elisi | Update from The House of Plague, Day 24

100 Days... 3 different delves into the story of coronavirus. It just feels surreal, reading/watching it. All from the Guardian:

100 Days That Changed The World (article)
It started with a warning. It turned into a pandemic that has transformed life as we know it
'At 1.38pm on 31 December, a Chinese government website announced the detection of a “pneumonia of unknown cause” in the area surrounding the South China seafood wholesale market in Wuhan, an industrial city of 11 million people. The outbreak was one of at least a dozen to be confirmed by the World Health Organization that December, including cases of Ebola in west Africa, measles in the Pacific and dengue fever in Afghanistan. Outside China, its discovery was barely noticed.Over the next 100 days, the virus would freeze international travel, extinguish economic activity and confine half of humanity to their homes, infecting more than a million people and counting, including an Iranian vice-president, the actor Idris Elba, and the British prime minister. By the middle of April, more than 75,000 would be dead.'

How coronavirus changed the world in three months – video
In just three months, the coronavirus has turned the world upside down. But how did it play out so quickly? We take a look back to where it all began – from its origins in south east Asia, to its acceleration across Europe and the US. As the infection rate increased and countries went into lockdown, people began to find imaginative and inspiring ways of coping with our new reality

How coronavirus spread across the globe - visualised
From early beginnings in China, the Covid-19 pandemic has spread rapidly across the globe

ETA: Coronavirus: 100 days that changed the world (part 1) (podcast)

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From the Faroes:

Veterinary scientist hailed for Faroe Islands' lack of Covid-19 deaths
Debes Christiansen adapted his salmon-testing lab to test for disease among humans

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And a few nice/fun things from these 100 days:

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I like the hats!

I'm offering to show people my cat on work meetings to cheer them up.

Aw, Wilson!

I saw one person in my twitter feed who mentioned her cat had interrupted a web meeting - and her boss had immediately demanded not just to see the cat, but to put the headphones on the cat "so I can talk to it!"

Smart of the Faroes to move so early. In that small of a population the spread could have been rapid.

And love the balcony table and Wilson on the job! (Mike and I are currently halfway through the latest Shaun the Sheep movie on Netflix).

OK, the sheepdog one made me laugh out loud.

Me too!

The hats are inspired!

And I have thought I might do the same with my cat. But he seems to vanish every time I'm on a call...

Wilson is a trooper.

That is the most adorable thing I have heard. Thank you. <3

Smart of the Faroes to move so early. In that small of a population the spread could have been rapid.
*nods* Also helpful to have the labs all ready!

(Mike and I are currently halfway through the latest Shaun the Sheep movie on Netflix).
Shaun the Sheep! Goodness, haven't watched any of those in... ever?