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I live in Haarlem near the coast in Holland. Just taken the dog for his business, the roads are gridlockd with people queuing two miles to get to the beach, and I’ve never seen so many old people out for a stroll in my life. It’s madness
 
birchwoodgingerste said:
So they celebrate whilst the rest of the world is in turmoil.should ban there practises for good after this!
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They promised that after the 2003 SARS outbreak and then subsequently went on to cause another localized outbreak in China after the main one had fizzled out from one of their laboratories, basically a combined effort by the bat consumers and the scientists. I covered some of this on the politics side but I suspect there is unfortunately nothing we can do to put pressure on them. Hopefully their economic contraction in GDP this time round will be the only chance we have.
 
oman0115 said:
I live in Haarlem near the coast in Holland. Just taken the dog for his business, the roads are gridlockd with people queuing two miles to get to the beach, and I’ve never seen so many old people out for a stroll in my life. It’s madness
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Why are they trying to get to the beach?
 
BlueAnorak said:
Just to say, there are some things that I am unhappy about.
1. Leaving doctors surgeries open as long as they did. They should have shut them down after the weekend of the Wembley final and moved to remote consultation earlier. I probably caught it as a result of this.mistake.
2. The air travel disaster. As soon as a country or region has 20 cases of a new virus, you shut regular air travel down. More importantly everyone who travels from that country needs to go into monitored self isolation for the virus incubation period (mobile phone monitoring should be sufficient). As should people who have travelled from that country/region for the previous week. Tawain has implemented this rule and is doing pretty well as a result - especially considering the air travel connections it had to China.
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Not shutting down air travel and ferry ports will prove to be the biggest mistake all the countries made. They won’t make this mistake the next time.

As an island we could have pretty much contained this had we done this in Jan. £££ talks more than human Life though unfortunately.
 
oman0115 said:
because it’s a nice day and everyone wants to go and chill out there
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Oh alright lol it's probably because I don't live there but the North Sea in March doesn't sound that enticing. I guess everyone has their local habits though.
 
Uffa said:
Oh alright lol it's probably because I don't live there but the North Sea in March doesn't sound that enticing. I guess everyone has their local habits though.
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this isn’t a habit mate, this is treating it as a holiday I’ve never seen it this busy
 
Marvin said:
Many Chinese healthworkers gave their lives to help people. They figured this virus out passing its structural makeup to the rest of the world on the 10th January and our governments sat on it (based on the number of tests that US govt did in the early weeks of their own epidemic).
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thats good of em
 
Argument with my pregnant wife - she wants us to go over her mum and dads with her nan and grandad there for a take away.

i mean. Fuck sake.
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Not shutting down air travel and ferry ports will prove to be the biggest mistake all the countries made. They won’t make this mistake the next time.

As an island we could have pretty much contained this had we done this in Jan. £££ talks more than human Life though unfortunately.
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Yep. John Campbell was talking about how serious this would be in January. His last two videos his whole tone and demeanor have changed to someone who is totally aghast at some country’s laxness and as someone who expects now for almost the very worst scenario to happen.
 
As a self employed joiner I look forward to navigating the benefits system to probably end up with the princely sum ov fuck all , as much as I wud love to lockdown now it wont be happening
 
Uffa said:
What measures has your government put into place?
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closer bars, cinemas, gyms & restaurants. But basically said we’re all going to get it so just be sensible, self isolate if you have symptoms but carry on your life. Death wise we’re not far behind the uk I believe with a third of the population
 
jay_mcfc said:
Yep. John Campbell was talking about how serious this would be in January. His last two videos his whole tone and demeanor have changed to someone who is totally aghast at some country’s laxness and as someone who expects now for almost the very worst scenario to happen.
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Yeah and by by not acting quickly it’s now going to cost the government a bloody fortune to sort It. However, if these worst case scenario predictions come true then they will be saving a shit load in pension and benefit payments. It’s a shocking state of affairs currently. My mum has gone from talking about her will last week to almost accepting this is going to get her. Very sad having these discussions
 
domalino said:
This isnt a debate. We have currently got enough ventilators for everyone in hospital with coronavirus tonight.

Therefore having more ventilators is not a point of difference between the UK and germany.
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Will you read my posts properly ,there are milions of other patients using the hospitals and we don't have enough for everyone,several times you have ignored those treating patients,what they have to say is the only measure of truth
 
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