Ah, ok, then excuse the attitude. Just starting to get a bit annoyed with the dickheads who think this is just one big over reaction.
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Ah, ok, then excuse the attitude. Just starting to get a bit annoyed with the dickheads who think this is just one big over reaction.
Just saying there's less chance we could end up like Italy as we have less density and a lower population for this virus to spread.
sometimes when a horse is running in a big group 1, $1m race,
the media will ask how the horse is going.
the trainer will trot out the cliche 'he/she doesn't know how much the prize money is'
I make sense of the world largely in terms of horse racing, RFC, and sex. If I'm being entirely honest.
in this instance, I would answer 'the virus doesn't know population or geography'
maybe it does? Viruses are certainly pretty *smile* smart (fun fact: the smartest ones dont kill people)
we are certainly a hyper-mobile population.
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Top 10 global causes of death. Three of them are communicable diseases and kill 5 million people a year. Corona has at least a million to go this year before it overtakes darrhoea......and you do need toilet paper for that one.
It's not just covid-19 people will die of. The reason for social distancing and trying to 'flatten the curve' of infection is so that we don't have a massive rush on emergency services and ICU beds. We only have 2000 ICU beds in the country. People are still going to have heart attacks, car accidents, strokes, cancer. There will not be enough beds to go around.
Yes. If it gets like Italy, no ICU beds for any over 80s regardless of condition. I'm surprised people find this hard to understand.
a few days ago, I was a *smile* who thought this was a big overreaction.
now, I'm a *smile* who thinks its a precautionary, justifiable overreaction.
by Wednesday, I reckon I'll be a *smile* with a skull and crossbones on my gate, shooting pigeons to eat.
edit: how come you get dickheads through the filter and I dont. are you wearing a mask?
Perhaps, but how we respond will have a big effect too. We can respond more like south Korea or more like Italy. Do we go for Italy and hope our country characteristics protect us?
good on him. keeps peoples olympic dreams alive for 4 months? hope springs infernal.
might pull it off.
Because you're a *smile*, I'm a *smile* but together we're dickheads
Company here in Indo just invoked non-essential staff working from home from Monday for 1 month.
Just waiting for them to give contractors like me the flick now. I've been exploring pipeline for other jobs in Aus and elsewhere and everything is drying up big time.
If you have a job, try not to lose it.
Just waiting for them to give contractors like me the flick now. I've been exploring pipeline for other jobs in Aus and elsewhere and everything is drying up big time.
If you have a job, try not to lose it.
Some people still not getting it. There will be a million dead by the middle of April at the current rate.
I'm not barracking for Trump to fail.... I'm just *smile* scared that a man who at times appears very loose with the truth, basically has the lives of hundreds of millions, and by extension billions of people, in his hands!
There's still confusion on whether this virus is airborne or not. More chance in picking it up if it was, rather than any possibility the person next to you would pass it.
I'd like to know why there is such a varying degree of mortality through most infected countries. Compare Italy to South Korea, something like a 7,5% mortality rate compared to one around 0.7%. Is the difference because South Korea tested far more people, ie. is the infection rate so much higher in Italy than being reported or is something else resulting in a lower mortality rate.
I think it would be useful for countries like Australia who are at the start of our virus outbreak, whether the additional measures taken by the Koreans reduced the spread or has something else resulted in their lower mortality rate, ie. is it something to do with the level of smokers, heart diseases kills more I believe in Italy so maybe around that.
They are such different mortality rates, it would be good to have an understanding why as this will impact how Australia deals with this and what impact this may have on mortality in this country.
BTW, so many dickheads out there stockpiling. Stockpiling bread now, nothing at all in my Coles. Apparently people are stockpiling and filling their freezers with bread. This thin is really showing how selfish our society now is.
I think it would be useful for countries like Australia who are at the start of our virus outbreak, whether the additional measures taken by the Koreans reduced the spread or has something else resulted in their lower mortality rate, ie. is it something to do with the level of smokers, heart diseases kills more I believe in Italy so maybe around that.
They are such different mortality rates, it would be good to have an understanding why as this will impact how Australia deals with this and what impact this may have on mortality in this country.
BTW, so many dickheads out there stockpiling. Stockpiling bread now, nothing at all in my Coles. Apparently people are stockpiling and filling their freezers with bread. This thin is really showing how selfish our society now is.
Get a job in a hospital soon. They'll be screaming for help when corona knocks on our door...
Surfaces. It lives on metal and plastic for up to three days. That is the primary method of transmission. Hence "wash your hands often".
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid19-days-surfaces-experiment-findings/story?id=69569397
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