Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

3000 people visited the hms prince of wales today . Not a hand sanitiser in sight or anyone washing their hands.

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Believe that the masks are more a cultural thing, as no mask filters to the size of a microbe. More to stop you spreading your germs.

You can't stop asymptomatic people, typhus mary is the prime example.

Also I've been in the same room as some of the top jet engineers at Rolls Royce Derby....

EDIT: I understood a third of what they said with people explaining to me what they meant.

Cool.

Well, there isn't one of those militaristic cunts doesn't deserve death, so we can but hope...

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-background-with-noah-feldman/id1460055316

I had a Chinese student coughing to my face the other day and when I jumped backward in lightening speed, he looked at me as if I was the weird one. Man, with it without this current situation, it is good manner to cover your mouth when you cough!!!

I'd want to slap anyone that coughed in my face. For the disgust and more importantly the offensive cough in the face. It is quite the insult.

Would not actually hit someone but would moan about it.

Everyone should do the vampire cough, hold your arm right over your mouth and cough into the crook of your arm.

Too right! It’s basic manner!

I am going to be more vocal about it from now on.

I am just glad I am no longer student facing, some students (not all!) are truly disgusting.

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The past days I’ve found out i touch my face all the fucking time.

I’ve also found out that my study association will be taking a skiing trip to northern Italy next week with no intent to call it off as insurance wouldn’t cover it. Highly doubt they’ll self quarantine for two weeks, so they’re basically putting the entire uni at risk?

Engine talk... This is tedious.

Uh huh

The past days I’ve found out i touch my face all the fucking time.

" Dr. Erin Mears: The average person touches their face three to five times every minute. In between that we're touching door knobs, water fountains, and each other."

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/contagion_2011/quotes/#:~:text=Ally%20Hextall%3A%20It's%20figuring%20us,water%20fountains%2C%20and%20each%20other.

vampire cough

actualol

Surly your uni have a responsibility towards the entire student and staff body. Can they not do something?

Mate of mine has just got back from northern Italy after doing a gig out there. He feels fine. Should he self-isolate? He says no. I’m self-employed, with two good paying jobs coming up. Who’s gonna pay me to stay indoors and not earn anything for a fortnight?

And that’s the point. In London in particular, with our shitty gig economy, no-one can afford to take time off just in case. If Covid-19 hits London then it’ll spread like buggery. Tough shit, I say.

That was on the Guardian live blog yesterday, a supermarket delivery worker told her boss she had symptoms and was told to stay at home for two weeks. She can't afford that.

Don’t know if posted yet, and obviously the author is going to come down heavy on China, but what do you lot think of this? https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/

I'd want to slap anyone that coughed in my face.

Don't forget to wash your hands after (not actually) slapping them.

In my defence, I may have personal space issues. Then I get really agitated if some one is standing behind me and I can feel there breath on my neck or head.

People spitting in the street also annoys me as it is disgusting and spreads disease.

University of Brighton were in panic mode but then there were cases in the city and a pub was closed because of a patron testing positive for the virus. Not sure how that would affect any out break tho.

Spitting is rank

The past days I’ve found out i touch my face all the fucking time.

I’ve noticed I do too.

I’ve been wearing gloves through the working day this week (I work mostly outside). It cuts out face-touching completely. I chuck the gloves in the wash each evening.