Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[tsubaki]

Japan’s experience would suggest that neither issue are insurmountable- at least if steps are taken.

Absolutely - if the UK can get this right then there is no reason why any further lockdown would be needed, but of course there are severe questions about whether we are getting this right.

 

[davek]

North West deaths from Covid19 increasing.

Lifting the lockdown is utter madness.

 

[zzr45]

I have a new fun game reading Twitter. Go through a bunch of replies to a COVID tweet and punch yourself in the balls at the first mention of totalitarian, 1984 or anything of that ilk. The quicker you punch yourself in the balls the quicker you’re reminded there’s better things to do.

 

[Methuselah]

Blair was a damn site sharper than bojo

Blair was sharp enough to know that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and we only had 45 minutes.

 

[davek]

Yesterday the figure was 17%. Much of which will be due to people who have returned to work while still social distancing.

Yesterday Paris was 33%.
Stockholm 39%.
Berlin 32%.
Lyon 31%.
Hamburg 28%.

Millions of people are obeying social distancing and staying at home. Including I would imagine the vast majority of people on this forum.

Hold on, you're shifting the goalposts. You were comparing what the situation was in London and Manchester over the last 2 months, not comparing them with other European cities.

As said: you dont seem to be able to understand your own graphs.

 

[Nymzee]

North West deaths from Covid19 increasing.

Lifting the lockdown is utter madness.

BAARROOOOWW

 

[LinekersLegs]

To be fair Japanese people are more anti-social than me going about their day haha.

Some of the anti social behavior is not social distancing though

'Stop it!' Japanese women turn to app to stop groping on trains

Digi Police enables victims of molesters to notify fellow passengers of harassment

www.theguardian.com

 

[Nymzee]

Some of the anti social behavior is not social distancing though

'Stop it!' Japanese women turn to app to stop groping on trains

Digi Police enables victims of molesters to notify fellow passengers of harassment

www.theguardian.com

Oh no of course not I just meant they're not really the chatty public people you get in European countries from what I've seen.

 

[peteblue]

or we could just have a Tories thread, and you go there?

 

[zzr45]

Oh no of course not I just meant they're not really the chatty public people you get in European countries from what I've seen.

What European public transport have you been on where people are chatty? Christ, so much as gaze at a German on a train and you’re duelling at the next stop.

 

[Nymzee]

You know what's hilarious, China still showing only 4k deaths.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Oh no of course not I just meant they're not really the chatty public people you get in European countries from what I've seen.

That is going to be a reason why decent masks will likely be particularly important measure.

 

[Nymzee]

What European public transport have you been on where people are chatty? Christ, so much as gaze at a German on a train and you’re duelling at the next stop.

Spain, France, Portugal, England amongst others.

 

[Grinch]

You know what's hilarious, China still showing only 4k deaths.

China is a filthy country built on countless bodies and lies

 

[peteblue]

You know what's hilarious, China still showing only 4k deaths.

....Russia even better.....though I’m not sure that the three medics who spoke out and then threw themselves out of a window are counted in the figures....