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53 minutes ago, superbigal said:

Belgium has the highest number of daily coronavirus deaths per head of population of any country in the world - but ministers say this is only because they are being more transparent with their data.

The European nation had reported 4,857 deaths from coronavirus as of Thursday, an increase of 417 in 24 hours, despite having a relatively small population of 11.6million people.

But, unlike many of its European neighbours, it is counting deaths outside of hospital and deaths where the patient had coronavirus symptoms but had not been tested in those figures.

These deaths account for almost half of Belgium's total, meaning that the true scale of coronavirus deaths in other countries could be double the official figures if that trend is replicated elsewhere. 

Have we not started doing that now as well ?

"We" as in Scotland.

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3 minutes ago, get_the_subbies_on said:

Great stuff. A task force to develop a vaccine. Should we not have been working in this already?

I think this is more to get all of those working on it together. You often end up with different institutions doing their own thing, especially as they’ll be thinking down the road at funding etc.

This is actually probably a good thing as it takes out any competitive element and means that they’ll all be working together.

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12 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

Look on the bright side, once we get testing up to 100,000 per day it should only take a year and a half to test everyone.

Test everyone once.  Or twice if the mortality climbs to 50%.

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3 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

Sharma keeps saying "Great" after every answer from either of the other two.

"More people are going to die." "Great."

He’s a Tory, they probably think it is great.

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37 minutes ago, Forest_Fifer said:

Just looked at the latest daily NHS England stats, of the 738 deaths reported, they break down as 138, 320, 109, 45, 21, 11, 17 for the last 7 days from yesterday backwards, with the others prior to 10th April. The peak still appears to have been 8th April.

Are we pursuing a hit n hope strategy. 

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2 minutes ago, Snafu said:

And then there's this ..............

Cam Girls Can Barely Keep Up with Quarantine Demand

"I can't just spend the whole month dildo-ing myself."

If you're going to be stuck at home for the foreseeable future, you might as well enjoy yourself. And looking at the booming traffic to adult sites like Pornhub and Onlyfans, that's clearly been the thought process for the thousands of people trying to beat lockdown loneliness one jerk at a time.

We spoke to four cam girls about how all this is affecting both their bank balances and their hopes for any semblance of a healthy work-life balance.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/epg9xp/cam-girls-quarantine-demand

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"Since websites like Pornhub have made their content free during the lockdown, people expect the same of us. I actually offer a 'lockdown pack' – it's €34 instead of €39

Aye hen, what a bargain.

 

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1 minute ago, welshbairn said:

Bet when they relax the rules and encourage vulnerable groups to continue to self isolate while the rest can go out normally again, some pubs will try using the BAME stats as a colour bar.

You think pubs will refuse entry to black people?

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1 minute ago, Todd_is_God said:

You think pubs will refuse entry to black people?

Some will try. Mind you they'd have to do the same on age which would probably make it unworkable for their average clientele in the kind of pubs I mean. Pandemics are ripe for racist blame and risk scapegoating throughout history. 

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3 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

Some will try. Mind you they'd have to do the same on age which would probably make it unworkable for their average clientele in the kind of pubs I mean. Pandemics are ripe for racist blame and risk scapegoating throughout history. 

I think house arrest has sent you potty.

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