Coronavirus - is enough being done to contain it?

(11-03-2020 18:47 )babelover48 Wrote:  what's happened to him?

I know he went to America recently.

Almost as if he stayed there and a wet lettuce doppelgänger returned in his place.

He’s a good one for calling people out as snowflakes and telling people to ‘man up’. Now here he is acting like a completely hysterical bellend. No sympathy for the soft twat. Bad enough people at large are acting like dicks by swiping all the bog roll, his doom mongering isn’t helping matters.

Go take your face for a shit Morgan... just shut the fuck up and go in the general direction of away.

Piers will be blaming Meghan Markle for it soon. He really is a horrible man

I thought he blamed her for most things

(11-03-2020 20:20 )Carl-Gen X Wrote:  He’s a good one for calling people out as snowflakes and telling people to ‘man up’.

Is this the same Piers Morgan that went into meltdown over the Greggs Vegan pasty ? He's like the biggest snowflake on TV

He got into an argument with Lisa Nandy the other day & said that he as standing up for woman's rights & she deadpan bitch slipped with a "well that would be first"

The WHO has officially declared Covid-19 a pandemic

Cases of Coronavirus in Italy have gone from 100 to 10,000 in the space of 2 wks. The Italian government have set out guidelines for Doctors to make life or death decisions: 2 patients both of which can be saved but because they are being overwhelmed they have to choose who to save, based on the most likely to survive, because they have a shortage of ventilators

President Trump has just made the first televised address to the nation on all network channels that was not related to war or a terrorist attack. He is suspending all travel including cargo with Europe for 30 days with the exception of The United Kingdom and using emergency powers & directing congress to provide $50bn in economic relief for businesses

NBA announces season suspended indefinitely

CNN's Chief Medical correspondent reporting that the US healthcare system is short 100,000 beds required for a pandemic & if hospitals find themselves overrun the National Guard will step in & form make shift hospitals out of community areas i.e exhibition centres, sports stadiums etc

Remember when all this was just being perpetrated by the media as a scare story?

The White House now having to correct Trump that cargo will still be allowed to come to the US and that American citizens & permanent residents will be able to return from Europe

wonder if the ban apart from the UK is anything to do that his golf courses here are making a loss and he needs to keep the bookings

More than likely they are massively understaffed

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Sports wise I think that will snowball further with NBA suspending the season indefinitely it can't be that long before the NHL suspends theirs and there is the baseball season to consider. Further afield, With Indian Wells being suspended I wonder if Roland Garros will be have to make a decision about the French Open soon, because I don't think players will have much opportunity to get game time in before that starts. If there is a gap in the schedule for the French to be rescheduled, that should be looked, at present I don't think the French open can go ahead. Then there is Wimbledon to consider. I think the IOC may now be possibly forced to bring forward their decision on Tokyo forward, given not only how it has exploded in Italy, but also partly because of the WHO now declaring it a pandemic. I think there is no way the Games can go ahead it should be suspended or postponed. As for this country I would have to think the National at Aintree has to go, it would be just too risky even though Cheltenham has gone ahead this week, but the amount of people there at Aintree on National day is half of what has been at Cheltenham this week. in a single day. The FA Cup final has to be suspended I think.

What we are possibly looking at now is a virus that is probably going to claim as many lives as maybe possibly SARS or the 1918 flu epidemic. I would say this could even be an apocalyptic scenario that is being played out that the world probably has dreaded for a long time.

(11-03-2020 17:56 )babelover48 Wrote:  Has the panic buying of bog rolls happened in any other country apart from here and Australia?

It happened first in Hong Kong, where an armed gang carried out a robbery to grab 600 rolls. It then spread to Japan and Singapore, before reaching Australia and then the UK.

My local Tesco is rationing instant noodles and sweetcorn now, amongst other things. I see other places are rationing pasta, rice, paracetamol and breakfast cereals.

Thy were desperate enough to even ro a shop of 600 rolls.....