sne Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 12 minutes ago, Awol said: 11 towns in N Italy now under quarantine. I wonder how well a similar measure would go down in the UK? Serie A games in Turin, Verona, Milano and Bergamo cancelled today due to the virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 45 minutes ago, sne said: Serie A games in Turin, Verona, Milano and Bergamo cancelled today due to the virus. It might yet save our season. Just need to be outside the bottom 3 if the PL is ended early! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Sweden will be so screwed if it gets hold here. Most of our hospitals are already stretched way over capacity and there is no where near enough staff as it is now. Apparently we are now among the worst if not worst when it comes to hospital places per capita in the EU. This area of infrastructure has been totally dismantled during the last 20-30 years. The only area in any crisis we are prepared for is information. Thousands upon thousands of communication people, administrators and non essential staff take up all the salary and room that actual useful people could have had. I guess that's not exclusive to Sweden thou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 23, 2020 Moderator Share Posted February 23, 2020 4 hours ago, sne said: Sweden will be so screwed if it gets hold here. Most of our hospitals are already stretched way over capacity and there is no where near enough staff as it is now. Apparently we are now among the worst if not worst when it comes to hospital places per capita in the EU. This area of infrastructure has been totally dismantled during the last 20-30 years. The only area in any crisis we are prepared for is information. Thousands upon thousands of communication people, administrators and non essential staff take up all the salary and room that actual useful people could have had. I guess that's not exclusive to Sweden thou. The NHS decided many years ago to fill itself full of managers, managers with no health industry experience and couldn't get a job managing a hot dog stand 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 (edited) Weird that Northern Italy is a hotspot for the virus. Edited February 23, 2020 by maqroll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 This UK Doctor has been tracking the outbreak and spread of Coronavirus and doing regular videos on YouTube. Doesn’t appear to be a crank in any way. Worth a watch/follow. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 24, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2020 Pandemic incoming. It's completely failed to be contained. It's now being posited that the hope is it'll be killed off by the season change incoming. Which is pretty much a bell toll for hopes we can control this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 9 minutes ago, Chindie said: Pandemic incoming. It's completely failed to be contained. It's now being posited that the hope is it'll be killed off by the season change incoming. Which is pretty much a bell toll for hopes we can control this. I was living in the middle east when the last Coronavirus called MERS broke out (from camels). The sunshine didn’t pose much of an obstacle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Proud moment. Quote Woman is savagely beaten in Birmingham ‘coronavirus rage’ attack after stepping in to defend her Chinese friend from racist abuse A woman was punched and knocked unconscious after she stepped in to defend her Chinese friend who was accused of carrying coronavirus. Trainee lawyer Meera Solanki, from Solihull, was out with friends celebrating her 29th birthday at Birmingham's Ana Rocha Bar and Gallery on Frederick Street. Miss Solanki was inside the venue with her friends including Mandy Huang, 28, who was visiting from London, when the group were targeted by a group of Asian men. 'For some reason he got really angry with her. He started abusing her calling her a dirty c****. 'He said 'take your f****** coronavirus and take it back home.' Miss Solanki told how she was 'shocked and angry' and shouted at the man to stop while she tried to push him away. 'He punched me in the head, I hit the pavement and was knocked unconcious,' Miss Solanki said. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8034545/Woman-savagely-beaten-Birmingham-coronavirus-rage-attack.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted February 24, 2020 Share Posted February 24, 2020 Made it back from my cruise. No coronavirus onboard and it was a good cruise. But what was funny to me was they told me come to the port earlier than normal for extra screening due to the virus. All I had to do was fill up a 3 questionnaire asking if I had been to china, am I sick, or was I sick? Even when checking my passport, they never checked stamps. Could have easily come onboard with the virus. There was no screening coming off the ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 24, 2020 Moderator Share Posted February 24, 2020 10 hours ago, sne said: www.dailymail.co.uk You'll notice they were "Asian Men", which is rather rich considering that their target was an "Asian Woman" "Asian Men" is a less than subtle way of saying Muslims. It's the Daily Mail. I'm more inclined to believe stories in The Sport 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMelvillan Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 On 23/02/2020 at 15:29, sne said: Sweden will be so screwed if it gets hold here. Most of our hospitals are already stretched way over capacity and there is no where near enough staff as it is now. Apparently we are now among the worst if not worst when it comes to hospital places per capita in the EU. This area of infrastructure has been totally dismantled during the last 20-30 years. The only area in any crisis we are prepared for is information. Thousands upon thousands of communication people, administrators and non essential staff take up all the salary and room that actual useful people could have had. I guess that's not exclusive to Sweden thou. cant let this happen. I have a new Volvo on order, due to arrive in April. Get it sorted Sweden 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 (edited) 16 minutes ago, TheMelvillan said: cant let this happen. I have a new Volvo on order, due to arrive in April. Get it sorted Sweden You might be screwed as the engines are made in China anyway and those 3 factories are apparently still closed and the containers are sitting at the docks Edit: should add I know absolutely nothing about the logistics in these things Edited February 25, 2020 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, ml1dch said: So this is planted by the US to crash the Chinese economy and cripple their enemies. I knew it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 The word of the day is ‘triage’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 25, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 25, 2020 Good to see the world basically come to the same conclusion after the WHO announcement yesterday. 'Ah shit'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted February 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted February 25, 2020 19 hours ago, bickster said: "Asian Men" is a less than subtle way of saying Muslims. I think it's even less subtle than that. In Daily Mail speak "Asian Men" means "[nudge nudge], not british, but foreigners who shouldn't be here". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Off tonight for a bit of looting and to stock up on tinned goods. I've seen 28 days, I've seen contagion, I know all the strategies. Girlfriend is getting binned too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 21 hours ago, bickster said: You'll notice they were "Asian Men", which is rather rich considering that their target was an "Asian Woman" "Asian Men" is a less than subtle way of saying Muslims. It's the Daily Mail. I'm more inclined to believe stories in The Sport You're saying it didn't happen then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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