Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[The binman chronicles]

Numbers look like they are starting to rocket up now. Could get uncomfortable quickly.

 

[McBain]

Where do you live?

Sydney.

We’re just giving them pamphlets as they arrive apparently. She’ll be right.

 

[bol-uk]

Sydney.

We’re just giving them pamphlets as they arrive apparently. She’ll be right.

Nothing says “we got this” like a panflet

 

[hirons11]

Nothing says “we got this” like a panflet

Worked for "Remain"

 

[Kenshin]

Bit of research on coronavirus kinds suggests it's media hysteria much like all the other super virus that are going to kill us all, but don't.

Coronavirus isn't a virus at all , it's a collective name of virus that range from sars to the common cold. So it is being described by its collective name rather than any specific name.

I mean it's horrible for the Chinese right now , can imagine the fear of getting sick there is overwhelming a lot of others especially with new year coming up.

Saying that 3000 Ill in China is not really big numbers for a country that size. Only 0.00021% of the population. It's the equivalent of 132 people in the UK getting sick from something and the government calling a crisis.

 

[Piijt]

The hysteria is ridiculous. I visited a realtors office we deal with in Manila today. All the staff were sat there wearing face masks ffs. The media have a lot to answer for.

 

[Paris]

The hysteria is ridiculous. I visited a realtors office we deal with in Manila today. All the staff were sat there wearing face masks ffs. The media have a lot to answer for.

No they don't. I'd far rather they get overexcited and tell people that it's the end of the world. The alternative is dullards proclaiming this to be no more severe than seasonal flu, despite Coronavirus being ten times more deadly.

 

[spectateur]

No they don't. I'd far rather they get overexcited and tell people that it's the end of the world. The alternative is dullards proclaiming this to be no more severe than seasonal flu, despite Coronavirus being ten times more deadly.

Is it really? I read recently that around 400000 people around the world died from flu last year.

 

[Death]

I dono about hysteria. China don’t give a bollox they wouldn’t be closing down cities and stuff for the craic.

 

[Walken]

The hysteria is ridiculous. I visited a realtors office we deal with in Manila today. All the staff were sat there wearing face masks ffs. The media have a lot to answer for.

I often wonder if we would have all these lunatic anti-vax groups about with such numbers if the media hadn't ran their quite disgraceful MMR jab scaremongering

 

[Death]

My other half just said a virus is a thing that infects single cell orgasms .

 

[Adam-GOTTV]

So we're at 2,800 confirmed cases. This thing is now adding roughly 1,000 a day. So by the end of the week we could be looking at the same amount as infected as SARS. A reminder that SARS took 7 or 8 months to hit the same number. It has since been confirmed that this thing has an incubation period of up to 14 days. So that's potentially someone bowling around infecting others without even realising it for 14 DAYS.

Unpopular opinion, but I actually think the media is underplaying this. On this occasion I can't even accuse them of hysterics. Prince Andrew is bigger news tonight ffs.

In fact, I don't think many people have cottoned on to the severity of what we might be about to encounter. Given how woefully poor the initial response has been shown, what on earth makes you think that the Chinese can contain this? And even if they can, given the incubation period I mentioned above and the fact that 50,000 people have left Wuhan over Chinese New Year, it might not matter.

This virus is giving one in every 5 people who get it a serious condition. So that's one in five people needing life support, basically. Is there one country on the planet that won't get overwhelmed if numbers start to scale?

I hope I'm wrong and you all come back to take the piss out of me in a few weeks but I'm just going off the data. It really doesn't look good.

 

[peteblue]

My other half just said a virus is a thing that infects single cell orgasms .

Remainers are going to be wiped out.....

 

[Death]

Remainers are going to be wiped out.....

your final solution?

 

[witchdoc187]

No they don't. I'd far rather they get overexcited and tell people that it's the end of the world. The alternative is dullards proclaiming this to be no more severe than seasonal flu, despite Coronavirus being ten times more deadly.

This is true mate exciting times we are living in