mv
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Post by mv on Mar 13, 2020 19:10:53 GMT
It's not just the 250 deaths from coronavirus though. It's everyone else that died because there are no intensive care beds available for anything else...
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Post by benaj on Mar 13, 2020 19:28:02 GMT
Confused... Advice from the chief scientific advisor: Achieve herd community to protect the vulnerable, youtu.be/2XRc389TvG8and yet 1% of the 60% population got infected might not make it??? |
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Post by gravitykillz on Mar 13, 2020 19:36:26 GMT
National emergency declared in the usa.
Not sure how the markets will react on monday? Could be positive as upto $50
Billion will be available for use tackling corona virus in the usa.
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Post by gravitykillz on Mar 13, 2020 19:38:56 GMT
It's a shame the eu seems to be doing NOTHING to tackle this virus. I have not even heard of the eu even giving an €5 million to help tackle this. What's the point of eu membership?
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Post by jj on Mar 13, 2020 19:41:51 GMT
National emergency declared in the usa. Not sure how the markets will react on monday? Could be positive as upto $50 Billion will be available for use tackling corona virus in the usa. Why wait till Monday? The main market is still open.
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Post by gravitykillz on Mar 13, 2020 19:43:36 GMT
Or forget funding I have not even heard of the eu giving any assistance or guidance in anyway. So glad we voted for brexit.
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Post by Nomad on Mar 13, 2020 19:45:30 GMT
England cricket team evacuated from Sri Lanka (4 active cases, none critical, no deaths) to UK (769, 20, 11).
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Post by aidanw on Mar 13, 2020 19:50:20 GMT
It's a shame the eu seems to be doing NOTHING to tackle this virus. I have not even heard of the eu even giving an €5 million to help tackle this. What's the point of eu membership? Aren't member states supposed to take responsibility for their citizens?
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Post by captainconfident on Mar 13, 2020 20:00:23 GMT
It's a shame the eu seems to be doing NOTHING to tackle this virus. I have not even heard of the eu even giving an €5 million to help tackle this. What's the point of eu membership? Aren't member states supposed to take responsibility for their citizens? If it was the European Superstate that Brexiteers claimed it is, then not providing money would be reprehensible. But it isn't.
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Post by iRobot on Mar 13, 2020 20:03:48 GMT
It's a shame the eu seems to be doing NOTHING to tackle this virus. I have not even heard of the eu even giving an €5 million to help tackle this. What's the point of eu membership? You didn't hear about the €232 million they pledged back in February?
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Post by gravitykillz on Mar 13, 2020 20:06:18 GMT
It's a shame the eu seems to be doing NOTHING to tackle this virus. I have not even heard of the eu even giving an €5 million to help tackle this. What's the point of eu membership? You didn't hear about the €232 million they pledged back in February? Really no did not hear about it. But 232 is not enough. Usa is spending upto 50 BILLION!
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Post by aidanw on Mar 13, 2020 20:12:32 GMT
Really no did not hear about it. But 232 is not enough. Usa is spending upto 50 BILLION! USA can't even sort out their testing. Heaven forbid employees might even have the luxury of sick pay.
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Post by iRobot on Mar 13, 2020 20:15:36 GMT
Really no did not hear about it. But 232 is not enough. Usa is spending upto 50 BILLION! That's not to tackle COVID-19, that's to prop up an ailing election campaign.  FWIW, the good ol' USofA also pledged $7.3B to the WHO's fund appeal. In context, the Gates Foundation put in $9.5B.
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Post by gravitykillz on Mar 13, 2020 20:19:30 GMT
It's at times like this the European union needs to stand up and show it exists and is supporting its citizens. But alas it is only supporting christine Lagardes haircut.
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Post by bracknellboy on Mar 13, 2020 20:50:08 GMT
Confused... Advice from the chief scientific advisor: Achieve herd community to protect the vulnerable, youtu.be/2XRc389TvG8and yet 1% of the 60% population got infected might not make it??? I think the current logic is something like this. This Coronavirus is here and it’s staying. It can’t be eradicated like, say, smallpox. Most people are going to get it: this year, next year or in subsequent years. You can’t lockdown everyone forever. In an ideal world you’d want the 60% who will get it mildly to get on with catching it whilst retaining the focus on keeping the most vulnerable isolated as much as possible while the sense of urgency is high and effective. As more mild cases “self-life-virus-vaccinate” and recover, the vector for transmitting it to vulnerable elderly groups diminishes and everyone can relax a little about letting the vulnerable out and about. It’s not going to be possible to get 60% of mild cases infected and recovered in one season, but it’s still massively better to start on that path towards 60% been-there-had-it-survived-it-easily than try to hold the infection rate near a zero percent floor forever. A controlled, not too slow transmission through the mild cohort is considered the optimum strategy. Logical and makes sense, but only as good as the axiomatic premises that the model is based on. I’d rather put my faith in the CMO and CSO and their teams than some rent-a-quotes giving a contrary view to journos. What they said.
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