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@snow Yes, I have been on a different path for the past little while. Mostly reading, a lot of it. And hadn't even posted here for a fair period.

Winter is hard for me, tired of it.

Great NY Times article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/us/michigan-primary-election.html

@mngrif I think it's a goo idea, maybe they could be called Alliances as well.

😜

From Garth Turner's excellent daily Blog, it's on today's post, a good read too.

https://www.greaterfool.ca/2020/03/09/the-storm-2/

@Joelebo Hello, and welcome to Qoto.

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@W10x12_UNO@mastodon.sdf.org Fair enough, Pete.

It's a current news item, from a reliable source, not opinion but a fact that happened in this day documented.

The markets have been on a long bull run and it was ripe for some correction for some time. The corona virus epidemic is having a big impact on the economies, and it will likely get worse in that aspect.

Recession is most likely, imo.

Impact of corona virus on various world economies is spooking the stock markets.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51796806

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@freemo Oooooh. 😛

Must be tasty, I assume you are starting with plain tomatoes, not canned products. Cleaning up all those splatters, though... Afff.

@freemo Ah, I think you have a much more educated and refined palate than mine, as I am not from an Italian background.

I have been enjoying simple Al Sugo sauces lately, homemade with store bought Italian Passata tomato sauces. A little garlic and onion, quick sautee on oline oil, then add the passata. Makes for a lignt and enjoyable sauce.

Used to make heavier Bolognese sauces, thicker, with ground beef and seasonings, but haven't been using much meat at all lately. And now the passata sauce feels nicer, even scooped on plain bread it's a delight.

@freemo @jinohchoi Welcome to Qoto!! 😃

@freemo I am a huge Fettucine fan, and wish I could find the wider ones here in Canada. Difficult, we have many styles of pasta but one size fits all Fettucine, Argh.

I find it makes for a tasty plate of pasta always. Other people prefer other pasta styles, some like Spaghetti, which I find tends to taste watery in comparison. Less Bite into the thin pasta strands.

In Italy, pasta is serious business.

And there's even Science behind some of the discussions - like what style of Penne is the best, for taste and other reasons?

Lisce, the smooth kind? Or Rigate, the more common one with ridges on its surface?

Get your Penne fix from this Quartz article.

https://qz.com/1811768/coronavirus-lockdown-ignites-an-old-italian-debate-its-about-pasta-of-course/

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Deutsche Welle (English) @dw@newsbots.eu

**Italy fumbles coronavirus lockdown orders**

"People crowded onto trains on Saturday night to preempt government measures aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19. Italian media and politicians have been criticized for the confusing rollout of the new controls."

https://www.dw.com/en/italy-fumbles-coronavirus-lockdown-orders/a-52685263?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

Last train out of Town before quarantine restrictions.

An interesting story from an Italian Associated Press reporter who was in Padua, Northern Italy Saturday.

And the news of the upcoming quarantine for the whole region leaked in the press - just in time for her to catch the last train out of town before midnight.

"Before Italy’s virus lockdown, a dash to the last train out" By TRISHA THOMAS

https://apnews.com/0d0294807db64f300a4460030da4a701

@freemo @HarryChenPhD

Welcome to qoto!

Quick note, the reddit.com link is broken, the full link is :

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/f938j3/twitter_suspends_harry_chen_phd_known_for/

@11112011
Italy and Iran are already feeling more widespread contamination and sickness, deaths (seems that Iran has the highest numbers, statistically; probably their hospitals are overwhelmed by the demand and the equipment needed to treat serious cases).

Saturday night, Italy set a hard restriction of people moving in or out of Lombardy and other closer regions. The North of Italy is where the largest part of the Gross National Product is generated. There will be economic costs, besides the human suffering and older relatives being left there while some of their family might be in other regions of Italy.

In the UK, they are projecting numbers of people possibly being infected, and it will be hard for their Health System to cope; their best action is to try to delay the spread, to ease the burden on the NHS.

I just started reading another interesting article on the NY Times :

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/trump-coronavirus.html

@dave

@dave @11112011 LOL.... That was funny, I will admit.

The Orange Guy is worried and trying to downplay the seriousness of the epidemic. While propping the stock market indices which he loves to point to while they are so high up.

The virus is spreading and will do so on most countries; how things will go, is uncertain, but there will be economic impacts (drop in production and commerce, people off work due to quarantine or sickness). And the American health system is not particularly well suited to the shock of an epidemic, many people don't have insurance coverage, and some have co-pays that will create hardship.