SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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475 and 4200 new cases Italy is in crisis
All schools in UK to close.
I am wondering whether the government had a roadmap for big announcements spaced out each day this week, so there were clear headline messages each day. or whether this situation is moving so quick that they just keep coming?
Monday) Social distancing and isolation
Tuesday) Business
Wednesday) Children & education
Thursday) ?
Friday) ?
Edit: The PM Boris Johnson and the Education Secretary making speeches at the same time. Sort it out lads, we want to hear from you both.
Monday) Social distancing and isolation
Tuesday) Business
Wednesday) Children & education
Thursday) ?
Friday) ?
Edit: The PM Boris Johnson and the Education Secretary making speeches at the same time. Sort it out lads, we want to hear from you both.
This is what is agitating about this situation? Unsurprisingly if you deliberately project yourself as an off the cuff charmer people are unlikely to take you seriously as you waffle from behind your fringe at a time of national crisis. People thinking Boris is a tit is such a non issue right now.
This time tomorrow Italy will have likely overtaken China in confirmed deaths with less than half confirmed cases 
Italy 18/03:
4207 new cases
475 dead
Increases all round. We're going to be in enforced lockdown soon at this rate.
4207 new cases
475 dead
Increases all round. We're going to be in enforced lockdown soon at this rate.
Friday French style lock down.
That's assuming China has been truthful in its reporting which we can probably all agree seems highly doubtful.This time tomorrow Italy will have likely overtaken China in confirmed deaths with less than half confirmed cases
This time tomorrow Italy will have likely overtaken China in confirmed deaths with less than half confirmed cases
We're China's numbers legit though ?
That’s true but I’m just going by ‘official’ numbers. Still, Italy is being hit hard.
I said this on Sunday. Why didn’t they follow the rest of Europe at the weekend. It’s actually ridiculous how slow they are to react to anything in this country.
Agreed, but I wonder what the economics of doing ~1 bn tests looks like compared to a prolonged shutdown.
Anyone know how hospitals in Italy are doing? Nearly 500 deaths today, and an almost 10% fatality rate must mean there are some strains with the hospitals?
I can't wait to sit on my arse and do nothing for however long this lasts. Any Netflix shows you can recommend mate?
Closing the schools but not closing the likes of shopping centres . People will just go shopping and spread it there.
Fair enough. And yes - you are right that should be the focus.
I am presuming this is fake?:
Unless soldiers are getting smaller it looks like cadets at the front
Wtf. How is that going work? If the building needs to be reopened for students then Estates need to come in as well. Then there's additional travel arrangements for the kids, plus the Health and Safety inspectors, plus first aiders, plus reception staff.
That's not forgetting that whilst these teachers are delivering lessons and doing their normal prepping, marking etc they'll also be expected to provide online learning for other students, video meetings, and more than likely do CPD training because the majority of teachers have never done remote learning. If you think teachers are going to be having one big holiday then you're having a laugh mate.
But none of it matters because if the government say the buildings are shut then they're shut.
For reference, Italy went into nationwide lockdown at 9,000 cases. The UK probably has until the weekend to do the same.
I haven't seen anyone in this thread just say '''Boris is shit hahah''. People have been rightly critical of the government response, yet that seems to have touch a nerve for a certain someone.
Tbf he called it.
UK schools are shutting but children of key workers will still go in and schools expected to cater for them.
Good idea I think and helps with the childcare issue.
China's deaths won't even reach 4k (unless the virus comes back later), Italy's are easily going to reach 6k (in best case scenario we can assume that they are at the peak, so they are at around half of the deaths). Of course, they are not at the peak there, there was a large increase from yesterday in the number of new cases, so they are going to have 10k deaths even with the total lockdown.This time tomorrow Italy will have likely overtaken China in confirmed deaths with less than half confirmed cases
And I am contemplating going there right now.
Why is it the older generation (who's more at risk of this) the one's that are the most obstinate? My old man just isn't having any of it. Not just him, but others I've talked to who are around his age share the same opinion. They actively get angry by any mention of it. It's fecking bizarre.
Yeah, I know but it doesn't sound like a long term viable option tbh.
Sorry missed the question here, pretty sure they said at weekend that there would be an announcement every evening Monday - Friday this week.
The defensiveness nature of every speech and starting with why you were right all along does not help with trust.
The layman knew school closures would be necessary. Just make the announcements and stop trying to save face.
The layman knew school closures would be necessary. Just make the announcements and stop trying to save face.
They are going on about this test to see who's had it as being important, but surely China has been working on this and still doesn't have it?
These are small but the ones out there are far away.
In Italy, the vast majority of people who are getting fines for breaking the lockout orders, seem to be the elderly. Like having a death wish or something.
Already asking when schools will open again 
Children of key workers I assume means essential public services and civil servants ect? So the key workers and their children will become a melting pot for infections. Perfect.
Probably don't want to psychologically face the prospect that they're in a high risk group of dying from this. If they look at what's happening in Italy with their health service being swamped, its pretty fecking grim.
My dad seems to have accepted that he's pretty high risk thankfully, 67 with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and other heart problems in the past.
Already asking when schools will open again
I know! A BBC reporter on a 6 figure salary and she asks a dumb question like that.
It's because the Speaker complained yesterday that the public knew before the MPs. Wankers.
It's bizarre, that's for sure