The Covid-19 Thread

[Raid]

They need to get their fucking act together and stop mixing every animal under the sun in such close proximity.

They already have.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-c ... ?r=US&IR=T

The market where the current outbreak may have started, the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, was shuttered January 1. Wuhan authorities banned the trade of live animals at all wet markets there soon after, and China announced a temporary national ban on the buying, selling, and transportation of wild animals in markets, restaurants, and online marketplaces across the country as well.

On (Monday 24th Feb), that ban became permanent. Farms that breed and transport wildlife to wet markets were also quarantined and shut down.

[Achtung Englander]

well thank fuck for that

now its the closure of illegal pop up sweat markets and this is the one time when an authoritarian govt has its uses.

[Mantis]

Football is cancelled for the foreseeable future, lots of businesses telling their employees to work from home. It looks like the government's line of not panicking or doing anything yet and just sucking it up isn't really flying for a lot of people.

Johnson said that they estimated there could already be 10,000+ cases in the UK yesterday, yet we only have just under 500 confirmed. The more I think about it, the less I'm convinced that telling everyone to buckle up and letting potentially half a million people die just for the sake of keeping the economy going for a few extra weeks is a particularly good course of action. I'm not sure what else could really have been done though, shutting the country down early on likely wouldn't have done much to stop this thing spreading in the long term after containment in Asia failed.

[Achtung Englander]

No matter what is done to mitigate the close down now the damage has started. If govts are not careful the recession could head for a depression if companies start laying off hundreds of thousands of employees at the same time.

This is so depressing (no pun intended). My gf asked me if I was alright as I looked so deflated. I feel sorry for my 6 year old. What a time to be young !

[Animalmother]

I'm currently in the midst of the worst hay fever I've had in 6 months. I'm very paranoid about being in public as keep sniffling and no doubt look like shit. Of all the fucking times

[Achtung Englander]

Italy, Spain and UK deaths increasing. Experts say with a lock down expect deaths to level off and come down after 3 weeks.

With all borders closing around the world it feels like we are at a war status. One interesting outcome from Covid-19 - it has demonstrated just how incompetent and disjointed the EU is. Macron dreams of a Federal Europe is now a joke after this. No one will take the EU serious now.

[Animalmother]

All mass shootings in the US have been cancelled until further notice...

[Medicine Man]

[Wrathbone]

A guy from our office has self-isolated becuase his wife has coronavirus. I had a lengthy, close-range conversation with him last Thursday, so odds are strong that I'll be imminently on the plague express. Happy Monday!

[Sly Boots]

One of my wife's colleagues was sent home on Friday with a fever and cough, so there's a good chance I shall be joining you.

One thing that occurred to me the other day is how, actual zombies aside, how accurate a lot of World War Z was, for those that have read it. Things like the infection starting in rural China, profiteers selling fake cures (people have recently been arrested for this, see also Trump's attempts to gain exclusivity for a cure being developed by a German company, which the German government has blocked), etc.

[Animalmother]

I'm feeling a bit peculiar this morning, bit light headed and stuff. Fuck

[Medicine Man]

So I'm ill. I'm never ill.

Phoned in sick to work for the first time in 20 years. Chances of regaining that streak are slim to none considering the average life expectancy up here in deep fried Mars bar land.

I feel like I'm on fire after being ran over repeatedly by a double decker bus. I'm not saying it's the dreaded Covid or anything (how would I even know if we're not to pester the NHS?!), but man it does not feel good that's for sure.

[Maturin]

I had a regular winter bug a week ago which I'm just getting over, which also had a very brief fever - but I had nasal congestion and then a really runny nose to go with it, followed by a sore throat and productive cough. Which I've had loads of times over the years in winters - it just 'felt' like a typical winter bug so I don't think it was anything more than that.

I hope you guys have a speedy recovery.

[Mantis]

Someone I work with was sent home on Friday with a fever too. You'd think it would be prudent to tell everyone to work from home by this point but it's still business as usual for us. Ridiculous really when you can see photos online of almost empty London underground carriages because so many private sector office workers are being told to work remotely.

It doesn't matter anyway I guess, because if my colleague has Covid and not a regular flu then chances are a lot of us already have it because he would have been spreading it around work before he developed any symptoms.

[Wrathbone]

You'd think it would be prudent to tell everyone to work from home by this point but it's still business as usual for us.

We've been told we can work from home if we want to (there's no business impact involved with doing so), but for now they're not closing offices. It'd be much easier (and safer) and less political if they just told us all to go home, rather than being the first one to do it and get labelled as Typhoid Mary.