Coronavirus (23 Viewers)

wingy · Mar 11, 2020

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.

SkyBlueDom26 · Mar 11, 2020

China wants to take a victory lap over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak - CNN

Ridiculous

shmmeee · Mar 11, 2020

Don't know if it's been posted, but thought this was interesting. Tracking UK cases: Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS

ajsccfc · Mar 11, 2020

I'd like to think that after this has all calmed down people will continue being aware of the need to wash their hands but to be honest most people will go back to wiping their nose on their sleeve and giving their hands a quick run under the tap and shake like normal.

Liquid Gold · Mar 11, 2020

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.

Nick · Mar 11, 2020

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.

ajsccfc · Mar 11, 2020

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 · Mar 11, 2020

Nick said:
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 · Mar 11, 2020

Liquid Gold said:
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 · Mar 11, 2020

I work from home on occasion, and get more done as there are fewer distractions (phone calls, office conversations, etc)

OffenhamSkyBlue · Mar 11, 2020

shmmeee said:
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 · Mar 11, 2020

Liquid Gold said:
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.

clint van damme · Mar 11, 2020

SkyBlueDom26 said:
China wants to take a victory lap over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak - CNN

Ridiculous

I.heard a scientist on 5live who said the way they handled it was pretty incredible.

Grendel · Mar 11, 2020

clint van damme said:
I.heard a scientist on 5live who said the way they handled it was pretty incredible.

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

SkyBlueDom26 · Mar 11, 2020

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

Tlessons need to be learnt from this and them fucking horrible markets need to be closed

wingy · Mar 11, 2020

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 · Mar 11, 2020

wingy said:
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 · Mar 11, 2020

Grendel said:
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 · Mar 11, 2020

clint van damme said:
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 · Mar 11, 2020

Grendel said:
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 · Mar 11, 2020

Grendel said:
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.

SkyBlueDom26 · Mar 11, 2020

China has reported just 24 new cases, if true then they have massively got it under control

Grendel · Mar 11, 2020

fernandopartridge said:
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

fernandopartridge · Mar 11, 2020

Grendel said:
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

I didn't know they were doing that! Agreed

David O'Day · Mar 11, 2020

fernandopartridge said:
I didn't know they were doing that! Agreed

If they are as they is animal to human transaction

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shmmeee · Mar 11, 2020

fernandopartridge said:
I didn't know they were doing that! Agreed

They’re not. There was a video going round of them beating stray dogs to death though.

Philosoraptor · Mar 11, 2020

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

Grendel · Mar 11, 2020

shmmeee said:
They’re not. There was a video going round of them beating stray dogs to death though.

Yeah they are

Coronavirus quarantine cops batter terrified little dog to death in China in horrifying bid to stop bug spreading

Grendel · Mar 11, 2020

David O'Day said:
If they are as they is animal to human transaction

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

Philosoraptor · Mar 11, 2020

Civilisation seems to be slowly heading towards an edge.

Grendel · Mar 11, 2020

If it’s off a lead it’s dead in lovely China

Chinese community officers beating dogs to death to stop coronavirus: Report

SkyBlueDom26 · Mar 11, 2020

Truly awful

Grendel · Mar 11, 2020

Philosorapter said:
Civilisation seems to be slowly heading towards an edge.

I find it strange we fret about chlorinated chicken

Philosoraptor · Mar 11, 2020

Grendel said:
I find it strange we fret about chlorinated chicken

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.

Grendel · Mar 11, 2020

Philosorapter said:
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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