Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[navidson]

Police.


Not really. M5 is like a church. Has been for weeks. Granted, some folk have gone, but not the masses.

If they'd have thought it would have made a difference, the government should have had the balls to do it weeks ago

And what about the other counties with 'beauty areas'? Cumbria? North Wales?

 

[roydo]

If they'd have thought it would have made a difference, the government should have had the balls to do it weeks ago

And what about the other counties with 'beauty areas'? Cumbria? North Wales?

I assume they will try, Police that is, but I am less aware of the pinch points for ^^^ them. Cornwall has 2 main roads into it. And 95% of folk drive above my house to get there, so it will be interesting to see the traffic tomorrow, late morning through to 4 pm are the peak.

 

[Toast]

New Forest are closing car parks.
I'm sure many will still show up there though.

 

[BlueToff]

Raab actually not coming across as a complete Torybot here.

 

[BlueToff]

Let's just hope that the message works and also that this time next week we have started to see a real flattening.

 

[navidson]

Let's just hope that the message works and also that this time next week we have started to see a real flattening.

The numbers don't make sense anyway mate - Nobody knows how we're recording anything

 

[BlueToff]

 

[BlueToff]

The numbers don't make sense anyway mate - Nobody knows how we're recording anything

Well they just act to give a general idea. It's the same the world over.

We know more people have had this virus don't we, I'm sure they know it too. And the vast majority have recovered and probably didn't even show symptoms.

We do need more tests and it's ridiculous that we aren't stepping it up.

 

[ramacca]

Raab 'too early to say social distancing measures are working'

Vallance, 'we know social distancing is working'

Eh?

 

[navidson]

Well they just act to give a general idea. It's the same the world over.

We know more people have had this virus don't we, I'm sure they know it too. And the vast majority have recovered and probably didn't even show symptoms.

We do need more tests and it's ridiculous that we aren't stepping it up.

This was the press release from earlier

A further 765 patients have died in hospital in England, bringing the total to 7,248 - up from 6,483 the day before.

Of the 765 new confirmed reported hospital deaths announced today by NHS England, 140 occurred on 8 April while 568 took place between April 1 and April 7.

The remaining 57 deaths occurred in March, including two on 19 March and one on 16 March.

We can't apply any sort of methodology to the numbers when they've been calculated in such a random way!

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

It seems the number of new cases is steadying and not rocketing.

 

[RAFUH]

If you dont live there, permanently, you wont be allowed in.

They have done that to parts of the Outer Banks (islands off North Carolina coast)

 

[duncs pigeon]

Why are the press/news media more interested what the goverment are going to do when they relax the lockdown? Ffs, they should be pushing them to take stiffer measures to stop people going out, here and now.

 

[PhilM]

seemed a lot more people driving today along the Embankment

The roads in Liverpool have been busier in the past few hours than we’ve been seeing in the past two weeks and definitely more than we’d like.

The Chief Con has already issued orders to start pulling traffic more regularly, especially during certain hours of the day, as of midday today.

 

[RAFUH]

Feel we all could do with a bit of good cheer