COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[oman0115]

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

 

[AlgarveBlu]

So they celebrate whilst the rest of the world is in turmoil.should ban there practises for good after this!

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.

 

[Uffa]

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

Why are they trying to get to the beach?

 

[blueparrot]

Are cafes not affected by the ban? I’ve seen lots of them open this morning

We are doing takeaway, steady stream but only 3 in the shop at once and hand sanitiser for us and each customer.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Why are they trying to get to the beach?

It’s March ffs!

 

[oman0115]

Why are they trying to get to the beach?

because it’s a nice day and everyone wants to go and chill out there

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

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.

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.

 

[Uffa]

because it’s a nice day and everyone wants to go and chill out there

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.

 

[oman0115]

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.

this isn’t a habit mate, this is treating it as a holiday I’ve never seen it this busy

 

[lazerblue]

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).

thats good of em