Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[amexer]

I am going out for a chinese meal tonight

 

[Icy Gull]

The NHS will collapse if this gets serious, won’t be able to plaster over it with bullshit and lies if people are dropping down dead

No doubt you’ll be laying the blame 100% at the door of the Tories too.

 

[DumLum]

Surely if this guy brought the virus back on a plane from china, as seems to have been insinuated, he will have infected many others in the enclosed space of an aircraft cabin on a long haul flight?

I’m staggered the government haven’t acted by banning all flights from the most affected areas, incompetent if you ask me.

Two reasons.
Money & Political Correctness.

 

[Justice]

Sussex Uni has a large number of Chinese students on post-grad programs, many of whom return with their families for the graduation ceremonies end of Jan. I imagine that'll be the link

I’ve noticed the Sussex bat population somewhat dwindle.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I am going out for a chinese meal tonight

Prawn crackers

 

[A1X]

I am going out for a chinese meal tonight

Best be careful what beer you have with it.

 

[BNthree]

Sussex Uni has a large number of Chinese students on post-grad programs, many of whom return with their families for the graduation ceremonies end of Jan. I imagine that'll be the link

Not so quick jumping to conclusions!

https://twitter.com/BrightonNewsJo/status/1225437072351256576

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[Grombleton]

I’ve noticed the Sussex bat population somewhat dwindle.

Has Katie Price moved away?

 

[Dick Head]

I've wargamed it on Plague Inc.

I think we're going to be alright. The World Cup was cancelled, the USA President was taken ill and it killed more people than Smallpox, HIV or Spanish Flu but eventually we survived. Although much of the world is now dead, the survivors can rebuild and carry humanity forwards.



(This is what some people do on Football Manager before games.)

 

[Giraffe]

Watford match is in doubt. Don't want people all getting close together. Batten down the hatches. PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[soistes]

I am getting the impression that this is going to become an epidemic, but I believe and hope it won't have the mortality rate of many previous epidemics.

Surely it’s already an epidemic? The big question is whether it’s going to become a pandemic

 

[Notters]

Surely if this guy brought the virus back on a plane from china, as seems to have been insinuated, he will have infected many others in the enclosed space of an aircraft cabin on a long haul flight?

I’m staggered the government haven’t acted by banning all flights from the most affected areas, incompetent if you ask me.

Sussex Uni has a large number of Chinese students on post-grad programs, many of whom return with their families for the graduation ceremonies end of Jan. I imagine that'll be the link

Caught outside of China and not at Sussex uni. Probably not chinese either. Other than that, bang on.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

This guy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51364382

the Doctor who tried to raise the alarm about the virus... has died from the virus.

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He was 34 years of age.

 

[Easy 10]

Admitted to the Royal Sussex A&E on Sunday evening with flu-like symptoms. Results came through this morning confirming thr Coronavirus, has now been taken to quarantine in London somewhere.

Marvellous.

 

[vegster]

Posts #16 and #17 in this thread seem to have been a tad optimistic it seems.

 

[sparkie]

It's an escaped bio-weapon isn't it ?

The people flown back to the UK and quarantined are basically lab rats now.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I am going out for a chinese meal tonight

Our thoughts are with you.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Surely if this guy brought the virus back on a plane from china, as seems to have been insinuated, he will have infected many others in the enclosed space of an aircraft cabin on a long haul flight?

I’m staggered the government haven’t acted by banning all flights from the most affected areas, incompetent if you ask me.

Two reasons.
Money & Political Correctness.

Or it could be because the advice of the World Health Organisation is that this would be counter-productive

https://qz.com/1795615/coronavirus-travel-bans-on-china-imposed-by-growing-list-of-nations/

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

I’ve noticed the Sussex bat population somewhat dwindle.

Sussex CCC have been short of decent bats for some time now.

 

[Icy Gull]

Anyone else ramped up their concern? Can’t see this being an isolated case in this area.