bannedfromHandV Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 hour ago, terrytini said: It makes no sense. I can understand not placing draconian travel restrictions or enforced shut downs of businesses - for the time being. But to wilfully allow needless large gatherings, when there is a highly contagious disease probably already widespread in the population is insane. To be honest, whether wilfully allowing or not you can’t really stop people from congregating, this is where individuals need to step up and make personal choices for the better of all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Before someone dismisses this as a Twitter rant, this guy is a former director at World Health Organisation, and was professor of global heath at UCL, so not a mug. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 3 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: Wash your hands. Dont wash your hands. **** me. I am stumping myself when I get home. Didnt say dont wash your hands i said HAND GELS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 2 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Didnt say dont wash your hands i said HAND GELS Dont worry - @rodders0223 uses a bar of soap.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 I have launched a behavioural change campaign to encourage people to dock penises using antiviral lube. The scientific evidence suggests that compliance with a full ban on penis docking will be low, so we are using advanced behavioural modelling to foster a culture of safe interwilly contact. Line your foreskin with bonjela while singing the theme tune to the A Team and make sure to point at your friend and shout “your foreskin” if he forgets. You should both dock while leaning back to maintain a 1m distance between your faces (if necessary, play with yourself while humming the national anthem to generate extra distance). State of the art data science underpins this empirically grounded advice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HongKongVillan Posted March 13, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 13, 2020 So footballers will have a few weeks off while kids in this country carry on as normal, and footballers think they are **** hard hey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turvontour Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 29 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: I make bread for a living and we've just been following the wash your hands, don't stick your fingers in your orifices advice as we always have done. I've never really thought that much about it but it probably explains why I haven't had a cold in about 5 years. I assume we will stay working as long as possible as people need bread. As long as people knead bread? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 27 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said: To be honest, whether wilfully allowing or not you can’t really stop people from congregating, this is where individuals need to step up and make personal choices for the better of all. Agree which is why I said “ allowing needless large gatherings”. Whilst people will still go about their business it’s not likely that without the football 40, 000 people would’ve descended on Aston tomorrow. Or indeed 3 or 4 people on Small Heath. Those large gatherings which are ( a) needless and (b) preventable, should be prevented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 27 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Didnt say dont wash your hands i said HAND GELS Just trying to be amusing. Think I am leaving this thread, it's gone all a bit panic inducing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Apparently Brazilian President Tropic Trump Jair Bolsonaro has the virus. I can't pretend to feel bad for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 3 hours ago, villa4europe said: my wife's company which is a small insolvency lawyers office has gone out yesterday and bought them all laptops so they can be sent home Sir, I would be interested in buying shares in this company. Here is my money. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted March 13, 2020 Administrator Share Posted March 13, 2020 56 minutes ago, Kingman said: Source? John 1:3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 So do we think this is real? Isn't the Guardian and the NYT somewhat OK publications? Quote Satellite images show Iran has built mass graves amid coronavirus outbreak Trenches in city of Qom confirm worst fears about extent of the epidemic and the government’s subsequent cover-up Satellite images of mass graves in the city of Qom suggest Iran’s coronavirus epidemic is even more serious than the authorities are admitting. The pictures, first published by the New York Times, show the excavation of a new section in a cemetery on the northern fringe of Iran’s holy city in late February, and two long trenches dug, of a total length of 100 yards, by the end of the month. They confirm the worst fears about the extent of the epidemic and the government’s subsequent cover-up. On 24 February, at the time the trenches were being dug, a legislator from Qom, 75 miles (120 km) south of Tehran, accused the health ministry of lying about the scale of the outbreak, saying there had already been 50 deaths in the city, at a time when the ministry was claiming only 12 people had died from the virus nationwide. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/coronavirus-iran-mass-graves-qom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 23 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Sir, I would be interested in buying shares in this company. Here is my money. I had to explain that to her yesterday! Her place will go crazy in the next few months 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 13, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 13, 2020 We live in interesting times. Starting with my generation, all of us born since the war have (in the west at least) had a pretty easy life. The odd brush war, a couple of stock market crashes, but nothing on the scale of the Hitler/Stalin mass killings or the two world wars. This looks like it might be our Big One. Personally, I'm not particularly scared of dying - I've had a good run, and when you gotta go, you gotta go. I am however worried about my wife (62 and with a compromised immune system) and my children and grandchildren. Having said I'm not scared of dying, I'd always rather fancied fading painlessly away in a comfy bed, with the family around me, while I passed on the secret homebrew recipe, or some such. Gasping for breath on a trolley in a corridor doesn't sound too appealing, tbh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 13, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 13, 2020 Would it be helpful if those self-isolating with CV symptoms painted a large red cross on their front doors? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 minute ago, mjmooney said: We live in interesting times. Starting with my generation, all of us born since the war have (in the west at least) had a pretty easy life. The odd brush war, a couple of stock market crashes, but nothing on the scale of the Hitler/Stalin mass killings or the two world wars. This looks like it might be our Big One. Personally, I'm not particularly scared of dying - I've had a good run, and when you gotta go, you gotta go. I am however worried about my wife (62 and with a compromised immune system) and my children and grandchildren. Having said I'm not scared of dying, I'd always rather fancied fading painlessly away in a comfy bed, with the family around me, while I passed on the secret homebrew recipe, or some such. Gasping for breath on a trolley in a corridor doesn't sound too appealing, tbh. Im 56 with Asthma - but more worried about my son (22) who also has asthma - but was so ill with flu last year - he was coughing up blood and could even swallow water at one stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 I don’t get this herd immunity strategy. How many people are they expecting to die in the mean time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 6 minutes ago, sne said: So do we think this is real? Isn't the Guardian and the NYT somewhat OK publications? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/12/coronavirus-iran-mass-graves-qom If you actually look at the pictures, it turns out to be 'Google Earth on the highest zoom'. You can also see the car they drove there with 'from space' as well. Highly irresponsible journalism IMO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 It’s funny how many people think Boris Johnson is making these decisions without expert advice. They think he’s just watching the telly and making a decision. He’s not Donald Trump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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