Trudeau has a press conference tomorrow to announce something. I'm expecting a shut down.

Besides UBC, SFU, and UVIC, other post secondary institutions are going to online instruction. Some of them made the announcement today.

https://www.straight.com/news/137273...lternate-forms

Most likely he's closing the borders. I don't expect a shutdown yet

This thread is 2 fast 2 furious for me to keep up with so apologies if these have been posted before.

Found this tracking site:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Continuously updated despite the site being attacked more than once. Hopefully its accuracy is maintained.

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Also, journalists are trying to narrow down the first case of this virus

https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...ovember-2020-3

SCMP Report: (I don't know how credible SCMP is)

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soci...se-traced-back

Casinos are closing (sorry mg1 gonna have to play the slots from Ur phone) :lol

https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/03...e-to-covid-19/

You and me both. Just came back to Canada after a year abroad and labour market could not be any worse. UBI looking real good right about now.

Calgary declares state of emergency, here's what they're doing

Beside Calgary, which other cities in Canada declared a state of emergency? Or is Calgary the first one?

Why are ppl buy up breads?
Gonna freeze them?

Eggs too

Could be to let us know he started showing symptoms and tested positive.

Or could be telling people to stay clam go.oit as usual but don't buy packs and packs of TP coz he can't buy any. Seriously though I don't expect him to shut down the country
He doesn't have the balls to do it.

* i don't want to spread fear, so i'm going to remove my post.

did people start getting what's being talked about on press release tmw? I got it, and it's pretty detailed.

shutting down PORN?
:troll:

No, he is going to talk about how well Costco, Superstore Walmart and London Drugs are doing and how everything is going perfect.

no it's pretty serious. it's an 8 point "shut down of everything" border, food, restaurnats etc... everything our PM will address at 11 AM PST address the nation speech.

This past weekend, I noticed a huge upswing of activity in some of the buy and sell groups I'm part of on Facebook. Not even single items either but rather 3-4 from each seller.

Some people are definitely taking this seriously and planning far ahead.

This is from Bergamo, Italy, a town of ~120,000. Comparing the obituary pages from Feb 9 to Mar 13th.

https://i.imgur.com/SYVkJSv.mp4

I don't know how to embed a .mp4 here so the link is the best I can do.

"But they're all old" BrokeBack

Confirmed
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETM45SDU...jpg&name=small

New York City is doing the same...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2130EQ

Have any of you local guys taken time off work to quarantine yet?

According to the mayor to T.O. John Tory it's not true.

https://twitter.com/JohnTory/status/...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Not true until its true? Don't know. Always taking politicians words with a grain of salt. Personally, I hope they have the balls to take the drastic measures to shut down all the things aside from essential services.

I'm 'essential' staff where I work (I'm 1 of only 2 essential). That said, my industry isn't even essential :lol

I have the right to refuse work given these circumstances so I'm going to wake up early, see what new developments there are and decide for myself...