Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Goat]

Not too crazy 'round here...no perma lockdown as of yet, although I'm hearing things about some stuff possibly going down this Friday if people don't heed the warnings about staying home. Other half is about to lose her mind, seeing as she works in a hospital...more worried about getting something and then giving it to me than she is getting it herself. Telling her my life insurance policy will set her up for life didn't quite work as intended.

Strange times...any sort of lockdown could be interesting in a fully armed country so I'm hoping, for my fellow civil servants, it doesn't happen.

Feel sorry for the public, though, as there's a lot of mixed messaging. The whole thing's 'kin strange, if you ask me.

I wanna go back to when I laughed at it and called it no worse than the flu, such a simpler time.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

I wanna go back to when I laughed at it and called it no worse than the flu, such a simpler time.

Been going to bed with a lot of Blackadder, Peep Show and Father Ted on in the background...working a treat, for the laughs.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

The intellectual hotspot that is Coventry.

Long live the resistance.

 

[marnie]

My missus.

It’s like being stuck at home with Rab C Nesbit.

Seconded.

 

[marnie]

The intellectual hotspot that is Coventry.

What an idyllic setting.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Rook]

Utterly terrified, WBU murica?

we've decided to kill all the olds for the sake of the stock market. Can u plz open Turnberry for our dear leader?

 

[Neiler]

 

[Joey66]

Some young geek in Oxford research medical maybe he has invented a computerised simple ventilator for covid 19 - just watched him on Sky news now - a total genius if it works it's worked on a Dummy doll to make the lungs work - the UK government have seen the prototype, and are very interested......they are going to use it on a human this week !
It will be a fantastic breakthrough as thousands can be produced so cheaply plus easier to use a computer ventilator without the airbag etc so easy to use etc - fingers crossed if it saves lives quickly

 

[LinekersLegs]

Kinsa's fever map could show just how crucial it is to stay home to stop COVID-19 spread | TechCrunch

Smart thermometer maker Kinsa has been working on building accurate, predictive models of how seasonal illnesses like the flu travel in and among

techcrunch.com

Smart thermometer maker Kinsa has been working on building accurate, predictive models of how seasonal illnesses like the flu travel in and among communities — and its fever map is finding new utility as the novel coronavirus pandemic grows globally. While Kinsa’s US Health Weather Map has no way of tracking the spread of COVID-19 specifically, as it looks only at fevers tied to geographic data, it could provide easy-to-grasp early indicators of the positive effects of social distancing and isolation measures at the community level.
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Singh says that they’re regularly seeing that areas where residents are ignoring social distancing best practices are seeing spikes, and that as soon as those are implemented, via lock-downs and other measures, within five days of those aggressive actions, you begin to see downward dips in the curve.

 

[LinekersLegs]

we've decided to kill all the olds for the sake of the stock market. Can u plz open Turnberry for our dear leader?

 

[LinekersLegs]

The Italy numbers today were extremely sad, almost 750 people lost their lives to coronavirus, and nothing can diminish that tragedy.

However they may still have indicated a reduction in the the rate of spread

 

[marnie]

We all knew it was coming.Let's hope China follows suit.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Tell 'em where you're from, mezz...

 

[The binman chronicles]

What an idyllic setting.

You mean there are more places that you can hold a bbq other than round a block of garages?

This could be the real game changer in all of this!