That's great flick, but to lead to that you need environmental destruction. The Stand is also another option however there the virus mortality was 99%. In The Leftovers some small percentage perished.
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I genuinely can’t see how Boris and the UK govt don’t see this and think we’ve got to go into complete lockdown.
Italy’s numbers are fecking insane and we need massive action to ensure we don’t go the same way.
What is the counter argument?
Want to see something a bit '28 days later?'
These webcams of empty bars all over the world are spooky.
Kinda funny seeing the cats in that cat cafe all snoozing, blissfully unaware though.
These webcams of empty bars all over the world are spooky.
Kinda funny seeing the cats in that cat cafe all snoozing, blissfully unaware though.
It was just meant as a tongue in the cheek joke.
Don't know. All I know about the account is it mostly posts ironic left jokes (Thought it was pretty clear from the tweet).
Yeah I posted it twice but mistake but I than needed to for a piss, so......
Again I think the guy was just joking(If he isn't then yeah off it's a bit of cartoonish impression of ‘fat cat bosses)
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Too late. Ours will be worse.
Feck, You really think so?? I was kind of hoping that Italy’s were skewed due to age of population or something. Sure I saw @Penna post Something to say c.98% of deaths had pre existing conditions....
Watching a live feed of Times Square in NY, it's almost deserted.
My bad! Just sick of the doom and gloom and negativity everywhere.This is just so unprecedented that I’m guessing everyone is unsure how to tackle it. One expert says this then another will tweet saying this option will kill millions etc etc.
No wonder toilet rolls are flying off the shelves when reading twitter or even here.
Ah. Had the best mussels ever in a place overlooking Ancona harbour in 1976!
I think we have a lot fewer hospital beds.
What are you basing this on?
Even if we end up hitting 2%, it won't be anything like that because the majority of the "departed" would be elderly people, not random 2% of the population.
Yep. All the stats point that way and the amount of complacency/idiocy I see from the general public. Spent an hour on the phone tonight trying to convince my Dad that this wasn't a drill.
Look at the graphs. Of course the US will ultimately take home the crown. Ignorant public with ignorant leaders. If you're a virus, that's like flies to a turd.
No worries I can see how people would miss read it(Considering I posted it as well).
I'm down to single digits
Statistics. Put 'death graph' into Google or Twitter and see for yourself.
I did https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ first entry.
Can you point it out where we are worse than Italy?
I did that and found an experimental hip hop group
I wonder if this pandemic will have long-term effects on society. More attention towards health & hygiene would be nice.
I think it will be a massive wakeup call that countries have to collaborate on plans well before things like this happen in the future.
We aren't worse than Italy, but we aren't far behind. From memory I think Italy went on lockdown on March 9th so we are at least 3 days ahead of them. I'm not convinced enough people are taking this seriously in the UK though.
We also have a lethal situation brewing in London which could mimic whats happening in Madrid.
UK Dates | UK Deaths | Italy Dates | Italy Deaths | Spain Dates | Spain Deaths | France Dates | France Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
March 8th | 3 | Feb 23rd | 3 | March 5th | 3 | March 2nd | 3 |
March 9th | 5 | Feb 24th | 7 | March 6th | 8 | March 3rd | 4 |
March 10th | 6 | Feb 25th | 11 | March 7th | 10 | March 4th | 4 |
March 11th | 8 | Feb 26th | 12 | March 8th | 17 | March 5th | 7 |
March 12th | 10 | Feb 27th | 17 | March 9th | 30 | March 6th | 9 |
March 13th | 11 | Feb 28th | 21 | March 10th | 36 | March 7th | 16 |
March 14th | 21 | Feb 29th | 29 | March 11th | 55 | March 8th | 19 |
March 15th | 35 | March 1st | 41 | March 12th | 86 | March 9th | 30 |
March 16th | 55 | March 2nd | 52 | March 13th | 133 | March 10th | 33 |
March 17th | 71 | March 3rd | 79 | March 14th | 196 | March 11th | 48 |
March 18th | 104 | March 4th | 107 | March 15th | 294 | March 12th | 61 |
March 19th | 144 | March 5th | 148 | March 16th | 342 | March 13th | 79 |
March 20th | 177 | March 6th | 197 | March 17th | 533 | March 14th | 91 |
- | - | March 7th | 233 | March 18th | 638 | March 15th | 127 |
- | - | March 8th | 366 | March 19th | 830 | March 16th | 148 |
- | - | March 9th | 463 | March 20th | 1,093 | March 17th | 175 |
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Posted this in another thread. Highly recommend the read. Some interesting thoughts in there: https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...ct-economy-life-society-analysis-covid-135579
What scares me most of all this are the WhatsApps with messages from nurses talking about the situation and how they give up on people over 65 for lack of ventilators ,plus the news of young people who die without having previous pathologies.
In this situation, politicians - once they begin to see the danger - tend to cover their backs, so I'm surprised by Boris Johnson laxity.
In this situation, politicians - once they begin to see the danger - tend to cover their backs, so I'm surprised by Boris Johnson laxity.
So people are scaremongering by saying we are worse? Really don’t want an argument about it but feck me guys people could commit suicide reading some of the shit posted.
We know it is bad but jeez it ain’t all over just yet.
Fair enough. I've just been looking at this sort of thing...
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And remembering that
a) we've got less hospital beds and less ICU beds per head than Italy
And
b) we're a country full of selfish feckheads and flag waving tossers who think the year is still 1890
Well, if you actually read what doctors and nurses are reporting in the UK then you'll understand why people are nervous. The Government aren't investing in actually attempting to save lives, nor are they taking testing seriously. We are very close to breaking point in London and if that happens, it will be a disaster. Thats not scare mongering, thats a population of 8.9million people with a massive shortage of hospital beds. That's exactly the issue in Madrid, and yet they've got what 2.5million less people?
If it gets bad in London, the numbers will quickly surpass Italy and look more like Spains. But currently we aren't there yet thankfully, but the very genuine concern is that we're on the verge of popping.
With this shite government incharge I'm not at all confident about the coming weeks.
Currently the UK case trendline is below Italy. Thats a fact and better to remember that when people are getting hyped up by political nonsense. I dont know enough about respective demographics and health facilities to talk about death rates.
Italy went into lockdown at 9000 cases, so following that the UK should do the same by the middle of next week.
And Italy are a country who kiss each other if they pass them in the street and live with elderly relatives in the same home. We can all skew arguments to our own narrative but sometimes people just want to look in on a thread and not feel they are on death row by people scaremongering.
Apologies I am probably going a bit over the top but whatever the government does(not saying they are right) there will always be half the country believing it is the wrong way.
Yeah, I’d strongly avoid here if you don’t want negativity or any social media for that matter. This thread works in the same way a thread would work during a terrorist attack. Lots of figures on dead people, lots of fake news, etc..
Erm, have you not seen the shops? Or the streets? Have you not seen the shutdown? I don’t really know what more needs to be done for you to think it’s being taken seriously. Short of people openly having panic attacks in the street, not sure what the next step of ‘taking this seriously is’.
Illinois follows New York and California in issuing shelter order. It seems like matter of time before it gets to my state even though our governor is currently against the idea.
So who is deciding? Are they not qualified for the job? Not talking about BoJo but his advisors and where has he grabbed them from to make decisions?
I'm in Meath. From Dublin and work in blanch.
I'm so worried as they are attached to us and Boris hasn't given any clear direction.
Clusterfeck
I'm waiting for people to start fighting corona virus on the beaches
What state is that? I'm in MI and Governor said the same but then they all say that to likely avoid some kind of mad dash to the stores or unnecessary panic building up. It will likely happen either this weekend or right after.
Hard to believe since your state is the country's ground zero.
Spain's curve on that graph is crazy!
No need to apologise and I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm on a downer but I just think we're generally an ignorant bullish nation about to get a wake up call.
I've been in contact with friends in Italy through this and they were where I am now now a few weeks ago... angry at people not socially distancing themselves and taking it seriously.
Everyone knows our health service will not be able to cope. We had advantages being an island that other nations didn't have and we sat on our hands. We didn't do enough early doors and it's still not enough now. I get that we're trying to build to a lockdown so it's not a shock but I think most sensible people are ready for it. Again, it's the imbeciles holding everyone back.