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Given the shocking restrictions, closures and cancellations during the past two days due to the coronavirus threat, it’s understandable some people in Longyearbyen are engaging in the panic-buying emptying shelves on the mainland. But while Svalbard is isolated far from urban supply centers, that means the warehouse at Svalbardbutikken is already carrying two months’ of essential supplies for long-term situations.

And that’s if normal deliveries by air and ship are disrupted, which they’re not as another cargo ship carrying many tons of pretty much everything aside from fresh produce, daily and meat arrives in town Friday.

So while it’s understandable people might want supplies at home if they suddenly find themselves quarantined (such as if they’ve returned from non.Nordic countries since Feb. 26), the official reassurances supplies will remain available seem to be reasonable for those inclined to hoard.

Also, besides Svalbardbutikken, the Mix kiosk and Longyearbyen Thai Shop remain open with smaller stocks, but for many staple items including noodles, rice, dairy and, yes, toilet paper.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.

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A wave of new closures and restrictions affecting nearly all businesses and institutions in Norway due to the coronavirus was announced Thursday afternoon by Prime Minister Erna Solberg and other top officials. Effective as of 6 p.m. for at least the next two weeks, all educational institutions, sports and recreational events, fitness centers, businesses offering body services such as haircuts and skin care, and pubs that don’t serve food are closed.

Supermarkets and pharmacies will remain open, as will restaurants with additional food handling restrictions.

Also, all people arriving in Norway from anyway other than Nordic countries since Feb. 27 will be subject to mandatory quarantine.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.

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The Svalbard Skimaraton, the biggest one-day annual event in the archipelago, is now part of the cancellations occurring due to the coronavirus outbreak, the race’s organizer announced Thursday.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.

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