Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

@nessisonett Yes I did, and yeah the person made a bad choice in taking it at all. But the leader of a nation needs to be held to a higher standard than an ordinary person. Back in high school I was in JROTC and leadership and responsibility were two highly covered topics in that program. When a person is in a position of authority, they can delegate that authority but not the responsibility. Trump can't just pawn the blame off for that. He's the one who said, on national TV and repeated across the internet that "he had a good feeling about it" and "it might be a game changer" Almost no outlets wanted to cover the actual doctors warning that that was, at best, anecdotal evidence!

And I'll tell you why I think they didn't want to cover it - because we're all terrified that Trump might throw a tantrum and fire the actual experts in the middle of the crisis because they dared to speak out!

Imagine if you were a teacher, and you "suggested" students do something and they did it and died from it. You'd be facing criminal charges and likely end up in jail. Because as a teacher, you're in a position of authority over the students. Trump is in, arguably, the highest position of authority that a mortal human can hold - leader of the so-called strongest and wealthiest nation on Earth. He owes the world a certain level of caution before he speaks because his words have a lot more power than some random school teacher!

Putin means business.

@Heavyarms55 Don’t worry, his approval rating is at an all time high, I’m sure he’ll beat the coronavirus better than anybody’s ever beaten coronavirus and then you’ll have another 4 years of madness 😉

@nessisonett [comment removed because it's overly political and this is not the time or place]

Trust me, there's plenty I want to say. But I'm not going to right now.

On day 11 of quarantine and I have started a beard. I started a podcast two years ago so that cliche is already sorted.

I would kill for a Greggs sausage roll.

Ice cream vans are still doing the rounds near my house. This is very surreal.

@Rudy_Manchego 'Ice cream vans are still doing the rounds near my house. This is very surreal.'

Jeez, this is the exact reason we won't bounce back from covid 19 in a hurry.

@Heavyarms55 4% end up needing a ventilator.

So like I posted elsewhere on the forum, I won't be posting or reading this topic anymore. Hope everyone and thier fam stays safe.

@Rudy_Manchego I'm growing a beard too, I've only ever had a 3 week clear run at it in the past and it looked like sh*t so lets see what happens. I hope everyone likes ginger, because thats the colour it seems to come through, for some reason.

@kyleforrester87 Even if I have dark hair, my beard used to turn ginger when I let it grow. Now what once was ginger is white. Forewarned is forearmed!

@themcnoisy Yeah - part of me admires their reckless, dangerous and downright bizarre optimism. The other part is horrified.

@kyleforrester87 Right now I would kill for ginger - I am getting white hairs come through a lot. I last attempted a beard about 10 years ago and I looked bad. At this stage, I look like a teenager who has discovered Nirvana for the first time.

@andreoni79 @Rudy_Manchego yeah it’s white with ginger mostly. And like 5% dark brown.

I have brown head hair so I don’t understand

@kyleforrester87 I won't ask about other hair tints but I have a friend with a ginger beard and blonde hair.

@andreoni79
Means you get to cosplay as Santa or Gandalf, worth it just for that, surely? Gandalf being the cooler option of course.

Just went to book my MOT which is about to expire. But the government said this morning that vehicles now have a 6 month exemption. Although it does say it should only be used to travel to work or purchase food.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vehicle-owners-to-be-grant...

@LaJettatura It’s like a real life Where’s Wally/Waldo at this point.

@LaJettatura I am legit scared that the Cheeto will fire the lead expert because of that very reason. In the past he has shown a marked intolerance for anyone who dares to contradict him because of science or legalities.

@LaJettatura @Heavyarms55 well here's the good thing about what Trump is doing.

I legitimately wanted loads of people to catch it over the last week. That will raise immunity for sure. The faster the spread, the worse for health care providers. But if you get lucky with either a light dose of Coronavirus or don't catch it at all - you will get to the end point sooner.

With our 80% LockDown in the uk, this will just keep the thing bubbling over a long stretch. The none essential workers, construction, bike shops, horrible business owners pretending they are essential etc. They will pass it between themselves and their families for 3-4 weeks, then when we all come out of isolation it's pretty much the same again with 80% fresh meat walking around. Trumps kinda right. The sacking of millions in America leading to suicide in mostly young men compared to running with the desease and killing mostly old men. The second option sounds more alluring when you factor in the fact proper and law abiding isolaters will be free sooner.

Problem being, it's easy to say that when no one I know has been affected yet (to the point of being tested). Theory goes out of the window when your nearest and dearest has just died of pneumonia.

@themcnoisy This isn't the chicken pox. There have been a couple reported cases of people getting sick a second time. Unless those reports were inaccurate.

As much as I do honestly despise Donald Trump, I can't say he's doing everything wrong. He isn't wrong that the economy is a major issue and he is right that there are other problems in the world that see technically larger numbers of fatalities. It's just that his response to this - as leader of the supposed most powerful and wealthy nation on Earth - has been riddled with issues and setbacks and sub-par performance that doesn't match with that esteemed position. It's not unreasonable to expect the nation that's always tooting its own horn as the best - to have the best response to this virus and it just does't. Not even close.

@themcnoisy @Heavyarms55 At the same time, around 10000 new cases were reported from the US today. Sticking Pence in charge of the response, the same man who said praying would stop AIDS, was a massive mistake and I reckon it’s generous to even say there’s a strategy. Trump will quite literally fiddle while Rome burns if it means his hotel business will come out the other end unscathed.

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@nessisonett More cases were added. We ended the day around +13,355, apparently.