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This seems fine.
There's a reason I have not posted much on this subject on here and it's that, unlike quite a few contributors on here it seems, I accept that we're in a very fluid situation with a new virus that everyone, including the experts, are learning about on the hoof so to speak - in such circumstances, I don't feel I can contribute anything that qualifies as worthwhile.
Actually, although every time I hear the Government going on about washing your hands, I cannot help thinking of early episodes of Dad's Army which included Pathe News type pieces featuring shots of the likes of Corporal Jones and Private Godfrey ready to fight off Hitler's evil hordes with a pitchfork and a broom handle, I think this isn't a party political matter and feel that the Government is on a hiding to nothing with corona virus.
However, there is someone on the other side of the Atlantic who is out to politicise this for his own ends and it appears he has a few little helpers on here. I don't include you in that, I'm talking about the ones who accuse those who don't share their views of being useful idiots, gullible consumers of the MSM agenda etc. etc. while at the same time faithfully recycling what their favourite alt right site is telling them.
Would a doctor scaremonger?
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Just been told we are working from home for the forseable, same for my mate who works as an oil trader and a mate who works for a high end fitness start up. We've had to spend millions on new tech for the WFH phase as we deal in sensitive information.
Anyone who doesn't think this is serious needs to ask why these companies are willfully costing themselves millions upon millions.
People talking about the death rate being low don't understand how serious this is and could be. The situation in Italy at the moment is terrible and their health service is on the brink of collapse.
Our society is not really set-up for this type of out-break.
Me and my partner couldn't work from home, we could not afford to be off work for a month on basic SSP, the business that we work for could not afford to go a couple of months without the income.
If schools close we would have to send the children who may be carrying the infection to their grand parents who are the most at risk from this outbreak.
I cant see anything that works on a practical level.
It isn't about the death rate..... yet, but it could be soon. You see once the beds in ICU fill up and they can't take any more the death rate could hit as high as 18%. Thats the amount of people that would need ventilators and even more serious equipment. This is what happened in Wuhan, China and is currently happening in Northern Italy.
Think of it like a snowball rolling down a hill. Once it gathers size it will smash its way through the population.
China was able to throw the weight of a massive nation behind the efforts to treat the sick and cut it off in one region. What does Britain have? One of the lowest amounts of ICU beds per % of the population in Europe. Look at the crappy tents they are erecting in car parks.
Fair enough, but to me it seems that whether it's a Govt. official, a 'Health Specialist, a Journalist/reporter, a TV interviewer, a radio presenter - whenever they're discussing or announcing something to do with Coronavirus it's given dramatic treatment as if they really want the situation to be more serious than it is. Some nutter on drugs blows himself up and we have 'COBRA' meetings to urgently discuss the latest [so-called] terrorist threat. Weather temperatures don't 'drop' overnight, they're going to 'plummet'. It's another reason why Blair, Hague, Cameron decided to help bomb 3 nations into anarchy - the thrill of playing soldiers, looking at maps, sounding all grim and serious - they loved it.
Anyway, they're all prats and I don't pay attention to any of them..
Y2K was only stopped because millions was spent on engineers fixing issues though. It might not have been planes falling out of the sky kind of thing but things could have been proper ****ed. Everyone always acts like Y2K was nothing but it was just a well planned out and well mitigated event.
Being cynical (just for a change!!!) as the shut down unfolds, companies on big contracts struggling to deliver on time and facing LD's for being late, (and would have been late irrespective) may just be frantically checking their force majeure paragraph of their contract.
Lots of small businesses are going to go under I reckon.
So with the new government advice you should stay at home for 7 days if you have a high temperature and/or new cough.
Hopefully the club will issue a statement to re-enforce the message and tell people not to go on Sunday if it applies to them.
Italy’s outbreak has had over 2500 new confirmations and 150 deaths in just the last 24hrs. That is very disturbing as it’s not slowing down but accelerating like a rocket.
As usual, Climate/Holocaust deniers, Brexit enthusiasts, I know better than experts getting their early oar in. If you value your life treat them with a pinch of salt: no one knows how this will pan out. It may not be this one but there will always be the potential for a rogue virus (and other means) to wipe out humankind! Stay alert, stay safe!
The world could do with a bit of good news at the moment couldn’t it. Hard to think of a time of widespread doom & gloom in this country such as the present and the poor buggers still around who can remember the early days of WW2 are the most vulnerable. Naysayers who say there’s an overreaction must know something we don’t know.
Our Government says we are 4 weeks behind Italy. It also says the peak, for us, is 14 weeks away.
It will be interesting to see what the Italian figures are 2 weeks after lockdown because that will tell whether or not their strategy of locking down was correct (assuming that the incubation period is 2 weeks, which is what some experts say)
I dont think there's too much to gain by knowing the complete numbers of those with the virus.
After all, if you're diagnosed, invariably you're sent home to self isolate for 2 weeks. Same instructions if you've come back from a high risk area. After that period you're free to resume your normal life. If you're more vulnerable and have more serious symptoms then go to hospital and get looked after.
Individuals need to listen to the advice and self isolate if they show signs of symptoms. If the nhs concentrates on testing, just to draw a graph each day, it pulls resources from treating those most seriously affected.
Arteta tests positive