He followed the advice in my country the UK (6 people at most to meet at any one time) and had bad luck. Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of Covid shaming when actually, the blame should be laid at the feet of our governments who have simply failed to get the pandemic under control.

Now in the UK, we are starting to impose lockdown measures again, because of government has a track and trace failure caused by excel (seriously, they used Excel to export and collate data to feed into our track and trace system, and didn't notice it had run out of rows for about a week) In that week they totally lost control of the virus, my city went from 200 infections per 100k to 700 per hundred k.

It's government that had screwed up, not the people.

It's slightly rude of me, but do you mind if I ask when you went to school? I was born in 79 and Youguht and Pizza were definitely very standard things when I was at school in the mid 80s-90s

I swear there is a large group of people who just want to kill as many as possible. The love minimising Covid and encouraging herd Immunity by infection even though we don't yet know if it's even something that is possible.

We aren't even checking tempratures though, we could have slowed this but old Fucko the clown that is running the UK can't be bothered.

What makes you think that? Flights are still coming in from Italy, people aren't screened at airports, the UK is doing nothing and I'm furious with my government for their lack of action.

Brit here,I think we are missing cases, several government ministers now have it.

It started in Parliament with Nadine Dorris a junior health minister! I am beginning to think we are the new Iran and have a major, major problem.

No-one knows how Doris got it. In my view, there must be a large spread somewhere in the UK. We also exported it to Portugal in the form of 3 returning Portuguese tourists, that suggests to me, a big spread in London rather than her constituency. Which given the population density and the tube would be unsurprising.

The Government of course have done sweet fuck all up to now. Boris may now be infected (possibly the Queen too as he meets her regularly) so watch them now start to do something after it's far, far too late.

I would strongly suggest Trump imposes the same flight ban on us.

I'm British, I apologise for apologising.

As a Brit, I think that is insane, I have 5.6 weeks of legally mandated paid leave per year, that is the minimum they are allowed to get away with. My old job gave me 32 days per year, Americans are all bonkers for putting up with the way companies treat you.

I actually think that changing every 2 years is fairly optimal, let's be realistic here, the only way your getting a pay raise these days is change jobs (or not had an above Retail price index pay raise ever), so if you want your salary to go up you have to move jobs. You don't want to change too often because employers think you are flighty and won't stick around long, so 2 to 3 years before you move on and up seems about right.

I'm a Brit so not quite so up to speed with the US labour market but surely as in the UK those cheaper areas are cheap because there is no work there.

My (northern) hometown has cheap house prices, but there are few jobs as such my potential earnings are much lower here than in London and the South East of England. For what my 2 bed flat (in a not very nice area) cost me in London I could get 3 bedroom house with a nice garden in a good bit of town up here, but my career opportunities would be severely limited.

Surely it's worse in the US with a much greater geographical spread, telling someone to save up to buy a house in Detroit is probably not very helpful if they are software developer or engineer and need to be where the work is?

The US seems quite backwards in its credit card technology, here in the UK we have had chip & pin basically exclusively for a decade and are now using Rfid for low value touch based transactions (less than £30)

Dosbox runs under Windows too doesn't it?

Well, Un is probably less likely to give away highly classified intelligence to the Russians than Trump, that is one thing in his favour.

That would mean that the space between Galaxies was expanding faster than light wouldn't it? I remember reading that there was no reason it couldn't do, but wasn't aware of evidence that it could.

As a very pro European Brit, I'm afraid I have to agree with you. UKIP released a poster of a long line of refugees heading for Germany, it was widely decried as echoing fascism even by other leave organisations. Honestly I think it had enough of an effect to swing the vote.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36570759