Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

Isn't that called learning from experience?

No, it's called seeing your arse.

 

[Loz]

Going to be interesting to see how this Government deals with Uncle Xi, we have invested so much with China over the last decade...

Don’t you mean that we have sold them so much of our country and infrastructure over the last decade.
I doubt there’s much that we, or anyone else, can do about China when the dust settles. I’d like to be wrong of course.

 

[davek]

Dave, in recent months you've accused police officers of murdering terrorists, doctors of faking the prime minister' s illness and now this on Whitty.

Your judgement has been well off beam.

I think I've been spot on.

 

[Dharma]

The inevitable manoeuvring of blame began today between Minister's and the Science...

Asked by Keir Starmer at PMQs if the UK had been "slow" to act, Dominic Raab namechecked Whitty and Vallance as he insisted the UK had been "guided by the science"

At tonight's press conference Whitty repeatedly stressed that decisions were for ministers.

Let the blame game begin...

I think you can throw Civil Servants and Public Behaviour into that mix too.

 

[Agent Blue]

If his symptoms were nothing more than a cold and he used those mild symptoms to disappear from public view, then surely there would have been plenty of people who would have loved to have come out at the slightest opportunity to put this out there mate?

Could we take a look at what that might look like though.

His entourage would all be under non-disclosure agreements so nothing going to come from them.
Doctors and nurses wouldn't say anything as he legitimately went in with symptoms of the virus.
What I think happened is that Johnson has displayed mild symptoms and was advised by Cummings to be admitted as a precaution, just as we were told at the time. He came out 6-7 days later and we were told it was "touch and go" for a while even though he wasn't even ventilated. How was it touch and go if he wasn't even on a ventilator?
He is now holed up at Chequers and has been for some time, and avoiding scrutiny.......again! and MOST importantly doesn't want his picture appearing next to the daily death toll figures and reports of his governments gross negligence in handling most aspects of the crisis we all face. It just wouldn't look good yanno.

If you see the Lesser Spotted Johnson before I do giz a shout mate.

I would expect to see him when the death figures start to really come down, or when it's all over bar the shouting. Till then he's quite happy to let Hancock and that dreadful woman who is the Minister for Care, who doesn't really........ take all the flak.

Have to hand it to Cummings he's played us all like a fiddle, as has Johnson.

 

[Agent Blue]

Nearly every news page I've viewed on the net the Government are getting hammered to death (and rightly so) so as you say Toff, they aren't escaping scrutiny.

But Johnson is, don't see him getting asked any questions.

 

[Charro]

My mum works the hospital by mine and she is saying A&E and ICU are a lot less busier than anticipated. Near empty tbh

Workers being told they can take days off when two weeks ago they were told no annual leave for a while.


That’s just one hospital though. Could be a lot different everywhere else.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Johnson knows he doesn't have the gravitas to deal with this. He got voted in via a small number of middle england of tories. Now hes in hiding and standing up stiffs to lie to the general p every day.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

I sense lockdown fatigue is starting to creep in and people are slowly reducing how strict they are in adhering to the guidelines. This will only get worse as time goes on.

Exit strategy needs to be put in place and communicated effectively to the population, soon.

 

[tim cahill]

But Johnson is, don't see him getting asked any questions.

I'm no Johnson supporter but it's clear he was very unwell and he's still recovering.

 

[longers]

The saddest photo of the lockdown so far

 

[Goat]

I sense lockdown fatigue is starting to creep in and people are slowly reducing how strict they are in adhering to the guidelines. This will only get worse as time goes on.

Exit strategy needs to be put in place and communicated effectively to the population, soon.

Yep, but the reason they arent telling us is cos they havent got a clue themselves.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Yep, but the reason they arent telling us is cos they havent got a clue themselves.

Based on how it’s all been handled so far I suppose there’s little chance of any proactive leadership. I live in hope though.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Social distancing until the end of the year?

Rude word removed

 

[LinekersLegs]

Sweden Health Agency Withdraws Controversial Coronavirus Report

The Swedish Public Health Agency made international headlines yesterday by estimating that one-third of Stockholm residents would be infected with the coronavirus by May 1.

www.forbes.com

The Swedish Public Health Agency made international headlines yesterday by estimating that one-third of Stockholm residents would be infected with the coronavirus by May 1. Less than 24 hours later, the Agency has taken a dramatic u-turn and withdrawn the report.The decision was announced via Twitter: "We have discovered an error in the report and so the authors are currently going through the material again. We will republish the report as soon as it is ready."
While the nature of the error was not disclosed, the Agency also said they would share more information about it once the revised report was complete.

During yesterday’s press conference, the deputy state epidemiologist Anders Wallenstein announced the report based on data models that indicated the spread of the coronavirus was much higher than previously thought. Among the claims were that for every one person tested positive for COVID-19, up to 999 others could also have the infection without knowing.

Swedish journalist Emanuel Karlsten queried this during a Q&A session at the press conference. Given there are more than 15,000 confirmed cases, the Agency’s estimate would mean that the total number of likely infections would be greater than the entire population of Sweden.