Corona Virus,
Is is me or is the BBC sensationalizing this corona virus too much and creating hysteria?
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Well...here in my hospital bed they just tested me for it!
As for coronal mass ejection, isn't that something Polo gets when you talk about axes.. HA HA HA!
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Any flu you get would be a bird flu (see what I did there :) )
Ironically - you're getting a beak operation :))
Hope you're all good in there btw.
However, I actually think the Covid-19 virus is going to have huge global impact. While it probably won't cause millions of deaths like the Spanish Flu did 100 years ago, I think the rapidly evolving situation changing daily this week demonstrates that it's going to be nigh-on impossible to contain. It's kind of inevitable now that it will spread as widely as regular flu, unless everyone is confined to their homes for weeks, which isn't going to happen.
In fact, it's impact will be larger than regular flu because there is already a certain amount of immunity to that, and there are widespread winter vaccinations programs. But there is nothing to fight Covid-19, and more worryingly it seems that carriers can be infectious for 2 weeks before displaying symptoms, which is what's making it impossible to contain in today's globally-connected world. In contrast, the superficially-similar SARS virus from 18 years ago typically only got spread by people starting showing symptoms. So that was easier to contain.
It's not going to be Armageddon, but the worldwide economic and social impacts are going to be huge, I think. Manufacturing and distribution in China have already been severely impacted and that's going to continue and multiply all over the world. Not to mention the effect on travel.
This is only going to get a lot worse before it get better...
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I knew i should not have gone killing in that fish market!!!
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They are saying about 80 percent of people who do get infected will only receive a mild dose of it.
Spanish Flu in spite of the name actually started in France, but due to Spain being neutral in the first world war, there were not the same reporting restriction as with other countries, so there was more talk about how it affected people there. The main problem was thousands of soldiers many of whom had been exposed to chemical warfare in the first world war where being treated at an army hospital in France, thousands were passing through it every day. Food was being sourced locally from a piggery nearby and that is where that flu pandemic started.
Man - that car at 2.25 just straight in.
I honestly don't remember it being that bad! I suppose it's water off a ducks back when you're 12/13...then again I can barely remember last week.
I've had my nose done and a lower face lift. Surgeon 'set aboot me' yesterday. I've have survived but my face is a swollen mess with a giant bandage around it reminiscent of dentist scenes in silent movies. Hello and good day. I thank you.
Never actuslly got tested for CORVID flu...was just a blood thinner inj.
That was the no news.
Back to the ... other thread.
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oh I see...
he he.. ADRIANNNNN!
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I bet you looked awesome before the surgery! :D
Glad to hear from you so soon afterwards - but don't forget to get some downtime.
Only advice I can offer is to stay away from here for a while. We're all so funny you'll bust your face open.
I think we have tendency to filter out things that might be too alarming to fully digest in one go. I vaguely remember the morning of that storm, TV am and Anne Diamond were trying to put a cheery face on it and saying things are not quite normal today, and I thought it was the usual TV am hick-ups, then she said in a rather understated manner, such and such pier has just been blown into the sea!!! Then it went over to Nicolas Witchell reporting about it, I was going to ignore the news and go on getting ready for school, but was like hang on something's up today, he looks like he's in some makeshift newsroom.
I was refering to it back in the eighties, seemed to be a bit more serious then, and of course the clip was about the worst storm to hit the UK in decades so it was a fairly dramatic day news wise, but I still felt they just reported it as it was across the country.
Not sure what you mean, of course things have changed, but I was making a point about how the news was when something serious happened in the 80s - that is to say I think things have changed in the way news is reported.