Shows & Coronavirus?

[Witterings]

4 hours ago, Gimlet said:

On the news this morning Crufts organisers announced the show was going ahead and there are to be no restrictions on entrants or flights, from Italy, which always has a strong contingent at the show.

 

 

 

Says to me they're only interested in their bottom line and don't care about anybody or anything else .... personally I'd boycott as a mater of principle and must admit I'm surprised the government aren't placing flight restrictions to badly affected countries like Italy and where a high percentage of cases have been exported from .... especially as they keep banging on about containment whilst not actually doing anything to contain it ... just my 2p's worth.

 

I know of companies in London that are already already doing test "work from home" days to see how it works out and if they need to do any other preparation for when it really kicks in.

 

A useful link here for following the number of cases ... currently showing a death rate of 6% which is down from 11 / 12 % it was showing a couple of weeks ago but still a lot higher than 1 / 2 %

 

 

Coronavirus Update (Live): 96,739 Cases and 3,308 Deaths from COVID-19 Wuhan China Virus Outbreak - Worldometer

WWW.WORLDOMETERS.INFO

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Live statistics and coronavirus news tracking the number of confirmed cases, recovered patients, and death toll by country due to the COVID 19 coronavirus from Wuhan, China...

 

[Guest Gimlet]

They've moved on from containment. Now it's delay. What they really mean is prolonging. The object according to the health minister is to extend the outbreak over six months or more to spread the pressure on the NHS. 

Seems to be the blind leading the blind as usual.

[openspaceman]

52 minutes ago, Gimlet said:

They've moved on from containment. Now it's delay. What they really mean is prolonging. The object according to the health minister is to extend the outbreak over six months or more to spread the pressure on the NHS. 

Seems to be the blind leading the blind as usual.

Seems reasonable to me, the disease is out, low mortality in the under 60s and the viral pneumonia is treatable in intensive care, so the slower the spread the more chance us oldies have of getting a bed in ICU.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

It’d be clevererer to gauge both the number and situation of people gathering before applying a one size fits all upper limit on numbers at a gathering. 
 

1000s at an open air event with low ppl/m2 would surely be less risky than 100s at an indoor seated high density ppl/m2 event?

 

Meh, never happen. 
 

Keep calm and stay home....

 

 

[Stere]

Was some bloke on radio saying pubs resturants are worse places to spread it in than in schools.

 

Also corona virus don't mutate as fast as regualr flu

 

Could the coronavirus mutate if a vaccine can't be found in time? | World news | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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As scientists race to trace out paths the virus might take we ask the crucial questions

 

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It’s worth noting that coronaviruses do not undergo the same type of genome shuffling that leads to the constantly shifting variety of flu strains in circulation. It is this genetic drift that means new flu vaccines have to be created each year and that means getting the flu once does not mean you’ll be immune next time it comes around. The coronavirus is not expected to mutate this rapidly and so once a vaccine is here, it should continue to work far into the future.

 

 

I think the UK have given up on containment, as they don't seem to be ready  too limit peoples movement like China has done, now the talk is   of mitigation. But the  lockdown & containment seems to be working in China now unless all the stats are false....

Edited March 5, 2020 by Stere

[Acerforestry]

One possible ray of light here is that according to a list of facts about the virus that was bandied about on Facebook, it doesn't like sunlight / warmth. So current conditions are great for contagion, from May on they hopefully won't be. It has to be said though, with immigration's usual bloody lacklustre approach people are flooding in from all over the place, unchecked. Are they all completely thick? Air travel unless vital needs to minimized

[Jack.P]

Apparently face masks selling out as soon as they are restocked here in diy shops .

personally believe it was deliberately or less likely accidentally started from the nearby lab but who knows .

[htb]

Was looking for some masks on Monday in Aberdeen for spraying this spring, managed to get one at screwfix for £3.40, looking online that night some rip of merchants wanting over £22 plus postage for the same mask, profiteering or what.

[The avantgardener]

First UK death has just been confirmed.

[gary112]

Everybody must be shitting themselves about it cos went in Sainsburys today and they had hardly any bog roll on the shelves,none of that hand sanitiser either