1 in 10 people die over 6000m in the Himalayas? Jaysus.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
- Start date
-
In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
My Italian boss just came back from Northern Italy (well 7 days ago) and 2 people in the city where I work have the virus.
Don't post anything near me.
Don't post anything near me.
Just visited the subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/
scroll down for a minute or two and just look at all the different thread titles. It really hits home that we are in the middle of a global crisis
scroll down for a minute or two and just look at all the different thread titles. It really hits home that we are in the middle of a global crisis
Thanks for posting this. I accidentally caught Hand Gliding On a tube once. Scared me shitless.
I would personally avoid that sub Reddit for your own sanity.
Russia is shit housing by spreading misinformation online. Saudis are shit housing by increasing oil production and plunging the oil prices low, causing more economic depression, Iran is doing its part by underreporting cases, abysmally failing at basic governance. The triad of awful keeps churning.
Our company are trialing working from home later this week and I imagine we'll be doing it permanently in the near future if all goes well.
Still, I'm confused as to what the point of it is if I can still head to a crowd pub or restaurant at the weekend for a whole night.
Still, I'm confused as to what the point of it is if I can still head to a crowd pub or restaurant at the weekend for a whole night.
It’s a pretty vacuous, pointless post. Looking for likes and shares while telling us feck all useful.
Does anyone seriously think that people bickering over bog roll is the big concern here?! Personally, I couldn’t give a shite if people are irrationally terrified about this virus. If social media hysteria means people get more diligent about hand washing, staying out of work (or keeping kids home from school) when they get a fever and avoiding non-essential large gatherings then that’s exactly the outcome we need.
The only point of his I agree with is the economic risk of some sort of societal over-reaction to this perceived threat. My take on that is that there will be no harm done that can’t be fixed with the inevitable bull run if/when we get on top of this pandemic.
Because if we don’t get on top of it, the economy is fecked regardless.
We waited too long to colonize the Moon and Mars.
Selling them. Or got the shitsDon't know where this is from but this is ridiculous!
Yeah just took a look and it was enough to put me off people for life - conspiracies, covering up young deaths, mass arguments, apocalypse....the whole nine yards in there!!
When the shit really hits the fan you wont be able to. In the three badly hit countries that was one of the first things to be shut down.
If they close down the bars people will really start to get pissed off. Semi serious.
Tweet
— Twitter API (@user) date
Why? It’s going to spread if we can’t contain it.
We aren't testing enough or we're incredibly well prepared to contain.
By that point people will realise how serious it is and be happy to avoid them.
Trading halted at the NYSE as the 7% fall triggered a circuit breaker. Welp!
Seriously the global economy is so fragile that a single live animal market in China can cause a global recession.
They're accepting they can’t contain it... seems they’re being reactive rather than proactive about what steps need to be taken before it gets seriously bad.
London is the most international city in the world, and also one of the most cramped. I'd be astonished if covid-19 wasn't rampant on the Tube at the very least.
It's probably everywhere already. We just haven't done the requisite testing to prove it.
Unless that's a curryhouse, they have no business hoarding so many toilet rolls.Don't know where this is from but this is ridiculous!
Just to add to this:
First 163 infections, we tested 20,175.
The recent 156 infections, we've tested 4,785.
This is Ireland. People would rather shut down the supermarkets than the pubs.
Which is why I wanted to know how many Germany were testing.
tbf to the Saudi's, they did try and avert an oil market crash by cutting back oil production in line with falling demand. but Russia refused to hold back its production, so talks collapsed.
My sister is travelling to Missoura this week, via Minneapolis and Atlanta. I'm secretly worried.
Read that they're able to test at least 12,000 people a day. Not sure how true.
I worked on a handful of projects to do with fund suspensions and managing the fall out. Not happened since it was implemented so i might have to feign coronavirus to avoid the inevitable shitstorm when it does
https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/italy-bans-fans-from-sporting-events-over-coronavirus-outbreak/
just the fans at the moment I think
St Paddys Day parade cancelled in Dublin..
Another person has died in the UK. Up to 4 now.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-fourth-person-dies-in-uk-after-contracting-disease-11953876
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-fourth-person-dies-in-uk-after-contracting-disease-11953876
Johnson had this to say at the weekend:
"One of the theories is perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow the disease to move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures."
I doubt that the NHS is equipped to deal with the huge spike in demand that would surely occur in this scenario, but it does look like we might be about to put that theory to the test.
Ah, the Bill Burr approach.
Nothing to look here folks. Just a miracle of modern slavery.
Tweet
— Twitter API (@user) date
Absolutely fecking disgraceful 'leadership'. And ironic that this is actually more Draconian - let the slaves keep working and dying until the system's at breaking point before we get off our fat, silver spoon anuses and do a single fecking thing.
Because with such a repulsively decadent approach, once it gets into hospitals it'll start wiping out people who are there for other things. People who need a hospital to be a safe place to recover - as it should be. And it'll overwhelm hospitals so that people who are there for other things will be dying simply because there isn't the care they need.
And hospices, and Children's hospitals - where, although children have been least affected thus far, you give a 14 year old recovering from a serious disease a dose of it and I'm not so sure.
But then again, this is the same Government who've left NHS skeletal and given us Austerity as well - so we know where their priorities will always lie.
The public need to demand action on this. I'd gladly strike, and as more and more beloved family members are needlessly condemned to horrible deaths because of their inaction, more people will adopt a similar stance.
And giving prison inmates enough alcohol to make 100,000 gallons of hand sanitiser is going to end really well.
Does COVID-19 give you the runs?
I'm with you. I still can't believe what's happening. Even the likes of Spain, Germany and France seem to be following in Italys footsteps. I hope we don't.
Yes, it can.