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Title: Coronavirus
Post by: Varche on 23 January 2020, 13:10:31
Hats off to the Chinese for their lockdown.

I thought the technology that showed the temperature of individuals in a crowd was impressive.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 23 January 2020, 13:41:33
Three different Chinese airlines currently have aircraft at Gatwick... be interesting to see if they leave or not :-\
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Post by: Rangie on 23 January 2020, 14:04:13
After watching the news at lunch, it was indecisive on a total lockdown , surely any decision is better than no decision ? Someone needs to grow a set..
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 23 January 2020, 15:46:39
Four people in Scotland being tested for it.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Rods2 on 24 January 2020, 01:50:13
Four people in Scotland being tested for it.

Unlike England, they still haven't eliminated mad cow disease in Scotland, just watch any Wee Krankie video. ::)
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: BazaJT on 25 January 2020, 07:27:32
On the news this morning it showed footage from Wuhan where the diggers were preparing the ground for the building of a new 1,000 bed hospital which they said would be up and ready within days :o
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 25 January 2020, 09:53:06
That fact is much more scary for the west than any virus they might export.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Varche on 25 January 2020, 10:07:02
56 million in lockdown

Public transport stopped in 18 cities

3 cases in France.

That is some undertaking to build a thousand bed hospital in a week and another 1300  one in a further two weeks.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: STEMO on 25 January 2020, 12:56:07
On the news this morning it showed footage from Wuhan where the diggers were preparing the ground for the building of a new 1,000 bed hospital which they said would be up and ready within days :o
Yep, 10 days to be exact. A hospital over here would be three years in planning and procurement alone.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: ronnyd on 25 January 2020, 18:10:39
On the news this morning it showed footage from Wuhan where the diggers were preparing the ground for the building of a new 1,000 bed hospital which they said would be up and ready within days :o
Yep, 10 days to be exact. A hospital over here would be three years in planning and procurement alone.
Don,t think they have many NIMBY,s in China. As the 7 gorges dam project bears out.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Rods2 on 26 January 2020, 00:26:45
Up in London today & it's Lunar new year so London China town is packed with relatives & visitors. WHO have tested human-to-human infection rates at 3.8% +/-0.2%. This translates into a contained infection rate if 72-75% of infected people don't pass it on to a 2nd person, if they do we are into pandemic territory. :o :o :o   Simple to do the maths from this, where we are an open borders, travel freedom sh*t street. So, I will see you all on the other side & I'm grabbing 1 of the hotter seats in hell where I don't like the cold. :P

If Lord Opti & Uncle STEMO fall off their perches it is much more likely to be from their very, very old ages, rather than any illness. :P :P :P
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Viral_Jim on 26 January 2020, 11:04:00
Hats off to the Chinese for their lockdown.

I thought the technology that showed the temperature of individuals in a crowd was impressive.

Makes me wonder if they knew something was afoot a while ago. I (and every other arriving passenger/crew member) was scanned for increased body temperature when I flew out to Shanghai on 04/01/20.

I suppose it could now be standard practice at all PRC airports, I don't remember it when I was last out there in 2017.  :-\
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Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 26 January 2020, 14:01:24
It's weird seeing those pictures and videos of deserted streets, with nobody out and about and all the shops with their shutters down....  :(  :-\
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Post by: STEMO on 26 January 2020, 15:23:10
It's weird seeing those pictures and videos of deserted streets, with nobody out and about and all the shops with their shutters down....  :(  :-\
Any town centre looks like that on a Sunday.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 26 January 2020, 16:36:33
It's weird seeing those pictures and videos of deserted streets, with nobody out and about and all the shops with their shutters down....  :(  :-\
Any town centre looks like that on a Sunday.

Not in China.  ;)
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: STEMO on 26 January 2020, 16:47:50
It's weird seeing those pictures and videos of deserted streets, with nobody out and about and all the shops with their shutters down....  :(  :-\
Any town centre looks like that on a Sunday.

Not in China.  ;)
Especially in China this Sunday.  ;D
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 26 January 2020, 18:29:49
On the news this morning it showed footage from Wuhan where the diggers were preparing the ground for the building of a new 1,000 bed hospital which they said would be up and ready within days :o
Yep, 10 days to be exact. A hospital over here would be three years in planning and procurement alone.

Yes, when you have 1.4 billion people to call on it is so possible.

The previously mentioned news report on the mechanical diggers at work shows how they can do it. Dozens of them each covering,I reckon a piece of land about 20 feet across, digging away like a swarm of ants.  Very impressive! 8) 8) :y
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Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 26 January 2020, 18:38:04
I wonder who and what was on that land before the diggers turned up?  ::)
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Post by: STEMO on 26 January 2020, 18:40:16
I wonder who and what was on that land before the diggers turned up?  ::)
Just a few peasants shops and an apartment block  ;D
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 26 January 2020, 19:33:02
One thing is for sure, what the State wants from its people they get.

No planning enquiries there! ::) ::) :D ;)
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Rods2 on 26 January 2020, 21:11:08
One thing is for sure, what the State wants from its people they get.

No planning enquiries there! ::) ::) :D ;)

If you disagree with what the state is doing, your immediate living relatives are invoiced by the state for the cost of the bullet they used to resolve the issue with you. :o :o
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: STEMO on 26 January 2020, 21:20:37
One thing is for sure, what the State wants from its people they get.

No planning enquiries there! ::) ::) :D ;)

If you disagree with what the state is doing, your immediate living relatives are invoiced by the state for the cost of the bullet they used to resolve the issue with you. :o :o
No, that was Stalin.
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Rods2 on 26 January 2020, 21:32:45
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee)
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: STEMO on 26 January 2020, 21:48:31
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee)
Ok, sorry.
They learned it from Joe  ;D
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 27 January 2020, 10:43:05
Yes, even the Nazis did not offer that insult to the relatives of those murdered by the State.

They were far kinder, giving the bullets freely into the victims bodies as a parting gift from the Third Reich! Then taking their possessions in compensation for the State's inconvenience! :'( :'(
Title: Re: Coronavirus
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 27 January 2020, 12:31:23
If I do become infected by it, I will try to remember that others are infected with something even worse.
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