Coronavirus

[Rayvin 5223]

 aye, i don't know what's wrong with me either. When the game was described to me I thought it sounded boring af but after being forced to play it, I was hooked.

 

I still play Rocket League too, because it's the closest thing to playing actual football that you can get in a video game. Good one to play with kids too if you're stuck with them.

[Rayvin 5223]

Has anyone got any particularly good theories as to why Russia appears to be basically immune to COVID btw?

[Ayatollah Hermione 13879]

They aren’t, they’re just not telling anyone.

[Rayvin 5223]

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/21/europe/putin-coronavirus-russia-intl/index.html

 

Sounds like they closed the border with China immediately once it started though. They have just a few hundred cases.

 

I also read earlier that the repeated sanctions we've placed on them has meant that their isolationist economy is better protected than ours is for dealing with things like this.

[Dr Gloom 21934]

23 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

 

 

In all seriousness, that game is a fucking drug. You start off mining coal and iron ore and in the end you have a fully automated rail network carrying supplies and loading factories, a drone network, automated factory defences and a fucking space ship

 

It's beautiful. If you're a complete dork. Which, as we all know, I am.

What platform?

I was thinking of sourcing the latest version of championship manager- or whatever it’s called these days 

[Dr Gloom 21934]

15 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

Has anyone got any particularly good theories as to why Russia appears to be basically immune to COVID btw?

They’re lying cunts 

[Dr Gloom 21934]

Germany is the most impressive because they’re Transparent. They have spent loads of money on testing and it seems to be working  

[Dougle 3338]

7 hours ago, Kevin Carr's Gloves said:

If you send me your bank details I will happily donate £5 towards you buying a sense of humour.

 

Cheers mate!

 

Yer canny for an arsehole

[Rayvin 5223]

8 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

What platform?

I was thinking of sourcing the latest version of championship manager- or whatever it’s called these days 

 

It's on steam, so your PC. If you've got time to kill it's just really satisfying.

[ewerk 30625]

31 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

 

 

In all seriousness, that game is a fucking drug. You start off mining coal and iron ore and in the end you have a fully automated rail network carrying supplies and loading factories, a drone network, automated factory defences and a fucking space ship

And how many virtual workers have you made redundant with your virtual automation? You capitalist pig.

[ewerk 30625]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/19/far-requiring-delay-coronavirus-strengthens-hand-post-brexit/

There’s always one cunt.

[Rayvin 5223]

Just now, ewerk said:

And how many virtual workers have you made redundant with your virtual automation? You capitalist pig.

 

 

The premise is that you're alone on an alien planet and have to start from scratch basic materials and work your way up through more and more complex technologies until you're able to fly off, so zero workers.

 

But you do pollute the planet in the process which causes the indigenous population of bug aliens to attack your base. At which point your turrets slaughter them.

 

So y'know, not a totally 'Greenpeace friendly' game.

[Dr Gloom 21934]

1 minute ago, ewerk said:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/19/far-requiring-delay-coronavirus-strengthens-hand-post-brexit/

There’s always one cunt.

We will extend the transition now, no question. The government’s entire agenda is shot. This government will be defined by this crisis and the post-crisis period. There is nothing else. We may still leave the EU in some form but it won’t be one that makes us poorer. We are all going to be a lot poorer after this virus finally fucks off 

[Dr Gloom 21934]

I mean, who gives a fuck about Brexit now, other than the Torygraph, obvs?

[Rayvin 5223]

4 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

We will extend the transition now, no question. The government’s entire agenda is shot. This government will be defined by this crisis and the post-crisis period. There is nothing else. We may still leave the EU in some form but it won’t be one that makes us poorer. We are all going to be a lot poorer after this virus finally fucks off 

 

Are you sure about that? This is the central thing I now hope with respect of Brexit but after so many failures to avert it, I can't quite believe an act of god is going to save the day.

[Dr Gloom 21934]

7 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

 

Are you sure about that? This is the central thing I now hope with respect of Brexit but after so many failures to avert it, I can't quite believe an act of god is going to save the day.

Pretty much. 
 

It all seemed really important just before Christmas didn’t it? Nothing else matters now except this crisis. It will entirely dominate this government’s agenda and probably the next one too. Emerging from it is going be like the post-war 1940s. No one will give enough of a fuck about Brexit anymore to pursue a version of it that will make use even poorer 

Edited March 21, 2020 by Dr Gloom

[Rayvin 5223]

3 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

Pretty much. 
 

It all seemed really important just before Christmas didn’t it? Nothing else matters now except this crisis. It will entirely dominate this government’s agenda and probably the next one too. Emerging from it is going be like the post-war 1940s. No one will give enough of a fuck about Brexit anymore to pursue a version of it that will make use even poorer 

 

I really don't know if this has become that big a deal yet. Maybe I'm too isolated from it presently to know, but so far, it doesn't feel that big (it feels big, but not Brexit cancelling big). Are you basing it on Renton's doomsday projections?

Edited March 21, 2020 by Rayvin

[Dr Gloom 21934]

5 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

 

I really don't know if this has become that big a deal yet. Maybe I'm too isolated from it presently to know, but so far, it doesn't feel that big (it feels big, but not Brexit cancelling big). Are you basing it on Renton's doomsday projections?

I’m in team Renton. 
 

This is just the beginning. Didn’t you see Sunak’s economic intervention yesterday? This is going to be bigger than the financial crisis. This will be the biggest hit to the global economy since WWII. 

Edited March 21, 2020 by Dr Gloom

[Renton 21629]

1 hour ago, Rayvin said:

 

I really don't know if this has become that big a deal yet. Maybe I'm too isolated from it presently to know, but so far, it doesn't feel that big (it feels big, but not Brexit cancelling big). Are you basing it on Renton's doomsday projections?

 

I mean, this is literally ww2 sized big. This isn't 3 months shut down, its probably 4 times that, or more. I am amazed people don't get this yet. Look at sky news articles on Italy. We are on exactly the same parallel but haven't even properly introduced as strict measures. Our NHS has less capacity. People like Cath are awaiting a potential nightmare, I salute her. 

 

Secondary look at the government's interjections. A conservative government.  Forced into the most socialist policies literally ever. 

 

This is not short term. Things have changed forever. 

[Tom 14011]

 

[Dr Gloom 21934]

Almost 800 deaths in a Italy today alone, the biggest daily figure there yet. They’re not at the peak yet and we’re weeks behind them. 

[Isegrim 9792]

4 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

Almost 800 deaths in a Italy today alone, the biggest daily figure there yet. They’re not at the peak yet and we’re weeks behind them. 

It’s a graph that’s not really giving the right impression imho. The death rate isn’t shown in correlation to the number of cases. There seem to be huge differences. While the death rates in Italy and Spain seem exorbitantly high in other countries it seems probably too low. I guess the right ratios will only be known in a few weeks or months after some consolidation of the data.

Vut what is striking is that it’s pretty essential to keep people apart to stop it spreading to quickly.

I wonder if your PM was heading down to the pub and discuss his newest scientific approach with his advisors over a pint of ale before the pubs were closing...

[Dr Gloom 21934]

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[Dougle 3338]

18 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

Almost 800 deaths in a Italy today alone, the biggest daily figure there yet. They’re not at the peak yet and we’re weeks behind them. 

 

Thanks very much you ITK doom monger

 

[Meenzer 15550]

15 minutes ago, Isegrim said:

I wonder if your PM was heading down to the pub and discuss his newest scientific approach with his advisors over a pint of ale before the pubs were closing...

 

He certainly said he was going to visit his mother tomorrow despite telling the rest of the country not to visit theirs, until his advisors quickly said he meant he'd be talking to her on Skype.