Coronavirus

[Josef Svejk]

57 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

There's a decent sitcom in it. 

 

[cloggypop]

13 minutes ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

Prince Charles has very mild symptoms but met the criteria for the test?

 

Presumably said criteria have an asterisk which say “Unless you’re Prince Charles”.

Worrying that it's crossed species again. 

[Josef Svejk]

1 minute ago, cloggypop said:

Worrying that it's crossed species again. 

The poor lizards...

[SasaS]

1 minute ago, Spy Bee said:

Well, we have never known at any stage the number of people who have actually been infected by the virus. We don't know the number of people who have been exposed to it and not been infected. So far, pretty much all numbers are guessing games. IN South Korea where most testing has happened, they have the lowest death rate.

But not THAT low. They tested over 300,000 people, 9137 confirmed cases to date, 126 deaths. This would mean that they had a major outbreak in January or early February which went undetected and that thousands of people died without anybody realizing there is an epidemic going on.

[Spy Bee]

4 minutes ago, SasaS said:

But not THAT low. They tested over 300,000 people, 9137 confirmed cases to date, 126 deaths. This would mean that they had a major outbreak in January or early February which went undetected and that thousands of people died without anybody realizing there is an epidemic going on.

Your assumption is not scientific.

[skend04]

To be fair that Oxford study is purely theory at the minute and they themselves have said it needs testing. I thought the testing right now isn't based on if you've had it, just if you've got it? Could be wrong, mind.

[Dr Nowt]

13 minutes ago, clangers said:

Was thinking that myself, I bet he didn't have to wait 4 days for the result? 

It’s important to remember that Johnson didn’t have a test the other week though.
 

Definitely the sort of selfless, honourable man who would turn it down.

[clangers]

Great question asked. Aren't the queen and Charles guilty of rushing off to their 2nd homes in the country to outrun the virus? Obviously didn't work in Charles case.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

10 minutes ago, SasaS said:

But not THAT low. They tested over 300,000 people, 9137 confirmed cases to date, 126 deaths. This would mean that they had a major outbreak in January or early February which went undetected and that thousands of people died without anybody realizing there is an epidemic going on.

Firstly they have a proper lockdown in place.

 

Add to that anyone testing positive, they are contact tracing every potential person the infected person have been in contact with.

 

The key with getting on top of this virus is grabbing it by the fucking balls.

 

[Scott_M]

1 hour ago, Spy Bee said:

We haven't kept pace with Italy though. This could be due to the make-up and demographics of their country.

I’m assuming it’s waaaaaaay to simplistic that our climate makes us more resilient to flu & cold based viruses? A quick look at worldmeters.info shows Northern European & Scandinavian countries reporting less deaths than warmer countries.

[Scott_M]

1 hour ago, clockspeed said:

I can be quoted at later date our tsunami is yet to come nothing to do with herd immunity rather we just later to the covid party.

Unfortunately, I suspect you’re probably correct. 

[SasaS]

13 minutes ago, Spy Bee said:

Your assumption is not scientific.

My assumption seems logical to me, because everybody keeps saying that the main danger from this pandemic is, apart from this being an unknown new virus, that there is no cure and no vaccine, rhe strain on the health care system. Which comes form the number / percentage of people requiting hospitalization and ventilation. This cannot go unnoticed if there is a bug running through half the population.

Why would the Chinese first attempt the cover-up while they hoped to contain it an early stage, then move to total quarantine of 16 million people and severe restrictions on others, with huge economic and potentially lethal political consequences, if this was something that can go through large percentahge of the population undetected?

What is the explanation for all the dead Italians and Spaniards?

[Anubis]

11 minutes ago, Spy Bee said:

Your assumption is not scientific.

It’s SaaaSentific

 

I’ll get me coat.

[SasaS]

6 minutes ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

Firstly they have a proper lockdown in place.

 

Add to that anyone testing positive, they are contact tracing every potential person the infected person have been in contact with.

 

The key with getting on top of this virus is grabbing it by the fucking balls.

 

That has no relevance to the "half of population already had it" theory.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/home-coronavirus-antibody-tests-available-to-order-within-days_uk_5e7b6573c5b6955fe2fe8000

[Spy Bee]

4 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/home-coronavirus-antibody-tests-available-to-order-within-days_uk_5e7b6573c5b6955fe2fe8000

Supposed to be days, but I heard they were at least a week behind schedule.

[Anubis]

3 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/home-coronavirus-antibody-tests-available-to-order-within-days_uk_5e7b6573c5b6955fe2fe8000

There are only 3.5m tests, surely they should be used on front line NHS staff rather than be made available to hoarding cunts on the internet.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Just now, Anubis said:

There are only 3.5m tests, surely they should be used on front line NHS staff rather than be made available to hoarding cunts on the internet.

Definitely for NHS staff first. 

 

I'm guessing that the manufacturing process doesn't involve a finite material so they should be able to get more on the market fairly swiftly. 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

 

Wow.

[polymerpunkah]

3 hours ago, Audrey Witherspoon said:

Don’t you remember? That’s when you got your own room.

As someone who grew up in a family of ten, in a four-bedroom house, that did make me laugh.

 

Though in our case it wasn't death but the older kids getting married off, thankfully.

[Davelfc]

It's a big country with a large population and they have guns, lots of guns. 

[Stickman]

Just opened the windows for the first time in months and within two minutes a massive Bluebottle flew in.....Wish they would invent a virus that kills these dirty fuckers off 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Stickman said:

Just opened the windows for the first time in months and within two minutes a massive Bluebottle flew in.....Wish they would invent a virus that kills these dirty fuckers off 

 

 

[Vincent Vega]