Portugal is weeping, Geert Wilders Says Netherlands Would Be Better Off if It Left 28-Nation Bloc, France can't compete with Germany, Merkel is pissed at Obama, Belgium is ousting Afgans. Is anybody happy?

Russia's Little Big (of Skibidi fame) was announced for Eurovision, but now corona cancelled it.

Wait, Russia is entering with something gay/trans/whatever?

It's the whatever, not the former things.

The coronavirus is spreading ...
Take care.

Very interesting article about vírus.
The coronavirus isn't alive. That's why it's so hard to kill.

The CPB^[1] director says it's "practically unavoidable" that there'll be a recession.^[2] But besides how worrisome that sounds, the definition of a recession is simply that the economy shrinks for two quarters straight. So it's mostly up to what happens after those two quarters whether the practical effects will actually line up with what we mean by the word.

¹ Centraal Planbureau↵

² https://www.telegraaf.nl/financieel/1189378038/cpb-baas-grote-zorgen-over-lamleggen-economie-door-coronacrisis↵

The coronavirus is spreading ...
Take care.

The first corona death was confirmed in Estonia today (an 83 yo) and it is already reflected on this website. Keep up the good work 

Der Spiegel writes some odd stuff sometimes.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/dutch-exceptionalism-will-holland-s-looser-corona-policies-pay-off-a-fe2dd266-910c-4b62-9ddd-77b9189fc348#ref=rss

Rutte's most important adviser in the corona crisis -- Jaap van Dissel, Director of the Center for Infection Control at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and Environment -- holds views on the disease similar to his prime minister. Van Dissel explains that the virus must not be allowed to spread freely, otherwise the health system would be overwhelmed. And that herd immunity is not the goal. But he says it could become a weapon in the fight against the epidemic.

The RIVM holds views similar to Rutte? Oh yes, because as we all know Rutte has studied epidemiology and his favorite hobby is modeling SARS. What an odd way to phrase it.

Portugal grants all immigrants residence permit, while Foreigner and Border Authority offices are closed due to corona https://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20200328/48138414877/portugal-regularizacion-inmigrantes-covid19.html

Solidarity with all my European friends both DnD and IRL. We shall beat this terrible virus at some point.   Best song to express it imo is:
https://youtu.be/OV5_LQArLa0