Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Barnfred 55]

Navratilova

Mate, she's a beauty by comparison.

There's a reason she still holds the 800m world record. Even Caster Semenya can't beat it 40 years on.

 

[BlueToff]

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.

Oh I know mate.

The best case really is what the gov have/are trying to do. Spread it out.

Have more people get it, but over a longer period of time so that the NHS have beds and treatment available for those that need it.

Most of us will just get a bad cold probably. Look, some of us may already have had it. Last week I felt awful for about a day. But I didn't have any covid-19 symptoms other than aches and then I felt a bit cold.

But was it this. Or was it the fact that that morning I'd done a really tough workout and then a 9-hour shift and my body needed rest? Went straight to bed and woke up feeling absolutely fine and have done since. What am I meant to do? Stop my life? I've already lost my job (for now) from this thing.

So I really don't know how we control this short of a nationwide lockdown but that simply isn't sustainable for a long amount of time and the government know it. It will probably come but they are going to do all they can to avoid it. And at the end of the day it's not like you can just hide away from this and it'll go away.

 

[ToffeeTim]

330 billion made available to help business by the treasury

15% or so of UK GDP

 

[Brennan]

Fair play...

 

[ToffeeTim]

This sounds good to me tbf.

An INITIAL 330 billion he keeps saying.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Indeed. What I meant really. Point still stands though, if 25m folk get it, the chances of the death rate being anywhere near to the same as 69 High Risk folk are pretty slim.

Yeah. the overall average of 1% takes account of that. God knows what the rate is amongst the higher risks, well into double figures I would expect.

But if we can isolate that higher risk then the rate will hopefully come down well below 1%.

 

[Brennan]

He’s burning through cash lol

 

[aazak]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Accurate data is going to very useful in dealing with the virus, this flu tracker has now been updated with a coronavirus questionnaire.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Mate, she's a beauty by comparison.

There's a reason she still holds the 800m world record. Even Caster Semenya can't beat it 40 years on.

Crikey

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I thought locking stuff down was supposed to stop it?

 

[Brennan]

Austerity was an utter waste of time then...

 

[LinekersLegs]

I thought locking stuff down was supposed to stop it?

Will take about 2 weeks to show up in the stats given the incubation/onset of symptoms/decline in health.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

He’s burning through cash lol

Fair play like. It's decisive.

 

[aazak]

I thought locking stuff down was supposed to stop it?

Might be 4 or 8 times worse otherwise