Real old school method, isnt it?
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
- Thread starter bullybeef
- Start date
- Status
It’s just as important to realise what you don’t know as it is to know what you do know.
US number took a big jump today, right? 1300ish from a drop in to the 900s yesterday. This should be peak rise times though because the idiocy of a few weeks ago should be bearing fruit
Plan for small waves the NHS can cope with by lifting and re applying the restrictions till we all get it and either die or recover and hope for a vaccine
Morag
Player Valuation: £500k
I have been baking. But not much as I have to and a front line worker. But still trying my best
Problem is the world is a village
You eradicate in one country and a few tourists come in with the virus and it starts again.
Unless you close the borders to all visitors even truck drivers and merchant seamen then unless there’s a vaccine all you can do is lockdowns on a regular basis to ease the pressure.
This virus is not going anywhere anytime soon , and by that I mean at least 12 months
Yep, an oldie but a goodie hopefully!
History is alive
Find out more about the shows on Sky HISTORY's TV channel, with plenty to read and watch on your favourite historical topics.
www.history.com
Sadly we have a much higher predicted peak estimated mid month
IHME | COVID-19 Projections
Explore forecasts of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and hospital resource use.
covid19.healthdata.org
There was one or two who thought it should go ahead
Early days but encouraging
Good to hear
I hope you and @Groucho are keeping well? It's a tough time, even with things like childcare and that when all the adults in the household are keyworkers and schools etc. are shut.
Not sure if its been covered but assuming there is some explanation to Frances daily new case numbers, some kind of historical backlog?
AUXLEN
Player Valuation: £1.5m
I know people who were fuming. Same were also fuming we canceled paddy's day in London (there was no way i was going on the train). also a colleague went to teneriffe for a week March 14th!!! only to spend the whole time in his room.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Thats a bit too simplistic IMO. It contributed towards it certainly, but to say it's responsible for the outbreak is wrong.
There are no doubt many people around the country now quesotheir decision to attend
“The UK may need to reconsider a “herd immunity” strategy to defeat coronavirus, a senior adviser to the Prime Minister has warned.
Professor Graham Medley of Imperial College London, the government’s chief pandemic modeller, says the country has “painted itself into a corner” as it battles the deadly bug with no clear exit plan.
He said the UK needed to face the trade-off between harming the young versus the old.
Describing the stark choices facing the government, he says that long, indefinite periods of lockdown could cause more harm than the virus itself by leading to soaring unemployment, domestic violence, food poverty and mental illness.
Speaking to the Times, Professor Medley said: “We will have done three weeks of this lockdown so there’s a big decision coming up on April 13.
"In broad terms are we going to continue to harm children to protect vulnerable people, or not?
“The measures to control [the disease] cause harm. The principal one is economic, and I don’t mean to the economy generally, I mean to the incomes of people who rely on a continuous stream of money and their children.”
Professor Medley has described the choice facing ministers as a trade-off between harming the young or the old
“If we carry on with lockdown it buys us more time, we can get more thought put into it, but it doesn’t resolve anything — it’s a placeholder,” he continued.
The public health expert added that there is no way to relax lockdown rules, such as allowing people to return to work and schools to re-open, without a surge in infections.
He has therefore urged the government to reconsider allowing people to catch the flu-like virus and build up resistance in the population, following a controversial strategy known as “herd immunity”
Professor Graham Medley of Imperial College London, the government’s chief pandemic modeller, says the country has “painted itself into a corner” as it battles the deadly bug with no clear exit plan.
He said the UK needed to face the trade-off between harming the young versus the old.
Describing the stark choices facing the government, he says that long, indefinite periods of lockdown could cause more harm than the virus itself by leading to soaring unemployment, domestic violence, food poverty and mental illness.
Speaking to the Times, Professor Medley said: “We will have done three weeks of this lockdown so there’s a big decision coming up on April 13.
"In broad terms are we going to continue to harm children to protect vulnerable people, or not?
“The measures to control [the disease] cause harm. The principal one is economic, and I don’t mean to the economy generally, I mean to the incomes of people who rely on a continuous stream of money and their children.”
Professor Medley has described the choice facing ministers as a trade-off between harming the young or the old
“If we carry on with lockdown it buys us more time, we can get more thought put into it, but it doesn’t resolve anything — it’s a placeholder,” he continued.
The public health expert added that there is no way to relax lockdown rules, such as allowing people to return to work and schools to re-open, without a surge in infections.
He has therefore urged the government to reconsider allowing people to catch the flu-like virus and build up resistance in the population, following a controversial strategy known as “herd immunity”
- Status