Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[roydo]

No, I didn't. I commended the aid that country gave and is giving.

I'm not blinded to the crimes of any government.

So you did commend them then. And yes you are blinded. This started in China. Them lobbing a few face masks around doesnt alter that.

Thats the crime.

 

[Neiler]

How are those Chinese numbers doing today....have they found another couple of thousand that they missed....

Sky News are reporting today that the UK have underreported their daily RIP figures by 75%. Scary and horrible if true.

Would have the UK at 25k, worst affected country in Euorpe.

 

[peteblue]

They want everybody to blame China, its NOT Chinas fault that the UK has people dying, its the job of the UK government to protect UK citizens.

The facts are simple, they knew what we were dealing with in early January and choose to waste 3 months till they finally acted late March, thats not Chinas fault.

When this is all over, I want War crime trials at the Hague and Bojo will be first up before the beak.

Not ‘they‘, everyone outside of China is blaming the Chinese, apart from you and Dave obviously......

 

[roydo]

Sky News are reporting today that the UK have underreported their daily RIP figures by 75%. Scary and horrible if true.

Would have the UK at 25k, worst affected country in Euorpe.

This is mental. Before this happened, we never had daily death figures. The nhs give the deaths that may have been hastened by CV, but 10000 folk die in the UK every week in normal times. It just does not help, and causes panic.

 

[Toffee in Jandals]

Unless you’ve got proof that the government created the virus then they aren’t murderers, nor are the Italian, Spanish, German or any other country’s governments that have suffered deaths

What they are guilty of is maybe not locking the country down a week or two early, when it was looking at its worst in Italy that was the sign to do it, we could have hit the peak earlier had that happened

I'd say at the very least the UK government is guilty of negligence. As someone who works in travel and is still trying to get some foreign nationals back to their home countries, the UK is one of the very, very few to have zero border controls at their airports. Which is crazy considering the overseas links to COVID-19 cases imported into countries before community transmission happened.

Also being an island nation, the UK should have been well-placed, geographically speaking, to manage the crisis.

 

[peteblue]

Sky News are reporting today that the UK have underreported their daily RIP figures by 75%. Scary and horrible if true.

Would have the UK at 25k, worst affected country in Euorpe.

Once again, it all depends which numbers you are counting. I can well believe 25k, because the numbers declared are generated by hospitals only, as they are across Europe. No one knows for sure, and the overall number is not the issue, sad as it may be, the number is there to be able to judge how this pandemic is progressing and the resultant decisions that must follow. What numbers European countries count is for them and their population.

 

[Neiler]

Don't worry it's been fixed...

Coronavirus: NHS staff advised to reuse PPE ahead of expected weekend shortage

Frontline medics have complained of shortages throughout the COVID-19 epidemic, with some forced to use bin bags instead of gowns.

news.sky.com

That’s absolutely horrible if true. They would be better off cutting up bin bags and making there own, I’m not joking either.

 

[peteblue]

This is mental. Before this happened, we never had daily death figures. The nhs give the deaths that may have been hastened by CV, but 10000 folk die in the UK every week in normal times. It just does not help, and causes panic.

Absolutely...tune in for the latest set of scary numbers...after the break.....

 

[Goat]

The part about china having no fault?

imagine the backlash if UK did exactly the same.

I didnt say China have no fault, I just said its not Chinas job to protect the people in the UK.

China have lied from day 1, we know that and the whole world knows that, but the Western world was told in early January how bad this virus was.

 

[peteblue]

So you did commend them then. And yes you are blinded. This started in China. Them lobbing a few face masks around doesnt alter that.

Thats the crime.

And the test kits they sold us didn’t work either....

 

[Goat]

I'd say at the very least the UK government is guilty of negligence. As someone who works in travel and is still trying to get some foreign nationals back to their home countries, the UK is one of the very, very few to have zero border controls at their airports. Which is crazy considering the overseas links to COVID-19 cases imported into countries before community transmission happened.

Also being an island nation, the UK should have been well-placed, geographically speaking, to manage the crisis.

BINGO.

We live on a bloody Island.

 

[Axlswhk]

I didnt say China have no fault, I just said its not Chinas job to protect the people in the UK.

China have lied from day 1, we know that and the whole world knows that, but the Western world was told in early January how bad this virus was.

fair enough mate.
Western world were complacent but that complacency was partly planted by China suppression of information and WHO downplaying the seriousness. It takes two hands to clap imo. In this case, it’s three hands.

 

[COYBL25]

So you did commend them then. And yes you are blinded. This started in China. Them lobbing a few face masks around doesnt alter that.

Thats the crime.

And imprisoning any of their citizens that tried to get the real truth out.

 

[klingklang]

That’s absolutely horrible if true. They would be better off cutting up bin bags and making there own, I’m not joking either.

My partner is a Paramedic and I can assure you, some people have actually done the very thing ! In fact some bin bags are better than the flimsy apron things that they are being asked to wear !

 

[Goat]

fair enough mate.
Western world were complacent but that complacency was partly planted by China suppression of information and WHO downplaying the seriousness. It takes two hands to clap imo. In this case, it’s three hands.

China, WHO and all governments in the world have blood on their hands.