Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[PhilM]

So let me get this right.

He`s being allowed to " hide " in an intensive care bed, with the full permission of all the medical staff, plus his police personal protection officers who will have to be there too, at a time of national emergency, all so he can use a piece of breathing equipment, that can be safely used at home by everyone else.

@Sentinel meet @davek lol

The rep system has only been around for two to three days, and it’s already fully proven it’s need and worth.

 

[COYBL25]

They're not real health professionals mate, they are hired actors.

lol

 

[zzr45]

They're not real health professionals mate, they are hired actors.

That happens quite a lot apparently. I went to the doctors one complaining of swelling and it was nothing like those documentaries I've seen on the internet.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Boris in ICU on planet Davek......

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...And this

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

No one is remotley saying that, it's something YOU have conjured up as a straw man to knock down.

I think if it was all smoke and mirrors mate then I would have put our house on it that there would have been a queue of whistle - blowers stepping up.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

How come you get to KNOW some things, because you've been told, but other things (that don't support your argument) get dismissed as lies because you should know better to trust what they tell you?

Direct line to Corbyn innit.

 

[tsubaki]

Well worth the read.

Special Report: Johnson listened to his scientists about ...

Another “the scientists are to blame” missive.

We’ll have a pandemic of them in a few months.

 

[BlueToff]

The massive worry today in the number of deaths posted in the U.K.

It’s bigger then Italy‘s worst day and 40 behind Spain’s. It’s the exponential growth from here and whether it continues to rise or drop.

Both Italy and Spain managed to flatten the curve from this apex, the U.K. have to hope to this in the coming days. If the U.K. can manage that from here, they are tracking less cumulative deaths then Italy and Spain and can work on a downward trajectory.

Yep.

Italy and Spain both started to see results in their 4th week of 'lockdown'. So hopefully, this time next week, the UK have started to see similar results.

 

[BlueToff]

Hi mate. Yep, our government went hard and went early, we went straight into lockdown on Wednesday March 25. I think at that stage in the whole country we had less than a hundred cases.

As it stands now we have around 1200 cases - out of a population of 5 million, we've fortunately done pretty well so far, with only one death. The lockdown is very tight, we're basically only allowed out to go to the supermarket, to exercise (bike/run/walk only in our local neighbourhood), or to get medical / pharmacy needs. "Essential workers" are still allowed to work (i.e. medical staff, truck drivers, supermarket workers, some mechanics, plumbers, electricians, primary industries etc.). Me not being an essential worker (I work in travel) I've been working from home and taken a fair chunk of annual leave, as of course work isn't busy.

Great thing about this lockdown, my exercise regimen is going well! 8km run every day, a 45-minute bike ride, and another 45-60 minute walk. I'm getting a bit bored of continually exercising the same blocks around our home though!

The lockdown has meant there are virtually no flights around the country - Air New Zealand has shred 95% of it's flights, as an example, Christchurch-Auckland flights used to operate hourly, now there is only 2-3 flights a day. There's now all of maybe less than 20 international flights into the country a week.

Touch wood it all seems to be working though. Daily cases of COVID have been decreasing each day for the past four days. Amazing also that we've fortunately only lost one person.

That's exactly the same as the UK. Obviously a tad more (well, a lot more) space in compared to the population though.

And great on the exercise – lots of people seem to be doing the same! Absolutely key to be getting out (while keeping safe for yourself and others) when you can.

 

[BlueToff]

All well and good but as your winter approaches it’s probably going to get worse there. Hopefully you can more or less banish the virus in these early stages and keep people arriving on the island during cold and flu season to an absolute minimum.

Trust me mate, if there's one country which is in place to beat a virus which can spread by social contact etc and in tight confined spaces and heavily populated areas, New Zealand is it

 

[spectateur]

Another “the scientists are to blame” missive.

We’ll have a pandemic of them in a few months.

Problem is that politicians by and large are scientifically illiterate, they can't really understand the advice given to them.

 

[BlueToff]

Trump should be goosed in the US after this, blaming the WHO now and saying they will withdraw funding.

Proved beyond any doubt when you have a crisis the last person you want incharge is Trump, called Covid a hoax by the Democrats when they were attacking him for not taking it seriously 6 weeks ago.

USA on course for a massive death toll and the worst results in dealing with this worldwide.

Of course, Trump is a dolt. He also has a point with the WHO.

Don't let your rightful dislike of Trump get in the way of the fact that they were abysmal at the start of this thing.

 

[BlueToff]

Problem is that politicians by and large are scientifically illiterate, they can't really understand the advice given to them.

Tbf by the sounds of it the advice from our scientists at the end of Feb/beginning of March was tosh.

 

[Harryflashman]

Tbf by the sounds of it the advice from our scientists at the end of Feb/beginning of March was tosh.

well that’s a suggestion and it absolutely could be true , that would certainly suit the politicians though .

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Got to laugh at all the celebs telling folk to stay indoors whilst they sit in their mansions with built in pools, cinemas and acres of land.

You have Thai Princes having orgies in German hotels, footballers having threesomes with escorts meanwhile the rest of us peasants stay inside our tiny houses and play with ourselves.