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

Ha fuck. Just saw Anne Widdicombe saying it's"just like AIDS" and won't be so bad?

Only 30 odd million dead and counting so far you dumb fuck...

Coronavirus: Scientists say UK virus strategy is 'risking lives' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51892402

Are they as qualified as the wife of somebody on an outdated bike forum?

If February was the warmest and wettest on record, March (& subsequent months) could be the shittest on record.
I honestly thought Br@X!t was gonna harm the UK economy real bad, but this shutdown risks paving the way to another recession. I feel for anyone working in the gig economy or retail or hospitality or travel currently.
As someone mentioned earlier how are those people going to pay rents and whatever other bills if (when?) we start seeing mass redundancies across the service sector.
I can't even imagine the damage of the domino effect this could have over society as a whole.
Let's hope in a month's time we are all safe and dry.
Stay safe everyone.

i don't get the debate. if you think it's safer to lock yourself in a cupboard and shit in a quality street tin, what's stopping you?

Way ahead of you.

https://twitter.com/cantdrawarsenal/status/1238843841689669635

Careful now, dissent isn’t allowed.

"the wife of somebody". wow.

Ocado has taken themselves offline.

Where do I get my vitamin D & bogroll now?

In all srsnss though - how does a web-based company not have scalability built in.

Most likely it's their supply chain that's wobbling rather than server load or some other technical stuff.

This is particularly interesting

https://twitter.com/mikeisaac/status/1238604080571772928?s=21

Ocado has taken themselves offline.

Works for me. Slots available (for my address) on Sunday 22nd.

Academics in you're-wrong-i'm-right shocker.

To be fair to both camps (and any other camp), it's likely that any action would face opposition - there's no right way to do things, the subject matter is complex, and even after the dust settles, I expect nobody will be able to agree on what actually happened.

So I've read that it'd be like 2 days after exposure that you would start developing symptoms but does anyone know if that is true of temperature too?

Or, how symptoms, temperature and contagiousness are linked?

Basically, we have a family thing coming up and are concerned about potentially exposing the older family members. If we all measure body temp on the morning of the event and are reading normal does this mean we can safely assume,

1. Noone has the virus
   
2. Anyone that has been exposed is not yet contagious
   
3. Neither of the above
   
   

I had viral meningitis.... massive headache, constant hot and cold, aching limbs, could not eat, barely drink water, hallucinations (I told my eldest daughter I was playing poker with a polar bear)...I was off work for 9 days....worst experience of my life.

I think you show symptoms after around 5 days. But if you are one of the lucky ones they might be so mild that you may not notice

Not quite in the same level as ocado but seems that the local Currys in Brixton has been doing a booming trade in computer monitors, mice and keyboards due to everyone having to WFH next week

So I've read that it'd be like 2 days after exposure that you would start developing symptoms

I thought it could be up to 14 days, hence the 14 day quarantine.

I think you can assume that it’s possible to have it, transmit it, but not have symptoms.

This is one reason why it’s gone round the world and SARS has not.

Quarantine has eventually worked in China but also Taiwan...UK is doing this to protect capital and not its people....research shows there are less people infected during viral epidemics, eg flu, when children are off school. This is another example of British exceptionalism.

^ This.

Do you even Unicorn?

What do the bloody colonies know? Don't they eat dogs there?