Korean figures are the ones to look at. Those guys don't fuck about.
Korean figures are the ones to look at. Those guys don't fuck about.
827 dead in Italy. That's quite a scary number at this stage.
I fear we're waiting for the mortality rate to jump before doing anything. You know what'd be nice? Union intervention. Imagine the big unions going on strike on health grounds.
One of the University bigwigs comes out today saying that Universities can't be shut down because students have nowhere to go. Jesus... wake up, mate.
In Florida they're signalling to the universities to make plans to move everyone to online learning "as soon as possible" apparently.
They postponed an MLS game in Seattle.
We're doing the rest of the semester online. I plan to tell my students to read the textbook, watch lectures on Youtube, and do the final when the time comes. Everyone else is chimping out.
Where are you teaching, @Pepe?
Daniele Rugani, a Juventus defender, has it.
Apart from that Euro 2016 final nack Ronaldo can't have been injured since 2008, so I bet he has an amazing immune system.
Good test this. If it starts killing footballers you can't really cover that up.
The Euros are definitely off now. No football is getting played for at least four weeks after this weekend.
Imagine losing your life to corona because you had to go and see Liverpool v Atletico.
What's the death rate for following Liverpool in cups?
Liverpool fans losing their life at a game? Unheard of. They're usually so careful.
Looks like another politician is down.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51845861
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-51843128
Bit of everything there.A teenager was sent home from school after being caught selling shots of hand sanitiser to his fellow pupils at 50p a go. His mother, Jenny Tompkins, from Leeds, posted a picture of him arriving home earlier after his entrepreneurial exploits at Dixons Unity Academy. In a post on Facebook, she said it was hard to discipline her son when his "dad called to say he was a legend". He plans to use the £9 he made to buy a kebab, she added.
She added as well as buying a kebab, her son used some of the cash to buy a multipack of Doritos.
lol.
This thread doesn't sound good.
Especially this bit:
Labour have been suspiciously quiet over this.
If only they had an actual leader and not a twat on a losers tour.
Yeah, I am.
We need an opposition.
As for your article, you read that and jesus, I wonder what the actual number of infected is.
Medicare and our version of universal health is great I cant imagine living a country like America atm.
It'll be pretty grim here when the corpses are piling up because they can't test anywhere near quick enough.
Private pathology working with public hospitals and private medical centers as well as the university hospital has been a seamless transition. We also have an existing bulk billed home dr service that is been pumped with funds to keep people out of the emergency.
And yet Ramsay Street had to raise money to get Sonya Rebecchi the cancer treatment she needed. It was waste of money in the end like, but still. If your system was that great...
All the states arent the same though Queensland Health seems to be performing far better than NSW.
Even if you go by the official stats, we've got 460 cases and cases have increased by over 20% for each of the last 3 days. Let's call it 25%. If you multiply that out, by the 12th April we'll have over half a millions cases, with (using the current UK death rate) over 10,000 extra corpses to deal with.
By the end of April it'll be half the country infected, with over half a million dead.
3 weeks might be too soon, but I'm not sure you're wrong.
Add a poll with predicted death numbers.
I'm sure Ital would have torn me a new one with the approach I took as it's rudimentary as fuck, but whatever way you cut it, if you don't do anything about it, the cases and deaths are exponential.
Out of interest, in the Jimocalypse, what's happening outside your flat?
+1 to the "this is really really bad" crowd
If the UK and Italy are fucking it think what will happen when it reaches countries with less developed medical systems. I'm in Mexico and it's been largely contained here but I have a feeling it's a ticking time bomb.
They're all pissing themselves laughing at the bloke with AIDS and a living room full of Super Noodles.
Africa will be the motherload, but I think as all sensible countries should, they'll just close borders and shut shit down.
Certainly in the UK now, anyone who can do their job from home, should be working from home and so few are.
Oh and looks like we're moving to the delay stage, but given the article cites we won't be stopping public gatherings I think that just means we're changing the bulb.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51845861
So assuming you're not looking for a free pass and just can't be arsed to go to work, what do you think it will be like when peak hits?
In most places it'll just be ghost town, but in hospitals and wherever else the badly sick are going to, it will be like a war zone. I very much doubt we, or any other nation, have the resources to cope with it. We might hopefully do a better job than Italy, but I can't see an obvious reason why we would given it has taken this long to do anything whatsoever at a high organisational level (I'm sure things are being readied as best as possible on the ground).
One of the problems is that the boomers and post-boomers who run things are the ones who lived through man-made so-called catastrophes like the Cold War and therefore think we are invincible, whereas obviously we are not. My managing director strolling around saying that it's an overreaction was a real eye opener.
I would love to be very wrong but for about a week I've been fully convinced that I'm right and that for a time - maybe a brief time, but a devastating one - this will be an event to mark all our lives.
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Just had a look to see if I could do a big order online from Tesco or Sainsbury's and the earliest I can get delivery is Sunday. I guess lots of people have the same idea.
What gets me is when do we stop the containment? Surely every country in the world has to be at zero, otherwise it'll just spread again. This is going as far as it will go and there's no stopping it. I'm just glad I'm not 70.
I do believe the time has come to take this seriously and get some tinned shit in to live on. Tesco and Sainsbury's will be hit tomorrow night.