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

What building?

The wind blew an entire roll of arse wipe into the open toilet yesterday, luckily I lamped a pensioner for the last 24-pack up milton Tesco

Well that will be a fun team-building exercise.

I ordered one out of curiosity a few years back. Its an eye opener for sure. Utterly brutal.

On a similar note: https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space/how-many-martinis-can-you-fit-inside-v-2-missile/

There could be a couple;

• Italians probably go out and about more than most other Europeans during the weekend
  
• Italians have a different understanding of personal space than most other Europeans
  
• Northern-Italy is a hotspot for tourism (take Venice & Milan i.e.) so it'll see a lot of traffic and therefore increased risk
  
• Northern-Italy is also the place to be to for any substantial Italian company, so it'll likely see more visitors from abroad in a smaller region compared to other countries
  
• Italy is probably more strict / has started earlier in checking inhabitants and visitors
  
• Not to be neglected, Italians are great in overreacting to a situation as well
  

Haven't been to southern Spain lately but it's still very much alive amongst every generation.

And yet people also drink Stella

Worrying account of the disease from an Italian surgeon working on the front line:

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/ff8hns/testimony_of_a_surgeon_working_in_bergamo_in_the/

Pretty grim. Makes me think certain areas of the UK will be significantly more affected. Dorset where I grew up for example has an elderly population. ICU would quickly be overrun making it worse for those that have a greater chance of surviving usually.

My lizard brain response to that is terror.

How the fuck anybody can swallow something with Bitrex in is beyond me.

Getting a drop of methylated spirits in my coffee ruined my last morning camping.

The TFL staff story (from unthread) just broke on Sky News. Although the metro says he worked at traffic control not in a train.

The idea that Matt Hancock, Priti Patel and Boris Johnson are having a COBRA meeting to coordinate the Country's response to a viral pandemic is so appalling, I'd rather have George C Scott and Slim Pickins making the decisions.

The TFL staff story

The one about the fluffers?

Someone just came to have an hour-long at-desk meeting with my colleague. At the end of the meeting she stood up and announced that she was off to ring the NHS as she might need to self-isolate. We were all 'ha, ha, funny joke' to which she said 'oh no, very serious'. Good stuff.

It is no coincidence that Italy has hundreds of Corona cases. Tens of
thousands of Chinese work illegally in sweatshops - without papers,
without insurance, without health care. The fashion industry's greed
for profit is to blame for the spread of the virus in Europe.

https://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2020/03/corona-and-italian-fashion-industry-how_99.html

I don't think that's the same case. We don't know if the tube driver tested positive, I suspect if it had been made public that they had we'd know.

TfL have 27,000 employees so quite possible they'll have more than one case.

Don't fret, Cummings is watching over them.

Now I am teaching 5th grade (11 yo) pupils in subject corona. A rather interested audience compared to what they show in my grammar lessons.

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Heard about that today in one of our office buildings, that's in addition to the driver story. Apparently the drivers daughter recently returned home from Rome and then the whole family developed symptoms.

Definitely not the same case
https://twitter.com/BBCTomEdwards/status/1237001092711493634

it's people like this that need their heads pre-emptively amputated to prevent spreading the virus. Fucking dick behaviour.

In other news, my local Tesco and Lidl have been gutted of toilet paper and pasta over the weekend. Everything else fine. Had been quite encouraged last week that there was no sign of hoarding/panick but here we are.

Irony being that the iceland and B+M next door have ample supplies-lends credence to it being a certain type of person panick buying-i.e the poorer folk can't be fucked with it and/or the middle classes would rather get the virus than go into Iceland.

You forgot to mention they really like pizza.

I think there are reasons mentioned already in this thread that aren’t a list of cultural stereotypes too.

I just spoke to someone at my local GP’s office.. an old boy presented with all the tell-tale symptoms so they swabbed him and sent him home to self-isolate.

He came back to the GP the next day on the bus to see if his results were back.