COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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@Healdplace just another thanks again for posting the numbers. I think your analysis is much clearer than many others!

Do you fancy a job on TV explaining it all? :)
 
Yes it’s tough for most Governments. The Tier System is damaging the economy and people’s social lives without having much impact on the economy. Falling between two stools isn’t really helping.
They've been making horror sci fi movies like this for decades. Even Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, WestWorld and ER) started off with one 50 years back based on his book The Andromeda Strain.

These stories usually had some hero saving the day in some way as people fell like flies. But in the real world people are flawed, daring do is less apparent than daring don't, boring stuff like political conflict, balancing the books and making viruses do what you want them to do always look less good on camera and not quite so easy to pull off in real life.

We have been conditioned to expect some local version of James Bond will arrive and save the day and presidents and prime ministers will all be wise, fearless figures who act fast and decisively to hell with the cost in order to save the world - as opposed to real life where human beings are not like that in all but rare instances and are really flawed, selfish and want to wait it out and wish it to go away because it is messing up their lives

Unfortunately nothing beyond sheer hard work, time, effort and good fortune can arrive to save the day outside of Hollywood.

The story of this pandemic would not have been great box office. But it is what we have and the human race will stand or fall together and eventually come out the other side more or less intact.

Then they will make movies about it by the dozen I expect after which we will all probably say - it was really NOTHING like that at all.

And your great grandchildren on your knee in the care home many moons from now will ask because they are studying it in history at school - what did you do during the great pandemic? Were you a Covid hero?

You should all just hope that with a straight face and a minimum of obfuscation you can say to them - yes - and not desperately try to forget what you really did because your life mattered more than saving the world.
 
I think we are in a lot of trouble personally. If you look at the sheer numbers coming in now, the death toll is going to start going up and we've not even hit winter proper yet. The government has to get a handle on this before Christmas, otherwise it's going to be fucking disastorous. Same as the EU.
I admire your pessimism.
 
They've been making horror sci fi movies like this for decades. Even Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, WestWorld and ER) started off with one 50 years back based on his book The Andromeda Strain.

These stories usually had some hero saving the day in some way as people fell like flies. But in the real world people are flawed, daring do is less apparent than daring don't, boring stuff like political conflict, balancing the books and making viruses do what you want them to do always look less good on camera and not quite so easy to pull off in real life.

We have been conditioned to expect some local version of James Bond will arrive and save the day and presidents and prime ministers will all be wise, fearless figures who act fast and decisively to hell with the cost in order to save the world - as opposed to real life where human beings are not like that in all but rare instances and are really flawed, selfish and want to wait it out and wish it to go away because it is messing up their lives

Unfortunately nothing beyond sheer hard work, time, effort and good fortune can arrive to save the day outside of Hollywood.

The story of this pandemic would not have been great box office. But it is what we have and the human race will stand or fall together and eventually come out the other side more or less intact.

Then they will make movies about it by the dozen I expect after which we will all probably say - it was really NOTHING like that at all.

And your great grandchildren on your knee in the care home many moons from now will ask because they are studying it in history at school - what did you do during the great pandemic? Were you a Covid hero?

You should all just hope that with a straight face and a minimum of obfuscation you can say to them - yes - and not desperately try to forget what you really did because your life mattered more than saving the world.
They could call the first film Contagion 2 because that seemed to have many similarities with the first wave of Covid 19. It would probably include a focus on a Trumpy character.

Contagion 3 would include bouncy castle parties and raves in the North West, as well as the multi-billions wasted on the test and trace App and substandard PPE. Hopefully, it would finish with a vaccine being rolled out with success.
 
There was a time when 'right on' actors and musicians joint green peace or chained themselves to fences at military installations for 'ban the bomb' protests. Now they search the Web for alternative causes and make themselves look foolish.
And none more so that the cretin Tom Cruise. More idiocy per vertical foot than anyone in Hollywood.
 
Contagion the movie about 9 years ago was very insightful.

As was in its own way that BBC documentary with the same name 2 years ago where they played out a whole pandemic scenario across the UK using mobile phones to track those catching it and using them to tell you if you were positive or not and watch who you then went on to infect!

Indeed by irony the first case (or what was thought to be the first case in this pandemic for a long time though it probably wasn't) actually took place in the same small town where they by chance set the whole thing to see how it spread out from there.

Loss of life was even worse in their scenario than we have now but it flagged up the big error we made by making it too.

Assuming that the pandemic would be a virulent flu as coronaviruses were assumed to get stopped before they reached here.

That assumption caught the world out big time.

And why on Earth did the team who planned that BBC ap not get the job to run track and trace as I bet theirs would have worked far faster and better having had actual real world experience all be it in fiction it was still created, set up and run with real people.
 
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