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Coronavirus meme/panic/fear mongering general thread

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Traditionally a lot of Portyguese come to the Algarve at Easter, some to see families some as tourists. The Police will have checks on the motorways to deter them . If they get there they'll see this sign blocking pavement from municipal council of Olhão, a town in the Algarve.
"Move away a bit... just a bit more... a bit more... keep moving away... that's it! Keep moving away... When you get home, that's good!"
 

As the death toll from the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 soars in the U.S. and statistical models predict more than 100,000 to come, conservative media personalities are pushing the ghoulish argument that the fatality statistics are “inflated” because they count people who died with the disease but also had underlying conditions. This is the next frontier in the right's effort to downplay the effect of the coronavirus in order to defend President Donald Trump.
 
Not a meme but I thought it amusing

Despite a national emergency, the Nightingale hospital still needs planning permission - Newham Council are currently are inviting comments on the "Temporary change of use of the existing building from an exhibition centre and associated uses to a field hospital".

The application contains a Sustainability, Energy and Infrastructure Statement setting out how the proposed development has measurable outcomes under the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The two identified include "Good Health & Wellbeing" and "Responsible Consumption and Production".

Anyone who thinks the application should be denied has until the 22nd of April to submit an objection.
 
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