I know it's probably unfeasable and seen as a curtail of freedoms, but I'd love to see a law that says you can't sell and buy stock in the same company in a calender year.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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That's just crazy, selfish even.
I was with you earlier after the ministers he's sent out so far this weekend, but Grauniad says he is doing.
I'm disappointed with the UK's seemingly disjointed response and as a Tory, especially so in Boris. Still he's rocking up today apparently.
Mirrors my own view. Mind you in order to correct this imbalance we, in the West, wI’ll have to accept higher prices for many of our goods for let’s be honest the reason production has been outsourced to countries such as China is lower wages. I’m not sure that we will accept higher prices long term. It never ceases to amaze me how quickly mankind selectively forgets when the pocket gets hit.
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I live near corner shops takeaways and a park. I've seen lots going to shops with their bags which is understandable however I'm seeing a lot of kids out and about with their mates, on their bikes, kicking footballs. Makes me think why aren't the parents telling their young ones to stay indoors.
The thing is there's a group of people who will blatantly ignore self isolation which makes me think we should have gone into lock down a week ago.
This " oh it's just a flu I'll be fine " malarkey is still in peoples mind.
Unfortunately it's only when we start getting deaths in the 100s/day and Sky report inside a UK ICU that's gone past peak capacity, is is when people will stop and listen.
It's making me so angry.
The thing is there's a group of people who will blatantly ignore self isolation which makes me think we should have gone into lock down a week ago.
This " oh it's just a flu I'll be fine " malarkey is still in peoples mind.
Unfortunately it's only when we start getting deaths in the 100s/day and Sky report inside a UK ICU that's gone past peak capacity, is is when people will stop and listen.
It's making me so angry.
No, it's part of the daily briefing.
There was a video circulating on the net back in late Jan of a Russian airport where many of the staff were dressed in PPE screening passengers coming through. Does make sense.
He himself didnt do yesterdays and on Friday he was talking about going to see his mother.
He himself had no intention of speaking until Monday. Youll never find out the truth but id bet almost everything on it.
He was hounded yesterday for not speaking
The Isle of Man has closed its borders to none residents. Shame our government waited until we have 5 cases before doing so...
Did Italy number come out yet?
That's why he's probably doing it today then.
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Beyond frustrating
Just reading in La Repubblica that we now can no longer leave our Comunes for anything except urgent health reasons or urgent working needs. This is very restrictive for people like us who live in a very small Comune. At least we have one shop!
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"A makeshift hospital has been set up in a conference centre in the capital Madrid, a city that is bearing some of the highest infection rates.
The hospital will be fitted with 5,500 beds, making it the biggest facility of its kind in Europe. Its director, Antonio Zapatero, told El Mundo newspaper that 300 people will be move there this weekend.
Earlier we reported on new figures from Spain, which has now seen over 1,700 disease-related deaths since the coronavirus epidemic began."
From the BBC. Should say "moved". I see many articles on the bbc site have spelling mistakes or broken English.
People are dumb. It's not new information, if the government had been clear in it's messaging and implemented the necessary restrictions then things would be a lot better than they are now. If you give people an inch they're going to take a mile, the fact that none of those people are actually breaking the law says it all. They've been allowed to decide for themselves and it's madness when it's a public health concern rather than an individual one.
This is a no brainier really. We all know the damage chain smoking does to the lungs. This virus is known to absolutely savage the lungs, the two together are a cocktail for bad news. Here in the UK the level of smoking cigs and weed in the current day is actually mind boggling. There’s a dude I work with whos 25 and he’s constantly outside vaping (as in he’s saved in my phone as ‘Vapist’. Unsurprisingly he’s now very ill from corona. This thing may wake people up further to the dangers of smoking, especially young people.
Probably but at first i thought he could be strengthening the governments social distancing policy following all the pictures of the supermarkets
Italy: 5560/651
Bad as it as, finally a slight decrease.
Bad as it as, finally a slight decrease.
Most if not all stores are shutting between 10pm-6am due to folk having the same idea as you. In our store shoppers were grabbing stuff from the pallets before they even reached the shelf. No need for it, there is plenty and the supply chain is good with deliveries to stores unaffected. It's madness.
At least we've broke step with Italy's death toll, for now. They went from 233 to 366.
After Sunday's activity we could catch up and overtake. Looks like bonfire night around my way this afternoon. So many walking and driving about, not a typical mother's day with a few walkers.
So Italy could be peaking?
Take your point. I’m staying home apart from grocery shopping - but whilst there is only advice/recommendations, people will flout it.
Yeah, when people don’t see their actions directly negatively effecting the situation, they’ll carry on, unless ordered not to.
The problem with the virus is you may be asymptomatic and have passed it on to plenty in a supermarket/pub/on the train where you’ve been touching the surfaces and indirectly killed dozens, or you may be completely fine and effected no one. The problem is it’s impossible to measure that, and there’s no culpability to the damage you could have done.
Whilst people can still live their lives and feel like they’re not contributing to the pandemic because they’ve got no symptoms, this’ll continue.
We need to take the measures that Italy are. It won’t be until 3-4 weeks time when those who were blasé during the last couple weeks start to realise that they played a part in this when the death numbers spiral
Spain had a couple days like this at the same point and caught back up the day after. Think you’d have to see three days of more modest growth before you could get hopeful.
cost of companies to advertise on news channels and within news programs has gone up 1000%.
Massive $$$ making opportunity for previously dying TV news industry.
UK government is genuinely obsessed with doing it right rather than doing the right thing. Absolute madness going on right now
Get in there. Let's hope it's all downhill from here for Italy.
Good news for us too with cases and deaths down from the expected trend
Summer heat having an effect on the virus (weather is lovely and warm in the UK this weekend)?? Doubt it though, since South East Asia and Africa are on the upwards trend.
Good news for us too with cases and deaths down from the expected trend
Summer heat having an effect on the virus (weather is lovely and warm in the UK this weekend)?? Doubt it though, since South East Asia and Africa are on the upwards trend.
The fella next to Boris said the list of conditions for people they want to isolate for 12 weeks is online on gov.uk, but I can't find it. Anyone seen it?
So there's these letters going out to 1.5 million people telling them to stay home for 12 weeks.
The gov.uk site includes amongst these "people with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment".
Do you think it's safe to assume that with MPN, which is a much less serious type of blood cancer than those, that I won't be asked to stay home?
The gov.uk site includes amongst these "people with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment".
Do you think it's safe to assume that with MPN, which is a much less serious type of blood cancer than those, that I won't be asked to stay home?
Iran's Khamanei refuses US help to fight coronavirus, citing conspiracy theory
Iran's supreme leader refused US assistance on Sunday to fight the new coronavirus, citing an unfounded conspiracy theory that the virus could be man-made by America
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments come as Iran faces crushing US sanctions blocking the country from selling its crude oil and accessing international financial markets.
But while Iranian civilian officials in recent days have increasingly criticized those sanctions, 80-year-old Khamenei instead chose to traffic in the same conspiracy theory increasingly used by Chinese officials about the new virus to deflect blame for the pandemic.
“I do not know how real this accusation is but when it exists, who in their right mind would trust you to bring them medication?" Khamenei said. "Possibly your medicine is a way to spread the virus more.”
He also alleged without offering any evidence that the virus “is specifically built for Iran using the genetic data of Iranians which they have obtained through different means.”
“You might send people as doctors and therapists, maybe they would want to come here and see the effect of the poison they have produced in person," he said
https://www.france24.com/en/2020032...to-fight-coronavirus-citing-conspiracy-theory
Iran's supreme leader refused US assistance on Sunday to fight the new coronavirus, citing an unfounded conspiracy theory that the virus could be man-made by America
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments come as Iran faces crushing US sanctions blocking the country from selling its crude oil and accessing international financial markets.
But while Iranian civilian officials in recent days have increasingly criticized those sanctions, 80-year-old Khamenei instead chose to traffic in the same conspiracy theory increasingly used by Chinese officials about the new virus to deflect blame for the pandemic.
“I do not know how real this accusation is but when it exists, who in their right mind would trust you to bring them medication?" Khamenei said. "Possibly your medicine is a way to spread the virus more.”
He also alleged without offering any evidence that the virus “is specifically built for Iran using the genetic data of Iranians which they have obtained through different means.”
“You might send people as doctors and therapists, maybe they would want to come here and see the effect of the poison they have produced in person," he said
https://www.france24.com/en/2020032...to-fight-coronavirus-citing-conspiracy-theory
Boris’ points here are so mixed, his messaging needs to be tougher and he’s too slow in bringing in tighter measures. It’s quite clear people aren’t listening to social distancing.
It's March.
It was frustratingly hard to find.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ng-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19
So stay inside but go out to exercise but only if you keep 2 metres apart... ffs just stop it for 2 weeks now rather than when it’s too late.
"Stay 2 meters apart"
Boris is a dimwit.
Boris is a dimwit.“When you’re a clown, nobody takes you seriously.”