Bálint 🎭 @szbalint@x0r.be

The answer: yes, they did.

Going out into the woods is so good for my soul

I felt cute.

Please someone change this to coronavirus, Boris, an exponential curve and Gove saying "We should run it hot".

The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_Statue_of_Marcus_Aurelius

This is one of the two known surviving bronze statues of pre-christian roman emperors. It is over 1800 years old, and has stood in open air up until the 1980s.

It was common practice in late roman times to melt down bronze statues and the only reason this survived is that for a long time people mistakenly believed it was a statue of Constantine.

#virtualarthistory

Today was the first time I’ve left the building since march 11th (we went for a long walk in a nice park), and I’m wondering to what extent it is about being comfortable at home vs about the privilege of having a fairly large balcony with plenty of sunlight and a nice view.

I missed going to a nice park/garden but I didn’t miss walking on the street.

(My wife goes for runs and handles shopping while I do most of the household chores)

World first in Hungary: a roundabout with only one entrance and one exit.

If this were a screenplay, it would instantly get rejected for unbelievable level of realism.

Wow. The case fatality rate in highly tested countries with non-overwhelmed healthcare systems basically converged to between 1.9 and 2.1%

(Countries which have not enough tests, overwhelmed healthcare systems and/or fake numbers like Hungary, well...different story)

Relevant.

(context: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-to-end-his-presidential-campaign/2020/03/18/cf7a1824-4d18-11ea-9b5c-eac5b16dafaa_story.html)

Who said we can’t celebrate our first wedding anniversary at home? 😎

Mahlzeit!

Uh, I think Austria decided to increase coronavirus tests slightly?

I don't like these april 1st jokes this year.

Or when privacy activists say we should use the corporate surveillance machine for pandemic control.

The two options of what we’ll look like after the lockdown is over.

Extremely rule-abiding germanistic feels.

I mean just look at that plot

From tomorrow morning all of Italy is on lockdown/quarantine.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/09/coronavirus-italy-prime-minister-country-lockdown

Little did I know a couple of years ago when made this stop-motion gif of building a toilet paper pyramid that one day it would come useful.

Who is wasting time now eh?!