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« Reply #765 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 12:12:43 »

You mean other than the spoils of glory?

I may half-seriously post a bog roll to the winner.
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« Reply #766 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 12:19:10 »

I may half-seriously post a bog roll to the winner.

Great touch!
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« Reply #767 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 12:54:12 »

Quite so. A "second wave" around November is one of the predicted possible outcomes. But who really knows?

Hopefully it won't follow the last three flu pandemics, which all resulted in two or three waves over a period of up to 2 years.
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« Reply #768 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 12:55:41 »


All we have to go on is that the worse seems to be over in China so hooefully with our control measures in place things will ease here over the next few weeks  

Sadly it doesn’t makes sense to believe the worst is over in China. There’s no vaccine and the virus won’t just go away. It’s great that they’ve contained the outbreak but as soon as lockdown stops and people move around, infections will spread again.

I wish that wasn’t the case but cannot see any other conclusion.

Am I wrong?
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« Reply #769 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 13:00:57 »

Also, we are not even remotely close to doing what China did to stall it.
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« Reply #770 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 13:12:53 »

This is quite interesting, to contrast the Western approach

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/asia/hong-kong-coronavirus-second-wave-intl-hnk/index.html
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« Reply #771 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 13:54:28 »

Jesus. Fucking. Wept.

https://twitter.com/LPerrins/status/1240178331020152833
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« Reply #772 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 13:56:08 »


That's some ratio!
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« Reply #773 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 14:03:40 »

Conservatism. Not even once.
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« Reply #774 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 14:15:18 »


Expect to see more of this from journalistic shills as the rich and powerful conclude their fortunes are going to dwindle.

I suspect the spambots will be on overdrive soon sowing the seeds that the old and vulnerable will have to be sacrificed to save the economy.

I’d hoped this crisis might bring out the best in human nature, which it will in most cases but selfishness and greed will never go away seemingly.
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« Reply #775 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 14:20:01 »

Expect to see more of this from journalistic shills as the rich and powerful conclude their fortunes are going to dwindle.

I suspect the spambots will be on overdrive soon sowing the seeds that the old and vulnerable will have to be sacrificed to save the economy.

I’d hoped this crisis might bring out the best in human nature, which it will in most cases but selfishness and greed will never go away seemingly.
It will do both, depending on the nature of the people. Shitbags will be shitbags, most people are by and large decent and will continue to be decent. As a counterweight, in Feb the Police were granted emergency powers to detain people displaying symptoms of the coronavirus and force them to seek medical attention. Not one of the 44 police forces has had to use this power because "people are doing the right thing".
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« Reply #776 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 14:38:02 »

So statement from education secretary at 5pm?
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« Reply #777 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 14:45:26 »

So statement from education secretary at 5pm?
Will probably follow on from Wales and Scotland in shutting all schools from Friday.
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« Reply #778 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 15:09:09 »

Imagine if this virus had hit the UK September / October when all the colds started. The country would have literally gone into meltdown as everyone fearing the worse

Who is to say that we didn't already have a first wave (and no not a conspiracy theory) back in December and we're experiencing the 2nd wave now?  Hmmm
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« Reply #779 on: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 15:10:28 »

Dunno if anyone else is bored as hell cancelling all their evening social plans, but I'm organising an online remote pub quiz this evening at 8pm if anyone wanted to join. BYOB.

Yeah I'm down for this. If I remember!
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