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

mickdw wrote: »

Unbelievable that they will pay 80 percent of all wages for those not working.
How long could they do it for?
I can see massive abuse of this coming.

80% capped at £2,500 a month.

Why does Boris always write down gibberish as he is asked questions.

He has the face of a liar and totaaky clueless at the wheel.

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

My heart breaks for Italy. Is their lockdown not working? We need to look at Italy and people cop the fcuk on here and stay away from each other. But large groups still out, parents bringing children to shops. I don't think people are getting the message here.

Takes about 14 days lockdown to see any effects. What are they at now?

MD1990 wrote: »

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

There won't be a review until the end of the month. If they deem it's necessary we'll get it. As others have said the headline numbers of new cases don't matter if testing has been ramped up. It's the number who end up in the health system.

dummy_crusher wrote: »

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

Think people really need to pay attention to this. Huge numbers in the north

rusty cole wrote: »

BBC news have a runner on the screen bottom which states "death rate in Iran is 1 person per ten minutes! WTF:eek:

And yet Leo didn't mention them when he offered solidarity to those worst affected. I thought his speech was excellent but that was a huge oversight.

threeball wrote: »

Holland is worse, crazy death figures for such a small and affluent country, normally to the forefront in adapting to challenges. Mad about skiing though so probably thronged the north of Italy last month

The Netherlands (together with Germany) have been one the main gateways to the virus from China - thanks to Schipol airport.

See for NL
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/2020-03-...ry=Netherlands

SleetAndSnow wrote: »

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

And they'll continue to go up slowly. Takes a while for the recoveries to climb

Gael23 wrote: »

Nothing seems to be working in Italy.
Aside from the obvious, their economy is going to be in ruins for a very long time

They will have to leave the Euro IMO.

yourdeadwright wrote: »

Do people think trump is wrong to call it the China Virus ?
I can't see why he is getting stick for it , that's where it came from and they actively tried to blame it on American soldiers and they actively tried to hide it form the world for a month,

I can't for the life of me see why people are annoyed at Trump for taking a stand against China ,Sars also came from China about time someone started calling them out if they continue the way the have been what's next ? something worse than this could wipe out everybody ,

We don't call the pandemic that swept through the world between 1918 and 1920, killing an estimated 50 - 100 million people, the American virus. Academically it is referred to as the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Trump is engaging in low brow xenophobic rabble rousing in his insistence in how he repeatedly refers to the current pandemic. Maybe “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” is beyond his feble intellect.

He's a dangerous idiot. Someone should ask him if he thinks SARS-CoV-2 will be a bigger problem than the 1918 American virus that killed 50 - 100 million people worldwide.

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

My heart breaks for Italy. Is their lockdown not working? We need to look at Italy and people cop the fcuk on here and stay away from each other. But large groups still out, parents bringing children to shops. I don't think people are getting the message here.

The lock-down is probably too recent to be bearing fruit yet. It takes a few days for symptoms to emerge, a number of more days for a person to be tested and a result published, and more days still for the person to die or recover.

However the Chinese Red Cross were apparently pretty appalled by the quality of the lock-down, saying that they could see people socializing, public transport running, people out and about.

Gael23 wrote: »

Nothing seems to be working in Italy.
Aside from the obvious, their economy is going to be in ruins for a very long time

Surely they will get a hand from the Vatican City ? They have millions

Worldometers says 15k new cases in Italy, almost certain it said 6k a few minutes ago, what's the story with this?