Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[The Wizard]

If we are going similar to the Italian numbers, unfortunately deaths will start sky rocketing by the hundreds in the next week or so. Feels helpless now there’s nothing we can do to stop this unfolding at this part of the outbreak, just have to hope we can slow it.

 

[Beach Hut]

If we are going similar to the Italian numbers, unfortunately deaths will start sky rocketing by the hundreds in the next week or so. Feels helpless now there’s nothing we can do to stop this unfolding at this part of the outbreak, just have to hope we can slow it.

There is a lot that can be done and the first thing is act responsibly and follow all official advice given.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

I'm not saying it won't be attempted I just don't think that it will be able to be effectively enforced as in EU countries, what's going to happen if people flout it? Arresting them won't work, Brighton for instance has sum total of 36 police cells available and Sussex as a whole around 150 or less so mass arrest won't be possible

Our friends in Madrid say the police shouting at you to get back in your home seems to have the desired affect on most. In France its about a 40 euro fine then a 200 euro fine before they cart you off.

 

[Solid at the back]

How are the other countries managing food spies and visits to supermarket?

 

[The Wizard]

There is a lot that can be done and the first thing is act responsibly and follow all official advice given.

Agreed, but the initial damage is now done we can’t stop the current death toll multiplying over the coming days, all we can do now is try to do things now to stop it later down the line.

 

[Swansman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Auq9mYxFEE

UK press conference beginning in a few minutes

 

[KZNSeagull]

Schools in NI closing today

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

How are the other countries managing food spies and visits to supermarket?

I know in Italy you nominate one person who gets a certificate and then you Q apart and limited people then walk around the shop.

Others are just getting online delivery to outside the door.

 

[beorhthelm]

was about to post that if they do lock down London, hope all the MPs and their teams stay in London, reckon parliament is a hotbed for virus.

then read that Lloyd Russell-Moyle has tested positive.

 

[Rugrat]

Well, you could put it a little more like that for a start rather than:

I suppose if they let all those shit infested bacterial rampant markets operate then having some sort of plan is reasonable. Pity they can't figure out a way not to need a plan

Which to me came across as sneering, dismissive and stereotyping. Particularly when the original comment was about Asia in general and not China specifically.

You're right, nations shouldn't have to have a plan for pandemics caused by these horrible markets. They should have a plan for a pandemic though. Any kind of pandemic. Asia, it appears, does. The rest of the world,it appears, doesn't.

Maybe the world should learn from that and China can learn from the rest of the world concerning the state of its markets.

Accepted.

I didn't take the original comment to be about Asia in general and certainly not Singapore where the statement was made. But I suspect there are other areas within Asia (and elsewhere) that are similarly uncontrolled and I very much hope that once the dust settles a lot of that will be cleaned up.

Nor was I intending to act 'Trumplike' he is a world leader and some of his rhetoric I find entirely distasteful and as well as totally made up (fake in his own words). But I'm not a world leader, just a bloke that is at risk and who has had his life and the life of his family turned on its head.

That said we are going to see tens of thousands of deaths, the world is in economic meltdown and millions of our own people are going to suffer the ramifications for many years.

I don't disagree there needs to be plans for pandemics (I assumed it to be an obvious tongue in cheek statement) Absolutely it could have been better controlled with a plan but (in this case) the plan would not have been needed if the controls all of us take for granted had been in place

I'm just a bit angry, a bit frightened and a bit confused about what to do and not sure that's going to improve any time soon

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Schools shut after Friday.

 

[Seasider78]

Schools shut after Friday.

So now as parents are forced to work kids will be looked after by grandparents what a sensible move .......

 

[GT49er]

These retired health workers that Boris is asking to come back and help the NHS - would they be over 70s?

 

[Notters]

So now as parents are forced to work kids will be looked after by grandparents what a sensible move .......

People are going to whinge either way but there are too many teachers off to keep them open anyway.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Kids of key workers plus vulnerable children to still attend school. No exams in May and June

 

[Stat Brother]

So now as parents are forced to work kids will be looked after by grandparents what a sensible move .......

Come on, be fair.

Boris is saying right now, schools will remain open for the pupils of parents who are vital in us all moving forward.

 

[Dirty Dave]

GCSE's not taking place in May and June. BJ has said qualifications will not be impended and in time grades will be given fairly, whatever that means. My son is in year 11 so has been working towards these. He's pretty annoyed with all this being so up in the air


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[atomised]

People are going to whinge either way but there are too many teachers off to keep them open anyway.

Indeed those I know of its virtually impossible now to keep them open based on staffing levels

 

[GT49er]

Schools shut after Friday.

Partially. Not closed to all children.

 

[pb21]

Partially. Not closed to all children.

What will the children who do go to school do?