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Quote from: IDM on March 23, 2020, 09:07:48 pmLockdown it is then..Well in my opinion, that was as clear as mud, the word lockdown was n’t mentioned, to me it sounded like a final warning
Lockdown it is then..
BRR.This.https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56It's a long read, but it's important. Should really be read by everyone on the planet. It's not 100% right on detail, but the principles are right. 1) Hammer down the virus NOW, to avoid our health system being overwhelmed.2) That is f**king hard (as we are about to see) but it gains you time. Use it to build up your testing and health care capacity.3) Intelligently release the lock down. See which areas the virus picks up. Lock them down again. Keep other areas open.4) Repeat 3 till some bas**rd finds a vaccine.
87 deaths today in the UK.A little worse than I'd hoped but still indicating that we are broadly tracking the China trend rather than the Italy & Spain trend. To put it in perspective, at this point in their epidemic, Italy and Spain were having about 150 deaths per day. China was having about 65-70.
??????????????????''Up to 5,000 students will be allowed to return to Liberty University’s campus after school officials confirmed the conservative Christian school based in Lynchburg, Virginia, will reopen this week.Liberty’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr, defied nationwide calls for mandatory school closures, inviting students to return amid a worsening coronavirus pandemic. Falwell is a major and vocal backer of Donald Trump and evangelicals are a core part of the president’s support base''https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/24/liberty-university-reopens-despite-coronavirus-closure-calls-jerry-falwell-jr
Trump, in common with all populists and demagogues, favours simple solutions to complex problems.
And here's the irony pib.If the rest of us do the right thing and we get on top of CV-19, f**king idiots like that will say, in that Hyacinth Bouquet voice, "See! I told you it was all an over-reaction."I wonder where it comes from? The combination of blind f**king ignorance and absolute certainty about being right.The older I get, the more convinced I am that there is an inverse correlation between genuine understanding and belief in how much you actually know yourself.
Regarding the new hospital in London, I wrote this 9 days agohttps://www.drfc-vsc.co.uk/index.php?topic=275849.msg955187#msg955187Why are the Government slow to react?