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12 Mar 20
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"If you introduce restrictions too early people get bored."
I just don't buy it and nor do many other countries around the world.
In fact, I take it as an insult; a bit like a senior manager in a business who tells the staff that research shows that you don't motivate or make workers happy by paying them more.
Meanwhile, the top 10% in the business get a fat bonus specifically designed to motivate them to work harder.
Sorry, I've gone off topic a bit there but that's a pet peeve of mine.
I just don't buy it and nor do many other countries around the world.
In fact, I take it as an insult; a bit like a senior manager in a business who tells the staff that research shows that you don't motivate or make workers happy by paying them more.
Meanwhile, the top 10% in the business get a fat bonus specifically designed to motivate them to work harder.
Sorry, I've gone off topic a bit there but that's a pet peeve of mine.
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just thank the lord people with ebola,sars etc didn't get bored and go ot infecting people for a giggle,
what I don't get,cant get my head round is if commons,football clubs etc have the means ,to get people tested why are they going out of their way to sort of brag ,that their not testing players,staff,mp,s etc, makes not an iota of sense, anyone who has the means,way of getting tested and is proved at a later date he,s had it and possibly spread it should be put up against a wall and shot |
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they don't want isolation when its spreading, its after that they come save the day
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New York is suspending theatre performances on Broadway.
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Whittys Irish counterpart Tony Holohan believes the closures of schools etc now, is an important part of the strategy for ultimately protecting older and vulnerable people.
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an experiment in nudge theory on a population of 66 million - maybe it's classic dom?
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in a caring society
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lets hope their right but you,ve got to really fancy yourself to think your going to micro manage a possible 40 million patients
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"Stay at home for seven days if you have a cough or fever."
None of the journalists asked how effective this advice is in the context of the (possible) 14-day incubation period. |
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jeremy hunt, now chair of health select comittee, on c4 news now. he's surprised at approach and pointing out the countries who have done well have taken a very different approach to us.
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Btw, re my OP, I have no problem with people being well, just don't treat us like we're kids.
When I worked in a corporate environment, I noticed that there are some very astute and intelligent people in relatively junior positions. The reason they don't progress isn't necessarily because they lack ability, it's often because they don't want the responsibility or put in 15 hours per day or their face doesn't fit. |
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I don’t reckon many of the journos have quite got their heads around the idea of social distancing ... they are literally spitting their questions at politicians as they doorstep them.
And as far as the op goes there are a lot of selfish people about who won’t follow restrictions or won’t follow them for long. |
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You'll always get people like that. I bet you have people, as I write, intentionally sneezing into their mate's face in the pub, thinking it's a laugh.
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He or his buddy also said it wasn’t worth grounding flights, then said ‘too late anyway.’ Oh great..
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Too late to stop flights but too soon to do other stuff. Unbelievable.
I'm not usually one to go off on one like this because I usually seek out the opinion of people who know more than me on any given issue but as I keep saying, the experts don't seem to agree. |
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They’re talking in riddles.
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Too late to call off Cheltenham
too early to call off Aintree |
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Devastating news: Lib Dems have cancelled their spring conference in York.
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Correct. The experts don’t agree.
But some experts are more expert than others. Fingers crossed the experts influencing the decisions are the best, after all they have risen to top positions. |
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You'll always get people like that. I bet you have people, as I write, intentionally sneezing into their mate's face in the pub, thinking it's a laugh.
i believe a sportsman in america went around touching all and sundry in a locker room to show he wasnt worried about catching covid and has since tested positive. |
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I agree, RC.
What concerns me is the different view taken by the experts in so many other countries and WHO. |
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depends if your worries as a government are money,growth or peoples lives, you don't need an expert to tell you china,s lockdown has broughy some measure of control
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This 500 person restriction seems a bit simplistic.
People density should surely be more appropriate, if a little complicated. 500 people in old Trafford might be fine but 500 at Accrington Stanley a little riskier. Public places might require new safety limits as per the one person a table at restaurants. |
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Fella on ITV's good morning thinks 100,000 have it.
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worse than that the 2 amigo,s running the show aiming for this herd immunity say 60% of the population have to get it for it to work,roughly 40 million
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There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
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Poor Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are looking every day like future scapegoats.
When things get much worse and the media and people get their pitchforks out in fury, it is obvious Johnson and the Government will hide behind these Patsys, who will surely fall on their swords. They must know by now what is coming |
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It's sad, so sad (so sad)
It's a sad, sad situation And it's getting more and more absurd |
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cummings advertising for 60 million volunteers to catch it, brexiteers of course
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Perhaps everyone under 50 without serious health issues should be given coronavirus. The fatality rate at this age comes in way under 0.1% in Italy and S Korea. The UK says the difference between confirmed and actual in UK is out by a factor of 20, it's also likely to be out more in under 50's as they're unlikely to be hospitalised.
If we assume the figures for Italy and South Korea are out by a factor of 20, we get a fatality rate of under 0.005% (1 in 20,000). At this rate, exposing 40 million under 50's results in under 2,000 deaths, but once the 40 million recover the UK will have herd immunity. |
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Perhaps Johnson and his cronies should volunteer to be the first voluntary recipients of the virus.
Will need a very strong needle to penetrate Patel's @rse though |
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1.) Why is the UK the only country that has suddenly decided herd immunity is some sort of goal?
2a.) Is herd immunity even possible for this novel corona virus? We don't know much about this thing given its limited timeline. We don't have immunity to the other corona viruses since most people end up with a cold/cough/flu each year. (2b.) Corona viruses continually evolve into different strains each season, why won't this one, rendering any herd immunity to this first strain almost immediately redundant? 3.) Our rates of hospital beds and intensive care beds are embarrassingly low (pro rata Germany for example has four times as many intensive care beds, Lithuania has three times as many regular hospital beds as us, and so on...). Ambivalence to a large percentage of the population getting this, a percentage of whom dying, and a bigger percentage inevitably requiring care, even among those outside the high risk groups seems foolish. Death rates for all diseases go up in an epidemic, because the epidemic absorbs so many resources. Personally I think the goalposts are being moved because a b0llock has been well and truly dropped. |
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lets forget if we can a possible 500,000 deaths, their figures which show no idea how long it would take to infect 40 million people,show there,d be 8 million people who,d need specialist hospital treatment, of those breathing machines that are needed of as last monday the uk had 51, usa had 151,000 of the same machine, maybe farage could borrow a few of Donald
these 2 amigo,s running the show are now all in, balls deep with their theory ,with no armbands or rubber rings |
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these 2 behavioural experts,alongside loony media as I predicted this morning have now caused massive panic buying in uk,s biggest supermarkets, absolute fooooking idiots
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Boost To The Economy As Supermarket Takings Soar, reports The Torygraph .........
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sky national news showed a video of empty supermarkets in Italy saying they still had a month of isolation to go and no food in shops
what did sky,behavourial experts ,doris and super forecaster expect uk public to do on a Friday weekly shopping day, we,re been led by absolute thick cooooooooonts |
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still no couscous around here- i am devastated
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cardboard or budgie seed a decent replacement
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look at Italy on news and doris barnpots want 40 million to get this and expect 8 million to be seriously ill
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