Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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I'm not sure I want to wear a mask or agree with it being the long term solution. Lots of the people wearing masks I see in the supermarket act like they are totally protected so don't have to distance from everyone else. It's started to wind me up a bit over the last couple of weeks.

Huge generalisation but they certainly tend to be those who feel the rules don’t apply to them .
 
I'm not sure I want to wear a mask or agree with it being the long term solution. Lots of the people wearing masks I see in the supermarket act like they are totally protected so don't have to distance from everyone else. It's started to wind me up a bit over the last couple of weeks.

It sounds daft but masks are only on the assumption that a vaccine will be made. I get the elderly and vulernable wearing them as a means to get out but for me the healthy under 40's in particular really should be prepping themselves up for controlled herd immunity as a back up to no vaccine being found.

I imagine one will likely be found like but there is no guarantees or how long that will take.
 
If it means strawberries are 50p cheaper, they can bring out an army of robot @Joey66 for all I care.
I will get my good lady to make robots out of dyson parts - the was little need to fly in farm labourers from anywhere untested ......it's not rocket science field work - the government have caved in to greedy landowner farmers......to pick any crop as for strawberrys their main Out let of sale the Winbledon tennis is a dead duck - they just don't want to pay the minimum wage end of ....- I did field work at the age of 16 years old - without the mechanisation they have now - sorry the excuse the skills are not in this country is totally absurd one days training on cutting crops or planting crops is all that is necessary- to fly workers in from anywhere is absurd , and dangerous........
 
Judging by the US, they'll be the first muppets to demand things are opened up again, coz they don't fear no virus.
There is a pub nearby that I pass on my daily walk/run, which I normally do about 9pm. In the past it's opened itself up for EDL/UKIP/Brexit party gatherings.

It appears locked and closed for business but they're clearly still open for a few regulars.
 
What's happening in Ireland? I haven't read an awful lot about it - which suggests that Ireland are doing better than the UK?
Deaths per million in Ireland 217
Deaths in Britain PER MILLION 318
However Ireland is counting care home and deaths in the community Britain is not
Britain's total is more like 600 deaths per million
Spain is about 500 per million
Italy abou 444 deaths per million
Irelands R0 is about .5
 
Not aimed at you specifically, but the general sneering attitude towards farm work perhaps explains why labour tends to be imported. It seems to be work that's viewed as beneath many Brits.

Farm work isn’t below me. The minimum wage is. Farmer Giles needs to pay more and they would get plenty of staff.
 
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