Coronavirus effect on property markets?

phillw

Thrugelmir said:

Living on an island has it's advantages. 

I don't think it's made a difference, the speed of the spread has been down to random luck when it made it's way from China.

gfplux

Speaking at a press conference from Downing Street, Johnson said that 405,000 people have signed up to act as NHS volunteers, following a request by Health Secretary Matt Hancock yesterday.

They will be driving medicines from pharmacies to patients, bringing patients home from hospital, and making regular phone calls to check on people who are in isolation.

“When we launched the appeal last night, we hoped to get 250,000 volunteers over a few days. But I can tell you that in just 24 hours, 405,000 people have responded to the call,” Johnson said.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will unveil tomorrow a package of measures to help the self-employed, he added.

Testing for the virus continues to be scaled up, the prime minister said. Testing at hospitals is “working well,” with a total of 97,000 tests carried out so far, Chief Medical Officer for England Chris Whitty said. However, the government is struggling to purchase enough tests for the NHS and other critical workers because of a “global shortage,” he said.

Thrugelmir

phillw said:

Thrugelmir said:

Living on an island has it's advantages. 

I don't think it's made a difference, the speed of the spread has been down to random luck when it made it's way from China.

In lockdown 

Thrugelmir

Melonman27 said:

So is it now confirmed that heard immunity was all hogwash

there is no heard immunity in China 

Source? 

gfplux

phillw said:

Thrugelmir said:
Any predictions as to how long lock down will last? 

The government has ordered 3.5 million testing kits, they are starting off at 25,000 tests a day once they've proved it works and hoping to ramp up to hundreds of thousands. I believe you'll escape lock down if you had a test the shows you've recovered from covid 19.
This doesn't help those that haven't caught it yet, or don't get tested. Potentially there will be people in lock down until there is a vaccine.

On the BBC web page now the following which clearly indicates that this was a Johnson at best an exaggeration and at worst misdirection.
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A test to see whether someone has already had coronavirus is being developed, but will not be available within days, the UK government's chief medical adviser says.

"I do not think - and I want to be clear - that this is something we'll suddenly be ordering on the internet next week," Prof Chris Whitty said.

An antibody test would let people find out if they had already had the virus.

This could allow doctors and nurses with immunity to return to work.

Earlier, Prof Sharon Peacock from Public Health England had told MPs that 3.5 million antibody tests had been bought and were already being evaluated.

Once shown to be effective, she said "people will be able to order a test or go to Boots to have their finger-!!!!!! test done" in the "near future".

But Prof Whitty said these tests hadn't yet been validated.

"The one thing that is worse than no test, is a bad test," he added.
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gfplux

This paper is long and complicated. If you want to try and get a handle of the time frame then have a look.
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

Thrugelmir

Melonman27 said:

Thrugelmir said:

Melonman27 said:

So is it now confirmed that heard immunity was all hogwash

there is no heard immunity in China 

Source? 

Are you asking what is the source that there is no heard immunity in China?

well every news site is saying China is worried about another flare up and are limiting foreign visitors, this shows there is no heard immunity 

Unless you've had the virus and been given a period of time to subsequently recover. You've no immunity. China is a large country. Wuhan City is only 11 million people. The region about the same population as the UK.  That's about 5% of the total population of China...........
Hardly surprising that China has concerns still. 

MobileSaver

Melonman27 said:

the experts I follow say there is no immunity to covid19.

Only you would believe that Youtube video bloggers that no one has ever heard of were "experts!"

Thrugelmir

Melonman27 said:

Thrugelmir said:

Melonman27 said:

Thrugelmir said:

Melonman27 said:

So is it now confirmed that heard immunity was all hogwash

there is no heard immunity in China 

Source? 

Are you asking what is the source that there is no heard immunity in China?

well every news site is saying China is worried about another flare up and are limiting foreign visitors, this shows there is no heard immunity 

Unless you've had the virus and been given a period of time to subsequently recover. You've no immunity. China is a large country. Wuhan City is only 11 million people. The region about the same population as the UK.  That's about 5% of the total population of China...........
Hardly surprising that China has concerns still. 

Source?

That's the nature of diseases. Most people are capable of building immunity as they recover. Flu viruses however mutate hence the constant need to vaccinate. 

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Fingers crossed we are about to see a severe crash, ideally 50% down but even 20% would be very welcome.