COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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do you really think the government is being straight ask yourself, but be honest, the chinese figures are they correct and so on, why not release the minutes of the cobra meeting, oh no not a chance of that, i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at that meeting, the number one job is now not to create panic because once thats gone we'l have looting, riots and other civil disorder, the point about something more sinister is more aimed towards the virus itself, maybe we dont even know yet but this thing could mutate to a more deadly strain, i just feel its not right,something dosnt sit right if you get me

You feel as though something isn't right (despite there actually being no evidence or proof of this), yet you say there is certainly something being hidden from us.

Simple fact of this is that you've no idea if we're being told everything. No idea at all. Neither do I, but then I'm not the one posting completely unfounded claims on an internet forum.
 
Simply no one would accept the draconian measure of shutting shop straight away.
In the weeks leading to the spread over here the front line would have to have been prepared, briefed and equipped to tackle this. Step by step seems the best way out of all the impossible options.
We could have done what the WHO told us to do for a start,we could have got ahead with the testing,we have been caught out with our plan and now they are panicing and ,how could they look at italy and not expect it to come to us 4 weeks or whatever it was later
 
Why do PHE and Boris Johnson keep saying that they will introduce the right measures at the right time? All the measures are needed now.

Sort the testing out. We don't just need numbers we need follow-ups. It's a lot to do. The University of Padua in Italy cleared a Northern Italian town of virus by tracing the asymptomatic carriers. I have just emailed the vice-chancellor of University of Manchester suggesting we do this. Why not?
It’s to allow them to bullshit. “The right time” is subjective and of course whatever they do is now “at the right time”, even if it’s 2,3,4 weeks late.
I’d be amazed if it isn’t.
Watch them announce it a few days in advance and thousands flee to family in other parts of the country, spreading it even faster.
 
To be fair, many of us have responded to many posts like that asking for sourcing so it can be determined to be reputable or not and have encouraged everyone to link to articles and reports that reference what they are posting about, when possible.

I don’t think we can functionally enforce a rule like that, though.

It was more tongue in cheek mate to be fair. Normal people will do that, it's the scaremongering flappers that don't. Probably copy and pasting from Twitter where it is flap central. The army are on the M62 you know!
 
Look, this is going to be shite. It's going to be really shite. Lots of people are going to die and it's probable that we (and when I say we I mean pretty much the whole world) won't recover from this for years.

But we will. We always do.

Uncontrolled fear is one of the things we do need to be afraid of though. Cool heads and rational thinking are what are required.

If this is you trying to reassure people I’d hate to see you on a downer :)
 
do you really think the government is being straight ask yourself, but be honest, the chinese figures are they correct and so on, why not release the minutes of the cobra meeting, oh no not a chance of that, i would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at that meeting, the number one job is now not to create panic because once thats gone we'l have looting, riots and other civil disorder, the point about something more sinister is more aimed towards the virus itself, maybe we dont even know yet but this thing could mutate to a more deadly strain, i just feel its not right,something dosnt sit right if you get me

I’m not sure why people don’t think it’s sinister enough already?

You do not need many people infected to overload the NHS and other illnesses don’t just go on pause either. If London for example shot up in itself to the numbers Wuhan had then it would be screwed. If it doesn’t lock down in time and fully then those numbers grow even more.

Put into context though, imagine one million infected in London. That’s 50-100000 needing hospital treatment. That’s people dying in their homes and outside hospitals just there. And still, 9 out of 10 Londoners won’t even have it.

Now they could be honest about that. The problem then though is that mental health deteriorates. Already in the past week the amount of emergency calls that have been for panic attacks has gone up.
 
Have you had a quick glance at RAWK lately?

And people think this thread is paranoid and doom mongering. :-)
A lot of the joy went for me when they locked their 'chasing the title' thread to presumably spare them from the embarrassment of their own breed turning on its self. Happily their deluded nonsense has taken residence in their COVID thread - a thread where grown men whose children will be bringing home letters tomorrow saying they wont be doing exams this year still believe that the league will restart in two weeks time.
 
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