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Don’t you work for the NHS?

Yeah. Untreatable viruses are untreatable.

I always thougt there was something strange about Assen & Drenthe in The Netherlands.

I worked in pandemic planning in the NHS for a while.

We were taught that Spanish Flu in 1918 is now regarded to have infected 500 million people and killed 100 million of them. Mainly young healthy people too, which is just fucking bizarre. It reduced the life expectancy of Americans by over twelve years.

Anybody who thinks that that NHS were wrong to take SARS and Swine Flu seriously probably don't realise what is at stake. All it takes is a virus that is as deadly as SARS and as transimattable as Swine Flue (or this new Coronavirus) and we're all proper fucked.

Doomed I tell you. Temporary mass grave doomed.

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My girlfriend thinks I have Coronavirus, pray for me.

Your bikes are too big for me so I’ll pray for you.

Spanish Flu in 1918

Minor rant: I dislike that name. It didn't originate in Spain, they were just the first to report it publicly at the time.

Doomed I tell you

We all gotta die someday. A really good* pandemic might make a big different to CO2 levels...

Hopefully this particular virus prefers racists and bigots.

A really good* pandemic might make a big different to CO2 levels...

Naah.... it will affect the poor areas of the world disproportionately.
Survivor = recipient of 1st world health care = high CO2 footprint.

Mutterings that Ghislane Maxwell's personal e-mails have been hacked. Self-preservation attempt or genuine data leak?

Either way, they wouldn't have been stupid enough to communicate the really juicy stuff, would they?

are you Spanish? It's mostly Spanish people that are (understandably) upset about the name

Psshh, they should suck it up, you don't hear people moaning about the black death.

I'm here in coronavirus-land: online and offline stores have all sold out of masks, every gathering of more than 500 people has been banned until after April, Wuhan and two other cities have been locked down, there's tons of fake news flying about but people are also quite worried. Everyone remembers the sars cover up and hopes that the strong reaction is an attempt to do better this time, though I would say there's still some degree of cover up.

Fuck those snake eaters who started this.
Wash your hands, people!

Things here in HK ramping up a little tho not as crazy as in mainland China. Its totally undersatable because of what happened with sars, its hit at just the wrong time with luna new year with the huge moving of people to see family. Keep heaththy Hats 👍

Cheers dude - HK has generally better levels of hygiene, less spitting at least, plus you had more deaths during sars (official ones anyway...) so hopefully it won't be too bad there. Definitely the wrong time of year!!! I have a flight out in 8 hours so I'm just hoping that all goes smoothly, they do heat checks at Pudong airport and I've been caught before - not ill, just really fucking hot...

How are things in HK right now ? my wife is has an external examiner job for a uni out there and is going for 7 days towards end of May.

She wants me and the two year old to go along with her. I'm not massively keen mainly because I rather spend the money on new wheels for a bike. But also I'm a bit apprehensive about being on my own for long days with a two year old in a place that I know nothing about. How are thing safely wise currently ?

Hope all goes well, hats!

are you Spanish?

No. Never even been there. Unless you count the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands or Barcelona as Spanish.

It just bugs me when attribution goes to the wrong place/people (cf Boris Bikes).

I think I've got the jellybaby jitters today.

Hmmm, landing in Beijing soon. Pray for me

you don't hear people moaning about the black death.

No, they're all dead.

At the height of the plague a thousand Londoners a week were dying so they built a massive plague pit in east London but buried the bodies too shallow so when putrefaction set in the entire field heaved and bubbled like a lasagne in the oven.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-mum-discovers-worlds-largest-17570454.amp

^^Amazingly it's got worse since then.

Finally. Some good news in the press.