There are actual print articles with one female “journo” from the Mail constantly slagging her off.

I just despair for the future

https://twitter.com/BenjaminMillar/status/1215584336210038785?s=19

Posted elsewhere, but pertinent.

Murdoch cunts, after being refused an interview by a victim of the fires who lost their house, just mash three of her tweets together and remove context to say the opposite of what she said.

A large metal plate launched by an explosion at a chemical plant in Spain's autonomous Catalonia region killed a man 3km (two miles) away.

Fuckin A

acemuzzy wrote:

A large metal plate launched by an explosion at a chemical plant in Spain's autonomous Catalonia region killed a man 3km (two miles) away.

Fuckin A

That's metal.

Jesus Christ though, that's a "your number's up" situation.

The public transport network of Wuhan City (the city with the virus outbreak) has been closed been closed by the government. That seems like quite a dramatic precaution for a city with a larger population than London. This could be much bigger than it first seemed.

GooberTheHat wrote:

The public transport network of Wuhan City (the city with the virus outbreak) has been closed been closed by the government. That seems like quite a dramatic precaution for a city with a larger population than London. This could be much bigger than it first seemed.

I'm getting pretty worried about it. Why are they not telling us what this virus is? Countries around the world are taking big precautions over not letting it through

Greggs paying up to a £300 bonus to its staff due to the success of its vegan sausage rolls.

Plenty of their staff are on Universal Credit.

Due to benefit rules, Government is taxing their bonus upto 68p in the pound, meaning Greggs staff will be seeing just £75 of that 'bonus'.

Meanwhile, the boss of Sainsbury's is up for a £4M bonus, despite the company's share value falling by 22% over the last year.

Nothing, seemingly, is getting blocked on Chinese social media and government warnings and numbers are being freely spread - they are being very, very open. Quite possibly because of the fallout and backlash from trying to keep the severity of SARS under wraps.

Every case thus far, even internationally, can be tracked back to Wuhan.

The lethality of this virus doesn’t seem to be as bad as something like MERS, but the reaction to the outbreak is almost certainly so strong for a few reasons:

1. Wanting to be seen to take it seriously after SARS
2. This is Spring Festival. You cannot overestimate how bad this timing is. Literally hundreds of millions of people have been travelling on various public transport networks over the past few weeks. In terms of transmission opportunity, this is a biggun’. Every bus, every restaurant, every subway train, every plane and airport...all packed with unimaginable numbers of people, shoulder to shoulder.
3. Wuhan is a major transportation hub. Going from the south up to Nanjing? You go through Wuhan. Going from the east to Xian? Probably go through Wuhan. Every person on or off is a danger.
4. Wuhan is also an education city. It has several Top 20 universities (Wu Da, Hua Ke, Hua Shi) in it, which means a LOT of students from other provinces. This means every student that leaves Wuhan to go home is a possible means of transmission. Although, most will have already left.
5. Wuhan is one of the fastest growing cities in China and is the capital of one of the richest provinces. That means high domestic migration.
6. Wuhan people are highly educated, which means many of the locals actually work in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore etc. - like my wife - so when they return to Wuhan they become possible vectors of transmission when they return to work. Better to quarry the city.
7. Confucian family values mean that family trumps everything. I said in the other thread, despite all this my wife’s mother is still pushing her to return home. It’s Spring Festival after all...it’s infuriating. And yes, this pressure exists even after the city quarantine!
8. The number of cases now outstrips the number of people who could have feasibly come into contact with the infection at site zero (a seafood market). It seems easier to catch than many other coronaviruses.
9. Infections and deaths seem to be doubling every couple of days. It needs to be stopped in its tracks.
10. Despite massive investment and training post-SARS, most clinics and hospitals just aren’t equipped for this kind of outbreak. A lot of early cases at the beginning of the month were seemingly missed.

That’s what I can think of off the top of my head.

In all seriousness, it doesn’t seem THAT bad. It’s just the worst timing, and one of the worst cities for it to happen to. Spring Festival is super important and Wuhan is a monster of a city (lived there for 5 years). I couldn’t imagine a worse combination.

Take care of yourself Cinty, and lock the missus up.

I’m currently on the south coast, in Shenzhen. Just moved here a few months ago from Haikou, which is an island on the south coast. Before that was Wuhan.

It’s a big old country.

Shenzen's near Hong Kong right?
Stay safe Cinty, those new Corona strains sound nasty.

Wife has opted to stay here, thankfully. Multiple cities and towns in Hubei in lockdown now. Hopefully the city quarantines work...

Yup. That's good news. Stay safe mate.

It has 1,000 beds.