Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Nymzee said:
Yeh I think a lot of these countries are gonna regret taking the locks off in the next few weeks.
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Well it depends how they deem the risk.

They've got much lower populations so if they think enough people have got an immunity / their healthcare system can handle a second wave, then they'll go for it.

I highly doubt Denmark - one of the first countries to lockdown - will be taking unnecessary risks and I'm sure it'd be a gradual thing. Suppose we'll find out in a week or so. They're at least three weeks ahead of us though, probably longer.
 
BlueToff said:
Well it depends how they deem the risk.

They've got much lower populations so if they think enough people have got an immunity / their healthcare system can handle a second wave, then they'll go for it.

I highly doubt Denmark - one of the first countries to lockdown - will be taking unnecessary risks and I'm sure it'd be a gradual thing. Suppose we'll find out in a week or so. They're at least three weeks ahead of us though, probably longer.
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When did they initiate lockdown?
 
The USA evacuation procedure for embassy personnel is kinda crazy. Heard from a friend of my partners about how US Embassy personnel are evacuated. His wife is now the #2 person in Madagascar's embassy and he had to leave. The US has a 747 cargo plane that is hollow on the inside and no windows. He was ushered in with other non-essential personnel into the windowless plane. All staff on the plane were in body suits/respirators. The plane went from embassy to embassy across nearby African nations before heading to the USA. The total flight was 33 hours or so. So you board the plane and the only seats are make-shift seats (discarded seats from other carriers) fastened along the walls of the plane and elsewhere. There were essentially out-houses ("port-a-pottys") in the back of the plane, and a bunch of crew walking around in white body-suits with respirators. Not much food and the toilets started to smell after about hour 12. He said it made the whole thing very very real. And the plane then turns around with a new crew and four hours to clean it, before it departs to another area to evacuate more embassy people.
 
BlueToff said:
Well it depends how they deem the risk.

They've got much lower populations so if they think enough people have got an immunity / their healthcare system can handle a second wave, then they'll go for it.

I highly doubt Denmark - one of the first countries to lockdown - will be taking unnecessary risks and I'm sure it'd be a gradual thing. Suppose we'll find out in a week or so. They're at least three weeks ahead of us though, probably longer.
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To me I just get the same feeling when I’m watching a horror/thriller and the character is hiding from the bad guys. A few moments of silence passes and they say phew, coast is clear, only to walk out of hiding and get grabbed by the bad guy that hadn’t left the room yet.
 
Nymzee said:
To me I just get the same feeling when I’m watching a horror/thriller and the character is hiding from the bad guys. A few moments of silence passes and they say phew, coast is clear, only to walk out of hiding and get grabbed by the bad guy that hadn’t left the room yet.
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Well yeh I don't disagree mate but the thing is this illness isn't going to just go away anyway. So the world can't keep playing hide-and-seek for the next year cause that'll do more damage to people than the virus will.

I feel so much for the people in Detroit, for example. A city which has still not recovered from 2008 and now is getting ravaged by this and then will have the economic impact after that. It's horrid.

So it is imperative that countries get back as quickly as is safe. A big, well the crucial, part of that is people abiding by the rules right now for the next however many weeks (whether it's 2 in Denmark or another 6 or 7 here) until measures are relaxed and then obviously only doing what they're allowed to in that case.

I think most everyone accepts and knows that life isn't going to be 'normal' again any time soon. But you can have some semblance of normality and gradually ease back into things.

But yes, totally agree with you and Goat that for now we just have to get through this initial wave.
 
BlueToff said:
Well yeh I don't disagree mate but the thing is this illness isn't going to just go away anyway. So the world can't keep playing hide-and-seek for the next year cause that'll do more damage to people than the virus will.
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Well, pretty sure death is the most damage it can do...

I understand your view but to me we may as well have just not had any lockdown at all and let this thing run its course through everyone. People seem to act like we’ve been in lockdown for ages when in reality it’s been a mere few weeks if that.
 
Nymzee said:
Well, pretty sure death is the most damage it can do...

I understand your view but to me we may as well have just not had any lockdown at all and let this thing run its course through everyone. People seem to act like we’ve been in lockdown for ages when in reality it’s been a mere few weeks if that.
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You know what I mean, though. The economic / social impacts of this will far outweigh the actual effect of the virus in terms of numbers of people.

I don't think it's that either. We've been in lockdown in the UK 13 days and look at the damage it has already done to a far amount of people and businesses.

I think acting like people are 'bored' of it is kind of shifting the goalposts really.

It takes years to build things up and days to knock them down.
 
Armaghtoffee said:
@Neiler you are a hero on the front line and I can’t thank you enough for your courage and dedication.

But you are blind to the ongoing financial doping of Dublin GAA xx
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Ha I wouldn’t say I’m blind, I’ve actually looked into it a lot, I just don’t think it’s true.

Think we might be lucky to get a championship in 2020 mate, the GAA could be in a bit of trouble in my opinion, not for profit organisation of just south of turnover of 75 mill, largely driven by the championship gate.

The loss of the championship could see a huge financial impact with very little financial distribution from county all the way down to grassroots. That’s my concern for the GAA now to be honest mate.

It would be a pity, think Armagh could be a bolter.
 
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