Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[thirdmantackle]

I'm going to download age of empires 2.
Then Total War Rome

Should keep me sane for a week

 

[tsubaki]

I'm going to download age of empires 2.
Then Total War Rome

Should keep me sane for a week

if you haven't already got it, Crusader Kings 2 is the game to get - it even has pandemics

 

[Billy Dean]

So I have a dry cough now, and a bad head. I don't feel like my temperature has increased, but I am letting a bit of wee out when I cough and sneeze - so I think I'm getting the muscle fatigue. Called NHS Direct, advised me to continue self-isolating, and drink plenty of fluids.

Luckily, I've rekindled my love for early era Championship Manager, and am bravely fighting against relegation with a front two of Don Hutchinson and Phil Jevons. Wish me luck gentleman, we're going to need it.

Hope you feel better soon mate

 

[Hickson9]

I'm going to download age of empires 2.
Then Total War Rome

Should keep me sane for a week

I'm at the back end of an Atilla total war campaign as the Eastern Roman Empire.

I've killed Atilla once and he has resurrected with another million armies. It is definitely providing more of a late game challenge than most total wars.

 

[kenada_blue]

Another good article that cuts through the rubbish.

How many will die of coronavirus in the UK? A closer look at the numbers

What the statistics from the outbreak so far can tell us about infection and mortality rates

www.theguardian.com

 

[Tea_drinker]

Hope the cleanliness drive allows the police to now shoot all the north face wearing detritus who wander around with their hands down the front of their trousers.

 

[COYBL25]

One thing that seems to be taken for granted is that people will actually self isolate and do the right thing.

I hadn`t considered this until I spoke with my mate who is a cabbie and he said there was NO WAY he`d be self isolating if he displayed any symptoms, as he couldn`t afford to be off the road for any length of time.

He said most of the lads who work for his firm were of the same opinion.

There must be many many more people who are in the same boat and will just ignore all advice and carry on due to financial necessity.

What a mess.

 

[COYBL25]

Hope the cleanliness drive allows the police to now shoot all the north face wearing detritus who wander around with their hands down the front of their trousers.

Console yourself, with the fact that they`ll be amongst the worst infected.

Them and their skunk dealers.

 

[tsubaki]

One thing that seems to be taken for granted is that people will actually self isolate and do the right thing.

I hadn`t considered this until I spoke with my mate who is a cabbie and he said there was NO WAY he`d be self isolating if he displayed any symptoms, as he couldn`t afford to be off the road for any length of time.

He said most of the lads who work for his firm were of the same opinion.

There must be many many more people who are in the same boat and will just ignore all advice and carry on due to financial necessity.

What a mess.

the sad thing for him is that its going to be taken out of his hands given that his customers will start staying home, unless the lockdown is total and they start hiring drivers to deliver food (in which case theyll all be health screened anyway)

 

[nsno-chris]

The r0 of Coronavirus is in the high 3s, whereas Ebola is estimated to be anywhere between 1.8 and 2.1.

Edit: Also, people in the Congo are far less likely to travel to the degree those in the global North are.

because it’s ability transmit is far easier than that of Ebola. But the death rate of one is far far more catastrophic than the other.

It’s hit mainland Europe, people think it’s a superbug that’s is going turn everyone into zombies and have now emptied shelves in supermarkets because they are absolute morons.

if a real dangerous infectious disease came anywhere close to mainland Europe if seriously fear how quickly the entire continent would crumble

 

[nsno-chris]

One thing that seems to be taken for granted is that people will actually self isolate and do the right thing.

I hadn`t considered this until I spoke with my mate who is a cabbie and he said there was NO WAY he`d be self isolating if he displayed any symptoms, as he couldn`t afford to be off the road for any length of time.

He said most of the lads who work for his firm were of the same opinion.

There must be many many more people who are in the same boat and will just ignore all advice and carry on due to financial necessity.

What a mess.

And that’s the issue, nothing to do with anything else other than people’s own ineptitude.
He’ll take god knows how much cash throughout his shift, he contracts it off his first customer and then sees another 20-30 people that night, then those 20-30 people come into contact with another 20-30 people. Before you know it....

 

[ForeverBlue92]

because it’s ability transmit is far easier than that of Ebola. But the death rate of one is far far more catastrophic than the other.

It’s hit mainland Europe, people think it’s a superbug that’s is going turn everyone into zombies and have now emptied shelves in supermarkets because they are absolute morons.

if a real dangerous infectious disease came anywhere close to mainland Europe if seriously fear how quickly the entire continent would crumble

Yep any new virus is always going to be worse and easier to pick up than pre-existing ones until the population build up immunity to it.

flu for example still kills hundreds of thousands of people per year yet people are not running around emptying the food stores each winter.

The sad reality is that due to no vaccine it puts the elderly and those with ill health in danger in the coming weeks/months.

 

[thirdmantackle]

You are going to see what poverty and a lack of savings does to people when a pandemic hits and they've no money to buy food

 

[nsno-chris]

While not wanting to be antagonistic or downplay the Ebola crisis, there are many reasons why Covid-19 is more worrying and it's not about race etc.

its managed properly by the WHO with constant notification and resilience plans implemented. But with Ebola outbreak of 2016 it was desperately close to becoming a global issue.

After sitting on numerous strategic meetings this week, with PHE and local resilience forums it’s evident that the main issue is people’s intolerance to follow basic instructions

 

[Kenshin]

Completely true.

Where I work I could ring in saying I'm isolated as the Mrs is sick. Which is true, think she has caught the flu right when this is kicking off (so she is convinced it's more ). By the government advice I need to ring in work and not come in for a week

If I do that , what happens 3 weeks later if I get sick? Remnants of my wife's flu? Then a few weeks later actually catch covid-19?

Guarantee you I'd be sacked for all that leave.

Saying that , so easy to take the proverbial and say you are sick when you aren't.