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47 minutes ago, matty40s said:
Theres a new medicine out that should help...
I've just ordered 40 packets of this via eBay. Best £4000 I've ever spent.
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Coronavirus: nine reasons to be reassured | World news | The Guardian
WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COMYes, Covid-19 is serious, but context is key and the world is well placed to deal with it
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One for the end of days merchants on here, a different view with some historical perspective.....
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2 minutes ago, feb1991blizzard said:
So i need something with high alcohol content in it then - would absinth suffice?
Don't know, but it will certainty make the heart grow fonder.
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10 minutes ago, Crepuscular Ray said:
Anti bacterial hand wipes are not going to help. It's a virus.
If the worst-case scenario comes off, what the virus is going to do in countries without adequate health care is beyond imagining. Even Trump's lowest estimate of a 1% death rate would imply 70 million people dying.
Anti bac stuff will work but it depends on its make up. That's why hand gels are effective provided they have an alcohol content of at least 60%. This destroys the coating on this particular virus.
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1 hour ago, SteveB said:
It's lost on me why this is a big issue.
While people have died from COVID-19, it is the old and weak. If fit young people were dying, then yes, we have an issue.
TB kills 40,000 a day! and there is a cure
What a deeply unpleasant point of view.
One of the tests of any civilised and mature society is precisely how it respects and cares for the old and weak.
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9 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:
At a hunch, when the markets close, when is that?
If its four o clock soon we'll know.
A bit late again lol.
UK Markets close at 4:30, so the numbers were issued well in advance of then.
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3 minutes ago, Snowycat said:
Can they not suspend trading on the stock market in view of this continual free fall? If so, why haven’t they done it?
It's not a continual free fall. Here's this week so far on the FTSE100. Yes this is on the back of big losses the week before but even so I can't see any reason to suspend. Plenty of people (braver than me) are seeing this as a buying opportunity. Also for investors and those with pensions (ie nearly everyone) the stock market is a highly long term thing.
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8 minutes ago, pip22 said:
Wow Germany has shot up from 349 cases to 480 in span of a few hours now. They are exploding now!
Exploding is a new and hitherto unforeseen symptom. I suspect that a mask is unlikely to assist.
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This is a good article about the hugely impressive Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty. He was excellent at the press conference yesterday. A reassuring presence:
Prof Chris Whitty: the expert we need in the coronavirus crisis | Society | The Guardian
WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COMEven No 10 has realised the value of the ‘impressive’ chief medical officer for England-
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55 minutes ago, philglossop said:
Embargoed until Wednesday but FA will be releasing advice regarding pre match Respect 'hand shakes' to clubs in the National League System to take affect for games this weekend, until further notice. Will circulate to clubs & match officials and put link to advice on twitter.
Taken from South West Peninsula League Twitter feed.
How about doing something truly radical and making spitting by players a bookable offence.
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Just now, feb1991blizzard said:
Its no good coming the crystal ball argument, you were told on this forum weeks ago there was going to be millions and millions dead around the world, the overwhelming evidence from people who know what they are talking about is that this is going to be true.
Yes it's a big surprise this forum isn't cited much more often by those amateurs at the World Health Authority and Public Health England.
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The seven things to panic-buy now before all the other b*stards get there
WWW.THEDAILYMASH.CO.UKALL those other selfish, panicking b*stards are going to strip the shelves of goods so get to the supermarket before they do. But what to buy?
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48 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:
Boris said in his presser he shook hands with patients who had coronavirus during a hospital visit
Maybe not the most sensible thing to do...
No he didn't. He said he'd visited a hospital that was treating patients with CV and had been shaking hands. At no stage did he say he'd shaken hands with those who were ill.
I thought the press conference, and in particular the 2 experts, was impressive and I'm not predisposed to this government. Calm and considered with facts and perspective, and opinions when they were given were led by the science.
Rather unlike quite a lot of this thread.....
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11 minutes ago, Snipper said:
Told my wife that there might be a ban on sex next.
Is this part of the mooted cancellation of public gatherings of more than 5000?
Maybe it's just a Surrey thing
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17 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:
No idea, and won't jump to conclusions, could be anything.
Alexis, you won't last long on this thread with that sort of rational common sense
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3c, steady rain in Reigate at 110m asl.
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1 minute ago, Gray-Wolf said:
Social media is a new form of communication.
For those of us that grew up ,and matured, in the absence of such we may find it disturbing but then so did the folk throwing clogs into machinery in France at the start of the industrial revolution?
Are you a clog thrower?
Are you not able to answer my points about 'likes'?
Anyway, clearly off topic, I suspect that's at least partly my fault. Makes a change from end of the world stuff I guess.
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So does this mean that when you post something that you think deserves a 'like' and you get a 'like' this makes you feel vindicated? When you don't get a like do you wonder why not? If others post and don't get a 'like' then this means no-one likes them and makes you feel better about the 'likes' you've got?
I'm increasingly of the view that social media really isn't for me.
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10 minutes ago, Gray-Wolf said:
Well B.B. , the lines are now drawn, let's see who , over the next 4 weeks, appears the biggest plonker eh?
I do note your posts do not attract many 'Likes'?
Had you noticed that?
EDIT: Is this what drives you?
The fact that nobody 'Likes' You?
Blimey GW, and this is not a criticism of you personally, but if anything ever summed up social media..... do 'likes' provide validation? Who sits around counting their 'likes' and comparing to others', let alone judges others by the numbers?
I could probably find a site that is populated by people that think this virus is a plague sent from God and get loads of likes by posting stuff that they will, you know, 'like'.
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The usual moaning on here where some are incapable of acknowledging something unless it's happened in their actual garden or, at worst, the next street. It baffles me why so many feel the need to do this 'non-event over hyped' garbage. It's often combined with faintly frothing rants at the Met Office, maybe because the Met Office is full of clever scientists who make their living through their talents.
Unless, perish the thought, the critics are attention seeking
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Down in our flat in Brighton seafront. Wild here. Yesterday and today:
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4 minutes ago, Zak M said:Wind is starting to pick up here. Just heard an evil howl outside.
Werewolf?
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Novel Coronavirus – China
in Space, Science & nature
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It's amazing that so many people on here are coming out now as experts on viruses and infection control and hence are so well placed to tell not only all 45 posters on this thread but our country and the whole world where we are going wrong. Presumably the Chief Medical Officer will be checking in here and taking some of the wisdom into account when devising the strategy.
Seems to me the options are (1) trust and respect the world-renowned UK experts and get on with life, making sensible adjustments or (2) spend every waking moment in an end of days panic and winding people up on social media.
I wonder if other 'special interest' websites have this level of hysteria? Or is it just something that appeals to weather nuts? Maybe it's universal and on homebakers.com or allotment-diggers.co.uk there are people no longer posting about the size of their buns or what they get up to in their potting sheds but instead are going on about whether pubs have soap and if lethally strong alcohol (not in gel but necked) will kill the virus before it kills the drinker.
Funny old business.