COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[denislawsbackheel]

I stopped buying British when we gave the world BSE and CJD...

 

[BlueHammer85]

Sky news: Cops break up karaoke party in Derby 25 adults and kids. Beyond reasons how many fuckwits there are in this country.

I hope they did more than break them up and gave the adults a big hefty fucking fine

 

[Phil1]

It is a important tool to tell everyone to stay home

My whole point from my first post was that Facebook has its uses.

 

[Phil1]

Sky news: Cops break up karaoke party in Derby 25 adults and kids. Beyond reasons how many fuckwits there are in this country.

Murder on the dance floor...

 

[BlueHammer85]

My whole point from my first post was that Facebook has its uses.

I agreed with you

 

[Phil1]

I agreed with you

Then all is good in the world - well obviously it isn’t but.. :-)

 

[super_city_si]

I had the same issue a few weeks ago. Decided in the end to get off social media, switch off sky news completely and stick Netflix/Amazon prime on. Gone through about 7 seasons of The Office (US) and now decided to switch to Ozark. Still managed to get work done in-between.

I'm at a stage where i'll stay informed but not overdo it to an extent where i'm seeing COVID-19 news twenty-four hours a day.

I think that’s important. I’ll read the news and threads throughout the day to keep up and then After my tea it’s off. I’ll watch some film or series and then read a book. No more Coronavirus after 6.

it’s healthy to switch off a little every day

 

[Vic]

It was stupidity announcing that pubs could trade until the end of the day.
It should have announced in the morning, with immediate effect. (and enforced with police checks)

The problem with that suggestion is legislation. Remember the UK is not a dictatorship.

To be fair, they told pubs and restaurants to close as soon as possible on that Friday evening. You could argue whether stupidity lies with people and businesses who took it as a cue to make the most of it and have a night out, or with government for not knowing about people's stupidity.

 

[Vic]

that's why I dont have faceshite or any other bollocks

Some posts on here are bollocks. The trouble is the old joke "Are you coming to bed, dear?" "No, there's somebody wrong on the internet" takes on a new gloss when somebody being wrong on the internet can kill you.​

 

[birch villa]

To be fair, they told pubs and restaurants to close as soon as possible on that Friday evening. You could argue whether stupidity lies with people and businesses who took it as a cue to make the most of it and have a night out, or with government for not knowing about people's stupidity.

Problem being common sense

 

[super_city_si]

I stopped buying British products when we gave the world BSE...

Hahaha my wife still won’t eat beef.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Tbh I’m relieved despite the severity

So am I sounds awful but that's a great result for where we are at the moment.

 

[birch villa]

Italy death rate dropped today , fingers crossed this continues

 

[Indaparkside]

Spain are getting smashed nearly 7,000 deaths, fear for the uk in the next couple of weeks

 

[Vic]

to stop a mad panic i can understand not giving out the truth ? but if its that bad you will soon see with your own eyes when more and more are dropping dead and numbers will rise fast. the people running the uk are saying if we can get out of this with under 20.000 then we won have done very well that quote is scary because its just picking numbers from the sky ? 64 million people are officially living in the uk. but the truth is you can add millions more that are living in the uk that are not on the census list and millions more living illegally

so this killer virus will only be judged when its to late and when the powers in the world that we truth to run our countries come and and say sorry and ask for forgiveness and admit they got it wrong and should have done the lock downs earlier and warnings posted months ago because they knew last year about the killer virus and just did not take it serious enough

"The truth is..." (millions not on the census and millions living illegally)" immediately after "just picking numbers from the sky" is a useful juxtaposition.

 

[TCIB]

Some modeling scenarios if you have 20 mins...

 

[bigstanhibbert]

 

[chaddblue]

It’s a shame because Facebook is an absolute godsend for many stuck home alone right now. I’m sure it’s become a vital tool of communication for some.
It’s just a shame it’s full of cunts.

Facebook is nothing compared to twitter.... Twitter just represents everything that is wrong with the world today. I've not been on it for about 4 weeks and I feel so much better

 

[Claytop]

Couple of graphs showing how you can show numbers differently. Yesterday’s data

FT one is since 10 deaths

Opros one is from 50 deaths

As you can see we’re tracking below the main European countries that have been hit hardest so far using the bottom one whereas we’re in front of Italy in the top one.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Facebook is nothing compared to twitter.... Twitter just represents everything that is wrong with the world today. I've not been on it for about 4 weeks and I feel so much better

I’ve come off social media and it’s a blessing, I pop on twitter now and then for some funny video someone would have tagged me in and that’s it, last night a great example of why I came off, City give their stadium up and Mark Ogden makes a snide remark then everyone jumps in saying emptihad etc, it’s just shite. Some of the videos are funny but you end up seeing them in WhatsApp or Instagram.