Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Disgruntledgoat]

So as of today in Belgium it's one person per 10 square meters in the shops. Only supermarkets, pharmacies, post offices, banks and bookshops are allowed to stay open. Everybody is now working from home.

Lucky for me, I live next to the supermarket so I can just get down there before it opens because the street looks like something out of the eastern bloc this morning.

Luckily outdoor exercise is still allowed, so I can go cycling at the weekend but only if I maintain a distance of 1.5m from people I don't live with. So nobody can sit on my wheel and refuse to do a turn for 20km at a time as is normal on the bike paths.

So I get paid the same for sitting at home, I can still go cycling and as far as I can see the major downside so far is that I can't go the pub... It really aint all that bad, this.

 

[The binman chronicles]

It's hard to imagine that all this has been caused by some moron who wanted to eat a bat. Is there even any meat on a bat?

Look if they were flying around in your loft making a load of noise at night you'd want to eat them too.

I think tbh you are being harsh on the Chinese, you can't go blaming everything on them. There's only two things I hate in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.



I'm only kidding I love the Oranje.

 

[BlueToff]

So Glasto gone now too.

Pathetic.

Honestly what's the point? We might as well all get it and just be miserable all year. Everything's getting cancelled (somehow the Reds will still win the league too).

The absolute panic this has caused is depressing and far more worrying than the actual illness.

It's 14 weeks away and they've canned it. 14. This thing will be over in 6 regardless of the government plans working or not.

If their plan works, the NHS will be able to manage it and life will be able to return to - relatively - normal. More people working from home etc, definitely, but a bit of normality.

If the plan doesn't work then I'm sad to say that by the end of April most people will have had it, have got through it and got an immunity or, sadly, died. And the proportion of people which die from it will still be very small - it's just obviously gonna be a lot more than if the gov's plan to spread out the impact works.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Out in town today and quite a few folk out going about their daily business even saw two blokes shake hands.

Makes me proud to be a scouser- tough as old boots we are.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Why is she coughing through the wall?

To get her own back for @Diogenes the Cynic drilling out that peep hole so he could watch them have sex. Only fair really.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

To get her own back for @Diogenes the Cynic drilling out that peep hole so he could watch them have sex. Only fair really.

Yes it was a good tactic to fill it in with phlegm.

She's quite the canny operator.

 

[BlueToff]

Btw I totally get why they've had to cancel Glasto in terms of their lead up time and supplier contracts etc.

They'd have had to start construction work in the next few weeks i guess, plus all the contractors and things. I get it.

But it's depressing thoughts and infuriating tbh.

How ill-prepared Europe and the west were - almost like our petty squabbles over Brexit for the last 3 and a half years were utterly pointless, ey? – should wake all the governments up. But no, they'll just point fingers.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

So Glasto gone now too.

Pathetic.

Honestly what's the point? We might as well all get it and just be miserable all year. Everything's getting cancelled (somehow the Reds will still win the league too).

The absolute panic this has caused is depressing and far more worrying than the actual illness.

It's 14 weeks away and they've canned it. 14. This thing will be over in 6 regardless of the government plans working or not.

If their plan works, the NHS will be able to manage it and life will be able to return to - relatively - normal. More people working from home etc, definitely, but a bit of normality.

If the plan doesn't work then I'm sad to say that by the end of April most people will have had it, have got through it and got an immunity or, sadly, died. And the proportion of people which die from it will still be very small - it's just obviously gonna be a lot more than if the gov's plan to spread out the impact works.

This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.

Millions of people locked alone in their houses every day for years. No interaction, no physical contact.

Grim.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Nice one Roman lad!

 

[JimmyJeffers]

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This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.

Millions of people locked alone in their houses every day for years. No interaction, no physical contact.

Grim.

Having to resort to using their children and pets as toilet roll.

 

[4737carlin]

Ridiculous.

They are already through the worst of it in China. It has been seven weeks.

Collectively I'm actually much more assured by the relatively measured UK approach than the panic lockdown mode of our European neighbours.

Thing is are China through the worst of it or are they just saying they are? Find it hard to trust them.

 

[Brennan]

So Glasto gone now too.

Pathetic.

Honestly what's the point? We might as well all get it and just be miserable all year. Everything's getting cancelled (somehow the Reds will still win the league too).

The absolute panic this has caused is depressing and far more worrying than the actual illness.

It's 14 weeks away and they've canned it. 14. This thing will be over in 6 regardless of the government plans working or not.

If their plan works, the NHS will be able to manage it and life will be able to return to - relatively - normal. More people working from home etc, definitely, but a bit of normality.

If the plan doesn't work then I'm sad to say that by the end of April most people will have had it, have got through it and got an immunity or, sadly, died. And the proportion of people which die from it will still be very small - it's just obviously gonna be a lot more than if the gov's plan to spread out the impact works.

You're woefully misinformed.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Nice one Roman lad!

One more thing to add to the list of what the Romans ever did for us.

 

[BlueToff]

Thing is are China through the worst of it or are they just saying they are? Find it hard to trust them.

True, very true

Could all be zombies by now

 

[BlueToff]

You're woefully misinformed.

I'm not really. It's my view based on how it's played out in other countries so far based on what I've read/watched.

If the gov's plan works then the 'curve' or whatever they're calling it will be spread out over weeks. They initially predicted 12 weeks off the peak (so early June). They said on Monday that they were wrong. The reason for that was because they haven't done enough tests here.

The new curve they showed was more around early May time that the peak was expected to hit - so six weeks. That's IF the social distancing measures and stuff all work like they should. Big if.

The whole point of the gov's plan is to keep the curve down to a manageable level and have the NHS be able to remain in control and, eventually, a bit of normality can resume.