SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Haha, I'm slowly falling in Love with this guy - and I'm straight.
Makes me smile more in this thread than I would think possible. Fly on, Pidgy.
That's because of the cult at the centre of S Korean outbreak.
It's comparing apples with oranges.
Best of luck mate. Nurses are the heroes of our NHS who keep everything together, and you deserve better than the shite that's being served up to you.
Imagine the poor cnut that lives next door to him, trying to stay sane and watch some TV...
If you're willing to buy a double bass I'm willing to negotiate.
I do want the ban because funnily enough, people who have had a couple of drinks tend to let their hygiene levels drop and I don't want my place to be responsible for an outbreak that might somehow get back to my parents.
Ideally though I'd very much like to run a limited takeaway service so I can pay my mortgage and domestic utility bills, but if it is a total shutdown then I will happily follow it for the sake of my parents.
il Blitzo spirito
What’s this got to do with Korean stats people? That chart was made by that guy on Twitter, no, or does it come from a wider data set, because on its own it is meaningless.
It compares two things that cannot be meaningfully compared to draw the conclusions you might imagine, unless the title and the labels on the chart are wrong. All it tells us is what age buckets those who tested positive in Korea and Italy fall into. It does not tell us about whether there is a different spread of COVID-19 cases in Korea and Italy, because it does not account for the population and testing differences. For example, is Italy having far fewer cases aged 20-29 because:
A) they are testing fewer people compared to either age buckets
B) fewer people in that age bucket are testing positive
C) there are are fewer people of that age in the areas being tested
and so on?
Is there a source paper or article that has further information?
Are the cult mainly young people? I didn't know that.
I'm sitting looking at an electric bass (Fender Music Master) covered in dust...
And I'm currently in the process of sorting through about 10 old electrics and acoustic guitars and cleaning dust / mold off them - so it's a no.
But we could maybe form a band - Flight of the Concords style. Double bass and guitar, I'll rant about evil Torys and you can break up the tension by charming the audience between songs.
Flight of The Pigeons.
Are you a curry house?
Within a year (assuming 50-80% of people get infected), it won't make too much difference. There will be dozens of people who will be on critical conditions for a ventilator.
Of course, it is better than nothing, but it should not be the main target. The main target should be containment, and there are multiple success stories of it (China, South Korea, Japan, and to a lesser emulate-able degree Singapore and Hong-Kong).
It's times like this I should actually read the tweet and not look at the colourful pictures only!
Teehee. Those charts are sneaky like that. You're already better than all the people falling over themselves trying to 'be right'.
The worst part is I didn't even become a teacher after that shit and ended up doing computer science. I could be building giant death robots right about now but, nooooooooo, instead I just tell lecturers that I won't buy them fifty iPads until they can give me five reasons why they think I'm pretty. It's a tough job but someone's got to do it.
Every time I see some clip of someone singing Nessum fecking Dorma I think how much I would want to kill anyone who started belting out 'none shall sleep' from their balcony first thing in the morning.
@Zlatan 7
You wanted me to say "you have too high (20%) probability of needing care" instead of "you will need care"? Would that make you happy? I think, in the context the difference is immaterial, but if that is what you want me to state - yes, i meant the former
You wanted me to say "you have too high (20%) probability of needing care" instead of "you will need care"? Would that make you happy? I think, in the context the difference is immaterial, but if that is what you want me to state - yes, i meant the former
That's a bit vicious, you know that they won't find five different reasons.
Oooh, I like that idea. Wait...
You've got a two grand bass just gathering dust in the corner? feck me man, that's commitment. I would have sold that for meth money by now and I don't even do drugs.
prickYes bro
The more you look into the detail of what's coming the scarier it gets. The lack of freed up ICU beds in this country mixed with 1 in 10 positive cases requiring one and that point of being overwhelmed arrives very soon. They seem to be trying to quadruple beds but if the equipment isn't there then what.
If we hit 10k confirmed cases are we really going to be able to mitigate the worst? It took Italy 10 days from where we are now to that figure and any lockdown will take weeks to show an impact.
People suggesting wait 3 weeks but that's 5-6 week growth, what are you expecting the number to be after that? How many needing an ICU bed? And how many won't get one?
If we hit 10k confirmed cases are we really going to be able to mitigate the worst? It took Italy 10 days from where we are now to that figure and any lockdown will take weeks to show an impact.
People suggesting wait 3 weeks but that's 5-6 week growth, what are you expecting the number to be after that? How many needing an ICU bed? And how many won't get one?
Agreed but containment will flatten the curve as will social distancing etc etc
You guys are generally my saviours when I'm ill. Do a massive JustEat order with 30% off and have enough sinus clearing food to last me for days.
It isn't? Sure sounds like it.
ICU will be overwhelmed with a very low infection rate so the time to do anything necessary to stop this is now. The critical point is now not later.
According to this WaPo article delaying via social distancing works way better than containment https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/
I would believe that to be true in the US and UK. Some other counties may have different experience but quarantining entire cities or regions just wont work in the US.
The big question is: distancing for how long? It seems that current hope is: severe closures of 2-3 weeks and massive work from homes (in companies where it is possible) for several months will make material difference.
We also need to get vaccine some time soon. Otherwise: just natural "everybody will get sick at some point" solution is: nuts
Just got back to the UK and I’m stunned by the difference in attitude. I expect it to spread much more over here than anywhere else in Europe.
Recommendations don't really mean much. I still have to go to work tomorrow in a building with 4000 other people.
That’s only Korean stats, which are still not enough to make meaningful comparisons!
Edit: found it:
As much as the article is interesting, as commentators point out, conclusions are being reached that omit important context. The data isn’t comparable to reach meaningful conclusions.
Yeah, it's almost like people are more afraid of being in an awkward situation than the actual virus itself.
#IDontWantYourCoronaBoner