Coronavirus

**Corky Smeek** · 17-Mar-20, 20:41

I thought Unionists didn't want Borders. https://twitter.com/votenoborders?lang=en

**orkneycadian** · 17-Mar-20, 23:56

So in much of the world, the horse has already bolted and is running at full canter. All we can do now is sit back and marvel at the hysteria as the sheeple try to catch it - Rather comically, using toilet roll.

Even here in Orkney its out of hand. Folk are panic buying everything from coal to bottled water. And its not going to make a blind bit of difference at this stage. Its now going to be what it will be. Best we can hope for is to see how many come out the other side, and then we can look back and realise that borders have a function after all. Unfortunately, there might not be so many of us who can look back - Sure, the population will still have grown - But some of the oldies will have gone, and the babies less than a year old will have no appreciation of the situation.

Hopefully, it will go down as lesson learned.

**orkneycadian** · 18-Mar-20, 00:16

Having a mild interest in numbers and statistics, and now that the published stats are really starting to drift from reality - Realistic number of UK cases is likely to be in the 100,000 region, rather than the claimed 2,000 - I thought it might be fun to review the growth in statistics;