{"id":248,"date":"2020-03-02T21:46:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewsomers.com\/myblog\/news\/?p=248"},"modified":"2020-03-02T21:46:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:46:51","slug":"now-its-the-c-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/2020\/03\/02\/now-its-the-c-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Now it&#8217;s the C Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virus continues to spread<\/li>\n<li>UK seems to have a viable plan to delay and minimise the peak of the epidemic while trying to boost the capacity of the NHS<\/li>\n<li>Cruise ships having problems with docking plus many cases on board<\/li>\n<li>Cases spreading worldwide &#8211; declared a pandemic<\/li>\n<li>Shares down about 30%, oil prices collapse<\/li>\n<li>Over 70s (that&#8217;s me!) advised to take special care<\/li>\n<li>Cases at the end of February\n<ul>\n<li>World 84615<\/li>\n<li>China 77835<\/li>\n<li>Italy 1128<\/li>\n<li>USA 68<\/li>\n<li>Spain 58<\/li>\n<li>UK 23<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trump impeachment fails as expected due to republican majority in the senate<br \/>\nBoris changes cabinet composition &#8211; Javid resigns as his treasury advisers are merged with number 10<br \/>\nMC appeal against Uefa penalties for breaking financial rules<br \/>\nStorm Dennis = wales &amp; borders flooding<br \/>\nSyria idlib bombing continues as refugees flood to the turkish border<br \/>\nWales 6 nations 3 losses<br \/>\nEuropean Union exit negotiators adopt opening positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus Virus continues to spread UK seems to have a viable plan to delay and minimise the peak of the epidemic while trying to boost the capacity of the NHS Cruise ships having problems with docking plus many cases on board Cases spreading worldwide &#8211; declared a pandemic Shares down about 30%, oil prices collapse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[5,6,7,9,16,19,29,35,37,39,41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesomers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}