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[mko]

Polish government announces plan to introduce new limitations. Will be introduced today.

In public transport one may no longer stand, only sitting in half of seats is allowed (to limit number of people traveling together).

Going outside in groups larger than 2 will be outlawed (families excluded).

Going outside without good reason - banned (going with dog, going for a walk, going to family member to help, shopping will remain OK. So it is a very mild restriction).

Claims that large scale testing will finally start.

The plan is to switch to South Korea situation, will schools and work open but with COVID reduced using other less harmful methods.

Number of people allowed to take part in funerals, religious ceremonies reduced to 5 + personnel like priest/gravedigger. Reduction from 50.

Up to 5000 PLN (1200 $) for violating rules (more than 2 months of a minimum wage).

[Iduno]

To be fair that would happen a good deal later.... but yeah I'm dubious about their motivations. Though I see a point in cancelling as many interventions as possible.

On that topic, I think we can expect a worldwide baby boom in about 8-9 months, with everyone locked in their homes and doctors too busy to prescribe the pill.

Also a surge of divorces right after the quarantine, I suspect...

And

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probably a lot more abuse in the interim.

[martinuzz]

Yeah, over here pedadgogues and psychiatrists are already worried for those kids who used to be able to escape home abuse by going to school, sports and hobby clubs.
They now have to suffer the abuse all day every day.

[TD1]

Which may make it more noticeable for bored neighbours who go on to report it.

[Akura]

Paranoid asshole stepdad is now making everyone at home take temperature. Given that I've been stuck inside for almost a week now, everyone else even longer, and nobody has had any reasonable possible contact with possible infected for even longer than that, I think this is pretty unreasonable. That said, two different thermometers have also given me a surprisingly low body temperature: 97.6°F for one* and 98.2°F for the other.

[delphonso]

Where you taking the temperature, bud? A degree lower isn't unusual in armpits or the roof of the mouth.

[nenjin]

Or a degree higher in the anus!

[McTraveller]

Average body temperature has been dropping over time, there were some headlines on this recently but I'm lazy so won't look them up.

My "normal" temps always read 97.6-97.9 when taken with a forehead IR thermometer.

[nenjin]

Right now the only thing that worries me is groceries. Isolation? No problem. Services shutdown? I can deal. No fast food/restaurant food/delivery? I'll manage.

But if I can't get anything resembling what I'm used to at the grocery store and am just grabbing random consumables.....le panic.

[Akura]

Where you taking the temperature, bud? A degree lower isn't unusual in armpits or the roof of the mouth.

First one was oral, second was ear. I put the oral one under the tongue, but it's an awkwardly flexible probe so I'm not sure I'm putting it in the correct part of my under-tongue.

[Reelya]

You know, i had a depressing thought: the reason we don't have governments who are on top of this sort of thing, is because if we did, then these sorts of crises would never get a foothold, and then that government would get absolutely pilloried in the next election by people who are freaking out about the steps the government needed to take to avoid the problem, going "look how much they reacted, and it was only the flu!"

[TD1]

Yes, my thoughts exactly. Democracy isn't an ideal method for distributing and exercising power, despite our rose-tinted impression of it.

Not that any other system is better, mind. Even an absolutist system run by me would be endangered... by me.

[Reelya]

Oh shit, I just chucked on ABC News 24 (Australian ABC) and there's a bit on Cossacks in Russia. The Cossacks have formed anti-coronavirus vigilante forces who are marching around in the streets in some cities, mostly without masks mind you, putting on a show of holy force to show that virus what's what. They're a sort of hardline pro-Putin conservative Christian militia, and their weapons against coronavirus include plentiful supplies of holy water and prayer, and they're saying there won't be an epidemic because Russians be Tough compared to the lowly asiatic immigrants*, and they're God's chosen people more or less.

* They may have a point here. Russians don't live long enough to get into the danger-zone for coronavirus unlike long-lived Asians.

[martinuzz]

For that same reason African poor countries might get less severe outbreaks fatality rates, because less people there reach an age that is at high risk.

[nenjin]

Oh shit, I just chucked on ABC News 24 (Australian ABC) and there's a bit on Cossacks in Russia. The Cossacks have formed anti-coronavirus vigilante forces who are marching around in the streets in some cities, mostly without masks mind you, putting on a show of holy force to show that virus what's what. They're a sort of hardline pro-Putin conservative Christian militia, and their weapons against coronavirus include plentiful supplies of holy water and prayer, and they're saying there won't be an epidemic because Russians be Tough compared to the lowly asiatic immigrants*, and they're God's chosen people more or less.

* They may have a point here. Russians don't live long enough to get into the danger-zone for coronavirus unlike long-lived Asians.

Getting down right medieval. When can we expect the flagellants?