SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
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Ireland
Yeah, I signed up too and received virtually no correspondence. Decided to go with the more localised publicvoice - london last week, had a telephone interview with them yesterday and am all but setup to start calling people soon.
I think one thing that this crisis may be showing us is that a return to a more localised approach - even for a scheme like this - is far more manageable and time effective.
Ireland. Wish it was a total lockdown. Only way to truly slow it down. Everyone being twats over here.
I know. People have started to get a bit blasé about the whole thing over the past week and there seems to be it's Easter and a bit sunny so feck the rules attitude about the place.
Was it developed in house? The performance of tests I've seen so far is not great and they are lacking in most validation data. Many are claiming FDA approval even though FDA haven't approved anything aside from giving a EUA for one company.
I don't know, it was just a message I got as member of our local "GMC", it didn't specify those kind of details and I'm not working in the hospital.
Sir Kenny Dalglish tests positive for Coronavirus and is in hospital 
Moronic that we waited so long. As moronic as the company I work for thinking we're essential workers. I felt off on Wednesday - luckily I haven't gotten worse and feel better than I did then so it may have allergies or a cold. Screw Boris and his crew.
The key is confidence. We are going to have periods of working and staying at home most likely. People aren't really going to spend money just like that. Furthermore, many of the businesses that have closed won't reopen. Then you have weak monetary policy. I am not sure the downtown and recovery will be as long as 2008. Remember, we are coming from a low base. Even beofre the crisis, the US was the only OECD country growing at a decent pace and they were piling on debt like there's no tomorrow. Europe was barely grown, emerging markets too, had problems.
If you find out details could you let me know? Would appreciate it. There's reportedly 70 serology tests here so far and counting!
I am all for it but it seems like whenever a politician is hit with a challenging question it's their default answer.
SA?
Edit - ah. Ireland. SA extended as well by 3 weeks. At least you can buy booze. We are not allowed to. Suffering.
You mean the festival where there were plenty of hand sanitizing units, yeah i have heard of it.
For those clued up, how many days did we waste formulating that stupid herd mentality strategy and not asking people to stay at home?
I think Boris was talking about herd immunity on the 12th March, lockdown started on the 24th March?
Edit - lockdown started on the 23rd, not 24th.
What's the backlash been like against that in the UK, considering it was abandoned a couple of weeks in? I imagine people must be furious about it
The media aren't doing their job
General view is that the government inaction and "herd immunity" bullshit will end up having cost a lot of people their lives and that there will be some sort of reckoning about this eventually - possibly in the form of a public enquiry.
Thus far, no backlash at all, though. Most of the media have done an appalling job of holding the government to account.
Media too busy wanking over Boris getting up to have short walks and people are too selfish to think of anything but themselves. Britain is awful.
The main thing is the government are trying to be consistent in the message. 'we are taking scientific and medical advice. Stay at home. Wash hands etc etc' Hancock admits there are problems, ive not seen him or the experts duck questions, in fact he often asks tge journo if they want to clarify more.
Thats unheard of whenever I've watched politicians before.
People seem to want definitive answers, answers regarding exact numbers of tests, exact numbers of ppe exact dates for when the lockdown ends. Thing is, every one of those things depends on so many variables and really ive not heard of any other country that has had all the answers. Germany at the moment seems to me to have had the best control over it it, but even now its too early to say that for sure.
Part of the problem is as other posters have said, we become a little impatient, what started out as unbelievable stories in each country, quickly became reality (though no less shocking might i add) our natural impatience to come through this thing leads us to question every statistic and decision. Its horrible for us all, we all want this nightmare to be over, and when people cant give answers that we want, we get arsey and frustrated.
It's just another short term deadline to keep people focussed. I don't think anyone actually believes it won't be extended again.
Oh, they are.
To be honest, most of the British public barely gave a shit a few weeks ago. I can only go on my experiences but I was literally explaining to everyone that the government "wants you to get corona" before it decides to take any defensive approaches. This was a predicament I saw coming back in January. Shame very few others seemingly could see this happening. I feel sick to stomach witnessing these events.
I'm asking for context only, as I have no idea, but when did other countries implement their own lock-downs compared with the UK's? And what sort of backlash is there going on in Sweden just now? As much as they haven't gone down the 'herd immunity' road, they certainly haven't done anything like what other European countries have.
Hand sanitizer is known to be fantastic for rinsing your eyes, nose and mouth out if you’re rubbing shoulders with people who have the virus.
So two weeks give or take. Imagine how many people got infected in those two weeks.
Haven't heard jack shit.
Someone posted this link a few days ago... gives a timeline of decisions/reasons. Really interesting.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-path-speci-idUSKBN21P1VF
@Regulus Arcturus Black is your man
Yes, they are.
The mainstream media are the mouthpiece of the government, nothing more nothing less. You saw during the election what happens when someone dares to try and step outside the box and criticise the party in power (Boris replaced by a melting ice-block) - the government threaten to remove their broadcasting rights. In fact, that moment alone should have caused serious doubts in the minds of every single UK citizen but the vast majority don't give a feck really.
It doesn't have to be Stalinesque propaganda or Nazi Germany to be government control. Our media has no real freedom of speech, they are puppets of whatever party is in charge. As soon as questions started being asked about PPE, testing etc things all of a sudden went quiet and then the focus is on footballers wages and Boris in hospital and that's it. And no, I'm not suggesting for one second that he wasn't sick.
Fact that our media was in a panic when Italy hit 900+ deaths but when we do so they're going missing is bleeding insane.
Sir Kenny Dalglish tests positive for Coronavirus and is in hospital
Story reads he is there for an unrelated condition, and was only tested due to 'current procedures', unexpectedly tested positive, and is as yet asymptomatic.
To Italian United fans.
Are health services free for Italian Public?
If a Corona virus patient gets released from hospital after recovery, is he going to be charged for hospital stay? Oxygen etc if he was on respirator etc?
Are health services free for Italian Public?
If a Corona virus patient gets released from hospital after recovery, is he going to be charged for hospital stay? Oxygen etc if he was on respirator etc?
Around 9% of global deaths on a small island a long way from the source.
Tories doing what tories do.
You'd think a forbes journo would actually check out this stuff rather than just making an article from worldometres figures
Deaths per days since 2nd April 65, 58, 54, 67, 66, 53, 47 (although those last 2 days likely to get another 10 or so late figures added to them).
Journo has just seen 100+ for two days on Worldometer and hasn't even researched it to show that these were due to late reports which happen absolutely everywhere.
This crisis has shown how awful media really are.
Seems he is asymptotic. So hopefully he should be just fine.Sir Kenny Dalglish tests positive for Coronavirus and is in hospital
Sanchez earning 600m £/w is more important
But why though I dont perceive them as being like the us media. Ours love a scandal dont they, but nothing seems to be being reported. Even the huge death rates are being played down by the media. Could be collective de sensitivisation to it all.
Yet everyone keeps telling me how great of a job they’re doing.
Clap. Or something.