Here’s the best way to enjoy the ‘Super Pink Moon,’ according to a NASA astronomer – Space.com

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Tonight (April 7), the moon will be at its brightest and largest for the whole year during the "Super Pink Moon."

This extraordinary astronomical event is surely not one to miss. Space.com spoke with NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller, the assistant director of science communications at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, about tonight's highly-anticipated skywatching event to get a better idea of what to expect and how people can best observe this special supermoon.

"It's just kind of a fun astronomical thing," Thaller said about tonight's full moon. Supermoons, or full moons that appear bigger than usual, occur because our moon does not orbit in a perfect circle around Earth. Rather, it circles our planet in an elliptical-shaped orbit. This means that sometimes the moon is closer to Earth and sometimes it is farther away, causing it to appear bigger or smaller from our perspective on Earth.

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"Tonight the moon is 17,000 miles [27,000 kilometers] closer than average," Thaller said, adding that not only will the moon look bigger in the sky tonight, it will also be about 30% brighter than the average full moon.

Luckily, because it will be so big, bright and obvious in the sky "it's a very simple and easy thing to observe," Thaller said.

This is good news for people who are self-isolating to "flatten the curve" and reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. Even if you are inside, there is a high likelihood that you'll be able to spot the supermoon through a window.

"All you really need is to be able to look to the eastern horizon at sunset," Thaller said, adding that you have a huge window of time to look at the moon as well. "The wonderful thing about a full moon is that full moons are up all night long, they rise at sunset then they cross over the sky and set at sunrise, so at any point in the night you can go outside and actually see this wonderful big, bright moon."

However, despite how easy it will be for people around the world to check out tonight's supermoon, Thaller added that she has a favorite time to watch a full moon moonrise. "Sometimes it just knocks my socks off to see a full moon rising in the sky," she said.

"When you can see it against the horizon, it looks gigantic. It looks like it's coming in for a landing," she added. "To me, that's the best part."

So, whether you're inside looking out a window or out in your backyard at sunset waiting for a "giant" supermoon to beam up over the eastern horizon, make sure that tonight you look up!

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Astronomers spot never-before-seen gravitational wave source from binary white dwarf stars – Space.com

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Astronomers have detected two stellar corpses whirling around each other, and they might be producing gravitational waves.

White dwarf stars are what become of stars like our sun after they run out of fuel and turn into leftover hot cores. For many years, researchers have predicted that there should be binary, or two-object, systems made up of white dwarf stars. According to general relativity, two such masses orbiting each other should emit energy in the form of gravitational waves, which are ripples or disturbances in the fabric of spacetime.

Now, this is not the discovery of gravitational waves, rather it is the discovery of this binary which may be a source for gravitational waves. But, not only will this study advance our understanding of these systems and gravitational wave sources, it will also be important in validating the efficiency of an instrument that will launch in 2034.

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The instrument, LISA (the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) gravitational wave observatory, will use the J2322+0509 system to essentially train with. Because they already know they exist, it's a good test to make sure the instrument can correctly spot it.

"Verification binaries are important because we know that LISA will see them within a few weeks of turning on the telescopes," Mukuemin Kilic, a co-author on this study from the University of Oklahoma, said in the statement. "There's only a handful of LISA sources that we know of today. The discovery of the first prototype of a new class of verification binary puts us well ahead of where anyone could have anticipated."

In a new study identifying and exploring this binary, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) at Harvard have detected, for the first time, a binary white dwarf system made up of two white dwarf stars (with helium cores) that are clearly separate stars. This system, known as J2322+0509, has a short orbital period of 1,201 seconds (just over 20 minutes) and is the first gravitational wave source of its kind ever identified.

"Theories predict that there are many double helium-core white dwarf binaries out there," Warren Brown, CfA astronomer and lead author on the study, said in a statement. "This detection provides an anchor for those models, and for doing future experiments so that we can find more of these stars and determine their true numbers."

This system, whose orbital period is the third shortest period of all detached binaries ever found, was fairly tough to spot. "This binary had no light curve," Brown said in the statement. "We couldn't detect a photometric signal because there isn't one." So instead of using a photometric study, which looks at light itself, the team used spectroscopic studies, which observe how matter interacts with electromagnetic radiation like visible light, to identify the star's orbital motion.

But, while the system was tricky to spot, it turns out that this type of binary is an extremely strong source of gravitational waves, the team found using theoretical calculations, according to the statement and the study. The researchers determined that because of the system's alignment with respect to Earth, instruments should pick up a signal 2.5 times stronger than from the same system twisted a different direction.

This binary won't be a binary forever, though, as a consequence of the very gravitational waves the scientists hope to someday detect. "The orbit of this pair of objects is decaying," Brown said. "The gravitational waves that are being emitted are causing the pair to lose energy; in six or seven million years they will merge into a single, more massive white dwarf."

This work is described in a paper posted to the preprint server arXiv.org on April 3 that has been accepted by the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Interview: Jim Lovell relives the successful failure of Apollo 13 – Astronomy Magazine

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Lovell: Well, it did become more famous in the beginning, at least in the eyes of NASA. I have to tell you an interesting story. We came back. Its a failure. So the spacecraft, the command module, which was the only thing left of Apollo 13, really, was in a warehouse down in Florida for about six months. Then, they tried to forget about it. They wanted to go on to Apollo 14 and everything like that.

Then France called up, Paris called up, [the] museum at Le Bourget, which was where Lindbergh landed. They asked the Smithsonian, Do you have any space artifacts that we could have in this museum? Then the lights came on in the Smithsonian and also NASA, Well, we can get rid of this spacecraft. So they exiled Apollo 13 to Le Bourget, and it stayed there for 20 years.

About 18 years after that, I had a classmate that went out there and he saw it and he wrote me a letter. He said, Do you know where your spacecraft is? I didnt at that time. No one told me it was in Le Bourget.Then, later on, a year or so later, my wife [Marilyn] and I were in Paris and we went out to this museum, which was at the airfield there, and there we saw it. We walked up to it. It was still on the cradle that they had rolled it in on. It was all by itself, just about, nothing else around it. The hatch was missing. The instrument panel was missing. The seats were missing. The only thing I saw was a piece of paper that was stuck on the side that said, Apollo 13, and gave the names of the three crew members. And then Ron Howard made the movie. Of course they made the movie that was shown in France, and all those French people said, Oh, its out there in Le Bourget. Lets go see it.

Meanwhile, NASA was so embarrassed and the Smithsonian, that a museum out of Hutchinson, Kansas, called the Cosmosphere, offered to go get [it] and bring it back and pay for it and they did. And all those Frenchmen now were mad because they had kept it for 20 years, and now it came back here. [Laughs.]

Astronomy: Do you recall what the first thing you and Marilyn talked about once you returned after Apollo 13? What did that conversation go like? Did [she] encourage you to find a different career path maybe?

Lovell: Well, I have to tell you another interesting story along those lines. About a week or two weeks after we got picked up in Hawaii and then we came back, we had a big press conference of course. All the NASA people came in and all the reporters came in, and TV people and stuff like that, and a lot of the families came in to listen to the whole thing. We were in the auditorium down in the Johnson Space Center. So we started talking about that.

At the beginning of the conference, a reporter asked, Jim, are you gonna ask for another flight? Obviously, this was not successful. Before that, on Apollo 11 [and] 12, management said, Look, if theres a problem with this flight, well get you back and well give you the very next one.

So when that question came up from the reporter, I thought to myself, because management was right behind us, here was the perfect opportunity to put them on the wall and say yes, because they had not talked to us, the 13, just 11 and 12. I was about ready to say something like that when, out in the audience, I saw a hand go up. Then I saw it go down like this. [Jim gives a thumbs down gesture.] It was my wife. [Laughs.] I could tell. I said, No. I think this is the last flight Im gonna make. [Laughs.]

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See the waning crescent Moon meet the dawn planets, 1516 April 2020 – Astronomy Now Online

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At civil dawn (approximately 40minutes before sunrise in the British Isles) on the mornings of 15 and 16April 2020, let the old crescent Moon be your guide to three naked-eye planets Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. Both the red and the ringed planet lie in the constellation of Capricornus, while Jupiter lies in Sagittarius. This looping animation depicts the view very low to the horizon between southeast and south-southeast around 5:30amBST on the mornings in question. Note that the Moons apparent size is enlarged for clarity. Dabih, otherwise known as BetaCapricorni, is a third-magnitude multiple star. AN animation by Ade Ashford.If youre an early riser in the British Isles fortunate enough to experience clear skies at the start of civil twilight on 15 and 16April, why not venture out at 5:30amBST to see the waning crescent Moon guide you to not just one, but three naked-eye planets Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. Typical 750 or 1050 binoculars will enable you to better appreciate these attractive conjunctions, while the smallest of telescopes also reveal some of Jupiters bright Galilean moons.

What to look for on 15April 2020 at5:30amBSTAt the onset of civil twilight some 40minutes before sunrise in the UK, the waning last quarter lunar crescent lies in Sagittarius just 8degrees slightly less than the span of a fist at arms length above the south-southeast horizon for an observer in the heart of the British Isles.AN graphic by Ade Ashford.At 5:30amBST on 15April, magnitude+0.6 Saturn lies 4degrees to the Moons upper left, while magnitude-2.2 Jupiter 13 times brighter than the ringed planet is 4degrees the upper right of the Moon. Whats more, this attractive celestial triumvirate comfortably fits within the field of view of typical 750 binoculars. Owners of small telescopes can also see Jovian moons Callisto, Europa and Ganymede at this time, but Io is transiting the face of its parent planet.

If your skies are particularly clear, can you glimpse third-magnitude star beta () Capricorni, better known as Dabih, some 5degrees (slightly more than a 1050 binocular field of view, but easily encompassed by 750 instruments) to the upper left of Saturn? If so, can you see that its a double star?

What to look out for on 16April 2020 at5:30amBSTThe almost 23-day-old Moon lies in the constellation of Capricornus at UK civil dawn, some 3degrees to the lower right of magnitude+0.6 planet Mars. The lunar crescent is just 5degrees high in the southeast, so can you glimpse the Red Planet and Moon in the same field of view of 1050 binoculars this morning?

Caution: never sweep with binoculars close to the horizon near sunrise lest you accidentally view the Sun with disastrous consequences for your eyesight. Consult our interactive online Almanac to find the precise time of sunrise for your location. (Clickhere for a users guide to the Almanac.)

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View On Astronomy: Want to see Betelgeuse supernova? You’ll have to wait a bit longer – The Independent

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As 2019 came to a close, the news media sensationalized a story about Orions bright star Betelgeuse. The headlines were certainly designed to get ones attention. Betelgeuse was about to go supernova. However, the stars behavior was really old news that was recently enhanced by new observational data. You see, Betelgeuse is a red super giant star (20 times more massive than our Sun and approximately 1,000 times larger) that is indeed nearing the end of its life cycle. And with a star this massive, the result will someday be a supernova event.

Betelgeuse is a known variable star, which pulsates back and forth about one full magnitude (brightness scale) in a 425-day period. What happened more recently is that the star dimmed a little more than usual, by about .2 of a magnitude. An imaging technique using radio waves revealed Betelgeuse appeared to be lopsided, but this discovery turned out to be a huge dust cloud blocking some of the stars light from reaching us. In fact, Betelgeuse has shed off great shells of its outer surface several times in the past, typical activity for these stars as they burn through their supply of nuclear fuel. Speculation arose that Betelgeuses grand finale was soon at hand.

However, every article I read succinctly stated the event could happen soon, or 100,000 years from now. While it is inevitable that Betelgeuse will go supernova in the future, we neednt worry. Fortunately, at its distance of about 700 light years from the Earth, we will not suffer from any hard radiation effects. The supernova will be at least as bright as a full moon and will be visible in broad daylight. About a day before we see the visible light from the supernova event our Earth will be bombarded by a harmless hail of neutrinos and gamma rays. That onslaught will be our advance warning system that Betelgeuse the star has met its demise.

Just as I began to write about Betelgeuses potential imminent demise, new data revealed that Betelgeuse began to brighten once again during mid-to-late February (much like it has in the past). Astronomers will certainly keep monitoring Betelgeuse with their instruments in the hope of capturing the death of a star. If it happens within our lifetime, I hope it occurs when the constellation of Orion is above our horizon. The sight will be spectacular.

Easter Observance Determination

Many religious celebrations are determined by astronomical circumstances. Easter is no exception. But because our secular calendar is not in sync with the motion of the heavens, Easter can occur as early as March 22 or as late as April 25. The general rule is: Easter will fall on the first Sunday after the full moon on or next after the vernal equinox (springMarch 19, 20 or 21). However, if the full moon occurs on a Sunday, Easter is celebrated on the following Sunday. This scenario happened in 2001.

However, there is a caveat to that rule that I only learned about back in 2018. Because the date of the vernal equinox does vary year-to-year, the determination for the Easter date depends on the ecclesiastical approximation of March 21 for the vernal equinox according to https://www.timeanddate.com. This stipulation holds true even if the vernal equinox falls on the 19th or 20th of March.

Therefore, for 2020, using March 21 as the date for the vernal equinox, the next Full Moon after March 21 will be on April 7 at 10:35 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) this year. Therefore, Easter will be celebrated on the following Sunday, April12.

April Lyrids Meteor Shower

Its been a while since Mother Nature has afforded us a decent display of shooting stars. Clouds or bright moonlight have often conspired to prevent us from watching burning rocks falling from the sky. However, on the night of April 22-23, between midnight and dawn, the annual April Lyrids meteor shower will reach its peak of activity. The Lyrids are actually the oldest known shooting star display, having been observed by Chinese astronomers on March 16, 687 BCE. Being such an old display, the number of meteors populating this stream of particles has greatly diminished. However, with good sky conditions and no interfering moonlight, perhaps up to 20 meteors per hour can be counted from dark sky locations.

These swift and bright meteors disintegrate after hitting our atmosphere at a moderate speed of 29.8 miles per second. They often produce luminous trains of dust that can be observed for several seconds. The Moon will be new on the 23rd, so it will not interfere whatsoever with this years shooting star display.

The Lyrids appear to radiate outward from an area of sky on the Lyra-Hercules border near the bright star Vega, which will be about 45 degrees (halfway between the horizon and zenith) above the eastern horizon at midnight and well placed for observing. Let your eyes roam the heavens while facing this general direction. Remember, even though you can trace the dust train left by a Lyrid meteor back to the radiant point, members of this shower can appear anywhere in the sky. The Lyrids are a fairly narrow stream of particles, so dont expect many to be seen before or after peak night. It is produced by dust particles left behind by comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher,

Keep your eyes to the skies!

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Comets Are Breaking Apart in Our Cosmic Backyard, and Astronomers Are Stoked – Popular Mechanics

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At the end of August 2019, an amateur astronomer named Gennadiy Borisov made a remarkable discovery. He'd spotted an interstellar comet zipping through our solar system. In December, that comet, newly named 2I/Borisov, made its closest approach to the sunperhaps its first close encounter with any star.

Astronomers have since used Earth's many telescopesboth terrestrial and orbitalto observe the comet. Last week, astronomers reported in a series of posts to the website Astronomer's Telegram that 2I/Borisov showed signs of breaking up. On March 28 and March 30, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped pictures of the interstellar comet and it seemed to have split apart, astronomers reported April 2 in a statement.

"Continuing Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar object 2I/Borisov...show a distinct change in appearance," read the statement, composed by astronomers David Jewitt of UCLA, Max Mutchler of STSCI, Yoonyoung Kim of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Hal Weaver of John's Hopkin's University's Applied Physics Laboratory and Man-To Hui of the University of Hawaii.

So far, Jewitt tells Popular Mechanics, only a small fragmentmaybe about a tenth of a percent of the total masshas come off of the roughly 1,600-foot-wide body. One of the pieces, according to an Astronomer's Telegram update posted on April 6, has already disappeared.

"Instead, a diffuse, blob-like feature is visible in its place, extending from the remaining component," Qicheng Zhang of Caltech and Quanzhi Ye and Ludmilla Kolokolova of the University of Maryland reported. Ye tells Popular Mechanics that this blob is likely just bits of dust, ice, and rock which have spun off of the comet.

In early March, astronomers recorded several outbursts, where the Comet Borisov shedded a bunch of materiala tell-tale sign that a break-up may be imminent. It takes a while for that heat to permeate through the comet, Jewitt says. Heat from the sun creeps into pockets of ice inside the comet. That ice vaporizes, forming pressure cooker-like conditions, and poof.

These outbursts may have spurred the fast-moving body to shed even more material. They might have another peculiar effect on the comet: they may cause it to speed up. More observations are needed to confirm Jewitt's hypothesis and measure the speed at which its spinning.

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Borisov is just the second interstellar object to slide across our solar system. In 2017, astronomers discovered an elongated interstellar object they called 1I/Oumuamua. While both objects came from distant corners of the universe, 1I/Oumuamua looked and acted more like a lumpy rock. Comet Borisov, however, has all of the typical characteristics of a comet.

"We know it's spent a really long time out there in the interstellar medium at nearly absolute zero temperature," Jewitt says. "So the question is: Have either of those things affected it in some way and made it measurably different from the comets in our solar system?"

Astronomers hope that the splintering comet might spill secrets about its interstellar journey and the solar system from which it came. In October, a pre-print posted to the website ArXiv, reported that traces of water in the comet's tail. Astronomers have also spotted traces of cyanide in the comet's wake. Unfortunately, due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, many Earth-based telescopes that would have otherwise made additional observations about its composition have been shuttered.

So far, it seems to behave in a very similar way to comets that originated much closer to home. "Borisov's behavior is remarkably similar to its solar system siblings," Ye says. "It has a similar composition to solar system comets; we know that solar system comets with similar characteristics are prone to fragment, and Borisov also did."

Fortunately, we've still got a bit of time with Borisov before it disappears from view completely. Ye estimates it will remain visible to ground-based telescopes for another year. Space telescopes like Hubble will likely be able to see the comet for even longer, perhaps a few years, before it slides out of sight.

We've already learned quite a bit about the nature of interstellar comets from 2I/Borisov, but it's taught us something about our own place in the universe, too. "In my opinion, it tells us that our solar system may not be that unique after all," Ye says. "There's something universal across the stars."

Quanzhi Ye (University of Maryland) and Qicheng Zhang (Caltech)/ Ningbo Education Xinjiang Telescope.

Additional observations made by Ye and his colleague Qicheng Zhang of Caltech using the Ningbo Education Xinjiang Telescope, show that Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) may be breaking up, too.

The comet was discovered on December 28, 2019, by a group of astronomers at Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Hawaii. Astronomers had high hopes for Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), which was expected to become bright enough to be seen with a decent pair of binoculars (or the naked eye, in dark sky areas) this month, but it might meet its demise before that's possible.

These images, taken this weekend "showed an elongated pseudo-nucleus measuring about 3 arcsec in length and aligned with the axis of the tail, a morphology consistent with a sudden decline or cessation of dust production, as would be expected from a major disruption of the nucleus," according to an Astronomer's Telegram update. Trarnslation: Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) may be headed for Splitsville.

The comet hasn't appeared as bright the past few nights, further suggesting a break-up might be on the horizon. But comets are unpredictable, and that's what makes them worth watching.

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South African Radio Astronomy Observatory Mandated To Manage The Production Of Respiratory Ventilators – Space in Africa

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South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition have mandated the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) to manage the national effort required for the local design, development, production and procurement of respiratory ventilators to support the governments response to combat the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

SARAO has been mandated to manage the National Ventilator Project based on the experience it gained in the development of complex systems for the MeerKAT radio telescope, a precursor to the worlds largest Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.

With the number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 steadily increasing in South Africa, the government has called on companies and experts, particularly engineers and scientists, to come with innovative solutions to help combat the pandemic.

As of 03 April 2020, South Africa had 1 505 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The health ministry expects the number to increase exponentially in the next few weeks as more people get tested.

In an effort to meet the anticipated demand for critical medical equipment such as ventilators, the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition is inviting companies and experts to express their interest in the design, development, production and procurement of ventilators in South Africa.

The invitation provides an opportunity for experts and companies to register their interest regarding the goods and services they offer that may be relevant to the National Ventilator Project. Once the specifications are finalised, interested parties will be invited to make a representation of their proposed solutions and the extent to which they would meet the specification.

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Submissions have to be in the standard templates, listed below:

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COVID-19 Forces Earth’s Largest Telescopes to Close. But a Few Isolated Astronomers Are Still Watching Over the Cosmos – Discover Magazine

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The alarm sounded at around 3 a.m. on April 3. An electrical malfunction had stalled the behemoth South Pole Telescope as it mapped radiation left over from the Big Bang. Astronomers Allen Foster and Geoffrey Chen crawled out of bed and got dressed to shield themselves from the 70 degree Fahrenheit temperatures outside. They then trekked a few thousand feet across the ice to restart the telescope.

The sun set weeks ago in Antarctica. Daylight wont return for six months. And, yet, life at the bottom of the planet hasnt changed much even as the rest of the world has been turned upside-down. The last flight from the region left on Feb. 15, so theres no need for social distancing. The 42 winterovers still work together. They still eat together. They still share the gym. They even play roller hockey most nights.

And thats why the South Pole Telescope is one of the last large observatories still monitoring the night sky.

Astronomer Allen Foster controls the $20 million South Pole Telescope from inside the comfort of the South Pole Science Station office. (Credit: Jeff Derosa)

An Astronomy magazine tally has found that more than 100 of Earths biggest research telescopes have closed in recent weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What started as a trickle of closures in February and early March has become an almost complete shutdown of observational astronomy. And the closures are unlikely to end soon.

Observatory directors say they could be offline for three to six months or longer. In many cases, resuming operations will mean inventing new ways of working during a pandemic. And that might not be possible for some instruments that require teams of technicians to maintain and operate. As a result, new astronomical discoveries are expected to come to a crawl.

If everybody in the world stops observing, then we have a gap in our data that you cant recover, says astronomer Steven Janowiecki of the McDonald Observatory in Texas. This will be a period that we in the astronomy community have no data on what happened.

Yet these short-term losses arent astronomers main concern.

Theyre accustomed to losing telescope time to bad weather, and they're just as concerned as everyone else about the risks of coronavirus to their loved ones. So, for now, all that most astronomers can do is sit at home and wait for the storm to clear.

If we have our first bright supernova in hundreds of years, that would be terrible, says astronomer John Mulchaey, director of the Carnegie Observatories. But except for really rare events like that, most of the science will be done next year. The universe is 13.7 billion years old. We can wait a few months.

The prospects get darker when considering the pandemics long-term impacts on astronomy. Experts are already worried that lingering damage to the global economy could derail plans for the next decade of cutting-edge astronomical research.

Yes, there will be a loss of data for six months or so, but the economic impact may be more substantial in the long run, says Tony Beasley, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Its going to be hard to build new telescopes as millions of people are out of work. I suspect the largest impact will be the financial nuclear winter that were about to live through.

The world's largest optical telescopes, shown here, have shut down in droves in recent weeks (open sites are in green). The Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas is the largest optical telescope left observing. Construction has also halted at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory site in Chile. (Credit: Astronomy/Roen Kelly)

Through interviews and email exchanges with dozens of researchers, administrators, press officers and observatory directors, as well as reviewing a private list circulating among scientists, Astronomy magazine has confirmed more than 120 of Earth's largest telescopes are now closed as a result of COVID-19.

Many of the shutdowns happened in late March, as astronomy-rich states like Arizona, Hawaii and California issued stay-at-home orders. Nine of the 10 largest optical telescopes in North America are now closed. In Chile, an epicenter of observing, the government placed the entire country under a strict lockdown, shuttering dozens of telescopes. Spain and Italy, two European nations with rich astronomical communities and a large number of COVID-19 infections closed their observatories weeks ago.

Even many small telescopes have now closed, as all-out shutdowns were ordered on mountaintops ranging from Hawaii's Mauna Kea to the Chilean Atacama to the Spanish Canary Islands. Science historians say nothing like this has happened in the modern era of astronomy. Even during the chaos of World War II, telescopes kept observing.

As wartime fears gripped Americans in the 1940s, German-born astronomer Walter Baade was placed under virtual house arrest. As a result, he famously declared Mount Wilson Observatory in California to be his official residence. With the lights of Los Angeles dimmed to avoid enemy bombs, Baade operated the worlds largest telescope in isolation, making groundbreaking discoveries about the cosmos. Among them, Baades work revealed multiple populations of stars, which led him to realize that the universe was twice as big as previously thought.

In the decades since, astronomers have built ever-larger telescopes to see fainter and farther-off objects. Instruments have become increasingly complex and specialized, often requiring them to be swapped out multiple times in a single night. Enormous telescope mirrors need regular maintenance. All of this means observatory crews sometimes require dozens of people, ranging from engineers and technicians to observers and astronomers. Most researchers also still physically travel to a telescope to observe, taking them to far-flung places. As a result, major observatories can be like small villages, complete with hotel-style accommodations, cooks and medics.

But although observatories might be remote, few can safely operate during a pandemic.

Most of our telescopes still work in classical mode. We do have some remote options, but the large fraction of our astronomers still go to the telescopes, says Mulchaey, who also oversees Las Campanas Observatory in Chile and its Magellan Telescopes. Its not as automated as you might think.

Some of the most complicated scientific instruments on Earth are the gravitational-wave detectors, which pick up almost imperceptible ripples in space-time created when two massive objects merge. In 2015, the first gravitational-wave detection opened up an entirely new way for astronomers to study the universe. And since then, astronomers have confirmed dozens of these events.

The most well-known facilities, the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) located in Washington state and Louisiana, both pandemic hot spots closed on March 27. Virgo, their Italian partner observatory, shut down the same day. (Its also located near the epicenter of that countrys COVID-19 pandemic.)

More than 1,200 scientists from 18 countries are involved with LIGO. And no other instruments are sensitive enough to detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars like LIGO and Virgo can. Fortunately, the observatories were already near the end of the third observing run, which was set to end April 30.

You don't know what you missed, says LIGO spokesperson Patrick Brady, an astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. We were detecting a binary black hole collision once a week. So, on average, we missed four. But we don't know how special they would have been.

The gravitational-wave detectors will now undergo upgrades that will take them offline through at least late 2021 or early 2022. But the pandemic has already delayed preliminary testing for their planned fourth run. And it could prevent future work or even disrupt supply chains, Brady says. So, although its still too early to know for sure, astronomy will likely have to wait a couple of years for new gravitational-wave discoveries.

Then there's the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Last year, the EHT collaboration released the first-ever image of a black hole. And on April 7, they published another unprecedented image that stares down a black hole's jet in a galaxy located some 5 billion light-years away. But now, EHT has cancelled its entire observing run for the year it can only collect data in March and April due to closures at its partner instruments.

Around the world, only a handful of large optical telescopes remain open.

The Green Bank Observatory, Earths largest steerable radio telescope, is still searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, observing everything from galaxies to gas clouds.

The twin Pan-STARRS telescopes on the summit of Hawaii's Haleakala volcano are still scouting the sky for dangerous incoming asteroids. Both instruments can run without having multiple humans in the same building.

We are an essential service, funded by NASA, to help protect the Earth from (an) asteroid impact, says Ken Chambers, director of the Pan-STARRS Observatories in Hawaii. We will continue that mission as long as we can do so without putting people or equipment at risk.

The 10-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas is now operating with just one person in the building. (Credit: Marty Harris/McDonald Observatory)

With observatory domes closed at the world's newest and best telescopes, a smattering of older, less high-tech instruments are now Earth's largest operating observatories.

Sporting a relatively modest 6-meter mirror, the biggest optical telescope still working in the Eastern Hemisphere is Russias 45-year-old Bolshoi Azimuthal Telescope in the Caucasus Mountains, a spokesperson there confirmed.

And, for the foreseeable future, the largest optical telescope on the planet is now the 10-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at McDonald Observatory in rural West Texas. Astronomers managed to keep the nearly-25-year-old telescope open thanks to a special research exemption and drastic changes to their operating procedures.

To reduce exposure, just one observer sits in HET's control room. One person turns things on. And one person swaps instruments multiple times each night, as the telescope switches from observing exoplanets with its Habitable Zone Finder to studying dark energy using its now-poorly-named VIRUS spectrograph. Anyone who doesnt have to be on site now works from home.

We don't have the world's best observatory site. Were not on Mauna Kea or anything as spectacular, says Janowiecki, the HETs science operations manager. We don't have any of the expensive adaptive optics. We dont even have a 2-axis telescope. That was [intended as] a massive cost savings.

But, he added, In this one rare instance, its a strength.

The supervising astronomer of HET now manages Earths current largest telescope from a few old computer monitors he found in storage and set up on a foldout card table in his West Texas guest bedroom.

Like the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the handful of remaining observatories run on skeleton crews or are entirely robotic. And all of the telescope managers interviewed for this story emphasized that even if theyre open now, they wont be able to perform repairs if something breaks, making it unclear how long they could continue operating in the current environment.

The 48-inch Zwicky Transient Facility telescope at Palomar Observatory in Southern California. (Credit: Palomar/Caltech)

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a medium-sized, robotic telescope at Palomar Observatory in Southern California that's still producing nightly maps of the northern sky. And, thanks to automation, it remains open.

The so-called discovery engine searches for new supernovas and other momentary events thanks to computers back at Caltech that compare each new map with the old ones. When the software finds something, it triggers an automatic alert to telescopes around the world. Last week, it sent out notifications on multiple potentially new supernovas.

Similarly, the telescopes that make up the Catalina Sky Survey, based at Arizonas Mount Lemmon, are still searching the heavens for asteroids. In just the past week, they found more than 50 near-Earth asteroids none of them dangerous.

Another small group of robotic telescopes, the international Las Cumbres Observatory network, has likewise managed to stay open, albeit with fewer sites than before. In recent weeks, their telescopes have followed up on unexpected astronomical events ranging from asteroids to supernovas.

"We are fortunate to still be keeping an eye on potential new discoveries," says Las Cumbres Observatory director Lisa Storrie-Lombardi.

But, overall, there are just fewer telescopes available to catch and confirm new objects that appear in our night sky, which means fewer discoveries will be made.

Chambers, the Pan-STARRS telescope director, says his team has been forced to do their own follow-ups as they find new asteroids and supernovas. This will mean we make fewer discoveries, and that we will miss some objects that we would have found in normal times, he says.

NASA's DART spacecraft is scheduled to launch in 2021 on a mission to visit the binary asteroid Didymos. Astronomers need additional observations to help plot the course. (Credit: NASA/JHUAPL)

Astronomer Cristina Thomas of Northern Arizona University studies asteroids. She was the last observer to use the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope before it closed March 31 under Arizonas stay-at-home order.

Thomas warns that, in the short term, graduate students could bear the brunt of the lost science. Veteran astronomers typically have a backlog of data just waiting for them to analyze. But Ph.D. students are often starved for data they need to collect in order to graduate on time.

It's stressing them out in a way that it doesn't for me. Were used to building in a night or so for clouds, Thomas says. If this goes on for months, this could put [graduate students] pretty far behind.

One of Thomas' students was set to have observations collected for their dissertation by SOFIA, NASAs airborne observatory. But the flying telescope is currently grounded in California, leaving it unclear when the student will be able to complete their research. And even when astronomy picks back up, everyone will be reapplying for telescope time at once.

But the damage isn't only limited to graduate students. An extended period of observatory downtime could also have an impact on Thomas' own research. Later this year, shes scheduled to observe Didymos, a binary asteroid that NASA plans to visit in 2021. Those observations are supposed to help chart the course of the mission.

The big question for us is: When are we going to be able to observe again? Thomas says. If its a few months, well be able to get back to normal. If it ends up being much longer, were going to start missing major opportunities.

The Keck Observatory telescopes in Hawaii use high-tech adaptive optics equipment that changes their mirrors' shape 1,000 times per second to counter the twinkling caused by Earth's atmosphere. Keck instruments also need to be chilled below freezing to reduce noise. If the warm up, cooling them down can take days or weeks. (Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Andrew Richard Hara)

The same qualities that brought observational astronomy to a standstill in the era of social distancing will also make it tough to turn the telescopes back on until the pandemic has completely passed. So, even after the stay-at-home orders lift, some observatories may not find it safe to resume regular operations. They'll have to find new ways to work as a team in tight spaces.

We are just starting to think about these problems now ourselves, says Caltech Optical Observatories deputy director Andy Boden, who also helps allocate observing time on the Keck Observatory telescopes in Hawaii. There are aspects of telescope operations that really do put people in shared spaces, and thats going to be a difficult problem to deal with as we come out of our current orders.

Astronomers say theyre confident they can find solutions. But it will take time. Tony Beasley, the NRAO director, says his team is already working around a long list of what theyre now calling VSDs, or violation of social distancing problems. Their workarounds are typically finding ways to have one person do something that an entire team used to do.

Beasley's research center operates the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, as well as the Very Large Array in New Mexico and the global Very Long Baseline Array all of which are still observing, thanks to remote operations and a reimagined workflow.

Although the new workflow is not as efficient as it was in the past, so far there haven't been any problems that couldn't be solved. However, Beasley says some work eventually may require the use of personal protective equipment for people who must work in the same room. And he says they cant ethically use such gear while hospitals are in short supply.

But Beasley and others think interesting and valuable lessons could still come out of the catastrophe.

There's always been kind of a sense that you had to be in the building, and you've got to stare the other people down in the meeting, he says. In the space of a month, I think everyone is surprised at how effective they can be remotely. As we get better at this over the next six months or something, I think there will be parts where we won't go back to some of the work processes from before.

Despite best efforts and optimistic outlooks, some things will remain outside astronomers' control.

Right now, researchers are completing the 2020 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, a kind of scientific census. The guiding document sets priorities and recommends where money should be spent over the next 10 years. NASA and Congress take its recommendations to heart when deciding which projects get funded. Until recent weeks, the economy had been strong and astronomers had hoped for a decade of new robotic explorers, larger telescopes, and getting serious about defending Earth from asteroids.

Engineers prep NASA's Mars InSight lander for launch to the Red Planet. It is currently stationed on Mars investigating the planet's deep interior. (Credit: NASA)

Many of NASAs most important activities from Mars exploration to studying extrasolar planets to understanding the cosmos are centuries-long projects, the modern version of the construction of the great medieval cathedrals, Princeton University astrophysicist David Spergel told the website SpaceNews.com last year as the process got underway. The decadal surveys provide blueprints for constructing these cathedrals, and NASA science has thrived by being guided by these plans.

However, many experts are predicting the COVID-19 pandemic will send the U.S. into a recession; some economists say job losses could rival those seen during the Great Depression.

If that happens, policymakers could cut the funding needed to construct these cathedrals of modern science even after a crisis has us calling on scientists to save society.

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With the recent pandemic, stay-at-home orders and business closures, remember one thing: the sky will always be there.

There are two big astronomical events happening in April. Permitting that the weather is clear and that light pollution is low, hopeful viewers should see the cosmos in action this month.

April 8 is when the moon will be at its fullest. This year's April full moon, also known as the full pink moon, will also be a supermoon.

Supermoons happen when the moon is at its closest point to the Earth in its orbit, known as its perigee.

In total, four supermoons will be visible in 2020. Two have already happened: one each in February and March.

After April's supermoon, there will be one more in May, known as the full flower supermoon.

From April 22 to 23, the Lyrids meteor shower will be visible.

It's one of the smaller visible meteor showers, producing around 20 or so visible meteors an hour at its peak.

Meteors are best viewed when the skies are especially dark, so watching from a location with little light pollution will be key to watching the showers later this month.

The Lyrids are the precursor to the more lively Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which will happen from May 6 to 7.

Viewers can expect to see 60 or more visible meteors an hour at its peak.

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Dont miss Venus and the Pleiades! Their conjunction was April 3

Stefano De Rosa? in Turin, Italy captured Venus and the Pleiades on April 2, 2020.

Clouded out? Gianluca Masi at the Virtual Telescope Project is also gearing up to present the Venus-Pleiades conjunction to you online. He wrote to EarthSky this weekend:

In the coming week week, the sky will offer us something unique, coming back every 8 years only: a stunning conjunction, involving planet Venus, the brightest object up there these evenings and the wonderful Pleiades, a spectacular star cluster, one of the best gems of the deep sky. To bring some joy from this cosmic show to people worldwide, often quarantined to limit the dissemination of COVID-19, the Virtual Telescope will share this celestial treasure with everyone, offering a live view covering the climax of this cosmic hug between Venus and the Pleiades.

Click into the Virtual Telescopes site to learn more.

Larry Ilardo caught the Pleiades and Venus from Buffalo, New York, on April 1.

View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | Pradnya Gharpure caught Venus and the Pleiades on April 1 from Nagpur, India, and wrote: Dazzling Venus and the pretty cluster Pleiades make a beautiful sight this evening as they draw closer!!

View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | Kevin Saragozza captured this striking view of Venus and the Pleiades from Siracusa Plemmeiro on April 1. He wrote: I positioned myself outside in my garden, not having the possibility to catch the alignment together with interesting terrestrial elements because of the COVID-19 quarantine, I preferred a view only from the sky, the Pleiades and Venus aligned in a vertical position.

View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | Radu Anghel captured many Pleiades stars and a brilliant Venus in this photo from April 1 taken in Bacau, Romania. Radu wrote: Venus and the Pleiades cluster. Two more days before the 8 years meeting. From isolation, but with a great western view.

Piotr Wieczorek shared this beautiful view of the Pleiades and Venus that he took on March 31. Thank you, Piotr!

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Marek Nikodem caught these stargazers near Szubin, Poland, looking at the moon, Venus and the Pleiades on March 28, 2020. Thank you, Marek.

The moon, Venus and the Pleiades March 28, 2020 via Fred Espenak.

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Dennis Schoenfelder saw this glorious view of Venus, the moon, and the Pleiades from his front door in Alamosa, Colorado, on March 28. Thank you, Dennis!

Astronomer Alessandro Marchini director of the Astronomical Observatory at the University of Siena in Italy wrote on March 28, 2020: Stargazing from my backyard this evening, with the wonderful triangle with the crescent moon, Venus and the Pleiades (1.3 light-second, 5.5 light-minutes, 445 light-years away each from Earth). Photographed with my Canon Camera and a 100 mm lens on a tripod. Thank you, Alessandro! Venus is the bright object next to the moon. The Pleiades is the tiny, dipper-shaped star cluster at the top of the photo.

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Stephen Thurston captured this view of the moon, Venus and the Pleiades on March 27. He wrote: Moon and Venus setting over Lake Champlain from Ferrisburgh, VT.

Tom Wildoner of the Dark Side Observatory wrote: I was lucky on the evening on March 27, 2020, to capture this nice view of the planet Venus approaching the Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus. Think this is close? Wait until the evening on April 3rd, the planet Venus will be inside this cluster! Thank you, Tom!

Bottom line: This week, Venus the brightest planet and dazzling evening star in the west after sunset now will pass the beautiful Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. Were already getting photos submit yours here. Look west after sunset!

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The Extension Office is still hard at work for its clients and the community at large, trying to stay connected. We are just having to adapt how we meet the needs of our clients. Programs are currently on hold, canceled or postponed, but we are still able to provide information to clients about the topics of health and wellness, food, nutrition, food safety, diabetes, canning, and so much more.

It can be difficult to adjust to the frustrating times that we are currently living through but we encourage people to focus on the positive things in your life. You may be having financial struggles at the moment, but hopefully you do not have loved ones suffering from coronavirus.

You may be depressed because you are stuck at home but you could look at the positive of how much time you have on your hands at the moment. One of the biggest reasons I hear from people as to why they are not getting their exercise, eating better, or planning their meals is because they dont have enough time. So, there is absolutely no excuse now. Use your time and enjoy the slow-paced life we have, spending more time with your family, working in the garden, reading some good books, cleaning your house, or doing whatever other things you have been meaning to do lately. However, if you are feeling the strain of life, join us this month and learn how to Stress Less.

The Family Consumer Science program usually hosts an in-person monthly Lunch N Learn workshop and we will continue to do so this month as well. It will look a little different because we will be hosting it online using the Zoom Conference meeting website. This months workshop will focus on how to stress less and we will provide information on how stress management tips, how stress affects your health, and signs to watch out for. So, we invite you to grab your healthy lunch and join us in our Zoom meeting. If you wish to receive the meeting link and invite, simply send me an email at jennifer.brown@ncsu.edu.

If you have any questions or want some information sent to you, either electronically or through the mail, you can email me at jennifer.brown@ncsu.edu or follow us on a variety of social media sites: Facebook and Instagram @persongranvillefcs or Twitter and YouTube @PersonCountyFCS.

Try the following recipe courtesy of the West Virginia Extension at https://extension.wvu.edu/food-health/recipes/. Remember, for more information on Food for Thought programs, activities and recipes, check us out online at http://facebook.com/persongranvillefcs or email jennifer.brown@ncsu.edu

Peach Oatmeal Bake

Serves 8

3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp allspice

1/2 tsp nutmeg

2 cups 1 percent milk

1 large egg

2 Tbsp. honey

1 lb. frozen or fresh or sliced peaches

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine the oats, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg. Create a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the milk, honey and egg. Stir to combine. Stir in peach slices. Spray an 8-inch by 8-inch pan with cooking spray or line with parchment paper and pour batter into pan. Bake for 35-40 minutes.

Nutrition information: 190 calories, 3.5g fat, 34mg cholesterol, 180mg sodium, 4g fiber, 7g protein

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It has been two-and-a-half weeks since restrictions on people's movements were announced. And the government's emergency Cobra committee will discuss whether the lockdown ought to be extended beyond its initial three weeks. Leaders of the devolved nations will join the discussions, although First Minister Mark Drakeford has already confirmed measures will remain in place across Wales. With UK temperatures forecast to reach 25C (77F) in place, the public is being urged to "stay home this bank holiday weekend" in a new advertising campaign.

Latest figures show another 938 people in the UK have died in hospital with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll yet. It brings the total to 7,097. Amid suggestions the virus is having a disproportionate impact on people from ethnic minority backgrounds, we examine the data. Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in hospital, and was making "steady progress" in intensive care - according to the latest Downing Street update on Wednesday night.

Pressure on intensive care units, combined with the need to suppress patients' immune systems during the outbreak, could force the UK's organ transplant network to shut down, according to the body that runs it. Meanwhile, you can see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge speak to the children of key workers and thank their teachers in a video call to a Lancashire school.

In Italy, which has recorded more coronavirus-related deaths than any other nation, there are some hopeful signs, with the daily death toll falling from 919 a fortnight ago to 542 in the past 24 hours. However, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says the national lockdown, imposed on 9 March, can only be eased gradually. He says the EU must act in a co-ordinated way to help countries worst hit by the outbreak, or risk falling apart.

There are fears for countries in South Asia, where porous borders might make the virus harder to control. Meanwhile, the head of the World Health Organization has urged an end to 'politicisation' of the virus, in the face of criticism from US President Donald Trump. Follow all the global developments on our live page, as Australian police seize the "black box" recorder from a cruise ship in a bid to find out why it allowed ill passengers to disembark in Sydney.

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The lockdown has played havoc with supply chains, with the disruption causing some farmers to pour thousands of litres of fresh milk down the drain. Meanwhile, as Britons take up home baking en masse, supermarkets are struggling to source enough flour. With mills working around the clock, we discover the surprising reason for shortages on shelves. Another unexpected consequence could be a resurgence in the nation's wild flowers. Find out why.

Meanwhile, we find students angry at the prospect of paying rent on rooms lying empty for the summer term. And a campaign group wants social networks to introduce dedicated buttons to flag up bogus coronavirus-related posts, in light of figures suggesting nearly 60% of young adults saw misleading information in the first week of the lockdown. Remember, you can find trustworthy information about the outbreak and advice on life under lockdown at our dedicated page.

By Rachel Schraer, health reporter, BBC News

The idea warmer weather might stop the coronavirus seems to have faded as the virus has spread around the globe. But could new research contain a glimmer of hope?

It's too early to know for sure whether the new coronavirus is seasonal. To really know that, we'd have to watch how cases change in one place across the year. But we can look at its spread in different climates across the world for clues.

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Why do we talk about 'fighting' illness?

Throughout the day, BBC Radio 5 live hears tributes to doctors, nurses and other NHS workers, such as cleaners and porters. The latest Coronavirus Newscast takes a look at the global picture. And The Food Chain podcast pays homage to the heroes of farming, trucking, supermarkets and restaurants keeping people fed and watered.

Most papers focus on the continuation of lockdown conditions, with the i, Daily Express and Daily Mirror all drawing the same conclusion that there is "no end in sight". It will certainly be a matter of weeks, according to both the Times and Daily Mail. No matter how long restrictions remain in place, the Metro reckons being stuck at home as temperatures soar will make for "the longest Good Friday". Meanwhile, the Sun urges readers to continue the recent custom of applauding NHS workers at 20:00 BST on Thursdays and asks them to raise money in the process.

How Europe failed the coronavirus test (Politico)

Borders didn't stop the pandemic. But they might block the trade of medical goods (NPR)

How Greece managed to flatten the curve (Independent)

It's not surprising tigers at the zoo got coronavirus (Mashable)

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Quizzes seem to be the go-to form of entertainment over group video calls, so Newsbeat enlists Eggheads host Jeremy Vine to describe how to run one that's actually good. If you've been listening to the radio more often recently, or comparing today's hits to classics from your formative years, you might enjoy our delve into industry body the BPI's yearbook to find the most influential year in pop. Or, for really imaginative forms of amusement, choose from the BBC Archive's clips suggesting seven things to do in self-isolation.

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Whats wrong

with society?

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Everybody, take a good look around and carefully commit your current situation to memory. Because for the rest of your life, when someone asks you, What is the stupidest thing youve ever seen? the present state of affairs today will be the correct response.

Our society has declared war on the common cold variant COVID-19. Maybe its a bad cold, but still, like most colds, its no big deal for 99% of the people, and most of the remaining 1% are susceptible to just about any medical issue due to their advanced age and pre-existing conditions. Each year this is dealt with as a normal, routine situation during cold and flu season. However, now, for whatever reason, weve pulled out all the stops, spared no expense, and thrown caution to the wind for COVID-19.

Im not against taking reasonable precautions to deal with any illness. We should quarantine ourselves when sick, wash our bodies and clean our spaces regularly and avoid interactions with minimal benefit. However, we always need to consider differentiating between reasonable precautions and unreasonable measures. Canceling all large gatherings and closing meeting places of healthy people does very little to fight the virus, but greatly reduces real benefits to the participants, especially if it is workplace or a school.

The hypothetical benefits of giving aged and sickly people a slight life extension has to be considered against the actual costs of the measures we are presently enforcing. Giving a couple thousand people their 87th Christmas is not much comfort to the tens of millions of breadwinners who are out of work for months and wont be able to afford holiday gifts for their families this year. Maybe these elderly survivors will read one or two more books before they pass on, but it would be much better for all of us if tens of millions of students were reading their books in the classroom right now instead of playing alone at home.

Economics is the dismal science, but we need to review our current policies to avoid sacrificing prosperity for the younger generations just to extend slightly the life of the oldest. If we are going to throw away our freedoms and liberties, we should at least demand something good in return. Right now, we are approaching martial law with nothing to show for it except a looming recession.

I choose to remain an optimist. Expanded testing is only going to continue boosting the rates of survival and recovery because, surprise, most of us only seek medical attention when we are really sick, not just a little under the weather with a cold. Indeed COVID-19 itself is not virulent enough to have a lasting physical impact on our society, so we cannot allow the government and media sensationalized fear of COVID-19 to drive our society to ruin. We shouldnt be needlessly prohibiting the important relationships and activities in our lives for no good reason. We should not allow ourselves to be driven apart by some common cold virus. Instead, we should come together for all that is good in our society and the best our civilization has to offer.

Charles Peabody

Goodyear

Give President Trump past due

credit for pandemic

Editor:

Im sure many of you are sick and tired of all of the critics who complain about every single move that President Trump makes.

Im talking about the never Trumpers. They have every right to not agree with the president, but during not only a national crisis, its a worldwide crisis, and they wont get off his back and let him do his job.

If anybody thinks they can do a better job, please step up and show all of us! But, I want you to step up and do it just like President Trump has done it for almost four years, with every single wrench thrown in his way and all of the obstructions, witch hunting and fake news; Russia hoaxes and Ukraine hoaxes that trail back to the Bidens corruption; a fake whistleblower who disappeared from the face of the earth after President Trump was acquitted; Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler and Schumer secret bunker meetings trying to overthrow the government; and every nasty Democrat-choreographed coup detat the Democrats dreamed up. I want to see anybody who thinks they can do better do it the same way President Trump has had to work daily.

While the Democrats worked to impeach President Trump, he was already working on the coronavirus. He has daily press briefings with the most intellectual people in the medical field guiding him on national TV, taking questions after they speak and still we have criticism.

If President Trump delivered the cure or a vaccination to stop the spread of coronavirus on a golden platter, that would not be good enough for his critics. Its time for America to stand behind its leader and give credit where credit is past due. Imagine for just a second where America would be without the quick action of President Trump stopping all flights from Wuhan, China, when this virus broke out. He had your back, and you wont give him the credit he deserves.

He got the $2 trillion aid package approved after Pelosi tried to sneak in $1.5 billion for abortions and several billion for New Green Deal, which have nothing to do with saving the lives of coronavirus patients. How killing unborn babies helps cure coronavirus when people forgot to use birth control is truly amazing.

This is the Democratic Party at work. How redecorating the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts cures a pandemic is mind boggling. How cutting down emissions from jet planes keeps coronavirus patients out of hospitals with the Green New Deal sneaked into the $2 trillion aid package for the American people who are out of work related to a pandemic is supposed to put food on the tables of Americans who lost their jobs, just how do Democrats thank Pelosi for such foolishness?

Ill tell you how. Republican President Trump to the rescue.

James Logan

Buckeye

History 101

Editor:

Every industrialized country on the planet has some form of single-payer health care except the United States. Germany has since the 1880s. Not only do they have better outcomes, but theyre also at about half the price. Not only is it morally the right thing to do, its also fiscally the responsible thing to do. To say its impossible is, to me, un-American. We should be doing it better than everybody else. There is no free-market solution. If youre in an ambulance dying, youre not going to ask which hospital is cheapest or best.

Damion Armstrong

Avondale

Troubling traffic

Editor:

I represent several homeowners who have concerns about child safety and property values with the city of Buckeye opening up Van Buren to Verrado. Speeding is out of control. The police did a test and gave out 40-some tickets in a two-day period. There are two bus stops in this area, and lately I had a pickup truck run the stop sign, drive through my backyard 8-foot-tall block wall, scrape the side of my house and take out my front block wall. We are getting nowhere with the police, city and city council.

Jim Harrison

Buckeye

Put isolation to good use

Editor:

Despite the vast tragedy and extreme upset surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19 here in Arizona, I imagine it is something of a clich in trying to always look at the bright side of things. So, let me put it this wayand I suppose I am looking for positivity because at least the season of spring is upon usenjoy the weather before triple-digit heat smacks you right across your face.

Everyone is walking or riding a bike! Or in some measure in looks like this. With gyms closed, I guess this was to be expected. But neighborhoods are full of chalk on sidewalks and plenty of room to navigate your feet or bike with plenty of distance to spare. There is such freedom of mind and body in getting out there and doing your thing. Can you fully adjust to not being able to open the door to your gym? Not really. And thats OK. And heres why.

Life is about adjustment and regrouping skills. If youre used to going to the gym every day but now you cant, you basically have two options: do nothing and wait for the green light to open the gym door again or accept the adjustment and regroup accordingly. I believe the latter option is the smartest, and also folks who do not go to the gym anyway should take this opportunity to throw on a pair of sneakers and start their own journey to fitness of mind and body.

You often hear, Were all in this together. While this is most certainly true, also consider that saying you dont have time to walk or ride a bike really doesnt make much sense. It kind of falls flat. The truth is you dont have time not to get your mind and body moving. Young or old. Overweight or underweight. And everyone else in between. Popular wisdom states it takes 21 days to form a habit that sticks. What are you waiting for? Start: This is the five-letter word you must take to heart.

Some of us exercise too much and some of us do not exercise enough. This is why there is merit in meeting in the middle. Again, the clock of your life and the clock of your loved ones and actually the clock of reality itself that always ticks no matter what you are thinking is the real deal. The world doesnt stop for anyone. Going back in time is completely impossible.

So, use this time in front of you to replace words with action. Get outside in your neighborhood and blaze your own trail no matter the speed in which you move your feet. The fact that you decided to turn off the news or put your cellphone on the table for 30 minutes is your best 30 minutes spent at this very moment. Its then your duty to do 30 minutes again tomorrow and the day after and go from there. The only one stopping you is you. Dont do that anymore. Its go time!

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Dogs and Cancer – JSTOR Daily

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Cancer, at its simplest, begins with DNA mutations that cause uncontrolled replication of abnormal cells, resulting in tumors and illness. There is no single cancer: each is dependent on the cell type affected and the type of mutation that causes it, which is why there is no single cure for it either. There are standard treatments that can be used for many cancers, such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Targeted treatments can be highly specific and very successful. For example, Gleevecwhich is used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)stops the activity of the protein responsible for CML, and can restore patient life expectancy to normal.

Because we share many of the same cell types with our pets, they also develop some of the same cancers: bone (osteosarcoma), skin (melanoma), brain tumors (gliomas), and even prostate cancer (dogs and humans are the only two animals who develop it). Canine cancers are sadly very similar to human cancers, more so than cancer in mice, a traditional model organism of biomedical research. They are also increasingly common: one in four dogs at some point in their lives, and 50% of dogs over 10 years old, will be diagnosed with cancer. While some breeds of dog have a predisposition for particular cancer(s), others may have a higher risk of cancer overall.

Comparative oncology, an interdisciplinary field, builds on these parallels between dogs and humans, and other animals as well: those who also develop spontaneous cancers such as cats and horses, as well as those who dont develop any cancers, or are highly resistant, such as whales, elephants, and crocodiles.

Cancer research for dogs, such as clinical trials, done by veterinary oncologists can not only offer their patients the possibility of life extension or remission, but also allows dog owners who might otherwise be unable to afford costly treatment to provide more extensive care. Once completed, the findings from these trials can then be used to help inform human clinical trials.

Yet, just as human drug trials can be compromised by poor design, or small sample sizes, or lack of randomization, so too can canine trials. A recent meta-analysis of 168 cancer trials found many of these same problems were present, and suggested a number of improvements, including increasing the size of the trials to include more dogs, guidance that not only would improve the data, but might mean more dogs get better.

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By: Joshua D. Schiffman and Matthew Breen

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences Vol. 370, No. 1673, Theme issue: Cancer across life: Peto's paradox and the promise of comparative oncology (19 July 2015)

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"Life Won’t Be Same Ever": Odisha First To Extend Lockdown Till April 30 – NDTV News

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Coronavirus lockdown: Odisha became the first state to extend the lockdown over COVID-19

The Odisha government today announced it has extended the lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic till April 30, becoming the first state to do so as the number of patients infected by the novel coronavirus continues to rise across the country.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has asked the centre not to start train and air services till April 30. "Odisha cabinet decides for extension and also recommends to union government to do the same," the state government said in a statement.

"Coronavirus is the biggest threat that the human race has faced in more than a century. Life will not be the same ever. All of us must understand this and face it boldly together. With our sacrifice and with the blessing of Lord Jagannath, this too shall pass," Mr Patnaik said in the statement.

"Educational institutions will remain closed till June 17. Food security of people is of outmost importance. Agriculture, animal husbandry, MGNREGS related activities to be facilitated following social distancing norms," the state government said. "As earlier, free movement of goods transport will be allowed," it said.

At least 42 people have been infected by the novel coronavirus in Odisha. Two have died.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday suggested that the lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus will be extended and restrictions will not be lifted in one go after April 14. Several hotspots have been singled out in cities across the country for greater effort on isolating them completely.

Odisha is among the states that have made face masks compulsory for people stepping out of their homes. The others are Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Nagaland.

In a video meeting with leaders of all parties, PM Modi reportedly said he would consult with chief ministers but by all accounts the lifting of the lockdown "is not possible". He will hold a meeting with chief ministers on Saturday.

Many states and experts have requested an extension of the lockdown, given the rapid spread of virus cases and warnings that the infection could peak in the coming weeks.

15,80,550Cases

11,39,004Active

3,46,922Recovered

94,624Deaths

Coronavirus has spread to 184 countries. The total confirmed cases worldwide are 15,80,550 and 94,624 have died; 11,39,004 are active cases and 3,46,922 have recovered as on April 10, 2020 at 1:38 am.

5,865 591Cases

5,218 504Active

478 67Recovered

169 20Deaths

In India, there are 5,865 confirmed cases including 169 deaths. The number of active cases is 5,218 and 478 have recovered as on April 9, 2020 at 5:00 pm.

DistrictCases

Mumbai496

Pune131

Mumbai Suburban65

Thane31

Sangli24

Ahmednagar20

Nagpur16

Aurangabad8

Latur8

Palghar7

Raigad6

Satara5

Yavatmal4

Buldhana4

Osmanabad4

Hingoli2

Ratnagiri2

Washim1

Sindhudurg1

Nashik1

Amravati1

Kolhapur1

Jalna1

Jalgaon1

Gondia1

Details Awaited*294

1135

946

117

72

DistrictCases

Chennai152

Coimbatore59

Dindigul44

Tirunelveli38

Erode32

Tiruchirappalli30

Ranipet28

Namakkal27

Tiruppur27

Madurai24

Theni22

Karur22

Chengalpattu19

Thoothukudi16

Villupuram16

Cuddalore13

Thiruvallur12

Thiruvarur12

Thanjavur11

Nagapattinam11

Salem11

Virudhunagar11

Tiruvannamalai9

Kanchipuram7

Vellore6

Kanniyakumari6

Sivaganga5

The Nilgiris4

Tirupattur4

Kallakurichi2

Ramanathapuram2

Ariyalur1

Details Awaited*55

738

709

21

8

DistrictCases

South170

Central99

North64

New Delhi55

Shahdara53

South West23

West18

South East17

East15

North East14

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Shock as Ninewells nurses find protective masks with expiry dates from 2016 on box – Evening Telegraph

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NHS Tayside has moved to allay staff concerns over a batch of protective masks discovered to have been four years past their use-by date.

A group of terrified nurses at Ninewells were shocked after they peeled off a sticker on a box of masks which had an expiry date of August 2021 to reveal an original expiry date of August 2016 printed underneath.

However, Scotlands chief deputy medical officer Dr Gregor Smith had written to seniormedical staff last month, saying the equipment had been subject to rigorous assessment and shelf-life extension by the manufacturer, and was safe to use.

One nurse contacted the Tele to say she and colleagues felt furious and sick when they found the 2016 date.

The Ninewells nurse, who asked not to be identified, said the discovery was made aftersome of the masks were stained when they were taken out of the box.

She said: We found stained masks, then looked at the boxes, and thats when we peeled off the stickers.

Were furious and feel sick that they would treat us like that we should have been toldabout this. Its left colleagues terrified.

A former staff nurse at one of the hospitals busiest wards said the situation was awful.

The woman, who recently retired, said: Im still in touch with former colleagues, a lot of whom are treating people with coronavirus, as a lot of non-essential surgery has been postponed so they have capacity for people with Covid-19.

At a time when we are hearing about rising deaths, including frontline health care staff, the last thing they need is further worry like this.

Dr Smiths letter was sent to territorial board chief executives, medical directors, directors of public health, primary care leads, heads of procurement, logistics and stores managers, resilience officers and GP practice managers.

Dr Smith said in his letter: I am writing to you today regarding concerns which have been raised around the stock of facemasks which is being issued to GP Practices this week from national stockpiles.

The stock which has been issued was manufactured by Cardinal/Medline and had an original expiry dating back, typically to 2016. They now have a shelf-life expiry date sticker, typically with a date of 2021.

I would like to clarify that this stock has been subject to rigorous assessment and shelf-life extension by the manufacturer and is therefore safe to use. I hope this allays any concerns you may have.

A spokesman for NHS Tayside said: We have been assured by the Scottish Government thatthis stock of face masks is safe to use as it has been subject to rigorous assessment andshelf-life extension by the manufacturer.

This information has been shared with all staff.

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Spain, Italy to extend lockdowns amid renewed rise in cases – Stars and Stripes

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Spain is poised to extend a nationwide lockdown and Italy is moving toward doing the same as Europe's rising infection rate complicates plans to begin reversing stringent restrictions on public life.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will ask parliament on Thursday for an extension to a state of emergency through April 25. His Italian counterpart, Giuseppe Conte, is preparing to prolong the national lockdown from a current expiration date of April 13 for another two weeks, according to officials, who asked not to be identified discussing a confidential issue.

The persistent increase in cases complicates efforts by European leaders to gradually ease the rules that have been put in place to slow the spread of the virus. The restrictions are having a devastating impact on economies across the region, and politicians are under pressure to relax them as quickly as possible.

The continent has been hit hard, suffering more than 65% of worldwide deaths and Spain, Italy, France and Germany trail only the U.S. in infections.

New virus cases in Germany climbed the most in five days, according to figures Thursday from Johns Hopkins University. Italy said Wednesday that it recorded 3,836 new infections, the highest in three days.

In Spain, total cases rose to more than 150,000 and deaths surpassed 15,000, underscoring the severity of Europe's most extensive outbreak, even if daily figures declined.

In Germany, where the economy is expected to shrink by almost 10% in the current quarter, Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to consult with regional premiers on Wednesday on how soon and to what extent current restrictions can be eased.

Economy Minister Peter Altmaier sought to tamp down a debate on loosening the lockdown, saying it would send the "wrong signal" as the government asks people to stay home over the Easter holiday and daily infection rates continue to "swing."

"There's a silver lining on the horizon, even if it's too early to sound the all clear," Altmaier said in Berlin after a meeting of the government's coronavirus task force. "It's also better for the economy if we're disciplined and hold on for a few more days rather than starting too early."

In Italy, only selected companies in the food and pharmaceutical sectors, as well as possibly some shops, will likely be allowed to reopen next week, the officials said. Conte may approve a new decree as early as Friday, they said.

Italy needs to define which industrial sectors could restart production, Conte told the BBC. If scientists confirm that the country can start a gradual return to activity, "we might begin to relax some measures by the end of this month," he said.

Health Minister Roberto Speranza is particularly cautious on relaxing the lockdown, one of the officials said, insisting on the need for data on the spread to improve further before considering whether to gradually reopen more businesses from early May.

An easing of the lockdown may be on a regional basis, the official said. The business-rich north of Italy has been the worst-hit by the virus. The government is considering recommending that people carry masks and gloves with them for protection in closed areas, including shops.Members of the medical and scientific committee advising the government are urging caution. The lockdown bans movements within Italy, and virtually confines people to their homes save for work, health or emergency reasons.

"The only thing we are certain of is that the lockdown measures are efficient, and to stop the epidemic we have to bring down the rate at which the infection spreads," Luca Richeldi, a pulmonolgist at Rome's Agostino Gemelli hospital and a member of the committee, said in an interview. "Some changes in mid-April would be justified, but they have to be small and for activities that can guarantee social distancing and protection measures, otherwise it's practically certain there will be a new outbreak," he added.

Portugal, which declared a state of emergency on March 18, tightened containment measures further from Thursday through Monday. The government wants to limit movement during the Easter holiday weekend by closing airports to all passenger travel and banning movement between municipalities.

Schools in the country, which so far hasn't been as badly hit by the outbreak as neighboring Spain or Italy, will remain closed through the month of April and Prime Minister Antonio Costa may indicate later on Thursday when they might start reopening.

Luxembourg will become the first EU country to start systematic mass tests on its population, regardless of whether they show coronavirus symptoms or not.

The move is important, as mass testing to isolate carriers and prevent new surges is a condition for the lifting of restrictions on movement, according to a draft "exit strategy" memo by the European Commission, seen by Bloomberg.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control now recommends the widespread use of face masks to reduce the spread of the infection.

While face protection is seen only complementary to other measures, such as social distancing and personal hygiene, "the use of face masks in the community could be considered, especially when visiting busy, closed spaces, such as grocery stores, shopping centers, or when using public transport," according to the EU agency.

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Alkane Resources regional drilling south of TGO returns further broad, high-grade gold – Proactive Investors Australia

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The results will be included in a maiden resource estimate for the San Antonio prospect, which is expected shortly.

Alkane Resources Limited () has received further broad, high-grade gold results from resource definition drilling on San Antonio and Roswell prospects south of the Tomingley Gold Operations (TGO) in Central West NSW.

Assays from the final 6,608 metres at San Antonio of the overall initial 60,000-metre program have been received and will be incorporated in a maiden resource calculation at the prospect, which is expected shortly.

Best of the latest results are 18 metres at 12.7 g/t gold from 117 metres, including 5 metres at 35.5 g/t from 120 metres, and 19 metres at 4.90 g/t from 104 metres, including 6 metres at 10.8 g/t from 113 metres.

The San Antonio resource is expected to add to the Roswell inferred resource of 7.02 million tonnes at 1.97 g/t gold.

Roswell and San Antonio are immediately south of the TGO mine and processing facility.

Tomingley Gold Project covers about 440 square kilometres stretching 60 kilometres north-south along the Newell Highway from Tomingley in the north, through Peak Hill and almost to Parkes in the south.

The project contains Alkanes operating TGO, initially an open pit mine with a 1 million tonnes per annum processing facility that has now transitioned to underground.

For the past two years Alkane has conducted an extensive regional exploration program with the objective of defining additional resources that have the potential to be mined via open pit or underground operations and fed to TGO.

This has yielded broad, shallow high-grade intercepts that demonstrate potential for material project life extension and show that a return to open pit mining and/or underground extension is possible with appropriate resource confirmation, landholder agreement and regulatory approvals.

Alkanes 60,000-metre resource definition drilling program has been designed to define initial inferred resources at both prospects and the company has received highly encouraging results.

Other San Antonio results:

The company assayed 3-metre composite reverse circulation (RC) samples, however, where strong mineralisation was observed by the site geologist, it was directly assayed at 1-metre intervals.

Assaying of 1-metre re-split samples of 3-metre composites is ongoing.

These results are from 30 RC drill holes for 5,461 metres and two diamond cored drill holes for 1,147 metres at the San Antonio prospect.

The second phase of infill resource drilling across Roswell and San Antonio comprising a further 50,000 metres is continuing.

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Cryonics Technology Market Next Big Thing | Major Giants Cryotherm, KrioRus, VWR, Thermo Fisher Scientific – Science In Me

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Doing the right thing! Lockdown extension gets YOUR backing – Lifting it could be fatal’ – Express.co.uk

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Express.co.ukconducted an online survey asking readers if they felt the strict measures should be rolled back. The majority of those who took part believe it is still too soon to ease restrictions on social gatherings. The results come as ministers have urged Britons to stay indoors over the Easter bank holiday weekend.

Parts of Britain are set for scorching temperatures, with some regions set to reach 25C on Saturday.

A total of 8,165 readers (83 percent) backed the Governments plan to continue with the lockdown until the crisis improved.

Just 1,523 people (16 percent) said they would like to see the measures peeled back.

Only 187 (less than one percent) said they were unsure about where they stood on the issue.

A total of 9,875 people responded to the survey between 9.40am and 7pm on Thursday, April 9.

Police have warned anyone caught flouting lockdown rules will face punishment.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said it was still too soon for ministers to begin lifting the strict social distancing rules introduced last month.

Mr Raab - who is deputising for Boris Johnson while he is in intensive care - said they could not begin to start looking again at the measures until the end of next week.

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She said: We in France have had longer in lock down and still no lifting of it.

Another said: I think it needs to be looked at on a week to week basis and those businesses that can put peoples safety first should reopen.

And a third said allowing people out of their homes too early in the epidemic could prove fatal.

Can't wait for this lockdown to be lifted as I am having withdrawal symptoms for my KFC fix, they said.

However, to do it too early would be fatal.

But others argued that daily life would need to return to normal soon as people could stay inside only for so long.

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