UK Government to pay 80% of wages for those not working in coronavirus crisis
Do you have hard data to confirm the increase of goverment control over the years and the decline of freedom?
djozz, I will be watching with interest what replies there are to that
There is actually an edit button… you can correct your previous post. Just sayin’. 
Pretty remarkable, for Italy, Spain, and France. Also, considering how large is China… “Italy’s death toll from coronavirus pandemic rose to 3,405 overtaking total number of deaths so far registered in China.” That’s the total death count. So ratio wise, given population size of China, it’s no wonder why Italy is at the top of the list. Hopefully it’ll level off quickly from here and then promptly drop off as people realize the dangers enough to self-isolate.
@ xevious.
thats right ,thanks but it will make the following answers unreal-
to much concatenations.
I’m sure the Russian members know better than us what their elected government does .
Anybody knows how this virus is being dealt with in North Korea ,
Any North Korea members here?
Let’s keep it at this than
This might actually help, a few warning shots from the police and military might get people to self isolate better.
While bullets don’t actually improve hearing ability they do increase listening.
A study I read from South Korea showed the 20-29 age group to have the highest infection rate. Around here that is the age group that seems to have the most people that don’t seem to care. It took a large police presence to stop a large St. Patrick’s day celebration near one of the universities.
Just remembering the topic of the thread:
Coronavirus discussion thread
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
—Rahm Emanuel
Try not to flinch when people put their old grimy cloth grocery bags in the carts and then on the check out counter, even the homeless have to use them in states that banned stores from handling and supplying the clean grocery bags.
It’s that filthy credit card machine you should worry about. Even if you brought a sanitizing wipe for the touchscreen, you still need to thrust your card into the hole of a million pokes.
(grinning)
Use Samsung Pay or an alternative, then just keep wiping down the phone.
Wear nitrile gloves.
Or just carry on as normal!
Hi everyone, I removed the recent offensive/controversial/political posts in this thread, please go back and edit or delete comments that quoted him. Thanks.
Corrected your quote! In my little city I think overall people are taking it seriously enough and keeping their distance from each other. Even though I still haven't made up my mind with all this, I'm doing the same because we have a lot of elderly here and we all need to do our best to watch out for them just in case. This cdc influenza estimate for this flu season still makes me think nothing out of the ordinary is happening. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
It will not make your mind, but it may help having another perspective!
Not everything has to be about numbers.
Weird stuff here in Finland…
They had some ski resorts open in Lapland up until yesterday.
We have been adviced not to stay on large groups, travel etc. and guess what?
There was a meeting of 125 doctors (!) there and one has been tested positive -> 20+ out of 125 of them are now quarantined. They recommend quarantining all of them.
At least 6 have some symptoms.
I mean, “they should know better”, righ?
But anyway, education does not guarantee that you actually are smart 
I go by this.
The more they force it down your throat, the more they are hiding.