COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[SWP's back]

This guy has a point:

 

[Phil1]

This guy has a point:

It's certainly something new to ponder. Why hasn't the flu been brought up previously?

 

[Tricky_Trev]

This guy has a point:

I am going to go on a rampage. And my mortality rate will be a lot higher than 3.4%

 

[AlgarveBlu]

This is going to be as significant to the world as 9/11 and the global financial crisis, if not even more so.
Having a buffoon as PM being instructed by a psychopath won't help.

Hope I'm wrong.

more so sadly in my opinion - no amounts of QE by the central banks can rescue and restart global economies this time as the enemy is fear and self preservation, once enough of the global population reach these tipping points the downward velocity will be hard to reverse, I can’t even see how any fiscal stimulus will convince people to go out and return to normal if the numbers continue to increase. Australia is about to go into recession for the first time since 1991 - that barometer alone tells you all you need to know on the benchmarking comparisons.

this time we need the big Pharma companies in conjunction with a globally coordinated government response to dig us out of this hole. I am personally pretty optimistic on the pharma side as the end goal is a vaccine and we can shortcut clinal trial times and also focus on testing anti virals which have come along way; there are some great biotech companies and specialized laboratories around the world. It’s the global government coordinated responses that worries me at the moment.

 

[Chippy_boy]

This is going to be as significant to the world as 9/11 and the global financial crisis, if not even more so.
Having a buffoon as PM being instructed by a psychopath won't help.

Hope I'm wrong.

Oh good grief, MUCH more so. in terms of deaths, it is already. And we've barely begun. We saw how the Americans stopped flying after 9/11, give it another month or so and the entire planet will have stopped flying. The impact on businesses is going to be catastrophic - people going out less, travelling less, staying in hotels less, shopping less, factories producing less. It's the 2008 crash in slow motion, but much worse.

 

[grunge]

I suppose the positive you could take from that is that South Korea are way ahead numbers wise in terms of testing and that's where there is a low % of fatalities per cases. The hope will be that this turns out to be the case elsewhere when more testing is done. It could be that there's a significant number of people who have it or had it and just not realised or not been tested and recovered fine.

Yep but thats assuming the lower figure is due to the higher testing and not something like a younger populace, less smoking etc.

 

[abu13]

Do not, in any circumstances, purchase an annuity. No need since flexible drawdown was introduced in 2015. Annuity rates are circa 1.3% when they were over 5% in the early 2000’s.

I am in the process of transferring two pensions into my works pension at the moment, i was told it may take 3 to 4 weeks to complete, that was 3 weeks ago and im concerned niw about the transfer value.

 

[kaz7]

Banging headache from all the coughing and knackered but i can breathe now,been a bit scary this tbh,putting on a brave face was slipping there for a minute,111 have been fantastic and quick,the NHS are brilliant when push comes to shove,my arse is intact so small mercies!

What is the news on playing games with no crowd? I am going to say not a chance the prem will go for that,they will put money and dipper glory ahead of health

what is everyone going to do? go or not go to games?

try not to panic

 

[aguero93:20]

This guy has a point:

Flu needs to get it's shit together, lagging well behind school shooters again.

 

[aguero93:20]

We saw how the Americans stopped flying after 9/11,

Especially the ones on American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.

 

[kaz7]

more so sadly in my opinion - no amounts of QE by the central banks can rescue and restart global economies this time as the enemy is fear and self preservation, once enough of the global population reach these tipping points the downward velocity will be hard to reverse, I can’t even see how any fiscal stimulus will convince people to go out and return to normal if the numbers continue to increase. Australia is about to go into recession for the first time since 1991 - that barometer alone tells you all you need to know on the benchmarking comparisons.

this time we need the big Pharma companies in conjunction with a globally coordinated government response to dig us out of this hole. I am personally pretty optimistic on the pharma side as the end goal is a vaccine and we can shortcut clinal trial times and also focus on testing anti virals which have come along way; there are some great biotech companies and specialized laboratories around the world. It’s the global government coordinated responses that worries me at the moment.

we cannot short cut trials,there is a legal as well as ethical rules to follow

 

[denislawsbackheel]

The WHO seem to believe those numbers

well they were the High ones...

 

[squirtyflower]

This guy has a point:

We don’t need our own ostriches with this dickhead tweeting his profound medical knowledge

 

[SWP's back]

It does not appear to be spreading fast in the walmer Southern Hemisphere which gives me some hope it may well fade as we approach summer.

Could though re emerge over winter.

Been a crazy start to the new decade.

We’ve had 18 cases in three days in Qatar. It’s 27 degrees.

To put that in context, we had no cases last week and there’s only 2.6m people here.

They’ve closed all schools as of today though to help prevent the spread.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Lower figure than i was expecting to hear unless it is on the back of weekend and 24 hours behind.

me too - hopefully correct as the figures are released at 14.00 on a daily basis

 

[The Northern Baptist]

Government saying we are in the contain phase still.

Maybe I’ve missed something here but what measures are being taken by the government to contain the virus? Apart from telling people to wash their hands whilst singing the National anthem?

 

[squirtyflower]

Government saying we are in the contain phase still.

Maybe I’ve missed something here but what measures are being taken by the government to contain the virus? Apart from telling people to wash their hands whilst singing the National anthem?

Shit, i thought it was Happy Birthday?

Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck

 

[Uffa]

:/

The thing that theory doesn't take into account is also whether your healthcare system will be able to "take it all in one go", and if the health system has problems it concerns not only those sick with covid but also other patients.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Oh good grief, MUCH more so. in terms of deaths, it is already. And we've barely begun. We saw how the Americans stopped flying after 9/11, give it another month or so and the entire planet will have stopped flying. The impact on businesses is going to be catastrophic - people going out less, travelling less, staying in hotels less, shopping less, factories producing less. It's the 2008 crash in slow motion, but much worse.

It does look like the economic impact will be huge. People will say it is crass to talk about the economics of it when people are sick and dying but the profits of economic activity is what puts food on peoples tables.

 

[kaz7]

Government saying we are in the contain phase still.

Maybe I’ve missed something here but what measures are being taken by the government to contain the virus? Apart from telling people to wash their hands whilst singing the National anthem?

Do we have to stand up as i can't manage that right now