Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[arminisgod]

Easter weekend or the week leading up to Easter?

Not sure. Just says Easter.

Knew Boris wouldn't be able to resist the 'Easter resurrection' theme

 

[TommyDavo]

As soon as they announced the over 65s my mum an dad got a call and are booked in for Sunday. Can't help but be impressed with roll out from a logistic sense

Getting down to my age soon, 60, hope in the next month. An armful of gnats piss please

 

[davek]

I refer you to pages 50-100 of this thread. No right to lecture anyone

Why, what happened there?

 

[duncs pigeon]

Not sure. Just says Easter.

Knew Boris wouldn't be able to resist the 'Easter resurrection' theme

Mini me of Trump. Isnt that what he said last year? All be open for Easter.

 

[TommyDavo]

Why, what happened there?

Try post 845 on page 57. Sorry, don’t know how to do the vaulting thing

 

[Tigger]

Try post 845 on page 57. Sorry, don’t know how to do the vaulting thing

Oh, you just did it alright...

 

[davek]

Try post 845 on page 57. Sorry, don’t know how to do the vaulting thing

I'd actually not even looked into what I said back then - I'd accepted what my accusers said about me calling it "a hoax".

It's clear from my first few posts in the thread that I didn't use that word or imply it either. As others did, I cautioned against the early spin the news media were giving the virus when it was nowhere near obvious to anyone other than the informed establishement how severe this would be. But I also stated I didn't want to treat the thing in a blithe way.

Thanks for bringing my attention to that.

 

[Brennan]

It's pure hysteria being generated. The virus is a danger to the extreme elderly and people with chronic underlying health conditions - those people usually at risk from the common flu.

I dont want to suggest it should be treated blithely, but the scale and tone of this reporting is appalling.

Never forget.

 

[Ebrell22]

Well done.

Your welcome

 

[Brennan]

Is the problem not more that the flu is a known quantity in terms of how it spreads, its mortality rate, pathology, potential to mutate etc, whereas a new strain of virus spreading unchecked which we know/knew very little about is potentially extremely dangerous?

Same could have been said about Sars.

Ok.

 

[Brennan]

Ok.

 

[LinekersLegs]

I refer you to pages 50-100 of this thread. No right to lecture anyone

Tbf to @davek there is quite a lot of difference between being ignorant/dismissive of Covid’s impact in Feb 2020 and the same stance in Feb 2021.

 

[LinekersLegs]

I know we usually look in the vaults for dunking but checking back on this day in 2020 and noticed this

Yes, this is why stopping the spread is so important.

I will say....A third of known cases. I still think the actual number of infected is much higher than is known or reported. We might never know since there have been asymptomatic infected patients. Which would mean that the severely ill aren't really a third of all infected.

I'm not trying to diminish the seriousness or the potential impact. Quite the opposite. Unlike SARS, I think there's a real chance it becomes endemic.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[McBain]

Now we are getting the 'British Strain'.

Thanks alot you diseased scumbags.