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

Yeah, cheers. I was comparing ascension year and end of the dictatorship and got the two numbers flipped in my head. Edited!

So that'll be the EU26 pretty soon then.

We'll be getting a super trade deal with Hungary then ;)

This is quite an interesting article about capacity in the NHS/state, and why we are where we are: https://members.tortoisemedia.com/2020/03/30/chris-cook-coronavirus-nhs-at-capacity/content.html?sig=keNLL8BRfhyxlRYS9-EoICk4I44jgZb_ahgq3Zdx6pY

Unlimited power sounds kinda cool though

So abortion rules relaxed making it easier for women wanting one to get tablets to take at home.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/relaxation-of-uk-abortion-rules-welcomed-by-experts-coronavirus

A good thing (so long as this isn't more risky).
And another thing that shouldn't revert after this passes.
A proper shake up of economics, politics, transport, work, medicine, and in this case, Morals?

And Spain

Raab’s very wooden. Would give Keanu a run for his money.

'Cummings@? he ran away from Downing Street last week when the Pantomime PM revealed he was C+ve.
I'm listening to Raab on BBCR4.
He is failing the empathy test.

Lacks some gravitas doesn't he? And he looks like Jason Donovan's nerdy brother

Raab! I meant Raab!

Ok, so I panic bought bought some clippers. Have justified by saying I'll do the kids hair even if I chicken out of doing my own. Would jsut prefer a trim really but waiting another 12 weeks is not gonna happen.

It's hard to tell these Toryclones apart.
Neat ninja edit.

https://twitter.com/georgvh/status/1244652925785423873

A lot of help and processing of the Eu Settlement Scheme suspended as well, thanks to Covid.

The deadline isn't...

Just been furloughed and to mark the occasion I got my 3yr old to cut my hair. No more zoom meetings for me!

Message from the local vicar that someone my partner knows has died .

Wirral based

Did mine last night, fucked it... hat and isolation for me!

Pix of shame?

Still confused about the current UK long-term strategy. Vallance saying that we are aiming to get just under what the system can cope with then look at how we can lessen restrictions? So the idea is a type of 'hammer and dance'. Yet with more life lost than if we do a more extreme version to stop spread fully and then use contact trace etc. to snub out new cases until we can treat with vaccine. Why have a plan that would result in so many deaths and the chaos of full capacity? If the plan is 60% of UK to get virus then it will surely take so long like this?

do a more extreme version to stop spread fully

100% stay at home, close all the shops, turn off the national grid, stop caring for people in hospitals/care homes for about 3 weeks. Should stop the virus. Might be a little tricky for all but the most organised prepper.

If the plan is 60% of UK to get virus then it will surely take so long like this?

I think the plan is to keep rate of infection low enough to be manageable until there is a vaccine.

Which I think means restrictions of one sort or another for a couple of years.

cummings self isolating.

o come sweet jesu and call him home.

It's because we're not in control of our own fate. If the virus is still spreading around the world then eliminating it here through more extreme social distancing means effectively closing our borders or quarantining everyone that arrives. It's just not feasible. The entire world is chain and it breaks at the weakest link.

They're banking on a vaccine or a robust form of herd immunity with very low reinfection rates.

yi fucking ikes.

please go away.

Is Trump, a known admirer of Orban, going to take what happened in Hungary today as his cue for similar action in the US? Is there a mechanism that he could use to achieve this, with a Republican Party that would be very much behind the idea of suspending democracy with them in charge?

Thanks. My only thought to that is this was the plan from the off, right? Meaning we let spread occur when we could have been more aggressive. Wouldn't it have been less disruption to control going forward if we had jumped on it sooner? (While we wait for the vaccine).