COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Ban-jani]

It is beyond resources in normal times,let alone now
A lot of what the government put out is designed to negate panic as that crashes the economy and that is their only concern whatever they say

Based on?

 

[domalino]

If you want direct quotes criticising the UK government’s new announcement today then you’ll have to wait a day or two.

People are referring to the many instances of guidance provided by the WHO and CDC that contradict the assessment of sporting event associated public behaviour being a low risk for viral transmission in the context of containment and/or delay of transmission in this pandemic. Or, to it put more accurately, that the risk (both health and economic) is not sufficient to outweigh the possible economic impact of prohibiting sporting events and thus reducing the associated public behaviour that may increase viral transmission.

Perhaps you could provide the WHO guidance that contradicts the UK governmental stance? Because on their website they specifically say cancelling all mass gatherings is unnecessary.

They also explicitly say that whether it should go ahead depends on the strain on emergency services - just like the government said today.

 

[kaz7]

Unless Karen׳s right and there’s a load of people dying with pneumonia on their death certificate having not been tested.
I really don’t know, and we’ll only find out if the stats for pneumonia and COPD are much higher than usual.

That would be a good objective measure,i will keep an eye out in the spring for this winters figures although it would be more of an indication than proof

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

You can always watch reruns.

Yuck.

 

[Blue Hefner]

The £ is 1.13 Vs the €. This surprised me as we have done nothing yet schools, businesses, roads have been closed in Europe and Bio-hazard units are being craned in to hospitals on the streets of Berlin. I'd have thought the € would have tanked as the continent has more cases. We seem pretty steady V the $

Seems a little odd

 

[BlueHammer85]

What does he mean?

beyond words now how absolutely fucking deranged this man is. How any person can still think he’s good for the world right now has to be equally deranged as him.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Portugal closing all schools for two weeks from Monday - kids are ecstatic and and think the Coronavirus is a gift from the Gods..

Day 1 PlayStation
Day 2 divorce the kids

 

[Deleted member 77198]

What does he mean?

What does he ever mean? Nobody should ever listen to a word the **** ever says.

 

[marco]

It is beyond resources in normal times,let alone now
A lot of what the government put out is designed to negate panic as that crashes the economy and that is their only concern whatever they say

its creating panic because no one trusts a word their saying,how anyone can stand there straight faced and say events and school could be damaging if closed, the only thing that gets damaged in that case is the economy so its versus peoples lives,truly schocking and something i only thought the likes of Hitler could be capable of

 

[inchy14]

Are you suggesting if we can’t stop contamination completely we should just say fuck it carry on regardless ?

Not at all and I’m all for sporting events etc being cancelled but people are still going to be on tubes, trams, trains and buses unless we totally restrict movement and I certainly don’t see that happening.