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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Mantis » Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:51 pm

Details surrounding the 21 year old who supposedly died from it despite having no other health conditions are a little controversial at the moment. Seems there's a lot of misinformation about it and some of the latest news emerging about it are that she wasn't infected with Covid-19. Of course there's also a chance that she was but just wasn't tested. Either way I wouldn't take it as a given at the moment that she was a victim of it.

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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Sly Boots » Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:53 pm

Mantis wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:51 pm
Details surrounding the 21 year old who supposedly died from it despite having no other health conditions are a little controversial at the moment. Seems there's a lot of misinformation about it and some of the latest news emerging about it are that she wasn't infected with Covid-19. Of course there's also a chance that she was but just wasn't tested. Either way I wouldn't take it as a given at the moment that she was a victim of it.
Yeah, I saw that. Basically the coroner saw she had some of the symptoms and (without tests) announced that was the cause of death, which surprised the hospital where she was being treated as that wasn't in their thinking at all.

Apparently her family have had to delete social media accounts after getting abuse from people accusing them of spreading misinformation, because bascially people are shit.

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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Achtung Englander » Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:59 pm

I think it is...so there
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by The Jackal » Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:00 pm

arqueturus wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:41 pm
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this is literally like being in a situation with a loose sniper who randomly shoots to kill
It's really not.
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Alan » Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:30 pm

Sly Boots wrote:
Sat Mar 28, 2020 6:53 pm
Apparently her family have had to delete social media accounts after getting abuse from people accusing them of spreading misinformation, because bascially people are shit.
Wow. Some people deserve the virus.
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Snowy » Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:10 am

What fucking cunts. Pouring abuse on a family mourning the loss of their 21 year old daughter. The seventh circle of hell, right underneath Judas Escariot's mouldering arsehole, that's where they belong.
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by eny » Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:25 am

Idiots are slashing ambulance tyres, and abusing and spitting on bin men. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Who'd be a binman in all this? Every bin could have CV... ](*,)
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Hatredsheart » Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:14 am

eny wrote:
Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:25 am
Idiots are slashing ambulance tyres, and abusing and spitting on bin men. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Who'd be a binman in all this? Every bin could have CV... ](*,)
And they'll be among the first up in arms if binmen quit and rotting rubbish is piling up outside their houses...cretins.
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Achtung Englander » Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:19 am

eny wrote:
Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:25 am
Idiots are slashing ambulance tyres, and abusing and spitting on bin men. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Who'd be a binman in all this? Every bin could have CV... ](*,)
where did you read this ?
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Snowy » Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:10 am

Just copied from the Guardian's Corona news feed:
A man has been arrested after deliberately coughing in the face of a paramedic, police have said.

The ambulance service was called just before 11pm on Saturday to a man in Stroud, Gloucestershire, who was feeling unwell.

A spokeswoman for Gloucestershire Police said:

They attended an address where another man who was self-isolating allegedly deliberately coughed in the face of one of the paramedics.

The man, a 43-year-old, was arrested, charged and remanded for assaulting an emergency worker by way of coughing and threatening GBH by infecting with Covid-19.

His arrest follows a spate of similar incidents since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by eny » Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:19 am

Achtung Englander wrote:
Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:19 am
eny wrote:
Sun Mar 29, 2020 9:25 am
Idiots are slashing ambulance tyres, and abusing and spitting on bin men. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Who'd be a binman in all this? Every bin could have CV... ](*,)
where did you read this ?

The ambulance service involved thanked ATS for replacing the tires for free, the spitting and binmen thing I gathered from the news. The "every bin" comment is my own extrapolation...
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Drarok » Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:36 am

I don't understand why people are attacking ambulances and doctors' and nurses' parked cars. What the fuck are they hoping to achieve?

Absolute pieces of shit.
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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Raid » Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:37 pm

The only rationalisation I can come up with is that they're hoping to get into the news.

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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Wrathbone » Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:52 pm

There will be many people who can't get the proper treatment they need, some of whom will die as a result, and some of those will have dickhead family members who lash out at the NHS violently because they can't reconcile the fact that this situation is beyond the NHS's capacity, no matter what they do. That's the best explanation I can come up with.

Either that or they're just mindless arseholes. Humanity's worst never fail to float to the surface.

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Re: The Covid-19 thread

Post by Mantis » Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:10 pm

Remember, there's no such thing as society. It doesn't surprise me that forty plus years of single minded individualism combined with a growing underclass of people stuck in permanent poverty leads to people like that who simply don't give a shit and feel there's something to gain from causing trouble.

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