Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,943
Peaking Jun/Jul. Inevitable. All we can do is mitigate. In passing try A Journal of the Plague Year 1722 Daniel Defoe. Free downloads. Worth a (re)read. ☹️
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,943
Population Italy 60 million plus.
Number of reported Corovirus cases c7.5k.
Chance of individual passenger having Corovirus half of bugger all AND it's already in UK.
Meanwhile man on Clapham omnibus wants flights stopped?
FFS give me epidemiology.
It's going to be absolute sh!t come Jun/July.
YOU ain't seen nothing yet?
(Fortunately you are about to see Emergency meeting by DDc! At least the guy in charge of finance is a funeral director! You seriously could not make it up?)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,943
Local funeral director in charge of local funerals responding to upsurge in local funerals?
https://moderngov.dover.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?bcr=1"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,003
Al de Pfeffel: 'One of the theories is perhaps you could take it on the chin, take it all in one go and allow the disease to move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51749352
Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph: 'From an entirely disinterested economic perspective, COVID-19 might even prove mildly beneficial in the long term by disproportionately culling elderly dependents.'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/03/03/does-fed-know-something-rest-us-do-not-panicked-interest-rate/ (paywalled)
Bye everyone.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,030
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph: 'From an entirely disinterested economic perspective, COVID-19 might even prove mildly beneficial in the long term by disproportionately culling elderly dependents.'
Yeah well, pity it doesn't pick on those wot can't spell correctly then.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,003
American spelling, B.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,030
They're second on the list!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,943
Bit ironic that a toilet paper shortage is being caused by arseholes?
Bob Whysman, Brian Dixon, Pablo and
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,807
Just been in Morrisons and the soap has almost gone from the shelves. To a certain extent I can understand people buying extra soap but simply can not understand why toilet rolls are in such demand.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
#69,70, they are all sh1tt1ng themselves with panic Bob/Jan.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,742
In Aldi today,no paracetamol or Ibuprofen tablets left,even the kitchen wipes have gone its ridiculous.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,943
I see it's been declared a Pandemic by WHO (which should of course have been WHOM).
Presumably this means the virus can kill you without regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,030
Andy B wrote:In Aldi today,no paracetamol or Ibuprofen tablets left,even the kitchen wipes have gone its ridiculous.
Yup, we're only ever 3 days away from anarchy. And going up Priory to get a free Metro to use as loo paper.
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Martyn Webster- Registered: 18 Nov 2017
- Posts: 56
The Spectator item,29th February, sums it all up for me and thank you Captain Haddock for posting it.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2020/02/the-most-dangerous-thing-about-coronavirus-is-the-hysteria/
Surely we are not all imminently facing the ravages of the Black Death or the Great Plague?
As the article says,perhaps there is rather more to this,in more ways than one...
Martyn Webster- Registered: 18 Nov 2017
- Posts: 56
The Spectator item,29th February, sums it all up for me and thank you Captain Haddock for posting it.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2020/02/the-most-dangerous-thing-about-coronavirus-is-the-hysteria/
Surely we are not all imminently facing the ravages of the Black Death or the Great Plague?
As the article says,perhaps there is rather more to this,in more ways than one...
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,943
Italy has just closed ALL bars and restaurants and ALL retail outlets except food and pharmacies until further notice. ☹️
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,030
(Not my real name.)
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,943
Listened to Trump's 'speech' last night. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
As with war where nobody actually wins - it's just that the other side were even more incompetent - for the first time I thought that A.N.Other (Dem) is in with a chance.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,934
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Do nothing and nothing happens.