Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

Protecting healthcare workers is for both moral and practical reasons essential

 

[Harryflashman]

We can only hope those in our respective governments listen.

even to a layman though it seems so glaringly obvious , it seems to be the absolute elephant in the room .

in this thread or in the real world people saying they’ve got it and are in isolation but we all hope they will be better soon but we don’t know they’ve got it . Odds are at least some won’t and odds are some may be less concerned with basic rules after they’ve ‘had it ‘ . I can’t help but think If we don’t get a grip this could be here for a lot longer than a Few months and then you have the socioeconomic fall out . The governments financial response makes me think they suspect it’s a very long run thing, a lot longer than all initial assessments

 

[DrEFC]

Thanks. I suppose medicine like anything else has opposing views. I’m not too impressed with the WHO tbh who seemed to spend more time sucking up to China before deciding how serious it was. With luck, the manufacturers will sort out the ventilators and I saw one article where, I think it was a Canadian consultant, he had turned one ventilator effectively into nine. Boris without doubt has followed advice, whether that advice was sound we will find out in the fullness of time.....

The WHO definitely were softly-softly, but probably to keep China onside to get access. Boris obviously didn't get sound advice, as it changed as soon as bodies started falling re: herd immunity/social distancing/closure of businesses and schools. I'd be very interested to hear the transcripts of what advice was given and the justification for it.
The anaesthetic Dr with a PhD in diaphragmatic mechanics wasn't it? We need geniuses right now.

 

[DrEFC]

Which is why I’d rather give it away and no cash was passing hands. Arranging a distance between the customer and the beer dispenser is the easy bit.....

Contactless on a stick like McDonalds!

 

[peteblue]

The WHO definitely were softly-softly, but probably to keep China onside to get access. Boris obviously didn't get sound advice, as it changed as soon as bodies started falling re: herd immunity/social distancing/closure of businesses and schools. I'd be very interested to hear the transcripts of what advice was given and the justification for it.
The anaesthetic Dr with a PhD in diaphragmatic mechanics wasn't it? We need geniuses right now.

Thats the guy, a bit of out the box thinking....

 

[peteblue]

Contactless on a stick like McDonalds!

I‘d still rather give it away....

 

[summerisle]

 

[SpongeBob brown shoes]

I don't know why but my anxiety levels went through the roof watching that haha

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[ForeverBlue92]

The problem is how feasible is it to keep people indoors permanently for weeks/months on end?

How can businesses realistically stay afloat if there are no customers for the next number of months?

Anyone know what our/europes plans are after these weeks of lockdown?

Seems to me like we dont really have a plan in place and just hope there are no more cases and life goes back to normal - concerning all round.

 

[PITA]

So do I. But then again I don't because that's going to mean more deaths.

Only have to hope that with Italy there are other deciding factors - like the general health of their population (age, a lot more smokers etc) that are playing a part here (and I know the US and UK aren't exactly shining beacons when it comes to 'healthy living').

Given that Italy has the second highest average age (behind only Japan) that would suggest that the general health is good.

 

[Barnfred 55]

You see where you've gone wrong here is that you see only what you want to see, which makes your point about "paddling your own political agenda" completely absurd as well as rather hypocritical.

For example - that article in the ST was not "an uncorroborated left wing article", as anyone who has read it can see, and it wasn't me that posted that paragraph here (@summerisle drew peoples attention to it, entirely correctly).

I confess I have not read the article because you need subscription. But before I posted I did as always, do my DD. All of the left wing papers were keenly reporting the article and all of the right wing papers were ardently denying it. So form your own conclusion. As regards uncorroborated, once more I have not read the article, but look forward to you providing the evidence they used to back up their story. As always, I'll willingly hold my hands up if I got it wrong.

Tell me how I'm being hypocritical. I'm saying that we shouldn't be posting ANY politically motivated stuff in here. As I said, there's another thread for you to post as much tory hate as you want. Plus, before I responded to your post, I'd already heavily criticised Pete's post that you were referring to. So I wasn't being selective or hypocritical.

All I'm saying mate is that there is too much hate in here. People come in here looking for information and comfort. Save the politics, whichever side you are on, for other threads. It's not as if you're spoilt for choice on here.

 

[Goat]

 

[JLW]

The problem is how feasible is it to keep people indoors permanently for weeks/months on end?

How can businesses realistically stay afloat if there are no customers for the next number of months?

Anyone know what our/europes plans are after these weeks of lockdown?

Seems to me like we dont really have a plan in place and just hope there are no more cases and life goes back to normal - concerning all round.

I would think all their efforts are concentrated on stopping this thing with minimal casualties. I don’t think they can look past this until they have it under control.

 

[summerisle]

That's a new one.