COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[PragueBlue]

Just watching the news review,might have been the financial times,as you say they are overwhelmed with people trying to get the mortgage holiday anyway,anyone would be mad letting anyone come and look around their house right now

True. People wouldn't be allowed to go around looking at houses anyway now I don't think, unless it's classed as exercise!

 

[Postman Pep]

you mean the bit where I called him an orange idiot?

I saw through your deflection tactics and have noted your constant need to defend those in power.

 

[Postman Pep]

That would be the ISTJ-A in me.[/QUOTE]

Spits some proper bars that fucker

 

[Postman Pep]

the problem is that there are a lot of scrotes who will see this as an opportunity to get into the buy to let market and a lot of scrotes who are in it and see this as a good time to cash in.

The problem any government has when they announce the kind of interventions we've seen in the last couple of weeks is that there are a lot of people who will see it as an opportunity to make some quick cash.
I fucking hate them. I have a very good friend who just happened to be trading gold (not huge amounts) during 9/11 and made a bunch of cash. He cried about it to me over a bottle of JD and after a long discussion gave all his profit to a local charity a week later. He loves and hates me for that discussion to this day and I have no idea if I gave good or bad advice.
the world is complicated for good people. It's fucking easy for shitbags.

So you have a very good friend who made a killing out of a tragic event and you feel slightly uneasy about putting him on a guilt trip where he squandered his filthy lucre on a charity that probably employs a CEO on 200K.

 

[Marvin]

Mass testing seems very close....that's the only way Trump's plan of re-opening low-risk states can work. Roche are shipping kits which allow relatively quick results (hours). If enough are made available, and they are reliable, suddenly we shift from lockdown of entire states/countries to isolating the sick.

When I read some of the comments on here about protecting themselves and keeping safe it's clear that they have misunderstood why we are staying at home. We are staying at home to stay safe in the future. I hope the risk in Manchester of catching the virus whilst out shopping is still small because I am still doing it. We stay at home to make that 'small' chance of transmission smaller. It's more about interrupting virus transmission as it grows exponentially so that we set back the peak after 5-6 cycles of growth. It's in the peak that the virus suddenly becomes prevalent (qualitatively speaking).

 

[BlueAnorak]

Looking at the stats, Greater London is in real trouble. Great local authority map here;
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/27/coronavirus-uk-how-many-cases-map-covid-19

 

[BlueAnorak]

China have closed their borders. The fuck twats went ballistic when other assian countries did that to them.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

China have closed their borders. The fuck twats went ballistic when other assian countries did that to them.

For clarity, who are the fuck twats?

 

[BlueAnorak]

For clarity, who are the fuck twats?

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who have done Jack Schidt for 50 years to deal with their country's species jump virus factory.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who have done Jack Schidt for 50 years to deal with their coubtrues species jump virus factory.

Thanks. I don’t want to annoy you, but I’m not sure what good having anger with them will do for you as viruses have to start somewhere.

Sure, it’s probable that this has come from a wet market and they need shutting down ASAP, but if they hadn’t existed, the virus would have come along at some point.

We need to stay positive. We can beat this by isolating and buying time for scientists.