China Coronavirus

[GetOverTheBar]

Was driving home earlier today and on my left I noticed a group of well dressed older middle aged men heading away from the British Legion, which had two cops at the door, the aul punter that's always at the door was sheepishly walking away with a half bottle of wine!

The feckers have been having a few lock-ins it seems, I know of another pub was doing the same recently, I wonder how much of this is going on?

Will be rightly ramping up closer to the Glorious 12th I can imagine.

[Milltown Row2]

Was driving home earlier today and on my left I noticed a group of well dressed older middle aged men heading away from the British Legion, which had two cops at the door, the aul punter that's always at the door was sheepishly walking away with a half bottle of wine!

The feckers have been having a few lock-ins it seems, I know of another pub was doing the same recently, I wonder how much of this is going on?

Will be rightly ramping up closer to the Glorious 12th I can imagine.

There will be shebeens popping up everywhere

[Milltown Row2]

I could see it happening in some of the back street clubs like the pigeon. That Legion club is on a busy main Belfast road, just up from a cop shop? Talk about hiding in plain sight!

The very one, I can't even imagine there's even a back door

[Square Ball]

Germany's R rate has surged to 1.79.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-r-number-jumps-to-1-79-in-germany-after-abattoir-outbreak-12011468

See yis for the 2023 championship.

Up to 2.88👀👀
https://news-sky-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-germanys-r-number-rockets-again-from-1-79-to-2-88-12012143?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2Fcoronavirus-germanys-r-number-rockets-again-from-1-79-to-2-88-12012143

[Smurfy123]

Time for lockdown 2

[GiveItToTheShooters]

Time for lockdown 2

Time for lockdown 2 down but get all the childer back to school
What a clown

[Smurfy123]

☝️😃
You need to get out more.

[armaghniac]

25,221 cases in the US in one day. They now have more reported tested deaths pro-rate than Ireland and with that number of new cases will mean more deaths there for some time to come. Trump's solution is to do less testing so there will be fewer reported cases!

[Farrandeelin]

Time for lockdown 2

...whatever, but the cynic in me sees Varadker opening nearly everything from next week due to him washing his hands from the goddamn thing if the programme for government is agreed to when he won't be Taoiseach anymore.

[Smurfy123]

What exactly do you want Leo to wait on?
When do you suggest he open up the country?
Now mind you phase 3 starts next week and phase 4 will start 3 weeks later.

[imtommygunn]

Do you have a link to the stat about 850k deaths a year worldwide from flu??

[GetOverTheBar]

Do you have a link to the stat about 850k deaths a year worldwide from flu??

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(seasonal)

"Illnesses range from mild to severe and even death. Hospitalization and death occur mainly among high risk groups. Worldwide, these annual epidemics are estimated to result in about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness, and about 290 000 to 650 000 respiratory deaths"

Not quite the 850k according to WHO.

[imtommygunn]

Cheers. I did think it was a big figure and wondered where it came from.

[balladmaker]

25,221 cases in the US in one day. They now have more reported tested deaths pro-rate than Ireland and with that number of new cases will mean more deaths there for some time to come. Trump's solution is to do less testing so there will be fewer reported cases!

I heard him say that during his Tulsa speech on Saturday .... was a WTF moment, I'd to rewind to make sure I'd heard him correctly.  There were quite a few WTF moments during that speech, with his story about Westpoint and the leather shoes being something more akin to a stand-up comedian than a president.

US is screwed for some time to come due to Covid-19 and Trump's inadequacies in the face of it.

[delgany]

Did anyone see the images of Trump coming of the chopper at the Whitehouse? Must've hit the drink !