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Sean wrote Its now doubling every 3 days in the UK everywhere is closed and people told to stay inside but everyone is still going out in groups just insane. It looks like a forced lockdown is coming.

I work(worked) in a restaurant in Glasgow, had to go in on Sat+Sun to clean everything down. Glasgow city was actually surprisingly quiet, but outside the town is quite busy for some reason- seems a lot of people aren't taking this seriously enough.

Mortar wrote To the UK, you have less than 8 hours to feast on McDonalds before they completely close!

Got myself a micky D's after work last night and heard this news literally 5 minutes after I finished eating lol. You know its chaos when even McD's are shutting

Sean wrote UK Locked down.
news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-pm...t-11962600

3 weeks is wild and even than they could add more on

G_Man wrote Like every other virus it's being overblown by everyone. It's a new Virus so that's why everyone is nervous about it, but the way people are talking about it, you'd think it was something out of Plague Inc and the world is going to end. SARS at this point was much worse than this virus, and had a lasting effect on China to this day which is probably why they are overreacting with everything there. It's better to overreact than to do nothing though. Problem is people keep overreacting to events like this, and when something serious does pop up they won't take it as serious.

Perhaps there is stuff we don't know and being hidden, I wouldn't put it past China.They didn't take SARS serious and acted like it was nothing, I'd hope they haven't did the same or covered things up. The governments being transparent in cases like this is vital as to not create even more panic than there is already. The deaths are mostly eldery/weak people with underlying health issues, it's not as though healthy people are dropping dead. On a worldwide scale we are better prepared for things such as this, especially after the SARS outbreak which had a high fatality rate.

I just think China are taking it very seriously, too seriously but like I said after what happened with SARS and the mess that was, they are not going to make the same mistakes, no holds barred with regards to stopping mass spread of it; everything including their health care has been overhauled since then. The media is doing no favours by getting everyone to panic about this, when really you shouldn't be, If people want to stress and panic about this, go ahead but I know I'll be sleeping sound at night with very little thought or care about this. If there's reason for concern we should of course take it serious but until then, chill out guys and go to the winchester and wait for all this to blow over in a month or two.