Coronavirus

[dockers_strike]

1 minute ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

We could have closed the country a lot earlier agreed. It would've caused some disruption and pissed a lot of people off, but it would've been a lot better than what's about to happen. I wouldn't pretend to know how we'd have opened the country again and when either. Our gov would've been best working with orgs like the World Health Organisation and officials from other countries to solve that problem.

Just to point out, the head of the WHO didnt want to call this what it was, a pandemic, when it was staring him in the face for 4 weeks. And even them, he decided to play semantics with the word.

[Rico1304]

2 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

We could have closed the country a lot earlier agreed. It would've caused some disruption and pissed a lot of people off, but it would've been a lot better than what's about to happen. I wouldn't pretend to know how we'd have opened the country again and when either. Our gov would've been best working with orgs like the World Health Organisation and officials from other countries to solve that problem.

Closing the borders wouldn’t have been enough. We’d have had to lock down for months. Then it would have bloomed the minute people were allowed back out. So all you’d do is postpone it. For ever? 

[Red Phoenix]

6 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

Funny how the "Austerity kills millions!" crowd think the country can take a 30-40% hit to GDP without consequence, isn't it.

 

Being one of the only countries on the planet with such a stupid approach to a global pandemic isn't too good for GDP either I don't think.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

 

[Funkasy]

When the hospitals are all run over, thats when the idiots stop thinking about gdp. When they are losing relitives that need common surgery because all the doctors are either sick or busy with patients dying from lung disease. 

[dockers_strike]

The scaremongering BBC can fuck off as well saying this could be with us 'for years to come.'

[Red Phoenix]

8 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Just to point out, the head of the WHO didnt want to call this what it was, a pandemic, when it was staring him in the face for 4 weeks. And even them, he decided to play semantics with the word.

 

I know, they fucked that up agreed. They still had experience from other countries that would've helped us deal with this better though.

 

6 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

Closing the borders wouldn’t have been enough. We’d have had to lock down for months. Then it would have bloomed the minute people were allowed back out. So all you’d do is postpone it. For ever? 

 

Try and hold it back until a vaccine. It'd be constant disruption on some level, but that's what we're going to get anyway now by the looks of it. With a lot more death and chaos early on than we would've had by trying to contain from the off.

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

Being one of the only countries on the planet with such a stupid approach to a global pandemic isn't too good for GDP either I don't think.

Just neg him then fuck him off. Trolling for the sake of it. 

[Rico1304]

Just now, Red Phoenix said:

 

I know, they fucked that up as well by the looks of it. They still had experience from other countries that would've helped us deal with this better though.

 

 

Try and hold it back until a vaccine. It'd be constant disruption on some level, but that's what we're going to get anyway now by the looks of it. With a lot more death and chaos early on than we would've had by trying to contain from the off.

So shut the country for an indefinite time? That’s your solution?  

[Duff Man]

5 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

 

Fucking hell. Just fucking hell. That is an astonishing thread.

[Duff Man]

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The authors of the model now say they realised "in the last few days" that the strategy they had recommended would result in around "250,000 deaths" in the UK (page 16, link here: https://imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf )

 

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The UK Only Realised "In The Last Few Days" That Its Coronavirus Strategy Would "Likely Result In Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths"

 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-uk-strategy-deaths

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Oh my! 

[moof]

But but but I thought they were listening to the experts 

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[Red Phoenix]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

Just neg him then fuck him off. Trolling for the sake of it. 

 

Haha yeah it took a while to realise as I'm tired.

 

Just now, Rico1304 said:

So shut the country for an indefinite time? That’s your solution?  

 

The country wouldn't be shutdown constantly I don't think but we don't know how the aftermath of this works properly because it'll take time to see how countries like China and South Korea recover from it. Disruption on some level would be indefinite until there's a vaccine but that doesn't mean "shut the country". The alternative is to let a virus rip through the population and that's insane.

[Duff Man]

imAGiNE iF coRbyN wAs IN CHArGE

[Liverpool lad]

I need this summed up

[moof]

11 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Just neg him then fuck him off. Trolling for the sake of it. 

Exactly. Fucking sad case

[3 Stacks]

Pretending you're listening to experts and "the science" is at least better than saying you think it's a hoax, I'd give them that. 

[skend04]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/us-sales-guns-ammunition-soar-amid-coronavirus-panic-buying

 

A guy with a gun beats a guy with Coronavirus.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Liverpool lad said:

I need this summed up

We are all going to die but it’s going to happen quicker because of the tories and SD had a degree and knows more than all of the worlds scientists and we are all going to be embarrassed. In October Berlin won’t know what’s fucking hit it. The world is on lockdown. 
 

Oh and Mooks got the trots. 

[Captain Turdseye]

It must be said, the longer this goes on the harder it’s becoming not to be worried when you see the lengths that all of the other countries around us are going to and then comparing it to us doing fuck all. 

[johnsusername]

6 minutes ago, Liverpool lad said:

I need this summed up

Is that you, Prime Minister? 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

3 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

We are all going to die but it’s going to happen quicker because of the tories and SD had a degree and knows more than all of the worlds scientists and we are all going to be embarrassed. In October Berlin won’t know what’s fucking hit it. The world is on lockdown. 
 

Oh and Mooks got the trots. 

Haha. 

 

Excellent summary!