CoVid-19 Part VIII - 292 cases ROI (2 deaths) 62 in NI (as of 17th March) *Read OP*

kowloon wrote: »

People won't starve, banks won't repossess homes. There's no profit to be made ****ting their own bed, the banks will just have to work with people, extending mortgages and the likes. Impoverishing your own customers to the point that they no longer pay anything is bad for business.

They did it about 7 years ago

Graham wrote: »

and in the face of adversity, the ShamCake was born

Now I fancy pancakes! Thanks Funsterdelux

Needs to cover in mint to make it truly a Shamcake

Security staff starting at my local Lidl tomorrow.

TheAsYLuMkeY wrote: »

They did it about 7 years ago

The amount of repossessions 7 years ago were tiny

Eric Cartman wrote: »

A delicasy in hawaii , theres actually loads of really tasty spam recipies

Musabi being one of the simplest and most tasty

Is anyone else finding this whole experience incredibly surreal? It's not that I don't believe it, but it's like living in a bubble or something, just such a strange experience. I travel a lot for work and that's been off for the past 3 weeks or so and will be for the foreseeable future, and there's also a chance that my job could be in danger in time, but there are so many things to worry about and it's so overwhelming that I just can't get my head around it at all!!!

Euro 2020 postponed until 2021

Interesting article in Wired on the science behind the big shift in the UK's coronavirus strategy.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/coronavirus-uk-suppression-response?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Wired+Awake&utm_campaign=Wired+Awake_2020-03-17&utm_content=The+science+behind+the+big+shift+in+the+UK%27s+coronavirus+response&utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Email%20%28From%20WIRED%29%20170320&utm_content=The%20science%20behind%20the%20big%20shift%20in%20the%20UK%27s%20coronavirus%20response

Blueshoe wrote: »

Population of the US : 327 million
Cases : 4,400

Population of Europe: 741 million
Cases : 51,000

Twice the population with 10 times the number of cases. Very roughly

They've only just started testing in the US

So many are just the prophet's of doom on here

otnomart wrote: »

The cases in Italy originated from the Bavaria outbreak at the end of January.

The cases in Bavaria were active before the end of January, possibly as early as January 15th.

The reason Germany seemed to have things under control was because they readied labs throughout the country to distribute testing in January. Either the authorities were preparing for a potential outbreak in Europe or they already knew it was in their population. Given how the German government has behaved trying to buy up an entire years production of ventilator equipment from a company in Switzerland and then announcing they were banning the export of medical resources themselves I would not be surprised to learn at a later date that it has been rampant in the country.

Merkel was heavily criticised within Germany for not being seen to be doing anything about the outbreak and then she rocked the world with her prediction of 60~70% infection within the German population. A professor from a university in Boston said at the time, that such numbers would only be possible if the virus had been in the population for a significant period of time before it was contained.