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

Grinner said:
What worries me about Italy is that it hasn't really hit the South yet, has it? So many old folk down there.
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I'm also worried because the south is less advanced than the north, I've never spent time in an Italian hospital north or south but I imagine the south has less capacity to deal with this than the north does.
 
Mate of mine owns a pub and is already throwing out ten pints for £10 for closing night tonight.

Fcuking unreal.
 
Contrast this press conference to the same one this time last week...

Almost like the Government have made it up as they've gone along...
 
Pexbo said:
Has the magnitude of this sunk in for anyone yet? I’m really struggling to get my head around it.
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I've had three outbursts of crying alone in the past three weeks or so. It felt very surreal, the first impact, I wasn't sure if I was going mad becquse everyone (including most of the medical community) were oblivious. It was very scary at first, but for the past 10-15 days I've gotten used to it and progressively more motivated - still scared, but calmer and calmer. Don't know how long it will last.


This seems seems like ages ago, two and a half weeks:

Arruda said:
So, for several personal reasons I mostly ignored this so far.

Then I obsessively devoted myself to reading about it this weekend. My mind is a bit numb.

Has this actually ended somewhere that has been affected? Like, has life in Wuhan returned to normal? It seems not but I struggle to confirm some things. Expected I guess, need more time.

So this is happening in real time. It seems to me that a worst case scenario is a choice between mortality levels comparable to Spanish flu (even if in a different demographic) or levels of economic and personal restraint that we don't even know for how long might have to be maintained? Economic crisis without precedent?

Am I reading this right? Even if we can't quantify how likely that worst case scenario is it definitely seems to be there and is very grim. This requires the utmost attention. Even individually, you have to think stuff like "can I handle two weeks without working? What about a month? Do I have frail people under my care? What do I have to learn if so?"

Massive stuff I think. Will be hard to think about anything else in my spare time from now on. I want to devote myself tobunderstanding this to the utmost of my abilities.
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If we can be thankful for anything it’s that Javid was replaced by Sunak before all this really kicked off. I can’t begin to imagine how badly Javid would have dealt with all this.
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Yep. Just said the same thing in another thread. Big groups of them in town today. Not sinking in at all I'm afraid.
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Classical Mechanic said:
It's all kicking of now on the sae trajectory as Italy roughly. People will start to learn the hard way. I went to the local shops at lunch and it was 50% old people, there at the busiest time of the day. I mean they literally have all day to do their shopping. Nuts.
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To be fair to ‘old people’ maybe they turned up at their usual time of 7am in the morning to do their shopping only to see a group of idiotic average aged people queuing outside the supermarket hoarding goods.
A lot of old people also live alone, don’t have access to internet and social media and may not have the access to the expert advise that is handed out on the redcafe. A lot of old people will almost undoubtedly be completely unaware of the severity of the situation. For a lot of ‘old people’ a trip to the supermarket literally makes their day. Cut them some slack.
 
Grinner said:
Curious what it is...maybe sheet fecking?
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In the interest of research I had a quick look. It seems they've just opportunistically given normal porn stuff corona themed names- eg 'old guy and young lass in corona lockdown action' or the like. Disappointing, although not sure what I was expecting tbh. Also, dunno if it was my wfi or loads of people are on it, but it was running really slowly- couldn't actually watch vids.
 
Arruda said:
I've had three outbursts of crying alone in the past three weeks or so. It felt very surreal, the first impact, I wasn't sure if I was going mad becquse everyone (including most of the medical community) were oblivious. It was very scary at first, but for the past 10-15 days I've gotten used to it and progressively more motivated - still scared, but calmer and calmer. Don't know how long it will last.


This seems seems like ages ago, two and a half weeks:
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I had a cry at the Sky News report from the Bergamo hospital.
 
I’m starting to think the 6-8 months estimations might be optimistic. This could easily last a few years. We will have to basically rebuild economy after it’s done. I can’t wrap my head around what is happening.
 
Is there any way of explaining the death rate in Germany? How can it be so drastically lower across the country??
 
LARulz said:
I thought he said shops too? Supermarkets I imagine would be exempt
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Only the small shops have stuff thought, it seems. Even after restocking overnight and the supposed "pensioners and vulnerable only" my local Asda had feck all at 9:10 this morning. Went in with a trolley and came out with three Mother's Day cards.
 
Jippy said:
In the interest of research I had a quick look. It seems they've just opportunistically given normal porn stuff corona themed names- eg 'old guy and young lass in corona lockdown action' or the like. Disappointing, although not sure what I was expecting tbh. Also, dunno if it was my wfi or loads of people are on it, but it was running really slowly- couldn't actually watch vids.
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ummm yeah...ok...sure! How quick is quick for you these days!
 
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