Reply With QuoteThe school holidays didn't help with lots of skiers descending on Northern Italy. That's largely been the cause of the spread throughout Europe.
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Well the reason for that was explained in today's 5PM talk. Apparently the chemicals used to make the test are in high demand...Originally Posted by J R Hartley
The school holidays didn't help with lots of skiers descending on Northern Italy. That's largely been the cause of the spread throughout Europe.
I'd like to visit some of the ex soviet Block countries in the future. What was Moldova like? isn't it supposed to be the poorest country in Europe? Albania is a country i'd like to visit.
That’s been the party line since the Q and A’s started nearly 3 weeks ago.
I mean, it’s not like we didn’t know this virus was about to descend on our country months ago.
But hey ho, Herd Immunity and all that, we don’t need tests, let’s just kill off the elderly, they were going to die soon anyway and after all chemicals are expensive.
And now today we hear that the Welsh NHS thought they had secured a large supply of tests but have been gazumped by the English NHS. Obviously English lives matter more.
Add to that all around the country some front line NHS staff have still NOT been tested and haven’t all had PPE and mugs like you want to accept the disruption to the supply chain line they keep churning out every day.
Do me a ****ing favour.
"We may manage flu like viruses better via our DNA."
What do you mean?
[QUOTE=J R Hartley;5060769]That’s been the party line since the Q and A’s started nearly 3 weeks ago.
I mean, it’s not like we didn’t know this virus was about to descend on our country months ago.
But hey ho, Herd Immunity and all that, we don’t need tests, let’s just kill off the elderly, they were going to die soon anyway and after all chemicals are expensive.
And now today we hear that the Welsh NHS thought they had secured a large supply of tests but have been gazumped by the English NHS. Obviously English lives matter more.
Add to that all around the country some front line NHS staff have still NOT been tested and haven’t all had PPE and mugs like you want to accept the disruption to the supply chain line they keep churning out every day.
Good to see you here. I must have been missing you if you've been posting. I was quite concerned but you're clearly on your normal good form.
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. ****.?
For my own sanity and mental health I’ve tried not to get involved on forums and social media too much of late.
Frightening
The epidemiology around this is very complex with lots of moving parts. There are very few (if any) reliable sets of data around at the moment.
Drawing any kind of conclusions based on statistics that are publicly available is folly. For example, there is a syndromic Emergency Department tracking system employed by the CDC (that I think is not publicly available) for US hospitals that has been used to infer the current incidence in NYC is a factor of 11x as great as that reported by positives from testing. Just to be clear that's not deaths, it means 11x more people currently have the virus but aren't being included in the reported cases in NYC. (If true, that is a kind of good news because, assuming deaths are being accurately reported, the death rate must be lower than the raw deaths to cases rate you can calculate from the public data.)
Seems like a very good plan !!!
Bloody hell
You think we have a more varied diet than the Mediterranean countries?
You then compare Germany (rigorous testing) with the UK. Laughable.
Isn’t the reason that they have a larger older generation down to their better diet & lifestyle?
I can't wait for this one either
Wait does he think British people have different DNA to italian people?
PWOPER WHITE PEOPLE DON'T DIE AS MUCH AS THE TANNED BECAUSE WE'RE 'ARD!
What else could the person who previously said that minority ethnicities can't be natural-born Brits have meant?
Quite likely, and the fact that most other European Countries haven't worked as many hours as us, and maybe because it seems (especially in the Latin Countries) That they get more enjoyment and spend more time together with family members, not just at pissed up events like us Brits (a bit general, i know) Although i once heard a comedian say that he went to India and met a man who was 98 years old, had one tooth and slept in a bin, so who knows...
As said previously... so, so wrong.
Taken as seriously in the UK? Are you serious? Cheltenham, Bars, a leader stating "take it on the chin, shaking hands with patients, people singing f*** the virus in packed bars, sold out gigs etc.
What rock have you been hiding under? 🙄
Yeah and it was a lot worse a lot further along the curve in Italy.
We have blood, they have ragu sauce...
No
All the youngsters have fkd off to find work leaving behind half empty towns and villages almost depopulated some areas
I thought I'd resurrect this thread in light of the fact that yesterday's UK deaths figure was higher than anything recorded by Italy and lower than the figure for Spain on just one day - it looks certain now that death and new cases rates are declining in those two countries, so it's unlikely that they will record higher figures in the future unless they come in a second wave of the virus.
There has to be a likelihood that the UK will go beyond that Spanish highest day soon, so perhaps the question should be why are our figures so bad? I started this with a desire not to get political about the COVID19 crisis in this country, but it's become a whole lot harder to do that when you see us on a par with those Mediterranean countries with no definite signs yet of rates plateauing here yet and worse off than most Northern European countries on the mainland.
It does feel like this thread really jumped the gun with this question.
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