There is some reliance on the EU exit stockpile which should ease some of those concerns, but supply chains, which are heavily reliant on China will cause problems if this escalates.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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Anyone fancy a cruise?
Surely will be declaring it a pandemic soon. Especially as they also now have country to country spread that didn’t involve China
Italy Virus Cases Jump Even After Lockdown in North
The number of coronavirus cases continued to jump in the north of Italy even after the government imposed a lockdown and banned travel to and from an area near Milan of about 50,000 people.
www.bloomberg.com
The emergency plan, announced by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte late Saturday, stepped up the government’s response as the number of cases rose to 76, including two deaths, making Italy the country with the most infections in Europe. Local authorities can call in the military to enforce the quarantine if needed, the government said in a statement.
Every year at work we go through fit testing for the N95 masks. They’ve moved up the time line by several months and we’re doing it in the next couple weeks.
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Has been for weeks. The cat is out of the bag. Those people who underplayed this whole situation are starting to look more and more silly every day. I mean, I'm not exactly Einstein but it was pretty obvious that things were bad when the Chinese proactively cut their own economic arm off to try and contain it (which was far too late, may I add).
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If that has been deep cleaned and all the people who get on it are tested it could end up like Noah's ark. So on that basis I'm in.
Yeah cities shut down, ports closed and hospitals being built in days is all you need to know. Hopefully it doesn't spread anymore. Serie A games being called off today too
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Which, of course, is why they flirt with not meeting standards to save money. It has to be BAD before the FDA is willing to take action.
The South Korea and Italy outbreaks are troubling; it doesn't seem to take much for this thing to get a foothold. The responses are necessary but equally troubling. A pandemic necessitates drastic action that has no place in a democracy under ordinary conditions, but we also don't want to normalize such government action during a period where the foundations of Western democracy appear to be under assault.
Asymptomatic patients/carriers and a longer than previously thought incubation period, pretty much guarantees the cat is already out of the bag.
Its still the flu, it's not pretty and should be taken seiously but it's also not hard to downplay it from the nonsense headlines and still be right.
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Coronavirus: Couple quarantined on cruise ship criticise UK government
David Abel and his wife, Sally, accuse the UK government of ignoring their pleas for help.www.bbc.co.uk
What an entitled Bell.
As a Staunch Tory, he probably moans about people get a few quid in benefits but is now demanding what would cost millions as he basically doesn't trust foreigners.
Just read this now.
I take it you are all aware that this couple have both tested positive for the virus and, being elderly, are also in the high risk category. But hey, they are just Tory scum so that doesn't matter then. With any luck it'll be 2 less people to vote Tory at the next general election.
Technically not the flu. Whole different family of virus, but being pedantic aside, the flu kills thousands, every year with a vaccine available.
They've got pneumonia as well.
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