Yeh just heard that. It’s been decided though that kids will get their predicted grades in gcse and A levels if they are cancelled so I suppose it’ll be the same for sats. I only work in key stage 4 so not 100% certain of that
Hold your nose and blow hard. Then, tell me again.HIV can get into your body via your big toe but does it stay there, the capability of this virus is unknown, so are you saying unless it gets into your respiratory system its harmless because thats complete bollox,,were being advised not to touch our faces without washing hands and that includes the eyes which has nothing to do with respiratory
Dying of starvation won’t count towards the figures so that’s ok.Yes, but China will have fucking thousands of dead people who are still welded inside their apartment blocks....
Italy was a disaster. The lockdown in Lombardy was somehow leaked before it happened, meaning that shitloads of people got out before it happened, spreading it to the entire country. That's why the country lockdown happened so suddenly.Clearly something went very wrong in Lombardy, they account for the majority of the deaths In the past 24 hours.
I suppose the hope is that they are an anomaly on that side of the scale.
Is it a good point?? Is it REALLY?That’s a good point about the eyes
They're often more interested in being seen to do the right thing than actually doing the right thing. And to be fair, whatever they do, they'll be attacked by an opposition (and parts of the media) determined that in either case, they'll be seen as incompetent. Do nothing and people die and you don't care about people's lives. Put everything into it and nobody dies, so surely it wasn't that dangerous after all and most of that money was wasted?If in the fullness of time it turns out that our government put £££ before lives the politicians will be finished. They thought that people were hacked of with Brexit and too many elections, my god if they are responsible for thousands of deaths not a single one of them regardless of party should ever be allowed to hold office again.
Isn't it generally the case that the lower the mortality rate, the higher the total number of deaths though? As long as most people with the virus can go about their normal business, they'll be more likely to spread it to the vulnerable.
The other problem is presumably not necessarily the death rate, but the time it takes to have an effect. The death rate doesn't matter if you can walk around for 2 weeks spreading it to everyone without feeling a thing.Not quite, but I get where you are coming from.
To be really effective at reproducing, a virus must not be so deadly as to kill people straight off, or they never get to spread it around too much. On the other hand if it doesn't make people ill with coughing and spluttering then it doesn't get transmitted much either.
Most viruses fail to decimate the population because they fall on one side or the other. Ebola, for example, kills 80% of the people who get it. But Ebola victims don't get to pass it on that much because they are too busy lying on their backs dying.
COVID-19 is the most dangerous flu-like virus we've seen for 100 years and maybe longer, because it combines being pretty deadly - circa 10x worse than flu - AND at the same time is highly infectious. That is why it is such a threat and has the potential to kill millions unless we get it under control.
What should be the personal plan though?
I mean this genuinely.
I’d class myself as pretty fit and healthy, go to the gym, run and play football, exercise pretty much 7 days a week.
I can work from home so that’s ok.
So, take for example this evening. I’m due to play football at 7 for an hour. Am i now not supposed to go?
If I want to go to the gym tomorrow and do spin, should I not go there now?
If City is still on against Burnley and Madrid, should I not go?
If I fancy a couple of pints tonight in my local to hopefully see the scousers get beat, should I not go?
This is 100x aimed at the US. I’d imagine the Uk aren’t too high up on their list of worries.What an opening statement:
WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of cases outside China had increased 13-fold over the past two weeks.
He said he was "deeply concerned" by "alarming levels of inaction" over the virus.
And as far as I can tell, no major European nation is taking less action than us.
Exactly. So what changes?Honestly, I’d still be going to all of them in that scenario.
Yes agreed. With Ebola from example, you only spread when you are ill. And by the time you are ill, you are on your back.The other problem is presumably not necessarily the death rate, but the time it takes to have an effect. The death rate doesn't matter if you can walk around for 2 weeks spreading it to everyone without feeling a thing.
Good point - I am sure you are right.This is 100x aimed at the US. I’d imagine the Uk aren’t too high up on their list of worries.
It’s a tricky one though, for all governments. As I keep asking, if you put distancing measures in place, when do you stop? Do you just say right, from April 1st, no-one can leave any country for 6 months? This will then be reviewed and, if there are still ANY cases out there, the restrictions will stay in place until April 1st 2021?That’s exactly what people should be doing yeah. But plenty on here and Facebook that I’ve seen and in conversations have ignored all that advice as it’s just a bit of flu. That then increased the likelihood of contagion.
The WHO have been banging the same drum for around six weeks and if people (and governments) had actually listened earlier then the spread wouldn’t have been quite as widespread as it is now.
What should be the personal plan though?
I mean this genuinely.
I’d class myself as pretty fit and healthy, go to the gym, run and play football, exercise pretty much 7 days a week.
I can work from home so that’s ok.
So, take for example this evening. I’m due to play football at 7 for an hour. Am i now not supposed to go?
If I want to go to the gym tomorrow and do spin, should I not go there now?
If City is still on against Burnley and Madrid, should I not go?
If I fancy a couple of pints tonight in my local to hopefully see the scousers get beat, should I not go?