Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Received a message from a friend of mine, who is a nurse. She told me that my local hospital, just a few hundred yards away, is in the process of increasing ITU beds from 7 to 40 and the hospital is drafting in nursing staff and doctors with ITU experience, her included (which she is terrified about).

[Heathblue]

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Maybe the link is already in this fred somewhere, but an decent overview.
https://covid19info.live

[Croesy Blue]

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From 100,000 to 250,000 confirmed cases in 10 days.

If we listen to our resident statistician's calculations that must mean there are over 1,000,00 cases already!

[Manchester CCFC]

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My dad’s funeral tomorrow. We have had to cancel the wake in the local pub. I never thought it would come to this. This has been a dreadful year and it’s still only March.

Sorry for your loss. RIP

[tell it like it is]

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Well it's a judgement but based on that my colleagues usually work 6 days a week 9am to 9pm and for over 2 months they were at home barely working and now they're back. I just don't think they would have stopped work like that for so long for nothing and then starting again without being sure the situation was better.

I don't believe the official numbers they put out at all though.

Difference between their situation and the overall situation in China though.

[tell it like it is]

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Nobody cares what I think... I'm a mong... a right drip... someone who knows f all... but nevertheless, for what it's worth, which is naturally zip, to my minuscule brain the Yanks, Europeans (via ECB boss Christine Lagarde), and the British Chancellor's statements of intent this week will destroy their currencies, by design, to bring forth a new financial system that will be digital only money.

Think we know why there's a shortage of tinfoil.

[ninian opinian]

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Italy 2 weeks ago (4 March):
3,089 confirmed cases
107 deaths

Italy today:
41,035 confirmed cases
3,405 #COVID19 deaths

UK today:
3,269 cases
144 deaths

Uk in two weeks:
?

#LockdownLondon NOW
There is no time to waste.

https://twitter.com/dr2nisreenalwan/status/1240723282527223809?s=21

[tell it like it is]

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Can we not just nuke London instead?

[Croesy Blue]

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Difference between their situation and the overall situation in China though.

Why is there a difference? They're in the South East of China and had quite a high number of cases.

[tell it like it is]

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Why is there a difference? They're in the South East of China and had quite a high number of cases.

The people you refer to have clearly had it.

I don't trust any Chinese authority regardless of region to tell the truth, I view any figures they produce as underestimates.

It's about time China were treated as an international pariah. Cut all business ties, worldwide ban on travel from China etc until they get their head out of their arse.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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The people you refer to have clearly had it.

I don't trust any Chinese authority regardless of region to tell the truth, I view any figures they produce as underestimates.

It's about time China were treated as an international pariah. Cut all business ties, worldwide ban on travel from China etc until they get their head out of their arse.

Seems like an extreme case of self-isolating to me....

[Croesy Blue]

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The people you refer to have clearly had it.

I don't trust any Chinese authority regardless of region to tell the truth, I view any figures they produce as underestimates.

It's about time China were treated as an international pariah. Cut all business ties, worldwide ban on travel from China etc until they get their head out of their arse.

They haven't had it, I speak to them on the phone daily. Their whole office was shut down for a month, the following month only managers were allowed in. Now they are working on a staggered schedule and everyone who enters gets a temperature check in the morning.

I don't trust China for a lot of things but their rate of infection has definitely dropped or they would not be allowed out of their apartments let alone near an office that houses a few thousand.

[Rjk]

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The people you refer to have clearly had it.

I don't trust any Chinese authority regardless of region to tell the truth, I view any figures they produce as underestimates.

It's about time China were treated as an international pariah. Cut all business ties, worldwide ban on travel from China etc until they get their head out of their arse.

They are so embedded in the global economy that would be almost impossible. They make literally everything

[Croesy Blue]

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1 hospital in London already has more patients than beds in its ICU. First of many id say.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Italy 2 weeks ago (4 March):
3,089 confirmed cases
107 deaths

Italy today:
41,035 confirmed cases
3,405 #COVID19 deaths

UK today:
3,269 cases
144 deaths

Uk in two weeks:
?

#LockdownLondon NOW
There is no time to waste.

https://twitter.com/dr2nisreenalwan/...527223809?s=21

It'll be interesting to see the UK's figures in 2 weeks as a barometer of how it is spreading. The fact that our figures were close to Italy's 2 weeks ago is largely irrelevant. Lots of countries would have had figures like Italy did early on at some point. It doesn't mean we'll follow that projection. It could be worse, it could be better. I hope the latter, but we can only see. The way this week has gone makes me wonder what the info on cases is really like.