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

I bet it's not just giving them a pack of drugs and saying "work it out" which is one of the big problems they're having with people buying it and self-prescribing a dose.

Don't know if you read this one yesterday, its a systemic shambles of under funding, complacency and politics overruling expert opinion:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/29/uk-strategy-to-address-pandemic-threat-not-properly-implemented

Surprised the scumbag betting companies aren’t giving odds on the official daily figures.

Its quite clear that every company has lazy arses who jumped at the the opportunity to do eff all while some of us are riding to work and banking extra hours .
Speaking as a nhs supplier and partner working in a hospital .

I think even betting companies realise that might be unacceptable. Although I bet they tested the idea with their PR departments.

Some good news. It's impressive how we are as humans. We try to find solutions and are extremely adaptable, two things noticeable in the last few weeks. A virus comes along and threatens large amounts of our number and we get to work on proding and poking it until we can eventually, hopefully find a way through.

My colleague suffers from lupus so she's prescribed it, she tried to get some at the weekend but it's all gone... Sold out everywhere...

yeah it's pretty shit state of affairs for folk with chronic illness who rely on it to hold things in check. Hope she gets some soon

It's a generic though* so some enterprising people somewhere will start spitting out tonnes of the stuff.

* at least I think it is - it is, by drugs standards, somewhat ancient.

So gin and tonics as a fun alternative?

Generic means it is made by the cheapest supplier as a result no? Hence India is largest supplier of generic's and put an export ban on a raft of stuff including active ingredients, so there are supply chain issues still
https://www.ft.com/content/dc8386ba-6eae-11ea-89df-41bea055720b

Good social distancing going on here

Well, the cheapest supplier is the cheapest supplier that can actually supply.

Similar to how Fracking only becomes viable when crude is really, really pricey (or unavailable), it's entirely possible that this stuff will start being produced in locations and facilities that are usually 'priced out', due to cheap supply from India.

Here’s a with video of a non-epidemiologists playing with epidemic modelling.

It raises quite interesting problems I’ve not heard about elsewhere, such as the use of hubs during social distancing measures and border closures timing and effect.

https://youtu.be/gxAaO2rsdIs

Cheers mate. Now need to get the King's people decide what the want to order... We now have just over £1000 in the kitty. Keep the money coming!! (Not you again Rich, unless you want to of course. :-P)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/buy-our-local-nhs-workers-a-nice-meal?

Meanwhile, in Hungary:

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This is truly fucking awful. Poor, poor, Hungary.

Awful

Has NATO had a member that is a straight forward dictatorship before?

Greece?

The EU will have to have a long think as well (once the more pressing issue of the virus subsides).

Edit - my edit was wrong. Bad maths.

Yeah it’s not a happy house here today.

We’re getting fucked out anyway

It's a field day for authoritarians.

Yeah. I can kind of imagine

Think Spain joined after Franco went, but Portugal maybe.