Job's comforter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
Have you ever thought of doing motivational speaking? :hehe:
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Job's comforter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
Have you ever thought of doing motivational speaking? :hehe:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
4% assumes the other 96% represents the total of Coronavirus cases. It's probably closer to 1 - 1.5%.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
It took me 5 phone calls to get a tax refund that HMRC had confirmed was due to me. I really doubt any Western govt. will be delivering on these promises - even if it was their intention to do so in the 1st place. There's no mechanism. system, processes in place. By the time they've set everything up, we'll be coming out the other side of this..Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
1% of suffers dying is still quite bad no? 1 person of every hundred who gets it dies.
Or 0% on your calculations earlier in the thread :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
Wow we’ve got a Chinese statistics expert here now too!Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
Think you said the same in the banking collapse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
At the moment practically 1 person is dying a minute worldwide. And we're still in the early phases.Quote:
Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
The German currency collapsed because it was the only currency affected. How do you envisage that the three main currencies will collapse at the same time? Does £1 suddenly equal $0.5, which suddenly equals 0.25 Euros which suddenly equals 5 pence?Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
The currencies didn't collapse in 2008 because every one of the major nations had to make the same choices. Zimbabwe's currency collapsed because it was the only country acting like a dick.
Nothing to worry about as long as you don't understand exponential growthQuote:
More than 245,000 coronavirus cases have been confirmed across the globe. The World Health Organization noted that it took more than three months to reach 100,000 cases worldwide —but only 12 days to log the next 100,000.
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Originally Posted by rudy gestede
Not exactly working in Italy at the moment, but that's because the public are flouting the advice. Here's a warning for us - do we comply like the Chinese have, or do we say "as long as I am alright, stuff it" like the Italians.
Yes they were still all going to restaurants and bars well into the lock down, I think the UK will be more like Italy because a lot of people don't seem to think it's an issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by CCFCC3PO
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Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...pital-11960597
Anyone thinking it isn't serious should read that.
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And for the record, it is NOT like flu, it is more often than not chronic pneumonia and it is killing hundreds here each day.
The head of emergency care, Dr Roberto Cosentini, says they have never seen anything like it, and he and his staff are warning other countries, especially the UK, that they will see it soon.
"It's a very severe pneumonia, and so it's a massive strain for every health system, because we see every day 50 to 60 patients who come to our emergency department with pneumonia, and most of them are so severe they need very high volumes of oxygen.
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).
Maybe the link is already in this fred somewhere, but an decent overview.
https://covid19info.live
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!
Sorry for your loss. RIPQuote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
Difference between their situation and the overall situation in China though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
Think we know why there's a shortage of tinfoil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
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
Can we not just nuke London instead?
Why is there a difference? They're in the South East of China and had quite a high number of cases.Quote:
Originally Posted by tell it like it is
The people you refer to have clearly had it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Croesy Blue
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....Quote:
Originally Posted by tell it like it is
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by tell it like it is
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.
They are so embedded in the global economy that would be almost impossible. They make literally everythingQuote:
Originally Posted by tell it like it is
1 hospital in London already has more patients than beds in its ICU. First of many id say.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninian opinian
I know that, of course I know that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
And you won't care that these times are character amplifiers and you've gone from 3 weeks ago being known as one of the funny ones on the board, to now being the conspiracy idiot who would happily see our old or ill family members die. Speedy work.
Sadly I know others like that. One, says he's a socialist, Labour campaigner, is now out of work as he's self employed. He's been wittering on for days about losing money and everyone will be alright from this virus.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
I asked him to get in touch with DWP to at least get some money in. Apparently he reckons he wouldn't be eligible as he's got a massive wedge in savings as a deposit on a rather expensive property. In short, he'd rather people suffer than him dip into this savings.
Seriously, people's true colours come out. I'm freelance, have genuinely no idea when myself or my partner will get a paycheck next but it'll definitely be months. Now looking if there's anything else I can do to get some money in but I can honestly say that at no point has it crossed my mind that maybe letting the old and weak die would be preferable to the stress I'm feeling nowQuote:
Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
Hey mate, lots of supermarkets are taking staff on a temp basis, its a bit of cash, gets you out of the house and will be contributing in a very useful way.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
I think they said on the news tonight they’re looking for 25,000 additional staff.Quote:
Originally Posted by chris lee
Well said! Me too! You have my respect for your unselfish attitude. I hope you get positive news on your finances very soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
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I'm in a similar boat, but I have some student money coming in as I'm studying for a masters part time, though most goes on fees. The work I do is all freelance and it has all gone now, but I can survive. I'm with you totally in that I could never think that I'd rather be out earning if it means helping the virus spread and potentially causing people major problems and death. There's always an answer - deferred mortgage payments, there's some help for the self-employed, though not much.Quote:
Originally Posted by delmbox
I know a few people in your predicament. Scary times. Hope you can get something sorted.
Funnily enough just finished a Lidl application form before coming on here and seeing this. Thanks mate :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by chris lee
Appreciate it, and the same for you. I'm one of the lucky ones in my industry in that once it's all settled down I know I've got a job to go back to, there's others who were unemployed when it started so will be in a massive ruck for the jobs that get going first. I've just got to get us to that point, which with the little bit of savings that we've got and some belt tightening we should be able to do (unless this goes on for a year in which case we're all f***d anyway :hehe: )Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorcus