Wuhan virus 2020

[Jimbuna]

Confirmed cases pass 200,000, more than 8,000 people have died.

Schools in Scotland and Wales are to close with England decisions "imminent"

The US and Canada plan to close their border, President Trump tweets, saying trade will not be affected.

EU countries have begun turning away travellers from outside the bloc.

Share prices fall in Europe and Asia as stimulus packages fail to reassure markets.

Glastonbury festival and Eurovison Song Contest cancelled.

[Hitman]

If there's a group of gamers who can enjoy lockdown, that's subsimmers

CLOSE THE HATCH!! DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Glastonbury festival and Eurovison Song Contest cancelled.

At last some good news.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

Note: I received an alert triggered from the Subsim forum maintenance system, some of you have been going back and deleting massive number of posts in this thread. This is not allowed, the reason is if people make statements, other people respond to them - that's what a discussion is. It makes discussion incoherent when big parts of the discussion are removed later.

If you received a warning, or if you are unable to edit/delete posts, you were responsible. Please continue with your participation in the discussion but perhaps choose your words more carefully. We want to hear what you have to say. If you say it, you should own it.

Neal

I have only erased one post from this thread and I did this earlier today(after midnight)
I wrote a reply to STEED, where I in words described a funny cartoon and I also wrote that I don't know if I'm allowed to post it here.
One of them was
Toilet paper shortage alternatives
#3
The Escalator Hand-rail option.

After a couple of minutes I decided to erase it.

Markus

[Rockstar]

I've only visited New York City once in my life and I was absolutely amazed how crowded and filled with life the streets were day or night. Its looks like a ghost town now. Traffic is actually moving too.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

I've only visited New York City once in my life and I was absolutely amazed how crowded and filled with life the streets were day or night. Its looks like a ghost town now. Traffic is actually moving too.

New York has a life of it's own or a Spirit I should say that's different from any where else I have been from the hot dog carts to the street vendors to the people playing guitars to the taxi drivers to being surrounded by the tall buildings it is different.

I was driving through an alley one time and saw a long line of men and women well dressed going up a fire escape so I stopped and asked a well dressed black man, "What's going on"? and he said, "We are applying for jobs man"

Strong willed people use to adversity with something like 7 million people in a fifty mile area.

Yes New York is different

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

[...] Eurovison Song Contest cancelled.

There is a bright side

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Confirmed cases pass 200,000, more than 8,000 people have died.

As the good doctor said (John Campbell) : "Probably multiply numbers here in the UK with a factor 10 or 20." - He meant that the UK started late with testing and all that, like the US. The numbers for both are way too low, therefore, garbage quality at best.

The US is being overwhelmed already, I read. No more free ICUs within the next 14 days. In numbers the US has 48 thousand ICUs for a population of I dont know, some 300+ millions. Germany has still 28 thousand ICUs for 82 million, so the density is higher over here. But only a fifth of these are unoccupied beds in normal times, and I assume it is not much different in the US. That makes it 9600 ICUs free before the crisis began, and thta capacity already is up. In Germany its around 5500 free ICUs, and in parts that capacity also is already filled.



Here in Germany they already try to double the number of ICUs. Its just that nobody knows where the nurses and doctors and ventilators should come from, the amsks and protective gear (of which they already run terribly short right now). The world market leader for ICU ventilators of this kind sits in Germany, in my beloved city of Lübeck (we once lived 200m away from their compound), Draeger Werke, but their hand-production and hand callibration is such that the order for ten thousand units that was placed by the german govenrment (which is unusual that it is states ordeirng, normally it is just hospitals) surpasses their complete yearly production by a factor of 5. Also, they need many sub contractors delivering components, and part of those international supply chains already are severed or disrupted. And they do not have enough instructors to train staff and engineers to fine-callibrate the devices in place. You cannot just deliver them and nurses know how to run them all by temselves.



What politicians want, is one thing. What they can get when meeting reality, is something very different.

[Onkel Neal]

(If this is too political, tell me, I can move it)

Watch how Fox News has changed its tone on coronavirus
From previously downplaying risks and accusing the media of fearmongering, Fox News has taken a very different tone towards the coronavirus in recent days.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/...s-coronavirus/

Tucker Carlson being the notable exception, he got it from the beginning.

[Moonlight]

^ I'm not surprised by that news as its the Murdoch Family who owns most of it, Keith Rupert Murdoch is 89, he's probably lost any semblance of intellect he ever had, that's if the moron had any in the first place, I believe he should bow out gracefully and take one for the team (planet earth).

Any way the idiot is coming round to how dangerous this virus really is, at 89 I think the fear factor has gotten to him and self preservation is kicking in.

[Skybird]

I live in Münster, Northrhine-Westphalia. NRW is the federal state with the highest infection number and the biggest population of all 16 states. I now read that my hometown is rank 3 in NRW'S list on infection numbers. Means not many places in Germany are as toxic as this one. NRW also holds the district of Heinsberg pn rank 1, which is the most infested area in whole Germany.


I need to dig deeper. If you notice that I stopped posting, you know why.

[Eichhörnchen]

[Moonlight]

@Skybird, just because you might contract this virus does'nt mean you should stop posting on here, you can give us a daily update with all the gruesome little details for us. At least we will have all the gory information first hand from a member and then we'll know what to expect when we start dropping like flies. I'll setup a fundraiser for you for when you meet your earthly demise, its the least we can do for you.

[mapuc]

(I can't remember if I have posted this comment before)

What I fear most about this Corona virus, is that it will return somewhere in the autumn, more deadly and a lot more contagious even air born.

Markus

[Rockstar]

Nice thing about this guy he uses peer reviewed medical journals to make his points. Makes my point too that this has been spreading long before it even had a name. Look, we have the technology and we have the know how to treat patients. The death rates may increase but not so much because of the actual infection. But because health services may be so over whelmed they are unable to treat it.