near 50% increase in my district (nr Munich) yesterday. Lockdown in Bavaria on the way because idiots cannot stop having Corona parties all over the place. Germany, as backward as always.
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Nope, but I can see why they are needed. In an ideal world, where people could simply go home and lock themselves away with no economical repercussions or adverse effects to health service provision of course it would be great, but in reality we cant do that. Again its just my opinion.
Definitely not exclusive to Germany, mate. It's the same people having Corona parties on Friday night (day before the lockdown here) which are now posting on social media with the #StayHome hashtag. Bellends.
Our coastline was still quite packed with people in the 65+ age group sitting around and reading / talking to each other, it seems like the necessary information and cautioning doesn't get to them or at the very minimum they don't take it seriously enough yet.
Anyone heard anything new about potential UK lockdown?
I've read London could be imminent as a lot more cases there, but no idea on the rest of the country.
Daughter at Uni in Leeds and plans to come home "soon" (idiot, I told her to come home before now but doesn't listen to a word I say). Will probably have to walk out of work at short notice at this rate and drive up to get her. Guessing if lockdown announced, will be short notice and can see major roads heaving as everyone goes to wherever.
I think a co-ordinated global lock down is needed for about three to five weeks. No use one country locking down and then another country not, especially in Europe.
I still think Ireland should have locked down when Italy and Spain did.
Bill Ackman, who is top sort of finance man said if you shut down the world for one month, you can save the system. If this goes on for 18 months like some are suggesting, there is only going to be mayhem.
My parents as well completely dont get it. They dont realize how contagious this virus is.
They are starting to come around to it now.
They had to close one of the largest hospitals in Warsaw indefinitely because one of the doctors returned from Italy a couple of weeks ago and did not report it, did not self-quarantine, and now his wife tested positive and apparently so has he. If true, he may have infected hundreds by himself. We have no chance to fight this.
Wow, what a cnut.
I guess that's just how their parents raised them. What's ironic is that idiotic behavior from their kids might have bigger consenquences on them, and not to their kids who might not even show any symptoms, and olders could end up hospitalised sooner because their idioitc kids infected them.
Just Taser him/them and chuck them in an "idiots prison"
https://www.ft.com/content/249daf9a-67c3-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3
You're welcome. No need for an apology.
On the FT site - I'd monitor the US, UK, and India curves closely in the coming days. The lack of testing in India and the US should make global numbers soar in the near term imo.
The more I read, the more I get irritated by the behavior of the mobile 65+ brigade. They are not taking it seriously despite the nations doing their best to protect them. Wtf are wrong with this group?
Yeah I was in Lidl just now in Ireland, I wasn't sure whether there'd be queues but it was grand and they had most stuff in stock.
I couldn't get chicken breasts or rice but there was loads of whole chickens and pasta.
Obviously still can't get hand cream or sanitiser for love nor money.
India closed its border far earlier than most of the countries. They have recently did sample testing of flu patients in cluster zone and all of them were negative. Also temperatures are touching 40c which according to few studies have shown that it reduced ROI of the virus.
But I agree, it's quite stressful situations. We won't be able to contain because of the large population if it goes out of control. Prime minister is going to address the nation in 1 hour and rumour is everything is going to be shut down till March 31. Atleast non essential stuff.
Was in Morrisons early doors this morning and a woman in that age group wiping her nose with her hand and then back on the trolley.
No need to apologize mate. Thank you for the work you're doing and know that you're posts are always welcome here.
They need to put in place very harsh penalties for those who are willfully ignoring protocol and endangering lives. I'm guessing if this guy was fined a quarter of his annual wage, or faced prison for that willful ignorance he wouldn't have found it necessary in the slightest.
its not just kids, there was a clip a few days ago with drunk brits in Benidorm refusing to comply aswell. We are fighting a virus and idiocy combined
Its not always parents fault. When the child goes to college their reasoning can change dramatically.
I picked up a pack of toilet paper yesterday. There wasn't much and a limit of 2 per customer but I only needed one. I'm in Toronto.
Met a old man about 75 bouncing down the street this morning happy as Larry, I know there’s nothing wrong with that but it took me by surprise.
We just opened Coronavirus drive through points for those who want to test themselves in Lithuania. Really like our proactive approach in tackling this virus.
Some semblance of normality is returning so.
We've still not opened a pack we bought before this whole thing kicked off and we're a family of three.
How much did people think they were going to use
We are already working from home but I told my boss that I was going to have a high risk contact this week.
The amount of medical professionals underestimating this is truly frightening. Everyone thinks they are the most knowledgeable in the world and everyone else is "overreacting".
Some semblance of normality is returning so.
We've still not opened a pack we bought before this whole thing kicked off and we're a family of three.
How much did people think they were going to use
I'm guessing people were thinking total lockdown for 30 days.
Same as the under 25 group.
There are people who bought 100s of them. Maybe they're hiding in bunkers for months now.Some semblance of normality is returning so.
We've still not opened a pack we bought before this whole thing kicked off and we're a family of three.
How much did people think they were going to use
How many times do we need to reemphasise this? No government, and certainly not the UK one, follows and sticks to a single model or paper. Multiple models from all the best sites in the UK are constantly being rerun and analysed. Governments are going to adjust their strategy every time new lessons and fresher, higher quality data is available. No shit that that will likely save lives. No government in the world, especially those who handle this most successfully, will have done so by selecting a plan early on and then tunnel-visioning into it and not adjusting as necessary.
Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, knows all the correct assumptions and input data the models need to get the best solutions. The more confident someone is, the less you should trust them. The authors of the Imperial paper themselves were absolutely clear on that. They too will do future research and, some of which will counteract some of their earlier recommendations. I only hope our government continues to factor that into their thinking. They won't be a u-turn either.
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I suspect it's the lesser evil of not having beds to take care of positives people.
It's one thing to test them, but if you have no avenue to treat them upon knowing they're positives there could be social unrest.
If they have 100.000 test kit, they better have 20.000 beds at least, and another 5000 extra NHS staff.
And as has been explained to you before
They KNEW it was wrong before they did it.
Here is the Editor of The Lancet explaining this. Again.
Anyone here give blood? I’m due to on Wednesday and as far as I know it’s going ahead. Surely as it’s organised by the NHS it’ll be as risk free as possible. I’m pretty relaxed at the minute but I just want to make sure I’m not doing more harm than good. I’ll ring beforehand but just curious if anyone has done it recently?
Anyone feeling a bit down over this should check out this inspiring video of these regular cool young people singing this totally iconic and never annoying song. Everything’s gonna be ok people!
It must be hard when no one's paying attention to you anymore.
And the 25-65
Fresh pasta is what I am saying is home made pasta that we all will be learning how to make!
Why turn it into a political thing? I’m sure there a voters of all parties bulk buying. They’re mostly likely scared and stupid.