Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[summerisle]

I know it feels daft complaining about the lack of football on TV, after what, 2 weeks? But after the BBC cheered us up last weekend with those 1/4 final matches, was hoping ITV might give it a go. The game was postponed ages ago. Well, it feels ages ago.

They've listened. lol

 

[Joey66]

@Joey66

Told you they were the best Dyson's - great news one serious point also any shortage of spare parts just pm me - joking

 

[Joey66]

That press conference wasn't very inspiring.

Gove the master of not answering a question.....

 

[roydo]

Preliminary data suggests that the time period from onset to the development of severe disease, including hypoxia, is 1 week.

Sorry LL, dont quite understand that.

 

[Brisan123]

Give it a break for a few weeks eh? The time for retrospective analysis will come dont worry

Exactly
Governments around the world will be judged by the body count in their respective countries

 

[tsubaki]

Just got a letter from our brewers saying that they will replace all casks and kegs that are out of date when we come out of this free of charge. Coupled with the 80% wages for our now furloughed staff, this won’t be as bad as I first expected, economy wise. Now I just need everyone to stay well.......

TBF you'd hope any competently run business would be like that; the loyalty it generates cannot really be bought. The contrast with Sports Direct and Wetherspoons is going to be massive.

 

[roydo]

They've listened. lol

Not the same as being on main telly though. I am sure if I wanted to watch Euro 96 again, its available somewhere.

 

[tsubaki]

Sorry LL, dont quite understand that.

I think its the time from when you notice the symptoms to when you are so bad that you either have to get ventilated or die.

 

[Brisan123]

It's all very well saying that the NHS has suffered more under the Tories than it would have under the alternative. Maybe there is an element of truth about that.

But it's also possible that that alternative would mean that today our public finances would be in much worse shape, such that we would not be able to provide the relief stimulus that the Government has provided. Lending markets don't take too kindly to countries that are seen to be profligate and then suddenly ask for a whole tonne more money in the face of a crisis.

Mortgage payments in Britain are about 3% because we run our public finances sensibly. Mortgage rates in Argentina, for example, are about 50% because their public finances are a shambles.

Or maybe just maybe there would be less deaths from covid
It all depends on the value you put on a human life

 

[roydo]

I think its the time from when you notice the symptoms to when you are so bad that you either have to get ventilated or die.

So if you either get it real bad, or already have or have had a hypoxic type condition?

 

[Sentinel]

Diogenes the Cynic how are you doing mate. Everything ok?

 

[Brisan123]

the more I observe what is going on with regards to economy, the more I remember schumpeter's creative destruction concept.

Googled it still none the wiser
Can you explain it in layman's terms
I firmly believe when we eventually reach the end of this pandemic we are heading into the greatest financial recession of the last 40 years if not a depression

 

[Brisan123]

He has literally just nationalised a fair chunk of the economy.

No very free market is it like

Took a pandemic to force his hand
He was going to let 100,000 die to keep the economy going if reports are to be believed ,herd immunity

 

[ramacca]

Googled it still none the wiser
Can you explain it in layman's terms
I firmly believe when we eventually reach the end of this pandemic we are heading into the greatest financial recession of the last 40 years if not a depression

Probably a far worse recession than the 1930s.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Sorry LL, dont quite understand that.

I’ve no medical training so perhaps someone who has can set me straight if wrong but my reading of that is that those that get a severe form, such as needing oxygen in hospital, will likely experience that within the first week from getting the first symptoms. They will then take another 2-5 weeks to recover.

That is the Chinese data at least which could well have different population strengths/weaknesses to the disease than Europe or US.