Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Zatara]

All getting a bit unfrandely in here today

I think the word is 'ignorant'...in some cases...or 'uninformed' perhaps.

How are you @orly Weve had some deaths about 15 mins walk away from here...all very unpleasant.

 

[orly]

I think the word is 'ignorant'...in some cases...or 'uninformed' perhaps.

How are you @orly Weve had some deaths about 15 mins walk away from here...all very unpleasant.

I'm ok to be honest Zatmonster. My partner and I have been really strict on the whole social distancing / isolating thing, basically since end of Feb, so this is very much the normal for us now.

Quite a few old people on our road, we're on a WhatsApp group with them, sounds like everyone is generally ok.

 

[peteblue]

Haha - sorry, I couldn't resist, you employ the same tactic so often on other people that it seemed right and proper to see if you'd bite !

Anyway, although it's a horrible thing to have to say, the deaths data, in terms of identifying trends isn't the right thing to be looking at. We know deaths will roughly follow hospital admissions at a fairly constant percentage, so by concentrating on deaths, you're looking at how the situation on transmission was a few weeks ago, so we know the moving average of deaths per day ( however you measure it ) will almost certainly go up for a couple of weeks

What follows, is a plot of the daily growth in new cases, based on a five day moving average of those cases ( excluding NHS and key worker tests ), which shows that the number of new cases per day has pretty much plateaued. Whether that's the peak or not is impossible to say with any certainty, and the numbers over the next few days may well, because of it being a bank holiday weekend, be a bit questionable, but it does look like the top of the growth. If the growth rate starts being consistently negative, then we're defo past the peak


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[NilSatisOptimum]

Has Sadiq Khan taken any blame so far?

Talking of ignorance can't really compare Mayor Khan against Mayor Burnham, London Mayor role is largely figurehead with very little powers compared to Manchester mayor role, they are simply not like for like, apart from name!

 

[roydo]

First day back at work and I can assure you people are not just shopping for essentials.
I've just looked at the amount of seperate transactions we have done since doors opened at 8am and it's currently 6288 as we approach 5pm.


Social distance being maintained though and no issues from people complaining about the queue to get in as it's a very pleasant afternoon.

As long as folk maintain their distance, and dont over shop, I dont see a problem with buying non essentials alongside their essentials. If that makes sense.

Like I was in Sainsburys earlier, (its worth the 20 minute queue for the near deserted store!), bought ham and parsley for our tea, bananas and cereal for my parents, plus some wine as a treat for my old man.

Out of those, only bananas are essential. The rest are all being looked forward to though!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Haha - sorry, I couldn't resist, you employ the same tactic so often on other people that it seemed right and proper to see if you'd bite !

Touche like.

 

[Toast]

As long as folk maintain their distance, and dont over shop, I dont see a problem with buying non essentials alongside their essentials. If that makes sense.

Like I was in Sainsburys earlier, (its worth the 20 minute queue for the near deserted store!), bought ham and parsley for our tea, bananas and cereal for my parents, plus some wine as a treat for my old man.

Out of those, only bananas are essential. The rest are all being looked forward to though!

I forgot it's Easter Sunday tomorrow and everywhere is shut.

Will explain it a bit more actually.

I don't blame people for shopping btw when you get the chance, you'd be daft no to.

 

[paultheblue]

As opposed to China, you know the country responsible for the virus...

You really need to broaden your horizons not just look locally. Never know, you may learn something.

Not sure why youre calling me an "idiot" for posting something clear, obvious and factually correct.




Then you need to blame every single Govt in globally...there isnt one under the same circumstances.



Shenzhen is the gateway into HK. They need to show the foreign investors that its safe...or so im told by a Dutch bloke who has an office there.




Yes, and you seem to be blaming one government when the entire world is in a state of crisis.

All Governments should have fingers pointed at them not only one...its a cheap jibe at the tories which is in bad taste.




I was in Guangzhou and was told we had a private room in an expensive restaurant just behind the river there....i ordered chicken. Refused everything else.

I was asked if i fancied dessert and to come to another floor to take a look....i walked past fishtanks full of insects, animals and pretty much every creature which could fit in one.

Truly rank....i nearly fell into the same trap when in shanghai and asked for something western...i took a bite and the table laughed,

"Do you know what that is"
"Yes its a (some western type dish)"
"Haha no, its a birds nest from XYZ mountain"

Colleague of mine was at a table in Macau four seasons where they ordered Donkey manhood.




Has Sadiq Khan taken any blame so far?

Seems very one sided on here without actually comparing to rest of world.

Sorry mate the wow was a mistake shoul

 

[Goat]

I think the word is 'ignorant'...in some cases...or 'uninformed' perhaps.

How are you @orly Weve had some deaths about 15 mins walk away from here...all very unpleasant.

Talk of ignorance whilst saying that the Uk government is not responsible for its own citizens.

They had 3 months to prepare.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

 

[malfosse]

Anyone fed up with their neighbours yet? Mines a builder and he's never stopped making noise - be it jet washing to hammering things to drilling I mean have a day off ffs.

Only good thing has been his trophy wife occasionally sunbathes in the garden topless so I get to have a little peekarooney when doing the polishing upstairs.

Polishing what?

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Well, part of my job at the moment is to prepare a daily analysis of statistics related to this outbreak,

What is that you do if I may be so bold?

 

[stony]

Anyone fed up with their neighbours yet? Mines a builder and he's never stopped making noise - be it jet washing to hammering things to drilling I mean have a day off ffs.

Only good thing has been his trophy wife occasionally sunbathes in the garden topless so I get to have a little peekarooney when doing the polishing upstairs.

Just a bit. He's out washing his car every day with a power wash before 9 am, and she sticks the washer on at midnight and the whole house rattles when it spins.

 

[Harryflashman]

Then you need to blame every single Govt in globally...there isnt one under the same circumstances.

okay so firstly in a dispassionate way I mostly care about the Uk , I care about the world but the Uk is my first area of-concern.

secondly I’ve no idea if s Korea , the US , Germany or Italy etc did similar exercises in the last 18 months and if they did found they underperformed. If they did and failed to act , i‘lll deffo critiise them , as would every reasonable human surely ? I find it fairly clearcut personally .

thirdly I assume from what I vaguely recall from you you work In Business right, in the private sector ? So if you had individuals organise an exercise to see how you’d cope with a specific Scenario, whatever that may be and the results were bad . Then those individuals failed to tackle the identified issues and the scenario developed then badly smacked you on the behind, as a industry or as a professional you’re suggesting you’d be forgiving of that ? I don’t think you’d say “well x , y and z weren’t prepared either” . My guess is you’d go off your Barnet , otherwise the exercise is a complete waste of resources surely ?

politics are meaningless at this time , for me if someone’s to blame I want them held accountable and if someone has done well I’ll praise them. Simple as .

 

[tsubaki]

What is that you do if I may be so bold?

as little as I can get away with

 

[Harryflashman]

as little as I can get away with

Just to let you know we have a clubhouse , a tie and a secret handshake .