Coronavirus

[Stickman]

3 hours ago, Grinch said:

Sad state of affairs when Piers Morgan is the only mainstream journalist speaking any truth. 

 

Any wonder the UK is full of brainwashed morons. 

Wonder when he’ll become an anti-Semite ?

[Grinch]

Just now, Stickman said:

Wonder when he’ll become an anti-Semite ?

The minute he critises God's chosen people for daily war crimes. child abuse, slavery and murder. 

[Anubis]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

I hope someone lets a load of lions out the back of a van mid party 

No need. Just hack them and replace these with ones that say Knowsley Safari Park...

[Section_31]

Quick question as I can't find the answer anywhere, but are any of the countries coming out of lockdown even attempting a track/trace/isolate system or have they not bothered? 

[Pureblood]

7 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Quick question as I can't find the answer anywhere, but are any of the countries coming out of lockdown even attempting a track/trace/isolate system or have they not bothered? 

Ze Germans have been mad for it throughout this crisis.

 

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/germany-covid-19-masterclass-testing-tracing-uk

[Spy Bee]

24 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Quick question as I can't find the answer anywhere, but are any of the countries coming out of lockdown even attempting a track/trace/isolate system or have they not bothered? 

South Korea and Germany yes, not sure about the rest.

[Spy Bee]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-michael-levitt-china-italy-a9422986.html

 

A Nobel Prize winning biology professor has provided a bit of good news amidst the coronavirus gloom; the US may see a downturn in new cases sooner than some models have predicted.

Michael Levitt, a Stanford University biology professor and a 2013 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, said his models predict the virus is not likely to dwindle on for months or years and – most importantly – is not likely to cause millions of deaths.

 

Mr Levitt previously predicted – correctly – when China would experience and endure the worst of its coronavirus crisis.

 

 

 

Speaking with the LA Times, Mr Levitt said he wasn’t prepared to offer a specific date for the end of the coronavirus crisis in America, but said that there are “clear signs of slowed growth”.

 

 

“What we need is to control the panic … we’re going to be fine,” he said.

“In exponential growth models, you assume that new people can be infected every day, because you keep meeting new people. But, if you consider your own social circle, you basically meet the same people every day,” he said. “You can meet new people on public transportation, for example; but even on the bus, after sometime most passengers will either be infected or immune.”

 

Mr Levitt said that social distancing measures have been helpful in reducing the virus’ ability to spread rapidly.

 

He suggested that the higher percentage of elderly people in Italy paired with the country’s vibrant social culture resulted in the explosion of cases in that country.

 

“Furthermore, Italian culture is very warm and Italians have a very rich social life. For these reasons, it is important to keep people apart and prevent sick people from coming into contact with healthy people,” he said.

 

That was his initial concern with the United States.

“Currently, I am most worried about the US. It must isolate as many people as possible to buy time for preparations. Otherwise, it can end up in a situation where 20,000 infected people will descend on the nearest hospital at the same time and the healthcare system will collapse,” he said.

 

Mr Levitt said that while isolating was an important step to fighting viral spread, he also believes a certain segment of the population may be naturally immune to the disease.

 

“We know China was under almost complete quarantine, people only left home to do crucial shopping and avoided contact with others. In Wuhan, which had the highest number of infection cases in the Hubei province, everyone had a chance of getting infected, but only 3 percent caught it,” he said. “Even on the Diamond Princess [the quarantined cruise ship] the infection rate did not top 20 percent.”

He said those numbers suggest that some people simply are immune or especially resistant to the virus.

 

Mr Levitt’s predictions stand in contrast to those that suggest we may be dealing with the coronavirus for months or even years.

 

[Mudface]

11 minutes ago, Spy Bee said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-michael-levitt-china-italy-a9422986.html

 

A Nobel Prize winning biology professor has provided a bit of good news amidst the coronavirus gloom; the US may see a downturn in new cases sooner than some models have predicted.

 

 

Dated the 24th of March. Really hasn't aged well...

[Pureblood]

Just now, Mudface said:

Dated the 24th of March. Really hasn't aged well...

Haha.

[s(k)aturation]

 

He should definitely be stripped of his prize.

 

[Vincent Vega]

3 hours ago, Captain Turdseye said:

I’d imagine it’s an absolutely huge number of people, especially when you consider that obesity is also thought to be one of said health issues. This forum alone is completely heaving with retards and fat bastards. 

7 million people of working age with an underlying health issue according to an article I read on The Guardian earlier, plus hundreds of thousands of people with conditions like high blood pressure without even being aware they have it.

[Spy Bee]

7 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Dated the 24th of March. Really hasn't aged well...

Lol, hadn't realised that!

 

[SasaS]

What exactly has he predicted? Cannot find any numbers in either Independent on the LAT?

[Rico1304]

29 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

7 million people of working age with an underlying health issue according to an article I read on The Guardian earlier, plus hundreds of thousands of people with conditions like high blood pressure without even being aware they have it.

It does always surprise me how fucking decrepit you lot are.  The ailments thread is like a game of Top Trumps. 

[Bjornebye]

13 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

It does always surprise me how fucking decrepit you lot are.  The ailments thread is like a game of Top Trumps. 

Hahahaha fucking hell Rico 

[Spy Bee]

I posted the wrong article. That Michael Levitt has featured in the Irish Independent today saying the same thing, but about Ireland now. If he says it enough times, he'll get it right in the end.

[Spy Bee]

1 hour ago, Vincent Vega said:

7 million people of working age with an underlying health issue according to an article I read on The Guardian earlier, plus hundreds of thousands of people with conditions like high blood pressure without even being aware they have it.

There are underlying health issues and underlying health issues though. The list of those considered to be a significant multiplying factor of risk has been reduced massively. The number of fatties would be my main concern. There is a number of them around.

[Josef Svejk]

6 hours ago, Stickman said:

Hardly surprising 

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/hancocktom

Interesting quote in the Economist: Britain's public broadcaster, the BBC, has decided to sacrifice some usual "journalistic values" in the interests of 'the nation'

Needless to say, the idea mentioned in that quote is a standard justification offered by Chinese state media for its journalistic practice

 

 

 

And they've hidden their sacrifice of journalistic values so well...

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

The tory cunts have put the housing secretary out for the briefing because Boris got torn apart in PMQ's, Raab still hasn't got over his robot head malfunctioning after Starmer had him off last week and Hancock is busy finding new ways to lie about the governments mass murder of front-line workers and the working class. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Has that woman ever thought of getting other members of the household to help her clean. She shouldn't have to do everything.

[Bjornebye]

Kuntberg asks a question about care homes and what is the government doing about it. (keeping up appearances) 

 

Jenrick reads the answer from a script in-front of him.

 

He is doing it again now. He isn't even hiding that he is reading prompts. He knew what he was getting asked. 

 

I hope we get fucking invaded and these cunts get tortured to death. I would genuinely allow myself to get tortured to death provided the world got rid of these fucking horrible evil lying greedy cunts 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Bobby Hundreds said:

Has that woman ever thought of getting other members of the household to help her clean. She shouldn't have to do everything.

 

 

Yep. That was her response. Front line workers dying. Thats her reply. 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Nice subliminal messaging with the stay alert sign as well. Green for go. "You lot flaunt the rules so we can blame YOU for the high death toll and not US. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Still can't believe this country actually elected Boris fucking Johnson the abominable no showman.