What a sacrifice. Exercised his faith to the letter and the spirit.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Yeah right, the day the lockdown is lifted every one of those pubs will packed out the door. People just gladly eat shit.
Complete lockdown in India for 3 weeks from midnight
Indian government has locked down the entire county for the next 21 days!
I'm terrified now. It really seems like nobody has any exit strategy here. If we loosen up on the lockdowns, it will come back. Only vaccine can save us.
Still talking to her about it here.
I can get that London flight although I don't fancy the idea of being stuck in an economy seat for 13 hours straight.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Not a future great PM after all. Who'd a thunk?
Yep. It's important to distinguish between "he looks like a future Prime Minister" and "he looks like a future Prime Minister who won't be a total cnut".
Her fecking voice
Containment is the only way. Get the confirmed number of infections down to a manageable level, then do mass testing to find and trace as many of the infected as possible. Then it's a constant game of tightening and loosening restrictions to keep this thing in control without having to shut off society. In that time, increase your health care capacity (beds, ventilators,etc) and hope an antiviral comes into play - which is more likely than a vaccine. An antiviral would be an immediate game changer because it can increase your capacity to treat people by 10 - 100x.
Every day is another day in advancement and preparation. A vaccine might be a long way off, but treatment for symptoms could be on its way before that.
The idea is to get it down to manageable levels and then keep everyone monitored.
A country like China has had zero to 4 new locally transmitted cases a day recently, in a country of 2 billion.
The world will be very different after this, but slowly, we are getting more and more prepared to fight it.
You do realise after this they will own us?
Just go check a few more sources please before you start posting fake news
@FeneR, actually the studies show that an athlete “can” be at an increased risk during periods of heavy intense training and a couple of weeks after a race only.
They also show that moderate activity may enhance immune function.
So, being a marathon runner absolutely is healthy, or can be, depending on the individual runner and their current training. Whereas you made out it’s anything but which was way too wishy washy with the facts.
see above @11101
India Prime Minister orders a total lockdown.
It's the arrogance that got me.Her fecking voice
He might be a future PM but he will be a Tory PM.
I think he's actually right to some extent. Some self employed people are going to be making hay because the sun is shining incredibly brightly right now.
You could allow people to apply on the caveat that if they bring in a certain amount between two dates they are liable to pay it back by a certain date but how do you police that? People will use all sorts of accounting wizardry to ensure their accounts are beneficial to them when the time comes to evaluate if they should pay it back or not.
Great decision but the poor will take a bad hit
but yeah cool let's ban china from the world ?
And why does it matter if some lose out on a flat fee?
The key is moderation. Too much or too little is bad for you. How do you know what is too much or too little is difficult.
I remember seeing a video talking about the cyclists in the tour de france and the commentator said that by the time they are finished, they have the bodies of old people in their eighties, given what they have to go through.
Same path really just people seem confused about it and think everyone is doing it differently, not really understanding that each country is different and is on a different timeline with the spread.
Sweden has passed new laws to shut down when the time is right, that time is not yet.
Italy were too late, possibly France and Spain too. Sweden are still early doors and are following the scientific advice rather than giving in to public pressure. We have currently brought in the military to build a massive field hospital at the Stockholm exhibition centre.
When we close in on critical numbers for the health services, we’ll lockdown, just as others have.
Denmark & Norway went early with much stricter distancing so we’ll see over the next weeks if that had any effect.
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Germany starting to to take in patients from Italy. They're transferring 6 so far. They must be really confident in their own healthcare capacity.
Germany starting to to take in patients from Italy. They're transferring 6 so far. They must be really confident in their own healthcare capacity.
"Bye Chris"
Because people live to their means. if the Gov offered me 500 a week as a replacement to self-employed income, I wouldn't be able to pay bills and eat.
Fair play I'd have taken the ventilator.
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Absolutely but the fact remains that during most periods of regular training (a large chunk of the year), a marathoner is much healthier than most of the population.
Tbf, I'd say it would be quite hard to come up with an exact exit plan before you see how the virus plays out in a given country. Everywhere will be a bit different.
Once it's under some sort of control and if there's sufficient testing & contact tracing then it should be possible to model a way out, I'd have thought. Whether that's by gradually lifting different measures, relaxing restrictions in different cities at a time or whatever.
The maximum is 2400 a month anyway no matter what you earn.
Because there are some self employed people that earn more than that in a week, its need to be relative and accurate to truly support people.
Yeah we just need to have the phone code thing on Alipay or Wechat and present it when entering places. Shanghai is starting to get quite a lot of back flow cases, so unfortunately these measures seem a bit necessary for now.
I think as it stands it is just SSP £94 or whatever it is . My wife is a carer , does ridiculous long hours but has been advised not to work as she suffers with asthma and has been told she will get £94 per week . Works for abacare , shite.
India on full lockdown for 3 weeks. Should have done this a week ago, better late than never though.
Didn't know that. I am not affected by this yet financially, was just being hypothetical. So I suppose those with mortgages more than that are getting relief from payments, for example? I still don't know what the best they can do is.
I think you're a bit too soon for exit strategies. Wuhan doesn't start coming out of lockdown till April 8th. We're at least a few months away from even considering something of an exit strategy.