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

You know 17,000 die of flu in the uk on average annual.

20,000 is small.

https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-compare-influenza/

Dam too slow!

yeah they are definitely out and about, esp. at the borders. police out too checking on "groups"

Just had a guy come door to door trying to sell cleaning stuff and toilet roll for high mark-ups.

WTF!

spiv-nation...

BBC live feed thing. Think he’s talking at a select committee.

Ta, watch out Piot et al

Easy way to bypass the loo roll hoarders, and give employment to local tradesmen. Win/win.

Bathroom Fitting

'Zactly.
2/3rds of the world's population wash after having a poo.
Bog roll is a skanky habit, common to only North America and Northern Europe.

So having had to cancel/ move the trip to see family in Texas. Norwegian aren't offering straight forward refunds (no surprise there) they can issue cash points or move the date.

Do I do that or try to go through insurance and get the cash value back?

Shattaf

Is that Shit Off in a Borat style accent?

I know the grass is greener, but the Spanish president just had his bit on the telly, and the message and delivery couldn't be further from Boris'.

His entire focus is on how the state can and will ensure no-one gets left behind, and the measures the govt. is taking to ensure businesses and sole-traders maintain liquidity. Emphasising that it is a temporary crisis and that the country will get through it together.

I don't know much about the man, or his politics, and I've probably missed a fair bit of the nuance but what an improvement on the clown in the UK yesterday. He also didn't look like he hadn't slept in days and had access to an iron and a hairbrush.

Also, scarily, he really emphasised how the EU was working hard to ensure all member states had access to as much funding as they need and the support of each other to get through this.

The UK couldn't really have fucked itself at a worse time, could it?

Norwegian could be going bust any minute now. Those cash points are potentially worth fuck all.
Whatever you can claim from your travel insurance I guess? Mine would not have paid out in this instance.

Eurozone init. We were never part of it. We can print our own money and set our own rates.

I had some travel booked and the agent just told me "pandemics aren't covered, sorry"

Got most of my money back due to good customer service though.

It isn't just the money is it *, it is the easy and willing sharing of knowledge and materials. The UK don't even participate in the daily pandemic briefing anymore.

* Are the EU's central funds restricted to the Eurozone? Would we not have had financial support as a member state?

How many golf clubs does @Dammit play at and where does he find the money?

Simon Stevens letter to the NHS on next steps. I work in finance and all of our planning for 20-21 just submitted on March 6th has been put in a bin with some lighter fluid.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/03/urgent-next-steps-on-nhs-response-to-covid-19-letter-simon-stevens.pdf

Next week.

If you are young and fit then GET OUT THERE AND GET IT !!!!!!!
Then you will be immune and unable to infect people; so you can offer your time to help others who are at real risk.
People who are smart enough coud even be trained to takeover lesser nursing duties, so that qualified personnel could go into ICU units.

If you have not done so already, please read the Imperial College report (9) to get the best projection and scenarios.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/news--wuhan-coronavirus/

More info on ibuprofen and covid-19: https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1086

From my work...
Supply chains are fine, just need more people power/time to get products out.

I can imagine, just been to city centre (Glasgow) and noticed most eateries are pretty much empty (never that busy on a tues daytime anyway), guess most will terminate or not offer any hours to those on zero/low hour contracts, and then close, that way they are only out rent/rates/bills and not the wages, might let the company exist but all those workers will be screwed quite quickly. Most folk I know who work in those jobs typically have less than £500 of actual money at any one time ever, might end up quite ugly soon for a lot of people in a lot of places.

If you have not done so already, please read the Imperial College report (9) to get the best projection and scenarios.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-in­fectious-disease-analysis/news--wuhan-co­ronavirus/