Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[NilSatisOptimum]

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Nothing beats a good pheasant or grouse shoot, maybe duck or rabbit for the quick witted. Nothing better seeing a brace of pheasent half dead with lead shot, tied together by their necks gulping for air, the British countryside...

 

[Nymzee]

There's no excuse for how those animals are kept and killed mate. None.

Again, that's not what I'm talking about... you said, and I quote, "there is never any need to eat a bat (or a dog or cat)".

I am merely pointing out that yes, sometimes there is that need.

 

[tsubaki]

Somebody in this thread is making it about morality though.

about themselves, more like

it’s still an improvement on yesterday’s Holocaust revisionism, mind

 

[Neiler]

Is triage starting in London lads, also the Telegraph are putting doubt on the official figures coming out of the UK. All horrible and devastating if true.

Coronavirus: Questions over true death toll as hospital records almost three times more deaths than official figures show

London NHS trust has recorded 31 deaths, but national figures show 11 deaths at its three hospitals

www.telegraph.co.uk

Intensive care for coronavirus patients now limited to those 'reasonably certain' to survive, NHS London trust admits

A major London NHS trust has said ventilator treatment not in many elderly patients' best interests

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Amw79]

about themselves, more like

it’s still an improvement on yesterday’s Holocaust revisionism, mind

Jesus. Glad I had a day off here yesterday then.

 

[davek]

UK rate of infection may be slowing - expert
The coronavirus epidemic may now be “just about” slowing in the UK, according to Prof Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, an academic who has been highly influential in shaping the UK government’s strategy.
The indicators he was talking about did not include deaths, but he said new hospital admissions appeared to be slowing slightly.
“It has not yet plateaued but the rate has slowed down,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. This was a trend that was also happening in other European states.

 

[BlueToff]

Again, that's not what I'm talking about... you said, and I quote, "there is never any need to eat a bat (or a dog or cat)".

I am merely pointing out that yes, sometimes there is that need.

Fair enough. In this case... (Wuhan) it doesn't seem so though. In China it is (reportedly) treated as a delicacy.

Look, people eat disgusting things worldwide. I know.

Not all of them lead to pandemics, though.

If we are to believe this started naturally (which I still do think though there is a bit of doubt (though more over the worldwide reaction imo) because we have to look who benefits from all of this and, in the main, increased tensions between China and the West) then something has to be done about them?

Thousands and thousands of people shouldn't be dying worldwide or, more in the long term, potentially millions depending on the economic impact, because these 'wet markets' are allowed to trade.

 

[BlueToff]

Is triage starting in London lads, also the Telegraph are putting doubt on the official figures coming out of the UK. All horrible and devastating if true.

Coronavirus: Questions over true death toll as hospital records almost three times more deaths than official figures show

London NHS trust has recorded 31 deaths, but national figures show 11 deaths at its three hospitals

www.telegraph.co.uk

Intensive care for coronavirus patients now limited to those 'reasonably certain' to survive, NHS London trust admits

A major London NHS trust has said ventilator treatment not in many elderly patients' best interests

www.telegraph.co.uk

Re. the first link, the actual cases will be far higher too, so it should mean the mortality rate is the same or even lower.

Without widespread testing we just can't know.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

You ever been in a slaughterhouse, chicken farm or even a farm? We certainly do stack animals on top of each other

You feed beef burgers to swans!

 

[BlueToff]

UK rate of infection may be slowing - expert
The coronavirus epidemic may now be “just about” slowing in the UK, according to Prof Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, an academic who has been highly influential in shaping the UK government’s strategy.
The indicators he was talking about did not include deaths, but he said new hospital admissions appeared to be slowing slightly.
“It has not yet plateaued but the rate has slowed down,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. This was a trend that was also happening in other European states.

If we can slow the infection/confirmed cases rate down in the next week then we'll have, by my reckoning, done in two weeks what took Spain 3 to achieve. I'm not sure about Italy (don't know if the cases there are declining I mean).

Which would obviously be a huge positive.

 

[Nymzee]

Fair enough. In this case... (Wuhan) it doesn't seem so though. In China it is (reportedly) treated as a delicacy.

Look, people eat disgusting things worldwide. I know.

Not all of them lead to pandemics, though.

If we are to believe this started naturally (which I still do think though there is a bit of doubt (though more over the worldwide reaction imo) because we have to look who benefits from all of this and, in the main, increased tensions between China and the West) then something has to be done about them?

Thousands and thousands of people shouldn't be dying worldwide or, more in the long term, potentially millions depending on the economic impact, because these 'wet markets' are allowed to trade.

I don't understand how the West can get wet markets shut; people will still find a way to eat these animals whether bought from a wet market or just door-to-door. It's the Chinese way of life and they won't change it considering they haven't themselves owned up to it starting in their wet markets.

 

[davek]

If we can slow the infection/confirmed cases rate down in the next week then we'll have, by my reckoning, done in two weeks what took Spain 3 to achieve. I'm not sure about Italy (don't know if the cases there are declining I mean).

Which would obviously be a huge positive.

...if everyone acts in a discilpined way.

 

[Brisan123]

Been drinking again have you

Them 1500 pints wont drink themselves joey

 

[Brennan]

I don't understand how the West can get wet markets shut; people will still find a way to eat these animals whether bought from a wet market or just door-to-door. It's the Chinese way of life and they won't change it considering they haven't themselves owned up to it starting in their wet markets.

It's not about eating the animals as much as it is the preparation and storage of them.

The risk would be infinitely lower if the sale of these animals was done in accordance with western food hygiene practices.

 

[DanB90]

If I’ve taken anything from the last 10 pages, it’s that some are eating dogs, some are getting upset at people eating dogs, and some are getting offended by the people being upset at the people eating dogs.

Any updates on this virus?