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

Huge announcement by the UK

wadacrack wrote: »

Many will be dying. People's survival instincts will kick in. It will be better. Will adapt to this new social norm

Do you think older people will be prepared to go without seeing their grandchildren for months on end? Of course not

:@pkelso
Government grants to cover 80% of salaries up to £2,500 pcm for staff who cannot work because of virus. Applies for thee months with no limit on total spending. Historic intervention


The evil Tories.

Bailing out the middle classes yet again.

I'm glad I'm not in the UK. :rolleyes:

Meanwhile Irish workers get F all.

billybonkers wrote: »

Huge announcement by the UK

Are we supposed to guess?

That is horrific for Italy my heart really is breaking. Really thought we would see a reduction in numbers by now. Recoveries seem to have jumped a bit though some good news

is_that_so wrote: »

Cases or deaths here? As a comparison let's not forget the flu' kills 500-600 p.a. here.

More like 250-500 p.a.

If we were getting 600 cases a day we would be expecting a minimum of 12 deaths a day. I say minimum, because that's what you'd expect while the health system is still able to cope.

is_that_so wrote: »

Cases or deaths here? As a comparison let's not forget the flu' kills 500-600 p.a. here.

deaths possible seriously hope im wrong.

We need a lockdown now. People who wont stay indoors need to fined or forced into isolation physically. This is too serious now.

Hard not be angry at people who only care about themselves/
Going to cause so much pain for people who will lose family members,
Suicide will go through way up too most likely

dummy_crusher wrote: »

Breakdown of Italian numbers by region. Still very much centred in Lombardia.

One would hope there isn't a mass outbreak in the Mezzogiorno

token56 wrote: »

This is not going to do go down well for a large % of the population who voted for Boris in the last election.

Why? He is bailing out the middle classes who voted for him?

@pkelso
Government grants to cover 80% of salaries up to £2,500 pcm for staff who cannot work because of virus. Applies for thee months with no limit on total spending. Historic intervention

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

How can they afford this? Would love something like this here, but will certainly not happen

They can print money and devalue to tin pot country levels

TheCitizen wrote: »

The Brits deserve to be bashed for the slow response up to now, are you saying they shouldn't?

To be fair the same could be really said for the whole of the EU.

There isn't a single country in Europe yet to cover themselves in glory in relation to this. If there wasn't the example of Italy for all to see, the other countries would still be doing very little.

Hector Savage wrote: »

Italy 5986 new cases, 627 new deaths - worst day yet for them.


I actually have felt like praying lately .... it's nuts

We really need to see some let up soon otherwise it would appear even a full lockdown is having little or no impact.

Again the only saving grace is that we are still only 11 days out from the lockdown, we have to have believe that there will be an improvement in the next few days.

statesaver wrote: »

Irish government found a 3 billion magic money tree last week, but lets bash the Brits, eh ?

A pure deflection tactic away from their (the Brits) slow response to shut everything.

autumnbelle wrote: »

What does the first column mean

hospitalized with symptoms