Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tea_drinker]

Are you cycling to a park and then working out, or is the cycling your work out?

Sort of both. It was originally just the cycling but I got sick off getting overtaken by fat fellas in pink lycra outfits bombing around.

 

[Kenshin]

Why dont we have an unlimited pot of money? Who allocates it to us? Where does it come from? the government? The banks? Mars?

Not sure where you are going with this.

I have a hunch that it wont be them paying it back.

No it's us.

But it's counter productive to tax the people too high for too long.

 

[Blues Harp]

I just think the longer it goes, some people will just think sod it, I`ll take my chances, especially if the weather stays nice.

Where does that attitude leave me? Am I supposed to stay home for god knows how long? Or should I venture outside and catch the virus? Which with my health problems would finish me.... Damn you Cummings and the excuse we have for a pm. Eugenics in action.

 

[BrendanGOT]

Looks like they peaked 3 weeks ago roughly

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Sort of both. It was originally just the cycling but I got sick off getting overtaken by fat fellas in pink lycra outfits bombing around.

@Bruce Wayne?

 

[Paris]

Spoiler: HUGE NEWS

 

[larrygobfiend]

Going purely from the absolute numbers, it's not even the same as the flu right now. The flu has killed 3x more people than coronavirus this year, and the government has put us in lockdown. 11 people under the age of 45 have died of coronavirus. Just 11. And most if not all of those had preexisting conditions.

And for those interested in the effectiveness of the lockdown, this is a good read https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/22/there-is-no-empirical-evidence-for-these-lockdowns/

Like I've already said, I reckon history will look back and wonder why we reacted so bizarrely. I'm almost certain of it.

And the award for the biggest helmet on the forum goes to.....

 

[Tea_drinker]

Spoiler: HUGE NEWS

She's miles behind. I did that during the first 30 seconds of it.

 

[COYBL25]

@Bruce Wayne?

Here he is training earlier today.

Please note the strict adherence to social distancing.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

No queues at our shop at all this week so far.
Now I thought that this may be because people are a bit skint, but the money being taken at the tills is hitting expected budgets.
So people are just shopping as normal it seems.

We have had a huge delivery of PPE for staff use also. Hand gel, gloves, masks and even plastic visors.
So that begs the question if we can source it, how on earth can't the actual government of the country ?

I said it loads of times mate, if only people would have done this from the start, instead of going on one and hoarding, then we wouldn't have had empty shelves.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Sevy park today:

 

[ForeverBlue92]

banana republic lol

 

[Bruce Wayne]

@Bruce Wayne?

Celeste ffs, not pink.

 

[Tramps_mate]

There is too many people still socialising currently. Loads of kids out with thier mates. Bellends three up in transit vans everywhere. We're going to be under restrictions until the year end. Guarantee it flairs up again within 12 months...

 

[Barnfred 55]

Maybe it's just me, but I get this funny feeling that after this new period of lockdown set by the government we're not going to see much movement from them at the end of it and it wouldn't surprise me if there isn't another few more weeks of lockdown after it mainly because they will want to play it safe, after making a balls up of everything else.

If I was in charge of things, and I confess there's not a small amount of selfishness in this, here is what I'd do.

Down here in Cornwall we've been very lucky with the virus, we've had the fewest fatalities, and the fewest confirmed CV-19 positive per capita, than anywhere else in the country. As of yesterday, we had only 20 people in hospital being treated for the virus across the whole county, and only 4 of these were in ICU. So it's fair to say we're ahead of the curve compared to the rest of the country.

I would start a pilot scheme here, effectively using Cornwall as a guinea pig, testing how things go here before rolling out to the rest of the country. This would be strictly for the locals only and there would have to be strict restrictions on people coming in and out.

So I would lift restrictions in a number of areas, but on the basis that strict social distancing rules, i.e 2 metres apart etc, were complied with in public areas. I would re open retail outlets currently considered non essential, like garden centres, clothes shops, furniture shops etc. Basically on the same basis as supermarkets are now with control on numbers and queuing as required. I would relax the rules on visiting people and would allow family visits and also friends subject to gatherings of maybe 6 maximum (not including children). I would re-open schools. I would allow pubs, restaurants and cafes to open provided they're large enough to manage social distancing. It would have to be table seated only, both inside and out, with strict table service so no queuing at bars. Strict hygiene rules would need to apply where hospitality is concerned. Things like hairdressers, beauty salons etc are more difficult because of social distancing, and if these were opened you would expect masks to be worn by the staff members. Full use of public parks and beaches would also be allowed, again provided social distancing was maintained and groups were kept to a maximum of 6 adults plus children.

I accept all of these things are high risk, but that is what you have to go through to find out if it works. Remember this is a pilot scheme to test the waters and the idea is to try and find out what works and what doesn't before you roll it out to the rest of the country.

The key to this working is testing and contract tracing. There needs to be adequate testing capability set up in the county, so as soon as anybody shows symptoms of CV-19 they are tested. They are also questioned about where they have been and who they have been with. If the test comes back positive, then all those people named are tested/questioned and so forth. Not only will the prompt testing enable us to reduce the spread of the virus, but after a while you will start to build a picture of what is happening and identify how and where the virus is being transmitted between people. So we can identify what is safe to role out to the rest of the country, and what isn't.

This would all take a while before any meaningful information is gathered, at least 3/4 weeks. So I'd start this immediately rather than wait for the end of the current lockdown.

There's probably stuff I've forgotten in there but you get the picture. Would it work?. It's worth a try IMO. Will it happen?. Not a chance in hell