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Archery1969
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PDC wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:53 pm
I read that there is a UK press conference this evening at 7pm (I think) and that we are likely to see a move to delay phase on Sunday.
Got a link ?
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jimibt
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superfrank wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:12 pm
Archery1969 wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:10 pm
i cant find a link to that on any website ?
We allowed flights from Italy to continue right up to the point the Italians quarantined the whole country and airlines themselves decided to stop flying.

Hardly a "containment" phase was it?
it must only be govt that hasn't been watchful on events around the globe. singapore has to an extent been the model here to emulate, yet has been all but ignored in the way that it curbed the initial spread... oh well - WE know best!!
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superfrank wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:12 pm
Archery1969 wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:10 pm
i cant find a link to that on any website ?
We allowed flights from Italy to continue right up to the point the Italians quarantined the whole country and airlines themselves decided to stop flying.

Hardly a "containment" phase was it?
It's a virus. You can't avoid it. You need a substantial proportion of a community to catch it and hopefully survive. Then immunity in the community kills the little sod....at least until the next time people's noses start running.
But the scientists/govt are worried because they don't know whether this will blow itself out. China suggests it will, but there is no science to predict what will happen.
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superfrank
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greenmark wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:28 pm
It's a virus. You can't avoid it. You need a substantial proportion of a community to catch it and hopefully survive. Then immunity in the community kills the little sod....at least until the next time people's noses start running.
With that logic the govt should be asking for volunteers to be infected rather than isolating those infected and tracing those who have come into contact with them.
Travellers from countries with severe coronavirus outbreaks who arrive in some parts of China will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine, state media say.

Travellers from the virus hotspots of South Korea, Japan, Iran and Italy arriving in the capital will have to be isolated, a Beijing official has said.

Shanghai and Guangdong announced similar restrictions earlier.

Authorities are worried the virus might be imported back into the country.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51718614
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Archery1969 wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:14 pm
PDC wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:53 pm
I read that there is a UK press conference this evening at 7pm (I think) and that we are likely to see a move to delay phase on Sunday.
Got a link ?
I should have said statement by Matt Hancock not UK press conference, my mistake typing in a rush.

It came from The Times reporter Charlotte Edwards.

Not sure I have seen this heat map/stats link posted yet on the thread, it is very good:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
greenmark
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superfrank wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:52 pm
greenmark wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:28 pm
It's a virus. You can't avoid it. You need a substantial proportion of a community to catch it and hopefully survive. Then immunity in the community kills the little sod....at least until the next time people's noses start running.
With that logic the govt should be asking for volunteers to be infected rather than isolating those infected and tracing those who have come into contact with them.

I absolutely believe the hygiene advice is correct. I do it every day to protect others (not myself). Others that I encounter don't seem to have got the message that hygiene slows the flow of infection and gives the NHS the best chance of saving vulnerable people. At least 3 of which are in my social circle.
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Kai
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This map has a "time travel" feature so you can play back the whole thing : https://www.mapbox.cn/coronavirusmap/
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PDC
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PDC wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:52 pm
Archery1969 wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:14 pm
PDC wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:53 pm
I read that there is a UK press conference this evening at 7pm (I think) and that we are likely to see a move to delay phase on Sunday.
Got a link ?
I should have said statement by Matt Hancock not UK press conference, my mistake typing in a rush.

It came from The Times reporter Charlotte Edwards.
He is speaking now in the Houses of Parliament, covered by the news channels.
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Derek27
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Just been to the supermarket and the bog roll shelves are completely cleared. I wonder if these idiots think about the other end of their digestive system!
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Kai
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Derek27 wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:31 pm
Just been to the supermarket and the bog roll shelves are completely cleared. I wonder if these idiots think about the other end of their digestive system!
I gotchu fam : https://survivalschool.us/top-10-things-wipe-ass-woods/

Can't say you weren't warned though :D
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PDC
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Dow has closed officially in Bear territory :shock:

Trump is fuming.
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Kai wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:33 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:31 pm
Just been to the supermarket and the bog roll shelves are completely cleared. I wonder if these idiots think about the other end of their digestive system!
I gotchu fam : https://survivalschool.us/top-10-things-wipe-ass-woods/

Can't say you weren't warned though :D
That's all well and good but how do you wash your hands in the woods?
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PDC wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:10 pm
Dow has closed officially in Bear territory :shock:

Trump is fuming.
I don't wish the US to suffer from covid-19 but if it is badly administrated I'm hoping it will be Trump's downfall at the election.
weemac
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Trump just said live on TV: "(The virus) came out of nowhere - actually it came out of China, which is the way it works."

Darn that pesky xenophobic virus!
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PDC
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weemac wrote:
Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:28 pm
Trump just said live on TV: "(The virus) came out of nowhere - actually it came out of China, which is the way it works."

Darn that pesky xenophobic virus!
I thought he was implying no one saw it coming. Go back a few months and no one was talking about a global pandemic hitting in 2020 bar a few preppers perhaps.
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