COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[west didsblue]

You know it's bad when people are panic buying frey bentos

Maybe Uruguay will become the new safe haven for investments?

 

[Summerbuzz]

Back to my point that our approach has not been that dissimilar to the approach on the continent. And it’s not really an approach it’s recognising the inevitable and trying to keep it manageable with the restrictive measures. Our argument is about when to introduce restrictive measures albeit a good section of the UK population has self imposed restrictive measures anyway.

‘BREAKING. According to Le Figaro, also French President Macron is silently supporting the "HERD IMMUNITY OPTION" to fight #CoronaVirus, in a similar approach to the UK’

https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/la...e-groupe-pour-arreter-le-coronavirus-20200313

Ho ho ho, why am I so cynical... of course it's Le Fucking Figaro who run to Cummings aid, with an unattributable story. They are known to have some pretty big ties with the new-nationalist political elites (editorial advisors on ethnonationalist think tanks etc).

 

[kaz7]

You know it's bad when people are panic buying frey bentos

It is not really a crisis till people start stock piling spam

 

[bobmcfc]

Latest victim 59 year old ex policeman

 

[PragueBlue]

Latest victim 59 year old ex policeman

With underlying health condition I think I heard.

 

[idahoblues]

It is not really a crisis till people start stock piling spam

Great stuff

 

[bobmcfc]

With underlying health condition I think I heard.

Doesn’t say what though. I’d like to know what they class as underlying

 

[PragueBlue]

Doesn’t say what though. I’d like to know what they class as underlying

True. Could be diabetes, asthma, COPD, heart problems, cancer etc. It's hard to know how serious a health issue it has to be to be classed as underlying.

 

[SouthStandStander]

Doesn’t say what though. I’d like to know what they class as underlying

In growing toe nails

 

[goatersnipple]

In growing too nails

Too nails are terrible

 

[meltonblue]

I think lot of people had similar symptoms and like you say shrugged it off as seasonal cold/ flu like symptoms. Add to that the incredibly mild but wet winter- if we did have it least it shows our immunity was reasonable for now

40000 tests and the majority have come back negative, a lot of those will be for people thinking they had covid 19 and therefore similar symptoms. The idea most have already had it is a non runner, it’s far more likely it was just seasonal flu. I’ve had similar for nearly two months now.

 

[BobKowalski]

Ho ho ho, why am I so cynical... of course it's Le Fucking Figaro who run to Cummings aid, with an unattributable story. They are known to have some pretty big ties with the new-nationalist political elites (editorial advisors on ethnonationalist think tanks etc).

Honestly I think it’s simpler than that. Every European country has accepted a large percentage of their populations are going to contract this and the focus is on managing the infection spread so the systems can cope. They just haven’t banged on about ‘herd immunity’ as we have. They have treated it as an inevitable consequence whereas we elevated it to a strategy.

Herd immunity as a term is a PR disaster. All other European nations went for steadily progressive action and positive messaging ie Varadkar ‘together we can save lives’. We said we are doing nothing for now, we think you are cud chewing bovines and some of you will die.

Right now Hancock is trying to row back on ‘herd immunity’ and went for ‘we are locking up old people for four months and we have no ventilators please help’. Great job there mate.

Anyway back to comms strategy. Ministers not happy.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/boris-johnson-coronavirus-strategy-for-the-public

 

[Summerbuzz]

I'm pretty close to saying I'm fed up being told not to panic. I could use a good 24 hour full scale atomic wobbly. Get it out of the fucking way. We're all going to die! Probably not cos of this. But now we have to deal with that because other people ARE going to because from this and we will have to deal with THAT. Too easy to forgot what having that insescapable responsibility and destiny in the background of our lives all the time feels like. Taking time out to scream at the universe and crush things with your bare hands seems very much the way forward.

 

[bobmcfc]

True. Could be diabetes, asthma, COPD, heart problems, cancer etc. It's hard to know how serious a health issue it has to be to be classed as underlying.

Says he was recently in the Canary Islands so couldn’t have been something severe that he was already in hospital

 

[SWP's back]

So of those people who have tested positive we currently have a mortality rate of around 2.5%.

Which is slightly less than the global average of 3.7%

 

[PragueBlue]

Says he was recently in the Canary Islands so couldn’t have been something severe that he was already in hospital

No but people do travel with serious underlying health issues. I have what would probably classed as one and love travelling.

 

[birch villa]

You know it's bad when people are panic buying frey bentos

Lol made me laff that seen a couple arguing over it bloke says I fucking hated it as a kid

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

The death rate seems pretty high. If the government want 60% of the population to get the virus, potentially a million people could die ...

 

[SWP's back]

No but people do travel with serious underlying health issues. I have what would probably classed as one and love travelling.

More than half of people aged over 50 would be classified as having an underlying health issue tbf.

 

[mcfc1632]

Just received messages from Cyprus....

All small businesses - including bars and restaurants - closed ftom now until end April.

Fuck this is getting very serious