SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

Infra-red said:
For context, chances of dying:

Catching COVID-19 aged 10-40 = 1 in 500
Hang gliding = 1 in 560

Those odds aren't too terrible.
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Thanks for posting this. I accidentally caught Hand Gliding On a tube once. Scared me shitless.
 
Russia is shit housing by spreading misinformation online. Saudis are shit housing by increasing oil production and plunging the oil prices low, causing more economic depression, Iran is doing its part by underreporting cases, abysmally failing at basic governance. The triad of awful keeps churning.
 
Our company are trialing working from home later this week and I imagine we'll be doing it permanently in the near future if all goes well.

Still, I'm confused as to what the point of it is if I can still head to a crowd pub or restaurant at the weekend for a whole night.
 
17 Van der Gouw said:
There's a doctor who has made a Facebook post saying that Covid-19 is coming and it's not much to worry about. It's been shared 200k times.

While he makes a valid point that panic buying supplies is wrong, I can't help but feel his message is irresponsible in other ways.

What do you guys think?



He says he's scared that travel restrictions will ruin people's weddings, family reunions and the Olympics.

Just seems like a weird post. And of course it's been picked up by the "nothing to worry about" lot to propogate that Covid-19 is business as usual.


@Arruda
@Pogue Mahone
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It’s a pretty vacuous, pointless post. Looking for likes and shares while telling us feck all useful.

Does anyone seriously think that people bickering over bog roll is the big concern here?! Personally, I couldn’t give a shite if people are irrationally terrified about this virus. If social media hysteria means people get more diligent about hand washing, staying out of work (or keeping kids home from school) when they get a fever and avoiding non-essential large gatherings then that’s exactly the outcome we need.

The only point of his I agree with is the economic risk of some sort of societal over-reaction to this perceived threat. My take on that is that there will be no harm done that can’t be fixed with the inevitable bull run if/when we get on top of this pandemic.

Because if we don’t get on top of it, the economy is fecked regardless.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
Russia is shit housing by spreading misinformation online. Saudis are shit housing by increasing oil production and plunging the oil prices low, causing more economic depression, Iran is doing its part by underreporting cases, abysmally failing at basic governance. The triad of awful keeps churning.
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We waited too long to colonize the Moon and Mars.
 
horsechoker said:
Don't know where this is from but this is ridiculous!

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Selling them. Or got the shits
 
CassiusClaymore said:
I would personally avoid that sub Reddit for your own sanity.
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Yeah just took a look and it was enough to put me off people for life - conspiracies, covering up young deaths, mass arguments, apocalypse....the whole nine yards in there!!
 
Massive Spanner said:
Our company are trialing working from home later this week and I imagine we'll be doing it permanently in the near future if all goes well.

Still, I'm confused as to what the point of it is if I can still head to a crowd pub or restaurant at the weekend for a whole night.
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When the shit really hits the fan you wont be able to. In the three badly hit countries that was one of the first things to be shut down.
 
Seriously the global economy is so fragile that a single live animal market in China can cause a global recession.
 
UnrelatedPsuedo said:
Why? It’s going to spread if we can’t contain it.
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They're accepting they can’t contain it... seems they’re being reactive rather than proactive about what steps need to be taken before it gets seriously bad.
 
spiriticon said:
This virus is absolutely ravaging Europe's big countries at the moment. Jesus.

For some reason we are still, touch wood, relatively ok. Maybe because we are an island away from the mainland?
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London is the most international city in the world, and also one of the most cramped. I'd be astonished if covid-19 wasn't rampant on the Tube at the very least.

It's probably everywhere already. We just haven't done the requisite testing to prove it.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
Russia is shit housing by spreading misinformation online. Saudis are shit housing by increasing oil production and plunging the oil prices low, causing more economic depression, Iran is doing its part by underreporting cases, abysmally failing at basic governance. The triad of awful keeps churning.
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tbf to the Saudi's, they did try and avert an oil market crash by cutting back oil production in line with falling demand. but Russia refused to hold back its production, so talks collapsed.
 
Wednesday at Stoke said:
Trading halted at the NYSE as the 7% fall triggered a circuit breaker. Welp!
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I worked on a handful of projects to do with fund suspensions and managing the fall out. Not happened since it was implemented so i might have to feign coronavirus to avoid the inevitable shitstorm when it does
 
ha_rooney said:
They're accepting they can’t contain it... seems they’re being reactive rather than proactive about what steps need to be taken before it gets seriously bad.
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Johnson had this to say at the weekend:

"One of the theories is perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow the disease to move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures."

I doubt that the NHS is equipped to deal with the huge spike in demand that would surely occur in this scenario, but it does look like we might be about to put that theory to the test.
 
Infra-red said:
Johnson had this to say at the weekend:

"One of the theories is perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow the disease to move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures."

I doubt that the NHS is equipped to deal with the huge spike in demand that would surely occur in this scenario, but it does look like we might be about to put that theory to the test.
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Ah, the Bill Burr approach.
 
Infra-red said:
Johnson had this to say at the weekend:

"One of the theories is perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow the disease to move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures."

I doubt that the NHS is equipped to deal with the huge spike in demand that would surely occur in this scenario, but it does look like we might be about to put that theory to the test.
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Absolutely fecking disgraceful 'leadership'. And ironic that this is actually more Draconian - let the slaves keep working and dying until the system's at breaking point before we get off our fat, silver spoon anuses and do a single fecking thing.

Because with such a repulsively decadent approach, once it gets into hospitals it'll start wiping out people who are there for other things. People who need a hospital to be a safe place to recover - as it should be. And it'll overwhelm hospitals so that people who are there for other things will be dying simply because there isn't the care they need.

And hospices, and Children's hospitals - where, although children have been least affected thus far, you give a 14 year old recovering from a serious disease a dose of it and I'm not so sure.

But then again, this is the same Government who've left NHS skeletal and given us Austerity as well - so we know where their priorities will always lie.

The public need to demand action on this. I'd gladly strike, and as more and more beloved family members are needlessly condemned to horrible deaths because of their inaction, more people will adopt a similar stance.
 
Rhyme Animal said:
Absolutely fecking disgraceful 'leadership'. And ironic that this is actually more Draconian - let the slaves keep working and dying until the system's at breaking point before we get off our fat, silver spoon anuses and do a single fecking thing.

Because with such a repulsively decadent approach, once it gets into hospitals it'll start wiping out people who are there for other things. People who need a hospital to be a safe place to recover - as it should be. And it'll overwhelm hospitals so that people who are there for other things will be dying simply because there isn't the care they need.

And hospices, and Children's hospitals - where, although children have been least affected thus far, you give a 14 year old recovering from a serious disease a dose of it and I'm not so sure.

But then again, this is the same Government who've left NHS skeletal and given us Austerity as well - so we know where their priorities will always lie.

The public need to demand action on this. I'd gladly strike, and as more and more beloved family members are needlessly condemned to horrible deaths because of their inaction, more people will adopt a similar stance.
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I'm with you. I still can't believe what's happening. Even the likes of Spain, Germany and France seem to be following in Italys footsteps. I hope we don't.
 
I don't know if it counts as good news, but the increase in new cases in the UK today was "only" 17%.

Lower than the past few days.
 
Infra-red said:
Johnson had this to say at the weekend:

"One of the theories is perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow the disease to move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures."

I doubt that the NHS is equipped to deal with the huge spike in demand that would surely occur in this scenario, but it does look like we might be about to put that theory to the test.
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This is exactly the approach I think Europe and the US is generally taking and I'm laughing at the arrogance of it all to be honest.

The 'Sit tight, eat your vitamins and say your prayers' approach :lol:

It's a good thing zombie viruses aren't real.
 
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