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Boris...

  • should completely lock us down immediately and fook up all our Christmas'

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • let the bodies stack high

    Votes: 13 54.2%

  • lock us down from the 29th to fook up Treble's plans

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Total voters
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FosseFilberto said:
Yes it is ... or an average of over £200k over 3 years I think ... you also have to have been running your business for 12 months ... so any poor ****er that got made redundant from employed work within the last 12 months and set up their own business with their redundancy money is right royally ****ed irrespective of how much they are bringing in ... expect some back tracking ...
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That’s not been thought through very well. Employee on £200k per annum gets £2.5k per month. Self employed on £51k per annum gets sod all.
 
FosseFilberto said:
India is another ... apparently 90% of mobiles in India are pay-as-you-go or pre-paid ... no work, no pay, no ability to communicate ... frightening prospect
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Yep - I bet that's what they are all worrying about.

Anyway don't worry, I've asked the wife to cancel the monthly food parcels for the poor here and distribute pre-paid phone top up vouchers instead.
 
Yes we should all appreciate the NHS workers, teachers, etc.. through our actions and support but the ****s that share every ****ing meme about it...

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Diego said:
Current death rates are only relevant to the number of tests done, they should be based on population since many hundreds of thousands have had the virus without being tested and survived.
Testing only has any use if you have a cure, if not then the only way to save people is to treat those showing and reacting to symptoms.
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You can’t currently say that hundreds of thousands have had this virus and survived with any degree of certainty though.

Which is why the WHO mantra is test, test, test, as it’s only by testing huge numbers of people that you can both create an accurate picture of spread and then control that spread in areas worst affected.
 
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Tobes said:
You can’t currently say that hundreds of thousands have had this virus and survived with any degree of certainty though.

Which is why the WHO mantra is test, test, test, as it’s only by testing huge numbers of people that you can both create an accurate picture of spread and then control that spread in areas worst affected.
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There is plenty of evidence to suggest the vast majority of cases are mild imo

Globally the number of people tested is very small as a % of total, tiny.
420,000 confirmed cases, and given confirmed cases is that high given how few tests have been done, and given the virulence and geographical spread, and that it was airports/air travel largely that was the delivery vector, it would be all but guaranteed that at least a couple of orders of magnitude more people were infected.
I'd imagine the majority of people who've had it never knew. Those with symptoms get tested. It does appear most people just get a heavy cold like thing. My wife's mother never even knew she had it, and her dad got a very mild cough luckily. Both were tested after their friend got seriously ill from the same thing. They caught it in Spain

Currently the pandemic, if factoring in likely conservative estimates of unreported infections, the fatality rate is closer to .3 .4% or less and the fatality rate will continue to get lower and lower as a % of total.
Obviously it means many more will die, I just mean as a % of total infections, though that doesn't do nothing for those who are going to be ****ed by this thing if they get it.
 
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At the rate cases are starting to appear here in my part of Finland and the geo spread, ****loads of people must have it and have been spreading it without even knowing they had it.

Finns keep social distance as a social norm anyway and its still spread like fook
 
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