Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Elderly could be quarantined for four months to combat coronavirus | ITV News

According to a government source, the perception ministers are reluctant to make difficult decisions to battle the virus is wrong. | ITV National News
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People over 70 will be instructed by the government to stay in strict isolation at home or in care homes for four months, under a "wartime-style" mobilisation effort by the government likely to be enforced within the next 20 days.
It is part of a series of measures being prepared by the prime minister, health secretary, chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser to prevent the health service from "falling over" and to save lives as Covid-19 becomes an epidemic in the UK.
Other measures already being planned include:
  • the forced requisitioning of hotels and other buildings as temporary hospitals;
  • the requisitioning of private hospitals as emergency hospitals;
  • temporary closure of pubs, bars and restaurants - some time after next weekend's ban on mass gatherings;
  • emergency manufacture by several companies of respirators that would be necessary to keep alive those who become acutely ill;
  • the closure of schools for perhaps a few weeks, but with skeleton staff kept on to provide childcare for key workers in the NHS and police.
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It's absolutely the right thing to do. The elderly and most vulnerable must stay at home.
 
Paris said:
The elderly and most vulnerable must stay at home.
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I'm not saying I disagree but wow that's pretty draconian. Sarinara boomers you had it coming. Who's next, over 50's?

Call me old fashioned but taking away peoples civil liberties you know basic rights is a big ask without consulting our established democratic forums. But who am I to question, apparently I'm just a cow.
 
Hope you all and your families are all healthy. I've been lurking since most of you know when, I've seen my mentions. It's all good.

Starting to really spread in my town the past week, no deaths thankfully. But you can feel the fear people have. I know I said somethings, but still can't root for LFC and still want all to stay safe. They don't mean much to most, but y'all in my prayers. It's life at the end of the day. My bosses brother lives on the otherside of the country by himself, is a flight attendant, and might have it. They're all understandably shooken up by it.

Hope all is well wherever you may live.
 
Sentinel said:
Gravestone reads "I told you I was ill".

One of the ironies of this is that Trump maybe even Boris with the whole brexit thing, ran campaigns on closing borders. The one time you want the borders closed they leave them open. It's hilarious. Couldn't make it up.
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We all sat there watching the news, reading the reports watching more people getting sick in China while she Chinese government told us the people who were going to hospital were completely healthy. Or maybe they didn't actually exist.
So we watched with curiousity waiting for experts to tell us what to do, for the protocols to snap into place, to pull up the drawbridge and project it's citizens.
What?
Oh you are still receiving flights from China. Isn't that a bit weird?
Oh it's perfectly fine i see.
Well i am glad you've decided to stop them now thank you.
Oh you're still accepting connecting flights that have come from China? But dont you think... No, no I'm sure you're right.
Oh you've stopped them now? Fair enough.
So i see Italy and other countries are really having trouble now....yes you're right Italy are probably coping well.....they're not coping well?...they've locked down the whole country?....
Well don't you think we should....yes quite unnecessary i agree....but they've even stopped the football and other sports....yes, outdoors of course, i should have realised....and madrid supporters aren't even allowed in the stadium in Spain, surely you don't want.....oh you do want them there, splendid...
Well at least we've kept our British nerve and we're proven right not to put in those restrictions....i see....putting them in now are you? Jolly good...and the estimated casualties? ....millions? Good grief....yes i agree its very good for the herd
 
Sentinel said:
I'm not saying I disagree but wow that's pretty draconian. Sarinara boomers you had it coming. Who's next, over 50's?

Call me old fashioned but taking away peoples civil liberties you know basic rights is a big ask without consulting our established democratic forums. But who am I to question, apparently I'm just a cow.
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Isn’t the reasoning behind it to stop this happening?
 
Sentinel said:
I'm not saying I disagree but wow that's pretty draconian. Sarinara boomers you had it coming. Who's next, over 50's?

Call me old fashioned but taking away peoples civil liberties you know basic rights is a big ask without consulting our established democratic forums. But who am I to question, apparently I'm just a cow.
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I completely understand your sentiment. However, this isn't a traditional war or draconian measure being taken in a power grab we've generally feared. This is a whole other beast we're fighting.

Fears could end up being correctly rightly found in over steps of our traditional government powers. Where it ends up, I'm not sure, I'm not and I don't think any of us are equipped with those answers. However we are definitely entering a departure from normalcy. At this time, I lean towards it's right. This is not a "fight" against terrorism or eachother. It's biology, a class I never had the slightest interest in lol.
 
Sentinel said:
I'm not saying I disagree but wow that's pretty draconian. Sarinara boomers you had it coming. Who's next, over 50's?

Call me old fashioned but taking away peoples civil liberties you know basic rights is a big ask without consulting our established democratic forums. But who am I to question, apparently I'm just a cow.
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Well, what's it going to be, 'herd immunity' or the scores of people on here who have been calling for the country to go into full on lock-down to actually take the initiative and isolate themselves?
 
Sentinel said:
It's Orwellian, "herd immunity" That's a wake up call right there. Astonished that more people aren't picking up on it. Moo.
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People have just accepted as a standard practise medical term.

Literally just labelled the general population as beasts in the field to operate as viral cannon fodder until it is burnt out and some of us animals have accidentally lived on.
 
Nymzee said:
Isn’t the reasoning behind it to stop this happening?
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Apparently that is the reasoning, personally I'd like to see the peer reviewed papers backing it. This a virus that nobody knows anything about, how it mutates etc. Quite simply at this time we know it can't be stopped and that's all we know.

Wouldn't it have been judicious once the clear and evident threat was there to take steps to prevent it's arrival. Instead we apparently have a "herd immunity" paradigm that is increasingly becoming nonsensical and downright dangerous.

There's been more than enough time to adequately prepare. Unless of course it was allowed to prevail in the first place.

Which is far more damaging to the psyche of the nation and our democracy.
 
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