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COVID-19

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by king karl, Feb 15, 2020.

  1. Storck

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    Bet it is madness at the pharmacies in Ilkley tomorrow
     
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    Yeah, all topping up their diazepam prescriptions.
     
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  3. Storck

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    and asking the two questions I’m sick of.

    have you any face masks?

    where is the hand sanitiser? What do you mean there isn’t any.
     
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    Got mine.
    I’m going to be fine - no bugs getting through this!
     
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  5. Storck

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    unless they sneeze in your eyes
     
  6. Hoochy-Min

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    I knew I knew you.
     
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    Check closely - eye zips.
     
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    It’s completely incorrect to say the annual flu is more dangerous/deadly than this. The annual flu has a death rate of 0.1% compared to around 2% for this new strain of Coronavirus. That’s still lower than SARS (10%) or MERS (30%) but the spread of this is so much more profound and seems to go from person to person so much easier than other epidemics that have been seen. So you could end up with a similar number of people infected with this as the annual flu but it will kill 20 times more people.
     
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    But the evidence is suggesting that most people who get Covid-19 will experience a mild illness, or no symptoms, they don't even realise they have it, which is a good thing amid all this hysteria.

    The way things are going, the fall out from the hysteria is going to cost us far more than the bleedin virus.
     
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  10. Storck

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    Stay safe

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    legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/129/contents/made

    fecking way over the top for a bit of flu.
     
  12. Park bantam

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    Where is that person with the entrepreneur spirit who will be outside the ground against Orient selling Claret and Amber face masks
     
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  13. Tony Wilkinson

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    Got a great deal, they are on the water now coming from China, order now 1 only per season ticket holder....
     
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    Money upfront in case you don’t survive
     
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  15. Frank Castle

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    Exactly.

    If you're under 50 and live anywhere but China you are more likely to win the Lottery than die from Coronavirus.

    It's all b0ll0cks and scaremongering.
     
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    They were making everyone use sanitary hand wash on entering Donny races on Saturday. Seemed a bit futile if you happened to observe the massive lack of post toilet visit hand washing.....

    the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well on skye. Weeks ago the bloke that runs the petrol station had cheap face masks next to the till. Clearly taken from a toolstation multipack.....
     
  17. Tennesseebantam

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    Due over in time for the Orient, PV, Macc lads games subject to travel restrictions. As it stands, no problems envisaged but as cases are reported in Europe, the tendency to want to fly from USA to Europe reduces. No big deal until airlines or god forbid, the government here stop flights to Europe. Still not overly concerned but the possibility of quarantine on arrival back in USA then arises. My Fagley upbringing says bollocks to them all, why all the panic?? As long as the flight is operating I'm coming over, see you all in 10 days!
     
  18. Idlebantam

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    Hope the tornado missed you mate
     
  19. Bronco

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    Following the Corona Virus outbreak. Yorkshire has raised the crisis level to "Put kettle on" and issued protective clothing to all Yorkshire defence volunteers!
     
  20. Dennis

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    I don't think you've grasped the potential of this new virus and why there has been such a reaction to it. Is it hysteria? Who knows but the Govt can't just sit on its hands and say I know nothng!

    Take a step back. Every year we have a flu outbreak not just in the UK but around the world. But this isn't like a flu outbreak. Most flu viruses are a mutation of a previous flu virus. The impact on us humans is reasonably well understood and at least in the UK, its impact is mitigated by a few million flu vaccines every year. Flu viruses produce a fatality rate of around 0.02% on average for those who catch it in the UK

    Covid-19 is not a flu virus. It is a new virus in us humans spread from other species of mammals which happens to have flu-like symptoms. Nobody at this stage knows how to combat this new virus with vaccines nor fully understands how it affects humans. The fatality rate so far from the new virus is around 2-3% of those who catch it. That's about 100 times the rate of deaths from flu viruses in the UK. It's certainly a much higher rate than the chances of winning the lottery. And that's why there has been such a reaction to date and why we'd better expect further changes to our daily routines just to contain the spread of covid-19.
     
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