Amateur. Everyone knows you go for 12 bottles of bleach at a time.
With a different voice
Well there you go. I thought the police on the streets were basically being misinformed and genuinely didnt realise what powers they have and dont have right now
I'm guessing the deaths figure was probably a catalyst to the article agreed, but to be honest I was more interested in the approach given it differs to most countries... i.e. why they did it, is it working, what'll happen with figures.You'd think a forbes journo would actually check out this stuff rather than just making an article from worldometres figures
Deaths per days since 2nd April 65, 58, 54, 67, 66, 53, 47 (although those last 2 days likely to get another 10 or so late figures added to them).
Journo has just seen 100+ for two days on Worldometer and hasn't even researched it to show that these were due to late reports which happen absolutely everywhere.
Supermarkets?
Tweet gone, any mirrors?
Supermarket floors are marked out with tape to keep people at distance, hand gel and cleaning fluid for the trolley handle, plastic screens at checkout, plastic curtains from ceiling to floor keeping the people at the checkout next to you completely apart. So i very much doubt its supermarkets. Its most likely the underclass enjoying partys with their friends.
She has a lot wrong to be honest mate, @BeforeKeanetherewasRobson. It's clear she's only looked at worldometers and made her assumptions/article based on that.
What the absolute feck is this? Is there really any evidence that it's the poorest in our society who are having people over? There's plenty of hoity toity folk in my bit who were having folk over as recently as last weekend, the champagne drinking horse fecking twats that they are.
Contact transmission from goods. Supermarket workers and fellow shoppers who have touched the goods.
I've seen plenty of people wearing vinyl gloves and rubbing their mouths and noses though so it may be something of a false security seeing people wearing them.
It's not really that amazing. Most of them are bought and paid for. Journalism is a dying art.
Thanks. Appreciate it.
The only reason Trump called it the Chinese virus is to avoid blame. He doesn't hmgive a shit what the Chinese do as long as he doesn't carry the can. It is always someone else's fault.
That's some great foresight that! Well done to them!
I'm pretty sure Stan is in the underclass too.
I'm generally just underwhelming.
Thanks, useful.
You one of them pigeons with one manky claw?
Claws are a distant memory, my friend. I've found some replacement corks though that seen to do the trick.
So you do think you’re a pigeon! Ha!
You're showing your prejudices here. Poor people are not the reason this disease has spread. It's not poor people who are driving to their holiday homes on the coast for the bank holiday weekend, it's not poor people who were cramming the national parks a couple of weeks ago and it wasn't poor people who were popping over to Italy even as reports were coming in about the virus there. This disease has been spread by affluent holidaymakers and business-travellers but less well off people will bear the brunt. Poor people are now in the firing line because they're more likely to work in key industries where social distancing is difficult to maintain, more likely to cohabit with other key workers in accomadation where distancing is impossible and more likely to have extended family who are relying on them for support right now.
haha, yeah exactly.Thanks, useful.
So apart from the facts, the article was fine?
Good luck, hope it works out, every country needs to share/learn?
Staying 2m apart and washing your hands doesn't make you safe. Those measures simply reduce the chance of infection.
Surprised that if the Government had made some huge mistake, other papers (depending on political slant) like say the Guardian, don't run it too?
I had seen that too. So not many people actually working on the front line in the hospitals are catching it. It's mostly in other places where precautions might not be taken as seriously, or they caught it outside work.
I thought we had all learned by now it doesn't matter one jot whether you are rich or poor. It's not a class specific virus, it is being spread by all, but primarily by families and close friends in group gatherings, no matter what their income status. Travelling, events, supermarket trips etc. are all minor sources of transmission.
I think GPs are particularly at risk - you never know who's going to just turn up in your surgery.
It spreads to all - but the risk to die from it or get into serious conditions that later on impact you more - is higher for the poorer people.
Minorities are disproportionately represented in the death figures in the UK. Think they account 30% of deaths when they make up 13% of the population. Could be due to cramped living conditions and multi-generational living arrangements common in Asian communities in particular. A lot of the medical professionals that have died in the UK seem to have been Asian too.
