Think we know why there's a shortage of tinfoil.
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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:
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#LockdownLondon NOW
There is no time to waste.
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Can we not just nuke London instead?
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.
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.
I know that, of course I know that.
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.
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 now
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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.
I know a few people in your predicament. Scary times. Hope you can get something sorted.
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: )