I cannot say that I consider staying indoors at the moment to be a great sacrifice.
Yes, I realise that for folks stuck in a tower block with young kids, it must be seriously demanding.
However, if that is what it takes to combat this deadly virus, then I am happy to do my bit.
Indeed, I consider it to be a very minor ask in the scheme of things.
Every day there are frontline healthcare workers putting their lives on the line.
My youngest is about to join the ranks of these selfless combatants.
This is the face of courage.
If she can do that, then I can stay in the fekkin house!
Now, it is fair to say that your humble correspondent enjoys the outdoors.
The vast majority of my walk-in wardrobe here is taken up with boots, rucksacks, and the like.
Most of this kit rarely plays a role in the life of this household.
However, last winter, we had a power cut, and I appeared in the kitchen with a wind-up storm lantern and a Trangia stove.
A fairly rudimentary dinner was conjured up as the…ahem…chef wore a headtorch.
The bean chéile was almost impressed.
Yesterday the Big Fella remarked that if I had to self-isolate in my study, then I had plenty of relevant reading material!
I mentioned this to an old friend and comrade as his own work in on my bookshelf.
He was chuffed that he had a place beside Walter Macken!
The wonder of great literature is that I can open a novel and travel down an imagined road that the author has waymarked for me.
My books are old friends, and they remind me of different times.
If I have to do a stint in solitary here in Dún na nGall the I’ll have my kin looking down on me as I read.
Regular visitors to this place will know that I have family reasons for being invested in the story of Frongoch Camp.
That was the reason that it featured centrally in my stage play Rebellion.
In Ireland, we have a glorious tradition of simply ignoring inconvenient laws imposed on us by an alien authority, but lads, this is not the time for this.
Disinformation is our enemy.
Sadly, in the digital age, there are no shortage of conspiracy theorists ranting that COVID-19 is an end of the world bio-weapon being deployed by the Chinese government.
Read this and weep.
Mental…
Well, given that the virus has shut down their economy that is not too clever on the part of those boyos in Beijing.
The difference in response to the pandemic between Dublin and London has been marked.
Quite frankly, the Brits have messed up badly, and many of their people have paid with their lives.
If you doubt me, then read this.
I rarely offer advice on here, dear reader.
However, these are different times for all of us.
So please observe the lockdown wherever you are.
It does actually save lives.
Go raibh míle maith agaibh.
Flicking through the paper sports headlines on the internet this morning and astonished to find that Gabriel McKay, who wrongly stated the points gap at the top of the SPFL yesterday in the Daily Radar, has not apologised, not corrected himself and is still in a job.
Guess there is always someone who has to go for the morning rolls but even then will he get the order right, 12 or 13?
Nicola Sturgeon on tv this morning saying we need a grown up conversation regarding relaxing social distancing.
That’s a complete about face from her official position yesterday that we were going to be with social distancing into 2021. That position concurred with the UK Chief Medical Officer.
Who is pulling her strings and changing her mind overnight and going against the UK medical science position?
Surely the medical science always drives strategy and it’s NEVER a public grown up conversation? Sturgeon is flapping and all over the place.
Something like yourself.
I’m extremely disappointed with Nicola Sturgeon and her comments yesterday.
She stated we need a new normal, we need to find a way to live with Coronavirus.
We’ve only had strategies in Scotland to fight Coronavirus for four weeks. And she has given up already and thrown the towel in.
She cries at night. I’m afraid this woman cannot be trusted to make the right decisions anymore. She is too weak for this and her rationale has gone. The nation will suffer due to her weak mindset.
We must remain locked down and fight this for months if necessary. Anything else is unthinkable.
This will kill tens of thousands of she does not get herself together or replaced.
In August tens of thousands of Foreign students arrive in Scotland for Uni and college places. She needs to cancel all of them now. They will kill our elderly Currently in lockdown. Those places need to be given to Scots kids in lockdown who are safe. A bonus for scots uni applicants this year. Otherwise what’s the point of the lockdown to save thousands of lives? Sturgeon is too weak to make the big calls.
Testing and test kits are for nhs professionals and carers not footballers. The average Joe on the street looking after an old mum should get it before a pampered soccer player.
Rangers screamed no games should be played without fans. They weren’t doing it without their fans. Now they’ve completely flip flopped and are backing Aberdeen’s behind closed doors initiative. Rangers don’t know their arse from their elbow and have been a Coronavirus irresponsible club.
Second wave has started, second provence in china closed and in complete shutdown.
Now, you were saying about flu?
Covid19 is a virus. It behaves as a virus. Guess what? Flu is a virus too! Flu behaves like a virus too.
They are both viruses but Covid19 is not flu.
HIV is a virus. But guess what? It’s not flu.
Ebola is a virus too but it isn’t flu.
Do they need blood dripping from the eyes to prove Covid19 isn’t flu?
UEFA have decided today that each of the 55 top leagues (SPFL) should send them their case for not continuing their League.
UEFA have given fair guidelines for deciding titles based upon current standings.
Nicola Sturgeon, in her Green and White piping dress today has prepared Scotland for long term social distancing into 2021 and a ban on mass gatherings as the new normal.
The SPFL simply need to forward that govt advisory to UEFA and the title is Celtic’s.
Isn’t stopping those moaning faced gits on the blue side still shouting bribery and corruption?
Just a few weeks ago their season was over after the Hearts cup exit and a shocking league performance since December.
Now they reckon that Celtic are catchable!
Given the latest UK medical and science advice UK football will be shut down for months, at the very least.
With the evidence of bribery and corruption being held back by Rangers the SPFL should just call the league positions tomorrow based on current points plus average points added for the outstanding games.
Then stand by for the Ibrox club and their media friends spending the next few months claiming that it’s just not fair.
They can suck it up and instead of trying to use the pandemic as an excuse to stop 9 IAR they can dry their eyes.
Instead of wasting time asking questions of where Rangers will be spending big money in the next transfer window they should be paying more attention to the financial tsunami heading their way with Sports Direct front and centre.
I’ve yet to read anything on a blue side post that would remotely suggest that there may be trouble ahead, perhaps not suprising as the media toe the party line and print fantasy pish giving the fans a very untrue view of the reality of their situation.
It’s good to see what these guys and the educated media bring to the table in a time of crisis!
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/23/call-in-parliament-for-independent-inquiry-into-scottish-football-vote-early-day-motion-spfl?CMP=share_btn_tw
The population of the World is a problem . Open to argument …sure.
Existence of God . Also open to argument too.
Let’s assume both of the above are possibly true.
If God we’re to send a virus to cull the population then Covid 19 is the perfect choice.
Weans hardly affected. 90 per cent of deaths are 70 yrs and over . Well done God.
Influenza (which by the way naebdy gaed a toss about fir the last million years) killed 187 children In the worst modern flu epidemic 2017-18 is not a good choice , thank you God.
By the way God ; what will we do when all the man made Hysteria crashes all the economies and the poor are in famine to the level of millions ?
You first countries are fine and safe. So Black people die again .
Who gaes a …..
The population in China certainly is a problem for the Chinese economy.
The elderly are a drain on resources and so therefore in a country with a population their size this is a major problem.
For years they have attempted to control the population by restricting birth rates.
A trained monkey could work out that children are the future earners and it is the elderly who are living longer that is the real problem.
Now suppose you accidentally engineered a situation where a virus that specifically affect the elderly in a sever way was to accidentally escape a Laboratory…
They wouldn’t would they?
Just throwing that out there.
Peter Reid
Maybe you should read about the prophesies of Fatima and Quito.
As for culling the population, God doesn’t need to bother, terminating the lives of poor wee unwanted babies by humans is managing to do that without breaking sweat.
I see the New Rangers Football Club born in 2012 is trying to bully the SPFL.
Everyone and their DUP dog are being pulled out of storage to back up Park and Robertson’s lies.
Nobody should be rolling over for these desperadoes. It’s their power and influence end game. They smell their own mediocrity and the new age upon them.
Their corrupt bullying ways are laughingly coming to an end.
The DUP ffs. Zero power and influence trying to support zero power and influence.
Decent Rangers fans who support football should turn their backs on this DUP/UDA/UVF increased association with their club.
The powers at be should formally request their evidence in writing.
If that evidence is not forthcoming then they should be reprimanded for bringing the game into disrepute.
Of that happens they can either STFU or be fined,banned or ultimately booted out the League.
Gabriel McKay, whoever that is, has popped on in the Daily Rangers stating that Celtic were 12 points clear at the top of the table when the league was shut down.
It was 13 ya eejit!
This is a basic fact, easily checked by reference to the internet. Even some of the guys on the sports desk might have confirmed this for you before the article went to print, mibbee aye, mibbee naw!
This is just anothet example of the level of professionalism symptomatic within our football media.
You can picture McKay typing away on his keyboard then gets to the points difference bit, 12 or 13?, tosses a coin and goes with 12, near enough.
No surprise whatsoever when a senior colleague can fill the pages with an invented exclusive about a billionaire from Motherwell with wealth off the radar and whose still employed by the paper.
It’s little wonder that the Record and it’s ilk are on death row and it’s impossible to feel an ounce of sympathy for a clown who writes an article without heed as to the veracity of his piece when the axe finally falls.
“Fron Goch Camp 1916” Lyn Ebenezer. Nice to see that on your bookshelf.
It’s not far from me. Great bookshop in Y Bala.
I had the great pleasure of meeting the author at a centenary event in Dublin in 2016.
Nice, I’m envious. I was hoping to have a walk over there at Easter to visit the memorial plaque. Sadly it will have to wait till next year.
Fe godwn ni eto
It is one of the places I want to visit.
My grandmother’s brother Michael died before I was born.
I’m sure he was full of stories from his Frongoch days.
With Liverpool on the cusp of a first league title since season 89/90 I find it a bit strange that no one in the Scottish media has popped the obvious question of the former Liverpool and England captain.
Stevie, if the EPL is called without games being completed should Liverpool be crowned Champions?
It’s almost as if the media has been instructed not to go there but instead keep digging up former Rangers players to deny Celtic being called Champions in Scotland.
De Boer wheeled out this morning in the latest of a long line.
Oh how entertaining that would be if Stevie had to justify the award to Liverpool then tie himself in knots reversing his thought process to the situation in Scotland.
De Boer said hw thinks Celtic should be awarded the title…
Stevie will only take pre prepared questions
Do you honestly think people care what you, your children or your wife are doing? You’re a deluded idiot. Adding a cupla focal i nGaeilge, regularly spelled incorrectly from Google Translate only adds to the absurdity.
People don’t care about, Baby Doctor, The Big Fella, your camping stoves and the books you have available to read, sending us photo’s of your relatives hanging on a wall on almost a daily basis is mind bending stuff. No one gives a fuck. This is sycophantic stuff, blowing smoke up your own arsehole, chiding people to stay at home. Shut the fuck up with your shit, you stay the fuck at home, quit telling everyone else what to do. You’re a fucking two bit blogger and a writer of poor novels as sales will attest, are you such an egotistical maniac that you believe that people are going to stay at home because “Phil MacElwain told us to do so in a blog”
Get a fucking grip of yourself.
Oh dear…
Glad to see you put that PhD in Stupidity to good effect! It’s such a shame that you failed the basic English test, and were absent during diplomacy classes.
If brains were explosives, you wouldn’t even have enough to blow your nose!!
Cahair,
Theres a fascinating thought process going on there, somewhere.
Nine seperate personal insults,complete with expletives, several attacks upon the contents of the blog plus treating us all to your own opinions on as much as you can think of including (very wrongly) on Phil’s Irish language ability.
Interesting.
I’m just a bit curious, with that mindset why do you read this site?
Bangordub…I’m pretty sure someone has to read it out to him.
Cahair
What are you really angry about?
Is it that Phil has a pride of his family and maybe you have lost yours ?
And why are you repulsed by him advising social distancing ? Are you an isolated soul in need of love? Is that it?
Many of us have been there . We understand.
And don’t you like the fact that he uses “your language “ because you have prejudices ?
Who knows ? But if you want help Cagair , it’s available.
Cahair, stay home, stay safe and stay off Phil’s page. It clearly doesn’t do your blood pressure any good. HH
In the winter Flu Season 1999-2000 48,000 people died in the U.K.
No one batted an eye.
Ironic.
The highest since was 2014-15 when 44,000 people died in the U.K.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/highestnumberofexcesswinterdeathssince19992000/2015-11-25
Yes, but flu almost exclusively kills the elderly or immunocompromised people/underlying health conditions.
Covid -19 is regularly killing healthy young and middle aged adults and the NHS staff caring for them. Very unlike a flu virus. It is not an oversight that we are not being given the numbers of healthy people killed. If the figure was low they would tell us, just like they kept repeating at the start it was very old and sick patients who were dying – they have stopped saying that because it is increasingly obvious it is not true
A person is a person to me.
Just thought I would add some balance to the hysteria.
48,000 died of flu in the U.K. and no one blinked.
Just thought it worth a mention.
Here is where I am at.
The first cases to present themselves in Wuhan were mid to late November.
The first case to catch the attention of those concerned was 1st December by Dr Li Wenliang.
He was subsequently silenced by the Wuhan Chinese Govt.
On the 7th of January the WHO were informed by the CCP that only 40 cases existed and there was no transfer from Human to Human.
Then on the 21st January the WHO were informed that there were over 800 cases and it was spreading from Human to Human.
This means at least 8 weeks has passed BEFORE a lockdown in China.
China has somehow managed to keep their fatalities below 5000 in a City of 11 million and where 5-7 million passed through it (it is the Central Transport Hub of China) for the New Year Holidays.
The WHO subsequently took several more weeks to upgrade it to a Pandemic.
By that time over 100 Countries had known cases.
I am struggling to comprehend how it is a City so densely populated as Wuhan that had gone months without acting as we are now seeing other have such a low death toll.
I am also struggling to comprehend why it is the WHO took such precautions before upgrading this Pandemic to the level of Pandemic.
Not only that though I find the coincidence of Wuhan having the ONLY Level 4 Virology Laboratory in China a bit much to take.
When I consider the obvious suppression of Information both Scientific and general ,the obvious manipulation of their own death toll coupled with the delay in informing the WHO more than a tad suspicious.
Then as if that wasn’t enough there comes a report by the Washington Times stating that the US Embassy in Beijing conducted an Inspection of the Wuhan Lab and sent not 1 but 2 cables to Washington stating that not only were the Science Technicians studying Bats and Coronaviruses but that they were deeply concerned about the level of training g of some of the Employees and the poor standard of safety.
I understand fully that some might put this down to coincidence or America making mischief but the other factors highlighted would seem to at least back up the theory that China has covered a monumental disaster and come up with the only viable excuse that they can.
Bat Soup from a wet market in Wuhan.
It makes you wonder if they chose Wuhan for the location of this Lab given their previous SARS outbreak from the Level 2 Laboratory in Beijing previously in 2003/4?
The science community is fairly adamant that this virus was not Engineered in a Lab but is a naturally occurring phenomena.
The science community however cannot 100% assure anyone that the bats in question were not being studied in this Laboratory however.
The US cables in March/April 2019 would seem to suggest that it did.
Btw all trace of that Inspection has been subsequently removed from the WIV Website.
Of the 40 cases that first presented themselves originally a third of them had no connection whatsoever with the Wet Market in Wuhan.
It has been reported that 1 of these cases (believed to be the first ) was a Technician in the Wuhan Lab.
Make of that what you will.
The truth will out itself.
May I also point out that Scientific Research is heavily funded all over the World and that the Billions of Dollars being made and spent could be affecting some of the decision making surrounding this.
Regardless of how ethical you may think scientists are they are after all only human and therefore open to the same temptations as the rest of us.
Damage limitation seems to be the order of the day at the WHO and certainly at the CCP who stand to lose a Trillions in Trade should this be a disaster of their own making.
I gather there is already a Law suit of $6 Trillion being filed in the US.
This as Phil correctly points often on here is a developing story.
The Lab inspections started in Jan 2018 and the last was in March 27th 2018.
Bats and Coronavirus were being studied at that time according to the Cables sent to Washington.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/
It was in Scotland around 20th December and being transmitted between humans. There is no doubt of this. Antibody testing will prove it but there is no antibody testing in the UK. None.
Curiously other countries including the USA is anti body testing.
We need anti body testing to find blood donors with lots of anti bodies. Their blood makes blood plasma for the treatment of the sick in intensive care.
A Vaccine is the silver bullet but can you imagine nobody dying in hospital because there is a lifesaving therapy?
No antibody testing in the uk covers up it was here in Dec 2019 and the Govt wanted a Herd Immunity strategy (everybody to get it), acceptable death count.
No blood plasma means no therapy for old and sick.
I know Trump’s not everyone’s cup of tea but only my opinion but a think he was right about calling out the Chinese for this , as well as having a go at the WHO . A lot of people and organisations got caught out by the Chinese on this . And if anyone should be picking up the tab for this PANDEMIC when it’s over it’s got to be the Chinese .
Trump is a bam no doubt about it.
Thing is though having a bam in charge means we might get the truth whether the rest want a diplomatic approach or not.
I can see him hitting them square in the jaw with it if the facts point to this disaster emanating from a Laboratory that the WHO and the Scientists themselves deem adequate.
Given China’s secrecy over this my money is on that scenario playing out in the very near future.
For the avoidance of doubt…I am NOT an after dinner speaker…that was a wee fib.
What is TRUE however…is that I did speak to my wife after dinner tonight…I said…
“The totties and mince were very nice dear…Thank you.”
Does that qualify as after dinner speaking ?
If you moved your lips, then YES! 😁
Ah’ did Steven…
Does that mean ah’m no a ventriloquist…?…:0)
The UK Govt Chief Scientist stated in the daily briefing that social distancing will not end before the end of the year.
You cannot play football, even behind closed doors, with 2m social distancing.
Imagine a goalie has it on a glove. Lifts the ball passes it out. It’s on the surface of the ball. Players header the ball, players hold the ball for throw ins, or placing a free kick or penalty, they then pull each other’s shirts, they chest the ball down….
Another player has covid or two, they spit on the grass, others slide through it, or the ball runs through it.
Corner kicks you can feel the breath of defenders on your neck and face…
Two out of ten ball boy kids have got it but asymptomatic.
Forget about this season and focus on next season not starting until 2021.
The numbers are not decreasing.
If everyone gets tested in football teams how is it sporting integrity to keep key players out the match? What if two thirds of Celtic Players test positive before playing Sevco? But the whole Sevco team are clear?
Totally agree with your projection.
Hope we’re both wrong obviously…but I fear not.
Sport is unimportant and not critical and does not merit special allowances in a pandemic. To think otherwise is foolish.
People whose universe revolve around their football club need to wise up that their club is of no significance and yes can indeed be allowed to go bust.
Sports and football clubs are last in line to receive govt aid in these times.
There will be no football until there is a vaccine, and enough testing to demonstrate clearly that there is bo risk of transmission.
We still have too many cases, people are still dying, we are not testing enough and there is no vaccine. Until all of this improves to a the extent that the risks are mitigated then there will be no football played.
It’s highly unlikely that we will have the return of football I’m the next 6 months.
The problem with most of those who won’t stay in, is the misinformation. For example where I live on the south side of Edinburgh we are getting reports on the BBC ( who trusts them when they can’t tell the truth about Sevco? ) 1500 have been confirmed as having the virus with 256 deaths. ( the deaths are terrible and should not be ignored ) However these figures come from Edinburgh and the ” Lothians ” ( West . Mid and East Lothian ). There are over half a MILLION living in Edinburgh alone! So taken into context the figures are very small and even smaller when they say 10,000 deaths a year from the common cold!
So even taking Edinburgh alone 1500 out of half a million is scant reason for everyone to stay locked up with police roaming the streets stopping you to see where you are going. Then when you do go out shopping etc, there are dozens of lycra clad clowns on push bikes roaming wherever they want and not a single one stopped by the police.
If I go out in my car ( an enclosed space ) knowing I do not have the virus ( no symptoms whatsoever ) and do not get out of my car for any reason, why am I being treated differently from those on bikes? They say having an accident would put extra strain on the NHS, so surely those on a bike are more likely to fall off and get injured than me driving sensibly.
Social distancing is the ONLY thing they should be enforcing as this is the only thing they need to do to stop the spread of this virus.
I am a retired ambulance driver and worked 20 years in the job and not one single person stood and clapped, yet they think this will make things ok when the NHS staff have been shafted for years?
Time to get things into perspective and loosen the grip of over enthusiastic officers who think they can make up laws to suit themselves. ( TFB it’s mostly down south that are getting the worst of it and Police Scotland are taking a slightly easier approach. )
You don’t get it do you?
The numbers are low BECAUSE we are in lockdown.
Lockdown is keeping the numbers so low locally in most places.
YOU are arguing for no lockdown so the deaths can rise up high.
Wise up and stop comparing this to flu which it is not. Both are viral that’s the end of it.
I am for no lock down that’s true , BUT social distancing is a must. Wearing gloves and mask is just as good as total lock down. This is more than sufficient considering the numbers being quoted. As for this is not the flu. Yes it is. Only a more virulent strain.
It’s got bat dna/rna in the virus molecule. That is NOT flu.
Too many online blog medical professors who think googling and reading junk is actually informed research.
Let the CMO and Chief Scientist advise you, they know better. You know nothing.
You know nothing!
Aye, scientists know that much, they are the ones creating all these viruses, but WHY are they making them? You know NOTHING. They’re creating them for a feckin reason. Any mind that comes up with an Atomic bomb is a feckin crackpot
as far as I’m concerned. They’re sick in the feckin head messing about with all this shit, and so are people like you if you feckin believe anything a scientist says.
Twat.
Belarus? No lock down lower mortality than the UK. The media don’t just lie about Craig Whyte you know.
Belarus – nobody goes there. Low risk of someone, particularly Chinese I’d guess, bringing the infection in. Also, it’s practically a dictatorship – you really trust the information coming out of there?
What, And you trust the dictatorship of China? Hasn’t anyone noticed, Everyone is now dying of this so called covid19 which was man made in a lab.
Nobody is dying of anything else. And as
For the World Health Organization, don’t get me started on those useless bastards. Billions pumped into it every year, what is it they do exactly and who picks these jobs for the boys morons?
600,000 people die worldwide of the flu every year and 1.2 million die of TB. Where’s the feckin panic and isolation with them? This is one lot of shite.
Spot on, Phil, some people still need telling – I can’t believe the stupidity of some folk. I retired last year but was desperate not to fade away so I took on lots of community arts projects to keep me busy and took on too much. However, being forced to stay in I have really enjoyed just fannying about just doing some writing, reading (a lot) and regularly watch the bhoys hump Sevco on youtube. Lot’s of full games on there. Celtic FC put up the 1998 final day game the other day.
Anyway, it has taught me how handle this retirement lark on my own terms nae bother! I bought kindle versions of Tangled Up in Blue and Into the Bear Pit – two of the best comedies I have read in a long time. Actually, that is unfair O’Donnell’s TUIB is a well written record of the history of the racism and bigotry of Rangers 1872. Their own fans should read it, for it highlights beyond doubt that there is only one sectarian club in Glasgow, Rangers. The other is simply reactionary and, truth being told, who can blame them? I bought a hard copy of Downfall when it came out, but it resides on my cousin’s bookshelf now. Ah, well it will just need to be the great Ray Bradbury now. Keep safe and stay well everyone.
Check the measures taken and the figures from from NewZealand , nuff said.
I see, as reported in today’s Daily Rectum, that a “conspiracy theorist” from Scotland has died from covid-19. I stopped listening to these idiots years ago, when they stated that the moon landing on 20th July 1969 was an elaborate hoax, staged by Hollywood, with the “blessing” of the “illuminati”. These are the same people that, about 50 years ago, believed that Catweazle v Giant Haystacks were participating in a “sport” called wrestling!!
Wasn’t it ? Are you doubting the ethics of the wrestling community ? I’d invite you outside Sir but we’re in lockdown.
Yea men landed on the moon in 1969 yet we can’t go back today because we don’t have the technology. I agree that these covid conspiracies are batshit [pun intended] crazy, but if you actually believe we went to the moon with 1960s’ technology then you are in no position to be lecturing anyone about anything…
Step away from the keyboard, son!!
Why would i want to ‘step away from the keyboard’? Fact: Men can’t go further than 400 miles into space because we don’t have the technology to protect them from radiation…that’s a FACT…but you believe that it was possible to send men 250,000 in 1969-1972…Please explain to me how that is possible…4 inches of aly foil perhaps?
The International Space Station is in what is referred to as geostationary orbit. In order to achieve geostationary orbit, it has to be distanced some 22,236 miles from the Earth’s surface. The ISS is a manned space vehicle. No astronaut has landed back on Earth suffering from any form of radiation sickness. That information is FACT.
You sir, are a fucking eejit!!.. 400 miles, indeed! Its low like you who permeate the myth that sevco and rangers are the same club!!
Mr Rowan kindly refrain from your insults..The International Space Station is only 220-250 miles above the Earth. Next time you feel the need to insult people please make sure your ‘facts’ are correct. Now can you please educate me as to why in 2020 no human can go any further than 400 miles into space [Actually the furthest is 380 miles by one of the shuttle crews who had to make a hasty retreat as they were being bombarded with cosmic particles/rays] but yet we managed to send men 250.000 miles from 1969-1972 with inferior technology than we have today…how is that possible?
If they landed on the moon way back then, why with all the knowledge and technology have they not went back to the moon. ANSWER FOR ILLITERATES. THEY NEVER WENT THERE EVER!! Why do people believe everything a government tells them?
Do you know the temperatures of the moon?
-237 degrees, THATS MINUS 237 DEGREES or 237 degrees Fahrenheit. And you think someone walked on that. I don’t care what kind of gear they had, they’d be either FROZEN STIFF OR MELTED. Now away and give me peace.
One question Phi if the WHO say annual deaths with respiratory diseases (flu related) can be up to 650,000. Why a lock down this time around?
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2017/flu/en/
I can’t figure it out.
Under normal circumstances, influenza is “localised”, or becomes an epidemic in worst-case scenarios. That is to say, the virus may be prevalent in, say, Glasgow, spreading throughout the UK.
A pandemic, on the other hand, spreads to just about every corner of the known world. You will notice, for example, that the likes of South Georgia and the Falkland Islands have not (as far as I’m aware) declared that their population has the virus. This will be because they are isolated, with only military flights in and out of there, whereas the likes of China, Spain, Italy, Germany, USA, etc are served by regular daily flights, thus the chances of the virus becoming pandemic is more likely.
While most, if not all, commercial airlines are grounded because of this, it might be a good idea for the airline owners to sanitize and disinfect their planes, paying particular attention to the ventilation system.
650k world wide is hardly localised. The year it was that high it was caused by an ineffective vaccine. Also you have Sweden and Belarus.
The clue is in your own first sentence! Worldwide is not “localised”! It is global!!
“Localised” is when only the city of Glasgow, in my example, has the virus, but Edinburgh, Dundee, Kilmarnock, etc are virus-free.
Epidemic is when these cities, as well as Glasgow, are infected. This may also include the entire population of Scotland, and indeed, the UK.
Since we are an island nation (taking international travel out of the equation), the epidemic becomes “unique” to our country – no other country is infected.
A pandemic is when the virus becomes “uncontrollable” – that is to say, visitors to our country come into contact with a “host”, and then travels back to his/her country of residence, socialises with people who then become infected, and then travel to a third country, spreading the virus further afield.
Your “point” about Sweden and Belarus is redundant.
I give up, the sooner you are all vaccinated the better. William Gates III you have succeeded. Well done.
Covid19 would kill millions worldwide without lockdowns, social distancing, face masks, hand washing, gloves, no more hand shakes, covering a coughing mouth, etc….
The fact it’s not millions proves the mitigation’s are working and keeping the numbers low.
Stop being a mug. Are you really that fucking stupid to write that?
This is the same as First World War spanish flu pandemic. Although it isn’t flu.
The mitigation’s being carried out worldwide, which they didn’t do in 1916, plus modern medical care, is the only difference. 40 million died.
Anyone complaining is a dangerous mug.