Kingman Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Italy show signs of slowing after taking much more drastic measures than Britain has Italian coronavirus infections have slowed in recent days after the country took drastic quarantine measures to stop the spread of the pathogen. The figures are a sobering warning to Britain, which unlike Italy has not closed schools, shut down shops or blocked travel. The number of daily cases in Italy has been stagnant in the last four days, settling down at around 3,500 new patients per day. Daily Mail To take strict measures last week was already too late, but to let it go wild and build the herd immunity approach doesn't work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Germany has put a curfew in place in a town in bavaria Sounds like they're going to do it at a local government level at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 I don't know why we keeping f'ing around. Shut the schools now. Only leaving the house for essential reasons allowed. Get Police/Army at all supermarkets ensuring only so many people in stores at one time and no selfishness of bulk buying leaving others with nothing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: This is saving lives! Is it worth it? That's no **** way to live. And we're talking about this maybe lasting a year, perhaps longer? **** that, I'll take my chances. I don't want to live a year under house arrest. Edited March 18, 2020 by Davkaus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 18, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 18, 2020 The herd immunity 'plan' only works if you've got a vaccine or you have a healthcare system with limitless resources or you're prepared to let hundreds of thousands die and for the healthcare system to collapse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 I don't understand the new Tesco rules. Max 3 of any item? So 3 single bananas? What if i buy those bananas in the plastic bags, so 3 of those bags is like 15-18 bananas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 18, 2020 Moderator Share Posted March 18, 2020 Just now, Daniel said: I don't understand the new Tesco rules. Max 3 of any item? So 3 single bananas? What if i buy those bananas in the plastic bags, so 3 of those bags is like 15-18 bananas. 3 4 packs of bog paper or 3 32 packs of bog paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Is it worth it? That's no **** way to live. And we're talking about this maybe lasting a year, perhaps longer? **** that, I'll take my chances. I don't want to live a year under house arrest. That information has come from my friend as to what life is like in Spain not me. I have some sympathy for your opinion and I guess plenty would share it which is why they will possibly need to deploy the army onto the streets. Edited March 18, 2020 by markavfc40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Just now, markavfc40 said: That information has come from my friend as to what life is like in Spain not me. I have some sympathy for your opinion and I guess plenty would share it which is why they will need to deploy the army onto the streets. Yeah I get that, wasn't aimed at you as such, I know you weren't saying it. Makes me wonder though. How many deaths are we willing to tolerate to prevent life being completely shit for everyone. I think I'd rather top myself than spend a year at home not allowed to go out to do anything or see friends or family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 18, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Dante_Lockhart said: Eh? NHS website says nothing about headaches. Stay at home if you have coronavirus symptoms Stay at home if you have either: a high temperature – you feel hot to touch on your chest or back a new, continuous cough – this means you've started coughing repeatedly Those are just the symptoms they're telling you to self isolate with if you have them, because they're the most common to Covid and least common to everything else. If they told everyone who had a headache to self-isolate then we'd all be in quarantine already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 6 minutes ago, Davkaus said: Is it worth it? That's no **** way to live. And we're talking about this maybe lasting a year, perhaps longer? **** that, I'll take my chances. I don't want to live a year under house arrest. Sounds like 1 minute ago, Davkaus said: Yeah I get that, wasn't aimed at you as such, I know you weren't saying it. Makes me wonder though. How many deaths are we willing to tolerate to prevent life being completely shit for everyone. I think I'd rather top myself than spend a year at home not allowed to go out to do anything or see friends or family. Sounds great to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: Sounds like Sounds great to me. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, I can accept being called a word removed but you need to be a bit more clear Literally everything is a tradeoff. How many lives would we save if we banned cars? Millions. But we don't, because it's worth the tradeoff. You draw the line at a certain point of deaths to everyone else's enjoyment of life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 19 minutes ago, Chindie said: A chap from the Lancet on why the UK approach was stupid The same fella who got a bunch of PhD students and Modern History lecturers to sign a letter that was then parodied on the BBC/Sky as “200 scientists slam government plan.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, I can accept being called a word removed but you need to be a bit more clear Literally everything is a tradeoff. How many lives would we save if we banned cars? Millions. But we don't, because it's worth the tradeoff. You draw the line at a certain point of deaths to everyone else's enjoyment of life. Being under house arrest for a year is not living anyway so might as well go out, get fully COVID-19'd up and take your chances...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 English schools closing from friday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 Schooooolllllssss out for....... indefinitely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 26 minutes ago, Kingman said: Italy show signs of slowing after taking much more drastic measures than Britain has That doesn't seem to tally with the news on Sky 5 mins ago , (Number of deaths in Italy rises by 475 in a single day to 2,978 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 20 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Don’t forget to wash those hands guys I was doing the Team Rocket slogan from the old Pokemon anime, but this will do very nicely :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 43 minutes ago, markavfc40 said: I don't know why we keeping f'ing around. Shut the schools now. Only leaving the house for essential reasons allowed. Get Police/Army at all supermarkets ensuring only so many people in stores at one time and no selfishness of bulk buying leaving others with nothing. The problem with shutting the schools: its the only meal some kids get and its where the kids don’t get punched. They’ve literally been buying time to work out a plan for the at risk kids. Edited March 18, 2020 by chrisp65 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) Merkel has said its the hardest times and biggest test since the end of the 2nd World War Did a live TV thing earlier (her 1st ever live address in 15 years in charge) which is repeated on all the main channels later, does a statement or broadcast pretty much every day Edited March 18, 2020 by villa4europe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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