Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Deleted member 48881]

lockdown then. this is history, we are seeing, listening live. weird, so weird.

 

[tsubaki]

All of Europe (and US/Canada) should have been prepping for this in January.

It's a disgrace.

we still aren't expanding the testing regime, it seems

disgrace is not strong enough a word

 

[The binman chronicles]

Little vague if you can drive somewhere or not.

Not really, pretty strong message about when you can leave the house. If your car breaks down 50 miles away from home you better have a good excuse, I reckon the fines will be quite large.

Rip life as we know it

Better than RIP to life full stop though.

 

[BlueToff]

Ye exercise is a fair one, but you know people will take the piss and be out all day, look at last weekend. Near enough impossible to police how long people have been out for.

What are they gonna do?

There is nothing to do.

The playgrounds, parks, restaraunts, pubs and every shop other than supermarkets/pharmacists are shut.

Police/extra security are on hand at supermarkets now in the busiest ones.

There is absolutely no reason to be out other than exercise.

 

[BlueStevie35]

What do Post Offices count as?

 

[ramacca]

Without doing what South Korea has done then this will take longer to get on top off in the UK.

 

[BlueToff]

so you can only take your dog out once a day for a walk?

Look, you've got a dog, you take it out what, twice a day? Once in the morning, once in the evening?

Nobody is gonna come and fine you for that mate. You'll be fine.

Or, alternatively, one long walk?

The other option - which people seem to have wanted him to say? - is nobody can leave the house. If you've got a dog? Tough. Let it crap everywhere and go mental inside. That's what people seem to have wanted him to say.

 

[BlueToff]

What do Post Offices count as?

Key workers I think. My mate's girlfriend is a postie and she has to be in.

 

[TheAlmightyFloater]

so you can only take your dog out once a day for a walk?

And I just got my dog out of nappies too

 

[PITA]

Erm no lad you mean the bus driver and ME.

You're walking m8.

I'm the bus driver. I'm letting @ramacca on.

 

[RomanReigns]

Look, you've got a dog, you take it out what, twice a day? Once in the morning, once in the evening?

Nobody is gonna come and fine you for that mate. You'll be fine.

Or, alternatively, one long walk?

The other option - which people seem to have wanted him to say? - is nobody can leave the house. If you've got a dog? Tough. Let it crap everywhere and go mental inside. That's what people seem to have wanted him to say.

I don’t have a dog

I was just wondering

 

[LinekersLegs]

All of Europe (and US/Canada) should have been prepping for this in January.

It's a disgrace.

Edit: I am aware they are more, let's say, liberal with how they used people's mobile phone data, especially in Singapore. But it worked. Nobody apart from right-wing freedom loons on YouTube would care if their location data was used to help save lives

S Korea looks like it will have a much smaller cost, both health wise and economy, than those countries that failed to ramp up/take it seriously did. Their testing program will not have been cheap and as you say thereare some privacy issues but ”shelter at home” is a much more severe loss of civil liberties.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Key workers I think. My mate's girlfriend is a postie and she has to be in.

So they’d still be ok to go to? I ask as I’ve got an EBay order to post out tomorrow

 

[Toast]

So massive shoplifting and kick offs it is for me for the next few weeks then !

So, nothing has changed in that regard.

 

[PhilM]

Not really, pretty strong message about when you can leave the house. If your car breaks down 50 miles away from home you better have a good excuse, I reckon the fines will be quite large.

Better than RIP to life full stop though.

Although the police (ACPO level stuff) have previously discussed the possibility of such measures, the police did not have prior knowledge of today's briefing.

It'll be interesting how this is passed down and implemented.