Coronavirus (OLD)

Originally Posted by Pierre

I posted something similar weeks ago. There was piece questioning whether it was worth taking the economy and piling up huge debt to save what might only be a few hundred thousand people.

I suppose choosing not to sacrifice the vulnerable is what makes us human.

It's also about the knock-on impact of the NHS overwhelmed by those hundreds of thousands of people which would certainly lead to other deaths elsewhere. You don't know for sure how high that death toll would be.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Pierre

I posted something similar weeks ago. There was piece questioning whether it was worth taking the economy and piling up huge debt to save what might only be a few hundred thousand people.

I suppose choosing not to sacrifice the vulnerable is what makes us human.

Yes it was rubbish then and it is now. 'only few hundred thousand people dead' ???

As I think Hugh said, the economy has collapsed and recovered before, unlike dead people.

Originally Posted by Mr K

Yes it was rubbish then and it is now. 'only few hundred thousand people dead' ???

As I think Hugh said, the economy has collapsed and recovered before, unlike dead people.

It’s Easter this Sunday

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Chris

It’s Easter this Sunday

Someone else that came out when he wasn't supposed to!

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Originally Posted by Mr K

'only few hundred thousand people dead' ???
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300,000, for example, using cold numbers, is a tiny fraction of the population.

[jonbxx]

Originally Posted by Chris

I’m not questioning any of that. Simply the practicality of some of the specific suggestions Viners has made around the partial reopening of schools, which betray a complete lack of understanding of how British school premises are designed and utilised, and how children behave when they’re denied the chance to blow off steam in the playground.

Missus is volunteering at the local key workers school where the staff/pupil ratios, maximum room occupancy and other infection control measures are absolutely insane (in a good way). The building is a school with a capacity of a little under 200 and it is presently able to accommodate something like 40 children in order for social distancing to be maintained.

I agree that in the current form, schools could not perform the social distancing done by Taiwan which included staggered classes and children not moving from room to room but the teachers coming to their class instead (actually my daughters secondary school does do this for their first year) But it is food for thought that there are possibilities out there that have been shown to work.

Staggered classes does sound like an interesting concept. For example, let Years 9 and 11 (4th year and lower 6th of secondary school in old money) start sooner to crack on with their GCSEs and A levels and let other years go part time, maybe one day a week each in the first instance (Years 10 and 12 have finished now of course)

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Pierre

300,000, for example, using cold numbers, is a tiny fraction of the population.

And if one of them is a relative of yours? (one of the ones you like that is ). 300k deaths would affect a lot more people than the 300k. Some things you can't put a price on.

[jfman]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Someone else that came out when he wasn't supposed to!

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300,000, for example, using cold numbers, is a tiny fraction of the population.

It may well be a tiny fraction of the population but you are ignoring the economic impact of Coronavirus before lockdown.

Consumer confidence tanks if you tell people there's a chance that they, or their loved ones, could die unnecessarily. Added on top millions of infections, sick leave and people taking time off to look after ill family members and kids.

At a global level the economy is a big pozni scheme anyway. States can easily underwrite people's living standards through lockdown and everyone comes out the other side with the same job and wealth as before if they really wanted to. However, as Moggs investment firm pointed out, there's money to be made during a crisis.

For the Nth time: members should NOT insert their replies to other members, within quoted posts. It needlessly messes up message threading and confuses ongoing discussion.

vBulletin's quoting and replying functions are literally decades old and extremely well understood by everyone here. PLEASE STICK TO THEM. They are not beneath you.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Mr K

And if one of them is a relative of yours? (one of the ones you like that is ). 300k deaths would affect a lot more people than the 300k. Some things you can't put a price on.

I know that, I wasn’t advocating the premise. But on cold hard numbers....................In a cold hard world. Anyway it’s a side discussion I’m happy to leave here.

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by jfman

Yeah let's pull the plug on Boris now and just open the pubs.

[jfman]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

I can assure you Hom3r that I was being sarcastic in response to the post I quoted downplaying the seriousness of CV.

Certainly I've no intention of offending, and I hope you and your family are well at this time. Largely I was demonstrating contempt for this kind of article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/113099...dering-online/

Originally Posted by Hom3r

Umm, I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm, otherwise there would have been action taken.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by jfman

I can assure you Hom3r that I was being sarcastic in response to the post I quoted downplaying the seriousness of CV.

Certainly I've no intention of offending, and I hope you and your family are well at this time. Largely I was demonstrating contempt for this kind of article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/113099...dering-online/

The perils of sarcasm!

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by jfman

I can assure you Hom3r that I was being sarcastic in response to the post I quoted downplaying the seriousness of CV.

Certainly I've no intention of offending, and I hope you and your family are well at this time. Largely I was demonstrating contempt for this kind of article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/113099...dering-online/

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

The perils of sarcasm!

Indeed, don't do sarcasm or humour on CF. It's banned, has been for years

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by jfman

I can assure you Hom3r that I was being sarcastic in response to the post I quoted downplaying the seriousness of CV.

Certainly I've no intention of offending, and I hope you and your family are well at this time. Largely I was demonstrating contempt for this kind of article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/113099...dering-online/

Originally Posted by Paul

Umm, I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm, otherwise there would have been action taken.

Sorry, I didn't get it.

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Not only does my mum have Covid-19, she has developed Pneumonia.

She only went in with loss of feeling below the knees, which is still on going.