badaman wrote:Well, since you've come up with the topic, I find it a bit irresponsible that the UK is not taking action, nor is France doing it. Leaving the population at the expense of possible immunization is going to be definitive for many people, at least 3% of the population. It must be remembered that large capitals such as London or Paris and others are visited by many people from a wide variety of countries.NormanDunbar wrote:Other countries can manage, why the hell can't the British STFU and listen to advice?
I'm talking about the isolation measures, of course, not the attitude of people.
Probably not so many now - we won't be getting any yanks in, and most of Europe has sensibly shut up shop, so any flights in and out are from the far east, at least until the air lines go bust.
I think the measured approach being taken was actually quite sensible, it's nigh on impossible to get full containment on something like this as people will and do slip under the radar - the one thing this virus seems good at doing is spreading - it's able to last longer on surfaces outside the body, so it could be a day or even two later that you pick up something left by your infectee - how do you put a lid on that.
If you have to tell people to wash their hands, society has already gone to hell in a handbag - this is all just common sense - but as discussed earlier - that is no longer so common and that film idiocracy is coming to be in my own lifetime - dismayed...