Slow news day? The real deal? End of the world? 
 

They’re saying it probably came from an animal, has Somebody been shagging monkeys again? 

And once schools jump on the bandwagon, therell be another reason not to turn up

Anyway, im off back to football

Enjoy the panic and hysteria

This is just filling the brexit void

16 minutes ago, Casino said:

Because they fancy a couple of weeks off, instead of turning up for 9 quid an houri n a freezing cold factory

Can't blame them...

19 minutes ago, Casino said:

And once schools jump on the bandwagon, therell be another reason not to turn up

https://ukscn.org/
When exam results start to suffer, they’ll blame the government. It’s always the governments fault. 
When students grow up they’ll realise (most of them) that they were misled and that the real world isn’t ideological after all. C’est la vie. 

Folk using this virus to skip work are low down the list of concerns I’d imagine.

Besides, most employees have better integrity than that. If someone is only earning £9 an hour I doubt it’s critical if they make it in or not in the grand scheme of things 

I would be more afraid of us having to build a hospital from scratch in a week, it takes us 30 years to build another runway in London ffs 

5 minutes ago, birch-chorley said:

 

Besides, most employees have better integrity than that. If someone is only earning £9 an hour I doubt it’s critical if they make it in or not in the grand scheme of things

Neither are fucking tea bags

4 minutes ago, Casino said:

Neither are fucking tea bags

Your quite right, it’s only Tea, stay at home rather than risk killing someone, just to be a hero that goes into work in all weather 

Very few professions are really critical are they, the Health Service the obvious exception 

1 hour ago, birch-chorley said:

Folk using this virus to skip work are low down the list of concerns I’d imagine.

Besides, most employees have better integrity than that. If someone is only earning £9 an hour I doubt it’s critical  

I've lost plenty on my pension fund this week. I knew what what was going to happen on Sunday with Italy. It took 3 working days to clear into a cash fund. Absolute joke. 

 

The virus I ain't worried about but people being absolute weapons and clearing shelves is the worry! 

Edited February 29, 20206 yr by stevieb

1 hour ago, birch-chorley said:

Your quite right, it’s only Tea, stay at home rather than risk killing someone, just to be a hero that goes into work in all weather 

Very few professions are really critical are they, the Health Service the obvious exception 

All things considered, you're probably right. Don't want folk scrounging, but equally, if any doubt, just keep away.

2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

All things considered, you're probably right. Don't want folk scrounging, but equally, if any doubt, just keep away.

Trouble as I see it is...that’s sensible.....but once this thing is out there and given the Surrey case it probably already is, anyone with cold symptoms would need to take two weeks off to be sure. You’re not going to be able to test everyone with symptoms. So, get a cough....two weeks plus at home in isolation. Will stop it spreading. But you might just have a normal cold. 80% of cases can’t be distinguished by severity or symptoms.

8 hours ago, bwfcfan5 said:

Trouble as I see it is...that’s sensible.....but once this thing is out there and given the Surrey case it probably already is, anyone with cold symptoms would need to take two weeks off to be sure. You’re not going to be able to test everyone with symptoms. So, get a cough....two weeks plus at home in isolation. Will stop it spreading. But you might just have a normal cold. 80% of cases can’t be distinguished by severity or symptoms.

Had a segment on the news the other day showing these drive through testing areas that PHE were setting up, simple swab without you needing to get out of your car 

The big decision that the government have (all governments) is economy v Health service 

Do they lock things down, cancel football matches, lock down schools that get infected, work places etc in order to reduce the speed of spread and flow of patients into hospitals 

Or try to protect the economy with a business as usual policy that risks spreading the virus quickly and overrunning the health service (killing more people no doubt) 

It would be a brave government that backs the Economy over the health service and tens of thousands of lives 

Edited March 1, 20206 yr by birch-chorley

3 hours ago, birch-chorley said:

Had a segment on the news the other day showing these drive through testing areas that PHE were setting up, simple swab without you needing to get out of your car 

The big decision that the government have (all governments) is economy v Health service 

Do they lock things down, cancel football matches, lock down schools that get infected, work places etc in order to reduce the speed of spread and flow of patients into hospitals 

Or try to protect the economy with a business as usual policy that risks spreading the virus quickly and overrunning the health service (killing more people no doubt) 

It would be a brave government that backs the Economy over the health service and tens of thousands of lives 

Drive throughs are good now because any risk can be tested. The worry is that there is some suggestions in Japan that throat swans are only about 70% reliable fo this virus.

But if this thing breaks out in the UK are you suggesting everyone with a cough or potential symptoms - millions of people in any one day will rock up at a drive through? Can’t see that working. 

12 hours ago, bwfcfan5 said:

Trouble as I see it is...that’s sensible.....but once this thing is out there and given the Surrey case it probably already is, anyone with cold symptoms would need to take two weeks off to be sure. You’re not going to be able to test everyone with symptoms. So, get a cough....two weeks plus at home in isolation. Will stop it spreading. But you might just have a normal cold. 80% of cases can’t be distinguished by severity or symptoms.

Always a risk of folk over egging it, but surely if there's no fever, there's an indication you're more than likely to have a cold.

Plenty of information, and 111 service to get qualification of whether symptoms are characteristic of coronavirus or not.

22 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Always a risk of folk over egging it, but surely if there's no fever, there's an indication you're more than likely to have a cold.

Plenty of information, and 111 service to get qualification of whether symptoms are characteristic of coronavirus or not.

Again the early disease seems to present as a mild fever but not always. You’re going to struggle to distinguish. I’d say basically impossible. You can have a slight fever with a cold.

If you really want to stop it then anyone showing symptoms should isolate. If we are in full blown breakout that probably means an automatic two week isolation. If you really want to slow it.

Ringing 111 means nowt if someone is looking for a couple of weeks on the sofa watching telly.

Ring up work and say you have all the symptoms and job done.

A big spread could utterly fuck the economy.

 

Confirmed case in Bury.

I feel a bit chesty.....

19 minutes ago, Spider said:

Confirmed case in Bury.

I feel a bit chesty.....

I thought Casino was quiet for once 💣

5 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

I thought Casino was quiet for once 💣

He’d need that, EBOLA, Swine flu and SARS to stop him from posting 

6 minutes ago, royal white said:

He’d need that, EBOLA, Swine flu and SARS to stop him from posting 

He'd still post....probably sleeping his hangover off...he'll be back by Tuesday...

My mate just said the ones still on board ship are locked in individual cabins now that the paying passengers have gone.

I questioned the "locked in" bit and he said the doors aren't actually locked but Japanese police are patrolling and will arrest anyone for breaking their quarantine.

Has our very own Louis Pasteur, fanny5 no found a cure yet?? Can’t be far away surely 

1 minute ago, MickyD said:

My mate just said the ones still on board ship are locked in individual cabins now that the paying passengers have gone.

I questioned the "locked in" bit and he said the doors aren't actually locked but Japanese police are patrolling and will arrest anyone for breaking their quarantine.

So they will arrest them and take them off the ship. Am I missing something?

39 minutes ago, freds dad said:

So they will arrest them and take them off the ship. Am I missing something?

I asked the same. Perhaps they'll lock the door

 

51 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Has our very own Louis Pasteur, fanny5 no found a cure yet?? Can’t be far away surely 

Negotiating the best terms with all parties

4 hours ago, Spider said:

Ringing 111 means nowt if someone is looking for a couple of weeks on the sofa watching telly.

Ring up work and say you have all the symptoms and job done.

A big spread could utterly fuck the economy.

 

111 is a joke. I heard they were putting more people into it, but that might just mitigate the inadequate numbers in it currently.