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Having done a bit of reading on the hand sanitizer "debate", it seems a gel with about 60% alcohol will do the job 

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/election-polling-locations.html

Soap is very good as the disease has a fat covering (not the scientific name for it) that detergent breaks down. That means regularly washing your hands will be a big plus.

As soap seems our best defence I fear this may mean RIP Green Brigade. :( Good night sweet princes. 

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18 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

All sports fixtures from now until April as to be played behind closed doors.

You've got far more chance of catching it in a busy pub watching it on the telly than a half empty football ground. And if you have it, spreading it to a lot of people. Daft if true.

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You've got far more chance of catching it in a busy pub watching it on the telly than a half empty football ground. And if you have it, spreading it to a lot of people. Daft if true.
As posted earlier, folk have to be at least one metre apart in bars, maximum capacities have been revised and police are doing the rounds.
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3 hours ago, eez-eh said:

At the shop earlier and the shelves of soap had been absolutely ravaged, think there was about 2 bottles left.

People are fannies.

I started stocking up two weeks  ago, if you're no fast you're last. 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, DiegoDiego said:
4 hours ago, welshbairn said:
You've got far more chance of catching it in a busy pub watching it on the telly than a half empty football ground. And if you have it, spreading it to a lot of people. Daft if true.

As posted earlier, folk have to be at least one metre apart in bars, maximum capacities have been revised and police are doing the rounds.

Can't imagine that working in Inverness, far less Italy.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/who-says-coronavirus-death-rate-is-3point4percent-globally-higher-than-previously-thought.html

W.H.O suggest the death rate in China may have been 3.4% of those infected. This is the country we have by far the best data for. But it has an ageing demographic (this will become a major political and social problem in the coming two decades, but that goes for much of the developed world). They also had a period of no real monitoring or proper control due to it emerging there. Also they have incredibly bad pollution that may have an impact on it as it is a respiratory disease. 

Italy seems to have a higher mortality rate than other countries. Perhaps this is due to it being endemic and transmission now from person to person in Italy mean its hitting a different demographic to other countries where most cases are being acquired by people visiting places like Italy and China, this will mean mostly people who are business\travelling age. So perhaps less of the elderly than a general western demographic?

We are many weeks from this taking hold in the general population even if it does become established here. So now we have had the initial news burst there is going to be something of a quiet period of most transmissions being from abroad, we will likely start seeing know it alls try to dismiss this as an over reaction, "just another flu" or something. Especially in the tabloid media. 

The best data we have says this is a serious problem if it get established. 

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