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- Thread starter GingerBeerMan
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- Jul 10, 2003
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I reckon we could live for a month on what's in the fridge, freezers and larder easily.
The last couple of weeks may be a bit ready, steady cook (you have two strips of belly pork, some dried prunes, a can of tomato soup and half a pack of soft digestive biscuits). But still better than most 60s school dinners
Solid at the back
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You're not wrong. SK have cases exploding all over the country, they are testing hundreds of thousands.
Meanwhile, this govt has a terrible battle plan and say its unlikely that cities would be locked down and are hopeful of holding out it peaking here until the Summer!
I reckon we could live for a month on what's in the fridge, freezers and larder easily.
The last couple of weeks may be a bit ready, steady cook (you have two strips of belly pork, some dried prunes, a can of tomato soup and half a pack of soft digestive biscuits). But still better than the most 60s school dinners
Likewise but then we eat freezer left overs three times a week anyway. Just mass cook at weekends when the kids are here. I somewhat suspect it's those that can't cook that might suffer .... you know ....those that keep going out to cheap restaurants
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That isn't me, I use my pocket friend to get attention while punching all the data in on Google sheets.
So I will class you in the selfish bracket then?
The old ones are the best ones eh?
Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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More worried I won’t be able to get hold of any toilet paper, my local supermarkets completely sold out
Its no problem
1. Take random page out of newspaper
2. Pour some water on it. Not too much, it will break and make your asshole all papery, and not too little because you might cut your ass a bit.
3. Enjoy lifes free pleasures and then use the paper
Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
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Are you worried about getting Coronavirus ?
Strange thing is, an eminent Cambridge scientist on the radio tonight saying he is worried that the British public are not taking this seriously enough.
Bloody idiot, he should be listening to our NSC experts.
It’s the bloody flu FFS - “quote”
He also said that some people won’t take this seriously until a close friend or relative is impacted.
So I suppose I’ll note his comments whilst wondering how long some of us on here will be in denial that we might just have a smidgeon of a problem.
Strange thing is, an eminent Cambridge scientist on the radio tonight saying he is worried that the British public are not taking this seriously enough.
Bloody idiot, he should be listening to our NSC experts.
It’s the bloody flu FFS - “quote”
He also said that some people won’t take this seriously until a close friend or relative is impacted.
So I suppose I’ll note his comments whilst wondering how long some of us on here will be in denial that we might just have a smidgeon of a problem.
Hampster Gull
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- Dec 22, 2010
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Thanks. Was thinking it’s the old left hand trick for me but will start buying some newspapers. Can I use the Daily Mail?
- Jul 10, 2003
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Likewise but then we eat freezer left overs three times a week anyway. Just mass cook at weekends when the kids are here. I somewhat suspect it's those that can't cook that might suffer .... you know ....those that keep going out to cheap restaurants
It was Cote, not McDonald's. We were in lewes and wanted something near the Constitutional
It’s called Darwinism.
Albion Dan
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Yet in Korea there have been 5624 reported cases and only 34 deaths. Less than 1%. That is pretty encouraging to be honest. We are all just going to have to accept that this virus will become part of everyday life and viewed just like the flu. The sooner we do that the better.
studio150
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Strange the shelves were fully stocked just after 9am, and no sign of the shoppers going round at that time doing anything other than their usual shopping, assume the elderly once they arrived later in the morning just panic brought.
GT49er
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Not unduly worried. I'm retired, live alone and have a car - so I don't have to daily risk infection at the workplace, or use public transport. I might think twice about going to the gym for a while until the situation is clearer, and I'll shop in Morrison's rather than Tesco's or Asda (much less crowded). All in all, I think I've got a good chance of not catching it.
If I do, age and COPD will count against me, but neither condition is extreme, so I think I'm more likely to survive than not. It's 'only' a form of 'flu after all (although admittedly it appears to be significantly more virulent than the normal varieties) - it's not the Black Death or the Plague (and yes, I do know they were the same things).
If I do, age and COPD will count against me, but neither condition is extreme, so I think I'm more likely to survive than not. It's 'only' a form of 'flu after all (although admittedly it appears to be significantly more virulent than the normal varieties) - it's not the Black Death or the Plague (and yes, I do know they were the same things).
Algernon
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If you have an elderly neighbour remember to pop in every now and then to check how they're doing.
Because if they've succumbed to the virus then their larder is likely to be rammed with provisions. In date and free. No need to risk getting infected at the supermarket.
Because if they've succumbed to the virus then their larder is likely to be rammed with provisions. In date and free. No need to risk getting infected at the supermarket.
Nobody knows what the actual death rate currently is, or will turn out to be, because to calculate it you need to know a) the number of people infected (including those with no or mild symptoms); and b) what number of those will go on to die.
At the moment we’re starting to see b) but have no reliable estimate of what a) might be, so all assessments of the death rate are little more than wild guesses. For what it’s worth, my wild guess is that the numbers infected (with no or negligible symptoms) are much higher than current reports suggest, which means that likely death rates may well be much lower than the scary numbers being touted in the media.
At the moment we’re starting to see b) but have no reliable estimate of what a) might be, so all assessments of the death rate are little more than wild guesses. For what it’s worth, my wild guess is that the numbers infected (with no or negligible symptoms) are much higher than current reports suggest, which means that likely death rates may well be much lower than the scary numbers being touted in the media.
That assumes that
a) you know that every case has been reported
b) every death has been correctly attributed and
c) the percentage of deaths due to health implications is known statistically.
None of that is known for certain. The statistical band of 0.5% to 4% was used by the BBC.
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Every day, almost 3,700 people are killed globally in road traffic crashes involving cars, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, trucks, or pedestrians.
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index.html
Fewer than that (circa 3200) have died from coronvirus since it was discovered.
So you don't have to get in a car with me. You just have to leave your house and go for a drive, walk or cycle.
Pondicherry
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Yes the % death rate is relatively good news here and I suspect is the most accurate we have at this time based on the amount of testing the Koreans have done to identify cases. However I suspect they are identifying cases early and there is a large lag in their death rate. So of the 5624 cases you quote only 50 approx have recovered. Some of the remaining 5500 odd will die and the 0.6% figure will only go up.
And their health services are already under severe strain especially in Daegu where the hospitals are overwhelmed. They have probably had community transmission for a couple of weeks so their ability to test all suspected cases will be lost soon.