Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[orly]

That's how you were able to predict things wasn't it? You can own up, we're all friends here.

*frandels

 

[royalblue66]

Are they still rioting in HK ?

 

[Neiler]

Coronavirus: the UK approach explained

Expert advice is divided on the best way to tackle COVID-19.

theconversation.com

Seems a fair assessment from the University of Liverpool.

I think you can logic anything mate and that is a good summary of whats trying to be achieved. My difficulty with the UK approach is the opening paragraph:

"Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, has warned that many families will lose loved ones to the new coronavirus, but the country’s government is not yet taking the drastic measures against it that have been seen elsewhere. This has left many people bewildered."

I find a justification over choosing to loose lives Vs restrictions its not enforceable as everyone will get bored debate - quite a mad one.

There is no correct way, but surely the one that saves the most lives is the more favorable one.

Essentially, this is all theory testing, most countries are front loading restrictions to save lives, the Uk are going to back load restrictions and gamble with some lives, they have already. Breaking it down there is a decision there on the human cost to life. As a society is that acceptable......

Its a real microcosm of how you want to be as a society, lord of the flies stuff in a way.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

*frandels

*clique

 

[Paris]

What are your thoughts on jet fuel and skyscrapers?

I'm also to blame for 9/11

 

[Sphincter Sports]

Something not right at all about this

So what is going to be the end game because it will have to be completely cured for the world to go back to normal

If one person has it then it spreads how can everyone be cured of it

My guess is the media are just going to stop promoting it and everyones going to forget about it and go back to normal or something more sinister is just about to start

 

[orly]

*clique

Always wish I had made it into the Clique but apparently @Dithering Dougie vetoed my application

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think you can logic anything mate and that is a good summary of whats trying to be achieved. My difficulty with the UK approach is the opening paragraph:

"Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, has warned that many families will lose loved ones to the new coronavirus, but the country’s government is not yet taking the drastic measures against it that have been seen elsewhere. This has left many people bewildered."

I find a justification over choosing to loose lives Vs restrictions its not enforceable as everyone will get board debate - quite a mad one.

There is no correct way, but surely the one that saves the most lives is the more favorable one.

Essentially, this is all theory testing, most countries are front loading restrictions to save lives, the Uk are going to back load restrictions and gamble with some lives they have already.

Its a real microcosm of how you want to be as a society, lord of the flies stuff in a way.

My take on it is that you can do the lockdown thing now, and it may have an impact in the short-term, but it isn't sustainable in the longer-term, which is what is needed because the virus won't go away until a vaccine is found. There isn't really an outcome where people won't die from this, unfortunately.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Something not right at all about this

So what is going to be the end game because it will have to be completely cured for the world to go back to normal

If one person has it then it spreads how can everyone be cured of it

My guess is the media are just going to stop promoting it and everyones going to forget about it and go back to normal or something more sinister is just about to start

I suspect after a while it will become like the regular flu where we have a vaccine for it, but we have neither immunity or a vaccine at the moment, hence it's having such a big impact.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'm also to blame for 9/11

Head to the Ecuadorian embassy right away (don't pass Go)

 

[Sentinel]

In the face of the prevelent "me me - now now" society, I fear that having faith in the population masses will turn out to be of no avail.
Clamp down now! Before it's too late.

I don't recognise the term masses. It's a useless, conventional term to me. I recognise individuals, that history has shown us time and time again, band together for the good of the whole and then go back to return to look after themselves and kin.

The "me, me society" is a construct, a shallow paradigm.. Ultimately people rely on their family, friends, things that will be there for them if they need it.

Thankfully we have people who recognize serving for the greater good isn't about just going to church and being high and mighty, it's a vocation were you choose to help people.

All our governments need to take action, I agree on that but communities working together will help us get us through this. Volunteering, helping people who can't get to the shops etc..We can all play are part.

 

[Axlswhk]

I'm not saying accept it in the sense of not taking steps to slow it down. But the virus is already here and we haven't done enough in the early stages of the outbreak (you know, like 3-4 weeks back now) to slow it down. So all we can do now is what we can and even that likely won't be enough.

The only way to beat this for now is to get it. If not you just have to have a population of 70m in hiding. How is that going to work over a period of months?

It’s a delicate situation isn’t it. Imagine convincing people with underlying conditions the best way to beat it is to get it, and what will be the timeline for immunity to be successful? you simply can’t have half a nation willing to try and the other half deciding otherwise.

 

[widnesblue]

I work in education and we’ve got two learners in due to parents not sending kids in. Meant to have around 50-60 learners and only two have attended. Crazy times.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Lots of smug people with good jobs are 'self isolating' while the rest of us are getting laid off or having our livelihoods decimated.

 

[Joey66]

Don’t know how it can enforced. We don’t have many police. The ones we do are getting the run around by the young local delinquents. They will beyond useless at dealing with what could be coming.

Army.....