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? 

7 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Yep, just moaning.

The evidence was presented. Made sense. Just get on with it.

Well Jeremy Hunt has just been on the wireless questioning (sorry moaning) it

15 minutes ago, bwfcfan5 said:

The argument is that nobody can stop it. And no country has. Everyone is trying to slow it. But peak is likely 10 weeks away or more here. If you closed schools now they’d need to be closed for 16 weeks to make any sense of doing so.

16 weeks. How’s that gonna work? What about nurses and doctors with kids? It’s a reasonable argument. 

Look at Thailand, Taiwan 

6 minutes ago, bwfcfan5 said:

I mean public trust is over beyond any political point scoring. I think what they say makes sense. But if bodies pile up more here than elsewhere then it won’t matter what experts we used. Just the way it is. I think we are getting it right. Experts aren’t dressing anything up. Which is good.

Overall death rate is 1% or below they say.

Death rate isn't the issue. Hospitalisation is what is starting to cripple entire countries.

1 minute ago, mickbrown said:

Look at Thailand, Taiwan 

What’s the community transmission in those countries? That’s what experts are looking at not the official testing numbers. Like here we have 10,000 cases maybe and not a few hundred. 

Just now, Cheese said:

Death rate isn't the issue. Hospitalisation is what is starting to cripple entire countries.

Yep agree. Was just pointing out that our CMO is confident in that number to say it.

4 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

Well Jeremy Hunt has just been on the wireless questioning (sorry moaning) it

Some one made a valid point on radio five that if we did what Ireland did before we needed to, the initial enthusiasm would wane and folk would get bored and start do their own thing, probably around the time we need to be at our most vigilant

Nothing wrong with waiting to see what happens

There's no way a Chinese like lock down would happen here anyway

1 minute ago, ZicoKelly said:

Some one made a valid point on radio five that if we did what Ireland did before we needed to, the initial enthusiasm would wane and folk would get bored and start do their own thing, probably around the time we need to be at our most vigilant

Nothing wrong with waiting to see what happens

There's no way a Chinese like lock down would happen here anyway

Well it’ll be an interesting comparison between us and the paddies

We’ve just now gone to formal rota systems at work at our contact and customer service centers with everyone being given laptops who didn’t have them and remote access For  the office based Staff And they are now to work at home 3 days a week and 2 days in. Our main building usually has 1500 people in each day and that’s down to probably 300 now a day with rest at home  there are some processes that they evidently need to be in the office for

all my meetings in main sites are cancelled eand we are to use Skype where possible. Im to limit client visits also and only travel anywhere when essential. 

Just now, mickbrown said:

Well it’ll be an interesting comparison between us and the paddies

What's more interesting is will northern Ireland will do, follow the uk lead, or do the same as the one country they share a border with

Our office is less than half empty now. No meetings with external customers, internal meetings moved to Skype only, no movement between offices either.

I work from home anyway so doesn't effect me but are the roads quieter in rush hour yet?

For what it’s worth, Boris has been excellent thus far.

Hes front and centre, being calm.

Happy with that.

1 minute ago, Spider said:

For what it’s worth, Boris has been excellent thus far.

Hes front and centre, being calm.

Happy with that.

Correct. Displaying good leadership here and is communicating well. There will be the usual haters (as we’ve seen already on here but some things never change). 

11 minutes ago, bwfcfan5 said:

Yep agree. Was just pointing out that our CMO is confident in that number to say it.

Ah, ok. It's just that I keep hearing people say things like "Normal Flu kills more than this one!" in order to back up their claims that there's a massive over-reaction going on.

31 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

Our, not are resident.....sorry to be pedantic....now smile 😊

Got me before I could correct it. Fucker😀

Just read an interesting link re Wuhan and the number of people from that region who live in Italy, many returning after the Chinese New Year.

Kind of makes sense with the correlation in cases, plus certain governments not giving a fuck as some folk would often say.

3 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

Got me before I could correct it. Fucker😀

Always said you were a slow old bastard 😂👍

50 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

Just out of interest, who would folk on here say have the best medical people going ?

Wanderers fans probably need to thank BWFCFan5 for undoubtedly advising the PM at the COBRA meeting which decided the games this weekend will go ahead as normal.

1 minute ago, Escobarp said:

Correct. Displaying good leadership here and is communicating well. There will be the usual haters (as we’ve seen already on here but some things never change). 

Communicating well is irrelevant if you're communicating the wrong thing. Doctors on the frontline aren't happy at all, so either he's ignoring them, his advisors are ignoring them, or he's ignoring his advisors.

2 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Wanderers fans probably need to thank BWFCFan5 for undoubtedly advising the PM at the COBRA meeting which decided the games this weekend will go ahead as normal.

In reality though, fan5 doesn't know his AM from PM 😉

Just now, Cheese said:

Communicating well is irrelevant if you're communicating the wrong thing. Doctors on the frontline aren't happy at all, so either he's ignoring them, his advisors are ignoring them, or he's ignoring his advisors.

I think we’ll see this level out in a couple of days.

Obviously save this as a massive cuntstruck post when we’re all near death, but I’m happy with my assumption that it’s not going to be as bad as they reckon.

Boris was flanked by two health experts who explained the reasoning in great detail. The BBC health bod on the One Show just explained it again using drawings (graphs) for those unable or unwilling to grasp what the government is trying to do. Just because other countries do things differently and not always consistently, doesn’t mean that they are right and we are wrong.

Cleared out my car before I sell her tomorrow, found two bottles of sanitiser.

Aloe Vera and Citrus fruits.

Bidding starts at £50 each I am also willing to listen to offers on trades, dependant on what you’ve got to trade. 

No Time wasters. No scousers. 

1 minute ago, Spider said:

I think we’ll see this level out in a couple of days.

Obviously save this as a massive cuntstruck post when we’re all near death, but I’m happy with my assumption that it’s not going to be as bad as they reckon.

Hopefully.

36 minutes ago, miamiwhite said:

No worries fella, was just trying to gauge if folk from different industries and occupations have seen different reactions to the outbreak.

Was on a conference call this afternoon. Looks like the company are about to tell folk to not visit hospitals until further notice to see customers. Looks like that is the advice across medical devices, pharmaceutical and woundcare industries. Word is that hospitals will ask companies to only visit if urgent advice is needed that can’t be done over the phone. My rep up in Scotland was in a meeting yesterday at the QE Hospital in Glasgow and a senior bod walked in and said that no more departmental staff meetings to take place until further notice. Rep in Ireland unable to enter Cork Hospital. Hence, we look like we’ll take our sales force off the road for now

Just read a list of what European countries are doing. Ours just said, telling folk with a cough to stay at home for seven days.