COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Ban-jani]

If we don’t do it now the thing will spread. That is guaranteed.

It will anyway mate but it’s about timing it so people obey the lockdown at the crucial time.

 

[lazerblue]

On the subject of working from home, I've been doing that for a while now and I've just finished pointing the house, I'm gonna rake it out and start again tomorrow

 

[Chippy_boy]

Unfortunately it will need to be employers, with encouragement from the government who will have to take the lead on this and take the decision out of their employees hands.

I agree I wish more would. I am supposed to be going to Germany next week and whilst Germany is not exactly Italy, nevertheless the idea of sitting on a packed plane for a hour or two is not filling me with enthusiasm. My employer has advised against non-essential travel, but what does that mean? The meeting is essential from a business perspective but not from a life or death perspective.

 

[The blue phantom]

Trump's a c--- but at least he's doing something serious about it.
All countries should do it.
Containment is the answer.

He's been forced into it. He's been saying this Virus is fuckall and nothing to worry about for a month.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

I agree I wish more would. I am supposed to be going to Germany next week and whilst Germany is not exactly Italy, nevertheless the idea of sitting on a packed plane for a hour or two is not filling me with enthusiasm. My employer has advised against non-essential travel, but what does that mean? The meeting is essential from a business perspective but not from a life or death perspective.

I wouldn’t go, personally.

 

[Chippy_boy]

But isn’t the 18% figure meaningless? Tests are being rationed so the number of confirmed cases is being artificially depressed.

There are question marks for sure, but whether it's meaningless I don't know. It's based on stats obtained on a consistent basis and it is talking about ratios not absolutes, so it could be an indicator. Now it is true that the % daily increase would also fall if the % of people being tested was also falling, so the next few days will be interesting.

 

[Ban-jani]

I’m sure that’s the case. I trust the experts not the government. Our % increase may have fallen but so has the rate of testing from what I can understand. On a separate subject, maybe the modelling shows that the NHS will not cope irrespective of timing of lock down. I have heard absolutely no discussion about their contingency plans to increase the number of ICU beds, infrastructure and trained staff. If the government were being transparent shouldn’t we by now?

Every scenario I look at they’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

Introduce draconian measures now, such as banning flights and some airlines go under.

Not banning things and it spreads more.

Enforcing a lockdown now and it will massively slow it down but in several weeks the population will rebel and it’ll spread again and they’ve lost that leverage.

Speak totally honestly and they’ll send people into panic, hide the truth and people get angry they’re not being honest and it’ll cause people not to take the measures themselves.

The government really are in a shit position and I think any decision they take, in any aspect of this, will cause negative consequences.

I get annoyed because people are using it to point score.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Best you will here is a few scraps over the last jar of do limo.

“You have it”
“No, you have it”....

Repeat ad nauseum....

 

[Saddleworth2]

Every scenario I look at they’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

Introduce draconian measures now, such as banning flights and some airlines go under.

Not banning things and it spreads more.

Enforcing a lockdown now and it will massively slow it down but in several weeks the population will rebel and it’ll spread again and they’ve lost that leverage.

Speak totally honestly and they’ll send people into panic, hide the truth and people get angry they’re not being honest and it’ll cause people not to take the measures themselves.

The government really are in a shit position and I think any decision they take, in any aspect of this, will cause negative consequences.

I get annoyed because people are using it to point score.

Are you accusing me of point scoring?

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Can you not reschedule to go via the UK?

You can't travel from Europe but from what I've heard you can travel to the UK and then on to the US.

no the flights are scheduled out of Lisbon unfortunately as part of the package which we were told about in December. To be honest I’ve got other complications in the sense of my mums situation and her being in a high-risk category so it would’ve been odds on that I would’ve canceled either way even if trump hadn’t imposed the ban.

more gutted for the kids - Bloody Chinese have a lot to answer for!