CoVid-19 Part IX - 785 cases ROI (3 deaths) 108 in NI (1 death) (20 March) *Read OP*

Strazdas wrote: »

Those demanding a lockdown are probably isolated / loners and wouldn't even be impacted by it. It's a different for the broader society who are used to socialising and not being prisoners in their own home....it would hit them hard if it went on too long.

I keep saying it, the government (western governments) have a few weeks tops to play with here. After that people will seriously start getting aggravated. Also an economic cost benefit analysis will have to be made soon. We cannot shut down 82% of the economy for long. Don’t mean to be insensitive but the virus is harmless to 96% of us. The only long term solution, until next years vaccine is ready, is getting back to normal whilst maintaining self isolation for vulnerable people, getting more ICU beds, ventilators and trying existing medications (chloroquine, favipiravir, remdesivir). More people will be harmed by an economic depression than Coronavirus.

Oh!

Hobgoblin11 wrote: »

link to proof?

The 1930s

tobefrank321 wrote: »

Most if not all have POS devices. The Chinese (yes them) have even more advanced payment methods like Alipay and Wechat.

There's numerous advantages to going cashless - hygiene, fewer robberies and theft and also eliminate black economy practices and under declaration of income to the taxman ie cash jobs.

PCI compliance requires credit card machines, say from Ingenico. This is so they don't send un-encrypted card numbers over a wire which allows for say malware skimming numbers.
Most of these credit card machines have contactless built into hardware for maybe a decade now.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

No.

Tell that to the Chinese doctor carrying out autopsys (the only one I believe) ...he described it as going into a nuclear radiation zone....


course we're assuming the bod who asked the question here is not planning on going in with a scalpel

vladmydad wrote: »

I keep saying it, the government (western governments) have a few weeks tops to play with here. After that people will seriously start getting aggravated. Also an economic cost benefit analysis will have to be made soon. We cannot shut down 82% of the economy for long. Don’t mean to be insensitive but the virus is harmless to 96% of us. The only long term solution, until next years vaccine is ready, is getting back to normal whilst maintaining self isolation for vulnerable people, getting more ICU beds, ventilators and trying existing medications (chloroquine, favipiravir, remdesivir). More people will be harmed by an economic depression than Coronavirus.

I agree with this view. It's like you want to get rid of moles in your garden then you drop a nuclear bomb on it and wonder why you have nothing there but just a crater and some melted glass.
They should have taken a different approach.