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Ouch - I don't think he is a fan of Boris (article from the guardian so not a shock)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... e-pathetic

A leading public health expert has launched a devastating critique of the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the UK, saying it is too little too late, lacks transparency and fails to mobilise the public......
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But there are conflicting opinions in Science. Are we really all going to go into lockdown for 300 cases? Bear in mind that if we spend the next 4 weeks squashing it in this country, unless the whole world has done likewise this will all start up again, and we face it all over again.
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wolf359 wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:30 pm Slovakia joins the lengthening list of countries to shut schools. It has also closed it borders to foreigners.
It's descending into every man/country for himself.

Imagine if the zombie apocalypse actually happened, and how quickly civilisation would deteriorate :|
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Jarvo wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:10 pm It's descending into every man/country for himself.

Imagine if the zombie apocalypse actually happened, and how quickly civilisation would deteriorate :|
I had that conversation about 30 minutes ago, we got onto the Walking Dead where good decent honest people turned into killers, perhaps it wasn't as far fetched as I thought, we have almost seen it over hand sanitiser/toilet tolls :lol:
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TheHandOfDog wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:48 pm Someone asked a while back why Russia has so few cases and apparently it's because they shut their borders back in January. And Singapore which got hit with it quite early has not even 200 cases yet is also because they stopped travel early. Why are we so slow at acting?
What do Russia and Singapore have in common?
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sendô wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:24 pm What do Russia and Singapore have in common?
They both host F1 races....do I win?
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Schools in NI to be shut from 16th to 30th March

Also a decision by the Republic of Ireland government to go into lockdown from 6pm tonight until the end of March.

Seems sensible.
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Bend it like Repka wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:09 pm But there are conflicting opinions in Science. Are we really all going to go into lockdown for 300 cases? Bear in mind that if we spend the next 4 weeks squashing it in this country, unless the whole world has done likewise this will all start up again, and we face it all over again.
There is only one voice I want to hear. It is a scientist who employs reasoning in a reasoned way. They should also drive a 15-year-old Mondeo that they service themselves.

Where can we find such a person?
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The young uns are less at risk but I guess can be carriers, so the shutting down of schools is that to stop the spread in parents/old uns?
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sendô wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:24 pm What do Russia and Singapore have in common?
Cocktails named afer them?
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My company are now insisting all sites get written director approval for people working at the weekend because Coronavirus. :eh:
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TheHandOfDog wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:48 pm Someone asked a while back why Russia has so few cases and apparently it's because they shut their borders back in January. And Singapore which got hit with it quite early has not even 200 cases yet is also because they stopped travel early. Why are we so slow at acting?
It beggars belief really,
if you have a thousand wasps trying to get into your living room through an open window you would close the ****ing window.
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sendô wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:24 pm What do Russia and Singapore have in common?
Totalitarian states.

What do I win?
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1 dead today at Queens in Romford

Tony Chambers, interim chief executive at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust said another patient had died at Queen's hospital.

He said: "We can confirm that a patient, who was in her sixties, and who tested positive for Covid-19 has sadly died at Queen's hospital.

"She had been very unwell with significant other health conditions.

"Our thoughts and condolences are with the patient's family at what is undoubtedly a very distressing time.

"We ask that the family's privacy is respected".
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590 now 10 dead

**** Queens, I'm due at Harold Wood Poly clinic Monday !!!!!
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RichieRiv wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:46 pm Totalitarian states.

What do I win?
Yup.

Far easier for them to shut borders early and wear the criticism.
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Our Irish government announced at 11.30 that schools to shut by 6pm.

Also a ban on crowds over 100 and must keep two metres distance etc...

By 1.30 every supermarket in the country was swamped with panic buyers.

Instead of keeping crowds apart it brought them closer together.

All shelves now empty, despite all heads of supermarkets announcing there was no need to panic buy that there is loads of food in their suppliers warehouses and we won't run out. :x

These morons are the same people we are relying on to stay indoors when the lock down inevitably is introduced.


You just know they will ignore that too.


https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Corona ... c7d7610-ds
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Netherlands joins the party

"Netherlands bans gathering of more than 100
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has banned meetings of more than 100 and told people they should work from home if possible, until at least 31 March. Companies are also being advised to rotate staff to reduce the risk of infection from coronavirus.

The prime minister said he introduced the measures because of the likelihood of "untraceable" cases of the virus in the Netherlands."


We will be the only ones at this rate.
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Pop Robson wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:47 pm 590 now
According Worldometer every ongoing case we have is mild, that could be down to how we classify them I suppose.
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The FTSE 100 has plunged again, down 9%, shedding 546 points to just 5,330.

Trading suspended on Wall Street.
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