#if it were nh this would be nothing. since it's here the entire metro area is in tatters

[crimeronan]

the heat is currently off outside of the bedrooms to save on electricity when it's Snowy As Hell Outside so selena is curled up on me n rafi's bed being chillycold in a sunbeam and not even following me to the bathroom like she usually does when i get up. poor baby. i feel u angel.

[covid19updater]

COVID19 UPDATES 03/29/2020

MORNING UPDATE (0835):

Italy:  In italy looting has started on supermarkets and many have no money to buy what food is left. Law and order falling apart there. LINK

Rhode Island: Rhode Island's governor calls to quarantine New Yorkers to prevent the spread of COVID-19 LINK

Alabama: A nurse in Mobile, Alabama getting her message out. LINK

Maryland:  Tonight, Maryland has experienced a tragic COVID-19 outbreak at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Mt Airy. Multiple state agencies are on the scene and working closely with the local health department & the facility to protect additional residents and staff who may have been exposed.

California: The Los Angeles Police Department says 24 of its employees have now tested positive for #coronavirus.

US; Trump reverses course: On the recommendation of the White House CoronaVirus Task Force, and upon consultation with the Governor’s of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, I have asked the @CDCgov to issue a strong Travel Advisory, to be administered by the Governors, in consultation with the........Federal Government. A quarantine will not be necessary. Full details will be released by CDC tonight. Thank you!

Thailand: King of Thailand “self-isolates” with his harem and servants. LINK

Maine: On Maine island, several people with guns allegedly cut down tree to block driveway and force quarantine LINK

California: 25 year old with no underlying issues dies from COVID19. LINK

California: Coronavirus ICU admissions double overnight in California LINK

NYC: Some 20% of the 4,500 NYC ambulance workers, EMTs, paramedics and supervisors are out sick

Massachusetts: A second inmate at the Middlesex County Jail & House of Correction in Billerica, Massachusetts has tested positive for the Corona Virus. Expect this number to dramatically increase.

Germany: Number of confirmed Covid-19 #coronavirus cases in #Germany rises to 52,547 and death toll reaches 389 - Robert Koch Institute

China: CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: CHINA REPORTED 693 IMPORTED VIRUS CASES FROM 42 COUNTRIES AS OF SAT, WHICH SHOWS THERE'S STILL POSSIBILITY OF A SECOND WAVE OF INFECTION IN THIS COUNTRY: OFFICIAL FROM NATIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION - GT

RUMINT/ANALYSIS: There have been 70,000 new cases added today since I first woke up, to right now when I'm going to bed. At some point this coming week early on we will be going to 100k per day every day. That still is nothing, absolutely nothing compared to what April will look like. March was...the last month worldwide that will resemble the old world. April will be a month of massive human drama. The entire month filled with stories that...we have not seen in our lifetimes. It will be difficult to keep up as Covid-19 sweeps through Brazil and India, and wreaks further havoc throughout Europa and the US. Canada and Russia will look like the US does right now, the middle east and Asia will explode in cases etc... Just endless, every single day from worse to worse. The blame will be shifted onto those who failed to act or to take this threat seriously in February and March. It will be a hostile, threatening landscape full of tension and people already wearying of their confinement. Supply chains, distribution and the start of chaos will be seen towards the end of April in a way that is quite clearly showing where we will be heading in many areas of the world. There is no scenario where we do not enter a martial lockdown of civilized nations in April, if we do not, then it devolves our way of life permanently. The last hope is to absolutely enforce strict, militarily enforced quarantines and support of the supply chains and economies as the health care systems become overwhelmed. We won't be able to keep up with this in April. April is the month we fight, we give it our all, bring the full weight of the riches and the systems and the people to bear against this, only to realize, too late, that it won't be enough. It can't be enough because we did not act when we had the chance to. Not with enough leadership, not with enough public participation or awareness, with too many lies. The time to get ahead of this in any meaningful way to minimize this scenario, is behind us, not ahead of us. What is ahead of us is the age of paying the price. I don't want to think of what May is going to look like. March is almost done, and it was the last month where society as a whole resembled the one it left behind. We are entering uncharted waters in April. Stay safe, purge your inner nothingburger, now, and overreact. Anything less is underreaction. That's my nightly long ass post. Time to sleep well, in what little time we have left where a night like this can be had among civilized men.

UK: BREAKING - Unlike Trump, the UK is reportedly furious at China and believes it may have 40 times more coronavirus cases than it claims. Beijing faces a "reckoning" once the #COVID19 crisis is over.

Switzerland: The Swiss death toll has risen by 235 in a day to 257,Reuters news agency quotes the country's health agency as saying.

AFTERNOON UPDATE (1513)

US/World: 38 sailors have now tested positive for Covid-19 aboard aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. officials Early last week the first three cases were discovered. Pentagon said Saturday 112 U.S. Navy sailors have coronavirus worldwide — 34% are aboard the aircraft carrier.

RUMINT (Switzerland): BREAKING - Confidential situation report in Zurich leaked: the "most likely development of the situation" is that the #COVID19 pandemic can not be contained. Therefore, the measures would have to be further tightened & "massively extended" - beyond the summer holidays.

DEBORAH BIRX: NO U.S. STATE OR METRO AREA TO BE SPARED BY COVID-19

CONNECTICUT: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based on the urging of President Donald Trump has issued a 'domestic travel advisory for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut' due to the high number of coronavirus cases there.

US: FAUCI SAYS 200,000 U.S. VIRUS DEATHS POSSIBLE; ESTIMATE FLUID

NYC: New York mayor: City will run out of supplies in 1 week Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio says that his city will run out of critical medical supplies - including ventilators - by next Sunday, 5 April. "Here in New York City, it feels like a wartime environment," he told CNN. New York has become the epicentre of the US coronavirus outbreak. Across the state, at least 52,000 people had tested positive as of Saturday - more than one third of the cases across the country. At least 728 people have died, 672 of them within New York City. "This is going to be a long crisis," de Blasio said. "We should get more girded for the sheer timeline here."

New York: New York curve accelerating beyond one model. LINK

Singapore: SINGAPORE IN A VIRUS BATTLE THAT IS INTENSIFYING, Prime Minister TELLS CNN

Germany: UPDATE: The finance minister of the German state of Hesse, Thomas Schäfer, apparently committed suicide in despair about the scale of the state response required to tackle the #coronavirus crisis, initial investigations suggest.

US: Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts 'millions' of U.S. coronavirus cases, more than 100,000 deaths LINK

Louisiana: New Orleans streets are overtaken by RATS as tourists stay away from the hotspot city and Louisiana is hit by 3,315 coronavirus cases and 137 deaths. The rats have been forced to surface in order to find whatever scraps they can...The city says it’s ramping up its use of rat bait in commercial areas, starting with rat traps on the sidewalks and bait into the catch basins on Bourbon Street. Along the Crescent City's famous Bourbon Street, its bars and music venues are all closed to comply with social distancing rules. 'I turn the corner, there's about 30 rats at the corner, feasting on something in the middle of the street,' one local restaurant owner told CBS News. Extermination crews have now begun to leave poisoned bait in the gutters along with rat traps in an effort to curb pests.'There are pathogens in these rodents. Fortunately, we don't see many of the health outcomes. We don't have very many disease cases that are actually related to rodents. But the potential is there,' New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said during a press conference.

RUMINT: Heard something interesting from my daughter who is a floor nurse...they have one floor of her hospital dedicated to suspected covid19 patients, they sent some nurses from her floor up there to work (pulled to cover shifts)...They thought it was best if people took turns working in that unit? So the whole hospital has a better chance to get infected? Also...this hospital has some VIP club for VIP patients that get fed special gourmet meals...so the nurses that work on the covid19 floor get to order food off the special menu. She works with a nurse whose husband works at the water treatment plant...somehow workers at the water treatment plant were exposed, but their jobs are too critical so they got each worker their own RV to live in and they have to remain on site. And this...the nurses on the regular floors were told not to wear masks because it scared the patients...also they are running short of PPE.

Maryland: “56% of all the people that have been hospitalized in Maryland are under 60. They’re not just folks from nursing homes that are in their 70s and 80s,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan warns on @FoxNewsSunday

UK: An NHS doctor, 55, is first confirmed UK hospital frontline worker to die from coronavirus

US: BREAKING - The reaction of the United States to #COVID19 is the worst in the world. The updated trajectory shows that dark times may lie ahead.

Italy: [RTRS] 29 Mar -ITALY DEATH TOLL FROM CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK RISES BY 756 TO 10,779 ON SUNDAY - OFFICIAL ITALY'S TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFIRMED CORONAVIRUS CASES RISE TO 97,689 FROM 92,472 ON SATURDAY - OFFICIAL 

UK:  UK RESTRICTIONS COULD LAST 6 MONTHS LINK

World: FROM 600 000 TO 700 000 cases IN 1 DAY

Russia: BREAKING - Moscow declares a **self-isolation regime** for all residents irrespective of age from tomorrow on amid the worsening #COVID19 outbreak in the city. Residents will only be allowed to leave their homes with a special permit issued by the city’s government.

Indiana: BREAKING: Indianapolis declared an emerging hot zone by the Surgeon General.

France: France: 292 deaths and 359 new patients admitted in ICUs in the past 24 hours.

Nigeria: NIGERIA'S BUHARI ORDERS 14-DAY LOCKDOWN OF LAGOS AND ABUJA Combined population = 20 million

US: Michigan and Louisiana are becoming virus hot spots — their governors warn supplies are already running out

EVENING (1930):

US: Joe Diffie, ’90s Country Music Star, Dies of Coronavirus at 61

Italy: "In Italy, authorities have conceded that their coronavirus death toll did not include those who had died at home or in nursing homes. Similarly in France..."

Louisiana: 30 inmates and staff at Oakdale federal prison in Louisiana have tested positive for coronavirus, and one inmate has died

DC: BREAKING: CAPITOL POLICE officer tests positive for coronavirus. Source says the officer had been assigned to the House chamber.

UK: Rationing begins in UK. Customers limited to take just one item each of essentials such as milk, bread and eggs.

US: SINGER-SONGWRITER JOHN PRINE IN CRITICAL CONDITION WITH SYMPTOMS OF COVID-19

NYC: BREAKING: The death toll has jumped by nearly 100 in NYC since this morning's update. There are now 776 COVID-19 deaths in the city.