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Boris Johnson [in his press conference]: "I was at a hospital the other day where there were a few coronavirus cases. I shook hands with everybody, you'll be pleased to know. And I'll continue to shake hands with everybody."

Doesn't sound like very sensible advice!
Now, I don't believe there is cause for panic about the coronavirus. Far from it. But it seems to me that one of the easiest of all precautionary measures is to refrain from hand shakes for a few weeks. Bow, nod, pat each other on the back, whatever - so many decent alternatives!
Meanwhile, the UK and EU negotiators agreed not to shake hands because of the coronavirus outbreak...
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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50. Products made or grown in the UK can be sold in 31 countries without type approval, customs duties, phytosanitary certificates or other costly red tape.

51. Strong, legally enforced food hygiene standards, including prohibitions on chlorinated chicken and GM crops.
52. Objective 1 funding for deprived areas and regions.

53. Financial passporting, enabling firms in the City of London to provide services to clients all over the EU.

54. Legally enforced 14 day cooling-off period on new timeshare agreements.
55. Access to university education in other EU countries at the same rates their home students pay (many EU countries still offer free education)

56. Consular protection in countries outside of the EU from any EU embassy or consulate, if there's no UK embassy or consulate there.
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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Leave won. Its prize: we left the EU.

But the truth is, we *all* lost. And we can't just "get over it".

Here are 91 examples of what Brexit took from us all... and what we could gain if we joined the EU again.

1. Full unfettered access to the largest trading bloc in the world.
2. Free trade deals with dozens of countries around the world, including Japan, Canada and South Korea.

3. Frictionless borders allowing for just-in-time manufacturing, supporting millions of jobs in the auto industry, aerospace etc.
4. Wide-open border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, with no customs or other checks between NI and the rest of the UK.

5. Active support for the Good Friday Agreement and Irish peace process (NI benefitted from PEACE funding of over 1.5 billion euro between 1995 and 2020)
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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Quick appeal to rationalism...

Yes, it seems plausible that "disaster capitalists" are standing by to profit from Brexit chaos.

But it seems distinctly implausible that they're relishing a coronavirus-Brexit 1-2 punch. That's too much even for them. I expect they're bewildered.
And I mean that completely seriously. They are rational actors too, even if their *morals* may not be in the same universe as most people. Seeing a country eviscerated in short order by twin tragedies isn't a winning proposition for *anyone*.
After all, most Brexiters will still have to live in what's left of the UK after the dust settles. So the suggestion that they'd gladly see the country in ruins is an absurd one. We have to be better that that sort of knee-jerkism.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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I am not making a political statement.

However, given that 10% of Iranian lawmakers are infected, and given that politicians of both parties are still shaking hands and holding rallies, we need to seriously contemplate the possibility of continuity-of-government issues.
The risk for senior American politicians is very high because (a) many of them are in their 70s and (b) they are in daily physical contact with large numbers of strangers.

This page should be updated and we need to prepare for some of these scenarios.
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Boris Johnson by his own account was at a hospital with coronavirus patients and shook hands with “everybody”.

The Pope did something similar in Italy and fell sick.

It is almost beyond belief but continued handshakes may lead to the fall of governments.
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