Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Blue 1]

How come I can buy 30 cans of Stella in 3 x multipacks but I can only buy 3 bottles of drinkable beer?

While rationing is responsible, someone needs to apply some common sense here.

 

[Jay]

I still cannot get my head around the numbers from Germany. Many more thousands of confirmed cases and very few deaths, but few recoveries !...Either they are doing something absolutely right and we should all be learning from it, or it’s another dieselgate......

This was written 10 days ago, the death rate in Germany is 0.25% compared to 4% in the rest of the World (was like that 10 days ago and still like that today), 2 possible scenarios, one very scary and the other very encouraging:

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

The Scary scenario: Since according to the article above Germany has such an advanced HCS they are giving proper care for each patient and that's why the death rate is so low, but once their HCS becomes overwhelmed like Italy and the rest of the World, the number will rise, what's more scary is that based on this scenario, the % of death rate will increase with the increase of infections, so the idea of if 80% of the population will get infected and only 1-2% will die is very wrong, it will be much higher when there is no one out there to help the the infected people.

The encouraging scenario: Again according to the article above, Germans are way ahead of the rest of the World wen it comes to "testing", yesterday they reported 2000 new cases with 2 deaths, Spain also reported 2000 new cases but with 90 deaths, most probably (and that's what i hops is the case) the number of infected people in Spain is much much much higher, the higher the better since it means they had 90 deaths but 200,000 new cases, not 2000 new cases.

We will have an answer in the coming weeks, the first scenario is very worrying, the 2nd scenario is currently what i wish is true (that millions of people around the World are already infected and have no idea)

 

[marnie]

I've just run my own 'Wuhan Flu' simulation again and I managed to kill everyone on the face of the planet this time.

Not looking good this.

You need to get out more.Oh.... erm, never mind.

 

[Amw79]

The beheading of Piers Morgan will also help.

An evergreen post.

 

[PhilM]

As suggested earlier, the Reserve have been put onto a standby (72 hours) and key Corps are being put onto a much shorter standby.

 

[Joey66]

Certain bi food shops today letting the vulnerable over 70s get their food items first ......great idea ......they were cueing around the block in the large cities first thing .......is this the herding the government population they were supposed to be protecting?
Also they could be buying food for anyone in the family - on paper a sensible idea, but in practice maybe not that brilliant?

 

[Bluerover]

First N.I. death. RIP

 

[orly]

Certain bi food shops today letting the vulnerable over 70s get their food items first ......great idea ......they were cueing around the block in the large cities first thing .......is this the herding the government population they were supposed to be protecting?
Also they could be buying food for anyone in the family - on paper a sensible idea, but in practice maybe not that brilliant?

Good to see you still experimenting at your time of life Joe.

Fancy a bum?

 

[Bluerover]

Certain bi food shops today letting the vulnerable over 70s get their food items first ......great idea ......they were cueing around the block in the large cities first thing .......is this the herding the government population they were supposed to be protecting?
Also they could be buying food for anyone in the family - on paper a sensible idea, but in practice maybe not that brilliant?

Lidl and Aldi been doing over here that I understand with seniors getting priority up to 11 am

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Looking like you'll only get statutory sick pay if you get COVID at my work place

Bunch of people with it are going to come in now because they won't be able to live on just statutory

This is why it'll spread, because companies aren't going to make it financially viable for people to take the time off that they need to do in order to not bring it into the work place

Our whole attitude to this thing is wrong and it's going to bite us

 

[Paris]

Certain bi food shops today letting the vulnerable over 70s get their food items first ......great idea ......they were cueing around the block in the large cities first thing .......is this the herding the government population they were supposed to be protecting?
Also they could be buying food for anyone in the family - on paper a sensible idea, but in practice maybe not that brilliant?

 

[COYBL25]

Certain bi food shops today letting the vulnerable over 70s get their food items first ......great idea ......they were cueing around the block in the large cities first thing .......is this the herding the government population they were supposed to be protecting?
Also they could be buying food for anyone in the family - on paper a sensible idea, but in practice maybe not that brilliant?

Did you dress up like a gay Uncle Albert from Fools and Horses and jump in the queue ?

 

[COYBL25]

Yeah, they deffo wouldn't just get nicked in the UK would they.

Suit the smack heads down to the ground.

If they couldn`t sell it, they could drink it lol

 

[Neiler]

This was written 10 days ago, the death rate in Germany is 0.25% compared to 4% in the rest of the World (was like that 10 days ago and still like that today), 2 possible scenarios, one very scary and the other very encouraging:

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

The Scary scenario: Since according to the article above Germany has such an advanced HCS they are giving proper care for each patient and that's why the death rate is so low, but once their HCS becomes overwhelmed like Italy and the rest of the World, the number will rise, what's more scary is that based on this scenario, the % of death rate will increase with the increase of infections, so the idea of if 80% of the population will get infected and only 1-2% will die is very wrong, it will be much higher when there is no one out there to help the the infected people.

The encouraging scenario: Again according to the article above, Germans are way ahead of the rest of the World wen it comes to "testing", yesterday they reported 2000 new cases with 2 deaths, Spain also reported 2000 new cases but with 90 deaths, most probably (and that's what i hops is the case) the number of infected people in Spain is much much much higher, the higher the better since it means they had 90 deaths but 200,000 new cases, not 2000 new cases.

We will have an answer in the coming weeks, the first scenario is very worrying, the 2nd scenario is currently what i wish is true (that millions of people around the World are already infected and have no idea)

I think its becoming pretty clear that the way to deal with this is testing, tracing contacts isolating and general public self distancing. Germany, S. Korea, China. All flattening the curve.

We (Ireland) had a marginal growth yesterday after introducing measures a week ago, though we still have the Chelthnam loons to come through the system and 20k holiday makers to return home today, so im sure we will see more growth.

 

[Kenshin]

Look I know why people are hostile to it , not to motivate racism around the world. Which is fair enough.

But all this bashing of trump for calling it the Chinese virus or Wuhan virus is ridiculous on the face of it. The virus started in China ,has the biggest infection rate in China but God for it someone references it . Even being accused of trying to attack China by calling it that. You

Given everyone is calling it the Corona virus and not covid-19 is just lazy really , showing how little people know about viruses.

Me included on that one like.

Anything fuels racism if you have a party to blame. Terrorists is aimed at Muslims , this virus is subconsciously aimed at chinese. It would help racism even just a little bit if people stopped getting sensitive about where exactly the virus came from like it's trying to insult a nation.

After all, anyone who calls it the coronavirus is guilty of using a buzzword rather than a name.