Covid-19: Eyes and ears on the ground reports... what isn't being reported?

[SueEllen]

Ready for the first 500 patients within days: London's ExCel centre will be treating Covid-19 patients 'within days' | World news | The Guardian

Good they can get the sickies out of my part of London.

[sasguru]

All the preppers are also Trump voters. I see a mix on YouTube of "it's a Chinese hoax"/"it's no big deal" and "I've bought a year's worth of MREs and a cow" (the latter not even someone I'd class as a nut/prepper normally)

There are no doubt a minority of preppers in Trumps base but the majority are urban workers.
And there are more older Republicans, just like most oldies here vote Tory.
One thing not much mentioned in this whole story is how the middle and professional classes (not only in the US) can work from home and escape the the brunt of it.
And as the article I posted shows it's lack of a degree that's the biggest predictor of Trump support.

[d000hg]

The other disparity that may well be important is that Trump's older supporters are characterised as old and rich. In America, that makes a huge difference when you're ill.
One assumes uneducated workers will still by and large live when they nearly all catch it, but the older folk are going to be decimated unless something changes and there may be fewer old Democrats but more of them will probably die.

I genuinely fear we are watching the start of something truly horrific over there, but most of us are too tied up (understandably) in domestic and EU matters to notice the early warning signs.

[rootsnall]

Meanwhile, the Dow Jones has shot up by 8% on the news that Trump is going to lift restrictions as soon as he can get away with it.

I think it's more to do with the promise of unlimited money printing. But it does seem barking mad.

Fed, saying aggressive action is needed, starts unlimited QE - MarketWatch

[sasguru]

I genuinely fear we are watching the start of something truly horrific over there, but most of us are too tied up (understandably) in domestic and EU matters to notice the early warning signs.

There are consequences when you elect a moron for a president.

[d000hg]

There are consequences when you elect a moron for a president.

Luckily, not normally that serious. It seems luck has run out.

Anyway it seems the story has reached the BBC now: Coronavirus: ExCeL Centre planned as NHS field hospital - BBC News

[CheeseSlice]

hopefully we wont be needing this now that we switched delay tactic to 'supression':

Tory MP claims Hyde Park will be coronavirus morgue - then backtracks

[ladymuck]

It's nice and quiet in the Royal Borough. I don't know anyone with it, or know anyone who knows anyone.

Closest I have is someone a friend's mum works with might have it or had it.

Keeping the pleb sickies over at the Excel or O2 suits me fine. I have a Bupa hospital just around the corner from me to pop to...

[d000hg]

It's nice and quiet in the Royal Borough. I don't know anyone with it, or know anyone who knows anyone.

Closest I have is someone a friend's mum works with might have it or had it.

Keeping the pleb sickies over at the Excel or O2 suits me fine. I have a Bupa hospital just around the corner from me to pop to...

Boris bought all their beds.

[sasguru]

I have a Bupa hospital just around the corner from me to pop to...

Nope. Nationalised for the duration.