Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Paris]

After what @Paris exposed about the killing fields of our road if you are sick and need an ambulance you'd doing yourself a kindness and putting less strain on tge NHS to just throw yourself under the wheels when it arrives.

My man, the actual Killing Fields are still fresh in my mind. You've just returned me back to the sound of that horrible generator whilst Kampuchea propaganda music plays in the background

 

[Walken]

Unfortunately mate it is true. The decision to stop mass gatherings is, like you said, to mitigate the risk and reduce the spread of the virus.

However, whether you like it or not, you can still be in a large crowd and not contract it. The virus is spread via droplets, so standing 2 metres away and washing your hands after touching anything, as all the guidance says, will almost prevent contraction.

This step by the government is the next step in continuity planning because, as expected, people will simply not follow basic advice. Instead they think it’s a superbug that will turn you into a zombie and they all run to buy big roll

I even had a conversation with a stakeholder on Friday who thought, because advice says not to shake hands, that the virus can enter your body through your pores

Hopefully that's the freemasons wiped out

 

[tsubaki]

This isn’t true in the U.K. the preparations for this is down the regional resilience forums (made up of emergency services, local authorities etc) to ensure business continuity of service. For the Merseyside region the implementation of the influenza pandemic plan was, and has been, the means for preparedness. Ensuring essential services are maintained.

Also sitting on our forums are the NHS, North West Ambulance Services, Senior Hospital staff, Public Health England

so whilst the media report on mass panic, at local levels there’s an immense amount of preparation going on.

There is, but that is at local level where you actually have trained people who are experienced in this sort of thing. Local NHS trusts can maximise what capacity they have, make sure they get the most out of their staff and manage demand to an extent. As you say, loads of them (and other bodies) are doing this, and had a plan for it beforehand. What they can't do is turn the money taps on / provide the required authority to get the extra staff, equipment, space and everything else that is going to be needed if this turns out as described, or undo the damage that has been done since 1990.

The problem we are facing now is not at operational or tactical levels, its strategic where the leaders are not trained, have little experience (of real life, never mind emergency planning), have a bit of an incentive to try and avoid blame wherever possible and worst of all have developed a habit of thinking they can pick and choose only the advice that they agree with. People are panicking because our leaders are.

 

[tsubaki]

Hopefully that's the freemasons wiped out

good riddance, they've done nothing decent since the Bailey Tzuke version of Uninvited

 

[Joey66]

Maybe a better use of this thread would be to ensure that @Joey66 @Barnfred 55 @Old Blue 2 and the various other older members of the community have the support they need?

It's only a community spirit that will if necessary overcome this virus....

 

[Walken]

IGA in australia announcing shops will be open for the first hour to oldies and the disabled only, a nice idea as the unbelievably selfish hoard buying has been the most disturbing aspect of all this to me

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

It's raining outside here and I'm busy building giant salt walls to protect mefrom the snails

Oh the humanity.

If only we could have had some warning before this blitzkreig attack.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

It's only a community spirit that will if necessary overcome this virus....

Don't cough on me

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Unfortunately mate it is true. The decision to stop mass gatherings is, like you said, to mitigate the risk and reduce the spread of the virus.

However, whether you like it or not, you can still be in a large crowd and not contract it. The virus is spread via droplets, so standing 2 metres away and washing your hands after touching anything, as all the guidance says, will almost prevent contraction.

This step by the government is the next step in continuity planning because, as expected, people will simply not follow basic advice. Instead they think it’s a superbug that will turn you into a zombie and they all run to buy big roll

I even had a conversation with a stakeholder on Friday who thought, because advice says not to shake hands, that the virus can enter your body through your pores

The next step, good grief just stop it, they have been caught well out of step with public mood and are reacting rather establishing the agenda, they thought they could bluff it until flu season was over, very poor governance from a government of such majority.

 

[Paris]

Maybe a better use of this thread would be to ensure that @Joey66 @Barnfred 55 @Old Blue 2 and the various other older members of the community have the support they need?

I'd prefer if we used this thread to remind ourselves about just how truly evil snails are. Especially as it's raining.

 

[Joey66]

Heard about the theory that the government experts are trying to explain on LBC looked it up the bucket video on Coronavirus- thoughts?

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

I'd prefer if we used this thread to remind ourselves about just how truly evil snails are. Especially as it's raining.

To be honest when the death count statistic was stated i was stunned. Absolute game changer.



There's only one thing you can do at times like these. Just get out there and buy whatever toilet roll you can, while there is still some hope.

 

[summerisle]

Brexit fanatic with his finger on the pulse of the country. Him and Rees Mogg should get a room and self isolate permanently.

 

[Paris]

To be honest when the death count statistic was stated i was stunned. Absolute game changer.

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There's only one thing you can do at times like these. Just get out there and buy whatever toilet roll you can, while there is still some hope.

It's our duty to stamp on as many snails as possible.

No safe space for snails.

 

[Death]

Some people using the death rate of the flu. Like when the flu first came on the scene it took a while but it caused mass devastation.