Oh I'm still prepared to mock anyone suggesting that this is going to kill in numbers like the Spanish flu or preppers who think society is going to collapse and that toilet paper is vital for survival.heydaralon wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:54 pmMonty, I'm disappointed in you. Initially, you shared in my mockery of Corona fears. Now you are towing the party line with this scare tactic propaganda.Montegriffo wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 4:33 pmAs Smitty pointed out, the UK is trying to avoid jumping the shark too early. We are up to 4 weeks behind some parts of Europe in terms of the spread of the virus. We also have a different demographic to Italy in terms of the average age of the population. We also have far fewer old people living with their extended families like they do in other countries and we don't do all that kissing each other on the cheek that the Latin nations do.heydaralon wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:56 pm
Fair enough, but as Smitty pointed out, why is the UK not shutting down the way America is? Its not like the UK is some Isolationist Hermit Kingdom. They are just as exposed as America is to COVD. Clearly, their experts don't agree with America's. The media here is adding fuel to this fire so it burns like a Kuwaiti oil well. They are stirring up some shit. Ironically, this may just be the push that is needed for our wall to be built.
A wall would do wonders to stop Coronavirus. Especially if it was made very tall and thick, with a minefield on either side. A moat+a fleet of drones which pick up heat signatures and Ultraviolet light could identify Corona well, as the Rio Grande creates tropical conditions ideal for its incubation.
I've been in small bars in France where every new person who walks through the door will go around every table kissing everyone, whether they know them or not. I found it rather intrusive as it kept breaking up any conversations you were having and eventually got quite irritated by it. It is, however, a cultural difference that may have the effect of putting the UK a few weeks behind the curve in this virus.
It's not that the UK isn't going to impose the same restrictions as the rest of Europe, we are just going to do it later.
It is sad to see.
You are at least 30 years to young to worry about COVD. So don't. I probably have worse health than you, and I'm not worried. You should see people here. They are panicking at the stores as if toilet paper industry is going out of business. Its not like their power will go out, yet they buy water, because that is how they panicked during the hurricanes. They buy stupid bullshit. They have closed down campuses. It is absolutely pathetic. America put a man on the moon and stormed Sicily, Normandy, and Okinawa. And these losers are their descendents. Un-fucking-believable.
Every year there is at least one or two societal panics, and every year they amount to a hill of beans. You should know better because you have been around a bit longer. Its just silliness man, and there is a time for it, but the time is not now. Now is the time for serious mockery of those folks. Don't drink the Koolaid Mate. We need you here and now on the MHF.
I'm a moderate though, I believe the truth lies somewhere between apocalypse and nothing burger. In terms of body count the final figure may be in the tens of thousands or possibly hundreds of thousands but nowhere near the nonsensical figures of hundreds of millions like StA was trying to suggest.
I've said all along that the economy is going to be the biggest victim but I'm OK with that. Gaia requires a cut in frivolous travel and unnecessary consumerism so I can find a silver lining in that.
Serious pandemics in the past such as the Black Death or Spanish flu have had major influences on society, some good many bad. If the worst thing to happen here is an overdue adjustment of the stock market, some airlines collapsing and Capps being pissed off about missing some homoerotic grappling I think we will regard it as getting off lightly.
We can always tax the rich to pay for government compensation packages or go back to austerity for another decade.
Oh and its Monte not Monty you retard.