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Mellsman

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Small ray of light where I am is that my girlfriend's colleague in the medical school at Exeter uni says there haven't been any new hospital admissions for covid-19 for a while, so it looks like the virus has abated in my little corner of the country.

South West of UK has far fewer infections than elsewhere.
 

Mr. Tea

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South West of UK has far fewer infections than elsewhere.

There was a small cluster of infections and deaths early on in the Torbay area near where I work (bound to happen with that many retired people, I guess) but yeah, it seems to have fizzled out.

I understand the shit is still very much hitting the fan in London, south Wales and parts of the north and Scotland.
 

catalog

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definitely sitcom worthy. there must be comedy writers up and down the country doing covid sketches, there's so much material
 

Leo

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Pandemic flattens the sharing economy

The "sharing economy" — as embodied by companies like Uber, Airbnb, and WeWork — is in critical condition, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

Why it matters: Basic assumptions about the evolution of human behavior in the digital age are melting under the pressure of COVID-19, requiring us to recalibrate how we envision the tech-enabled future.

The pandemic has brutally shut down these companies' fundamental bets.
 

Mr. Tea

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The UK govt has now started counting deaths in care homes and private homes: https://www.theguardian.com/politic...-response-covid-19-crisis-pmqs-latest-updates

It'll still be a severe underestimate since it doesn't include anyone who's died without being diagnosed, but it's a step in the right direction. Shows that we've leapfrogged Spain and France and are fast closing on Italy, despite the virus having had a big head start in those countries.
 

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Inquests into coronavirus deaths among NHS workers should avoid examining systemic failures in provision of personal protective equipment (PPE), coroners have been told, in a move described by Labour as “very worrying”.

The chief coroner for England and Wales, Mark Lucraft QC, has issued guidance that “an inquest would not be a satisfactory means of deciding whether adequate general policies and arrangements were in place for provision of PPE to healthcare workers”.

Lucraft said that “if there were reason to suspect that some human failure contributed to the person being infected with the virus”, an inquest may be required. The coroner “may need to consider whether any failures of precautions in a particular workplace caused the deceased to contract the virus and so contributed to death”.
 

IdleRich

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Oh shit yeah... that gonna piss a lot of people off.
Edit: I'm talking about adding on those extra deaths - Tory supporters are consistently claiming that the numbers are inflated so they will not be happy. Of course the relatives of those who have died might take a different view.
 
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catalog

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it's brought out that survivalist strain in america, thats an undercurrent to everything, like the right to bear arms. deep distrust of any government. gotta love america
 

Mellsman

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I read somewhere the other day that some quick-thinking govt apparatchik had had the wizard idea of counting a single glove as a "unit" of glove - rather than counting pairs of gloves, as is usual practice in glove-counting circles - to give the impression that the NHS had twice as many (pairs of) gloves than it actually does.

Lies, damned lies & statistics.
 

Leo

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it's brought out that survivalist strain in america, thats an undercurrent to everything, like the right to bear arms. deep distrust of any government. gotta love america

a lot of that is posturing, for show. the same people who line up for their government unemployment checks or government-funded medicare services or survive for decades primarily because of government farm subsidies or survive hurricanes and flooding through the rescue efforts of government disaster relief or live in old age off government social security checks. make believe reality show live-free-or-die rebels who will never admit how much they rely on the government that they pretend to not believe in.
 
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Leo

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survivalist Americans are a clickbait media construct, make up probably 0.000000001% of the population. the vast (vast) majority are far too comfortable/lazy to do more than hoard some toilet paper and perhaps complain about things on facebook.
 

sufi

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somebody asked why there aren't leftist survivalists , or maybe why are the preppers only on the right,

I read a quite entertaining accout of a coastal journo who showed up at a prepper convention just before the plague,
lemme see if i can find the link
 

catalog

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survivalist Americans are a clickbait media construct, make up probably 0.000000001% of the population. the vast (vast) majority are far too comfortable/lazy to do more than hoard some toilet paper and perhaps complain about things on facebook.

yeah probably true, but equally, outside of the coasts, america is pretty inward looking no? like maybe not quite survivalist (you are probably right, it's blown out of proportion cos of the media interest) but lots of gated communities, and all the guns and flags. i found all that side of things very weird.
 
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