O/T Coronavirus Thread

[rolymiller]

I've got it wrong silly me. Its up to 4 months not 3 months...

I think the government do have some blame to take here. No they didn't have any responsibilty for this particular virus but we have had out breaks of these bugs before and it was only a matter of time before we would get one that wasn't so easy to control a 6 year old would suspect that but no preparations have been put in place for such an outcome. Its the usual: botch up feckin Britain and its a disgrace. Always reactive and never proactive. Its the same with the environment. Flood defences start coming up when its too late. No fecker does owt about global warming...

[caytonmiller]

I've got it wrong silly me. Its up to 4 months not 3 months...

I think the government do have some blame to take here. No they didn't have any responsibilty for this particular virus but we have had out breaks of these bugs before and it was only a matter of time before we would get one that wasn't so easy to control a 6 year old would suspect that but no preparations have been put in place for such an outcome. Its the usual: botch up feckin Britain and its a disgrace. Always reactive and never proactive. Its the same with the environment. Flood defences start coming up when its too late. No fecker does owt about global warming...

How can you blame a "botched up fekin Britain". Almost every country in the world is effected and are in a lot worst state than us. You seam to have a real agenda with britain and the way it's being run. Your always looking to blame someone or something. Not everything in the world is avoidable.
FFS if Victor meldew and alf garnit had a love child I'm sure you would be number one candidate.. Sundays you do your finest work.

[rolymiller]

How can you blame a "botched up fekin Britain". Almost every country in the world is effected and are in a lot worst state than us. You seam to have a real agenda with britain and the way it's being run. Your always looking to blame someone or something. Not everything in the world is avoidable.
FFS if Victor meldew and alf garnit had a love child I'm sure you would be number one candidate.. Sundays you do your finest work.

So are you saying that the problem of pandemics is unavoidable? That we couldn't forsee this might happen? What about SARS, bird flu etc? We know the potential is there. Any chuffin decent scientist will tell you that.

No we are not the only country to be botched up . Most countries are but it is the country I live in. It is the nature of capitalism. Live for today and who gives a feck about tomorrow.

Don't you care about your grand kids fiture. What would you think if there was a new bug discovered that wipes out kids instead of old foik . You may wish to feck somebody had planned to deal with such an eventuality? I know I would.

I would hope that in somebodys noggin that someone might think this might happen one day and start thinking ahead for a change,

I think Sundays bring the worse out in your naivety... Maybe you are Frank Spencer's love child...

At the very leasr we should have a health system that is at least capable of getting some sort of grip if there was to be a pandemic. It hardly runs properly as it is. So yes there is an element of blame ....

[KerrAvon]

I've got it wrong silly me. Its up to 4 months not 3 months...

I think the government do have some blame to take here. No they didn't have any responsibilty for this particular virus but we have had out breaks of these bugs before and it was only a matter of time before we would get one that wasn't so easy to control a 6 year old would suspect that but no preparations have been put in place for such an outcome. Its the usual: botch up feckin Britain and its a disgrace. Always reactive and never proactive. Its the same with the environment. Flood defences start coming up when its too late. No fecker does owt about global warming...

The article that I linked to earlier suggest that the UK has made preparations, but I appreciate that it won’t suit your political prejudices.

What preparation would you like to have been made? A pandemic was always predictable, but the not the timing or nature of it. For Covid19, we need ventilators, but would you have thought it a good use of limited resources to have warehouses full of them getting dusty just on the off chance? I suppose we could have done, but they would have been of no value if the pandemic turned out to be a haemorrhagic fever like Ebola or a virus that killed by triggering a ‘cytokine storm’ like the 1918 Spanish Flu.


To answer a point that you made to Cayton, of course the problem of pandemic is unavoidable.