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Post by Gods on Jan 22, 2020 23:14:47 GMT
Trump is saying it's 'totally under control'  |
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Post by salopstick on Jan 22, 2020 23:29:02 GMT
Bird flu, zika etc
Another scaremongering story?
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Post by felonious on Jan 23, 2020 5:36:31 GMT
Bird flu, zika etc Another scaremongering story? Yeah but what about Spanish flu and the Black death? |
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Post by Eggybread on Jan 23, 2020 6:58:18 GMT
Trump is saying it's 'totally under control' So it obviously isnt then.Bit like climate control.  |
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Post by wagsastokie on Jan 23, 2020 7:21:57 GMT
Well at least we know one of the things the Chinese military have been up to
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Post by bathstoke on Jan 23, 2020 7:48:44 GMT
Trump is saying it's 'totally under control' 11m Wuhan Chinese on lockdown. Which is the fake news, Trumps, the Chinese or both, cause its V difficult to sieve through the bû!!$#!t these days... |
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Post by Gods on Jan 23, 2020 9:27:35 GMT
Lock down now but its a 5 day incubation, 3 flights a week to Heathrow from Wuhan, has the horse bolted?
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Post by yeokel on Jan 23, 2020 10:30:57 GMT
Lock down now but its a 5 day incubation, 3 flights a day to Heathrow from Wuhan, has the horse bolted? Can horses get it too? |
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Post by xchpotter on Jan 23, 2020 11:35:20 GMT
I've suffered from the affects of it after drinking too much of the South American branded beer.
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Post by redstriper on Jan 23, 2020 13:01:45 GMT
It's nothing new, When I was a kid corona used to be spread by delivery van.
We used to buy the lemonade and you got money off your next bottle if you gave back the old one. Eco friendly before the term was even invented.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Jan 23, 2020 13:28:23 GMT
Bird flu, zika etc Another scaremongering story? There were millions of Zika cases, but poorly reported at the time was the fact it's a pretty mild infection. The real issue with Zika is that so little was known about it with regard to the effects of infants born via Zika infected mothers. It would have been remiss of the WHO to not take the action they did when the outbreak was taking place in a major tourist attraction of that year, the Olympics. |
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Jan 23, 2020 13:38:23 GMT
It's important to take steps to manage such a disease as safely as possible. Sadly, it appears as though the methods of transmission have only been revealed or indeed discovered until after significant person to person spread. Diseases like Coronavirus tend to his those already in poor health hardest as it's a respiratory disease.
The media piss me off with stuff like this, in many cases to WHO simply take the most prudent action and people get whipped up into a frenzy about it. It's not under control as much as they'd like, the actual number of cases will definitely be higher as they've only just stepped up monitoring, very often easily spread viruses are actually quite mild. Whilst more virulent viruses like Ebola tend to burn themselves out too quickly due to their fatality rate.
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Post by Mr_DaftBurger on Jan 23, 2020 14:49:30 GMT
Luckily I am drinking tsingdao beer!  Unluckily nearly everyone has face masks on including and especially the pretty girls!  |
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Post by stillgame4it on Jan 23, 2020 23:50:35 GMT
I came through Heathrow and onto Manchester this afternoon, and there were loads of Chinese arriving and wandering around the airport in face masks.
There were 3 of them on my flight to Manchester in their masks.
One of them was wearing an industrial dust mask 😷!
The timing of it coinciding with the Chinese New Year holiday is going to have a big impact on how it spreads .
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jan 23, 2020 23:58:27 GMT
We'll have to nuke China.
Ah well.
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Post by Gods on Jan 24, 2020 0:06:55 GMT
I just read 1 in 5 students at Liverpool University are Chinese and there are 2000 Chinese students in Edinburgh alone. Keele can't be too far behind according to my unofficial visual survey.
Basically the Chinese bank roll our Higher Education system these days paying maximum fees as they do, but it does mean there are an awful lot of them in the UK many of whom will have been home at Xmas.
Must be a possibility it will come to our shores.
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Post by Eggybread on Jan 24, 2020 6:17:22 GMT
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Post by lordb on Jan 24, 2020 7:17:49 GMT
I just read 1 in 5 students at Liverpool University are Chinese and there are 2000 Chinese students in Edinburgh alone. Keele can't be too far behind according to my unofficial visual survey. Basically the Chinese bank roll our Higher Education system these days paying maximum fees as they do, but it does mean there are an awful lot of them in the UK many of whom will have been home at Xmas. Must be a possibility it will come to our shores. Already here |
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Post by Pedropotter on Jan 24, 2020 7:48:05 GMT
Trump is saying it's 'totally under control' 8-| Trump is a massive fucktard. |
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Post by Cast no shadow on Jan 24, 2020 12:46:51 GMT
2020's ebola
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Post by starkiller on Jan 24, 2020 15:37:39 GMT
There are 2000 normal flu deaths every day, just for some perspective.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 24, 2020 15:52:14 GMT
There are 2000 normal flu deaths every day, just for some perspective. Over what area? |
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Post by Eggybread on Jan 24, 2020 16:34:09 GMT
There are 2000 normal flu deaths every day, just for some perspective. Over what area? Burslem |
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Post by elystokie on Jan 24, 2020 16:36:15 GMT
There's a Chinese New Year celebration at the Potteries Museum on Sunday, I imagine the numbers will be hit, would it be a massive over reaction to cancel it and (presumably) similar celebrations nationwide, or a sensible if unfortunate precaution?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2020 19:45:51 GMT
France is reporting there are two confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country. More people are being monitored for the disease.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2020 6:48:11 GMT
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Post by felonious on Jan 26, 2020 7:51:20 GMT
That's absolutely tasteless against the backdrop of worldwide deaths. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2020 8:42:18 GMT
That's absolutely tasteless against the backdrop of worldwide deaths. I expect no less from that utter wanker..... |
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Post by starkiller on Jan 26, 2020 8:55:24 GMT
There are 2000 normal flu deaths every day, just for some perspective. Over what area? Worldwide. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2020 10:10:41 GMT
Suggesting a fatality rate of 4% ish so far. Not a great figure because it's so early and that may rise a bit. Taking 4% of people out in a pandemic situation with >100million infected could still mean huge huge death tolls. Then you're looking into secondary diseases from sanitation issues and the removal of the dead etc. |
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