Without wishing to be mean as he is doing a hugely important job, he does like a BIT like a child's drawing of a man.
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[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread
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Without wishing to be mean as he is doing a hugely important job, he does like a BIT like a child's drawing of a man.
SK1NT
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Roads, Streets, Towns, Pubs all nice and quiet... i feel like i live in my own little world.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
All 15 special hospitals in Wuhan have now closed, and the last Covid19 patient discharged. The end is in sight.
Insel affe
HellBilly
Through a barrel of QBZ-95 probably.
Wellesley
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- Jul 24, 2013
- 4,973
They're all dead. (sorry, wrong thread)
Postman Pat
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Maybe the NHS can ask if BBC can lend them the beds for a while could come in handy.
Despite how fast the hoarders are emptying supermarket shelves, they are being replenished every day, hopefully they will eventually realise that the supply chains are actually pretty good and they don't need 100 toilet rolls.
Also people are going back to their local retailers and keeping them afloat when they looked like they were going to the wall.
Ron Manager
Oooh, wasn't it?
Do we know how many or what % of the Chinese population have contracted the virus at this point of closure?
I was in Aldi about 15 minutes after opening this morning and the shelves were pretty bare - although there were toilet rolls. Not much in the way of food though.
Our local shop has bare shelves too - but it does have plenty of booze
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Have they got a tourist board...asking for a friend
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
As the Goerdies would say, “well he is dealing with a turtle disaster here pet“
Postman Pat
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BBC remembering what they were created for:
The BBC is announcing a wide-ranging package of measures today.
Our core role is to bring trusted news and information to audiences in the UK and around the world in a fast-moving situation, and counter confusion and misinformation.
In particular:
We will do everything we can to maintain Breakfast, the One, Six and Ten and ensure they continue to perform a vital role on BBC One
We will broadcast a weekly prime-time Coronavirus special on Wednesdays on BBC One, and move Question Time to 8pm on Thursdays, with call-in audiences and remote guests.
We will record a daily edition of the Coronavirus podcast, and film it where possible for News channel use in the UK and abroad.
We will bring listeners the most up-to-date information on Coronavirus through 5 Live. 5 Live will be answering listeners’ questions with regular phone-ins.
We will focus local radio breakfast and mid-morning output on news, open phone lines and expert advice for local communities between 6am and midday.
Under the umbrella Make A Difference, every local radio station will join up with local volunteer groups to help co-ordinate support for the elderly, housebound or at risk, making sure people know what help is available in their area.
We will keep Newsround bulletins on air throughout the day on CBBC.
We will delay the planned closure of the Red Button text news and information service.
We will help people in the UK deal with the impact of the crisis on their own lives, by providing advice, education and support.
Initiatives include:
Using The One Show as a consumer programme show for all aspects of the crisis. This will include health and well-being advice, keeping fit and healthy eating tips, as well as links to other BBC output that can help and support.
In BBC One daytime, Health Check UK Live will directly address the concerns of viewers who are in isolation, offering tips on how to keep healthy and happy at home.
Making BBC Homepage the BBC’s bulletin board supplying clear information - the answers to all the key questions, with public information, health advice and recipes.
Launching a virtual church service on Sunday mornings across local radio in England, led initially by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Subject to outside broadcast capacity and our partners, we will aim to broadcast a weekly Sunday morning church service on BBC One, and explore how to support other religions and denominations, including in the run-up to Ramadan.
We will work with partners to get older age group exercise routines and other fitness programming into people's homes on TV or radio.
We will retarget the BBC Food website around collections of recipes and advice on what can be made with essentials, especially for older people, and for low-income families.
In the event that schools are shut down, and subject to further work and discussions with the Department for Education, devolved administrations and schools, we are exploring:
A daily educational programme for different key stages or year groups - with a complementary self-learning programme for students to follow, broadcast on BBC Red Button and made available on demand on BBC iPlayer.
Expanding BBC Bitesize content, with our social media running daily troubleshooting Q&As focusing on a different subject each day.
Increasing our educational programming on BBC iPlayer, bringing together the best from BBC Bitesize, BBC Teach and the wider BBC portfolio where educationally appropriate.
Creating two new daily educational podcasts for BBC Sounds, one for primary and one for secondary.
BBC Four and BBC Red Button devoting a block of programming each weekday evening to show programmes that support the GCSE and A Level curriculum. In Scotland, the Scotland channel will support the Scottish NQs and Highers in daytime.
We will keep people entertained, providing laughter, escapism, companionship, shared experiences and a sense of connection to the outside world.
Initiatives include the following:
We will bring back many favourite shows, allowing people of all ages to escape into some top-quality entertainment both on our channels and on BBC iPlayer. New boxsets going up shortly include Spooks, The Missing, Waking The Dead, French And Saunders, Wallander and The Honourable Woman, as well as more from BBC Three.
We will be launching an exciting new iPlayer experience for children, offering a wide range of entertaining and educational series. It will be easy to use and easy for them to find what’s relevant to them.
Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 4 will provide the information, explanation and escape that millions rely on. On Radio 4, we will dig into our rich archive of drama with such well-loved titles as The Complete Smiley, all of the novels by the Bronte Sisters, film noir classics by Raymond Chandler, and reassuring favourites as Rumpole and Wodehouse. We will be sharing popular podcast dramas with a wider radio audience for the first time by broadcasting the award-winning Forest 404 and The Whisperer In Darkness. We will also hope to provide some joy and laughter by running classic editions of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and Just A Minute.
We will do the same in BBC Sounds, looking at bringing back classic sport, comedy and drama, as well as exploring using the BBC’s programme index to allow audiences to search thousands of online archive radio programmes.
We will aim to create live fund-raising events, to raise money for coronavirus good causes.
At a time when British culture is having to close its doors, the BBC, through iPlayer and Sounds, can give British culture an audience that can’t be there in person. We propose to run an essential arts and culture service - Culture in Quarantine - that will keep the Arts alive in people’s homes, focused most intensely across Radio 3, Radio 4, BBC Two, BBC Four, Sounds, iPlayer and our digital platforms, working closely with organisations like Arts Council England and other national funding and producing bodies. This will include guides to shuttered exhibitions, performances from world-class musicians and comedy clubs, new plays created especially for broadcast featuring exceptional talent, poetry and book readings.
The BBC is announcing a wide-ranging package of measures today.
Our core role is to bring trusted news and information to audiences in the UK and around the world in a fast-moving situation, and counter confusion and misinformation.
In particular:
We will do everything we can to maintain Breakfast, the One, Six and Ten and ensure they continue to perform a vital role on BBC One
We will broadcast a weekly prime-time Coronavirus special on Wednesdays on BBC One, and move Question Time to 8pm on Thursdays, with call-in audiences and remote guests.
We will record a daily edition of the Coronavirus podcast, and film it where possible for News channel use in the UK and abroad.
We will bring listeners the most up-to-date information on Coronavirus through 5 Live. 5 Live will be answering listeners’ questions with regular phone-ins.
We will focus local radio breakfast and mid-morning output on news, open phone lines and expert advice for local communities between 6am and midday.
Under the umbrella Make A Difference, every local radio station will join up with local volunteer groups to help co-ordinate support for the elderly, housebound or at risk, making sure people know what help is available in their area.
We will keep Newsround bulletins on air throughout the day on CBBC.
We will delay the planned closure of the Red Button text news and information service.
We will help people in the UK deal with the impact of the crisis on their own lives, by providing advice, education and support.
Initiatives include:
Using The One Show as a consumer programme show for all aspects of the crisis. This will include health and well-being advice, keeping fit and healthy eating tips, as well as links to other BBC output that can help and support.
In BBC One daytime, Health Check UK Live will directly address the concerns of viewers who are in isolation, offering tips on how to keep healthy and happy at home.
Making BBC Homepage the BBC’s bulletin board supplying clear information - the answers to all the key questions, with public information, health advice and recipes.
Launching a virtual church service on Sunday mornings across local radio in England, led initially by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Subject to outside broadcast capacity and our partners, we will aim to broadcast a weekly Sunday morning church service on BBC One, and explore how to support other religions and denominations, including in the run-up to Ramadan.
We will work with partners to get older age group exercise routines and other fitness programming into people's homes on TV or radio.
We will retarget the BBC Food website around collections of recipes and advice on what can be made with essentials, especially for older people, and for low-income families.
In the event that schools are shut down, and subject to further work and discussions with the Department for Education, devolved administrations and schools, we are exploring:
A daily educational programme for different key stages or year groups - with a complementary self-learning programme for students to follow, broadcast on BBC Red Button and made available on demand on BBC iPlayer.
Expanding BBC Bitesize content, with our social media running daily troubleshooting Q&As focusing on a different subject each day.
Increasing our educational programming on BBC iPlayer, bringing together the best from BBC Bitesize, BBC Teach and the wider BBC portfolio where educationally appropriate.
Creating two new daily educational podcasts for BBC Sounds, one for primary and one for secondary.
BBC Four and BBC Red Button devoting a block of programming each weekday evening to show programmes that support the GCSE and A Level curriculum. In Scotland, the Scotland channel will support the Scottish NQs and Highers in daytime.
We will keep people entertained, providing laughter, escapism, companionship, shared experiences and a sense of connection to the outside world.
Initiatives include the following:
We will bring back many favourite shows, allowing people of all ages to escape into some top-quality entertainment both on our channels and on BBC iPlayer. New boxsets going up shortly include Spooks, The Missing, Waking The Dead, French And Saunders, Wallander and The Honourable Woman, as well as more from BBC Three.
We will be launching an exciting new iPlayer experience for children, offering a wide range of entertaining and educational series. It will be easy to use and easy for them to find what’s relevant to them.
Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 4 will provide the information, explanation and escape that millions rely on. On Radio 4, we will dig into our rich archive of drama with such well-loved titles as The Complete Smiley, all of the novels by the Bronte Sisters, film noir classics by Raymond Chandler, and reassuring favourites as Rumpole and Wodehouse. We will be sharing popular podcast dramas with a wider radio audience for the first time by broadcasting the award-winning Forest 404 and The Whisperer In Darkness. We will also hope to provide some joy and laughter by running classic editions of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and Just A Minute.
We will do the same in BBC Sounds, looking at bringing back classic sport, comedy and drama, as well as exploring using the BBC’s programme index to allow audiences to search thousands of online archive radio programmes.
We will aim to create live fund-raising events, to raise money for coronavirus good causes.
At a time when British culture is having to close its doors, the BBC, through iPlayer and Sounds, can give British culture an audience that can’t be there in person. We propose to run an essential arts and culture service - Culture in Quarantine - that will keep the Arts alive in people’s homes, focused most intensely across Radio 3, Radio 4, BBC Two, BBC Four, Sounds, iPlayer and our digital platforms, working closely with organisations like Arts Council England and other national funding and producing bodies. This will include guides to shuttered exhibitions, performances from world-class musicians and comedy clubs, new plays created especially for broadcast featuring exceptional talent, poetry and book readings.
0.015% of Hubei province.
It’s all about avoiding a second spike now. It seems many of us in the West think this is impossible but listening to R4 this morning would suggest that some countries in South East Asia are years and years ahead of us with disaster modelling for outbreaks. There is a reason South Korea can very quickly test 25k a day where as we’re on about 50k tests since the Virus first arrived here many weeks ago.
We’ll see but certainly in China, South Korea and Japan, new cases are very rare and mostly foreigners. What they do now should inform our western governments but will they learn the lessons? It’s anyone’s guess.
Ron Manager
Oooh, wasn't it?
Am I correct in thinking then that the majority of the population, thus far uncontaminated with the virus, will now be safe from contracting this thing?
Who knows?
You would think that if you lock down just your borders and wait 14 days after the last recovery, you might be safe? You’d then keep all foreigners out (or 14 day quarantine) until a vaccine is deployed.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Eurovision just cancelled. Great news!
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
- 18,399
Moving to other thread
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Arthritic Toe
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Beat me to it. I was just about to post the same.