O/T Coronavirus Thread (4)

[great_fire]

43 million unemployed in the USA now.

These days now are going to be seen as halycon days come October, once it stops raining anyway.

[millertop]

Face masks compulsory on public transport from 15 June, bit of an "about-face."

Face covering

[great_fire]

Face covering

I'll just pop a burka on then.

[millertop]

I'll just pop a burka on then.

No problem 😉

[great_fire]

Rolls Royce cutting 100 jobs in Rotherham.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52909829

[great_fire]

Baldness may be a risk factor now.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-h...esearch-finds/

So that's obesity and baldness, as if fat bald people didn't have enough problems already.

[John2]

I read that article a few days ago. It confirms the issue with trying to make death rate comparisons at this time. It won't stop people doing it though if it serves their political purposes.

Even still, at this point its looking like we'll have the highest death toll in Europe without any real doubt.

Why? Well, the president of epidemiology at the Royal Society of Medicine thinks it was because politicians didn't listen to advice and took us into lock down too late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TGjKKexdzg

Is he making this point for political purposes? Are we allowed to listen to what he has to say, or is it "too soon"?

[great_fire]

Even still, at this point its looking like we'll have the highest death toll in Europe without any real doubt.

Why? Well, the president of epidemiology at the Royal Society of Medicine thinks it was because politicians didn't listen to advice and took us into lock down too late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TGjKKexdzg

Is he making this point for political purposes? Are we allowed to listen to what he has to say, or is it "too soon"?

Everyone's "juking the stats" so yes it is too early.

If we'd stopped flights coming in like Australia and New Zealand then fewer people would have died but I doubt you'd have been OK with that.

You'd have been screaming "racist" most likely.

[CAMiller]

Even still, at this point its looking like we'll have the highest death toll in Europe without any real doubt.

Why? Well, the president of epidemiology at the Royal Society of Medicine thinks it was because politicians didn't listen to advice and took us into lock down too late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TGjKKexdzg

Is he making this point for political purposes? Are we allowed to listen to what he has to say, or is it "too soon"?

I think we talked about this on the CV (3) thread and the fact that Washington State where I live and the UK went into lock down on about the same day despite here having the first reported case (Jan) and death (Feb) in the US that were if I remember correctly about a week before the first ones in the UK.

Our population is 7.5M with a density of 103/sq mile. Deaths currently 1,118 or 149/million.
UK population 66M with a density of 701/sq mile. Deaths currently 39,904 or 604/million.

So UK has 7x the population density but only 4x the death rate? Have they managed it better or is population density irrelevant?

[WanChaiMiller]

I think we talked about this on the CV (3) thread and the fact that Washington State where I live and the UK went into lock down on about the same day despite here having the first reported case (Jan) and death (Feb) in the US that were if I remember correctly about a week before the first ones in the UK.

Our population is 7.5M with a density of 103/sq mile. Deaths currently 1,118 or 149/million.
UK population 66M with a density of 701/sq mile. Deaths currently 39,904 or 604/million.

So UK has 7x the population density but only 4x the death rate? Have they managed it better or is population density irrelevant?

Hong Kong has 4 deaths with 8m and density of 7082. Singapore 22 deaths with 6m and density 7866.