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Re: Coronavirus Loose on the Wirral
[Re: Excoriator]
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4th Mar 2020 9:47am
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He sings 'Happy Birthday' twice though in the belief that will protect you.
I notice the disease is now being presented as an economic threat rather than a medical one at the moment with Carney and a grim faced Boris shocked at havinf 25% of the workforce at home!
I can't work out whether this is designed to allay panic or simply the usual tory policy of putting property and money before people. I see I'am not the only one to notice things wanting to be done on the cheap, it is without doubt the Tory arse squeeking at having to pay out, I noted the emphasise on voluntary this and that, and all of a sudden hospital is no longer required for isolation.
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Re: Coronavirus Loose on the Wirral
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4th Mar 2020 4:48pm
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Difficult to find much that's correct about this post. The WHO gave an initial estimate of 2% mortality rate about a month back. Subsequent events have shown it to be more like 6%. (See https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ which gives excellent up-to-date information, unlike our piss-poor government) It is most definitely on the loose. The site I linked to shows a near-perfect exponential rise of cases outside China. As of now, there are 13,000 cases but it appears to be doubling every three days. In four weeks it will have reached 13 million. 6% of the UK population is about 4 million but given we have more than our fair share of old people I expect the death toll to be rather higher. If you think that's no worse than 'flu then you are living in a very deluded state indeed. The Government should be doing what China - which seems to have contained it - did, and shut down cities completely. Now! Unfortunately, being tories and stupid even by the low standards of that party, they seem to be more concerned about business and blissfully unaware or indifferent to the effect of losing four million people. We have been extremely unfortunate to have a government which is manifestly inept at a time when we need a group who know what needs to be done and have the guts to do it. Expect a very bad time indeed in the UK over the next few months. I hope you survive it. At 77 myself I am not optimistic in my case.
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Re: Coronavirus Loose on the Wirral
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5th Mar 2020 10:28am
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He sings 'Happy Birthday' twice though in the belief that will protect you.
I notice the disease is now being presented as an economic threat rather than a medical one at the moment with Carney and a grim faced Boris shocked at havinf 25% of the workforce at home!
I can't work out whether this is designed to allay panic or simply the usual tory policy of putting property and money before people. I see I'am not the only one to notice things wanting to be done on the cheap, it is without doubt the Tory arse squeeking at having to pay out, I noted the emphasise on voluntary this and that, and all of a sudden hospital is no longer required for isolation. They didn't know what they were dealing with initially, did they ? There won't be enough hospital places to quarantine everyone who steps back in the UK anyway . A friend of mine has had to self quarantine for 14 days. We can do it ourselves, we're not babies. Has anyone mentioned wearing a pair of gloves when we go out, just like my granny did to avoid hand to mouth germs. Money is also a big carrier of germs and viruses. Paper money can hold onto viruses such as flu, for 17 days. Get your mittens out Casper. ps. When you want to 'quote' another comment from someone. click on 'quote' at the bottom right .. in between Reply and Report, Next go down to the end of the 'quote' and after it says 'quote' write your response, then post but I think it can only be done with a maximum of a block of 3. It will tell you anyway when you post. Does it help ?
Last edited by granny; 5th Mar 2020 10:30am.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: Coronavirus Loose on the Wirral
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6th Mar 2020 11:12pm
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Good luck to you and your mum. I hope she gets through unscathed. I'm sure she will. I don't remember any such panic over SARS or Swine flu a few years back.... we just carried on as per normal. I'm more worried about my blood pressure. 192/ 88 earlier today 
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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