Coronavirus update - NO MORE RESTRICTIONS

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Italy locked down just because they're drama queens

Yep countries helping to destroy their own economies just for a laugh, even Mr trump starting to despite the markets being something he clinged to.

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Yep countries helping to destroy their own economies just for a laugh, even Mr trump starting to despite the markets being something he clinged to.

Seems a bit odd to be honest.....I don’t know if people will buy it here, 8 old people died who had underlying conditions. Far more people die of other things everyday. We need to protect the old and keep the ****ers indoors, for starters driving without them clogging up the rd will be amazing....as will the supermarkets.

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Seems a bit odd to be honest.....I don’t know if people will buy it here, 8 old people died who had underlying conditions. Far more people die of other things everyday. We need to protect the old and keep the ****ers indoors, for starters driving without them clogging up the rd will be amazing....as will the supermarkets.

The point is to keep it low and not become hundreds or worse. There's a limited time available to do it before the horse has truly bolted.

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Seems a bit odd to be honest.....I don’t know if people will buy it here, 8 old people died who had underlying conditions. Far more people die of other things everyday. We need to protect the old and keep the ****ers indoors, for starters driving without them clogging up the rd will be amazing....as will the supermarkets.

I can't believe people are still banging on about the "more people die of XXX every day", it's such a simplistic view and so so obvious that that's not the point:

It's not about the fatality rate, it's about the transmission rate. If you have flu (yes which kills a lot more) then you and everybody else knows pretty quickly that you have flu so you stay at home or people avoid you. With this, you can have it for 2 weeks, be in contact with hundreds of people before you have any idea, therefore it could spread through out the whole world relatively quickly, causing economic and social chaos. That's why extreme measures are being taken. Stop saying more people get killed by other stuff, it's not that that's the issue, no one ever said it was!

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I can't believe people are still banging on about the "more people die of XXX every day", it's such a simplistic view and so so obvious that that's not the point:

It's not about the fatality rate, it's about the transmission rate. If you have flu (yes which kills a lot more) then you and everybody else knows pretty quickly that you have flu so you stay at home or people avoid you. With this, you can have it for 2 weeks, be in contact with hundreds of people before you have any idea, therefore it could spread through out the whole world relatively quickly, causing economic and social chaos. That's why extreme measures are being taken. Stop saying more people get killed by other stuff, it's not that that's the issue, no one ever said it was!

That’s the massive thing with it, can you remember everyone you’ve been in contact with recently? On the bus, in the pub, down the City, in the supermarket. It’s worryingly impossible, even if you decided to self isolate now it could quite easily be too late.

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That’s the massive thing with it, can you remember everyone you’ve been in contact with recently? On the bus, in the pub, down the City, in the supermarket. It’s worryingly impossible, even if you decided to self isolate now it could quite easily be too late.

Yeah and if 50% of those people I'd been in contact with got ill, and all of those recovered fully (which is perfectly likely) it's still a huge knock on effect being that each one would also have come into contact with hundreds of people. The drastic measures being taken make perfect sense, it's completely logical to try and shut it down through any means. But Mr Anonymous all over the internet keeps insisting YEAH BUT BIRD FLU YEAH BUT SARS like the entire world apart from them is clueless