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#51 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 300 weeks ago
Hope you come through it asap Yamcha. Good levels of Vitamin D seem to be linked to better/faster recoveries so if you can get some Vit D supplement tablets and some sunshine it wouldn't be the worst thing.
Looking at the numbers of deaths in the US now I just don't see how China expects the world to believe they kept it to 3000 deaths. Sure they can impose a lockdown more severely than the west would accept but even so. Will be interesting to see what happens in India given their large population although they did move to lockdown the country very early.
With that said there's some interesting data I think from the US that by far the most critically ill demographic from this are of Latin American descent? Don't have a link so happy to be corrected. Meanwhile Spain and Italy have been the worst affected in Europe so far. Yet most east Asian countries at least have quite low death tolls so far.
Wondering if certain parts of the world are genetically more susceptible to it than others?
#52 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 301 weeks ago
Sweden will be interesting I think to see how things pan out there. They seem to be the only ones committing to the heard immunity theory, hard not if that would apply to other nations anyway as Sweden is pretty remote and unpopulated in the main. Certainly not got a London/New York type metropolis to like for like comparison.
If nothing else we will learn a lot on how to respond to this kind of thing in the future should it happen again.
Buzz do you have an English translation to that Italian article you keep citing? 40 of 60 quarantined people is interesting but it's pretty meaningless without the who/what/when and where.
Not sure about your flu statement Randall, in Italy more people have died of Covid in 2 months than have died of Flu in the last 10 years combined. They seem to think when all is done it will be around1% fatality rate, which is x10 worse than seasonal flu. Covid is also killing healthy 30 and 40 year olds, not in statistically large numbers but flu doesn't tend to do that. It will be interesting to know why one 35 year old catches it and is asymptomatic whereas another healthy 35 year old ends up on ITU or worse.
#53 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 301 weeks ago
Watched 'Knives Out' last night. Had heard good things.
Was ok but nothing great.
Gonna watch Joker again over Easter I think.
#54 Re: The Sunset Strip » Oasis Breakup » 302 weeks ago
That’s Noel singing and playing guitar. Liam is the one sat doing nothing.
Much more in to Oasis than I was when this thread was first posted. With that said I never really got the fuss over Wonderwall. Wouldn’t even make it in my Oasis top 20.
Noels solo stuff has gone in a bit of weird direction but Liams new stuff is pretty good.
#55 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 302 weeks ago
A Private Eye wrote:My whole street was clapping last night, was surprised but nice to see.
Statistics are largely meaningless at this point. The only one you can take as near enough accurate is deaths. Number of infected is entirely down to how each country is testing. It will only be clearer in the months to come exactly how well each country really managed the situation.
Germany is an interesting one as even they are puzzled that number of deaths is so low. They have the highest number of critical care beds which will help. They also think the virus was brought in by people who’d been skiing in Italy, therefore it spread among an on average younger crowd in the first days and weeks.
This is good - stats are great when they are complete; they aren't so useful when incomplete...that's where they are used to spread fear or to influence things with inaccurate information.
They can be used to make any point you like at this stage because there are such variables. One day we will know the true extent but it may take months or years.
That’s not to say this isn’t a huge problem though. It’s the sheer numbers descending on the healthcare systems that’s concerning. Once the critical care beds are all full and the ventilators taken even the best hospitals will struggle to offer the same level of care to someone who needs it. That is when the deaths mount up unnecessarily and there is then a knock on effect as all other areas of healthcare virtually shutdown to help.
#56 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 302 weeks ago
No, US is now highest number of confirmed cases. Most deaths is still Italy by some distance.
#57 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 302 weeks ago
My whole street was clapping last night, was surprised but nice to see.
Statistics are largely meaningless at this point. The only one you can take as near enough accurate is deaths. Number of infected is entirely down to how each country is testing. It will only be clearer in the months to come exactly how well each country really managed the situation.
Germany is an interesting one as even they are puzzled that number of deaths is so low. They have the highest number of critical care beds which will help. They also think the virus was brought in by people who’d been skiing in Italy, therefore it spread among an on average younger crowd in the first days and weeks.
#58 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 303 weeks ago
Hope everyone is doing ok and getting through this. I fear we are in for some tough times.
Reality is starting to bite in the UK I think, this will be a long haul.
I speak with hospital Dr's as part of my day to day job and they are worried, plans are in place to turn canteens in to make shift wards when the worst of it hits. Sort of feel like we're sat in the path of a hurricane just waiting. The UK's trajectory is currently a worse curve than Italy's at the same point, we are just around 2-3 weeks behind them.
I think it's very hard to not see some of these measures as an over reaction until the worst hits and then people will wish more was done. I saw an interview with someone a couple of days ago who said the issue is wherever you think you are with a situation like this you are always 7-10 days behind where you actually are. Therefore you need to over react just to have a chance of being in step with it.
Have a feeling this could be a 12-18 month process of waves of this that get slowed then when people return to normal it builds again. I fear that a peaks and troughs curve will continue until a good vaccine is rolled out.
#59 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will new music be released in 2020? » 311 weeks ago
A Private Eye wrote:GNR in the UK the day before Glastonbury. Still certain there’s no chance they’re playing it Sp1at?
I don't know.
I think bands are only allowed to play acoustic sets on the 24th, so it would have to be 26th June, and that would be hard logistically because they will have to ship all the equipment over to Ireland on 26th.
The main friday headline slot (26th) is still to be announced, so if they are playing it would be then. Logistics would be challenging but surely there’s much less needed to ship to a festival than their own show? Stage etc could be shipped from Scotland straight to Ireland. It would only need to be the essentials sent down to Glastonbury?
I might be way off and it would mean 3 big shows on 3 consecutive nights for the band.
I’d be surprised if there hadn’t been talks as Glasto are running out of major acts that haven’t headlined before. GNR ticks all the boxes.
#60 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will new music be released in 2020? » 311 weeks ago
GNR in the UK the day before Glastonbury. Still certain there’s no chance they’re playing it Sp1at?
