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wingy

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Another point.
On Monday night the figures for Italy and South Korea were virtually identical at circa 7.3k.
Death rate was around 360 in Italy and 52 in South Korea .
I think like China SK was able to employ pretty Draconian measures and mammoth disinfection.
They have an app pinpointing where every known case has originated.
 

ajsccfc

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I like to think I'd be pretty good with it, but considering I've had a game of Football Manager running on a laptop at work I don't think I can trust a single word I say.
 

Liquid Gold

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I can work from home a lot of the time, I just struggle to get anything done as there are too many distractions while sat in my pants with the TV on.
Good tip, tv isn't on yet. I've sent a few token emails out so I should be good till lunch time.
 

lifeskyblue

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Our whole office is doing a work from home day today, announced at 4:30 yesterday to see what our capabilities are if we have to cancel work in an emergency. I have my work laptop next to my home laptop with SBT on. Beats quickly changing tabs like normal.

Every cloud...


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OffenhamSkyBlue

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Don't know if it's been posted, but thought this was interesting. Tracking UK cases: Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS
I mentioned it in passing yesterday. It's really interesting to see the distribution by local authority - generally well-to-do areas have higher incidence rates, which will probably decline when they have all come home from their skiing holidays in northern Italy. But it's probably also an indication that they may be more vigilant to the need to get tested if they think they have symptoms.
 

shmmeee

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Good tip, tv isn't on yet. I've sent a few token emails out so I should be good till lunch time.

I highly recommend learning how the delayed send option on Outlook works. You too can pretend to be still working at 1am!

Knew a manager once who wrote emails the night before and set them all to send at 5am so it looked like they got an early start.
 

wingy

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Let's see how well we handle it before we get going with all xenophobic stuff .
Response from workmate at the WE when first Coventry case reported .
Probably a Chinese Student .
 

Grendel

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Let's see how well we handle it before we get going with all xenophobic stuff .
Response from workmate at the WE when first Coventry case reported .
Probably a Chinese Student .

It’s hardly xenophobic - it seems a very curious coincidence that Italy has 9 times the rate of infection than other mainland Europe countries of a similar size. It’s pretty obvious that there is a unique factor that caused a much higher rate of climb
 

clint van damme

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Aside from the fact their medieval revolting practices caused it in the first place

they were talking purely about how they'd handled the outbreak, putting up a hospital, quarantining people, whatever the word is for identifying the make up of the virus etc.
 

Grendel

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they were talking purely about how they'd handled the outbreak, putting up a hospital, quarantining people, whatever the word is for identifying the make up of the virus etc.

maybe so but then they are a country which operates in a very draconian way. It seems these viruses always originate from the same part of the world and one day one will occur with catastrophic consequences - they need to start acting like the western culture they claim to be
 

David O'Day

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maybe so but then they are a country which operates in a very draconian way. It seems these viruses always originate from the same part of the world and one day one will occur with catastrophic consequences - they need to start acting like the western culture they claim to be
Yes they do apart from ones that originate in China such as Swine flu and mers

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fernandopartridge

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maybe so but then they are a country which operates in a very draconian way. It seems these viruses always originate from the same part of the world and one day one will occur with catastrophic consequences - they need to start acting like the western culture they claim to be

Whilst that may be true, their response has been good and they've brought things under a degree of control, I'm not sure 'draconian' is the right word for measures to protect public health.
 

Grendel

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Whilst that may be true, their response has been good and they've brought things under a degree of control, I'm not sure 'draconian' is the right word for measures to protect public health.

Taking dogs off owners and battering then to death in front of them is pretty draconian

the state rules with fear and an iron fist
 

Philosoraptor

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I would say a complete lockdown of a population is a pretty draconian measure to take for any country.
 

Grendel

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If they are as they is animal to human transaction

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Dogs haven’t got the virus it’s utter bollocks
 

Grendel

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I wouldn't eat it. You've got to trust standards somewhere. European standards, on the whole, seem to be more geared towards the consumer then American standards.

I wouldn’t but the European food standards say it’s as safe to eat as other factory farmed animals by EU standards - I just wish people were more honest and admit ethics are irrelevant and price protection is the motive
 

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