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The city of Auckland - the urban area rather than the district (which is larger) - has one third of the total population of New Zealand. Yes they are going to have less cases as their population is smaller. But they acted far quicker than other governments and are already reaping the rewards.

Pretty much a certainty, I'm afraid. This is a worldwide issue, not a US specific one. I am aware of one death (two doors down) that is almost certainly COVID19 (guy came back from a holiday in Italy just as this started, developed a fever and cough, died but never even went to the docs). He had not been tested then and it is unlikely he will be soon (if ever) since we also do not have enough tests for our health care workers let alone for those we can do nothing for.

Who knows when the US will start levelling. With Florida and other states only now just starting to put in measures there may be some weeks ahead before any kind of slow down on a national level kicks in.

Bravo. If I ran 8k I would be coughing and spluttering so much I'd be rushed to the ICU !

I would say this is likely. The Chinese ignored the early stages of the outbreak and millions passed through the area before the lockdown. I imagine deaths and cases are both higher, although with their lockdown it is possible that the numbers of new cases are now very low.

969 deaths in Italy in the last 24 hours. I imagine the UK and US will see similar figures in the coming week or two.

And there are still people saying he has changed his position and attacking him rather than reading what he really said (if we keep up this social isolating then we could reduce the death toll to only around 20,000 (!!!)). And now Boris the Clown has the virus. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52060791

Books Gardening Home maintenance (While other people were panic buying bog rolls I bought paint...) Netflix Boardgames (solo if no kids - and never Monopoly!) Early morning walk before anyone else is around

Still counts as he can no longer add to the gene pool. Really a stupid way to go. Sad. But really, really dumb.

Prime Darwin Award candidate.

Should have sung some Alice Cooper rather than Don McLean...

Stoked

Point 6. Lawson and Hill... ?

Bally Marvelous

carp

dammit

Cricket nothing. He supports Arsenal...

The current Wembley stadium was built for football (soccer), with the ability to host NFL games and Rugby League. The former Wembley stadium was the Olympic site but was demolished 16/17 years ago. The new Wembley is an excellent, modern stadium. It is more likely games will be played at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium instead, though. Also - plenty of NFL fans in the UK.

Wow. Some performance against New Zealand! If anything the score was closer than it should have been, and it is rare that you can say that with New Zealand on the losing side. It was always going to take a good team playing incredibly well to beat the All Blacks and England delivered. Time to cheer on Wales (for the sake of Northern Hemisphere solidarity...) Swing low, sweet chariot...

As a Roman said A dead fish always smells good Or something like that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_catch_kick

squish squish squish the fish squish squish squish squish squish the fish SQUISH SQUISH SQUISH THE FISH!

Untrue. Ever since heroin was banned in the US the mafia has been supplying it. During prohibition they made more money from drugs than they did alcohol. It is an enduring myth that the mafia were against drugs - one largely put forward by the mafia themselves (as opposed to law enforcement who have always recognised the mafia's involvement in the drug trade). Lucky Luciano was arrested in 1923 having sold heroin to undercover police officers. The brothels he later ran used the prostitutes (themselves mostly users) to sell heroin to their customers. Vito Genovese was a big time drug dealer and died in gaol after a conviction for involvement in a heroin trade. There were few exceptions. Frank Costello being the most notable one - one of the reasons he got shot was because of his opposition to drug dealing. On the whole when a mob boss said he was against drugs it was pretty much for show - in reality they were (And are) making huge profits from the trade.

Peaky Blinders is a BBC show. Netflix only bought the rights for US distribution (although it does now show it elsewhere) a year after the original series was shown on the Beeb.

London is one of the best cities in the world to eat. It is just that we don't tell American visitors where the good places are, because we would not want to harm their preconceptions. We're friendly like that.