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Imagine the Spanish are going to be a bit narked about this.. Salvini stood up in the Italian Parliament earlier and accused China of crimes against humanity for concealing the extent of the virus, and denying human to human transmission until late January. Don’t think we’ll have to worry about getting Huawei 5G when this is over!

Taking this at face value it just means the numbers tomorrow might be a bit grim. Don’t think it’s an attempt to cover things up, dead bodies can’t be hidden.

Stress? It’s my wedding anniversary tomorrow and still trying to figure out how to have a shag with two kids in the house! Happy Birthday mate.

Info for the morbidly curious (like me)

SAGE is the cream of UK scientific advice, consolidated to give national support. There is no group of qualified subject matter experts in Scotland that’s not feeding into the wider effort. She and her ultra nationalist mates are terrified the benefits of the union are about to get a definitive demonstration. Scotland has 58 ICU beds, we’re going to get clobbered up here without UK support.

What I can gather from reading reports (and I’m no more expert than you) the old are certainly dying faster, but the mean for critical cases in Lombardy was about 65 yrs old. It could be lower now. Younger people are hanging on better /longer in ICU conditions, but if that capacity is breached Then age will be much less of a factor in survival. The issue of co-morbidities is also overdone imo, obesity counts and applies to 28-30% of entire UK population! Smoking clearly doesn’t help, but I don’t think it’s as deterministic as ‘old smokers are screwed, younger people mainly okay’. Seems much more like Russian roulette than that.

1800 people in their 30’s are ICU patients in Bergamo. Pushing the ‘old people’s disease’ line is not only wrong, it’s dangerous at this point.

Nicola Sturgeon announces she's setting up a Scottish scientific advisory group on Covid-19 to "supplement" the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which advises Downing St/devolved leaders. Even now the SNP can’t resist nationalist gesture politics. Without the UK umbrella Scotland would be officially goosed right now.

Fingers crossed for you mate.

Fair one mate. I got pneumonia aged 19, went to bed fine after a night out and woke up poleaxed. When it came it came quick and I’ve never had a fever like it, luckily was with a mate who got me into hospital ASAP.

Does your gf drive? If you really start struggling to breathe I’d suggest getting yourself to casualty and don’t wait for an ambulance. She could probably cut some rough masks *now* out of cloth for you, her and the little man to wear in the car? Keep windows open. Even if she drops you outside and you have to crawl through the door, at least you won’t risk being abandoned at home by paramedics as per that story up thread. Work out that plan with her *now* so you both know what to do. If you get a heavy fever you don’t want to be trying to make sense of the situation while delirious and she’s clear on the next steps. Apologies if you’ve already got this covered, trying to help not lecture.

I’m married to one and she wields it like a rapier.

Stories like this make me hope the atheists are wrong.

Prince Charles is isolating at Balmoral with Covid-19. Prince Andrew is isolating at Windsor with Jennifer-14.

Little gossip from a mate who’s in the army reserves awaiting mobilisation, they were told to mentally prepare for a 6-12 month deployment. Could just be higher-ups boxing off for a worst case scenario, or could be they genuinely think this will drag on until a cure is surfaced.

Credit where it’s due, at least some people are looking on the bright side of Coronavirus. In other news I read Greta might have it. Alanis Morissette eat your heart out.

Oh stih!

I don’t like Piers Morgan at all, but he’s pinned Robert Jenrick to the wall this morning. Economy first, population second. They can’t sustain this.

Jan 1st: 2020 is gonna be great! March 31st: wiping my arse with a pot noodle lid.

Q: How do I give my wife unsupervised access to my limitless credit card? A: You don’t...

NEC earmarked as the mass casualty treatment site for Birmingham area. The military will likely be on to that once the field hospital in London is up.

It’s getting increasingly surreal. A week from now those arguing to make people do non-essential work will be held in total contempt. Edit: but Parliament is excusing itself from end of play today.. a good look that

Andy Burnham on newsnight just demolished the government’s current position on who should be going into work and who shouldn’t. It’s all pretty farcical right now. They do seem quite happy to maintain a level of spreading while giving the impression that we’re in a more general lockdown.

When ‘the three squeaks’ is a delicacy, bad things are gonna happen. How about we send them Gordon Ramsay on permanent loan and they stop sending us lung AIDS. Fair deal?

Don’t know this Journo but with 195k followers I’d hope he’s a gen’ source: