Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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I know a lot here are experts already, but for the rest of us
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Seven recommended reads for contextualising Covid-19 - LSE Business Review
In the present crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic, there are a number of accessible historical works and websites that can provide background and information on the disease as it unfolds. Since the disease is so recently emergent, there are as yet no reliable books dedicated directly to the topic...
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YoboCopter
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So early may is when it starts relaxing? Sound that
Gyms wont be too long and a holiday might happend end of summer, if not a pub!
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Gyms wont be too long and a holiday might happend end of summer, if not a pub!
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Toffee in Jandals
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Just nine new cases of COVID in New Zealand today, bringing our total to 1400-odd, though with more than 900 recovered. We've had twelve confirmed coronavirus deaths.
Tomorrow (Monday NZ time) the Prime Minister will announce if our lockdown rules are going to be relaxed slightly.
Tomorrow (Monday NZ time) the Prime Minister will announce if our lockdown rules are going to be relaxed slightly.
The Penalty Box Dancer
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Is this the UK?
I think gym's are big enough and adjustable to open, allow 50 people max in the big commercial gyms, distance machines appropriately and introduce good hygiene measures. People don't go to the gym if they're ill anyway but people who are ill go to the supermarket
You’re trusting all people to wipe down machines, dumbbells, mats etc. which is just risky IMO.
The Penalty Box Dancer
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Yes because people have missed this aspect of their life and would do anything they can not to further jeopardise it. Most people in commercial gyms are generally clean.
The binman chronicles
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If they release the lockdown in three weeks time then a lot of people are going to die. We won't even get to the re-opening of pubs as we'll be back in lockdown by mid June.
If we are getting near 1000 a day deaths now, nearly a month after restrictions came into effect, how quickly is that going to spike again. The lifting of restrictions would have to be very limited else it is plain stupidity.
But not everyone which is the obvious point.
This is probably my stupidity I assume here but it’s not going away is it ? 15,000 people a day landing in the Uk which we can assume will hugely increase whenever the lockdown is eased even slightly . No vaccine and huge swathes of the population as yet uninfected not to mention the current discussions as to whether being infected actually provides any immunity .
All we’ve done , as I understand it , Is provide a gap for the nhs to not go under and allow treatment for those who need it without us being overwhelmed. So do we continue this indefinitely? I’m not advocating we just sack it but frankly the economy is going to fold in on itself in a relatively short time and that also carries implications as well . We’ve got people dying at home not to mention cancer patients missing appointments and treatment and big companies are going under even with furlough , once it stops unemployment is going through the roof . The indefinite extension of this just doesn’t feel viable frankly .
OnlyBlueWillDo
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Sunday Times reporting we sent nearly 300k of PPE to China last month, Gove was just interviewed on Sky about it and I've never seen him so rattled and evasive, definitely some truth in it.
Boris failed to attend 5 Cobra meetings at the start on this pandemic.
"A senior adviser to Downing Street blamed a failure of leadership in Cabinet - and singled out the Prime Minister - for the "lost" weeks and complacency leading up to the epidemic.
The adviser, who wasn't named, told the Sunday Times: “There’s no way you’re at war if your PM isn’t there.
"And what you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends."
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Boris failed to attend 5 Cobra meetings at the start on this pandemic.
"A senior adviser to Downing Street blamed a failure of leadership in Cabinet - and singled out the Prime Minister - for the "lost" weeks and complacency leading up to the epidemic.
The adviser, who wasn't named, told the Sunday Times: “There’s no way you’re at war if your PM isn’t there.
"And what you learn about Boris was he didn’t chair any meetings. He liked his country breaks. He didn’t work weekends."
Boris Johnson 'skipped five Cobra meetings on coronavirus as warnings ignored'
There was a sense that Boris Johnson - accused of responding to the coronavirus outbreak when it was too late - "didn't do urgent crisis planning" as he skipped Cobra meetings on Covid-19, an adviser claims
Spoke out against de funding the WHO as the childish lunacy it is and actually believes we should follow the advice of health experts.
He is now an enemy to the headline readers with guns and pick up trucks
NilSatisOptimum
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Many European countries are beginning to come out of lockdown, however, they already had robust systems in place and acted much sooner on what now appears to be better leaders acting on better expert evidence, but not to worry we have more money in our pockets.
ForeverBlue92
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It would make sense.
By then we'll have been in lockdown for 6 and a half weeks. Doing any longer without any easing of restrictions will destroy the economy & people will soon start getting twitchy and causing disorder at a time when our emergency resources are already stretched.
Get to May and start getting people back into work and small businesses / shops/ food chains open.
not a chance he's hanging out with an asian lad in this climateBill posted his family training preparations on Facebook yesterday
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