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Iceni warrior

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  1. Iceni warrior
    And circulating rumours that it was a Chinese bio-weapon is exactly what the US would do if they were responsible for the outbreak. I think I need 2 tin foil hats as one may not be enough.
  2. Iceni warrior
    Yes, but was it deliberate or accidental?
  3. Iceni warrior
    Still no.
  4. Iceni warrior
    It's also not going to only kill the old and weak. That would be a rubbish weapon.
  5. Iceni warrior
    I don't think anyone has had real food shortages yet that weren't caused by panic buying and hoarders. Early days though and the international distribution networks haven't started to fail.
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    After the shortages in WWI and WWII you would have thought that Britain would have made more of an effort to become self sufficient but memories are short and money talks so we grow too many useless cash crops like sugarbeet and rapeseed. Plus now we are growing large amounts of biofuel too.
  7. Iceni warrior
    I'm surrounded by farms too but most of them grow sugar beet and rapeseed. A lot of our fresh veg comes from Spain and Dutch greenhouses. Funnily enough, people don't seem to be hoarding the veg and the supermarkets are full of it still. I am considering buying a load, cooking off some stews and curries etc and freezing it for later. Bread, flour, milk, rice and pasta seem to be the shelves which are empty.
  8. Iceni warrior
    Well, there is no real shortage of food here yet in the UK apart from a few items. Trouble is we import 50% of our food and 30% of it comes from the EU. Europe is shutting down it's borders and making everyone stay at home so how long it will be before we start running out of a lot more things is unclear. I wouldn't rule out rationing in the future. How much of Canada's food is imported?
  9. Iceni warrior
    Better to eat crow metaphorically than literally.
  10. Iceni warrior
    I see what you did there.
  11. Iceni warrior
    Oh sure, his base won't judge him. It will be left to history to do that.
  12. Iceni warrior
    Back in 2016 a lot of people wondered how Trump would deal with any kind of world crisis. I guess this is how they find out.
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  14. Iceni warrior
    No amount of boy on girl action in TV, film or advertising seems able to turn gays straight so to assume the opposite is deeply flawed.
  15. Iceni warrior
    It was called Spanish flu because Spain was the first country to talk about it openly in the media. There was a media blackout in the early stages in most countries and kept secret as a matter of national security.
  16. Iceni warrior
    CDC says Which is at least 10%. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html Whatever the actual figure is it is unlikely that Covid19 will be as lethal (in the first world) due to much better preparation and understanding of pandemics now compared to 100 years ago. The Spanish flu lasted around 3 years with no vaccine and no cure. Hopefully, there could be a vaccine in around a year and effective treatment even sooner. As with AIDS, this is going to hit much harder in places like Africa and other under developed nations.
  17. Iceni warrior
    At the low end of the estimate, 50 million was 2.77% of the total world population of 1.8 billion people in 1918. If only 500 million caught Spanish flu then the mortality rate has to be more than 2-3%. Are you sure the WHO figures you have are refering to the mortality rate and not the percentage of total world population who died from Spanish flu?
  18. Iceni warrior
    Sorry, I thought you were refering to my post that you were replying to. Those numbers are based on an estimated 500 million cases and 50-100 million deaths or 10-20%. They are estimates though as testing and recording were nowhere near as accurate then as they are today.
  19. Iceni warrior
    I didn't give any numbers. During WWI there was plenty of interconnectedness, troops were being mobilised to and from all corners of the globe and with the exception of Australia there was little attempt to quarantine countries or isolate victims. BTW, there were 3 waves not 2 with the second, as you say, being the worst.
  20. Iceni warrior
    That's not how you work out lethality rate unless 100% of Canadians caught Spanish flu. One of the factors which made the Spanish flu spread so widely was the way it was kept secret as a matter of wartime security. We don't have that this time around. Even if this virus was as deadly as the 1918-1920 flu it will never spread as far due to better reporting and better containment measures being taken.
  21. Iceni warrior
    Only in the cities. My little rural corner is whiter than ice hockey.
  22. Iceni warrior
    You date from 1960's Canada. Only your ancestors date from 1701. You would not be automatically qualified for UK citizenship any more than I would qualify for Canadian citizenship. You would have to earn it like any other foreigner.
  23. Iceni warrior
    I never said you were subject to British rule. You are merely subjects of the Queen.
  24. Iceni warrior
    The UK was formed by the Union of Great Britain with Ireland in 1801. Doesn't make you a UK citizen though. You are merely a subject of Her Majesty.
  25. Iceni warrior
    Canadians are subjects of her Majesty. You need to be eligible for a UK passport to be a UK citizen.
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