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[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread
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95 year old becomes oldest person to recover in Italy so far
https://twitter.com/mhdksafa/status/1242128871987843074?s=20
Glimmer of hope in latest data...........
https://twitter.com/mhdksafa/status/1242128871987843074?s=20
Glimmer of hope in latest data...........
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From the report
"The trajectory of deaths backs up his findings, he said. So do data from outbreaks in confined environments, such as the one on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Out of 3,711 people on board, 712 were infected and eight died. In his view, this unintended experiment in coronavirus spread will help researchers estimate the number of fatalities that would occur in a fully infected population."
[MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION]
Insel affe
HellBilly
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a sharp decline of junk email...
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
That is very interesting. I have a friend who is a doctor, he used to work at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and he has been expressing a similar viewpoint. We shall see.
It’s rare that the death of 602 people passes as good news, but that’s Italy’s latest daily death toll and for two days running now its lower than the previous day. It’s down almost 25% from Saturday’s figure of 793.
Hopefully a sign that the worm is turning, albeit slowly, over there.
Hopefully a sign that the worm is turning, albeit slowly, over there.
New cases up by 8% which is continuing a short but fairly steep downward trend.
The BBC reporting was a disgrace I think .... there was virtually no focus on the new cases but simply on the deaths and a comment along the lines that their measures were still not working
The Wizard
Well-known member
- Jul 2, 2009
- 18,399
Strange, the site I use the last 3 days the new cases rate had decreased by nearly 50% from 6557 to 5560 and today 4790
You are correct I was using the percentages that are being used in the graph put up by [MENTION=38333]Swansman[/MENTION] which show the percentages as a proportion of all cases. New cases relative to previous days new cases are indeed down by c50% (the graph below is yesterday, today the total is 63,927)
Whichever way you look at it there are signs to say that the lockdown is at long last working. Let's hope it continues
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
All hands to the pump at work, so I had to take a call from one of our customers today, who is in his late 80's and who I won't name on here, but who played professional football for Arsenal and a few others in the 1950's and early 1960's before injury ended his career and he moved on to a successful career in another field, which he told me all about too. The list of players he played with or against was mind blowing - Tommy Lawton, the Compton's, Jimmy Greaves.......this list was incredible. He even played for the RAF which he served during the war. He'd never seen a better header of the ball before or since for a striker than Tommy Lawton he told me.
Our chat, for a good 20 minutes, at the end of our call about football was the highlight of my day and his. He sounded so much happier at the end of the call than he did at the start, so I did my bit today with him and it made me so happy too.
When I told him I was a Brighton & Hove Albion STH, he straight away told me he'd played in a reserve game against us at The Goldstone.
Just thought I'd share that post here.
Our chat, for a good 20 minutes, at the end of our call about football was the highlight of my day and his. He sounded so much happier at the end of the call than he did at the start, so I did my bit today with him and it made me so happy too.
When I told him I was a Brighton & Hove Albion STH, he straight away told me he'd played in a reserve game against us at The Goldstone.
Just thought I'd share that post here.
Raleigh Chopper
New member
McDonald's is closed.
Brightonfan1983
Well-known member
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Boris giving his shutdown edict now.
No arguments with the new rules. Quite appropriate. And the lead in (the apparent indecision up to now), allowing infrastructure to be built, like the support for the vulnerable, means that people will not be left to rot.
And I say that as an opponent of Boris. He has had the sense to take advice and act. Oddly....that is good leadership. Well done.
Now let's try to take care of ourselves and one another. Massive respect to the folk on the front line, in hospitals.
No arguments with the new rules. Quite appropriate. And the lead in (the apparent indecision up to now), allowing infrastructure to be built, like the support for the vulnerable, means that people will not be left to rot.
And I say that as an opponent of Boris. He has had the sense to take advice and act. Oddly....that is good leadership. Well done.
Now let's try to take care of ourselves and one another. Massive respect to the folk on the front line, in hospitals.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Indeed.
I just hope common sense reigns and we all stick to these requests.
I just hope common sense reigns and we all stick to these requests.
Weststander
Well-known member
I wonder if ‘invincible’ teens and twenties will abide? Round our part of Brighton today, large numbers elated that school, college, uni and work cancelled, were socialising. Hard for some parents and a thin blue line to stop that.
Gang of four lycra clad cyclists in a huddle near my garden produce outlet today. Cocky twats.
Hope you are keeping your end up, down there.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 28,272
It was pretty obvious this was coming when having seen China, Italy, France, Spain and huge areas in the US going in to lockdown previously. Lockdown is the only way to prevent a global disaster ( if you don't count the current infection/death toll as a disaster already ?) and maybe should have been implemented sooner.
Like you, massive respect to our doctors, nurses and support staff, it must be hell for them but hopefully a lockdown will slow the case numbers.
aftershavedave
Well-known member
Gang of four lycra clad cyclists in a huddle near my garden produce outlet today. Cocky twats.
Hope you are keeping your end up, down there.
can't really see that this (or others) should be on a "good news" thread tbh? just you having a chat no?
Weststander
Well-known member
Gang of four lycra clad cyclists in a huddle near my garden produce outlet today. Cocky twats.
Hope you are keeping your end up, down there.
That’s where your air rifle, covertly poking out of a car window, came into its own. The Faversham Sniper.
We’re all well thanks, calm before the storm?