Coronavirus - Dig In, It's going to be a while yet

[Dziekanowski]

It’s dangerous because stupid ordinary people will buy into the headline of it and disregard lockdown instructions and social distancing - just look at who’s pushing it on this thread - exactly who you’d expect.

The way the headline of it has been pushed in the media is part of a worrying media trend I see over the last day or so, particularly in the UK and US, to justify letting this virus cause absolute carnage in the name of “the economy”.

[Dziekanowski]

@Tank

If half the population already have it why are people only dying from it now? Why are more and more people still getting sick in Italy and Spain every day? Why are the majority of tests negative? Why were the first people to get sick people who arrived back from skiing in Italy?

They’re right that Imperial College have been put on a pedestal and have made a balls of it.

There’s a very easy way to verify the theory of that study - count up the daily deaths in each affected country since January.

[Julio_Geordio]

TFK is blessed to have lads so smart that they are capable of dismissing a team of experts in Oxford out of hand without even reading the study

[anon78624367]

You haven’t been peer reviewed until a gang of weirdos on the internet make shit of your work

[Dziekanowski]

@Julio_Geordio

TFK is blessed to have lads so smart that they are capable of dismissing a team of experts in Oxford out of hand without even reading the study

It’s pretty simple. If the theory is true, deaths would have shot up across Europe from January onwards, because a large amount of people would have been affected by the virus back then, given that the author is claiming up to half of Britain has already had it.

We’ve now got gobshites who got the flu or sniffles back in December flooding the internet telling us they had COVID-19.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Dziekanowski

If the theory is true, deaths would have shot up across Europe from January onwards,

No they wouldn’t have, if what they are saying is true that wouldn’t have happened at all

[glenshane]

It was oxford polytechnic

[Tim_Riggins]

@Tank

Almost, yes. I posted a Tweet a few days ago of an English lady who had all the symptoms and was having trouble breathing but was denied intensive care because they said her life wasn’t in danger yet.

Not defending the UK but was not the Irish woman, “Oxford Diplomat” who was very active (and very cringe) during Brexit? She’s a bit of an attention seeker.

[myboyblue]

@Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy

…Anyone been in the army?You can help meWhatever comes out of these gatesWe’ve got a better chance of survival if we work togetherDo you understand?If we stay together, we survive

Leo = Maximus

[Julio_Geordio]

A few transition year students doing a class project

[Tank]

That was her yeah. Didn’t know her history but it doesn’t mean she was lying. She’s on Twitter so she’s obviously an insufferable cunt.

[Feech_La_Manna]

@TheUlteriorMotive

…en enough people have become resistant to it because they have already been infected. The government abandoned its unofficial herd immunity strategy — allowing controlled spread of infection — after its scientific advisers said this would swamp the National Health Service with critically ill patients.

‘COVID-19 reached the UK by Mid-January at the latest’, very interesting.
As I said earlier ‘the flu’ that absolutely floored me for 3 days over the Christmas period was like no other flu I have every experienced. Symptoms were - No sore throat, no head cold, no nasal congestion, hacking painful cough (one of my lungs felt like a hot poker was burning a hole in it), shortness of breath, fever, perfuse sweating, aching limbs & headache. It definitely took me 10 days before I felt better with it.

[anon60384913]

I wouldn’t wipe my arse with that study

[Tank]

There would have been a gradual increase in severe pneumonia / severe bronchitis symptoms through February. You probably wouldn’t have had this sudden explosion of severe cases out of nowhere, it would have been gradual escalation.

My Dad actually had bronchitis this winter and he’s still not really over it. I’d say Covid 19 could easily kill him.

[anon26343222]

I do pray that is not the case .

[Dziekanowski]

@anon60384913

I wouldn’t wipe my arse with that study

Peter Hitchens had an article the other day which would have been perfect for that (were it not for the harsh texture of the printed version of the Daily Mail).

[Iggy]

@TreatyStones

Dr Tony is pissed off with every hypochondriac in the country looking for a test.

The same malingerers who force people onto trollies by turning up to hospitals every week with a sniffle or a headache.

[Lazarus]

Edit vid wouldn’t upload

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

Two symptoms now required before testing per the Irish times. Proper order too

[Julio_Geordio]

@Tank

There would have been a gradual increase in severe pneumonia / severe bronchitis symptoms through February. You probably wouldn’t have had this sudden explosion of severe cases out of nowhere, it would have been gradual escalation.

There wouldn’t have. You could easily have missed it if their postulation is true.
I’ve no idea whether it’s true or not, but it seems a bit silly to dismiss a group of very smart people out of hand because you don’t agree with what they are saying. That’s like something Trump would do cc @Dziekanowski