COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Rammy Blue]

It probably was I guess. But still disgraceful to lie to the public like that. And they could have been telling people to make masks out of bits of cloth or what-have-you.

But you know people wouldn’t make them, first instincts would be to hammer eBay and Amazon for them. That’s how we roll in this country.

 

[shemnel]

this from infected folks or general population?

 

[Chippy_boy]

this from infected folks or general population?

General population. Only a tiny minority have caught this so far... as many on here have been saying.

Great news in terms of your chance of not catching it. Not good news in terms of your chance of survival if you do.

 

[BlueHammer85]

General population. Only a tiny minority have caught this so far... as many on here have been saying.

Great news in terms of your chance of not catching it. Not good news in terms of your chance of survival if you do.

we know the vast majority survive this if you get it, more so if you’re below age of 65

 

[jay_mcfc]

Is everyone respecting it or are loads taking th loss like here in the UK? Give an inch etc?

As far as I can see it's been respected really well. Supermarkets are a pleasure, everyone is wearing masks (obligatory from today in all public places including open air). There is some discontent, mini protests in parts of Madrid (right wing parts it has to be said - we have a left wing govt).

The big tests are yet to come here when we hit phase 2 and 3. Everyone flocks to the seaside (many have second homes that so far they haven't been allowed to go to) in July/August so it will be interesting to see what rules are in place and how they're obeyed in those times.

 

[jay_mcfc]

How you feeling mate? Hope you've picked up a bit from the other day.

Yeah better thanks. Still knackered but the flu type symptoms have gone so far.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Rolls-Royce Derby. Heartbreaking. 9,000 direct jobs. 36,000 associated supply chain jobs, plus ancillary support organisations. Could be as many as 50,000 people's livelyhoods destroyed.

Heartbreaking indeed, but I don't think anybody will be buying planes till 2022 at the earliest. Airbus will be doing the same soon.
What is the alternative to business retrenchment?

 

[Mike N]

The phrase ‘World-beating’ Track and Trace system worries me. This is the government who informs, almost daily, that we are being lead by ‘the beat medical advice in the world’ yet our numbers of deaths suggest that can’t be the case.

If we were in the group of countries leading the would, shouldn’t our figures be nearer South Korea, less than 500?

 

[SilverFox2]

Isn't this so bloody obvious.

And yet for weeks and weeks we had that moron Witty and his band of cretins, advising government ministers without a science o-level between them, that there was no need to wear them and no benefit in doing so. So that was the moronically stupid and wrong advice being pedalled.

And yet all the time we could see how effective mask-wearing was in Asian countries. An effective solution was right there in front of us.

The government's persistently wrong advice on something as important as this ha been a bloody bloody disgrace.

Now a legal requirement in all public places in Spain. In fairness most people in our SE Spain area were wearing them anyway as a courtesy to other people.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

The phrase ‘World-beating’ Track and Trace system worries me. This is the government who informs, almost daily, that we are being lead by ‘the beat medical advice in the world’ yet our numbers of deaths suggest that can’t be the case.

If we were in the group of countries leading the would, shouldn’t our figures be nearer South Korea, less than 500?

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