I like COVID 19

[Caballus]

Every second you spend dwelling on the past is a second of your present that you are missing.

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

Edit, with a more relevant version: "In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill changed the quote slightly when he said (paraphrased), 'Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. '"

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[Gregs24]

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

Edit, with a more relevant version: "In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill changed the quote slightly when he said (paraphrased), 'Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. '"

Entirely compatible with the first quote.

 

[Caballus]

Entirely compatible with the first quote.

Indeed, so we learned from our experience with that tyrannical government and established structures and procedures to protect against such a thing happening in the future. Thank you King George III. Glad you finally get it.

 

[Gregs24]

Yes, stuck because despite your insistence on answers you have provided no insights whatsoever:


What is the situation in the UK right now with reference to COVID? What of the response imperfect? What can others learn from it? What facts did the article misstate? Mind sharing?

Report from today's briefing for your consumption

On today's government briefing...

The numbers are still climbing but they’re not climbing increasingly quickly. The subtlety is in the rate. If something is increasing increasingly quickly that means it’s growing exponentially.

They're saying hospitalisation is a steady climb. Therefore we're not seeing an acceleration. That’s reassuring because even though the numbers are big we won’t see even more numbers today or tomorrow which would be the case with an increasing rate. That is kind of encouraging.

One thing they said which jumped out at me is the R0 [number of people infected by each person] value - on the basis of measures being taken - was now below 1. But Neil Ferguson’s [a professor monitoring the outbreak] modelling suggests the data across Europe would put that number somewhere around 1.4, down from about 4.

We may not be out of the woods yet. The evidence will come in about two weeks time. We’ll see what our interventions are achieving. We’re all hoping we don't see any more increases. We hope we see peak virus and then it will begin to dwindle.

 

[Caballus]

Report from today's briefing for your consumption

On today's government briefing...

The numbers are still climbing but they’re not climbing increasingly quickly. The subtlety is in the rate. If something is increasing increasingly quickly that means it’s growing exponentially.

They're saying hospitalisation is a steady climb. Therefore we're not seeing an acceleration. That’s reassuring because even though the numbers are big we won’t see even more numbers today or tomorrow which would be the case with an increasing rate. That is kind of encouraging.

One thing they said which jumped out at me is the R0 [number of people infected by each person] value - on the basis of measures being taken - was now below 1. But Neil Ferguson’s [a professor monitoring the outbreak] modelling suggests the data across Europe would put that number somewhere around 1.4, down from about 4.

We may not be out of the woods yet. The evidence will come in about two weeks time. We’ll see what our interventions are achieving. We’re all hoping we don't see any more increases. We hope we see peak virus and then it will begin to dwindle.

Good luck. Hope the numbers stay down. Ours are still rising and as the President and his advisors noted, are not likely to peak for a couple of weeks.

 

[Docscurlock]

I do

Then why the misunderstanding about the decentralization of our country?

 

[Docscurlock]

Every second you spend dwelling on the past is a second of your present that you are missing.

Failure to understand the past will ensure that you repeat your mistakes.

 

[Qcman17]

Report from today's briefing for your consumption

On today's government briefing...

The numbers are still climbing but they’re not climbing increasingly quickly. The subtlety is in the rate. If something is increasing increasingly quickly that means it’s growing exponentially.

They're saying hospitalisation is a steady climb. Therefore we're not seeing an acceleration. That’s reassuring because even though the numbers are big we won’t see even more numbers today or tomorrow which would be the case with an increasing rate. That is kind of encouraging.

One thing they said which jumped out at me is the R0 [number of people infected by each person] value - on the basis of measures being taken - was now below 1. But Neil Ferguson’s [a professor monitoring the outbreak] modelling suggests the data across Europe would put that number somewhere around 1.4, down from about 4.

We may not be out of the woods yet. The evidence will come in about two weeks time. We’ll see what our interventions are achieving. We’re all hoping we don't see any more increases. We hope we see peak virus and then it will begin to dwindle.

We got a bit of good news yesterday that British Columbia (our first hotspot) was showing some flattening of the curve in terms of anticipated numbers versus actual. It was growing less fast. Of course we have to wait too to see if that's legit and if it carries on into other areas. But hopefully these are good omens for both of our countries and not just accidental blips.

 

[Docscurlock]

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

Edit, with a more relevant version: "In a 1948 speech to the House of Commons, Winston Churchill changed the quote slightly when he said (paraphrased), 'Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it. '"

I was typing a similar retort the same time you were.

 

[Docscurlock]

We got a bit of good news yesterday that British Columbia (our first hotspot) was showing some flattening of the curve in terms of anticipated numbers versus actual. It was growing less fast. Of course we have to wait too to see if that's legit and if it carries on into other areas. But hopefully these are good omens for both of our countries and not just accidental blips.

And this happened without militarizing our Northern Border yet

 

[Qcman17]

And this happened without militarizing our Northern Border yet

Haha well thanks be to that. We're just worried you guys might think we taste like chicken!

 

[Docscurlock]

Haha well thanks be to that. We're just worried you guys might think we taste like chicken!

If things get bad enough we are willing to eat gristly old Canadians, I'm gonna check out first.

 

[Gregs24]

Then why the misunderstanding about the decentralization of our country?

There was none - I understand the decentralisation - my query was about a disjointed approach that this may encourage

 

[Caballus]

There was none - I understand the decentralisation - my query was about a disjointed approach that this may encourage

Not disjointed, Your Highness.

 

[Gregs24]

Good luck. Hope the numbers stay down. Ours are still rising and as the President and his advisors noted, are not likely to peak for a couple of weeks.

DT does seem to have grasped it now. Two weeks may be a little optimistic.

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