I've been stocking up gradually for about ten days and have reached a point where I could live for about six weeks pretty comfortably. That said, I don't see food shortage necessarily being an issue. It's more about how often I would want to (or, in case of infection, be able to) go out at a certain point.
A recent New York times podcast was claiming the second winter in America will be the worst.
The Daily Feb 13
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You mean if you need medical help or just fancy a walk? Not sure from the way you worded it.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
If I was infected I wouldn't want to go out and infect others, and if not infected, I wouldn't want to go out and be infected.
The one thing we have in our favour is that our government, like most European governments, is relatively sane (although this behavioural science wank is making me wonder). Trump's USA stands no chance and he needs to be removed from office right now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/u...ng-delays.html
This is very worrying reading.
With any luck Trump himself gets it at some point.
US not accepting any flights from the EU. NBA season also officially on hiatus. I think they're reacting now.
If Cumtown cancel their tour I will seethe.
Tom Hanks has tested positive on the Gold Coast.
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-...66?pfmredir=sm
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A line has been crossed.
That's it. Time to shut it down.
I have a feeling the Gold Coast will be Queenslands 1st community transmission.
This was after joking that everyone was overreacting to the virus.
Today he tested positive for it.
Thinking about it, sports people are going to know before anyone else if they have it, so probably a good indication of what proportion of the public have it.
And the Hanks thing is huge, you can swap half of the cases up to now for that one, and if it kills him, well...
Hanks has diabetes so he could very well drop.
My missus is now working from home as she had chemo this time last year.
NBA suspended until further notice.
Seriously, Liverpool aren't going to be winning anything this year.
And China are claiming they only had 15 new cases yesterday.
They're not looking.
Hindsight and all but this really would have been one to try and deliberately contract early before the system became too full.
The Government are considering flight bans for the USA and Europe
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He's on the Utah Jazz
It says so much that there are only 3 confirmed cases in Utah and one of them is an NBA All-Star. These numbers are low-balling, hard.
https://www.facebook.com/abcinbrisba...5201518441271/
Tom Hanks may have patient zero'd South East Queensland.
Edit: In the video they are saying you need at least 15 minutes of exposure with a sick person.
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It's shite. Our boss came with the worst of the office cough for two days running. Joking on conference calls, "Yeah, everyone runs a mile when I cough...." I was coming in as she was going home yesterday. Presumably her boss told her to fuck off and isolate.
The scaremongering in this thread. Christ.
I'm buying into every bit of it too. I need to take myself away from forums and Twitter for a few weeks I think really.
Everybody is working from home for the first time on Tuesday to see how the company copes. Should be fine as everything can be done remotely.
Jersey has two cases, but we'll get results this week from passengers who shared a flight with the first bloke. If it explodes, there's no reason to risk keeping people in the office.
It's [sic] coming outta the goddam walls!
Trump has stopped flights from most of Europe. The UK not included.
They're all going to fly into the UK and get onward flights now, aren't they? Cheers Don.
It's not scaremongering to be concerned. It's a highly contagious virus that sounds horrible to have and something you definitely don't want to find yourself in hospital with. Trump banning EU travel shows the size of it.
I hope Team Lol Don't Panic are right but unfortunately I think they are very wrong.
Australian right wing Govenment are handing out $17.8 Billion coronavirus stimulus. They must be pretty bloody spooked.
It's the first time we're seeing the importance of herd immunity in real time.
It’s unbelievable.
China have almost completely contained it and they’ve lifted all the sequestration orders and people are back at work. And here people are claiming we’ll be seeing bodies in the streets like its the Black Plague. Jesus. 3 weeks military enforced quarantine and it’s back to normal life. It doesn’t even matter how far along you are when the quarantine starts.
On the other hand, I just saw some people in the supermarket stockpiling bottled water. Ladies, the water supply is not threatened by this.
The Mrs was telling me that last night too, she'd popped in to Lidl for a few bits. Though she was saying it was mostly the eastern Europeans and they always drink bottled water here anyway.
Not as bad as Hubei at least
Passport Control's going to be a motherfucker.
I imagine the big difference is that China locked everything down, and essentially everybody in the country had a an extended New Years break... whereas, in the UK and US, fuck all has been done to contain it. There were 50,000 at Anfield last night, and over 200,000 will attend Cheltenham. The UK could easily end up having more cases than China, and with a mortality rate of 3%... that's a lot of dead people.
I just don't get the SCAREMONGERING claims... it's a real virus... actually killing thousands of people. People are rightly concerned.
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Yeah, Italy's going the China route and will be all cleared up in a few weeks. Once the UK decides it wants to quarantine seriously, it will and there, too, it will be gone in a few weeks.
It's a serious virus but there's a clear way to stop its spread and we're never going to get to the "bodies strewn in heaps" phase because far before we get there, we'll take the China route
"I've looked at the numbers"
Any measures we've had have been half-arsed. Travel was stopped to Hubei province but the rest of mainland China was fair game. Italy travel is banned but France and Germany are wide open. Even at work, Hubei and Italy are the only travel we're querying claimant's over. No other European spots, Korea or even Iran.
Take severe measures early and the damage is only two week's worth. Now it'll take months.
Yep, but 98% of the population is not prepared for 'the China route' and as a result (unlike in China) it will cause economic and in some cases social trauma.
They don't need to be prepared, they need to be told.
I don't think the Chinese were prepared either. This is where you can finally put to use the soldiers that are seemingly of no use these days.
It is though. If you don't have a supply of water, or the means to cook all your stockpiled dried goods how are you going to survive indoors for 6 weeks when society falls and the people who work in the power stations or the waterworks are all dead/on 2 weeks leave?
You may as well have not bothered.
The people at the waterworks will not all be dead, in the same way we will still all be doing business but just not from crowded offices.
Can they work remotely?
Thinking about it, this must be a cracking window of opportunity if you're planning some sort of terrorist attack.
You could (as I imagine many companies will) do things like group A goes to the office and group B doesn't for two weeks.
I was thinking about that, but in the opposite way. If anybody was planning a terrorist attack I'm sure they've had to postpone it. You're not gonna catch a big crowd of people out and about
You will still in England seemingly.
I was thinking more some sort of organised strike against critical infrastructure rather than some idiot with a van or backpack, but, as the former probably don't really happen you're probably right.
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