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    Starting to see reports (from proper outlets) that pubs, restaurants and gyms in London will be told to close later. Maybe that was always the plan but they needed to sort the level of financial support for employees out first - which I think is also meant to be coming today.

    EDIT:

    And this:

    https://twitter.com/LawrenceDunhill/...858070018?s=20

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    If hospitals are running out already? Good job we're doing all we can to flatten the peak. Oh.

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    The nearby, how can I put it, minority-owned convenience store has loads of bread on the shelves, and a big box of eggs under the counter. I asked if they had any eggs, they sort of burbled to each other, and then one of them brings half a dozen up out of nowhere. Top lads. I bought an extra loaf and chucked it all to the swans on the way home as well because fuck the stockpilers. I might make that part of my new routine actually.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    If hospitals are running out already? Good job we're doing all we can to flatten the peak. Oh.
    It depends where London is against the peak. They've been talking about us being x week behind Italy but London by y weeks ahead of the rest of the country. So perhaps London is supposed to be on the verge of going full Italy.

    The other thing is that's a quote from one London hospital director. I've no reason to doubt it as the HSJ is almost always well informed. But Critical Care beds operate in regional networks. When I'm on call and my place runs out of ICU beds - which is rare-ish but always close enough to happening that you have to plan for it - then I sit down with whichever consultant is in charge and work out who we can most safely shift elsewhere in the network if it comes to it. The context is important. The director they've spoken to might think it's 'terrifying' because their ICU has filled up before the peak and they're already having to make decisions about transfer rather than London being completely fucked already. Both are shit, but one is less shit than the other.

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    For me, there's the visualisation of what's going to happen and the numbers.

    All the posts I've made that are predicting doom are based solely around the numbers, but I still can't visualise day after day of news reports in this country opening with another x hundred have died, let alone thousands.

    So even I look at Italy and sometimes think "that won't happen here", and then I look at the numbers and look at what we're (not) doing again and it's inescapable that we won't be as bad, if not worse.

    And maybe that's the problem and why people aren't taking it seriously. They simply don't believe it will happen here, because they haven't seen it happen here and they can't visualise it.

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    It's unlikely that we won't get into the hundreds per day. Whether that's Italy level stuff is a different question and there a good demographic and social reasons why it shouldn't get quite so bad here as it has there. Then again, they have double the number of ICU beds as we do so who knows? But we'll see.

    I'm not sure even posting those kinds of numbers per day will work, though. I wonder how long it takes for that to normalise. I mean yesterday another 30 odd died and I just thought 'thank fuck it isn't worse than that'. Yet if you told me some fucker had just wandered into a shopping centre and killed 30 in a one off event my reaction would have been quite different.

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    From the CDC:



    That's pretty rough as far as younger age groups go.

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    https://twitter.com/CoronaLeaksUK

    Let's see who can get the stupidest shit up.

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    On the societal reasons for Italy getting so bad, I get there are those, but isn't Northern Italy a very gentrified place vs. London with 7+ million people living and working on top of each other.

    The scientists must have factored that into the equation, surely.

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    The North has the better hospitals as well.

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    The real prepratory step would be to start publishing the non-Covid daily deaths alongside it for some perspective. Google says it's approximately 1,500. If the covid numbers are just largely reducing the 1,500 figure we can stop being such melts and let the fucking weak go.

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    Well, well, well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    On the societal reasons for Italy getting so bad, I get there are those, but isn't Northern Italy a very gentrified place vs. London with 7+ million people living and working on top of each other.

    The scientists must have factored that into the equation, surely.
    There are also loads of grannies and grandads living with the rest of the family in Italy which you don't get so much here. Not that London isn't fucked. The population density is going to do for it. I'm hoping me in my shit market town and the parents in their village might be okay as a result.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    First little slug to come crawling back once they start working from home.
    There you have it.

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    @Bernanke Yeah, the US figures look grim. It's a nation of unhealthy people, regardless of age.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    The real prepratory step would be to start publishing the non-Covid daily deaths alongside it for some perspective. Google says it's approximately 1,500. If the covid numbers are just largely reducing the 1,500 figure we can stop being such melts and let the fucking weak go.
    That's actually not a bad point. It would be good to know just how far above the number of expected deaths on a given day this takes us. Also, the proportion of patients in hospital/ICU/dead are a bit useless without knowing how many people are wandering about asymptomatic or thinking they've got a bit of a cold/virus.

    Hence 'test, test, test. Which - fuck the vaccine - is what is going to allow us to start getting back to normal again.

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    The good news about testing is we're doing more of it. 8,000+ yesterday. 64,000 in total.

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    Why are people so stupid.

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    Realistically, are we ever going to be able to do enough tests?

    I see Spain lost 210 today, which seems to have passed without much notice given Italy's situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    I bought an extra loaf and chucked it all to the swans on the way home as well because fuck the stockpilers. I might make that part of my new routine actually.
    Give it to a homeless, instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    The good news about testing is we're doing more of it. 8,000+ yesterday. 64,000 in total.
    That's 0.1% of the population.

    What level does it take for testing to work?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Realistically, are we ever going to be able to do enough tests?

    I see Spain lost 210 today, which seems to have passed without much notice given Italy's situation.
    We will, but it will be months away. If we're a couple of months a way from 250k per day, and we're not too far off this antibody test, then it oughtn't be too long before we have a decent sample size. But it won't be before the bodies really start piling up either. The mortality rate is going to look fucking horrific for a while, but it won't be a true figure.

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    The worrying thing about London is that so many younger people live there who have moved from other parts of the country and loads of them are going to flock back to their parents' houses and quite possibly take it all over the country with them.

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    Yeah. A lot of the cases elsewhere in Italy were seeded by the fuckers who legged it out of Lombardy when they pre-announced lockdown.

    Fuck me. It feels like ages ago that this was just a shitstorm in a region of Italy after the Chinese had welded it in. This time last week I was still going to the pub tomorrow to watch Watford v Leicester.

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    The Italy numbers are due a ramping up with the South getting in on the action now too, right?

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    You'd think so, but they locked down earlier in their curve than Lombardy so hopefully the numbers won't be quite so horrific.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    Give it to a homeless, instead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    The guys in the whatsapp group are becoming dull af so I've had to make a comeback. All Kiko can talk about is his office and GS keeps chatting shit about Lewis. I can't take it any more.
    Fake news.

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    This time last week I was sinking my 5th pint, while watching Cheltenham on the TV. Absolute madness really.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Strange behavior.

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    One of the things I find worrying which I haven't heard much about is the fact there'll be a load of people who self-isolate, thinking they've got it, when they've actually got one of the other billions of virus' about which have unfortunately not ceased to exist because of covid-19. Come the end of their 7 days they'll start bowling about thinking they're invincible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    One of the things I find worrying which I haven't heard much about is the fact there'll be a load of people who self-isolate, thinking they've got it, when they've actually got one of the other billions of virus' about which have unfortunately not ceased to exist because of covid-19. Come the end of their 7 days they'll start bowling about thinking they're invincible.
    I can assure you that I'll leave self-isolation assuming I haven't had it and that I'm about to pick it up and kill my family.

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    RL's right.

    There'll be tales of how "it's not that bad" simultaneously coupled with "I'm so hard I beat it".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
    I can assure you that I'll leave self-isolation assuming I haven't had it and that I'm about to pick it up and kill my family.
    You won't, but as this event is once again reminding us, a lot of people are fucking stupid.

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    It's shite. There's a video on the BBC site where a woman turned up at her GP with tightness in her chest and a regular cough. She was referred to hospital, told to isolate but not tested for Covid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    It's shite. There's a video on the BBC site where a woman turned up at her GP with tightness in her chest and a regular cough. She was referred to hospital, told to isolate but not tested for Covid.
    In paeds we aren't testing anyone unless they're admitted to hospital. I presume it's the same for the rest of the hospital (and the rest of the country).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    There you have it.
    We're going to hoarding salt at this rate.

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    Seething that my early work on xD for team sceptic was largely ignored and yet when Taz rolls in with it it's suddenly 'not a bad point'.

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    It's always surprising when he actually manages to still catch you off guard you with his behaviour, but how do you mess up a soft-ball question like that with any other answer than "we are here to help you get through this"?

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    You manage it by being an insane old cunt.

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    Here we go.

    This had better be something tangible.

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    So he did announce it after 5 on a Friday.

    What a complete shambles.

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    "Please don't go out tonight" "Please"

    Tonight is going to be the mother of all piss ups in the capital.

    I guess at least it's done.

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    80% of everyone's salary (who can't work), up to £2,500 a month covered by a grant.

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    Can I go and get pissed tonight

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    Meanwhile Italian deaths up by 627.

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    We're going bust. The entire Western world will be like Japan for the next twenty years.

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    Boris is too British for his own good. He's never had to tell anybody off in his life. Tony Blair would've told us the virus could kill us all in 45 minutes.

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    Jesus fucking christ, this is superb. Got such a boner from the anarchy.

    627 posted up by Italy

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    So now we have to close does that mean I'm included in government paying my wage?

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