In the news thread

Snurp · March 30, 2020, 2:58pm

Great episode from This American Life this week. Some of this is absolutely crushing.

ciaran · March 30, 2020, 3:22pm

Just listening now. Unfortunately for me, the EMS worker at start sounds like John C Reilly and I keep visualising him as Wreck-it Ralph.

ERGOT · March 30, 2020, 7:52pm

Mark · March 30, 2020, 8:16pm

Abp 11 hours ago

wayout · March 30, 2020, 8:18pm

worth seeing again though

voodoo · March 30, 2020, 9:29pm

Heard on the news that isolation is working, the virus seems to be slowing at the moment. The peak of it might just be weeks away. The NHS want 30,000 ventilators for the peak and we have a third of that right now but they’re working hard on it. I’m sure they’ll be more twists and turns though.

buildafire · March 30, 2020, 9:54pm

Cue everybody going “We’ve beaten it!” and running outside.

voodoo · March 30, 2020, 10:00pm

I know right. ‘Isolations working, lets go out!’

markg · March 30, 2020, 10:04pm

If by some chance the social distancing thing works then you just know that all the people ignoring it and saying that the virus is nothing to worry about will say that they were right all along. Just like all those people who said that Y2K was a load of fuss over nothing because everything important kept working. “Because we fixed it you utter fucking bellend”.

voodoo · March 30, 2020, 10:08pm

They’d have to have their heads up their arses to think that. look at the shut down in place, work, schools, shops, pubs, swimming pools, gyms, seeing family, McDonalds, ect. Towns and cities are deserted.

Yeah mate, you had a few ciders with your mates down the park, that showed them!

ihatethegeneralpublic · March 30, 2020, 10:22pm

Wouldn’t it be really quite alarming if it wasn’t slowing a bit given how much less contact people have with each other now?

voodoo · March 30, 2020, 10:36pm

I guess they didn’t know how many people were infected, this was a good way to see, it’s only been over a week for some people (kids were still in school a week Friday just gone. Pubs, work, ect shut down that Friday too). I’m on day 11. Could it still pass with people exercising, doing shopping still, ect? These are uncharted waters.

markg · March 30, 2020, 10:41pm

Fuck is it only day 11?

nazoreth · March 31, 2020, 7:34am

Man I love that you posted this. I’ve argued with so many people and their bullshit about things like that. “y2k was an overreaction” it’s the same people saying that brexit won’t be that bad, in which case it’ll be because of hard work to make it less shit. Same goes for y2k, same goes for corona

BvS · March 31, 2020, 9:28am

Cant remember where I read it but it was a really long article about the whole 72K bug thing, basically saying that 20 years out, it all seems like a bit of a joke. But actually, if it wasn’t for the huge amounts of work being down in the background by IT and Tech people at the time, society would legitimately have broken down.

42069666 · March 31, 2020, 9:32am

So that’s where he went after Flip

ihatethegeneralpublic · March 31, 2020, 10:01am

ONS figures show more deaths related to Covid-19 in England and Wales than previously reported

Great.

Mush · March 31, 2020, 10:03am

Not read it yet but is that people who died who happened to have the virus present in their system not died as a direct result of it?

Snurp · March 31, 2020, 10:06am

Deaths lag behind cases, they expect deaths to continue increasing for a while even after rate of reported cases slows down. But there will also be people dying without having cases confirmed so it might not track perfectly

ihatethegeneralpublic · March 31, 2020, 10:17am

These new figures include corona victims who did not die in hospitals, so I guess this data takes longer to come out than from hospitals.