Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[emir]

Hes speaking for himself, he doesnt and will never speak for me.

You should go watch the GMB interview with Hancock.

 

[BrendanGOT]

Germany's finance minister today saying that the financial recovery after this crisis should be financed in the form of higher tax on higher earners, whilst those on medium to low incomes should be protected as much as possible. Also saying that the "everyday heroes" doing the essential jobs should be rewarded with higher pay.

What a Marxist!

Great to hear, this needs to happen. However I'm unsure about it happening in the UK

 

[gonetomorrow]

I'd like to hear more Andrew Neil and less Piers Morgan.

 

[RAFUH]

In good news, my local hospital has really ramped up their ability to test so we can now test anyone with symptoms, even mild symptoms.
Huge change from testing only the high risk with significant symptoms you were about to admit.

 

[4737carlin]

The police officer who booted that lad in the head when he was already down is nothing but a thug himself.

True but he deserved it for running along the top of peoples cars

 

[RAFUH]

Very, very confident.

It’s my stock tip for the day
@Bruce Wayne

 

[GwladysBlue]

True but he deserved it for running along the top of peoples cars

He would’ve got the punishment after he was being arrested. You don’t kick people in the head who are already pinned to the floor. It’s disgusting. I hope we never see that sort of policing over here.

 

[blue61]

Great to hear, this needs to happen. However I'm unsure about it happening in the UK

I'm sure that it wont happen in the uk, not with this government.

 

[Chewbacca]

Go after the tax havens instead and no one will need to pay any increases in tax. You’ll vastly improve public finances in the future into the bargain.

Exactly what the EU are trying to do and exactly the reason the British elite manufactured Brexit

 

[Martin Alvito]

At this time there is no evidence to support this theory.

There has been research that supports a natural origin.
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/03/26/genomic-research-points-to-natural-origin-of-covid-19/


More evidence one way or the other is always welcome, but let’s try to avoid conspiracy theories.

In fairness, major media outlets (eg: CNN) are currently running stories on this as apparently the US intelligence apparatus is actively investigating the theory (thus far without result).

The notion that the Chinese would let this get out on their own soil deliberately to wreck Western economies is completely insane. The risks are way too high; you could easily do more damage to yourself than your targets, and how do you guarantee the absolute silence needed for the participants to avoid overthrow, war crimes trials and execution? Seriously entertaining this notion suggests poor reasoning capacity.

The escape-from-lab story is plausible, but doesn't mesh well with other things that we know. Expert opinion seems to be that a lab product would have telltale sequencing markers that this lacks. The hypotheses that the Chinese researchers knew this and chose to mimic natural origin (risking the efficacy of the resulting bioweapon), or that the experts are broadly somehow beholden to China are sustainable, but sufficiently unbelievable that they require proof.

That's probably worthy of investigation, but I don't know what you'd do about it if we learned that the origin was a lab error rather than natural. Josh Hawley wants to make it possible to sue the Chinese for reparations, but good luck getting said reparations without a war. That's going to prove true for most "punishment" options here.

 

[Bungle]

You have to admire these loons that tell us based on their research (translation = Google searches) we should ignore general logic and years of work by actual professionals in this field as they're now fully qualified to advise us after 2 hours of internetting.

 

[navidson]

Starting to ramp up my anxiety now about why the numbers aren't coming down

Have all the people dying been ill for nearly a month and then died - or are new deaths coming about post-lockdown measures?!

 

[4737carlin]

He would’ve got the punishment after he was being arrested. You don’t kick people in the head who are already pinned to the floor. It’s disgusting. I hope we never see that sort of policing over here.

I do kind of agree about the head kick but the certainly deserve a good beating.
Belgium's death toll per million of the population is twice ours, which is grim.

 

[4737carlin]

Starting to ramp up my anxiety now about why the numbers aren't coming down

Have all the people dying been ill for nearly a month and then died - or are new deaths coming about post-lockdown measures?!

You watch, they will spin it later, this was to be expected after a bank holiday or some crap like that

 

[ToffeeTim]

Starting to ramp up my anxiety now about why the numbers aren't coming down

Have all the people dying been ill for nearly a month and then died - or are new deaths coming about post-lockdown measures?!

Chris Whitty said the other day there would be an increase in deaths after Easter - I assume due to a backlog in reporting.

I've noticed that some deaths are only reported ages after they occurred too, so it's hard to know.