COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[andyhinch]

Worries me greatly the amount of people passing by my house considering the govt advice to stay in. Have seen some people passing 3 or 4 times a day. Counted 187 in the last hour and the town where I live only has a population of 7k. Last night my son went for his excercise at 10pm. When he came back he said he had passed the skate park and it was packed. Not sure if this is small town mentality

Got to be honest everyone seems to be doing their bit where I live, it’s like a ghost town

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Can we agree it was a bit daft?

Have edited as 1 & 3 essentially replicated themselves.

No, it wasn’t a bit daft; it was grossly negligent and beyond stupid.

 

[Phil1]

Have edited as 1 & 3 essentially replicated themselves.

No, it wasn’t a bit daft; it was grossly negligent and beyond stupid.

That seems a fair compromise.

 

[johnnytapia]

They were much more liberal and reasoned in the 1930’s.

1930s.

 

[kaz7]

Alowing Valencia v Atalanta on 10th March may have accelerated the spread in both countries in hindsight

I was just reading that

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...mb-that-infected-bergamo-experts-say-11963905

I wonder if our cup final had an effect on the london numbers

 

[johnnytapia]

It’s not murder, unless you can prove:

1. an intention to kill or cause serious harm (an almost impossible burden to discharge in the circumstances)
2. that you can prove causation to a particular fatality, or fatalities, so that a jury would be sure that was what killed them (again, almost impossible)

Which one are you?:

 

[Phil1]

I was just reading that

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...mb-that-infected-bergamo-experts-say-11963905

I wonder if our cup final had an effect on the london numbers

There was a 39 year old from Wakefield on sky news, well his father, the other day saying he’d contracted the virus after Wembley. I fear be won’t be alone as you yourself can testify.

 

[xgorton]

My brother in law has just come back from Torrevieja hospital ( his wife has ongoing cancer treatment ) while he was waiting and spoke to the doctor seems as if we will be in lockdown until late the end of April : (

I do miss my trips to Santa Pola.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Based on these figures, the UK response has been vastly more effective at preserving life...

You're confusing correlation with causation I think. Actually, no, you just are. You cannot possibly be suggesting that us allowing un-monitored, completely uncontrolled incoming flights from infected areas (as we have done) and allowing mass events such as Cheltenham and rugby and what-have-you, and not shutting down cafes and restaurants until the last possible moment, are the reasons our *current* mortality figures are lower than those of other countries.

The (lack of) measures we've been taking and the (late) timing of them, have absolutely fuck all to do with us being in better shape than Italy or Spain.

 

[mexico1970]

Have read plenty. Take one simple thing - allowing 3000 Madrid fans fly into the UK when we categorically knew that could/would increase infection rates. As I said, murder.

I'd go along with that, when they knew about this outbreak why didn't all travel to and from China stop? Why are we still allowing possibly infected people to come in? China is reinfecting itself as is Singapore by allowing people back in after their quarantines.

We're trying to get upward of a million people back to these shores, the people at the top don't seem to want to sort it and that isn't just in this country either.