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Yes. It is a repeat of what people said at the previous halvening, and what they will say at the next.

Coronavirus Cases: 475,415. Deaths: 21,318. Recovered: 117,247. Affecting 198 countries and territories.

- Mali becomes the 44th African country to confirm Covid-19.

- The death toll in France is much higher than the daily government tally, which only accounts for those dying in hospitals, a senior French health official said.

- UK shuts parliament Wednesday night.

- Cairo, a city home to some 20 million people, shut down on Wednesday evening.

- Death toll in Spain surpasses China. 736 deaths in one day, total of 3,647.

- Prince Charles tests positive.

- Spanish deputy prime minister Carmen Calvo tests positive.

- Countries are starting to hoard food, threatening global trade. Kazakhstan banned exports of wheat flour, carrots, sugar and potatoes. Serbia has stopped the flow of its sunflower oil and other goods. Russia is leaving the door open to shipment bans.

- U.S. reported 14,024 new cases and 265 new deaths, raising the total to 69,047 cases and 1,046 deaths.

- US agrees $2 trillion emergency bill, stimulus package is project to reach $6 trillion dollars.

- 200 NYPD cops have tested positive.

- Tokyo implements lockdown.

- Belgium sees 50% increase in hospital admissions.

- The rate of new infections in Italy slows for a fourth day.

- Singapore and Tokyo report largest daily jump in new cases.

- Switzerland tightens borders.

- Nigerian army prepares for lockdown.

- Bank of Spain warns about economic fallout.

- Bulgaria has imposed a temporary entry ban on trucks from more than 65 countries that plan to pass through the Balkan state and route to Turkey.

- China has raised concerns among the public that people could still be spreading COVID-19 without knowing they are sick. The end of the lockdown will release thousands of infectious people back into circulation.

- India's huge outsourcing industry struggles with work-from-home scenario. Supply chains will be disrupted.

- Health experts warn that Indonesia is primed to become a new epicenter.

- Nearly one million Canadians applied for jobless claims last week.

- Negative rates come to the US: 1-month and 3-month treasury bill yields are now negative.

- Uganda said it had closed its borders to all new refugee arrivals.

- Pentagon orders high security level at all military installations worldwide.

- Mexico will suspend non-essential activities. Mexicans fear looting spree as shops robbed.

- Singapore heading for deep recession.

         

Interesting...




Source: https://twitter.com/makotosaitoh2/status/1243022198987583489

It may sound weird at first, but it makes sense. In lack of a better solution, NYC has the rink at Rockefeller Center and probably many others across all the state.

Also, instead of building an hospital from scratch like Wuhan did in 10 days. Madrid just repurposed IFEMA Convention Center into a 5000+ bed Hospital in just 2 days:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2020/03/22/album/1584868312_266377.html

That is just one of MANY pavillions of the complex. Also the repurposed rink morgue is very close to it.


On other news, Mexico's President is completely nuts. In a hilarious video staged on some kind of restaurant he encouraged their citizens to go out and socialice even more than ever... because it is good for the economy.


(In original Spanish it sounds much more encouraging... and hilarious)

Maybe he is a Slayer relative?

spending the evening money laundering




like, literally, washing bills

the soak water gets fucking nasty man

Largely the way the virus gets into the high-mortality figure range is when systemic failures are exploited. Poor testing, slow reactions from officials on border closures, hospital resource expansion, equipment procurement, basically a lack of foresight and moribund bureaucracy is what is killing people now. The virus is simply the mismanaged agent of death. The financial systems are fucked right now but they weren't in great shape under the hood to begin with ... bitcoin is the antidote for those rats.

I'm encouraged by the innovative approaches that blows away the old ways to save lives. The drive-thru testing from S.Korea that is getting adopted globally, antibody testing by private labs, Apps for disease tracing and an informed public "crowd-sourcing" for where the disease has been spotted (instead of old and slow press conferences with parade-leader politicians and health bureaucrats). Ice-rink morgues are another innovative solution to surge disruption bought on by the virus, hopefully if it is better managed at the prevention/mitigation end we wont need too many of them.

NY city morgues at capacity.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/dhs-briefing-nyc-morgues-near-capacity-148259
... snake bites. (or SARS-infused ferret bites?)

A report from Madrid where they commandeered an ice-rink (currently not used). Do they simply stack the bodies, literally "on ice",until they can catch up with funerals, cremations, autopsies, etc? Thought that was highly creative, if a little morbid.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/spain-makeshift-ice-rink-morgue-takes-delivery-corpses-200324115155671.html


I think that qualifies for the funeral home share app prize winner.

But... Isn't current scenario and, even more, post-covid one like the perfect environment for Amazon to have even more success?

Basically all their divisions are in a surge:

- Distribution and online selling of all sort of goods
- Cloud computing (AWS)
- Video streaming (Amazon Prime Video)
- Food distribution (Whole Foods)

It is like the perfect company for times like this.

While everyone is closing/firing they are hiring instead:

https://thehustle.co/03242020-amazon-hiring-labor/

fuck  un  ayy


 

If you have bad memory, there is always something new.

Workin on it bro.....

It's tons of fun having piles of lists that you always forget to bring.
Actually you can re-use them again, just edit and then forget to use them over and over again.
Or on the off chance you do remember to bring one its always fun to be on the way back home only to remember you forgot to check the list thats in your pocket. Lol

I mean, unless difficulty drops so precipitously that idle mining power could conceivably mount a 51% attack,

vanishingly unlikely now, slightly less vanishingly after the halving.

No, supply is set in algorithm, and demand couldn't care less about current difficulty level.

wodr

Should I be disturbed by the number of ads for Yak meat?

No point to enter the stock market until AMZN is also down 40-50% from the top.
I am 80-90% sure that there will be no exceptions longer term.

Mmm. Sapphire. Got a way to cool it down? Who needs or even wants tonic water?

I guess that's good for slaking your thirst in the hot summer noonday sun, but we ain't there ATM, are we?

word

Source?  You made that yourself, Phil?