Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[mezzrow]

Tell 'em where you're from, mezz...

 

[Paris]

I assume that's in a badly infected area. My sister in law is stuck in Harbin while visiting family, after an initial 2 weeks lockdown, people are now moving about more freely as long as they where a mask.

Yeah, she's near Wuhan lol

 

[Wolf8312]

I assume that's in a badly infected area. My sister in law is stuck in Harbin while visiting family, after an initial 2 weeks lockdown, people are now moving about more freely as long as they where a mask.

Yeah, things are getting back to normal here now. You can go out if you like, but people are still masked up and keeping their distance.
Strange thing is though I've got a bit of a Brooks Hatlen thing going on, and haven't much wanted to go out, though that might have something to do with sleeping at midday, and waking when it's dark!

Besides, if you have a computer! I also study (maths) and exercise as both are good for a persons mental health, the latter giving a sense of accomplishment/progress each day, whereas if you just do nothing, the pointlessness of everything can be really depressing. Writing/reading helps as well! It would have been tough doing it all alone though. Can't imagine what that would be like for a person somewhere like Wuhan, on his todd!

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Yeah, she's near Wuhan lol

I guess it’s good that she’s speaking to an expert in badly infected areas.

 

[Paris]

Yikes... Made the mistake of keeping Channel 5 on after Friends.

Here's how I can best describe the 5pm news introduction:


YOU'RE GOING TO DIE.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Yikes... Made the mistake of keeping Channel 5 on after Friends.

Here's how I can best describe the 5pm news introduction:


YOU'RE GOING TO DIE.

Technically they're right.

 

[Joey66]

@COYBL25
i assume he means the runs ??
Am I correct

The Tomtits yes....

 

[blue61]

The Tomtits yes....

The green apple two step.

 

[PhilM]

But there are huge benefits to slowing the spread, or “flattening the curve” as people call it.

It was put to me that the national policy is to try and delay a significant nationwide outbreak until the Spring at the earliest, although preferably the summer.

The winter stress on the NHS will have been removed meaning more doctors, nurses and beds etc., and people will not be as confined indoors due to the weather.

@Wolf8312 rightly questions the government's response, yet the concern is that implementing draconian measures too early will result in a sense of public fatigue.

There's no point in closing sporting occasions ,schools and other such events if these measures then must remain in place for many months etc.,

They'd rather implement it when it is truly required and for a short period otherwise the public may soon begin to go against the measures due to a lack of will.

 

[summerisle]

That's shocking.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Yea there are people who wont be fine, but is that not the case with every dose that goes around? A bad dose of diarrhea could wipe out some people. I don't think it's a callous disregard it's a fact of life that the older you get the more susceptible to things like this you become. If we want a health care system that helps more and more people live into their 80's 90's and higher then we have to come to terms with the fact that we have created a population where a significant precipitant of people are weakened due to age and any virus that effects lungs will inevitability kill many of these people.

I don't dispute any of that. But just because it's a relatively minor ailment for the majority of the population there shouldn't be an indifferent shrug to it.

It's ignoring the fact that a major outbreak of a contagious virus with no vaccine or any cure will place a huge strain on the health service - even if it is just those at risk groups that may die there's still the knock-on effect that such a level of unplanned for demand will affect the ability to treat other people for other ailments.

 

[Kenshin]

I can see now the next few weeks that people will be coming out and saying they have the virus as a badge of honour rather than anything else. Anyone famous who needs a moment in the papers will come out and announce they have it

With the papers then not running the fact they aren't really that sick with it and it's not the end of the world........

My issue with all of this is not the coverage believe it or not. It's the lack of balanced coverage that annoys me so much. If the media presented this with a sense of honesty and said X number have it , but tbh they are mostly fine so it's not serious , completely different story.

Compared to the lack of information backing the numbers

 

[Barnfred 55]

Figure it out.

I can't so I'm asking you. What has this guy done that deserves the death penalty? Apart from being Tory scum and a Brexiteer.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Barnfred 55]

Opinions wanted: I moved at the start of this year to a new city (Frankfurt, Germany) so I've been going to a lot of meetup events to meet new people and stuff. So a lot of meeting random unfamiliar people whose travel histories and symptoms you have no idea about. In addition Frankfurt is a major international transport hub with flights coming in and out from literally everywhere.

Best to skip such events at the moment or is that too drastic at this stage?

5-6 confirmed coronavirus cases in Frankfurt as of today.

Sounds like much of it is just general networking mate. If so, I'd err on the side of caution if I were you. If the meetings were important, I personally would attend. But then I don't know your personal circumstances and whether you are in regular contact with somebody who could be considered a higher risk.