Corona Virus - Should we be worried?

[parsonjack]

Someone sneezed in Frome Medical Centre yesterday and the balloon went up.  Somerset Live picked up on it and suddenly we were plague central. 

Unsurprisingly the swabs were negative 🙄

[stopwn1981]

At what point does ‘too many to bother counting anymore’ come into play?

[stuie]

19 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

At what point does ‘too many to bother counting anymore’ come into play?

Do you work for The Sun?

[Quark]

Just now, stuie said:

Do you work for The Sun?

Sacked for over-sensationalising

[northernringo]

This morning's update:

A continued spike for South Korea. 139 active cases from 87 at yesterday's check. Now the most cases outside of China and the cruise ship. Japan also up 13 active cases. Hong Kong up one and the cruise ship up 13. Taiwan up 2.

China are down around 1000 live cases (mainly due to recoveries). Vietnam had seven new recoveries yesterday and no new cases so they now just have 2 cases. Singapore down two as well to 48 cases.

Iran have announced 3 live cases. Their previously announced two cases are both sadly dead as mentioned yesterday.

In Europe, Germany have announced one more recovery and no other change elsewhere in Europe. Germany down to 3 cases now. France have the most in Europe with 7 active cases. UK still with just one.

Canada announced one new case but also two recoveries so they are down one. Same goes for USA who are down one case overall too.

Australia have one more recovered case so they only have 4 active cases now. 

Active world cases down by 885.

 

Edited February 21, 2020 by northernringo

[Matt42]

Can someone slap me and tell me to stop being silly.

Curiosity got me good and I had a little dip into the conspiracy theory side of the internet about corona virus and obviously saw a lot of very scary stuff.

Some videos and pictures from China do look very very scary though.

Edited February 21, 2020 by Matt42

[stopwn1981]

25 minutes ago, stuie said:

Do you work for The Sun?

Serious question - all these organisations including WHO are counting. At what point do they stop? 

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

 

Can someone slap me and tell me to stop being silly.

 

Don’t you get enough people doing that already on here without encouraging it ?  

[northernringo]

1 minute ago, stopwn1981 said:

Serious question - all these organisations including WHO are counting. At what point do they stop? 

I'd imagine they'd stop if it got to silly numbers, like millions.

While it is at a countable level, and still a worldwide threat, then why would they stop?

[Hugh Jass]

13 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

Can someone slap me and tell me to stop being silly.

Curiosity got me good and I had a little dip into the conspiracy theory side of the internet about corona virus and obviously saw a lot of very scary stuff.

Some videos and pictures from China do look very very scary though.

I’ll happily give you a slap...

 

 

 

 

 

(not really)

[mcshed]

9 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

Serious question - all these organisations including WHO are counting. At what point do they stop? 

Do we ever not record the reasons people die or the number of hospital admissions or Drs visits. Part of good governance is knowing what's actually going on, the news stop reporting the exact number but it's always being recorded hence why we have stats for this season's flu and the number of people falling down the stairs.

[uscore]

25 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

Serious question - all these organisations including WHO are counting. At what point do they stop? 

when there's no-one left to count...

[stopwn1981]

2 minutes ago, uscore said:

when there's no-one left to count...

Which won’t be long...

 

[stuie]

5 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

Which won’t be long...

 

 

Mate - calm the f down and pull yourself together.

[stopwn1981]

4 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Mate - calm the f down and pull yourself together.

Thread title is coronavirus - should we be worried? 

[DeadAmos]

Just now, stopwn1981 said:

Thread title is coronavirus - should we be worried? 

The simple answer is no

 

 

 

not yet anyway

[stopwn1981]

I’d say this is worrying - 6 cases and telling everyone to stay at home! The authorities are clearly worried.

 

[stuie]

5 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

Thread title is coronavirus - should we be worried? 

 

2250 deaths from a world population of 7,800,000,000 and you're talking about there being no one left to count.

Either you're trying to be sensational or you've really got yourself wound up by the sensational media?

 

 

[stopwn1981]

5 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

2250 deaths from a world population of 7,800,000,000 and you're talking about there being no one left to count.

Either you're trying to be sensational or you've really got yourself wound up by the sensational media?

 

 

Deaths will be avoided as per we’ve seen - social distancing. Point I’m making is if this turns up in your town in the next few weeks (why wouldn’t it) are we ready to just stay at home for weeks on end if instructed?

[Hugh Jass]

15 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

Deaths will be avoided as per we’ve seen - social distancing. Point I’m making is if this turns up in your town in the next few weeks (why wouldn’t it) are we ready to just stay at home for weeks on end if instructed?

I am, I’ve got a backlog of PS4 games that needs clearing.

[stuie]

17 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

Deaths will be avoided as per we’ve seen - social distancing. Point I’m making is if this turns up in your town in the next few weeks (why wouldn’t it) are we ready to just stay at home for weeks on end if instructed?

Depends.

Are Dominos, Deliveroo and Ocado drivers exempt?

[Hugh Jass]

3 minutes ago, stuie said:

Are Dominos, Deliveroo and Ocado drivers exempt?

They’ve all been deported.

[stuie]

Just now, Hugh Jass said:

They’ve all been deported.

In that case, we're all gonna die!

May as well stop counting now.

[jimmillen]

28 minutes ago, stopwn1981 said:

Deaths will be avoided as per we’ve seen - social distancing. Point I’m making is if this turns up in your town in the next few weeks (why wouldn’t it) are we ready to just stay at home for weeks on end if instructed?

[stopwn1981]

17 minutes ago, jimmillen said:

I am completely calm. It’ll be those with their heads in the sand that will panic when it happens. I’ll just sit at home and eat my 20kg of dry pasta.