Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

How do they enforce the 70 yr olds, 4 month isolation, if initiated?
Will make the golf club less busy during the week.
 
funkycoldmedina said:
A great explanation by a medic as to the theory behind the UK gov response.
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But surely it is more nuanced than that. The cases are doubling on a daily basis not a steady increment and there is the 5 day lag between getting the virus and having symptoms, possibly more before hospitalisation. Say there are 128,000 beds available for this type of treatment, you need to "turn off the tap" 5 days before being full (1 day =64,000, 2 days=32,000, 3 days=16,000, 4 days=8,000 and 5 days=4,000) so we need to have turned off infections entirely when there are just 4,000 cases in hospital (possibly as low as 500 if you add in the delay from showing symptoms to hospitalisation).
I'm not sure how many beds we actually have, nor exactly how fast cases are rising but this shows just how careful you need to be with these exponential numbers.
 
Hacker Khan said:
I tell you what, it's a good job we have a lot of intellectual powehouses and deep thinkers in charge of major countries throughout the world at the moment in this time of a global pandemic. Just think of the chaos we'd have if we had a bunch of populist chancers in charge...
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Well at least one has been found out...?
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Why? People have the choice on what hours they work including zero hours and are aware of what their rights would be before they sign any contract.
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Not going to go there as the implication is that there are alternatives to zero hours contracts - and there are - but maybe not so widely available in many sectors of the economy. Plus there are many desperate and desperately in need of work who often have little choice but to go with anything that is offered - especially when they have threat of loss of JSA hanging over their head.
 
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