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

Saw this 'murican Airbnb fucklord shitting the bed and did lol. Hope all these properties are returning to long term housing stock very soon...

https://mobile.twitter.com/weeaboo/status/1241555854446518272

Queen got gravely ill with it.

Don't think lizards can catch it.

Also pretty clear that nudge theory doesn't hold up in a acute health crisis, people need a shove not a nudge to get a sense of urgency

I agree.

Daily briefings should have started in late Feb with a clear and simple restriction issued on consecutive days.

Pangolins could be mistaken for lizards, does that count?

didn't watch it completely but looks like a parody, I hope...

Genuinely don’t think it is.

Part serious part trying to grab 15 minutes.

Saw this 'murican Airbnb fucklord shitting the bed and did lol. Hope all these properties are returning to long term housing stock very soon...

One of my pet hates is the whole 'Buy To Rent' thing, fucks up the housing market, likely a cause of the homeless epidemic (lack of social housing).
If the amount of people forecast to die is hit, that will be a lot of houses coming to the market.

Yeah, interested to see how many ex STL properties suddenly becoming available in housing crisis hit Dublin...

If there are lots of homes coming onto the market I just hope they're not just snapped up and used as STL's if that's the case :(

It's absolutely not a parody. Some gimp actually made that in earnest...

Has the 2m rule been said by anyone in UK authority? Or has it just crept in from other countries? I don't remember it being said here.

Pangolins could be mistaken for lizards, does that count?

Royal contagion is an issue in ‘wet markets’ – when you stack full cages of ferrets, poultry, marmozets, turtles and the English aristocracy.

I read it ... or dreamt it.

We Zoomed with a bunch of friends last night, two of them live in Hove and one said she was going to go for a run along the seafront but there were so many people she took one look and turned back. Weirdly she said the beach itself was empty.

I had to go pick up my mums prescriptions from the pharmacy yesterday morning and walk the dog. her pharmacy is about 200m from brighton pier so I took the dog on my usual route along the seafront from the pier towards the marina. within about 150yds I turned around and went home as it was like being out in the middle of the summer holidays.

'murican Airbnb fucklord

Wheter parody bit or not, I think I got infected through the screen.

Has the 2m rule been said by anyone in UK authority? Or has it just crept in from other countries? I don't remember it being said here.

Go to the government website, read all the guidance. Then you will have the answer.

The gov corona page should be mandatory reading. One of those pop up boxes for conditions to post.

;)

Royal parks closed to 'traffic'

Quick, get to RP

https://www.royalparks.org.uk/home/coronavirus-updates

Vit D

On the off chance you´re referring to my repeated advocacy of recreational exercise during the pandemic, allow me to underline that the conduct seen in the photo is just people being dicks.

If this sort of thing goes on in your country you´re asking for a daytime curfew.

We went for our third family 40-50k pandemic spin yesterday. No such fuckwittery going on here (between Oppem and Leuven in Flanders). Even the obviously fast big ring riders kept speeds sensible. No Lycra gatherings to be seen, people riding two abreast or singly. What I did see was people having garage parties in the ´burbs though. Callous twats.

The apparent reliance on alcohol everyone has is grossly worrying me now I think of it.

Do we really need drive through pubs?! Can we not try maybe boosting our immune system in this time?

Vodka and orange? Already on it.

I have been wondering; if herd immunity is a possibility at 60%, why doesn't the bats have it?

They live more clustered than perhaps any other mammal, so they should have become immune by now and have killed off the virus before it reached us through that extremely narrow channel that is a single food market in Wuhan. Which makes me think they probably couldn't build any such immunity... so why would we cope differently?

tbh I’m not sure how I’d cope without alcohol over this period. It’s nice to unwind sometimes and will act as a bit of a pressure valve between me and my girlfriend every now and again.

why doesn't the bats have it?

I thought that the bat thing was only an unproven hypothesis? I.e nobody knows for sure where this virus came from.

So long as you're rubbing garlic under your eyelids you're safe.

an unproven hypothesis

Not for me to say. But Jared Diamond seems happy to stake his reputation on it.
Vox made this explanation, but admits it's not yet conclusive. Vox can be a bit sensational, but my impression is that their fact checking is decent.

EDIT: Neither source says bats in particular, just go a long way to suggest an animal origin.

My point being the same though. Why would be become immune to something that animals did not manage to fight off?

Sainsbury’s in Lee Green was just now way quieter than a usual Sunday. Wine and spirits wiped out but all fruit and veg back on shelves where on Thursday there was none at all at midday.

I think it’s because everybody was in Manor House Gardens park FFS.

We don't know which animal it came from yet so we don't know how their immune systems have responded.

The source of H1N1 from ten years ago still hasn't been established so we might be waiting a long time before we know for sure where this came from.

The only reason we know it came from an animal is because its an animal based group of viruses and humans are animals.

EDIT: From what I have read, the only reason people are suspecting bats for this virus is because people are starting to suspect (but not yet proven) that bats were behind the last SARS epidemic in 2002. In short, nobody knows.