Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[PhilM]

Even if its the truth, saying 'best case with everything going to plan is 20,000 deaths' doesn't really fill people with confidence.

It's a really difficult one as on one hand you don't want people to worry, so you can understand why people would possibly want a more economic truth.

On the other hand, we've got to be incredibly realistic that many, many people will die, and we should be honest about what the impact may be.

Sadly, in the short term the economy of this virus is deaths and in the long-term it will be the fiscal burden it provides on all of us, alongside collapsed businesses.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Something doesn't sound right about China reporting just 21 additional infections yesterday. I don't understand how a country of 1.5bn could have this under control already - considering the state of Europe.

Their lockdown was pretty draconian and they seem to have streamlined their case identification/quarantine to isolate people very quickly.

However moves like this will make any 2nd wave a lot harder to identify independently from government data.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

For those that watched the briefing today, I presume nothing was mentioned about the self employed?

 

[Nymzee]

For those that watched the briefing today, I presume nothing was mentioned about the self employed?

Not from memory. Can watch back here if you want to check:

 

[roydo]

For those that watched the briefing today, I presume nothing was mentioned about the self employed?

The Chancellor said he was aware of the issue, and would be making further announcements. iirc.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The Chancellor said he was aware of the issue, and would be making further announcements. iirc.

He seems quite good thus far.

 

[Zezti]

It's a really difficult one as on one hand you don't want people to worry, so you can understand why people would possibly want a more economic truth.

On the other hand, we've got to be incredibly realistic that many, many people will die, and we should be honest about what the impact may be.

Sadly, in the short term the economy of this virus is deaths and in the long-term it will be the fiscal burden it provides on all of us, alongside collapsed businesses.

Oh I know its probably better to be transparent with the predictions - though curious how nobody gave a rats ass about expert predictions about anything before this event and shrugged it off as scaremongering.
Can't help but read 20,000 and think 'cant more be done?'.

 

[ToffeeTim]

That was a slightly promising brief from the goverment right? No? I don't even know anymore.

Yes it was.

 

[Mrk]

For those that watched the briefing today, I presume nothing was mentioned about the self employed?

Think there's more to come on this. In fairness (and speaking as somebody who is technically self-employed), it's really difficult to get money to people who have no employer - they could just give them a cheque but then they'd need to do that for everyone and that's easier said than done.

 

[roydo]

He seems quite good thus far.

Seems so.

 

[LinekersLegs]

I don’t believe the German death figures either.......

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Thought this was an interesting article on why Germany figures might be different

Germany's extensive medical network apparently helped in early stage of coronavirus

Reasons Germany seems to have weathered the early phase of coronavirus with fewer deaths than other nations may include its extensive network of 1,900 hospitals and its structure of public health offices.

www.latimes.com

 

[Nymzee]

Thought this was an interesting article on why Germany figures might be different

Germany's extensive medical network apparently helped in early stage of coronavirus

Reasons Germany seems to have weathered the early phase of coronavirus with fewer deaths than other nations may include its extensive network of 1,900 hospitals and its structure of public health offices.

www.latimes.com

Russia's numbers are who I don't trust.

 

[marnie]

My daughter is at Uni and also works in Tesco. She rang before to say that Uni has shut down so she is coming home next week to write her final dissertation. We were discussing stockpiling and she said that earlier a woman was buying 6 x 4-packs of beans which made my daughter silently judge her.
She felt bad seconds later when the woman walked over to the food bank and put all the packs in it.

You and your missus have brought her up well mate.She didn't say anything.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Think there's more to come on this. In fairness (and speaking as somebody who is technically self-employed), it's really difficult to get money to people who have no employer - they could just give them a cheque but then they'd need to do that for everyone and that's easier said than done.

I suppose it'd be akin to a Universal Basic Income.

 

[summerisle]