https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1240...804889600?s=20
London's gonna need to go lockdown going off reports from today.
https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1240...804889600?s=20
London's gonna need to go lockdown going off reports from today.
Do we still have that fishing emoticon?
Giggles now his own bespoke cell in Yevs DeathSheet.
Park was packed earlier. Read elsewhere, some places shops all open and pubs doing lock ins. We're going to be suffering for a long long time.
What’s the point in most of it?
You can die if you’re 50, you can’t die if you’re 50, you can’t die if you’re healthy, you can die if you’re healthy, virus can’t live on surfaces, virus lives on surfaces for 48 hours, virus lives on surfaces for 24 hours, virus lives on surfaces for 2 hours, no vaccine coming for 18 months, vaccine here next week, malaria drugs cure it, vaccine here in a month, China back to normal, everyone is dead in China, etc etc.
Now's not the time for an existential crisis.
Shit, where did you hear that?
The reporting sounds shit. A 41 year old died of this and was included today. But turns out she died six days ago and was off that Diamond Princess cruise ship. ‘Multiple underlying conditions’ makes it sound as though she was about to drop anyway.
Yeah all the shops that were open were packed. Loads of people out walking, loads of old cunts too. Thick.
Up 102 today. 10,000 tests completed apparently.
The number of health workers getting it, whilst expected, is fucking horrible.
The healthcare workers percentage is pretty stark. Them catching it seems pretty inevitable and it's not like they'll have staff on rotation.
Actual Italian age brackets.
They're going be getting industrial level doses of it as well.
I've basically accepted I'm getting it at some point.
So we sent a bunch of tests off to the UK between the 11th and 14th of March, but the lab that was meant to do them shipped them off somewhere else and they remain within 500 cases from around the UK for those dates as yet unresolved. Mental.
Then we tested a bunch more returnees in the last few days and 15 of them have it. Yikes. Still clinging onto the hope of no community transmission at the moment.
It’s having an interesting impact on the hospitals I work in. Both have seen really sharp reductions in ED attendances over the last week and a bit. We’ve got wards set up specifically for this (suspected as well as confirmed cases) and they still have loads of empty beds. ICU looking pretty good, too. Unusually so, actually.
I know it’s going to come, but having empty beds to start with helps.
Is that because daft cunts have stopped turning up with headaches and cut fingers?
They’d not be in beds but it would explain the lack of people turning up in the first place.
London is in such deep shit. 13% of the population live there. 39% of confirmed cases are there.
A few things I’ve read today have had me thinking about cancelling going to Cornwall in May. My thinking had been that we could go, get our own food and drink in if necessary, and just drive out to places where no bugger is. But what I hadn’t considered is that a load of second home owners will be heading to the coasts, taking the virus with them and completely fucking a place with sod all in terms of hospitals geared up for this kind of thing.
I bet there's loads society could do better when we get out of the other side of this. I doubt we will, but there'll become more and more apparent as we go through.
As soon as things return to anything resembling normal people will be in the pubs, going to football matches and booking flights. And we’ll probably be lucky enough that we’ll get away with it. We’re lucky this isn’t that deadly, although obviously it’s quite deadly enough. Thank fuck it isn’t something with as mental a mortality rate as ebola.
1. Stop pretending that Chinese food isn't shit
2. Apologise to Morrissey
3. Not get mawkish about the whole ordeal
4. Ceremoniously burn every bit of 'Keep Calm' tat in the country
5. Never trade with China again
There has been a notable lack of mawkishness so far, at least from my perspective. Probably because it's affecting everyone in the world, so no one feels able to claim special pity.
I know you jest but the China stuff pisses me off. I’d normally be first in the queue calling Trump a racist cunt for his ‘Chinese Virus’ stuff, and I get that it isn’t the fault of your average Chinese lad and that it’s a bit childish. But we also wouldn’t be in this position if they hadn’t been dirty cunts in their shithole markets.
They can live how they like but it doesn’t mean those of us who don’t appreciate shagging decapitated bats should bend over and accept the consequences. Next time there’s even a fucking hint of something cracking off there, they don’t get to travel here.
https://twitter.com/drericding/statu...391467520?s=21
This is good, by the way. If the Koreans and Americans have managed it we can’t be far off.
If you read about any historical pandemic it always starts in China. They don't give a fuck in the Chinese interior.
Yep. They spent six weeks ignoring it and now look at us.
It would be an opportune period to divest and isolate them afterwards when we're all gearing back into normal economic mode.
There's no need for half the shit they get up to in their wet markets.
Especially given how they can just contain the shit in a six-week lockdown.
@Jimmy Floyd you should do a quiz along the lines of your Christmas ones now.
Lee Duffy. Straight into number two behind Hanks and just ahead of Elba in the prominence table of casualties.
Anyome of note died yet? I saw earlier Ali Milani's dad (may Allah bless his soul). Anyone bigger? Some postman from Limerick or something?
Aye, but we all know that all elite level sportsmen are asthmatic.
Here you go Taz: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51991851
In fairness he looks at death's door in that pic.
The credibility of the Mediterranean diet is taking a bit of a battering.