edit - although I guess there could be some sort of social science at play here. I guess people may be less resentful of it happening if they feel like they are partly choosing it as opposed to being forced.

Yeah I think this is what they're going for, it's like "you have a bit of a choice" so if you want to "risk" going to see your friend or whatever it's on you, which like WOULD be fine but it's not the time to give choices, suggestions and advice is not gonna work because you give someone that little bit of "freedom" and because pubs etc. are open I think people are gonna go "it must be fine" so still go to places like that.

 

If the public voted for Brexit and kept the Tories in power, they are gonna do the wrong thing here too :lol:

NEW: The UK only realised "in the last few days" that attempts to "mitigate" the coronavirus pandemic would not work, and that it needed to shift to a strategy to "suppress", according to a report by a team of experts who have been advising the government.

The Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team has been advising SAGE

It found from new data that mitigation would "likely result in hundreds of thousands of deaths and health systems (most notably intensive care units) being overwhelmed many times over"

Revised modelling from new NHS data and Italy showed a mitigation strategy would surpass NHS emergency surge capacity by as much as eight times, leading to 250,000 deaths in Britain

 

"In the UK, this conclusion has only been reached in the last few days"

 

"We were expecting herd immunity to build. We now realise it’s not possible to cope with that," said Professor Azra Ghani, chair of infectious diseases epidemiology at Imperial.

 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/corona...strategy-deaths

 

I know it is not fair to criticise a Government DURING a crisis, but my god are there going to be some repercussions come the summer.

I’m not a medical scientist by any stretch of the imagination but that just seems like a massive “no shit Sherlock”. Seriously questioning the “experts” on this panel advising the government if they’ve got only just realised that the UKs inaction will kill a shit load of people

The whole situation around the virus has made me quite sad. In part due to people's attitudes and that we're likely looking at another shit decade economically, with slashing interest rates and quantitative easing happening once again. It'll likely cause further wealth inequality, further inflate the housing bubble and keep interest rates low - thereby discentivising saving and creating a lot more debt. Perhaps another lost decade incoming - just when I thought things were starting to get better (minus brexit).

 

One issue with the outbreak is that its timing means we'll likely be having to deal with it until a fairly effective vaccine becomes readily available. It'll likely come back during the 2020-2021 winter season, similar to seasonal flu.

 

 

I’ve got to train out our working from home contingency plan tomorrow and I genuinely think come the end of the week that’s what we will be doing. The trouble is the company have selected only a handful of people to be given work laptops and the rest are sat around panicking thinking they’re going to be sent home without pay. This is frightening shit tbh

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On par with Ireland closing pubs, Berlin shutting clubs and the non-Berlin bits of Germany both shutting churches and allowing Sunday shopping..... the Dutch are hamstering weed

Boris probably wants the poor and vulnerable dead really. He doesn't care about a single human being.

That's unfair. He does care about a single human being but it stops at that one - Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

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☝️ Good thread explaining the new EU external border closures being proposed for ASAP implementation

 

Applies to all EU and Schengen states with the exception of UK/IE unless they opt to align the CTA with the restrictions.

Does a hair cut count as essential contact because I’ll have a mop on my head in 12 weeks time otherwise

I'm gonna try to get a haircut tomorrow in case it's my last chance!

Actor Tom Hanks has been released from a Gold Coast hospital after being quarantined with coronavirus,

Yeah I think this is what they're going for, it's like "you have a bit of a choice" so if you want to "risk" going to see your friend or whatever it's on you, which like WOULD be fine but it's not the time to give choices, suggestions and advice is not gonna work because you give someone that little bit of "freedom" and because pubs etc. are open I think people are gonna go "it must be fine" so still go to places like that.

 

If the public voted for Brexit and kept the Tories in power, they are gonna do the wrong thing here too :lol:

I’m still not sure. So many businesses are going to go under at this rate, they will have no income as people avoid them for fear of catching it... and presumably whilst there is no enforced closure they won’t be eligible to claim on insurance. I’m leaning towards it being the government siding with the banks and insurance companies yet again at the expense of so many hard working people.

The horror stories I'm hearing from my work is unreal tbh. One of my friends that I worked with in Aberdeen, who is now a branch manager, had one of her staff come back from a holiday in Italy recently and she's made him stay at work because they're short-staffed and the busiest branch in the UK at the moment :')

 

I've also had a runny nose and a sore head all day today and my manager doesn't seem to give a shit.

The whole situation around the virus has made me quite sad. In part due to people's attitudes and that we're likely looking at another shit decade economically, with slashing interest rates and quantitative easing happening once again. It'll likely cause further wealth inequality, further inflate the housing bubble and keep interest rates low - thereby discentivising saving and creating a lot more debt. Perhaps another lost decade incoming - just when I thought things were starting to get better (minus brexit).

 

One issue with the outbreak is that its timing means we'll likely be having to deal with it until a fairly effective vaccine becomes readily available. It'll likely come back during the 2020-2021 winter season, similar to seasonal flu.

ive been mulling over this and I think it might be the same for the US. Supposedly the Federal Reserve is cutting interest rates to near zero, so things are already worse than 2008 economically. Service workers, especially restaurant workers, will get hit the hardest: closed restaurants, no service, no cash flow, no money to pay rent. Thousands, if not millions, will be drowning in more debt, and the government isn’t doing much about it other than taking care of the stocks.

 

That said the last time we had a recession Obama got elected so :magic:

I’m in New Zealand and while everything is perfectly normal here my fear is I’m going to be trapped here, my flight back is not for 13 days and I cannot get through to anyone to change my flights.. and it probably doesn’t help I’m nowhere near an international airport. First time I’m a bit panicky as I’ve got make a big choice today whether to risk it or find a flight back!

I’m in New Zealand and while everything is perfectly normal here my fear is I’m going to be trapped here, my flight back is not for 13 days and I cannot get through to anyone to change my flights.. and it probably doesn’t help I’m nowhere near an international airport. First time I’m a bit panicky as I’ve got make a big choice today whether to risk it or find a flight back!

 

Fuuuuuuuck

First human trial for a vaccine is underway in the US.

 

WHO are now advocating that we protect the young as well as elderly. So schools surely need to close, like NOW? I am so nervous about going into work and the children themselves are terrified too.

Love to see how supportive MP's are in this time of need!

 

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Love to see how supportive MP's are in this time of need!

 

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Crazy to see at this time, and she's not even deleted the tweet. It's insane.

 

We have crisis talks at my work today at 11.30am. We're an event company that specialises in meetings and conferences so our cancellations are totalling in the thousands now.

 

This is so serious and to see people being so nonchalant about it is making me want to scream!

My holiday to Benidorm this Friday got cancelled. They gave me the option of postponing the holiday, flying to Marrakech instead of a full refund

 

Did you see the Brits on twitter in Benidorm yday?

I’m in New Zealand and while everything is perfectly normal here my fear is I’m going to be trapped here, my flight back is not for 13 days and I cannot get through to anyone to change my flights.. and it probably doesn’t help I’m nowhere near an international airport. First time I’m a bit panicky as I’ve got make a big choice today whether to risk it or find a flight back!

 

Are you on holidays or seeing family? Would you consider coming home early? Maybe contact the consulate?