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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 10, 2020 16:18:40 GMT
Apparently the UK declares 'serious and imminent' threat to public health
The UK’s decision to declare the coronavirus outbreak as a “serious and imminent threat” to public health gives the government fresh legal powers to forcibly quarantine people and send them into isolation if they pose a threat.
I'm hoping my immune system can deal with it if I get infected
What about you?
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Post by politician2 on Feb 10, 2020 16:24:54 GMT
I'm not that worried. As my doctor posted on Facebook, the mortality rate for coronavirus seems to be about twice that for normal seasonal flu. Yet whilst people are clamouring for the development of a coronavirus vaccine, many patients point-blank refuse to have flu injections.
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Post by jsm on Feb 10, 2020 23:05:30 GMT
About 260 Australians evacuated from Wuhan have been placed in quarantine in a disused construction workers' village in my town. People living near the site or whose kids go to the school next door have expressed concern.
One local failed politician/turned political commentator quipped on radio the other day that he felt as if he might have corona virus after he drank 21 of these in one afternoon.
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Post by personunknown on Feb 11, 2020 19:28:35 GMT
I don't think mankind is ever happy unless they've got some doomsday scenario to talk and fret about.
I've lived through Cuban missiles, the IRA, Mad Cow, SARS/Bird Flu, Y2K, 9/11, Ebola, Mayan Calendar and now this.
Sells copy, I suppose.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 12, 2020 7:41:19 GMT
I don't think mankind is ever happy unless they've got some doomsday scenario to talk and fret about. I've lived through Cuban missiles, the IRA, Mad Cow, SARS/Bird Flu, Y2K, 9/11, Ebola, Mayan Calendar and now this. Sells copy, I suppose. You missed out two biggies AIDS and the threat of nuclear war And of course all the moral panics about the various youth cults Yep, reckon you're right - it's hard wiredin the human condition to focus on all the things that might go wrong |
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Post by jsm on Feb 17, 2020 22:17:08 GMT
We've got another 200-odd size group coming to my town from the Ship of Doom moored at Yokohama.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 18, 2020 7:25:40 GMT
Good luck with that JSM
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 2, 2020 10:58:50 GMT
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Post by politician2 on Mar 2, 2020 12:44:12 GMT
I'm glad my commuting days are behind me. I'm currently on a bus, which is carrying five passengers (including myself) and a dog, and that's reasonably busy by Isle of Man standards.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 2, 2020 13:09:06 GMT
Hard to imagine an outbreak on the Isle Of Man
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Post by politician2 on Mar 2, 2020 13:45:38 GMT
Yeah, hopefully we won't get it. I'm just chuckling to myself as I've had another demonstration of the rather Irish culture of the island. I've just changed at the hospital onto another bus – an obscure route I know nothing about. The online timetable gives one set of destinations, the poster at the bus stop a different route and the electronic indicator on the bus a third. When I asked the driver – a really nice bloke I've chatted to before – he said he had no idea where we were going, and didn't even know the number of the bus he was driving. When he contacted the control centre, they weren't sure where it was going either. I've now boarded it and am hoping I will end up somewhere vaguely near my planned destination. I find it rather charming, but it would drive uptight people mad.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 4, 2020 23:30:04 GMT
The hysteria seems to be building by the day. It's hard to discern what's true and what's not. I get the impression the government are making a right royal mess of this but perhaps that's unavoidable.
What do you think?
Are you any more worried than a week or two ago?
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 4, 2020 23:31:20 GMT
In a worst case scenario, 80% of the country could catch the virus with a mortality rate of about 1%. The young would probably be fine. The old, not so much. Bring out your dead! It would also be handy if the UK could work closely with neighbouring countries. If only there was a Union of European countries of which we could be a part...
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Post by politician2 on Mar 5, 2020 13:53:16 GMT
The headline mortality rate seems to have risen to about 3% from about 2%, though there must be many undiagnosed cases, meaning the true mortality rate is lower.
At least people can still laugh at it: my doctor has just posted on Facebook that somebody in the Isle of Man Government must have a sense of humour as they've booked China Crisis to play on the island.
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Post by jsm on Mar 5, 2020 22:45:04 GMT
Australians seem to be worried about the possibilities and there have been spates of panic buying all over the country, but you would think people would be stocking up on food or maybe just beer and cigarettes. No. The number one item people are hoarding is toilet paper. Supermarkets have introduced rationing and often the shelves are compeltely bare. My local newspaer ran a special edition yesterday with eight pages completely blank apart from dotted lines where you could cut the paper into one-ply emergency toilet paper. The resulting shortages from panic buying have driven some people to violence, threatening supermarket staff and even attacking other shoppers.
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