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  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Fire said:
    "Flu is a bigger killer."

    You have oversimplified.

    In the UK, you are currently still more likely to die from flu.

    Globally, it could prove to be worse. Your link is about projections, not certainty or actuality.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Did anyone see the Chinese man looking after his wife at home? Hazmat suit for all contact with her room where she was confined. Room disinfected daily. Double bagged everything coming out of her room. After 9 days she still had to go into hospital. Not sure what happened in the end.
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Lyn said:
    Tin pot said:
    The world is not overpopulated.  

    It’s Malthusian nonsense rejected over a hundred years ago that just gets circulated back up every so often, like it’s new.  People have complained that here are “just too many people” for at least two thousand years when there was hardly anyone alive by comparison.
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    I suppose this old man is talking out of his backside then is he?  Did anyone watch that Chris Packham programme.  Mind you it was the BBC so maybe not true. 
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p080p9y1
    Their concerns about further population growth are not the same thing as the world being overpopulated.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Thanks for that link @Dovefromabove - interesting. Mainly common sense of course but I still think a bit of fresh air and exercise away from other people would be beneficial. Obviously if you are living in a big town or city, that might be more difficult but even so, in your own garden (if you have one) should be okay.  If you are sharing a house with another person(s) I rather think the damage is already done, as one is infectious before showing any symptons I believe. 

    As for washing your hands after every cough or sneeze, that's just not doable, your hands would get raw very quickly.   
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2020
    I suppose what the rest of us will rely on is everyone doing as instructed by the experts,  rather than thinking ‘I know better’.  Although in this era when the disregard of experts is commonplace, that puts most of us in danger 🙄 

    The chap on the radio did recommend using hand lotion after hand washing ... although I think if people would rather avoid getting sore hands than guard against spreading Covid 19 there really is no help for humanity and folk really don’t deserve to be saved. 🤯😭🤬

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Switch to unperfumed, natural soap and your hands will thank you. Most liquid soaps in pump action bottles are terrible for your skin.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Always use old fashioned bars of soap here 😇 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    @Tin pot, can you explain why you don't believe the world is not over populated?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    punkdoc said:
    @Tin pot, can you explain why you don't believe the world is not over populated?
    Sure, but it only makes sense to do that if people explain why they think it is.  

    Overpopulated means different things to different people.  Mostly people just want a simple explanation, and they can’t really imagine billions of people, so saying the world is overpopulated is an easy answer.

  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Rik56 said:
    Tin pot said:
    Lyn said:
    Tin pot said:
    The world is not overpopulated.  

    It’s Malthusian nonsense rejected over a hundred years ago that just gets circulated back up every so often, like it’s new.  People have complained that here are “just too many people” for at least two thousand years when there was hardly anyone alive by comparison.
    .


    I suppose this old man is talking out of his backside then is he?  Did anyone watch that Chris Packham programme.  Mind you it was the BBC so maybe not true. 
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p080p9y1
    Their concerns about further population growth are not the same thing as the world being overpopulated.
    https://www.activesustainability.com/sustainable-development/causes-consequences-overpopulation/
    Are you thinking that your link describes overpopulation? Because it explicitly doesn’t.
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