Coronavirus

[Davelfc]

4 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

They move tanks all time. Anyone who has used the motorways regularly will have seen that. The army are ready, leave has been cancelled, but it would seem unlikely they're sending the tanks in anywhere. We need to be more concerned if they were erecting massive tents to be temporary hospitals or something. 

It's the same tanks, we have 3.

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Princess Beatrice wedding reception is off.

 

Devastated.

[Davelfc]

London braces for lockdown

Sources close to the Mayor's office say they expect a shutdown of the capital in the coming days.

Legislation in the Coronavirus Bill would give the Government emergency powers to "close premises" and "restrict or prohibit events and gatherings", including restricting transport networks.

people to avoid pubs and restaurants and to work at home is being ignored in large numbers." There is alarm in Whitehall that Boris Johnson's call for people to avoid pubs and restaurants and to work at home is being ignored in large numbers.

 

Trump announced the U.S. and Canada will close the border to non-essential traffic to control the coronavirus outbreak

 

 

[dockers_strike]

Wow, lots of conspiracy theories! The real scary thing about this is just how quickly and easily the world has been caught out by a virus that in the scheme of things, doesnt have a particularly high mortality rate.

 

You can look at the pandemics through recorded history that wiped out millions and this doesnt come close, even if it is in its early stages.

 

Depends how much you depend on stats and from whom but China has reported only 1 new case for the 2nd consecutive day. Even Italy is showing a slow down in fatalities.

 

Everything is crashing,literally, around your ears be that public sensibility, stock markets, currencies and commodities.

 

How could the world get caught out so easily?

[Bobby Hundreds]

If tanks can't stop corona virus nothing will. 

 

I'm at the point were I'm just impatient to catch this shit and get it over and done with, if I survive. Feels like I'm waiting for the inevitable.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

15 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:

They move tanks all time. Anyone who has used the motorways regularly will have seen that. The army are ready, leave has been cancelled, but it would seem unlikely they're sending the tanks in anywhere. We need to be more concerned if they were erecting massive tents to be temporary hospitals or something. 

 

I doubt very much you'll see tanks on the streets. As you say, they are moved about all the time due to exercises or it could be that they are moving them to strategic areas to protect warehouses and other important facilities should a lock down become necessary. Unfortunately things need protecting as people are cunts at the best of times, even worse when panic sets in. I've seen quite a few military helicopters flying about over here of late, mostly during the late hours and in the night. In such circumstances Governments have to prepare for all kinds of scenarios and it's part of the military set up to aid in this, it doesn't mean they'll be used in large numbers, but if they aren't prepared to react it would be chaotic and pure negligence on the Governments behalf. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

6 minutes ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

Princess Beatrice wedding reception is off.

 

Devastated.

 

Bet she kept her pressies. 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/18/london-braces-lockdown-government-prepares-emergency-coronavirus/

[Vincent Vega]

The Gammon King taking it very seriousy I see:

 

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All Wetherspoon pubs will remain open, but customers will pay by card, avoid standing at the bar and sit at alternate tables, PA is reporting.

 

[Jairzinho]

I imagine it'll end up being more than a month, maybe six weeks. Then we'll do the same again in November/December in the hope that by March/April there will be a vaccine. 

 

Seems the only way of preventing millions dying and also not completely crashing economies.

[dockers_strike]

I think tanks on the street are the least of people's worries. Hardly anyone in the UK is self sufficient any more. We mostly depend on the supply chain to keep us going be that heating, water to food. Very few people are able to source their own food, good luck catching rabbits, ducks and fish to keep food in your belly.

[Strontium]

10 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

Bet she kept her pressies. 

 

She's not giving those Pizza Express vouchers up in a hurry.

[lifetime fan]

I can’t wait to see the joined up thinking the government will come out with to address the support needs of those individuals with an LD living in the community. 

[Jairzinho]

1 minute ago, lifetime fan said:

I can’t wait to see the joined up thinking the government will come out with to address the support needs of those individuals with an LD living in the community. 

What would you like them to do about Lib Dems?

[Red Phoenix]

From Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet :

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After weeks of inaction, the government announced a sudden U-turn on Monday, declaring that new modelling by scientists at Imperial College had convinced them to change their initial plans. Many journalists, led by the BBC, reported that “the science had changed” and so the government had responded accordingly. But this interpretation of events is wrong. The science has been the same since January. What changed is that government advisers at last understood what had really taken place in China.

Indeed, it didn’t need this week’s predictions by Imperial College scientists to estimate the impact of the government’s complacent approach. Any numerate school student could make the calculation. With a mortality of 1% among 60% of a population of some 66 million people, the UK could expect almost 400,000 deaths. The huge wave of critically ill patients that would result from this strategy would quickly overwhelm the NHS.

The UK’s best scientists have known since that first report from China that Covid-19 was a lethal illness. Yet they did too little, too late.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/18/coronavirus-uk-expert-advice-wrong

[Davelfc]

9 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

I think tanks on the street are the least of people's worries. Hardly anyone in the UK is self sufficient any more. We mostly depend on the supply chain to keep us going be that heating, water to food. Very few people are able to source their own food, good luck catching rabbits, ducks and fish to keep food in your belly.

With the state of the roads with potholes, they might be the answer 

[Bjornebye]

18 hours ago, Champ said:

The mortality rates in different countries is very different. I suspect in such a fast moving landscape it’s not possible to isolate all/even a fraction of the variables 

Pics or gtfo 

[Chairman Meow]

21 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Wow, lots of conspiracy theories! The real scary thing about this is just how quickly and easily the world has been caught out by a virus that in the scheme of things, doesnt have a particularly high mortality rate.

 

You can look at the pandemics through recorded history that wiped out millions and this doesnt come close, even if it is in its early stages.

 

Depends how much you depend on stats and from whom but China has reported only 1 new case for the 2nd consecutive day. Even Italy is showing a slow down in fatalities.

 

Everything is crashing,literally, around your ears be that public sensibility, stock markets, currencies and commodities.

 

How could the world get caught out so easily?

Because for the majority of the last 40 years the prevailing attitude of countries like ours has been to prioritise profit over everything else and largely been run by politicians who have been bought and paid for by sociopaths who don't care who lives, dies or is damaged as long as they make a profit?

[Stouffer]

Tanks, but no tanks.

[Funkasy]

1 hour ago, Spy Bee said:

Well yes, but all the air is recycled.

I work with ventilation and house climate controle and ive yet to see a single system that cant shut off the recycle off 100% so where are you getting this info from ? especially when its hot outside, you dont use any of recycle air. So where is the information coming from that they all use the bypass damper to recycle the air ? 

[3 Stacks]

33 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Wow, lots of conspiracy theories! The real scary thing about this is just how quickly and easily the world has been caught out by a virus that in the scheme of things, doesnt have a particularly high mortality rate.

 

You can look at the pandemics through recorded history that wiped out millions and this doesnt come close, even if it is in its early stages.

 

Depends how much you depend on stats and from whom but China has reported only 1 new case for the 2nd consecutive day. Even Italy is showing a slow down in fatalities.

 

Everything is crashing,literally, around your ears be that public sensibility, stock markets, currencies and commodities.

 

How could the world get caught out so easily?

You do realize that if no one did anything, millions of people would die from this?

[dockers_strike]

Fuck me, Trump sounds worried!

[dockers_strike]

14 minutes ago, Chairman Meow said:

Because for the majority of the last 40 years the prevailing attitude of countries like ours has been to prioritise profit over everything else and largely been run by politicians who have been bought and paid for by sociopaths who don't care who lives, dies or is damaged as long as they make a profit?

Yeah, how did it go in China again?

[Red Phoenix]

5 hours ago, Spy Bee said:

 

 

Awesome. We could've done with her being broadcast by all news outlets saying the same when this started up.

[Spy Bee]

36 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

I imagine it'll end up being more than a month, maybe six weeks. Then we'll do the same again in November/December in the hope that by March/April there will be a vaccine. 

 

Seems the only way of preventing millions dying and also not completely crashing economies.

I think a cure using currently used drugs looks like the best hope of an early resolution.