It needs to be tightened up, we are only allowed to go into shops on our own. If someone else drives you, they have to stay in the car - it's been like that since early on in the quarantine in Italy. You get your shopping as quickly as you can and get out, no-one's wandering around.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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I thought Ireland were already in lockdown
My missus had a right go at me last night because I said that quite a few of the people clapping last night were hypocrites for voting Tory. She was adamant that we all should clap to show our appreciation as quite a few members of my extended family are nhs staff.
They're still hypocrites though.
Just a quick question/s. How bad can a virus like this get without a vaccine being available to the masses? If the whole world carried on and no isolation measures were put in place would covid19 eventually kill millions and send the world into a major depression?
Also would influenza do the same given we didnt have a vaccine?
Are these viruses capable of wiping us out and that's why we simply have to quarantine until a vaccine is found?
Also would influenza do the same given we didnt have a vaccine?
Are these viruses capable of wiping us out and that's why we simply have to quarantine until a vaccine is found?
The 2km was about non-essential travel.
Obviously you can travel as far as it takes for food.
They don't want people to actually starve. Is this a serious question?
It was in semi-lockdown, with inessential shops closed and people advised to stay at home as much as they can. Now it has just been made more strict, with people only going to work for specific essential jobs, told not to go more than 2km from home and the elderly being cocooned.
I kind of just assumed you were having a bad day with the whole situation like me.
(To be honest I need a break from this thread/the news for a bit, if it's even possible).
Though as I just said to my mom in an extended argument, if you can shop locally you should rather than travelling into the city centre just because you prefer Tesco's milk.
How long do we think that people in the UK will accept being "locked down"?
I kind of just assumed you were having a bad day with the whole situation like me.
(To be honest I need a break from this thread/the news for a bit, if it's even possible).
I'm having a bad day with the whole media 'no underlying health issues' push.
Look the girl up on Facebook. Go through her photos and some of the comments...I might be completely wrong and I'm fine with that. I'm not a professional, but I know what my opinion is and I'm comfortable with the fact I could be fecking wrong.
Caught up with the UK then
Yep, it's pretty much the same as ye'res now.
Trump will surely get covid19 very soon given he has to meet so many people.
His age, obesity and other underlying health problems must surely make him one of most vulnerable people on planet?
I’ve never wished anyone dead and won’t start now. I’m just saying ...
His age, obesity and other underlying health problems must surely make him one of most vulnerable people on planet?
I’ve never wished anyone dead and won’t start now. I’m just saying ...
GM ordered to make ventilators.
Being such a large country some places will escape the worst but as you said, the densely populated areas are in for a heavy hit.
Unfortunately some people still refuse to take this seriously all over, not just America.
Welcome to the party!
I took the line from RTE website but they changed it. My mistake
So back from Thailand.
Just went out to shops for first time and was quite startled how people were looking very suspiciously at each other, actively avoiding each other when walking, and generally being very careful.
Of course it’s good that Government requirements are being met, but I am intrigued/worried about the longer terms effects of this new enforced behaviour. It feels like the first stage on one of the zombie movies.
Who knows how this will play out!
Just went out to shops for first time and was quite startled how people were looking very suspiciously at each other, actively avoiding each other when walking, and generally being very careful.
Of course it’s good that Government requirements are being met, but I am intrigued/worried about the longer terms effects of this new enforced behaviour. It feels like the first stage on one of the zombie movies.
Who knows how this will play out!
Trump expects 100k new ventilators to be built over the next 100 days. Probably not gonna do much for this wave, but it should help US a lot for the next wave.
To be fair China has 4 times the population of the US and the US has more cases. Although this was limited to Wuhan it shows how what they did works (for now). In terms of the most testing, in total numbers I'm not sure but per capita it is definitely not. New York is close to Korea which is leading the world in testing but most other states are well behind.
sorry to say - you should have really self-quarantined for 14 days before going out.
Wait till figures are the same as Italy’s and all that toilet roll will come in handy as they won’t leave the toilet, let alone the house.
Jeez, for the people wishing death on Boris is one thing 
But you guys should be aware that Raab is a far more terrifying prospect as PM
And for the grass is greener brigade, on the flipside, in another universe we could have ended up with Diane Abbott as PM....
But you guys should be aware that Raab is a far more terrifying prospect as PM
And for the grass is greener brigade, on the flipside, in another universe we could have ended up with Diane Abbott as PM....
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Yeah in terms of deaths the UK's still much closer to France on the trajectory.
Interactive version here
Wait till the lock-down is the same as Italy's, then people will really feel the pressure. What the UK has now still gives people the opportunity to move around a fair bit and there seems to be little proper enforcement.
very interesting video and visualizations by 3Blue1Brown on the spread of the pandemic and how effective are some measures to slow and stop them
I don't trust China's numbers at all, though it is absolutely true that China's response (after the first month when they fecked it up) was really good and they more or less solved their problem (at least for the short term).
The US is doing now more than 100k testings per day (which to a large degree it is why the number of infected has increased so much). It is bad, but I actually think at the moment it is better than Spain/Italy/France.
Shouldn't you be quarantined?
Devils advocate time but seeing stuff like this a lot on here and online but the NHS was on a downward spiral in the labour years, no?
Have you been living under a rock
was just joking :-)
Naughty boy @sammsky1
The worst thing that could happen for US would be trump getting it. If he recovered from it that would be it, he would be trying to open everything back up as he would think it was no big deal.
It's the percentage of the population that's important, not the number.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/27/coronavirus-testing-us/
This is the thing I was dreading.
Not just because it puts to bed the whole her immunity thing, but it means vaccines are much more complex to produce.
Like flu, you will need a shot for it every year once they have this cracked.
If / when we come out the other size of this, this is surely going to lead to a revolutionary change in the NHS?! This is highlighting huge gaps in funding and facilities that politicians can’t gloss over going forward.
Thanks - interesting. Just shows how difficult it is to know when and how we can exit from this mess. It really depends on how we are on doing what we can. Wash hands - avoid unnecessary trips etc.