The Coronavirus thread.

[Chippy_Tea]

Check this out 'Our busiest day in memory': Rural areas inundated with visitors escaping COVID-19 and before anyone says it yes i did talk about sandwiches and a flask of tea in a quite spot, glad i didn't go

Total lock-down is on the way and these idiots will have caused it.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Opportunistic Scum -


A man has appeared in court charged with making fake kits which claimed to treat Covid-19.

Frank Ludlow, 59, was arrested in a post office near his home in West Sussex on Friday, the City of London Police said.

He was arrested by the force's Intellectual Property Crime Unit after it was contacted by US counterparts.

The kits allegedly contained harmful chemicals which people were being told to use to rinse their mouths with.

Mr Ludlow has been charged with one count of fraud by false representation, one count of possession of articles for use in fraud and one count of unlawfully manufacturing a medicinal product.

He appeared before Brighton Magistrates' Court on Saturday and was remanded in custody until 20 April, police said.

Police officers have urged people to seek advice only from a registered healthcare professional.

Tariq Sarwar, from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, also said people should only buy medicines they need from an authorised seller.

He added when buying online to beware of illegitimate websites and suspicious URLs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-51991245

 

[DavieC]

Any body read this book?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Too small to read.

 

[nige]

God knows what I'll be eating as travelodge has closed its bar and food and no spoons to go too. I will find something

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Too small to read.

A quick google of the book title makes me glad i couldn't, to save people time searching its a conspiracy theory saying this virus is man made.

(CNN)The coronavirus is officially a global pandemic, so naturally, people are feeding their anxieties by voraciously consuming movies and books about other outbreaks.
Some of them bear eerie similarities to what's happening right now, prompting some people on the internet to claim that certain storytellers "predicted" the spread of coronavirus.
One particularly striking example comes from a thriller novel by Dean Koontz called "The Eyes of Darkness."
In a tweet that has since been widely shared, someone said that Koontz had predicted the coronavirus outbreak based on a screenshot of a page in the book. But to say that Koontz saw all this coming is a bit of a stretch. A novel is a work of fiction, after all.
"To understand that," Dombey said, "you have to go back twenty months. It was around then that a Chinese scientist named Li Chen defected to the United States, carrying a diskette record of China's most important and dangerous new biological weapon in a decade. They call the stuff 'Wuhan-400' because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside the city of Wuhan, and it was the four-hundredth viable strain of man-made microorganisms created at that research center."

First, it's worth pointing out that in the original 1981 edition of "The Eyes of Darkness," this biological weapon was called "Gorki-400," in reference to a Russian locality. The name of the weapon was changed to "Wuhan-400" when the book was released again in 1989, according to the South China Morning Post.
It's true that the current coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, China. But the idea that the virus was created in a lab is actually a conspiracy theory that originated from unverified social media accounts and has since been widely dismissed by scientists from both China and the West.
Experts are still trying to figure out the exact source of the virus, but research indicates that it likely originated in bats and was transmitted to an intermediate host before jumping to people -- just like its cousin that caused the 2003 SARS epidemic.

In the book, the virus has a 100% mortality rate
In a later paragraph, the character Dombey goes on to say that no one infected with virus survives:
"And Wuhan-400 has other, equally important advantages over most biological agents. For one thing, you can become an infectious carrier only four hours after coming into contact with the virus. That's an incredibly short gestation period. Once infected, no one lives more than twenty-four hours. Most die in twelve. Wuhan-400's kill rate is one hundred percent."
That's not the case with the coronavirus.
First off, people infected by the coronavirus tend to develop symptoms about five days after exposure, and almost always within two weeks, according to a recent study.
Secondly, the mortality rate for coronavirus is not even close to 100%.
While the virus can be fatal, it's mostly the elderly and those with a weakened immune system or other health conditions who face more serious risks.
Officials estimate the death rate for the virus to be around 3% to 4% globally, based on the information they have, though they expect that number to fall.
So while Koontz may be a captivating writer, he's no psychic.

 

[DavieC]

I'll try again, it was a screenshot.My mate sent it to me......

 

[DavieC]

Mentions a bioweapon called 'Wuhan 400'

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I'll try again, it was a screenshot.My mate sent it to me......

Mentions a bioweapon called 'Wuhan 400'

I have posted the picture and an explanation in post 984

 

[obscure]

It would also be an extremely poor bio weapon, a virus that kills within 24hours and cannot survive more than a minute without a human host. I‘m not entirely sure how this is, supposed to spread.

Sadly it still wont stop conspiracies theories popping up telling us that it is a (US/Chinese/Russian/the illuminati) delete as appropriate who are out to get us.

 

[DavieC]

Ah , read your post now Chippy,

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Sadly it still wont stop conspiracies theories popping up telling us that it is a (US/Chinese/Russian/the illuminati) delete as appropriate who are out to get us.

To be hones i am amazed there are not hundreds of these theory's out already.

 

[Slid]

It's "Mother's Day" tomorrow.

For those who want their kids to get onto the "property ladder", I suggest that you take the whole tribe over to see grandma and granddad.

Of course, maybe over in the USA the people are buying guns and ammo in order to fight off such visits!

Well that did amuse me.
The whole idea of prioritising the elderly and infirm over the future is just nauseating.

 

[MyQul]

To be hones i am amazed there are not hundreds of these theory's out already.

They're probably are if you were to look in some of the more odder corners of the interweb

 

[Chippy_Tea]

They're probably are if you were to look in some of the more odder corners of the interweb

Do you mean the snug?

 

[strange-steve]

Jeez this picture made me sad.

 

[Mr_S_Jerusalem]

Well, it’s a wierd day I think.
I’ve made Christmas pudding wine, and I’ve spent most of the day in a great mood because I managed to wrangle 12 eggs from Sainsbury’s.

literally, eggs.

these are strange times lol

also I legit just saw that photo and that is some depressing **** right there

 

[Rodcx500z]

Shocking absolutly shocking, we live in a f--ked up world

 

[Chippy_Tea]

https://i.postimg.cc/02VZFYTy/wwwwwwwww.jpg

 

[obscure]

Well, it’s a wierd day I think.
I’ve made Christmas pudding wine, and I’ve spent most of the day in a great mood because I managed to wrangle 12 eggs from Sainsbury’s.

literally, eggs.

these are strange times lol

also I legit just saw that photo and that is some depressing s**t right there

But it is the little things, like being able to easily get tinned tomato’s, or being able to stop off for a quick half pint on the way back from work. Heck being able to decide today I think I will have chicken curry rather than I will hopefully be able to get some kind of meat and depending on what is available will curry it.