SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

arnie_ni said:
When we probably have the most pressured medical resources in Europe at the best of times due to under funding... yea it kinda does tbh.

They could be 2 weeks ahead of this if they just acted accordingly
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The government is completely incompetent and the general attitude of the people is one of ignorance and selfishness. It shouldn’t surprise anyone.
 
Mike Pence Embarrassingly Stares As Trump Tries To Explain Sickness



Just put him out of his misery .
 
Drifter said:
Mike Pence Embarrassingly Stares As Trump Tries To Explain Sickness



Just put him out of his misery .
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I've yet to see them discuss this on a public health level. The entire focus of their public announcements has been "nobody needs to worry, the economy is doing great, tax cuts will see us through this".
 
Why the feck haven’t we done anything yet
 
On radio they are saying that current estimates is that between 40-70% of the worlds population will get infected before this goes away.
 
Lay said:
Why the feck haven’t we done anything yet
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Boris and pals far too busy trying to work out how they will make money out of this latest disaster.

Did so well with Brexit, there must be an opportunity here.
 
balaks said:
On radio they are saying that current estimates is that between 40-70% of the worlds population will get infected before this goes away.
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Sounds about right. Hopefully there'll be a vaccine in place before we reach those numbers.
 
Skills said:
Sporting governing bodies have come out looking the worst out of all this shit. F1 refusing to cancel or postpone the inaugural grand Prix.

It's mental. Not only are they hot beds for transmitions, they're not even critical to day to day function of society. I mean I get it energy companies, refineries etc don't shut down because they still need to provide these critical services. What makes these bastards think they're so important?
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The people in charge are super-rich and wish to remain so.
 
Massive Spanner said:
Worth remembering that we have 1/13th the population of the UK so it's not really any less cases in those terms. We are at a benefit of both being an island state and being a very sparsely populated country, though.

Mind you, our health system really couldn't handle anything on a large scale so it's no surprise they're already taking serious measures like this.
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Has there been any mention of the border down with yous regarding all this?
 
The measures our government are taking are actually ....... sound!!

Im shocked.

Hopefully being a small island nation lestens the impact of the virus but at least we're doing something!
 
Lithuania closes all the schools, unis, etc. for 4 weeks, also any events above 100 people to be called off or postponed. Pretty drastic and welcomed I would say given we only had 3 cases, also flights banned from high risk countries too.
 
There's been a fair amount of suggestion that one of the reason UK Universities are still open is because staff are currently on strike over pay, conditions, equality, casualisation, pensions and conditions and if they had to close them those staff would have to be paid.

It's the sort of boneheaded thing I can see being true tbh.
 
Rajma said:
Lithuania closes all the schools, unis, etc. for 4 weeks, also any events above 100 people to be called off or postponed. Pretty drastic and welcomed I would say given we only had 3 cases, also flights banned from high risk countries too.
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Pretty much the same as here in Ireland. No doubt at this stage it's probably part of wider EU measures.
 
NinjaFletch said:
There's been a fair amount of suggestion that one of the reason UK Universities are still open is because staff are currently on strike over pay, conditions, equality, casualisation, pensions and conditions and if they had to close them those staff would have to be paid.

It's the sort of boneheaded thing I can see being true tbh.
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Completely true. This country in particular is so obsessed with money.
 
the uk.gov site for petitions to close schools is only 340 000 , needs to be 1 million . Universities is 70 000, long way to go.
 
NinjaFletch said:
There's been a fair amount of suggestion that one of the reason UK Universities are still open is because staff are currently on strike over pay, conditions, equality, casualisation, pensions and conditions and if they had to close them those staff would have to be paid.

It's the sort of boneheaded thing I can see being true tbh.
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The reason I have read is that lots of Universities have campuses so it's not as easy as just shutting them down for X. There is still thousands of staff that need to service the University (food, cleaning, security, ect) even if students are not attending lectures. It's not like the majority of schools where you just lock the front door.
 
sglowrider said:
The gold standards for the Coronavirus epidemic management go to Singapore and Hong Kong, not China.
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Not necessarily.

If you lockdown too early, you risk the virus re-entering the location after it's lifted.

If you lockdown too late, it has no effect because people in their homes will already be infected.

The point of lockdown is not to wipe out the disease. Covid-19 is already too global and the world is too connected for that to be feasible in any sense. It's only going to boomerang back when trade/tourism restarts.

The point of lockdown is to slow the spread of the disease at the right point in order to ease the pressure on medical services.

It remains to be seen if Singapore and Hong Kong got things right. Chances are, they'll require a second lockdown. The risk then becomes civil unrest and economic collapse if there are too many lockdowns in too short a time.
 
Massive Spanner said:
All the fecking shops are being emptied despite the Taoiseach saying not to panic buy and that there won't be food shortages. Eejits.
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fecking eejits everywhere, you just can't trust the people. Went to Tesco yesterday here in London and the handwash, toilet roll, rice and pasta isles were empty and will be for 2 more days till they restock. All because some twats decided to stock up for an apocalypse.

They're gonna have to start rationing things soon with this moron pandemic we seem to be suffering from.
 
balaks said:
On radio they are saying that current estimates is that between 40-70% of the worlds population will get infected before this goes away.
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I suspect a large part of our governments' plans depend on a large number of people getting infected.

Seems to me the strategy (particularly in the UK) is to manage the rate at which people get infected rather than try to outright stop infections. That way large sections of the population build up immunity without the health service being overwhelmed.

Whereas if they outright tried to stop infections at all costs, the risk from their POV is that infections would immediately spike once lockdown ends.
 
Some lass who is always off with anything more than sniffle has for some reason come into work despite her coughing and running hot.

I'm packing up my laptop tonight and not coming in for a whilst, can easily WFH, just don't trust people.
 
Herd Immunity is a phrase the government are spewing, its faux behavioral science stuff.

To attain that sort of immunity means 90% of the population must have the antibodies.

That means 90% of the population, plus those who die, must have contracted the virus.

This is what happens when a bloke who worships eugenics to explain away how he is rich beyond 'he was born rich', to justify his own existence, gets into power.

At a 3% death rate, 95% contamination would mean 1.8 million deaths.And no one in the media is even batting an eyelid at what they are proposing.
 
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