Coronavirus

[Elite]

5 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Yeah. If your blood types 'gravy' you're fucked. 

Imagine that, you'd have people slitting their wrists and pouring over their Yorkshire Puddings.

[Numero Veinticinco]

On 11/08/2020 at 11:08, M_B said:

According to CNN, the Russians have registered a vaccine. We're all saved.

 

And it must be ok, because Putin's daughter has had it. Although oddly, not himself.

What's odd about it? Nobody would fuck with Putin, not even COVID. If anything, the antidote to COVID is if it caught a nasty has of the Putin. 

[Section_31]

3 minutes ago, Elite said:

Imagine that, you'd have people slitting their wrists and pouring over their Yorkshire Puddings.

God that would be amazing. Open up on some unit with buckshot then collect your winnings on a cone of chips.

[Elite]

1 minute ago, Section_31 said:

God that would be amazing. Open up on some unit with buckshot then collect your winnings on a cone of chips.

I've started a thread in it, the next step in evolution.

[Bjornebye]

6 minutes ago, Elite said:

Imagine that, you'd have people slitting their wrists and pouring over their Yorkshire Puddings.

Sam Allardyce shits on his roast dinners 

[Sugar Ape]

 

[Dougie Do'ins]

According to google, the UK didn't record a single covid related death yesterday.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?sxsrf=ALeKk03nnA1Ry8CSfIVLXNuL0zfpCAeWiQ%3A1597340299587&source=hp&ei=i3o1X-KEIcyTlwTuzpGQCQ&q=coronavirus+uk+deaths+today&oq=coronavirus+uk+de&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgBMgUIABCxAzIFCAAQsQMyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADIFCAAQsQMyAggAMgIIADoHCC4QJxCTAjoECC4QJzoICC4QsQMQgwE6CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOggILhDHARCvAToOCC4QsQMQgwEQxwEQowI6BAgjECc6CAgAELEDEIMBOgUILhCxAzoHCAAQsQMQClC4E1iWsgFg-cQBaAJwAHgAgAGaAYgB1QqSAQQxNS4ymAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab

[Champ]

5 hours ago, Stront19m Dog™ said:

I think it will be interesting, once people have stopped dying, to assess what approaches worked best, and why there were discrepancies from country to country.

 

I note that obesity is a major risk factor for covid, and Japan's obesity rate is 3.6%, against 28.7% in the UK and 42.4% in the USA. I'd start there if you're looking for explanations as to Japan's relatively low fatality rate.

Does anyone else listen to More or Less on R4? I love it. It investigates the statistical claims made on the news.

It was looking at obesity as a risk factor on this week’s programme and while there is a clear elevated risk with obesity, and the more so the heavier you are they concluded that it only accounted for about a 1000 of the excess deaths if I remember correctly

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Champ said:

Does anyone else listen to More or Less on R4? I love it. It investigates the statistical claims made on the news.

It was looking at obesity as a risk factor on this week’s programme and while there is a clear elevated risk with obesity, and the more so the heavier you are they concluded that it only accounted for about a 1000 of the excess deaths if I remember correctly

Stop sending everyone cookies you evil witch 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

France, the Netherlands and Malta added to the UK 14 day quarantine list. 

[Barrington Womble]

5 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

France, the Netherlands and Malta added to the UK 14 day quarantine list. 

Not till the weekend it seems? 

[Barrington Womble]

It seems all the lockdown relaxation that was due 2 weeks ago is happening this weekend. I'm surprised about that to be honest, I thought they'd sit tight till they got the kids back to school. 

[Sugar Ape]

Damn. I was looking forward to going to a discotheque and a sex venue. 
 

 

[Champ]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

Stop sending everyone cookies you evil witch 

Don’t blame the cookies. Blame this shit show of a government 

 

[TheHowieLama]

Discos and sex shows

 

Sounds like a line from a Lou Reed verse

[Gnasher]

6 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Fair point that. You see Japanese people in their 80s doing tai chi and shit in the park, you go around Runcorn and there's blokes in their 30s with no heads riding around in disability scooters.

It's a fair point although to be pedantic    Tai chi is more of a Chinese art, t's the most practiced martial art in the whole of the east, a fusion between meditation and a fighting discipline,  kung fu originates from it. The Japanese mainly prefer Karate which is more physical and aggressive.  Tae kwon do which is an Olympic sport is Korean. That's not to say one is not practised in the others country but they mainly stick with their own heritage. Boxing is obviously British whilst kick boxing originated I believe in Tailand. Wrestling is British. Sumo wrestling is Japanese whilst American wrestling is shit.

[lifetime fan]

50 minutes ago, The Gaul said:

It seems all the lockdown relaxation that was due 2 weeks ago is happening this weekend. I'm surprised about that to be honest, I thought they'd sit tight till they got the kids back to school. 

A mate is a research fellow at Bristol Uni, he always said any second wave would be later than expected. 
 

It was only his idea and not medically backed but uni starting again and fresher weeks would cause a massive new spike. 
 

[Bjornebye]

50 minutes ago, Champ said:

Don’t blame the cookies. Blame this shit show of a government 

 

 

 

[Jose Jones]

39 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

It's a fair point although to be pedantic    Tai chi is more of a Chinese art, t's the most practiced martial art in the whole of the east, a fusion between meditation and a fighting discipline,  kung fu originates from it. The Japanese mainly prefer Karate which is more physical and aggressive.  Tae kwon do which is an Olympic sport is Korean. That's not to say one is not practised in the others country but they mainly stick with their own heritage. Boxing is obviously British whilst kick boxing originated I believe in Tailand. Wrestling is British. Sumo wrestling is Japanese whilst American wrestling is shit.

I reckon the Greeks or the Romans might have something to say about boxing and wrestling being British there.

[TheHowieLama]

5 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

Greeks or the Romans 

Never heard of the cunts

[Gnasher]

12 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

I reckon the Greeks or the Romans might have something to say about boxing and wrestling being British there.

Yeah fair enough, I think boxing originated in Egypt but we refined it into the fighting weapon it is today. Just another thing our empire pinched and claimed.

[Spy Bee]

15 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

She needs to have a word with herself. 12 days is absolutely fuck all!

It was tongue in cheek, but after months of being stuck in the house with a 2 year old and a 9 year old, another two weeks is not exactly a bowl of cherries.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Well that's me quarantined when I return to the UK. Tried to see if we could 'mad dash' it back to Calais but everything is well sold out.  Luckily, I'll be OK for the start of the school year but it had thrown my preparation plans a bit.  

 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

[Gnasher]

Was the France quarantine rules announced to take the spotlight away from the exam results fiasco?  Seemed to be rushed out last night and the French seem enemy number 1 for this government at the moment.