Re: Virus
Posted: Tue 17th Mar 2020 10:56 am
I highly recommend this podcast to better understand the virus.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw
Numbers are definitely under reported as many people carry it without showing symptoms. Youngest person to die has been 46, most are much older. Lots of kids could have it and we would never know hence the WHO advice of Test, test, test, would seem to be the best approach.
I'm in Spain where lockdown does not seem to be as bad as Italy. You can go out and about without being questioned but less people around, most shops closed except for supermarkets, pharmacies and bakeries. I get a special letter (new one every day) to show when going to work, but only people asked to show this from my job are people who travel in from outside of Barcelona. Queuing one metre apart to enter the supermarket and being given hand sanitizer and glove when entering is quite surreal, but it's amazing how orderly people are and everyone seems to be coping well with it despite the obviously somber mood. I did thoroughly enjoy the latino guy blaring latin music from a big JBL speaker on his balcony on Carrer de Vila Vila in Poble Sec, could hear the music in the distance and as I got closer I saw his neighbours out dancing on their balconies. It was such a simple but feel good moment amid bad vibes on the recent days. Humans we are resilient when we need to be and while not much good will come from the Coronavirus, it might make us reassess whats really important in life.
Ireland shut things down early, which I think was sensible, only two deaths reported in Ireland at present. After Brexit for the first time in my life I thought Ireland was less of a shambles than the UK and once again with the Corona response I felt the same. Hardly surprising that the Eton elite fancy their chances if Corona rips through the UK population. Leaving things open will invariably cause more people to catch the virus and will not help flatten the curve which seems to be the phrase of the day. If you don't flatten the curve quickly there's no country with a health system that can cope with the volume of people needing care, ventilators etc.. In Italy they have been deciding who to save and who not to, very stark decisions to be making.
I feel like I'm living through a crazy time in history, many bizarre moments here in the past days, it's like one of those epidemic movies. Markets may be crumbling, but the average joe doesn't own shares, so it's only losses for the 1%. Fuck bailing out industries, I'm reminded of the great phrase doing the rounds in Ireland during the financial crisis, capitalism without bankruptcy is like Catholicism without hell.
Stay safe folks!
Numbers are definitely under reported as many people carry it without showing symptoms. Youngest person to die has been 46, most are much older. Lots of kids could have it and we would never know hence the WHO advice of Test, test, test, would seem to be the best approach.
I'm in Spain where lockdown does not seem to be as bad as Italy. You can go out and about without being questioned but less people around, most shops closed except for supermarkets, pharmacies and bakeries. I get a special letter (new one every day) to show when going to work, but only people asked to show this from my job are people who travel in from outside of Barcelona. Queuing one metre apart to enter the supermarket and being given hand sanitizer and glove when entering is quite surreal, but it's amazing how orderly people are and everyone seems to be coping well with it despite the obviously somber mood. I did thoroughly enjoy the latino guy blaring latin music from a big JBL speaker on his balcony on Carrer de Vila Vila in Poble Sec, could hear the music in the distance and as I got closer I saw his neighbours out dancing on their balconies. It was such a simple but feel good moment amid bad vibes on the recent days. Humans we are resilient when we need to be and while not much good will come from the Coronavirus, it might make us reassess whats really important in life.
Ireland shut things down early, which I think was sensible, only two deaths reported in Ireland at present. After Brexit for the first time in my life I thought Ireland was less of a shambles than the UK and once again with the Corona response I felt the same. Hardly surprising that the Eton elite fancy their chances if Corona rips through the UK population. Leaving things open will invariably cause more people to catch the virus and will not help flatten the curve which seems to be the phrase of the day. If you don't flatten the curve quickly there's no country with a health system that can cope with the volume of people needing care, ventilators etc.. In Italy they have been deciding who to save and who not to, very stark decisions to be making.
I feel like I'm living through a crazy time in history, many bizarre moments here in the past days, it's like one of those epidemic movies. Markets may be crumbling, but the average joe doesn't own shares, so it's only losses for the 1%. Fuck bailing out industries, I'm reminded of the great phrase doing the rounds in Ireland during the financial crisis, capitalism without bankruptcy is like Catholicism without hell.
Stay safe folks!