Bet hes not spending his own money.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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I think so, especially with someone like Trump at the helm.
Keeps talking about getting oxygen to them fish???
Think I’ll keep my oxygen for breathing thanks..
Yes, with uncertainty saving money seems sensible.
However, I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting crazy offers from some shops already. Especially photography stuff. So if you do have cash to spare, in the next few weeks there are going to be some real bargains out there.
Can I just say that I initially scoffed when I heard about the NHS clapping thing organised for tonight.
Hearing it tonight genuinely made me and my other half emotional. We've rarely felt valued in our jobs. Thanks to whoever did it. We joined in obviously, loved it.
Hearing it tonight genuinely made me and my other half emotional. We've rarely felt valued in our jobs. Thanks to whoever did it. We joined in obviously, loved it.
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Because the party currently in power has constantly underfunded the NHS for a decade. The majority of the electorate, i.e. those clapping, voted for them.
The US now has the highest number of cases, more than China.
America is winning again.
America is winning again.
Might have a look to see if I can get a bargain although there isn’t anything l really want at the minute.
Exactly. I’m sure Tory voters feel pleased that they’ve done a nice thing though.
The public cant get us PPE. I'd like both, but hearing that tonight gave me a huge swell of pride, something I haven't felt for quite some time. It was enormously, and unexpectedly morale boosting. This has helped so much until we get adequate volumes of PPE.
That said there's always people who will turn this into politics. To them I say feck off with your negativity and let us have this....for once.
The same people who agree with the Tories and feel the self employed are getting what they deserve right now because some fiddle the figures.
You deserve it.
feck everybody else, this whole thing has shown us how many arseholes there are around the world and that's depressing.
But frontline workers buck that trend, and tonight shows there are people willing to just say thank you. Maybe we aren't doomed as a species, maybe the lesser amount of good ones do actually drag the rest forward.
I was referring to actual yorkshire puddings, chiefo.You shouldn't be noticing her Yorkshire puddings.
Huh?
I keep thinking back to that guy who bought all the hand sanitiser that got shamed over social media for trying to sell it at a big profit. I too, share the shock in our lack of compassion and eagerness to take advantage of serious health situations for our selfish gains. But at the same time, a lot of us live in societies where we are routinely told implicitly (and explicitly) that businesses are more important than people, that we are totally responsible for our own inability to better ourselves, and that you need to look out for yourself because society won't. And as I think about that, the guy with the hand sanitiser seems a lot less despicable.
America just seems to have advanced further than other countries on that scale. That's why they can have presenters and politicians on TV telling the older population they should be grateful to throw themselves on to the fire to save the economy.
I heard quite a few stories and watched some videos today with a common theme.
A guy from Liverpool fan TV, saying his sister tested positive and now her whole family and his whole family have been through a two week sickness. 7-8 people with only one tested, but certainly all infected.
Then I read about a fully recovered Arteta talking about how his wife and nanny have been unwell, and his three kids won’t be escaping it either.
These are just people related to the small number that have positive tests.
It makes you wonder, by extension, how many people are slowing getting through this with their families?
I don’t know, these kind of stories are growing and it is giving me hope that we really are further along than we think and that a lot of people are getting through this quite well without hospitalization.
A guy from Liverpool fan TV, saying his sister tested positive and now her whole family and his whole family have been through a two week sickness. 7-8 people with only one tested, but certainly all infected.
Then I read about a fully recovered Arteta talking about how his wife and nanny have been unwell, and his three kids won’t be escaping it either.
These are just people related to the small number that have positive tests.
It makes you wonder, by extension, how many people are slowing getting through this with their families?
I don’t know, these kind of stories are growing and it is giving me hope that we really are further along than we think and that a lot of people are getting through this quite well without hospitalization.
Spain's death numbers today are grim.
And now the US is the showing as the most confirmed cases in the world... but yeah, let's "reopen by Easter".
And now the US is the showing as the most confirmed cases in the world... but yeah, let's "reopen by Easter".
I keep thinking of The Ring...."seven days"....shit will get terrifying in a week
He had flu and went for a night out with friends, when it was well known where in the midst of a pandemic that presents with flu-like symptoms.
criticising a decision that puts people in serious danger doesn't equate with telling someone not to go for a walk
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Also asymptomatic people. My Fiancée is convinced she's had it, she had a fever and a cough all last week but despite being isolated with her I've not felt ill at all.
'“Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened,” President Trump said.
In fact, the US intelligence community, public health experts and officials in Trump’s own administration had warned for years that the country was at risk from a pandemic, including specific warnings about a coronavirus outbreak.
When this strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was identified in Wuhan, China in early January, health experts immediately cautioned that it could turn into a global health crisis.
“This was foreseeable and foreseen, weeks and months ago, and only now is the White House coming out of denial and heading straight into saying it could not have been foreseen,” Marc Lipsitch, director of Harvard’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, told CNN on Sunday.'
(Guardian)
In fact, the US intelligence community, public health experts and officials in Trump’s own administration had warned for years that the country was at risk from a pandemic, including specific warnings about a coronavirus outbreak.
When this strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was identified in Wuhan, China in early January, health experts immediately cautioned that it could turn into a global health crisis.
“This was foreseeable and foreseen, weeks and months ago, and only now is the White House coming out of denial and heading straight into saying it could not have been foreseen,” Marc Lipsitch, director of Harvard’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, told CNN on Sunday.'
(Guardian)
I had a dry throat. No cough. Very mild chest pain on one day (lasted a few secs). Nothing else. If I've had it, I was lucky. My dad is still going to work because he works in food production.
Bear in mind it may take up to 14 days for symptoms!
Haha true!
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It’s a weird virus for sure. My Father in Law was around Arteta for the whole week prior to him getting tested and has been absolutely fine. If he did get it, then his Wife, my Wife and me have all been absolutely fine too although I will say I had a couple of nights last week where I just felt a bit “off” - not ill as such. I got a bit sweaty in bed (not in the good way) and felt quite hot and I may have experienced the loss of smell although taste seems to be ok. We went out for a run during that time and I was definitely slower and more lethargic than usual as the Mrs was running rings around me and we usually jog together fairly comfortably. I mean I still probably didn’t have it but you never know!
Notice how the other curves are flattening and the US curve is heading in the wrong direction.
Supplies are perilously low for medical staff and it’s just started to get going in most of the other states.
Florida is the real scary one as the population demographics are somewhat similar to Italy and they had Spring Break with tens of thousands on the beaches and bars, clubs restaurants.
Florida has 5 million+ over 65 out of20 million.
The New York state figures are shocking, feels like a ticking time bomb.
The path that the USA are on is terrifying. Was just reading about New York and how it's being decimated. Good job Trump has things under control.
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This gives quite a bit of detail on US/cities. Doesn't look great.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I mean, it sounds like you definitely had it?
Holy shit those NY numbers are crazy
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Maybe Labour will pull their collective fingers out next time?