Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Tea_drinker said:
Impossible to prove that. I'm saying that yous expect the figures go fall but they havent, nor in spain.
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Nearly 20,000 deaths just hospital related, double that if you count the care homes being ignored, that is with a lockdown in place implemented 2 weeks behind other big nations. Had we not locked down that number would be looking at 60-80k possibly more
 
Megatron said:
Nearly 20,000 deaths just hospital related, double that if you count the care homes being ignored, that is with a lockdown in place implemented 2 weeks behind other big nations. Had we not locked down that number would be looking at 60-80k possibly more
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Cant be proved but I understand your thinking. I'm not against some kind of a lockdown but on it's own it doesnt seem to be having that much of an effect.
 
BlueToff said:
I'm all for saving lives first and foremost and easing the strain on the NHS as much as possible. That needed to be done.

I still firmly believe that if we'd been more prepared and used the time we had to our advantage, and then also locked down slightly earlier - we could have already been on the other side of this like NZ/Aus look to be approaching, albeit with a long way to go.

While I dislike this government very much, the general idea of 'herd immunity' isn't incorrect in the sense it is the only way to do it. But it was never gonna work without massive, massive loss of life due in main to our NHS being overrun.

Thankfully, though obviously it is horrid for anyone who has and will lose loved ones and I know that could be any of us, our NHS is at least not at capacity yet. And with the extra hospitals now built and equipment on its way/which will arrive, we should have the capacity to not have to go into lockdown when the second wave comes.

The whole gatherings and pubs thing and stuff - well you have to bring them back at some stage and to me you can't just put an arbitrary date on it (i.e. year's end). It just has to be when the NHS can handle it I suppose.

But like i've said we're in lockdown and for now there's nowt we can do. Just carry on as we are. It has done what was intended to so far and there's more work to do. We have to get to that third block of three weeks (which starts May 7th now) and see where we are at that stage.
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As Islands Britain and Ireland were better suited to contain this virus than most
After the first few death in Europe than close all borders,no one allowed in unless repatriating and even those people should have been quarantined
However the economy and liberal human rights activists prevented this
 
Brennan said:
If tobacco was banned it would have become a substance sold by drug dealers, probably more cheaply than it is now. I highly doubt it would stop those who want to smoke from smoking.
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Bit of a difference between legal and illegal though mate.
Walken said:
that is an extremely simplified view of a far more complex question, and doesn't really hold up under scrutiny
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It is , because it's wrong thread to go into any more detail
 
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