Coronavirus outbreak

[Mugshot]

Happy days

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[Pale Rider]

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I expect he's happily self isolating in his motorhome.

 

[Mugshot]

I expect he's happily self isolating in his motorhome.

Quite possibly, it seems an odd response given the tone of the post though.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Illuminating on a number of levels - the draconian levels of population control it has taken to bring the epidemic under control and the level of population control that the Chinese state is able to mobilise at short notice and the degree of acceptance of such controls.

Indeed. Any country foolish enough to wage war on China has their work cut out for them.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

My sister's a nurse at Ninewells. After an initial shortage of face masks, an announcement was made that they should go to Room X and get properly fitted masks.

By the time they got there, all the porters, office staff, joiners & builders working around the site, cleaners etc had snaffled them all.

 

[BoldonLad]

I expect he's happily self isolating in his motorhome.

You got it.

No TV, so, good to have some entertainment.

I am taking great care to avoid throwing myself off any high bridges/cliffs/buildings, and, drinking copious amounts of Rioja

 

[Dave7]

Any suggestions what you spread on the bog roll.
Crap question.

As @Blue Hills suggests..... potato with garlic

 

[Pale Rider]

Any of our US members on here in a position to tell us about US media coverage of his increasingly batshit comments?

Trump's measures are based on advice from his Corona Virus task force.

There's a video online of the head doctor recommending, among other things, restrictions on international travel.

Of course, the Yankee doctor might be a quack, and so might everyone else in his team.

And as a special advisor to Trump, he probably won't last as long as the outbreak he's been called in to deal with.

But it's hardly fair or sensible to criticise Trump for following the advice of the doctors hired to provide it.

 

[Pale Rider]

and, drinking copious amounts of Rioja

Careful, you don't know where those grape trampling feet have been.

 

[Mugshot]

Trump's measures are based on advice from his Corona Virus task force.

There's a video online of the head doctor recommending, among other things, restrictions on international travel.

Of course, the Yankee doctor might be a quack, and so might everyone else in his team.

And as a special advisor to Trump, he probably won't last as long as the outbreak he's been called in to deal with.

But it's hardly fair or sensible to criticise Trump for following the advice of the doctors hired to provide it.

He used to have a specific department that he could have got advice from;

In May 2018, the top White House official in charge of the U.S. response to pandemics left the administration. Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer was the senior director of global health and biodefense on the National Security Council and oversaw global health security issues, a specialty that had been bolstered under President Barack Obama.
After Ziemer’s departure, the global health team was reorganized as part of an effort by then-National Security Adviser John Bolton. Meanwhile, Tom Bossert, a homeland security adviser who recommended strong defenses against disease and biological warfare, was reportedly pushed out by Bolton in 2018. Neither White House official or their teams, which were responsible for coordinating the U.S. response to pandemic outbreaks across agencies, have been replaced during the past two years.

I'll keep criticising him I think.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Daily Express making things up, again.

A study has not claimed the new coronavirus was ‘genetically engineered for efficient spread in humans’
This week the Daily Express claimed a study found the new coronavirus may have been genetically engineered to spread in the human population.

Full fact link

Oh the faithfull and the Russian visitors over at the Express are still lapping up the bat story too, they need shutting down for the way they are playing this one. The "Russian bombers buzzed the queens house" crap is almost harmless but sailing close to Sputnik news territory is not.

 

[randynewmanscat]

Just in case its not been posted pages ago.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU0d8kpybVg

 

[Pale Rider]

Seems to me event cancellations are also snowballing.

The London Bike Show has gone the journey, and it looks like the Australian GP is going the same way.

I've lost track of the number of football matches either cancelled or to be played behind closed doors.

The Euro football tournament is under threat, and I read somewhere the skids might be under the tennis at Wimbledon.

Any others?

 

[fossyant]

Just been told by the Finance Director to work from home tomorrow

 

[Mugshot]

Meanwhile;


View: https://twitter.com/AnaCabrera/status/1238126303238410243?s=20


With no guarantee that the aid package will have been voted through before they toddle off.