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Wife didn't go with that option, but proper N95 masks. But scaring away people deals with eye droplet risks, a main conclusion of the intercontinental family pandemic council the past hour. Main worry is still son bringing home germs... Lovely state BW is.

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In bocca al lupo. You're in Veneto? As a side note, just had a conversation with UK family who are considering this mask to keep others away and reduce the chance of infection. Slightly bonkers, but would work. People would keep away

Greatest risk to me is my family, especially child going to school, where options are v limited. Very

Family using masks, limiting locations visited, avoiding people with mountains of luggage who have obviously just arrived, especially from far east ,etc. Photo of Rome supermarket 5mins ago by family there

Well, I suppose that, at least, it's not the other way around and we're more vulnerable...

An impressive lack of rigour and optionality from the UK government. More here... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/25/britons-returning-coronavirus-italy-self-isolate-quarantine-regions

(It's smelly. As a hypermobile person with orthotics, I can attest.)

What have ducks every done to you :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Poor ducks, bad name for ducks.

Well, a level of honesty from them at least.... Broad-brush artificial bucket of irrelevance and intellectual dereliction.

There is a economic hit in the works here that they are pricing in. Global supply chains are being hit hard, and demand is certainly not encouraged by yet more economic uncertainty. At least this uncertainty isn't man-made this time. How substantial the hit is may depend on the wider politics....

Ongoing success!

=Great That's British understatement BTW :)

Skimmed it quickly in Italian (head exploding) - not a bad article methinks

The statements that face masks are ineffective don't ring true to me. Insufficient, perhaps. Of no effect, not true. That's preemptive panic reduction PR IMO. People running around with masks reduces the 'feel food factor' economically, with timing that doesn't bode well for economic pressures...

We are not dominated by evidence based policy formulation or considerations, as a general statement, so I share that concern.

I am sure that I read of local Chinese officials who later withdrew false reporting statistics, that misrepresented their outbreaks in a positive light to look good to central authorities. Classic behaviour that will hopefully be disciplined out of practice due to the global spotlight on China...

It's all in the toes, not the blood...

Didn't realise this. Made me think of the extremely dangerous sewer oil to food recycling industry there in Chinese cities I also worry about India if that fecal issue is true. If you plot a scatter chart of poverty vs outdoor defecation, there is a massive correlation between getting richer...