only a 5-minute walk to the nearest supermarket.

Thanks for the warm welcome everybody 
 
I obviously didn't know about the other Matt, so I leave it up to you to decide how you address me  Looking forward to getting to know you all here