Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Dharma
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Pretty sure there will be no end to their lies and deceit.
Agent Blue
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Was quoting Rumsfeldt over the Iraq war with the known knowns etc, the 12 billion dollars in cash flown into Iraq on pallets that went unaccouted for and the absence of WMD's in Iraq.
The feller made a statement that Trump doesn't tread carefully, but his security services do. I disagreed with that statement and gave my reasons why.
Sorry, I probably was a bit cryptic.
Honestly, this virus has had an entirely too low mortality rate. We really are a parasite on the planet. It's maddening. You know what an animal does if their forest/home is on fire? They run away. These absolute fn idiots tho? They'd run into the fire yelling about "YOU CANT MAKE ME!" and come out unscathed which proves their point to themselves.
Honestly, when is that damn giant meteor arriving?
I heard to today via a local shopkeeper that the little corner pub by me, where all the old fellas and day time drinkers go, won’t be opening up again, as even with the deferred rent payments they‘ve lost too much already to ever be a going concern again.
It’s a life line for the old boys that drink in there and I’ve no idea what they will do if it goes
I saw some pan-European data the other day that at the start of March, around 40% of startups had, I think, 3 months cash. So the end of this month is trouble time for a great many startups. In many ways, this is what I find a bit bewildering about the discourse around this, as you've got some very human stories attached to all this, and yet people are wanking themselves into a stupor around the precise number of tests the government have done or how they're counting the dead people. I don't get it tbh.
Like the below, yet dyed in the wool Labourites haven't said a thing about it. Friend of the working man huh?
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The future of apprenticeships is in the balance - LSE Business Review
The unprecedented economic upheaval brought by the Covid-19 pandemic raises several concerns for the functioning of the English apprenticeship system, particularly in the medium-term as economic and social activity resumes. Even in normal times, firms with apprentices may fail: usually...
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As an aside, had this through from the Czech cultural place in London. Budvar are doing some virtual beer thing (no idea either). May 7th if anyone's interested.
tsubaki
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I know there was discussion around this this week
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Poor health outcomes from COVID-19 more probable among black patients | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Black patients may be at increased risk of poorer health outcomes from COVID-19, according to an analysis of patients hospitalised in London.
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Disgruntledgoat
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Jay
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Study from Holland: 13,884 healthcare workers aged between 18 to 69 were reported positive with COVID-19, out of which 458 were hospitalized, in total 9 people died with 6 of them are known to have existing health problems, with no information about the remaining 3.
The report mentions that healthcare workers are being tested due to the nature of their work while in the normal population they only test those who have been hospitalized or those who have per-existing conditions, which means the amount of people who were/are infected is much higher than the official numbers.
9 dead out of 13884 means 0.1% death-rate
The report mentions that healthcare workers are being tested due to the nature of their work while in the normal population they only test those who have been hospitalized or those who have per-existing conditions, which means the amount of people who were/are infected is much higher than the official numbers.
9 dead out of 13884 means 0.1% death-rate
Like the below, yet dyed in the wool Labourites haven't said a thing about it. Friend of the working man huh?
The future of apprenticeships is in the balance - LSE Business Review
The unprecedented economic upheaval brought by the Covid-19 pandemic raises several concerns for the functioning of the English apprenticeship system, particularly in the medium-term as economic and social activity resumes. Even in normal times, firms with apprentices may fail: usually...
Agree, but shame you can't balance that with Toryites, jerking themselves silly over 100,000 tests being done when 739, people died yesterday.
Barnfred 55
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The impact of the fallout of this pandemic is horrific in so many ways and this is just another exampleLike the below, yet dyed in the wool Labourites haven't said a thing about it. Friend of the working man huh?
The future of apprenticeships is in the balance - LSE Business Review
The unprecedented economic upheaval brought by the Covid-19 pandemic raises several concerns for the functioning of the English apprenticeship system, particularly in the medium-term as economic and social activity resumes. Even in normal times, firms with apprentices may fail: usually...
But I fear this post will likely fall on deaf ears. I suspect that a lot of the people Otis aimed at will consider apprenticeship schemes as nothing more than glorified slave labour.
I couldn't care less about Hancock's target either way. It's an irrelevance.
It's been fairly well documented that the fallout of this recession, as is so often the case, will fall heaviest on those with relatively low skills, and the young. Some interesting times ahead, and it's a discussion perhaps for another time, but even aside from my views on the validity of it in general, I sincerely hope that Brexit is put back, as adding the disruption from that on top of the disruption already dumped upon society seems like an enormous mistake. I suspect many Brexiters would accept such a stance as well tbh.
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