Coronavirus

Quoted from tanga_the_indestructible

This is affecting so many people in my industry. If they're forced by the government to close down, many of them can claim insurance for it, but if they close voluntarily, they get nothing. I wonder if that's a coincidence?

I imagine you’ve already seen this, but the £25,540 Johnson received for speaking at the British Insurance Brokers’ Association’s Conference is starting to look like a decent investment for those firms.

https://www.insuranceage.co.uk/broker/4032516/boris-johnsons-biba-pay-revealed

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

You don’t get to be as wealthy as that weasel with scruples.

He's a true capitalist.  Hates socialism.  Now he wants a bail out from the state.  urine off Branson.

Up all night coughing u till you vomit. Lungs on fire. Fever headache. Not me my partner seems I have a milder form. No known contact except I test for flu then send swabs away for coronavirus..

Not many defending the govts herd immunity idea this morning is there? 🦃🎄

Quoted from 140067

Up all night coughing u till you vomit. Lungs on fire. Fever headache. Not me my partner seems I have a milder form. No known contact except I test for flu then send swabs away for coronavirus..

Hope you get well soon! You sure you haven't got the same and your bodies are reacting differently?

Quoted from LH

Not many defending the govts herd immunity idea this morning is there? 🦃🎄

The original decision which seemed to be to let as many as possible catch, and become immune and take the 1% hit to the weak was never going to be popular and unlikely to work.
We still seem in a similar vein though, pubs and restaurants can stay open but don’t use them, school’s still open, we may have to ask those over 70 to self isolate from the weekend, nothing is firm, everything is half hearted,
The Government has a terrible situation to deal with, it needs to step up, treat us like adults and explain the strategy fully without talking about sombrero’s as if we are children.
It needs to make a plan for businesses and people to have money to survive, not make half arsed statements designed to placate it’s donors

Quoted from LH

Not many defending the govts herd immunity idea this morning is there? 🦃🎄

Nope, but quite a few gloating w@nkers that seem to revel in being able to say 'I told you so' !!

As far as the way we handle this, I still believe we have to listen to the experts.  However, I do agree that Borris is not getting it right at all.
Advising as opposed to banning is indeed a cheap way out.  I think that this will change very very soon.
I voted Tory, not heartily, but because of the other options and still believe I got it right.  However, if Borris thinks that in five years time we will have forgotten how he handled this crisis then he is wrong.
He needs to sort out those financially affected and he needs to do it soon.

Well, if the results of this test are duplicated elsewhere, this could change everything:

https://translate.google.com/t.....54518-C12-P3-S2.4-T1

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"The vast majority of people infected with Covid-19, between 50 and 75%, are completely asymptomatic but represent a formidable source of contagion"

All 3,000 inhabitants of a small Italian town were tested and this is the conclusion from the testing.

Without testing of everyone, it will be absolutely impossible to discover who is infectious. A doctor or nurse could be completely asymptomatic and infect dozens of patients over the course of a week or two.

I would also, I think, indicate that the fatality rate of the disease is lower than believed (as so many more actually have it), but it would probably also mean more deaths than currently expected. It would become hugely difficult to stop it spreading to more vulnerable people in the population.

An absolute lockdown would be required with only those tested and found clear of the disease allowed to provide services. Problem is, the logistics would be all but impossible and we don't have the ability to test everyone yet.

Quoted from Civvy at last

Nope, but quite a few gloating w@nkers that seem to revel in being able to say 'I told you so' !!

As far as the way we handle this, I still believe we have to listen to the experts.  However, I do agree that Borris is not getting it right at all.
Advising as opposed to banning is indeed a cheap way out.  I think that this will change very very soon.
I voted Tory, not heartily, but because of the other options and still believe I got it right.  However, if Borris thinks that in five years time we will have forgotten how he handled this crisis then he is wrong.
He needs to sort out those financially affected and he needs to do it soon.

My point was that a few days ago the people most at risk from this virus were quite happy to let the government stand them in the firing line of it. As soon as he admits they got it wrong then they’re all quiet.

The experts keep telling us this is some kind of master plan but every 24hrs the master plan changes. It has become very obvious that the experts are not in charge of this national disaster but are being told to justify scientifically why the government policy is safe.

It’s very difficult to not make this a political discussion but shall we say that Theresa May had made the initial decisions Johnson did that she wouldn’t have been defended by so many quite so enthusiastically?

My kids didn’t want to go to school this week as they thought it was madness and so did l but of course we followed the directive. Tuesday lunch time and they’ve been sent home as one of them has contracted a persistent cough today.  Self isolation now for us all. Stay safe everyone.