Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Joey66]

It`s not that bad in the supermarkets by us anymore, the only stuff that`s missing is cases of cooking lager, which have obviously all been snapped up for the 48 hr old skool rave that @Joey66 is putting on over the weekend.

Not in cripple creek mate if a pin dropped in my road now I would hear it if I had my hearing aids in
Even clapping last night for the NHS & vital services was muted .......I stood there with one neighbour social distancing pathetic response .......perhaps the Zimmer frames needed oiling .......but @Bruce Wayne is hogging the WD 40 for his bike lol

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[Billy Dean]

Anyone get the feeling the government have completely f***** this?

I guess it depends what their objective was in the first place.

 

[Yarrgh]

@Yarrgh Aldo aged 61 and a half will be gutted that the King has caught the Chinese fru lol

He will. Never thought I'd say it but I hope Dalglish will be ok.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Think the lockdown must have stopped, as the 4 hour bike rides on my Strava have become six hour bike rides oday.

 

[Toast]

He will. Never thought I'd say it but I hope Dalglish will be ok.

Look forward to hearing how Aldo deals with the news tomorrow..

 

[summerisle]

Unlike 8,958 other people.

 

[Billy Dean]

People on Facebook sharing memes of Boris Johnson's face superimposed onto that image of Churchill in a hat doing the V sign. I genuinely give up.

 

[Yarrgh]

Look forward to hearing how Aldo deals with the news tomorrow..

Djimi's free.

 

[Tramps_mate]

So many arse holes out today going past ours. Groups of cyclists and the bloody neighbors had thier parents round for a barbeque! Unbelievable.

 

[Kenshin]

Reading the dagleish story it kinda sums up the media presentation of the virus at times, especially when it comes to famous people.

He wasn't in hospital for the virus. Has no symptoms , and is soon to go home with no complications , fingers crossed.

Yet the headline is Kenny dagleish has the coronavirus.

Forget it's him specifically. But at what point does headlines like that stop being informative and start being done sort of fear campaign now? How many reds will be fearing the worst for him reading that? Scared about their own health if he has caught it?

Not reading enough of the story to see that a positive test is neither here nor there as he has no symptoms and is not feeling any ill effect from the virus?

I've said it for weeks but that's your prime example there. Fear mongering in the media. Headlines designed to scare and shock without any context to them? How many people won't click on that article but simply take the headline as the whole story?

Given how many people saying get better soon etc on the articles. Jesus he isn't even in hospital for that reason! From the amount of comments on the article it's clear noone has read the story. Hundreds and hundreds because if they had, they would know what the real story is. If he hadn't been tested , this would not have made the news .

And that is the problem

 

[TommyDavo]

Reading the dagleish story it kinda sums up the media presentation of the virus at times, especially when it comes to famous people.

He wasn't in hospital for the virus. Has no symptoms , and is soon to go home with no complications , fingers crossed.

Yet the headline is Kenny dagleish has the coronavirus.

Forget it's him specifically. But at what point does headlines like that stop being informative and start being done sort of fear campaign now? How many reds will be fearing the worst for him reading that? Scared about their own health if he has caught it?

Not reading enough of the story to see that a positive test is neither here nor there as he has no symptoms and is not feeling any ill effect from the virus?

I've said it for weeks but that's your prime example there. Fear mongering in the media. Headlines designed to scare and shock without any context to them? How many people won't click on that article but simply take the headline as the whole story?

Given how many people saying get better soon etc on the articles. Jesus he isn't even in hospital for that reason! From the amount of comments on the article it's clear noone has read the story. Hundreds and hundreds because if they had, they would know what the real story is. If he hadn't been tested , this would not have made the news .

And that is the problem

It is also what unfortunately can skew the data. If, and no I don’t wish it, the man dies from the infection he went in with then he would become a covid stat.

 

[summerisle]

People on Facebook sharing memes of Boris Johnson's face superimposed onto that image of Churchill in a hat doing the V sign. I genuinely give up.

Carry on Covid.

 

[Paris]

Awwwwwww

Coronavirus: Newborn babies in Thailand given face shields to protect them from COVID-19

Pictures from Praram 9 Hospital in the capital Bangkok show them wearing the shields in the maternity ward.

news.sky.com

So cute!!!!

 

[Kenshin]

It is also what unfortunately can skew the data. If, and no I don’t wish it, the man dies from the infection he went in with then he would become a covid stat.

An entirely different point altogether but I agree. I've said this before so won't cover old ground but someone dying of the virus compared to someone dying with the virus is not seperated.

I have absolutely no idea the details though so I'm in no position to speculate further than that.