Yarmy
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As per the WHO recommendations, a little positive story. I don’t know who this guy is, but he went on Twitter and offered to pay bills for people struggling. In the comments, it’s prompted lots of other folk to do the same.
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34 minutes ago, Weather-history said:
Trump briefing, it is like some kind of congratulatory and advertising session.
Just bizarre. He was shaking hands with everyone, apart from one guy who refused. He’s more or less an irrelevance during this crisis though, so not really worth getting exercised about it.
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9 minutes ago, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:
You say that as a joke but the same thought crossed my mind...
I would think that the mass vaccination of 146 million Russians would not have gone unnoticed.
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Don't know if this has already been posted, but it's astonishing: $1331 for a test!
She essentially shames him into agreeing to provide the tests free.
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6 minutes ago, northwestsnow said:
Well no one else apart from chris widgie seems to think so.
Let's hope our modelling is more of the ECM variety rather than the GFS.
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Apologies, if already posted. The DCMO explains the reasons for not shutting down large gatherings and sports events from about 3:00 onwards. I hope she's right.
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2 minutes ago, nick sussex said:
We should hopefully have some anti virals in use by April to help reduce the severity of the illness and with warmer temps on the way lets hope we can avoid the worst .
The infection rate in Africa seems somewhat slower:
We don't know why so few covid-19 cases have been reported in Africa | New Scientist
WWW.NEWSCIENTIST.COMExperts still don't know why so few coronavirus cases have been reported in Africa, despite the continent’s large population and China being its top trading partnerIs it wishful thinking to suppose that temperature might be a factor?
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Pence says there's been 'irresponsible rhetoric' from people downplaying the coronavirus
WWW.NBCNEWS.COMTrump said Monday that the “fake news media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything to inflame the coronavirus situation.”
I mean, he's correct, but he needs to have that conversation with his boss.
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12 minutes ago, Azazel said:
People in my town (Andover) have launched a Facebook group to aid people who are isolated which I think is rather lovely.
I can't remember if i told you guys the story of our first official case.
Apparently, the gentleman suspected he had Covid-19 and went for tests. While waiting for the test results, he went to the local leisure centre to a roller-disco and then went out for a meal at a restaurant. Test results came back positive.
That's astonishing: are there really still Roller discos in the 21st Century?
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9 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:
Was reading that China are sending help to Italy now they're on top of things. Amongst the stuff they're sending is 1000 ventilators.
I hope they are on top of things. Whatever you think of the regime there, it's crucial for the world economy that they get back to something like normality as quickly as possible.
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5 minutes ago, Bristle boy said:
It's all very well saying "close schools" to protect rhe children and the adults they'd come into contact with, but does anyone in here really believe their parents would then self-isolate them? Course they wouldnt. They'd be going around to friends' houses, in an even smaller confined space than a school. Maybe take them to a softplay, to the cinema, to the Wild Place, the zoo....the list is endless of places they'd be taken to socialise.
Going out on their own the older school children would be off to the shopping mall, the cinema, the city centre, McDonalds, blah, blah.
Get real guys.
For the first time in history I'd be telling my boy to go on his Playstation rather than come off it.
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33 minutes ago, Snipper said:
I think for many people they are already taking there own steps to protect themselves by in particular not going places where they will be in close contact.
Told the wife no more sex for the time being. She said oh good!
That's strange, as she seemed very enthusiastic when I went round.
As an aside, there doesn't seem to be much hysteria or panic-buying here in Norfolk, but to be fair it does a long time for news to arrive.
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2 minutes ago, Sky Full said:There is a lot anxiety being experienced in the country at the moment due to the outbreak of covid-19 and some may be feeling genuinely panicky. In my own opinion this is largely due to the media and especially the press and television news programs which have been focussing all their attention on the number of ‘cases’ which have been found and the number of deaths which have been reported daily. This is the first time I can remember when the widespread outbreak of a disease (which in itself is not that uncommon) has been reported in terms of the number of people dying daily, in this country and abroad. Little wonder then that people have it in their head that they too might die soon – so much news about death stalking the land is bound to dominate our thoughts and actions. But – hold on – there have only been four deaths in the UK to date. Admittedly there have been several hundred in Europe as a whole and several thousand around the world. But let’s consider this against all the other deaths which are occurring daily….. Taken from statistics available on the internet I have worked out that the average daily death rate is as follows for some of the top causes of death in the UK:
Cancer (all): 450 per day
Sepsis: 120 per day
Heart Disease: 116 per day
Stroke: 88 per day
Pneumonia: 82 per day
Alcohol related: 20 per day
Suicides: 18 per day
Why don’t we wake up every day to the news that another 450 people have died of cancer? Or that another 88 people have died from a stroke yesterday? Why? Because it isn’t exciting enough to sell papers or attract advertising on the telly. Basically, we’re not interested – we don’t believe these things will affect us – most of us anyway – because most of the deaths listed occur in the oldest age groups and most of the population is too young to worry about it. So what’s different about covid-19? Not much. It is still the elderly and/or infirm who are most at risk. It will not kill the vast majority of people who contract it, and very many people will never catch it anyway. It’s unlikely to come close to being the biggest single cause of death in the UK, or in the world. In a few weeks or months it is likely the figures will have stabilised, the number of deaths per day will have fallen and in the end a vaccine will be developed so this virus will eventually be controlled. It’s a serious matter, certainly, but in my opinion it’s being over-hyped by the press and we are all being whipped into a state of, if not panic, then certainly excess anxiety. We should listen to the advice the government is issuing, take care with personal hygiene and not travel to the worst affected areas. But if we stay calm and consider the actual risks compared with everything else which could kill us I’m sure we’ll get through this with less stress.
No sermon intended. Just my opinion is all.
None of those fatalities are going to increase exponentially as time goes on. When we reach 10 million infected and 1.5-2 million of those require a machine to help them to breathe, are people still going to be saying 'it's only flu'?
By acting now, we can avoid that scenario.
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1 minute ago, Relativistic said:
Figure I read was 0.1% for seasonal flu.
Yes, but 1% of cases are severe enough to warrant hospitalisation. In China, that rate was 15-20%.
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It's absolutely incredible that some still don't understand how exponential growth works.
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Of general interest, this is from a Doctor in London who posts on an NCFC forum:
QuoteCOVID clarification. I’m not suggesting panic. General population will likely not be too sick.
However, we are starting to see VERY sick individuals requiring ITU.
I personally intubated 2 over my weekend on call.
NHS will struggle if this continues
I knew anaesthesia was a bad idea!!
Follow general advice. Hand wash etc and just be a bit cleaner!
Do not panic buy!
No need for masks in the street! Your ones don’t work.He also mentions that it appears to be more aggressive if you suffer from hypertension (high blood pressure). Also, it seems to spare children and pregnant women (unlike swine flu).
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Regarding the US congressman above. Several others were at the same event:
Attendees include Rep. Matt Gaetz, who recently mocked the outbreak by wearing a gas mask to the funding vote. It's reported that Nigel Farage also was there.
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5 hours ago, Donegal said:
This aged well
It's not surprising: his own siblings released a video urging people not to vote for him.
As polarised as politics is in this country, I'm thankful that our own government and leaders are acting responsibly. A view from a former WHO pandemic comms officer across the pond:
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It’s somewhat telling that while people in the US are stockpiling weapons and ammunition, people in the UK are panic buying bog roll, pasta and teabags.
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The next time anyone tells you it’s only 0.000001 of the population, send them this.
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14 minutes ago, Snipper said:
But they been so keen to control everybody’s lives in the past. Just surprised.
I now have far less freedom of movement than I did 2 months ago, so my life is more controlled than it was. Moreover, if I get ill abroad this year, my EHIC card will entitle me to treatment free of charge. Next year, however...
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45 minutes ago, summer blizzard said:
Any indication they’d amend this spell?
No, February would’ve been amended by now as they do it on the 1st or 2nd day of the new month.
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6 hours ago, summer blizzard said:
A lot of the get revised for some reason.
SIDC do, but at the end of each calendar month.
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Not as yet, as far as I can tell. What will the bookies do when all sport stops?