International COVID-19 Megathread

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Well, seems like Corona beer is getting a lot of free promotion.

It would be a shame if an unfortunate similarity in names would do in the brand just as happened with AYDS.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I've been putting my rudimentary italian to use and reading some of the coverage there, so there are a couple of articles worth sharing which go into a bit more depth about the numbers we've been seeing:

1. Firstly, this chart (which in fairness I got from the cesspool that is Vote UK):

Hell, if that place is a "cesspool" what does that make Facebook and Twitter?

The contents?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

800 cases in Switzerland today, the number of cases per day is jumping around all over the place, which is apparently down to the cantons reporting individually and the fact that the OFSP (public health authority) is doing it's reporting using ... a fax machine... in 2020... in one of the richest countries on the planet...

I just don't understand where the stereotype that the Swiss are slow comes from.

At least here in the U.S., the medical and financial industries are the major users because they both deal with private data and it's a lot harder to hack fax machines than computers.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I just read an article on the border controls Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have established to keep people (tourists) from other German states out. Weird stuff. The Balkanization of Germany has begun.

Freistaat Bayern über alles,
Über alles in der Land!

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

- Only three people can be admitted to any store at one time (reasonable).

Maybe for small stores, but for a supermarket or big box stores, that's absurd.