Coronavirus outbreak

[vickster]

I wonder if we might soon end up with more restrictions like Ireland, brief exercise, going no more than 2km from home
Coronavirus: Leo Varadkar 'now is the time for further action' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52071733

 

[kingrollo]

I wonder if we might soon end up with more restrictions like Ireland, brief exercise, going no more than 2km from home
Coronavirus: Leo Varadkar 'now is the time for further action' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52071733

Given the non slow down in Italy - that must be a distinct possibility.
Do they actually know how this thing is spreading ?

 

[vickster]

Given the non slow down in Italy - that must be a distinct possibility.
Do they actually know how this thing is spreading ?

Who?

 

[kingrollo]

Who?

Experts

 

[Soltydog]

I wonder if we might soon end up with more restrictions like Ireland, brief exercise, going no more than 2km from home

Folk round here seem to be adhering to the governments advice (finally) & I was hoping there would be no further restrictions. The shortest loop I can cycle from home is 7 miles, 2km from home, I'd just be back & forth up the main road

 

[marinyork]

Saw my first virus inspired loss of temper today.

The barriers to manage the entrance queue at Asda were erected in such a way as to make it easy to walk down the exit lane by mistake when trying to get in - I did it.

My response to this catastrophic event was to turn round and use the correct lane.

As I left a bloke thought the supermarket was closed due to one entrance being shut and was yelling and walked off, so I told him to go in the other side.

 

[vickster]

Experts

I’m sure there’s plenty of stuff to read online about the science and mechanism of viral transmission

 

[kingrollo]

Well Italy has been on lockdown , I think similar to ours - for 4 weeks - it's still ripping through.

It either lies dormant much longer than we think - or is more easily passed on than we think.

 

[marinyork]

Given the non slow down in Italy - that must be a distinct possibility.
Do they actually know how this thing is spreading ?

It's hard to assess in Italy because the fluctuation is made up of three regions where the numbers vary a lot from day to day. Obviously 900+ is very bad but most of these deaths were infected 3 to 4 weeks ago.

For how widespread the virus is in Italy who knows. Very little testing compared to.how widespread it is.

 

[kingrollo]

It's hard to assess in Italy because the fluctuation is made up of three regions where the numbers vary a lot from day to day. Obviously 900+ is very bad but most of these deaths were infected 3 to 4 weeks ago.

For how widespread the virus is in Italy who knows. Very little testing compared to.how widespread it is.

We are so much in the dark - you would think deaths would be a solid stat - but now it seems only in hospital deaths are counted.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Regardless as to what it tells us about the epidemiology, 900 deaths in a single country in a single day is desperately awful.

 

[Unkraut]

Well Italy has been on lockdown , I think similar to ours - for 4 weeks - it's still ripping through.

I don't think in practice it has, and this is part of the problem.

 

[marinyork]

Well Italy has been on lockdown , I think similar to ours - for 4 weeks - it's still ripping through.

It either lies dormant much longer than we think - or is more easily passed on than we think.

Two and a half weeks. Although, some would argue that the very different ways Italians did things to many other countries it was realistically later than this (this is very much my view).

The scary bit for Italy is the bits that have supposedly been in lockdown for four weeks. Those areas do exist. Some of those areas the not so populated ones are indeed doing quite well, other populated areas nearby are yeah, doing catastropically badly .

 

[ozboz]

It was a horrible sight on the telly seeing 40 ft refrigerated trailers parked up by New York hospitals to be used as temporary mortuary’s,
Jesus, What next ,

 

[Tanis8472]

and yet im still getting absolute daffodils at work who think its ok to invade my 'spacex
and touch my work equipment.
finally snapped today at a customer.