Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[witchdoc187]

Meant to be taking the kids to Florida on August 21st been booked for 18 months.
Hardly a major issue given everything else going on and how people have been impacted but what do people think the chances are this could still go ahead?
You read different articles and I don’t know what to believe

Impossible to know mate. Nobody knows at this stage. Just hope you're ok for it mate

 

[AncelottLee]

Impossible to know mate. Nobody knows at this stage. Just hope you're ok for it mate

That’s the frustration mate, the not knowing. Can’t get excited and safety comes first. Let’s hope this thing starts to ramp down quickly so we can all move forwards.

 

[Walken]

What the world can learn from Kerala about how to fight covid-19

The inside story of how one Indian state is flattening the curve through epic levels of contact tracing and social assistance.

www.technologyreview.com

Interesting read, particularly the superhuman efforts of this PB Nooh fella

 

[NorthernBlue]

Just been speaking to a guy in Georgia US tonight, and he was saying all of the restaurants are open but only for drive thru and that there is only a curfew at night. You can do what you want during the day as long as you don't congregate in large groups, but breaking the curfew brings a ticket of around $400. He didn't believe me when I told him we were locked down 24/7.

Quite a lot of shops are also open for business during the day as well apparently, not sure if this is a State or a Federal thing though.

My brother lives in North Carolina and it sounds the same there. He said there’s no way in hell that drive thru’s and super stores would be closed as they employ the majority of the state.

 

[LinekersLegs]

N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count

The city has added more than 3,700 additional people who were presumed to have died of the coronavirus but had never tested positive.

www.nytimes.com

New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it.

The new figures, released by the city’s Health Department, drove up the number of people killed in New York City to more than 10,000, and appeared to increase the overall United States death count by 17 percent to more than 26,000.

 

[Dymak]

Anyone know anything about a rash in relation to Covid?

 

[Archie Knox]

I hope so mate! Been dreaming and saving for this for years and the kids would be crushed. Mrs is pregnant and due in December do not like we could even rebook.

Fingers crossed mate. Did that holiday as a kid with the family and it was amazing. Hope everything works out for ya.

 

[Agent Blue]

My brother lives in North Carolina and it sounds the same there. He said there’s no way in hell that drive thru’s and super stores would be closed as they employ the majority of the state.

I think the world over there will be decisions to be made between lives and money........... so glad it's not me that has to do it.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'd disagree with that. A lockdown gives us time to carry out medical trials with existing drugs to see if any of them, either on their own, or in combination, are effective at the time when the virus changes from just being flu like, to being bloody serious.

If, and it might be a big if, some of those trials end up with treatments which save a significant number of lives, it's worth the wait, and, if you have a treatment which works, you can relax restrictions a bit knowing you have a better chance of dealing with serious infections.

Obviously all those trials may come to nothing, but it has to be worth a try ?

They'll be helped by Gerald off the Internet telling them they're targeting the wrong protein and are nothing but bent murderers.

 

[GwladysBlue]

Meant to be taking the kids to Florida on August 21st been booked for 18 months.
Hardly a major issue given everything else going on and how people have been impacted but what do people think the chances are this could still go ahead?
You read different articles and I don’t know what to believe

I’d say there is a good chance, mate. Sooner rather than later we will have to come out of lockdown because the economy collapsing will also cause death through poverty and suicide.

 

[tsubaki]

Anyone know anything about a rash in relation to Covid?

not heard that as being one of the symptoms

 

[peteblue]

Anyone know anything about a rash in relation to Covid?

If it’s on your John Thomas it’s nothing to do with coronavirus........

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Meant to be taking the kids to Florida on August 21st been booked for 18 months.
Hardly a major issue given everything else going on and how people have been impacted but what do people think the chances are this could still go ahead?
You read different articles and I don’t know what to believe

No chance.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

If it’s on your John Thomas it’s nothing to do with coronavirus........

Might result in two weeks self isolation on the sofa.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Anyone know anything about a rash in relation to Covid?

On your feet?