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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 4246807, member: 86815&quot;]I have a Godson who went to school with my Kids who lives in Wuhan and I spoke to him about 3 weeks ago, its difficult to make contact as the Chinese can&#039;t phone out. He told me that whatever we hear multiply it by 100 times.</p><p>I live in Wales and yesterday a major Rugby game was cancelled as it was deemed too risky to have 75,000 people in one stadium. The economic impact of this is profound and I already know of two long established firms that will be going out of business on Monday because all of their income has dried up with the cancellation of all sports fixtures for the rest of the season.</p><p>My trip to Tulsa in April is already cancelled and my main focus in the past week has been organising strategy for clients to cope with the inevitable disruption. The stats are pretty useless, we are told that 80% of the population will contract the virus but there is only a 1% risk of fatality. In crude terms that is over half a million people in the UK.</p><p>We are also told that 20% of people tested positive will be very sick but of course what is a real gamble is which 20%? We need truck drivers to deliver food, doctors and nurses to administer care and engineers to keep power and water moving.We police by consent so in rural areas we wont miss them because we don&#039;t see them anyway.</p><p>Best advice I heard was from a virologist who said that the virus thrives on bacteria so keep hands clean as you can pick it up from hard surfaces so if you kill the bacteria you lessen the chance of transmission. Also it is not a great idea to visit contained communities such as care homes for the elderly as the virus would spread quickly in such an environment.</p><p>We are going to see the very best and the very worst of people in the coming months but I have great faith in the common goodness of most people.</p><p>I am sure Vespasian would be praying to Jupiter, best and greatest if he was around today.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1083924[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1083925[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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