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Potential to shut down football? Surely massively populated events would have a potentially massive risk of spreading the virus?
Can see the Euros being postponed especially with so many different cities hosting them. Hopefully there’s a cure found very soon.
Should be named US Coronavirus, since it seems highly likely they have launched a bio attack on China for geo political reasons.
Bloody snowflake generation. Back in the day you couldn't consider yourself a real man unless you died from Spanish Flu, TB or Smallpox. What a bunch of pansies we have become.
China wouldn’t let that happen without doing anything or keeping quiet though. There would at least be submarines kicking about Singapore. Anyway back to football, good chance of games and tournaments being called off?Quote:
Originally Posted by scooby
Highly likely yet it's not the narrative that the West-hating Chinese are pushing? I doubt it.Quote:
Originally Posted by scooby
I think people are underestimating it to be honest. The media are classing it as "just another flu", but based on the current statistics the mortality rate is already 25 times higher, with a huge amount of people still in critical condition. And that's if we are to believe the numbers coming from the Chinese government. Their reaction to the outbreak suggests it's not to be taken lightly.
It'll have blown over and been sorted by then.
Will be a mere footnote by May.
1,000 deaths out of 40,000 cases is hardly a global disastrophe.
I’m not calling for games to be cancelled but for the reasons you’ve stated above I think there’s a real risk soon. All it will take is for the first few deaths to happen in the uk and everyone will go nuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Especially when the Jihadis get themselves infected and go about coughing at everyone on their journey to paradise 😂😂😂
I wasn't being entirely serious.Quote:
Originally Posted by 90+2
Yeah I know you weren’t, that’s why I made a joke out it, but for reasons you pointed out it’s a realistic possibility.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
There are a lot of Chinese students in Edinburgh, who won't be going home anytime soon.
Terrible situation
Blown over 😁😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
I don’t think it will be. There’s no realistic vaccination against the antibody yet. It’s usually media rubbish but it’s a lot worse than has been portrayed so far in terms of finding a cure.
Strange post. If Jihadis wanted to take people out I'm sure they'd use something more sinister than a respiratory virus that the majority of people have no more than mild symptoms.Quote:
Originally Posted by 90+2
This thing has a current mortality rate of 0.16% outside Wuhan , suggesting the vast majority of people who receive adequate medical care survive. I suspect it's current mortality rate is just due to the sheer volume of people in Wuhan impacted.
Don't get me wrong it's a concern but suggesting it's going to be weaponized is pretty odd.
See they wee smiley faces? It was kind of implying I was kidding on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
Same in York. One student has been confirmed as having the virus.Quote:
Originally Posted by KingPat4
I think it's pretty hard to draw any real conclusions about the mortality rate outside of China at the moment. Small sample size coupled with the fact that it generally takes a longish time to kill. No doubt the mortality rate will be lower in the West though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Since90+2
Why are the Jihadis goin' to Darkheid?Quote:
Originally Posted by 90+2
My My My Corona
The economic impact might end up being bigger than the damage caused by the virus. China has pretty much shut down according to a guy on the radio this morning. Only essential supermarkets allowed to open and everyone staying indoors.
If that lasts much longer then it’s unlikely the global economy can avoid recession.
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It's true. What happens in China seems increasingly to be the determining factor in the daily ups and downs of the markets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozyhibby
Normally it's trade skirmishes with the US but this is something else.
Just as well weve not left the European....Doh.Quote:
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Originally Posted by scooby
WTAF?
Was it the same elite government unit that faked the moon landings, set up 9/11 and serves our lizard overlords?
I’m starting to wonder if we’ll only get a true picture of how bad the stats are during the period of spread internationally. I felt fairly relaxed a week ago with the stats we were seeing but today I’m reading that of the 45 in Singapore hospitals with the virus, 7 of those are in a serious condition in intensive care. 15% is a pretty scary number. I know it’s a small sample size but enough to highlight how dangerous the virus can be and shouldn’t yet be dismissed as just another new flu strain. Singapore has wonderful medical facilities but it’s easy to see how even those would struggle with a much larger outbreak if 15% needed intensive care. Frightening to think how some nations around Asia and the world without the infrastructure in place to start with would manage.
Every office block and every school have temp checks at the entrance to check every individuals temp before they are allowed to enter the building. Large gatherings are advised against so a lot of these are being cancelled. Working from home and splitting staff between main office and DR site is underway. To go back to the OP point, if this was to continue spreading and doesn’t start to die off before the Euros then there is every chance the authorities would need to take action.
I wonder if people will contact the ticket office and ask to move seats? 😜Quote:
Originally Posted by SRHibs
I play golf with a group which includes doctors both retired and employed.
I asked one of the guys still working if he'd had much involvement with the Coronavirus.
He said no, but there had been loads of emails etc as you'd expect.
He went on to say that the current instruction (this was last Wednesday) was that if someone presented with what might be the virus, they were to be locked in a cupboard and public health contracted.
I laughed, but he said, "No, seriously, that's the instruction".
It's crazy because the symptoms can be as little as coughs and sniffles. It's hard enough to get folk to call the doctor when their symptoms are severe.
Mrs R lectures at York University where there's a huge Chinese community. If she so much as sneezes, I'm calling the nuclear suits!
I was over in Paris for the day yesterday for the rugby and on my retrn was surprised to see a fairly busy China Eastern flight to Shanghai boarding at CDG a few gates away from the Edinburgh flight. Irrespective of the woes back home and potential economic implications, it wasn't stopping a good number of the passengers spending the big bucks at Burberry, Gucci etc before boarding.Quote:
Originally Posted by KingPat4
Google and Apple have just closed their Chinese factories until further notice.
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I see a doctors surgery in Brighton has been closed due to this, one of the team has been found to have contracted it. (BBC news)
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Quite a few English teachers in China and Vietnam have been caught out financially, they blew the savings over the holidays expecting to be back in work by now, only to find the schools are shut for the foreseeable future.
A good reminder to always have an emergency fund.
My sons an English teacher in Shanghai, he's working from home via video link.Quote:
Originally Posted by CloudSquall
Yeah I was reading on the flip side online teachers are experiencing a big boom due to kids having to stay at home.Quote:
Originally Posted by stoneyburn hibs