Bye bye Worlds (now for all)

By Tokra, in Star Wars: Armada

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13 hours ago, player3691565 said:

Very soon everything that is not necessary will be stopping anyway. This covid19 pandemic is now almost inevitably going to be what us in the trade have always been worried about. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s going to hurt and none of us are going to forget this year.

Most nations will gradually get to a point where a good percent of the population is either off sick, self isolating, looking after their children/elderly relatives, grieving or having to work all hours in support of vital services.

Its a numbers game that is horrible to contemplate.We are looking at 70%-80%of the population getting this with a mortality rate of 1% and around 10% being hospitalised/ ventilated. In the UK that’s around potentially 50 million people getting it and needing to isolate, 7 ish million needing hospital admission/ventilation and many hundreds of thousands dying.

we are staring at an event that will compare to the Spanish flu, no one will be going to competitions having holidays or even going to shop evenings.....


My wife's work allows her access to the COBRA meeting info and those figures for hospitalisations are far higher than even the worst case scenarios being discussed.

Let's not panicmonger. It's unhelpful. Spanish flu killed 50 million people. Even countries who have it bad aren't dealing with that scale of death, nowhere near.

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6 hours ago, flatpackhamster said:

My wife's work allows her access to the COBRA meeting info and those figures for hospitalisations are far higher than even the worst case scenarios being discussed.

Let's not panicmonger. It's unhelpful. Spanish flu killed 50 million people. Even countries who have it bad aren't dealing with that scale of death, nowhere near.

True, but comparing the death toll for this virus to something that last 2-3 years is not fair either. The spanish flu didnt start out with 50 million and was the most deadly after the virus mutated and the second wave hit at the end.

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I Will take my 3 degrees in healthcare, including studies in public health, 30 years of managing and mitigating risk of death and harm in complex health systems and Disagree.

I’m terrified of this, it is literally the worst public health risk in 100 years and if we blow it and allow levels to reaching 80% of the population across multiple countries it will join the ranks with Spain flu.

Realistic fear is needed as it allows people to react properly. Keep calm and carry on will not prevent the deaths. When you are looking at disease with an R0 of 2-3, a mortality rate of around 1% and a hospital admission rate of around 10% the maths are terrifying and will put health and other systems against the wall. If the people sitting in COBRA are not scared to their bones then they need to fill the room with new people.

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Can we not bring politics in the Armada forum? Please? I come here to get away from that. I work at a school and everything is political one way or another. And whether I agree with your specific stance or not, this is not the place, now is not the time. Thanks.

Reelect Palpatine 3ABY

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33 minutes ago, thestag said:

Can we not bring politics in the Armada forum? Please? I come here to get away from that. I work at a school and everything is political one way or another. And whether I agree with your specific stance or not, this is not the place, now is not the time. Thanks.

Reelect Palpatine 3ABY

But...

He dissolved the senate 3 years ago.

Are there even elections anymore?

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28 minutes ago, Flengin said:

But...

He dissolved the senate 3 years ago.

Are there even elections anymore?

Winner of this thread right here hahaha

Posted at
1 hour ago, Flengin said:

But...

He dissolved the senate 3 years ago.

Are there even elections anymore?

Sure are. Lead candidate is Sheev Palpatine, but the ballot also has an option for a Darth Sidious.

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Always two there are, no more no less, a master and an apprentice.

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On 3/13/2020 at 5:21 PM, thestag said:

Can we not bring politics in the Armada forum? Please? I come here to get away from that. I work at a school and everything is political one way or another. And whether I agree with your specific stance or not, this is not the place, now is not the time. Thanks.

Reelect Palpatine 3ABY

I would refrain from clicking on this topic, then.

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On 3/14/2020 at 9:29 PM, Cpt ObVus said:

I would refrain from clicking on this topic, then.

Very true and anyway politics is life, everything we do and are are has a political element.

Posted at
22 hours ago, player4851928 said:

This didn't age well.

It was difficult for most people to really get the problem, even now it’s hard for a lot of people to get there heads around. Those of us paid to actually contemplate this sort of thing understood, but it’s hard for most people.

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Only in that we are clearly both lazy articles who could not be bothered to change our names from the default.

Posted at
6 hours ago, player3691565 said:

Only in that we are clearly both lazy articles who could not be bothered to change our names from the default.

I'm... going to need one of you to wear red so I can tell you apart.