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Post by johnc on Feb 12, 2020 7:47:36 GMT
According to the BBC this morning it looks as though the Chinese GP will be cancelled due to the Coronavirus. Much better safe than sorry.
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 12, 2020 10:49:59 GMT
Just need to cancel Abu Dhabi for being totally shit and all's well.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 11:04:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 11:09:01 GMT
They can at least turn up crazy changes of the form book with accidents and the like.
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Post by scouse on Feb 13, 2020 11:28:00 GMT
Says a lot about their confidence at containing/dealing with the outbreak if they are cancelling an event two months ahead of time.
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Post by Tim on Feb 13, 2020 12:12:20 GMT
Is it not more about incoming travel - I have a Chinese colleague whose flights home in late March have already been cancelled by BA.
that'd screw up the teams' chances of getting there.
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Post by Ben on Feb 13, 2020 14:39:05 GMT
Says a lot about their confidence at containing/dealing with the outbreak if they are cancelling an event two months ahead of time. It is fairly serious though. Over 1000 deaths now in China. For what it's worth they're doing a decent enough job containing it within their country so far, although I can foresee this virus getting out of hand fairly quickly. |
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 13, 2020 16:29:10 GMT
Considering the annual mortality rate in China is 7.11 per 1,000, 1000 deaths is a minor bit of nothing compared to the 10.15 Million deaths per annum from all causes. Still: let's not defer a mass panic.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2020 19:16:59 GMT
With a population of approximately 1.4 trillion people the number is less shocking but, if one of those deaths is in your family even one is too many.
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Post by Roadrunner on Feb 13, 2020 23:47:36 GMT
The world population could do with some thinning out anyway, so look on the bright side...
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Post by Ben on Feb 14, 2020 10:09:05 GMT
1000 deaths in under a month from a single cause is grim, IMO
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 14, 2020 10:51:46 GMT
Nope. This is grim: virus.stanford.edu/uda/That's somewhere between 1.666Million and 3.333Million deaths a month in the course of a year in a worldwide population base much smaller than today. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2020 12:00:11 GMT
Considering health is generally better along with better diet and mostly better homes, a thousand deaths is pretty grim. Apples and oranges.
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 14, 2020 13:18:04 GMT
256,000 traffic related deaths in China in the latest reported year. that's 21,000 totally avoidable deaths in a month every month.
1,000 deaths is still nothing in comparison to many other ways to die unnecessarily.
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Post by Tim on Feb 14, 2020 14:22:28 GMT
Don't the Americans manage to kill 45,000 of each other using guns each year?
That's nearly 4,000 a month and, again, totally avoidable.
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Post by Ben on Feb 15, 2020 17:12:41 GMT
And neither of the above are to be taken lightly either. They're all serious problems that need to be tackled.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2020 21:14:00 GMT
6 in 10 gun related deaths in the states are suicide.
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Post by Tim on Feb 17, 2020 12:44:26 GMT
6 in 10 gun related deaths in the states are suicide. Yup but the easy availability of the guns is probably a factor in a lot of people actually going through with it. There was an interesting article on the Beeb website about it a couple of weeks ago. |
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