henry d Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 I'm not shopping at all since Monday due to self isolating and there was plenty of fresh stuff but few tins/jars. Great quote from the radio earlier, there seems to be a limitless supply of stupid across the country! 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Just now, henry d said: I'm not shopping at all since Monday due to self isolating and there was plenty of fresh stuff but few tins/jars. Great quote from the radio earlier, there seems to be a limitless supply of stupid across the country! 🤣 Yes plenty of stupid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 6 minutes ago, henry d said: I'm not shopping at all since Monday due to self isolating and there was plenty of fresh stuff but few tins/jars. Great quote from the radio earlier, there seems to be a limitless supply of stupid across the country! 🤣 It’s come to the point now if they put dog **** on the shelf some dull **** would buy it 😁 Edited March 18, 2020 by blackbird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, henry d said: Great quote from the radio earlier, there seems to be a limitless supply of stupid across the country! 🤣 Fabulous quote. People are scared though and that makes rational thought and behaviour go right out the window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 6 minutes ago, grrclark said: Fabulous quote. People are scared though and that makes rational thought and behaviour go right out the window. And those people need a little "guidance" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestonSalop Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Which is why its time to get rid of the "should" "ought to" instructions from gov't and replace them with "you will" and "you must". This is too great an emergency to be nice about it. BoJo has to stop worrying about his popularity. His hero Churchill rarely did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjpainter Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Eurovision song contest's been cancelled, so that's some good news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbird Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, chrisjpainter said: Eurovision song contest's been cancelled, so that's some good news 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
39TDS Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Vince Green said: London is a massive international Hub, we have Heathrow Airport with five terminals all going flat out, Gatwick Airport with two terminals, Stanstead Airport, London Luton and London City airport all flying in huge numbers of people from all over the world every day. All the airports feeding travellers into the city by rail and bus links. I am genuinely surprised we are not way out in front of Italy Simply due to the rigorous testing of all of those arriving. 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Italy 475 dead today ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 3 hours ago, blackbird said: I am sorry to be the bearer of good news lads, but only TWO new cases in Wuhan since Monday, I don’t think I would have a job at the BBC as a reporter. (I'm guessing chaps - so don't get ya knickers in a twist) I hope that is underlined and bold enough and I think we are allowed to guess on here anyway. Anyone who KNOWS or sticks their head above the paraphet to guess different are invited to discuss my thoughts. China has had more time and potential duped/forced/unknowing volunteers to try out a raft of drugs - some of which may work on the immunity system, maybe even DNA, so may have quietly found a treatment that reduces or clears the issues while the rest of the world will take a lot longer to catch up because of in depth testing procedures. S'pose I'll get slated for muting the possibility without proof but who really knows what has gone on over there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john deere Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Has Coronavirus got Prince Phillip it sounds like he has finally shuffled off this mortal earth! Allegedly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Just a heads up for those who might be buying Nurofen to ease the symptoms of the virus, Ibuprofen is a major ingredient of Nurofen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strimmer_13 Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 14 minutes ago, john deere said: Has Coronavirus got Prince Phillip it sounds like he has finally shuffled off this mortal earth! Allegedly. Its all over twitter but a load of ******** I reckon as its not on any news outlet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john deere Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Supposedly announcing 8am tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 24 minutes ago, Dave-G said: Just a heads up for those who might be buying Nurofen to ease the symptoms of the virus, Ibuprofen is a major ingredient of Nurofen. Your going to cop for it now, hope your tin hat is on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 7 minutes ago, Mice! said: Your going to cop for it now, hope your tin hat is on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remimax Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, blackbird said: 🤣 use to be funny when Terry Wogan did the comments on the acts , was not worth watching after he packed it in. Talking to a my old retired Vet today he was saying yanks have done a fast forward on a vaccine for the virus. would normally take ages with testing in this country but they've cracked on with "some 100 or so disposables" to try it out. don't know if there's any truth to it. Edited March 18, 2020 by Remimax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strimmer_13 Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 I read they were not ready then this morning they were. Stocks in pharmaceuticals anybody? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 3 hours ago, Dave-G said: Just a heads up for those who might be buying Nurofen to ease the symptoms of the virus, Ibuprofen is a major ingredient of Nurofen. Completely factual post, WOW 😳 😜 4 hours ago, Dave-G said: (I'm guessing chaps - so don't get ya knickers in a twist) I hope that is underlined and bold enough and I think we are allowed to guess on here anyway. Anyone who KNOWS or sticks their head above the paraphet to guess different are invited to discuss my thoughts. China has had more time and potential duped/forced/unknowing volunteers to try out a raft of drugs - some of which may work on the immunity system, maybe even DNA, so may have quietly found a treatment that reduces or clears the issues while the rest of the world will take a lot longer to catch up because of in depth testing procedures. S'pose I'll get slated for muting the possibility without proof but who really knows what has gone on over there. My inclination is that the figures from China are not as honest as they might have us believe. Personally I don't think the Chinese would be sitting on a cure and saying nowt, they will lose out in a very big way if the rest of the world has a massive economic shock. I do think that you are absolutely right that experimental treatments are more likely in China than in western economies, nobody ever sued the state in China. There have been a number of press articles suggesting that virus outbreaks have been left to go unchecked in many parts of the country, most notably in the 're-education' camps for the Uighurs in Xinjiang. As you say, who really knows what has gone on, or is still going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 4 hours ago, islandgun said: Italy 475 dead today ! It's a scary number, the average daily death rate in Italy is around 1,760 so a 27% uptick. The average daily death rate in the UK is around 1,690 and our population is about 10% bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 7 minutes ago, grrclark said: It's a scary number, the average daily death rate in Italy is around 1,760 so a 27% uptick. The average daily death rate in the UK is around 1,690 and our population is about 10% bigger. How many of the 475 would have died anyway though? Did they die of Coronavirus or die with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted March 18, 2020 Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 Just now, AVB said: How many of the 475 would have died anyway though? Did they die of Coronavirus or die with it? That is a key question, i have not seen any stats that say it is a genuine 27% uptick above the baseline mortality rate, just a straight extrapolation based on other published numbers. I guess we will see a few months or so down the line. There will be a short term increase, but whether that is meaningful statistically in the longer term remains to be seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Neal Posted March 19, 2020 Report Share Posted March 19, 2020 9 hours ago, blackbird said: I am sorry to be the bearer of good news lads, but only TWO new cases in Wuhan since Monday, I don’t think I would have a job at the BBC as a reporter. That sounds like good news but it is probably a false dawn. China's still in big trouble. We have to keep in mind the varying strategies of different countries. China locked the place down to suppress transmission of the virus between people, therefore new cases have fallen. As it stands, I don't know the numbers, but X percent of the people in Wuhan have contracted the disease, leaving Y percent yet to be exposed to it. Z percent have died from it. I suspect at the moment X is a relatively small number, Y is a mind bogglingly high number and Z will increase to an amount that will take your breath away. The virus is simply artificially suppressed at the moment, like standing on the lid of a pressure cooker. If the lid comes off it's going to explode, big time. It doesn't matter if it's next week or next year. As long as the virus still exists in just one person, whoever hasn't been exposed to the virus and acquired immunity to it WILL still get it - unless an effective vaccine has been developed and successfully introduced. Acquired immunity is what our medical bods are currently pinning their hopes on but it's not proven yet, hence the debate over its riskiness. We're all guinea pigs in this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted March 19, 2020 Report Share Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) I've just been standing at the bedroom window , the black Country is eerily silent this morning. You can usually hear the sounds of nightshifts and the m6 in the distance , but right now ,just silence. Edited March 19, 2020 by mel b3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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