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Comment Staying at home (Score 1) 425

Here in the Netherlands all universities are closed. They're providing remote lectures if possible. All schools are closed, except for those in their final year.
Daycare centers are closed except for children where the parents are working in hospitals and other comparable organisations.
Dentists are closed unless it's urgent.
Sportclubs, bars and restaurants are all closed, coffeshops also, which caused long lines of people trying to get some hash/weed in advance.
I expect more shops are being closed in the next week...
Where possible people are working from home. At my work most office people work from home, on the workfloor where it's impossible to work from home the shifts no longer overlap and we reduced the workforce...
I'm not to concerned for me, my wife and my children, but I'm concerned for our parents.
I put our parents in quarantine, as they're at risk. My father has COPD and some other lung problems. If he gets the virus he won't survive. My mother is a heart patient... Same story there. And my mother in law has undergone a surgery less than a week ago...
I've set up Google Duo for video calling and we're doing the shopping/groceries for them, minimizing the contact with the outer world, just to make the chances of survival as large as possible...

Comment Re:Last straw? (Score 1) 533

Ehh... Hawker Hurricane based on a biplane? Are you serious?
Yes, the punishment of Germany after WWI was way to harsh and we should kick the French in their nuts for that... but Nazi Germany could have been stopped early 1930's.
Chamberlain was only thinking shortterm and was to eager to preserve peace while war was inevitable...

Comment Re:Doomsday clock (Score 5, Insightful) 301

As a Dutch person I can only say: yawn...
If you really think that just a modest spending restraint is the solution to the US debt, then you're an idiot...
The only solution to the US debt is a tax raise and a significant spending restraint.
If you don't get it by now: You're in it till over your heads... It's a miracle you can still breathe...
As a Dutch I really don't get it: more than 50% of the US population is against a tax raise for the 'filthy' rich which only constitutes a maximum of 3% of your population... Why do those (more than) 50% care for those 3%, they certainly don't care for you?....
If those 3% can raise their wealth by driving that 50% into poverty they certainly will do so... The other way around will never happen...
Btw, my taxrate is about 40%, those 'filthy' rich in the US don't even pay half of that with all the shortcuts they can make...

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