Coronavirus - Overall
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You get the impression, under the surface, he's a tough old coot like his Dad.
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Here we go, Tokyo Governor on tv right now telling ppl not to go out or she’ll lock it down. I think it’s too late:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200325_45/
Sources linked to the Tokyo metropolitan government say more than 40 people tested positive to the new coronavirus on Wednesday.
This is the highest daily tally for Japan's capital.
The sources also say about 10 of them are related to a hospital in Taito Ward where a nurse and a patient were confirmed infected on the previous day.
Tokyo reported a record number of infections for three straight days through Wednesday. Sixteen were on Monday and 17 on Tuesday.
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Possibly good news.
*Coronavirus strain on NHS likely to peak in three weeks' time, MPs told
Here are the main points from Prof Neil Ferguson’s evidence to the Commons science committee earlier. Ferguson’s views are important because he was the lead author on the Imperial College paper that persuaded the government to drastically escalate its social distancing strategy.*
Ferguson said that he and his colleagues were now “reasonably confident” that the NHS would be able to cope with the coronavirus epidemic. That was partly because the NHS had surged its capacity, and partly because of the suppression measures taken by the government, he said.
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We have a winner in the "Coronavirus Cockwomble of the Week" competition...
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@Victor-Meldrew Reminds me of this joke:
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Coronavirus - Overall:
One man's "Yah, those rich bastards are taking a hit" is another 500 man's job lost
FIFY.
Corbyn will never get that the way to "right this wrong" is not to go after the one man. PMQ today he's still wanting on about how the rich businessman could never have been without the low paid cleaner in his office.
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"Manor house born, rich multimillionaire twat with £2m house in North London and zero experience of running a business, demonstrates lack of understanding of how businesses and employees rely on each other"
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I continue to be impressed by the UK response. Let's hope we can keep the death rates down as much as possible
UK coronavirus mass home testing to be made available 'within days' Test to be validated this week, then made available to healthcare workers and general public
"Thousands of 15-minute home tests for coronavirus will be delivered by Amazon to people self-isolating with symptoms or will go on sale on the high street within days, according to Public Health England (PHE), in a move that could restore many people’s lives to a semblance of pre-lockdown normality.
Prof Sharon Peacock, the director of the national infection service at PHE, told MPs that mass testing in the UK would be possible by next week."
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@Victor-Meldrew that's just flippin amazing if they are distributed that quickly and give an accurate result. 🙏🏻
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@R-L
What we have seen in the last few days has been a bit unbelievable, hasn't it?Lived here for 35+ years and worked all over Europe. Often frustrated me that the Brits never seem to understand how good they actually are - particularly in a crisis.
I hope they continue to prove my point...
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@Victor-Meldrew absolutely, proud to live here at the moment, I hope that when it is all done and dusted I am even prouder! Everyone I know is personally doing their bit too by staying home, can honestly say that people who I thought would be the dumb asses are being responsible. Just want to see the numbers start to fall, early days though for us.
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@R-L said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@Bones angry... But likeable. A bit like @Hooroo s attitude at the moment
Oh.
I thought it was @Hooroo.
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Dutch are positive about their herd immunity approach. Latest: https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/current-information-about-novel-coronavirus-covid-19
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Dutch are positive about their herd immunity approach. Latest: https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/current-information-about-novel-coronavirus-covid-19
Graphic is VERY interesting: https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/actuele-informatie-over-coronavirus/data