The posters and advice at uni haven't changed to reflect the unfortunate spread in Italy and Iran. It's quite odd.
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The posters and advice at uni haven't changed to reflect the unfortunate spread in Italy and Iran. It's quite odd.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
We've got the NHS "catch it, bin it" posters up in all the toilets, and official advice from the Uni refers to the Gov't advice, but says don't come in if you've been to infected areas.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Headline further down that page: "COVID-19 response: Not enough or over-reaction?"
Some news outlets really are festering shoots spreading panic, aren't they?
26000 flu associated deaths in the UK in 2017/18 and they didn't cause a problem to the UK's citizens normal day to day activities. It's now a hysteria virus.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
True
We have a 'Pod' for testing now, but to save constant cleaning , the staff are testing patients, through their car windows
Rocky
Hello decadence
I think you ought to reserve your criticism until we actually see what happens. Surely anything that prevents unnecessary deaths is a good thing - and certainly not hysterical.
......oh and by the way Public Health England and stock market listed companies (the FTSE is down 10% in a week) don't seem to agree with you.
It's clear the hysterical reaction is disproportionate to the risk of getting it, never mind dying. The world economy didn't suffer under Ebola, Swine, Sars, Mers etc and all were contained after low level media panic. Health technology has moved on but so has social media.
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Rocky
Hello decadence
I hope that you are right in your assessment but the two medically qualified members of my family who are monitoring the spread of the virus tell me you are already wrong. The virus is far more infectious than those 'flu like ones you describe and far less easy to isolate victims than ebola. Ebola was largely confined locally in Africa and would therefore have very little effect on the global economy.
The major issue for the west, is that we are not able to quarantine (and isolate) towns like they are in China.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Ah but in 1985 there was a lot less air travel than now. Air travel was something the rich did. So it’d spread a lot slower.
We'll see, I do hope I am not wrong but it appears to me to be just another "Virus news story" in a long line of them from the past 20 years. And, when you look at the risk, deaths, type of victim dying then I do feel we are witnessing a very hysterical self fueling reaction. People are walking around Leeds wearing face masks upside down! By summer we might have forgotten about it, then we'll need other bad news, time for that munition under the sea to wipe out half of Kent, or the mountain in Tenerife to slide down and Tsnuami out New York, been reading that for 20+ years too.
I have just looked at 2 stories from the past 4 days, one says the virus has peaked in China, the other says it's an unstoppable global march, yer takes yer pick!
I have just looked at 2 stories from the past 4 days, one says the virus has peaked in China, the other says it's an unstoppable global march, yer takes yer pick!
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MichaelO
Guru
Once warm weather arrives, it'll disappear of it's own accord, like every other flu.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Also, not even the tabloids back then would run "OMG! Rich people are dying!!!1!" headlines because they'd get no sympathy.
