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Post by ashtondav on Mar 13, 2020 10:25:41 GMT
How best to remain in the 20% who don't get it, if youre over 12
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Post by registerme on Mar 13, 2020 13:40:12 GMT
 Sorry, I'll get my coat.
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Post by scc on Mar 13, 2020 13:43:09 GMT
How best to remain in the 20% who don't get it, if youre over 12 Private self piloted jet to an undisclosed self contained bunker with 2 years of food and bog roll.
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Post by bernythedolt on Mar 13, 2020 13:49:23 GMT
From Guardian19 cases in Kensington and Chelsea, highest in any London boroughs and any counties in England. Who would have thought that? Lots of rich international travellers and their entourages I'd guess. It'll be interesting to see if the rich/celeb/politician jetset turn out to be disproportionately affected. I suspect they already are, actually. Out of all of the billions of people who could be infected by now, the normal odds must be pretty low of A list actors/leaders of governments being infected by random chance. And yet, that's what we're seeing. Possibly, but bear in mind the "fingernail effect": a celeb/VIP has only to break a fingernail these days and it's obligatory that the rest of us have to hear all about it.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Mar 13, 2020 14:22:07 GMT
Lots of rich international travellers and their entourages I'd guess. It'll be interesting to see if the rich/celeb/politician jetset turn out to be disproportionately affected. I suspect they already are, actually. Out of all of the billions of people who could be infected by now, the normal odds must be pretty low of A list actors/leaders of governments being infected by random chance. And yet, that's what we're seeing. Possibly, but bear in mind the "fingernail effect": a celeb/VIP has only to break a fingernail these days and it's obligatory that the rest of us have to hear all about it. And of course they immediately get tested if they so much as sneeze, but it probably shows how widespread the infection might be in people with mild symptoms.
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Post by agent69 on Mar 13, 2020 15:31:09 GMT
Just back from sunny Tenerife, and pleased to see that the fabric of society in Devon hasn't broken down completely (the only thing in short supply appears to be check out operators in Tesco).
Just listening to the news it suggests that the plan is to isolate high risk groups and let everyone else catch the bug (sounds high risk to me). Also, the sporting arena is slowly catching up with the real world, with the Australian GP being cancelled 2 hours before practice was due to start (and at a time when some of the drivers were already in planes flying home).
Only 8 new cases reported in China yesterday, while cases in USA are rocketing (I didn't realise that there is no law requiring people to receive sick pay). Still not enough tets kits there, and I do wonder whether the handling of the virus will lead to the fat boy getting his marching orders. Long live president Joe.
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Post by Please turn me over on Mar 13, 2020 16:02:32 GMT
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Post by bracknellboy on Mar 13, 2020 16:20:22 GMT
Breaking News:
16:05
Breaking Europe now 'epicentre' of the pandemic, says WHO
The head of the World Health Organization says that Europe is now the "epicentre" of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Unfortunately, that will be used as ammunition by the Trump administration to justify that their somewhat chaotic behaviour centring on travel from Europe means they are somehow on the right track.
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Post by gravitykillz on Mar 13, 2020 16:52:50 GMT
Breaking News:
16:05
Breaking Europe now 'epicentre' of the pandemic, says WHO
The head of the World Health Organization says that Europe is now the "epicentre" of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Unfortunately, that will be used as ammunition by the Trump administration to justify that their somewhat chaotic behaviour centring on travel from Europe means they are somehow on the right track.
When they say europe they actually mean italy. And yes trump will use this to isolate the eu and the usa alot more in the coming days.
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Post by gravitykillz on Mar 13, 2020 17:14:46 GMT
Trump is preparing to declare a national emergency in the usa.
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Post by mv on Mar 13, 2020 17:18:20 GMT
We will be where Italy is now in approximately 5 weeks.
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Post by benaj on Mar 13, 2020 17:22:20 GMT
This is probably not easy to hear, according to WHO.INT, the Chinese intervention does work @ great cost except in Hong Kong. On 12th March, Hong Kong has the highest increase in confirmed cases: 9 |
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Post by cb25 on Mar 13, 2020 17:36:24 GMT
This is probably not easy to hear, according to WHO.INT, the Chinese intervention does work @ great cost except in Hong Kong. On 12th March, Hong Kong has the highest increase in confirmed cases: 9 Quick web search suggests that China is only now starting to lift restrictions on Hubei province, so I think it's a bit soon to tell. If in (say) 3-4 weeks the number of cases is very low and not growing we might conclude it's the way to go, but if it picks up again in a month ... then the economic and social pain will only have kicked the problem down the road a month/two. Even that might be worth having, as it would have stopped an even greater overload on their health system.
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Post by bracknellboy on Mar 13, 2020 18:27:22 GMT
Italy death toll rises by 250 in one dayThe number of deaths from coronavirus in Italy has rise by 250 to 1,266 - the largest increase in absolute terms since the outbreak began, according to the country's Civil Protection Agency. Officials said the total number of cases had risen from 15,113 to 17,660. The increase in the death rate is almost the same as the figure for China's worst day on 13 February, when according to the World Health Organization, the city of Wuhan - the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak - reported 254 additional deaths.
Ummm. Maybe a good job the markets are closed tomorrow.
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Post by bracknellboy on Mar 13, 2020 19:08:28 GMT
More breaking news:
Four of my spouse's relatives have - apparently - had positive test results.
Good job we only see them rarely.
Umm.
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