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What are the odds of the batteries of both my watches going dead within 48 hours of each other and at a time when I can't get them sorted? I stuggle to see how anyone could be suffering more from Covid than me right now.

Don't now how much of n indication this gives as to how authoroties see things panning out: Current contracts for players and coaches should be extended until the end of the delayed domestic football seasons, according to an internal Fifa document presented to its Coronavirus Working Group...

Aberdeen have been told their insurance to protect against a loss of earnings due to a pandemic will cease at the end of April. The Pittodrie club has a business interruption policy but say the wording in relation to the coronavirus outbreak is to be removed upon renewal...

The value of lives versus the economy thing is interesting. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/business/economy/coronavirus-economy.html

Bolsonaro’s approval ratings have taken a beating. A survey published Monday by the Datafolha polling firm showed that just 34% of Brazilians polled thought the president’s job performance was “great” or “good.” That’s the lowest level since he took office last year...

The rate of new infections slowed for a fourth day, rising by 3491 compared with 3,612 new cases on Tuesday. Civil Protection said 57,521 people in Italy are currently infected with the coronavirus. Total cases of Covid 19 in Italy (currently infected, deaths and recovered): 74,386...

Lot's of people have been washing their hands with alcohol to ward off infection. I've been experimenting with cleansing my insides with alcohol.

Are they considered some sort of key defence contractor? They should fail under the weight of their own shitness, but I doubt that would be allowed to happen.

Yeah, no doubt they'll get away with pointing out it was worse in other places, rather than having to answer fully for it also being worse in the UK than it needed to be.

Grampian numbers increase from 24 to 29. And one of those is Prince fucking Charles.

I did try talking to the dog, but that got old pretty quickly.

Pretty much. This seemed the best bet once the bars closed and I was going to be denied my usual quota of inane chatter.

Started posting again on Juventuz. Downloaded Football Manager.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/uk-coronavirus-mass-home-testing-to-be-made-available-within-days

Amazing how one quick burst of competence suddenly erases weeks of dithering/idiocy in the minds of many.

Arseholes coming from England and spreading the virus around here. The Government has updated its advice to say that all holidays and non-essential travel within the UK should now be off limits to slow the spread of coronavirus...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/21/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-by-country.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Typical anti-Trump Bezos. :disagree:

I'm not convinced that will happen. I think that stuff is just Trump preparing the ground to keep shifting blame elsewhere. "I wanted to restart the economy, but the medical experts/governers are preventing it happening."