(06-03-2020 14:14 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  People stockpiling bog rolls and...wait for it....beans!!

Not much thought going into this is there?!

(06-03-2020 15:25 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  

(06-03-2020 14:56 )skully Wrote:  I think it's likely that things will be worse than they need to be in the US due to the distrust of the media and experts, Faux Noise is gonna have blood on its hands if it doesn't take this more seriously, we have our media scaremongering, they have theirs being dismissive and peddling conspiracy.
They do also have the font of all knowledge telling them it's not as bad as WHO are saying and that it's more likely to be a fraction of 1%. Science...bigly

The figures vary from region to region obviously but just one to put out there for those who’d like their minds put at a little bit of ease.

South Korea - mortality rate is now down from just over 1% to less than 0.7% - standard of health care? people washing their hands? People using common sense? Whatever the reason, that’s one in the eye for the ‘sky is falling’ hysterics out there who are stockpiling bog rolls and beans

Congratulations idiots...you may or may not get coronavirus but you’ll definitely get a good dose of the shits.

(06-03-2020 20:34 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  Do we really need the ‘how to wash your hands’ nannying nonsense that has started appearing on certain websites?

Piss off. I’ve been washing my own hands for nigh on 50 years, Worked it out decades ago...Nannying pricks.

(06-03-2020 20:34 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  Do we really need the ‘how to wash your hands’ nannying nonsense that has started appearing on certain websites?

Piss off. I’ve been washing my own hands for nigh on 50 years, Worked it out decades ago...Nannying pricks.

(07-03-2020 15:12 )southsidestu Wrote:  

(06-03-2020 20:34 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  Do we really need the ‘how to wash your hands’ nannying nonsense that has started appearing on certain websites?

Piss off. I’ve been washing my own hands for nigh on 50 years, Worked it out decades ago...Nannying pricks.

You've obviously never seen men in a public toilet.

Vietnam released a handwashing video early that went, for lack of a better word, viral because it was incredibly catchy. Today in a country of 95.5 million they have just announced their 18th case. Compared with 164 in UK, population 66 million & Italy 4,600 cases population 60 million. Their ability to get the information out & early has resulted in a much more effective containment of the virus.

A lot of people down play the fact that virus "only" has a mortality rate of 3.4% and many more people die of the flu but the flu infects a lot more people. There was a statistic on CNN from The US Centre for disease control that the 2019-20 flu season will see 29m cases & 16,000 deaths that's a mortality rate of 0.05%.

Based on these statistics if the entire global population contracted the flu 3.85m less than the population of Scotland would die. If they contracted the Coronavirus 261 million or more than half the population of Europe would die.

Now whilst I agree that the panic buying of toilet paper is a ridiculous overreaction the downplaying of the virus is brought to you by the same strain of anti-intellectualism that brought us Brexit.

Why is it so hard for people to find some sort of middle ground position ? Society are large is so fucking bipolar. The Coronavirus is serious, it is the most serious global virus pandemic threat we have faced for some time and should be treated as such, which is why rather than panicking we should listen to the advice of health experts & follow their simple & concise steps to reduce the chance of infection & what to do if you think you have contracted the virus