Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

I decided to try making a Coronavirus cocktail. I mixed Corona beer with cherryade and Irn-Bru and neither of them were particularly tasty. Might chuck in some gin and umeshu and see if it’s any nicer.

@nessisonett I made a Coronavirus cocktail too. I added two parts bleach throw in some Tide Pods for flavoring blend well and serve chilled over ice. It's actually quite good.

Seems like Kim Jung-un took up Trump's advice.

@kyleforrester87 You wouldn't believe how true you are.

A company is actually selling bleach as a medical cure calling it Genesis 2. They have been propositioning Trump on its merits.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/florida-church-coronavirus-bleaching-agent-cure-covid-19/

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-leader-group-peddling-bleach-cure-lobbied-trump-coronavirus

Trump has gone mad. He needs to go, this is wrong on every level imaginable. How can you recover from such a stupid idea months into a crisis with over 50k dead? He has experts helping him out.

There have been reports that members of the administration skirt round trump in the past to make decisions it's now front and centre of the country. If he wins the next election the world has already changed. Gobsmacked.

@themcnoisy lol the thing is it’s obvious that it’s not viable treatment option to most people but I can understand him raising it at a round table discussion or something? I mean he’s not a scientist and their are no stupid questions..? But to get up on a podium and just play jazz with the idea on live TV 😂

And guaranteed he does another term, unless his handling of this situation really blows up in his face but with his deflection to the WHO and his new immigration restrictions he looks like he’s on a path to victory.

@kyleforrester87 Just imagine if Boris Johnson did that. He would be laughed off stage never to return.

I've watched it back, he's like Richard Madeley on this morning coming up with ideas for tomorrows show asking his producers if it's possible to do something live on air. Where as that was funny and a bit silly, this is a Pandemic and Trumps the leader of the free world. What is going on here???

That's 100 gecs and friends' lockdown Minecraft concert just come to an end. Brilliant night, it was real impressive getting big names like KKB and Charli XCX and over $12000 raised for Feeding America. It's pretty cool seeing video games used for this purpose, crazy thinking how Minecraft started, especially considering I was an Alpha player right back at the beginning.

@LaJettatura on the contrary, the USA has been a bastion of freedom. But the current crop of politicians (like in the uk) are weak and Robotic regardless of the Party. You stick someone charismatic in amongst them and he or she rises quickly. Far right policies are in abundance, it could have easily been someone far left. If there is a crop of political talent these things can't happen as the politics remain centralised, in house and campaigns are won on tax policy and personal economics regardless of the present day situation. Not much tends to happen. See current day Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Canada.

For all the faults of Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan - they would never ever in a million years actively promote injecting bleach. Its so off the scale, so stupid and insane. I was very much in the mind that Trump was savvy and sometimes played the fool. Its becoming apparent he's a fool trying to play being savvy. You just don't recommend injecting bleach, what's next jump in a pool of acid to cure eczema? A gunshot to the kneecaps to cure arthritis? It's backwards thinking, and you just know someone is going to try it and thickos will come out in support that there's no evidence either way in relation to coronavirus.

@themcnoisy Amen, brother. They’re all idiots. Some just broadcast it more than others.

Still teaching overe here despite getting a few less kids coming into school.

Though talk about being knackered when the day's over! (Hence why I haven't been posting so regularly and apologies to people I haven't replied to!)

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy No apologies needed. It's just good to hear that you're doing OK so far.

Keep as safe as you can be.

Yeah I know but I'd hate for someone to think I'm ignoring them @Ralizah... I'm just that kinda person 😁

And thanks of course for the sentiment! I'm quite fine (Other then the afformentioned exhaustion which has unfortunately made me a bit snippy every now and again for no good reason) as is my partner, daughter, son. My mom's terribly bored though!

How's it going on your end? Your mom doing ok after her hospital check-up?

Mere days before our city (and state) reopens, there's a huge spike in confirmed cases here (we went from under 30 to over 300 this one week, nearly all connected to an outbreak at a meat packing plant), but the city council/mayor decided they're going to go through with reopening anyways.

This means I'll have to go into work next week (I've been working from home since mid-March & would gladly do so all summer if necessary), and while I'm not worried about the office per se (it's still going to be closed to the public next week), I am worried about the cab rides I have to take to get there.

@RR529 @Arugula It's weird seeing how fast some areas go back to normal. I guess the economy is more important.

Makes me appreciate the fact that our government is helping smaller businesses and self-employed, so the can keep the quarantine going for as long as necessary. But really, that should be the norm.

I keep forgetting to take a quid for the trolley when I go shopping. Every time I have to walk down to the other end of the car park and get one of those massive shopping trolleys, the ones with loads of baby seats on them, designed for people with quadruplets. I look ridiculous, and I also look like I'm about to do a massive panic shop

@Arugula you should be fine bro. Its serious and bad things can happen. Generally you are a bigger risk of passing it to someone who can suffer. The death rate is way worse the older you get, in a risk group or have self inflicted health problems. Also if the New York antibody tests hold up the actual death rate is 0.5% so 1 in 200, horrendous of course but the death rate is more likely to be less still in the suburbs and countryside, due to better living standards and less pollution which is proving to be another factor.

It's a fine line to tread but the rush to get everyone back in work is proof enough that the economy is built on foundations of sand. In theory we should have pulled every country together around the 20th of March and set up a quantitive easing fund for 2 months (basically dead money) no company would profit and the economy would stop to function for an agreed period with no pressure on the populace to return to work. Only key food and hospital staff, food chain, scientists and the armed forces drafted to perform deliveries. There was a German report that we can get R0 down to 0.2 - the virus will burn out in that scenario in 7 weeks, life could then return to normal. That would mean a total LockDown, not going out, ration deliveries (like China did) That is a none starter in the west, too much messing around. Letting B and Q open and general nonsense. It sounds far fetched but can and would have worked.

We weren't all in this together at all. Even now after 2 months of watching this burn away In Europe and companies are plotting their own rules, its a catastrophe.

Good luck bro and hopefully you will be on here for the next 50 years!

The whole thing’s got real very quickly for me. An old classmate of mine that I’ve known since I was 7 passed away with the coronavirus this week despite being a healthy 19 year old with 0 underlying health conditions. He grew up round the corner from me so that’s definitely ramped up the paranoia too. It’s getting harder leaving the house now, I’m finding myself making excuses not to go out food shopping. The government might be saying we’re past the peak but it doesn’t feel that way.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/495826-us-endures-worst...

U.S. keeps hitting death toll records. On Thursday, we hit 2,909 reported deaths in 24 hours. For the record, 2,977 people died on 9/11. And there's no reason to think that number won't keep going up for a while.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Ah, yeah, she's having some back pain and insomnia issues, but, in general, she's fine. The thing she went to the hospital for is healing, and she hasn't caught the virus. Thanks for asking!

@nessisonett Well, "past the peak" doesn't mean people aren't getting sick and dying from it in large numbers.

Try not to be too paranoid. IN GENERAL, the vast, vast majority of young people who get it will be fine. There are always exceptions to any rule, and it sounds like this classmate was that exception.

Regardless, I'm really sorry to hear about that classmate. Dying at 19 is such a tragedy.

Tomorrow in Italy there will be a first re-opening and honestly, I have no idea of what could happen now, especially with public transport, and I fear the numbers could rise again.
The tour operator I work for has stopped its activity for the rest of 2020, so I've left the city where I worked and now I'm basically stuck at my hometown, assisting my mother who recently started taking morphine as a painkiller for her cancer...
Then I remember that there's always someone out there who would happily exchange their life with ours since we are still here, at least.

@nessisonett sorry about your friend mate, my direct experience is a lot different with my wife's colleagues all asymptomatic and testing positive. None of them or their families have suffered. All the positive tests have been fine to my knowledge. My mums care home is coronavirus free to boot.

On the other side of severity 2 of my old work colleagues have died (previous role 20 years ago both over 60 and we used to get absolutely wrecked on a Friday night) and 1 of my wife's old bosses wife. Her pictures often on the news as she was an NHS worker. One of my staffs Boyfriends nan died and another couple of old people my wife says I know (I don't have a clue who they are). So no one directly related to me in my current work or life capacity.

Hopefully it stays that way! Stay strong bro.

@Ralizah I prefer the term going through the peak, our stats are crazy. If the figures now rolled in 2 months ago everyones jaw would hit the floor and be living in bunkers.