Thanks for cheering me up Steve.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Italy until the 3 May, although somewhat bizarrely bookshops and stationery stores can open from next Tuesday, if you live somewhere that has such a thing. I'm kind of thinking people who want those kind of supplies will have in most cases been buying online.
Thanks for cheering me up Steve.
That’s strange maybe it’s because so many are working from home and need the stationary?
I don't think I've ever had so many spam/phising e-mails. As I've had this few days.
Anybody else had this problem?
Anybody else had this problem?
I haven't even had any post for a week, let alone spam emails.
Surprisingly I’ve been getting less, although I got a text message saying I won £1000 from Argos so happy days.
At least an end date has been put on it though. In the UK its open ended at the moment
I could see the UK being another 6 weeks aleast, Ireland hasn’t got anywhere near the cases of the UK.
Builders going back to work in Spain on Monday. Sounds crazy to me, but apparently the gov didn't bother asking / getting approval from their advisory panel.
El Gobierno tomó la decisión de reiniciar la actividad laboral sin consultar a su comité de expertos
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Haha, this was my Dad's whole philosophy on life basically.
Shops and cafes are starting to open up again in the less salubrious parts of town here. They all seem to have forgotten what an absolute mess the last month has been and are going back to the traditional rules-are-for-other-people mentality they swear by in this country.
They should have just explained they were affluent and likeminded people, they’d have been waved through no problems.
Matt Hancock: “Because a front door is better than any face mask”
100k deaths.
So 1 province in NL had over 50pc of all cases in the Netherlands, Brabant. Why? They had a Carnival there 6 to 8 weeks ago, look it up and look through pictures to see how many wealthy people you can spot amongst the thousands of losers
Good luck
You could say the same for Cheltenham here, and I bet not many poor people were splashing out there.
In the first, key workers (and their families) putting themselves in harms way will die more compared to the rest of the population. Then they won't get compensated in anyway as there will be a recession. And for the finale, the rich will buy everything up because many things will be cheaper, and the rest of society will fight for even lesser scraps. Society changing for the better isn't even a pipe dream.
How long ago was the Cheltenham Festival?
This will be sadly accurate.
Not to mention Ischgl/Tyrol, guess there are a lot of "underclass" skiing enthusiasts out there.
980 deaths in the UK today, which is higher than any day Italy experienced (albeit with Italy having a slightly smaller population). That number not including deaths in homes and hospices I believe and still approx. a week away from the expected peak.
Yet the media's coverage of what's going on in the UK seems strangely different to the way Italy was covered.
Yet the media's coverage of what's going on in the UK seems strangely different to the way Italy was covered.
Hancock basically admits that face masks work, our approach is to ensure the limited supply is saved for healthcare workers.
I agree wholeheartedly with that point but they still need to ramp up production.
I agree wholeheartedly with that point but they still need to ramp up production.
feck this government honestly.
Getting tired of the “following the science” responses now.
So sorry for your loss. Doctors are being asked to fight this battle without proper equipment or chances of any meaningful rotation.
What are Italy and Spain's numbers today?
They'll be writing that Italy has 20k deaths on Monday.
I'm convinced they're still following their 'herd immunity' strategy. They don't seem to be moving heaven and earth to do....well anything actually.
Health workers still without kit is a fecking disgrace.
You’re not a very nice person.
Italy had 3951 cases and 570 deaths. The downward trend is well established now.
Number of infections still pretty high and worrying.
The last 3 days have been higher than any day Italy had. Death numbers are wildly inaccurate though, possibly moreso than case numbers.
It was all a novelty and a shock back then, and it was happening to somebody else. This is the new norm, half of Europe is recording hundreds of cases a day and the US is into the thousands and climbing. Media and public perspective has changed.
Very fair point.
I think the drop off is going to be gradual rather than fast, the Chinese data gave the impression that numbers would come tumbling down but I think Italy is showing that it spreads fast and it doesn't go away very fast. The numbers of people getting discharged are at their highest also.
Just a group of likeminded individuals from an affluent area.
It's incredible how the Government have stepped up, when they aren't wasting their time with childish political point scoring and actually get on with the job of running a country in crisis.
I think you’re right but I also don’t see any other way out of it. We’re too far away from a vaccine. Just watched a BBC horizon programme from last night, pretty interesting actually and herd immunity seems to be the ultimate destination regardless of any measures in place to slow it down.
The government, most other governments are only talking of slowing the spread, not stopping it. The truth as I see it, is it can’t really be stopped at this point. I think most of us are either going to catch it at some point, the requirement is we don’t all catch it at the same time.
But to say the government is doing nothing isn’t quite true, the country is on lockdown unless you haven’t noticed along with 25% of the worlds population according to horizon. It’s the biggest social action I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. It’s easy to bash the government but most countries, whatever government they have, are acting the same and are in the same boat.