Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

[Rjk]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-new...ero-491526.amp

This seems fine.

[ninian opinian]

Would a doctor scaremonger?

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[Croesy Blue]

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.

[Shute]

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.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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.

It's the new Y2K

[Croesy Blue]

It's the new Y2K

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.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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.

I wasn't being serious, old fruit. Hence the coat emoji.

[qccfc]

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.

[goats]

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.

This is exactly what happened in Italy according to my mate who lives there. Send the kids off to the grandparents, the kiss of death.

[Eric Cartman]

Ah, yes, we'll be back to Brexit and the 17 million of us who were duped next.

Probably doesn't apply to you because I think from what you said some time back, you used to work in the Patent office/ONS [???] - forgive me if I'm wrong - but as it stands the FTSE has lost 30% in the last 4 weeks. If people with personal pensions were buying annuities today they could have lost 30% of their pension fund. Why ? because everyone runs around making a huge drama, coming across all serious like they're Churchill in 1940, when the reality is 6 people have died in the UK in the past month - all from other complications.

You think the stock market moves based on the level of 'drama' in society?

[Croesy Blue]

You think the stock market moves based on the level of 'drama' in society?

[delmbox]

Leave him alone, he's a very special person

[A Quiet Monkfish]

Stock markets react strongly to things like confidence, sentiment, expectations, so yes. Huge losses in the markets may seem amusing and trivial to you but they are going to affect may people's lives..

[Croesy Blue]

Stock markets react strongly to things like confidence, sentiment, expectations, so yes. Huge losses in the markets may seem amusing and trivial to you but they are going to affect may people's lives..

[Heathblue]

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.

[goats]

Lots of small businesses are going to go under I reckon.

[Croesy Blue]

Lots of small businesses are going to go under I reckon.

A lot of a big ones too I think. Few airlines might be in trouble. Wouldn't be surprised if norweigen were pushed over the brink.

[The Bloop]

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.

[Monster munch]

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.

[CCFCC3PO]

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.

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)

[Heisenberg]

Stock markets react strongly to things like confidence, sentiment, expectations, so yes. Huge losses in the markets may seem amusing and trivial to you but they are going to affect may people's lives..

Huge losses in the markets
The coronavirus may seem amusing and trivial to you but it's going to affect many people's lives.

[Dorcus]

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!

[splott parker]

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.

[delmbox]

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.

This year's been mad - end of days forest fires in Australia, fear of war between the US and Iran, widespread flooding, Coronavirus pandemic, and we're only 3 months in

[goats]

This year's been mad - end of days forest fires in Australia, fear of war between the US and Iran, widespread flooding, Coronavirus pandemic, and we're only 3 months in

After 3 years of political madness too