With the news in Brighton, it's time to give the South the full Children of Men treatment and embrace the Midlands and North as the future of this disease free nation.
With the news in Brighton, it's time to give the South the full Children of Men treatment and embrace the Midlands and North as the future of this disease free nation.
Already looks post-apocalyptic tbf.
This suddenly got closer than expected.
Oh yeah, now you're worried, now it's finally landed on your doorsteps
If the Vietnam F1 gets cancelled, we riot.
There is 1000 isolated in Queensland alone.
I'm keeping my phone close in case they decide to shut the office down for cleaning.
Test came back negative. Phew.
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These were the stats when the thread was opened 10 days ago.
Current Infected: 28,400
Current Deaths: 563
Suspected additional Cases: 24,700
Today the numbers are:
Current Infected: 69,000
Current Deaths: 1,669
Suspected additional Cases: ???
Here in Vietnam all schools have now been cancelled until at least 1st March. That means kids haven't been to school since about 14th Jan (we had lunar new year holiday).
Most sporting events cancelled, with V.Leagie delayed until 7th March. AFC Cup and ACL both been affected severely and many ASEAN basketball league games cancelled.
Closer to home, Ho Chi Minh City is delight. The traffic isn't too bad, the sky is bluer than normal and it feels like a relatively pleasant city.
Profit?Originally Posted by John Arne
Someone in my work was away travelling for the past month in Vietnam and some other bits of South East Asia, I think. She comes back tomorrow.
I can’t understand them just letting these people waltz back in.Someone in my work was away travelling for the past month in Vietnam and some other bits of South East Asia, I think. She comes back tomorrow.
The official line from the WHO is that it's easier to track people and control the outbreak when you don't close borders.
My view is that that's bollocks and they're in the pocket of big business and governments and will say anything that those groups would like to hear, irrespective of how true it is.
A whole town has now been quarantined in the north. Residents are receiving a 40,000 dong daily stipend for the trouble. That's less than $2 a day :/
There's also a video of about 1000 Chinese sprinting over the border in Vietnam - however, it looks a bit dodgy to me.
I dunno. I suspect it wouldn't have spread like it has in China now the country's been on a sort of lockdown.
Oh I'm sure it would have spread in China come what may. It's whether it should have been helped to come over here that's the issue. We willingly let it in.
On that, why are governments expected to evacuate their citizens in the event of this sort of thing? They chose to go and live there, and it's not like it's a warzone with a general breakdown of law 'n' order to compensate for. You wanted China, you've got it.
There's approximately a 0% chance any of you will ever have anything to do with this virus. Even in China there's pretty much a 0% chance. I have no idea why you guys are at all concerned about this.
Why does discussing it mean we're concerned?
I've not wrapped my house in foil.
Will we ever have an outbreak that puts the world into I Am Legend mode?
Not really you, although a healthy adult dying from seasonal flu is not that uncommon either so that's not a "game changer" for this virus
I dunno, I've been to a fair few high risk airports lately :/
Though I have been wearing my mask and cleaning my hands every two hours, so I should be good.
Post a picture of you wearing the mask immediately.
He is too much of a pussy to do so.
Looks like you're about to drop the shitest Drill album of 2020.
I helped a Chinese woman stick her bag in the overhead thing yesterday, and now I've got a cold. I'd like to leave the Database to Amigo, and Magic can have my savings for his divorce fund.
Double the milk intake.
It is pretty uncommon.
Edit: actually it's really very uncommon indeed.
Stop worrying random!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seems like 5% of flu deaths are from under 50s. About 3,500 under 50 deaths each year in the US. So, yes, it does happen, and not so infrequently that it’s somehow unprecedented in this case
EDIT: although who knows how many of those are immunocompromised
Being under 50 is not synonymous with young and fit. It's not just immunocompromise that's important either. The vast, vast majority of those will have other significant health problems.
- In Italy 11 town have been put in lockdown, with residents being fined if they leave or enter the outbreak areas. This follows 150 cases being confirmed, with 3 deaths in the region.
- Turkey and Pakistan have closed their borders with Iran, where the virus has infected 43, and killed 8.
- UK has 13 cases, but no deaths as yet.
- Vietnam had 16 cases, all now recovered.
Current Infected: 78,993
Current Deaths: 2,470
Infected but recovered: 23,418
That Iranian hit rate is impressive.
Im hoping the virus evolves and starts obliterating people. Its slow.
The cull is needed. It can start on Twitter.
Might be worth it.
4 years too late to stop Brexit
That 0.20% includes the Chinese state offing that doctor, so it's probably even less.
You can probably knock a lot of those down by a factor of ten seeing as most people who get it probably won't even know they've had it.
More people will probably die as a result of the global recession which this idiotic health scare seems to be causing.
Got this email yesterday:
Colleagues,
Walking in to work this morning I pondered how I and my family ought to prepare for the likelihood that next Fall we will have to deal with a pandemic, specifically how my family needs to prepare for it. For example, if we have to self-quarantine then it makes sense to have plenty of rice and beans, etc in the house!
Then I realized I could prepare for it in my work as well, at least in the early stages, and maybe we could innovatively adapt along the same lines. The first measure that occured to me was the simple and perhaps less than effective one of widely spaced seating in the classrooms. My next thought though was video transmitting my class via Skype or Facetime to students who have self-quarantined but are still lucid enough to study, or from me if I am in the same boat. An ad-hoc idea, but maybe it would be helpful as part of the university's larger policy response.
I know we have emergency preparedness plans for extreme weather and violent intruders and what not. If some component of "the university" is already contemplating how to deal with a virulent virus outbreak, great. If some one has expertise in this area I'd appreciate them sharing it. If not, it seems prudent to plan our response to what will inevitably hit our community.
I do not intend to be alarmist, just calmly prudent.
Even having the time to write that bullshit email suggests he should be fired.
Academia, therefore can't be fired.
I like that in his mind, people will be dying next Fall, and he is worried about how he will deliver his lecture. As if I will give a shit about my job when the "inevitable pandemic" hits.
Another strong candidate for the 2020 Get a Grip Mate Awards.
First confirmed case in NI.
We've had two emails today within 30 minutes of each other. One of which gives the hot advice, "Do not come into contact with any living or dead animals."
I knew the huns would finish us in the end.
I should probably start reading the emails my work has been sending about it. More interested in eating the chocolate cake we got given.
One of the platforms for another operator had to quarantine because of some dope he came back from Asia and popped offshore without telling anyone. Good one mate.
The factory supplier that produces all our bearings is based in (wait for it) Wuhan, so in about three months' time when our stock runs out we are going to be fucked, or rather our customers who need bearings will be. We'll just slap the prices up on everything else and live like kings.
If it comes over here in a significant way (or to anyone who is somewhere where it's already prevalent), get a pneumacoccal vaccine (you'll likely have to pay for it yourself).
Following these viral illnesses there's always a second wave of deaths from invasive pneumococcus.
Also, despite the government's assurances we are well prepared for a pandemic, we absolutely aren't.
Last edited by randomlegend; 27-02-2020 at 08:26 PM.
If production in China doesn't resume shortly the global economy is going to be hit seriously hard.
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