Coronavirus Pandemic

[Cloudane]

Certainly spreading. Yeah the joke I've heard a few times is limes in preparation..

The misanthropist environmentalists of the "we need a nice plague to wipe lots of us out!" mindset on reddit are loving dreaming about the possibilities of thinning out the human race but that's incredibly problematic as you can guess what part of the world will see the lion's share of the deaths. Hint: there are actual lions there (and humans, but it's okay, they're the dark skinned ones that we don't think about)

[gravy]

No harm in stocking up on any tinned food that you would eat anyway.

Is this a brexit thread?

[zip accident]

Certainly spreading. Yeah the joke I've heard a few times is limes in preparation..

The misanthropist environmentalists of the "we need a nice plague to wipe lots of us out!" mindset on reddit are loving dreaming about the possibilities of thinning out the human race but that's incredibly problematic as you can guess what part of the world will see the lion's share of the deaths. Hint: there are actual lions there (and humans, but it's okay, they're the dark skinned ones that we don't think about)

According to Wikipedia the nearest current known population of Africa is 1.25 billion. If most of the deaths are there, that leaves something near 6 billlion elsewhere, even if all of Africa dies (very unlikely) if most of the deaths are there, there will be 4.72 billion left in the rest of the world. Most of the rest of the world is poor too. Lots of chinese are poor, most islamic people are poor, most Asians outside China are poor, most Americans from the northern border of Mexico south are poor.

[(o)(o)]

Open the news this morning, there’s interview of my neighbour with Chinese wife all over the place with respirator on, en route back from Wuhan.. great!

[(o)(o)]

Actually I think they might be getting locked up in a facility in the Wirral, so that’s fine then.

[Barney]

It's in Hull.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, that's half an hour up the road from me. On the other, it's Hull. Oh, and we're taking our 7 year old for his birthday treat to Hull tomorrow.

[(o)(o)]

Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral

Edit: .. is quarantine site, two cases being treated in Newcastle hospital.

[(o)(o)]

An here is giving us a tour of quarantine accomodation looks to be students digs... NHS still providing great service..!

.... for now

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51337400

[PFVA]

We just had our second suspected case of the coronavirus in the country.

Yesterday an Italian gentleman, a technician in robotics was at a factory in a town in the North, about an hour from the city of Porto. He was having high fever and feeling quite sick and they took him to the clinic where he informed them he had left China on the 22nd of this month. They called the local ambulance that came promptly but informed they were not equipped or trained to deal with the Coronavirus. They placed him in said ambulance to isolate him and where he had to wait 5 hours for the right ambulance to come over and take him to the hospital in Porto. They did the test which had to be sent to Lisbon for processing and today they got the news he didn't have that virus much to relief of him, and everybody who came in contact with him in the factory, and of everybody else thru out the country who is already fearing the possibility of catching it.

The other suspected case which also turned out negative was in Cascais.

[Little stoned kiwi]

Washing your hands regularly is the best way to minimise spreading the virus. If everyone starts doing that some good may come of this, as it would minimise other common viruses that kill vulnerable people every year.

[(o)(o)]

Turned down an aisle in Tesco and immediately encountered a cunt just open mouth coughing in my direction. I was pretty annoyed with the elderly woman, even though I know she couldn’t have this coronavirus.

People who eat with their mouths open or who are so self absorbed they walk around coughing viruses over people should get knocked clean out!

That should be legal self defence.

[PFVA]

I was wondering about the impact the coronavirus may have on the climate. I mean China is frequently blamed for the polluion and for sure it is responsible for a big portion of it. Now their industries, harbours, airports, etc are all basically shut off. Will we see an impact even if temporary on weather and on climate change? Will it delay the process?

[tufty]

5 cases just down the road from me.

[PFVA]

Ow, i think i just watched that situation on the news (TV5), a ski town in the French Alps, They are closing schools there on Monday because of it.

[tufty]

Yeah. Ski resorts are a huge melting pot of virus and disease.

No, really, they are. Especially during the school holidays, which are just starting. And I'm not even talking about the toilets.

Thousands of little snot-nosed typhoid marys from all over France and the world, all in close contact, after their "premier étoile". Queues for chairlifts and cable cars Cable cars rammed full of people. etc etc.