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[alphorn] 06/4/2020 13:29

Also very cynical posts on cures etc. Research to look at what has been done for what used to be common illnesses.

[alphorn] 06/4/2020 13:23

Some very cynical posts on pharma. Vaccine development, testing, approval and production takes many many months. There is little point in developing a vaccine for a new season when the virus has mutated. Trying to catch your tail.

[jimarilo] 06/4/2020 13:21

I don't mind Trump and he is TV gold, the stuff he comes out with is just hilarious.....we got a hospital ship coming to NY......it's big ship, great big white ship, with a great big red cross on the side, big red cross

We gat the ventilators, thousands of ventilators, maybe more and and they're ready to rock

I wana thank the nurses and the doctors, all the people that are helping....not me, no not me ..forget about me just the nurses and the doctors...David Brent style ;-)

This was another hilarious interview, but was talking sense in his own way lol

[minerve 2] 06/4/2020 12:42

Coronavirus: Pastor who decried 'hysteria' dies after attending Mardi Gras

Sounds like Pierre. LOL

[xxxxxy] 06/4/2020 11:50

To clarify 586. It is obesity that causes such wastage. Obesity is a factor regarding this virus complication too.

[porsche1945] 06/4/2020 11:48

UK banks uninvestable, the financial crash, austerity, the brexit fiasco for years and now this, US banks were back to where they were before 08 even with low rates and still paying dividends. Why buy cxxp like this when you can buy Goldman Sachs. Iv given up buying UK shares, place is just doomed.

[xxxxxy] 06/4/2020 11:45

Wish Boris a full and healthy recovery.Boris is a HERO.No Deal

[xxxxxy] 06/4/2020 11:44

Let's Save the Economy. Without an economy the NHS dies.

[xxxxxy] 06/4/2020 11:42

AnonymousPosted April 6, 2020 at 5:37 am | PermalinkThe NHS employees I do know have said that work has never been quieter.We did not shut down a single cake factory, much less the whole economy when the NHS declared the obesity epidemic the #1 killer with deaths dwarfing those of Covid 19.I had my half hourly dose of soviet NHS worship on BBC radio 2 this morning. I had to turn it off. It's starting to sound quite creepy.Soon people will envy those with a regular pay cheque and work and will especially resent those who tell them to relax and stay at home but who don't have to worry about paying the mortgage.The NHS was never under funded – it was just overwhelmed with an avoidable condition it actively encouraged by excusing it as a 'disease' and by doling out pills for it. We might have had money for PPE had it not been for this.

[aljm] 06/4/2020 11:40

on a completely different subject, i am thinking if we can hold somewhere at this level this week, we might have found bottom ? (27-30p)

[xxxxxy] 06/4/2020 11:36

oldtimerPosted April 6, 2020 at 6:07 am | PermalinkSounds sensible to me. The object of the shutdown was to flatten the curve to give the NHS time to prepare more specialist facilities to deal with Covid-19. We were advised the three weeks should be enough to help break the transmission rate. The majority of people have taken the trouble to self isolate and keep a safe distance. We are told the results of the first comprehensive survey (by Porton Down) will be available early this week. That evidence and the actual rate of reported infections/hospital admission/deaths this coming week should provide evidence on which to base a decision to return to normality. At some point that return to normality must be achieved. Those who think it must wait on the development of an effective vaccine are whistling in the dark. The economy and possibly social order will have imploded before then.

[pierre oreilly] 06/4/2020 11:24

Yes lade, what you highlight is why i say there can be no exit strategy atm.

The gov and i think people in general, will never accept that to go outside and wonder around the shops or parks or watch football matches requires an acceptance of a risk that you'll get wiped out by covid.

Until that very obvious statement is accepted, no exit is possible.

People don't realise that 'risk' can be tiny, and we risk our lives everyday. We take a tiny risk that an aircraft wont crash on our heads, or that we'll get the flu, or get stabbed or get runover by a bike on the pavement.

And anyhow, even if there is a relatively substantial risk of death like a 95 year old going on a cruise, why shouldn't he be able to take that risk? The reward could be a week of luxury with the risk or a week of torture without the risk.

[guss] 06/4/2020 11:23

Surely the biggest financial impact is going to come after lockdown when the government stops giving out free money and ??% of people have no jobs to go back to.

For the last decade, or even longer, business plans have been based on massive loans with practically no interest repayments.

I guess getting further loans with little positive outlook for the near future will be very difficult. Banks have been way too soft supporting zombie companies and making the savers and shareholders pay for it.

Is the message to the people now:
Don’t save, don’t invest, don’t bother with a pension because when the sh1t hits the fan you will pay for all the party animals that have spent with abandon and had a good time at your expense.

[dexdringle] 06/4/2020 11:16

Cancellation of dividends is NOT to give banks more money to lend. It is to provide an amount to be used to offset against increased lending losses.

[ladeside] 06/4/2020 11:06

Yes aljm, Same goes for the likes of Bus Drivers and Supermarket / shop workers etc. The concentration obviously won't be as bad for them but if they're working in a hotspot area, then they too will be under threat you'd think also.

Pierre, Yes, there's no doubt that a prolonged lockdown will have serious psychological effects on many with the suicide rate increasing massively and also violent assaults / altercations hugely on the rise.

[ignoble] 06/4/2020 11:04

Indeed, I share your thoughts

[aljm] 06/4/2020 11:01

Elbee, spot on, i heard someone say the other day, if you want to feel better about Covid 19, turn off MSM, MSM is terrifying the life out of people, they have to be bought to heel, they are out of control, normally with inaccurate statements.....

[aljm] 06/4/2020 10:58

"I think, and always have done, that stress is a very underestimated killer." that to me, is one of most accurate statements that a huge amount of people do not realise, mental state is so important, i now work with a professional sportsman on that subject, he is one of the very top in his field , but the mental side of him, lets him down, if you can control your mind, you can achieve anything, it is so hard to do though...

[mr.elbee] 06/4/2020 10:58

dead on,Pierre...but they all know what you write..It is care 101.

No this constant worry campaign saves on front line forces.

so to protect yourself from the virus that is the media.

TURN IT ALL OFF.