Are we looking at doubling numbers from here in on?
Are we looking at doubling numbers from here in on?
We're going Italy.
Friend is getting better today, so I can get back to being a typical blase health worker about it all.
Lol our shortage of ventilators = soaring past Italy.
Lockdown from Friday, boys
Well could be Monday but expecting an announcement late tomorrow night x
The football may be off but we still have out ITK's.
I’ve a shopping order hopefully coming Saturday, they can lock down after that.
Shopping pickers and delivery staff are being treated as critical along with Emergency Service staff. They'll still be going to work either way.
I did an online order two days ago. First free slot was the 26th so I’m fully expecting so many substitutions that they may as well not bring it.
Yeah, The Reid’s family have army connections who have said the same. Being announced tomorrow, according to them.Originally Posted by Waffdon
Be interesting to see an armoured vehicle in St. Helens.
I'm a twit
The one thing about this that fucking terrifies me - more so than actually contracting the virus - is enforced lockdown. How long does this go on for? Living alone, I could potentially not see anyone I know/like/love for months.
My brother is a type 1 diabetic, has been for over 30 years (since he was 3) and he now has kidney problems. He got married and moved to Canada and I was obviously worried about him to some extent when this broke, but was consoled by the fact he lives in the arse end of nowhere. Then I read the below.
And they're sleepwalking into this like so many other countries have done.Canada 'needs to act'
Canada's chief public health official, Dr Theresa Tam, says there has been a "sharp rise" in cases over the last week that point to community spread of Covid-19.
"A number of provinces have reported cases with no links to travel," Dr Tam said. "Our time to act is now."
There are currently 598 cases confirmed in Canada and eight deaths.
What's the little gaff with 129 cases playing at?
We'll see you through Jim.
That would be Dublin. 1.4 million.
The three touching it (Meath, Kildare, and Wicklow) have a combined population of 560,000.
Pretty sure that area only had 60 odd cases yesterday so it must be Dublin.
Wahey.
I thought 'that must be Dublin' as soon as I hit post.
How are you guys testing Giggles? Are those figures likely to be close to accurate? Or are you reporting pointless bullshit figures like we are?
Test centres set up all around the country. A lot of them are using the bigger stadiums as drive through centres but they’re only up and running in the last day or so. Numbers will be accurate but expected to climb rapidly now.
Apparently 29,000 health workers who had either left or retired have returned to work after appeals from the health minister.
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They're amazingly low then in fairness. Ours are beyond joking about. My cousin has it and I spoke to one of my tenants today who is confirmed to have it. She sounded like she had been hit by a bus. Meanwhile we're being told ~1700 have it. I genuinely can't see that even being 10% of the actual number.
I'm in the same boat, we'll be fine. We'll adapt to be. The really weird thing, if it does last as long as it looks like, will be going back outside properly again.
They’re expecting 15000 positive results by the end of the month as there’s going to be a massive increase in tests with the drive through. They’re referral from a GP or from the HSE helpline for the moment but it should speed things up a fair bit as it’s only about 15 mins without leaving the car.
35,000 to 50,000 seems to be the latest number from the Vallance and Whitty random number generator.
104 deaths, over 10,000 had it 2-3 weeks ago.
Get the spreadsheet out.
You fellas are dealing with this better than you dealt with that drive through Krispy Kremes.
We're going to end up somewhere between Italy and Spain.
The response has been fairly tepid outside of Toronto; until the last day or two, the response from the Federal Government and the Provinces was meek at best. Finally got their arses kicked into gear (bars, restaurants, etc. closed), but community spread will be a big thing here as people are still out and about.
We burned down a Lidl because it snowed. Things will go biblical soon enough.
The breaking point will be the point when people think (rightly or wrongly) that they have suffered enough for the benefit of a load of old and ill people who were going to die soon anyway.
They'll have weeks of tolerance, perhaps months, but not forever.
Just dawned on me that what in the fuck is this going to do to a generation of children when they find out they killed their grandparents?
I don't think some will ever do it unless you force them. A lot certainly don't seem that arsed already.
I mean the breaking point regardless of force (assuming we're not going to start shooting people in the street).
The old people will be the ones that get pissed off first.
Also, what is lockdown actually going to mean? Does that mean that the state will overrule my employer's cowardly, small-man-in-a-big-suit insistence that I MUST be at the office to do my desk sales job? Or is it just the same as now, but with uniformed goons walking around slapping down socialising renegades?
Well, along with last nights anecdote about my wife's work letting someone recovering from 'the Flu' back after 4 days, I've had colleague with 'a cold' in today, which HR said was fine and my Sister in Law, who also has 'a cold' is planning on attending our family breakfast for Mothers Day this weekend. Her dad has COPD. People aren't listening.
It means everyone bar anyone that the government deems 'critical' has to stay home.
We are following Singapores model with schools by keeping them open. PM has said get ready for 6 months of this with job losses and business going under.
Spoke to my neighbours on both sides exchanged details if any of us need shopping done etc.
Looking at that I'd say we're slightly more than 2 weeks behind Italy, so moved out a bit since the weekend's estimate of two weeks. But, and it's a big but, it depends how riddled the old and infirm in London are, so we could well be bang on two weeks.
Italy had three relatively calm days in a row from this point (as did Spain, give or take), hitting three figures per day after that.
Watching newsnight it looks like the 'unified' UK approach of less than a week ago is now splintering like fuck.
I make you right that we're going to have a Labour government for decades after this.
We had a Labour government (by nature if not always by name) for thirty years after the war. Even if Keir or whoever turns out to be crap and the Tories win again next time, it'll be a statist programme that any party wins with.
Tory governments are for the good times.
Qantas will stand down 20 000 employees at the end of March for 2 months.
So it turns out that Ibuprofen might be both expensive and not that commonly available in Germany.
We don't have any Germans, do we?
I have had the LOCKDOWN rumour verified by a friend (who works in parliament) of a friend (who used to work in parliament). I think I'll be just going to work as usual though.
Where'd you hear that?
George RR Martin has self isolated so he might finally finish the last two books.
Winds of Winter 2020 might (lol, it wont) actually happen.
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