CoVid19 Part XIV - 8,089 in ROI (288 deaths) 1,589 in NI (92 deaths) (10/04) Read OP

Stheno wrote: »

Over 1200 deaths in the US today

People in the US now td not even to go for groceries or to the pharmacy

33000 cases in one day too. The numbers are just staggering there. For all Trumps talk of areas being unaffected, they're sure as sh1t affected now. New Orleans will end up worse than New York thanks to their crackpot evangelists

accensi0n wrote: »

That seems relatively low.

Their big bonus is that Seattle and California have handled it pretty well and managed to flatten their curve but thats two of the most progressive areas in america. Take away NY and Chicago and the rest is Hicksville. Science and government interference aren't high up their list of likes.

1200 in all states today?

kilkenny31 wrote: »

Has anyone watched the film Contagion. The film should be re-nominated for an Oscar. Its so accurate. The Virus in the film is a little more deadly but the film is chilling with how accurate it is.

Who could forget "I want every outhouse, hen house and cow house searched this side of the Mississippi for this son of a bytch"

kilkenny31 wrote: »

No. Its available to rent on YouTube for 3or 4 euro. I got it off one of those dodgy apps Apparently the CDC was heavily involved while it was being created.

It is on Netflix. I noticed it was added to Netflix today when browsing . Definitely recently added because I only rented it on the iTunes Store a month or so back.

threeball wrote: »

33000 cases in one day too. The numbers are just staggering there. For all Trumps talk of areas being unaffected, they're sure as sh1t affected now. New Orleans will end up worse than New York thanks to their crackpot evangelists

There is more cases in NY in one day than every countries total cases below Austria https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

fin12 wrote: »

Is that on Netflix or where can u watch it?

Was on ITV (I think) the other night, definitely a reommended watch - was watching a video there the other day with the doctor who was a consultant on the film talking about this virus and how she messed up some things in the film

Are we seriously not having a 13th thread on a medical and scientific issue because of superstition?

Alllllrighty then!!!

kilkenny31 wrote:

Has anyone watched the film Contagion. The film should be re-nominated for an Oscar. Its so accurate. The Virus in the film is a little more deadly but the film is chilling with how accurate it is.

A little more deadly - I think something like 37% death rate in that film?
Watched it a few weeks back, actually it was one I had on my hard drive.
But it is scary how things in that film seem to be playing out in front of all our eyes now albeit not to the same scale as the film was.

kilkenny31 wrote: »

Just checked there and your right. I checked two nights ago and it wasn't. I may watch it again.

Just watched it tonight on Netflix and while there are undoubtedly eerie similarities with the current situation, there are a lot of differences too.While social distancing is mentioned, you don't see anyone actually do it. In fact there are a fair few crowd scenes and huge panic buying and runs on pharmacies [plot related] and a general sense of panic which thankfully isn't a feature of our current reality. The ending,showing how the whole thing started, was particularly gripping and realistic and possibly close enough to to how this real pandemic started.

But also very interesting was hearing the now familiar, pandemic terminology: "social distancing" "clusters" "case zero" "hand sanitising." Hell, even "RO", a term I certainly wouldn't have known before.