Coronavirus: Please use this thread for all COVID19 talk!

It can be argued that man wouldn’t have got to the moon in 1969 without technologies used And developed in the war.

 

Oh great, everyone is happy with war comment.
Was hoping more for outrage........

 

And without the space race we wouldn't be able to fry an egg in a non-stick pan.

 

Olympics postponed until 2021.

 

Fair enough, serve me right for only knowing the greatest hits

 

Does anyone know what the definition of a plague actually is? When would our pandemic be considered a plague?

 

Hospitals starting to stop visitors. So.........
Everyone ready for total lockdown? Cause its here.

 

Plague is a disease that affects humans and other mammals. It is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an animal infected with plague.

 

Yep, and frankly makes the covid19 look like a nasty cold!

 

Plague is used to describe disease spread by the Yersinia pestis bacterium. Until the advent of modern antibiotics it was almost always fatal, causing death by one of 3 disorders, bubonic plague (the majority), but also septicaemic plague and pneumonic plague.

So no, this isn’t plague.

 

The Neanderthals who congregate at Fratton Park.

 

Park there probably about 90% of the times I go to town. Which isn't often tbf.

 

Mostly treatable by gentamicin nowadays, with about a 90% recovery rate.

 

Okay cheers guys. I just thought saying "we've survived a plague" sounded cooler than "weve survived a pandemic"

 

Mostly treatable by gentamicin nowadays
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But back in the day it was horrific! Can't begin to imagine the fear when that spread.

 

Never even think of it to be honest .

 

The Black Death killed between 30% and 60% of the population of Europe. We can only imagine the sheer terror among a population who mostly couldn’t read and had no idea what was happening.

 

Pretty much every European is part Neanderthal. Which includes me.

 

I remember reading 'Children of Winter' at school when I was about eight. Somehow that fear of that story has stayed with me. Its all very well dying, but you try living while society dies.

 

Hmmmm, new sig for in one weeks time.

Its all very well dying, but you try living while society dies.