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Nothing is going to stop this thing but we could have done more to slow it down.
I don't think the EU has the power to close a countries border RD, it would surely would be up to each individual coutry to make that move if required.
BSTThe idea isn't to close things down in the long run. If they could slow its progress until the weather warms up it might have a tremendous benefit.There is hope that like the winter flu this thing doesn't like sunlight and so will subside during the summer months.Slow it down till then and it might give us some breathing space to get a vaccine underway.
The UK chief medical officer says we should be making efforts to contain and slow the virus because it can't be stopped now.
if people start realising that we might be facing 1-2% of the population corking it over the next few months, there could be mass panic.
Quote from: River Don on February 26, 2020, 03:33:01 pmThe UK chief medical officer says we should be making efforts to contain and slow the virus because it can't be stopped now.Is he? I can't find that anywhere. What he is presenting seems to be a far more reasonable assessmen than you suggesthttps://www.bbc.com/news/health-51635901Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on February 26, 2020, 04:14:46 pmif people start realising that we might be facing 1-2% of the population corking it over the next few months, there could be mass panic.That would presume 100% of the population are going to get the virus! Which is not what the evidence is showing whatsoever.
I always thought of cruises as hell on earth, and recent events have comfirmed my theory.
I see that the people confined to the hotel in Tenerife are complaining about the lack of good food they have access to.One woman phoned the BBC and said that for breakfast the hotel gave them jam on toast, for lunch it was cheese on toast and in the evening it was peanut butter on toast.In its defence a hotel spokesman said that was the only food they could get under the guest room doors.
Matt Hancock was a junior Treasury minister (Correction: he was chosen by George Osborne as an expert advisor on economics,!) at the time that Austerity started. He used to give speeches about the wonders of Expansionary Fiscal Contraction. The idea that cutting Govt spending would cause the economy to roar into life because everyone would feel more confident that the debt was under control.It was absolute bullshit. No theoretical or empirical evidence to support it at all. But he believed it with a passion.If he's not changed, I'm expecting him to be ordering a few hundredweight of leeches to cure us of Covid-19. That is not me being silly. It's literally the equivalent.
BBC reporting 14% of people with Corona in China become re-infected. Now thats a worrying one.