Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[Thunder Bolt]

I was typing and jumping off the train at the time.

Not advisable. You could get hurt.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The other problem being that the bucket is already full.

Yes, I'm not pretending this is easy because the numbers involved are massive.
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I don't think that was his point - more that the (NHS) bucket is overstretched anyway, irregardless of the entire corona-virus issue.

 

[nwgull]

Agreed.

Imo, it's only a small step up from "It's only flu" to "China has cracked it".

I saw someone claim this on Twitter morning.... but China is still in bloody lockdown! It's just tempoarary containment, not a solution.

Nothing will be normal until there's a vaccine and it's rolled out around the world.

In the meantime, governments will have to carefully manage their citizens (50%+?) getting the virus.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a ban on all large-scale events (say, 10,000 or more) for at least a year or two - but God knows where that leaves mass transporation such as The Tube.

It will become more normal when loads of us have had it and built a herd immunity. Probably sometime around autumn.

 

[Bozza]

I don't think that was his point - more that the (NHS) bucket is overstretched anyway, irregardless of the entire corona-virus issue.

Yes, I know that and I know he meant that.

I was just trying to illustrate that in my analogy there's a huge volume of additional "water" that will also somehow need to flow through that bucket.

 

[Triggaaar]

Whilst not in the ‘fuss over nothing crew’ I’m certainly not in the ‘we are all going to do die’ camp either.

There isn't a 'we are all going to die' camp. There's one person who used to think half the world was going to die (he seems to have changed that drastically), but he's ill and has been signed off work by his doctor.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Irish going all in regarding schools etc.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Irish going all in regarding schools etc.

Feels like I'm watching a movie. We need to be doing the same.

 

[Wozza]

It will become more normal when loads of us have had it and built a herd immunity. Probably sometime around autumn.

Who knows what "loads" is? Who can realistically put a timeframe on it? How many will die in the meantime? What's 'acceptable'?

Who will calculate when mass gatherings of 5k, 10k or 50k can be accepted (eg won't put a burden on health services if they cause an outbreak)?

So, so many questions....

 

[JJ McClure]

A McLaren team member has tested positive and the team have pulled out of the Aussie GP. I'm just waiting on the expected news that C2C at the O2 is going to be off too.

 

[Notters]

Who knows what "loads" is? Who can realistically put a timeframe on it? How many will die in the meantime? What's 'acceptable'?

Who will calculate when mass gatherings of 5k, 10k or 50k can be accepted (eg won't put a burden on health services if they cause an outbreak)?

So, so many questions....

You would like to think that the government was prepared (as much as is possible) for events like this. But who knows.

 

[Hungry Joe]

You would like to think that the government was prepared (as much as is possible) for events like this. But who knows.

Easy answer to that one - they're not, here or anywhere else.

 

[Nobby]

La Liga off!!!

 

[Wozza]

La Liga off!!!

Real Madrid players self-isolating for 15 days.

Tennis scrapped for 10 weeks too, apparently.

Aussie GP must be in doubt.

Sport is OVER for now imo.

 

[Mr Banana]

Yer da is definitely on social smashing out messages predicting what's going to happen here. Never seen so many takes from them, repeated with increasing fury. Compelling

 

[peterward]

La Liga off!!!

Just heard same on R5L, off for min 2 weeks, whole Real Madrid squad quarantined after someone in the real Madrid basketball club (who share all common spaces with football squad) has tested positive.

And so it all begins

 

[Wozza]

The Who postpone tour, inc Teenage Cancer Trust show.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

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[Is it PotG?]

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A great example of how political irony has been an integral part of British comedy for many moons now.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Coronavirus: Republic of Ireland to close schools and colleges

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51850811

Also indoor mass gatherings of more than 100 people and outdoor gatherings of more than 500 should be cancelled.

 

[Is it PotG?]

BoJo in a bit of a quandary now.

Does he delay for the 'control' element, or run the risk of not following the Irish lead when they might show a reduction in numbers having acted?