Coronavirus - the killer flu that will wipe us out? (Vol. 7)

Coronavirus - the killer flu that will wipe us out? (Vol. 7)

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Scrump

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22,080 posts

159 months

anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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Links missing?

Scrump

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22,080 posts

159 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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catweasle said:
Links missing?
Give me a chance!
rolleyes

anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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Scrump said:
catweasle said:
Links missing?
Give me a chance!
rolleyes
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GloverMart

11,841 posts

216 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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In before the lock (down)

saaby93

32,038 posts

179 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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Anything about a virus?

Leptons

5,116 posts

177 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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escapegoat said:
Plonker here is you. The head of the Family Court has made it clear that CV was not a reason to unilaterally stop custody arrangements.
The advice was actually different at first.

Is the head of the family court a pandemic expert? We were told to stay at home and not to mix with people from other households, to shut our businesses down and to stay 2 metres apart.

I maintain we did what was best with the information we had at the time, the stories coming out of Italy were of people our age dying, kids being super spreaders, kids visiting their grandparents and basically killing them, even kids dying.

You’d put your Kids health at risk whilst you didn’t know what was going on just so you could see them? Some father you are.


sim72

4,945 posts

135 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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5pm briefing will be interesting tomorrow.

No.10: "Raab, you're doing it"
Raab: "Got a bit of a cough, probably best to let someone else do it"
No. 10: "Sunak?"
Sunak: "Temperature's up a bit ... can I do it later in the week?"
No. 10: "Oh God, it'll have to be Patel then"
Patel: *COUGH*COUGH*COUGH"
No. 10: "OK, back to the default then, God help us. Hancock!"
Hancock: "Really not feeling too good"
No. 10: "You've already had it, you f***ing muppet".

andy_s

19,408 posts

260 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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sim72 said:
5pm briefing will be interesting tomorrow.

No.10: "Raab, you're doing it"
Raab: "Got a bit of a cough, probably best to let someone else do it"
No. 10: "Sunak?"
Sunak: "Temperature's up a bit ... can I do it later in the week?"
No. 10: "Oh God, it'll have to be Patel then"
Patel: *COUGH*COUGH*COUGH"
No. 10: "OK, back to the default then, God help us. Hancock!"
Hancock: "Really not feeling too good"
No. 10: "You've already had it, you f***ing muppet".
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pip t

1,365 posts

168 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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sim72 said:
5pm briefing will be interesting tomorrow.

No.10: "Raab, you're doing it"
Raab: "Got a bit of a cough, probably best to let someone else do it"
No. 10: "Sunak?"
Sunak: "Temperature's up a bit ... can I do it later in the week?"
No. 10: "Oh God, it'll have to be Patel then"
Patel: *COUGH*COUGH*COUGH"
No. 10: "OK, back to the default then, God help us. Hancock!"
Hancock: "Really not feeling too good"
No. 10: "You've already had it, you f***ing muppet".
hehe

I wonder at what point they'll start getting rid of these.....are they seriously going to keep this up every day for months (Potentially years?) on end?

isaldiri

18,620 posts

169 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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pip t said:
hehe

I wonder at what point they'll start getting rid of these.....are they seriously going to keep this up every day for months (Potentially years?) on end?
Germany have scrapped their daily briefing I believe.

HorneyMX5

5,309 posts

151 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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They'll wind I down to every other day with a junior minister and an R swingometer for us all.

Carl_Manchester

12,240 posts

263 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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Bojos speech was really good but alas it appears we are now at the mercy of statistics rather than common sense.

It’s nice to pretend that we can wait, but the services industry won’t last until September for a full reopening, a fair chunk of it will be bankrupt by then.


John Locke

1,142 posts

53 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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Back to the thread title;- it doesn't look as if it's going to kill even 1% of us, much less wipe us out, but the government refusal to admit its errors and dump pointless restrictions is still killing the most vulnerable, and financially wiping out many self employed and business people, as well as the less well insulated employees.

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

232 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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Check out musk pulling Tesla HQ from the People’s Republic of California. Many businesses have been leaving; the continued lockdown extensions probably pushed him over the edge. Most car manufacturing is either in Michigan, Alabama, South Carolina, and a few other Southern states.


Elon Musk
@elonmusk
· May 9
Replying to @elonmusk @GerberKawasaki and @thirdrowtesla
Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.

EddieSteadyGo

12,006 posts

204 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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andy_s said:
sim72 said:
5pm briefing will be interesting tomorrow.

No.10: "Raab, you're doing it"
Raab: "Got a bit of a cough, probably best to let someone else do it"
No. 10: "Sunak?"
Sunak: "Temperature's up a bit ... can I do it later in the week?"
No. 10: "Oh God, it'll have to be Patel then"
Patel: *COUGH*COUGH*COUGH"
No. 10: "OK, back to the default then, God help us. Hancock!"
Hancock: "Really not feeling too good"
No. 10: "You've already had it, you f***ing muppet".
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Very good!

CoolHands

18,701 posts

196 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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No one wants to go back to work now. I know I don’t

anonymous-user

55 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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John Locke said:
Back to the thread title;- it doesn't look as if it's going to kill even 1% of us, much less wipe us out, but the government refusal to admit its errors and dump pointless restrictions is still killing the most vulnerable, and financially wiping out many self employed and business people, as well as the less well insulated employees.
You reckon that's it then,,,,no 2nd, possibly bigger, wave?

FWIW I reckon 1st / 2nd week in September is what is being planned for.

Jimbeaux

33,791 posts

232 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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This is a good read about the two ways pandemics historically have ended:

https://apple.news/A3GPgXMtWQVuvgsXnn6CgoA

StanleyT

1,994 posts

80 months

Sunday 10th May 2020
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HorneyMX5 said:
and an 'R swingometer' for us all.
Is that a measurement tool like Graham Nortons "GayDar"?

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