Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Brisan123 said:
i think Spain is hoping for the best outcome and not expecting it
There will not be many foreign tourists heading to Spain this year
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As per @davids it would seem that they`re pinning their hopes on Spanish people holidaying at home.

I think it`ll be the same in most countries tbh, as air travel is going to be particularly problematic, plus a lot of people will be too scared to travel, even when restrictions are lifted.
 
ForeverBlue92 said:
Controlled herd immunity as you say appears to be the way forward - but why the Government havent already started nationwide blood testing of the population I'll never know.

Every GP service/walk in should be giving people 5 minute appointments to have a blood sample taken - if someone turns up early have them que up like at the supermarkets and have the people performing the tests kitted out in proper PPE.

Anyone who tests positive for antibodies - add them to a nation wide database and after so many weeks you have an idea of what stage we are at in terms of relaxing the lockdown and if we need to shut back up again once cases spike then do so.

Without testing we are peeing against the wind.
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HAVE you any idea how long it would take to take and process 65 million tests
A few years would be my guess
 
I don’t think discussions about jobs and that should really put in here as people are dying. Mods you ok I start a new thread for people dealing with possible financial worries?
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Not that straightforward though, is it? Being smart and stuff, the wife points out when we walk around the masks people wear. Some have filters that you only really use in hospital settings. Some have filters that you would only see in an ICU setting. Given the shortage of both kinds at the moment, it begs the question where do these people get them from if hospitals can't? Have they cracked upon a secret source? Are people pinching some from work for family to use?

Then you have the dodgy crap from eBay, which do give entirely the false sense of security you mention, and sadly the various online marketplaces are awash with those at the moment (Amazon is the same). Tonnes of dodgy stuff. Then you have masks that are poorly fitted, or removed/adjusted regularly, thus encouraging greater touching of the face, or like the good Prazans in the photo I shared yesterday, who seem to think wearing a mask means social distancing is irrelevant.

The advise of the medical industry has been reasonably consistent throughout. The supply of hospital quality masks is extremely limited, so please don't buy them as they are far more valuable in hospitals than they are on your fizzog. The best protection is to stay at home. What you wear when you do so is up to you.
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some of the stuff @Bungle wears is illegal,even indoors lol
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Spoke to the mother-in-law in Czech yesterday about their lockdown (or easing thereof). A couple of crackers were revealed. Pubs and restaurants are opening, but they still expect people to wear masks, and keep 2 metres away from each other. They also demand that facilities keep their toilets shut to the public. So you're expecting people to drink beer through their mask, whilst not socialising with the friends they went to the pub with, and certainly not for that beer to need a release at any time during your stay. I can't see people disobeying that whatsoever.

In book shops, which I believe are among the first things to open, if you touch a book but don't buy it, that book has to go into quarantine for 4 days so any virus you transmitted to the book can die off. She wasn't quite clear why gloves aren't mandated for book shops in the way they are for grocery shops, but yeah, books in quarantine :oops:

She also said the images of the farmer's market in Prague are commonplace around the country, as people went a bit nuts after their 'release'.
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They are clearly doing a hell of a lot right though.

Cases: 7,408

Deaths: 221

They didn't have the advantages we in Western Europe had either.


I wonder why..............
 
Brisan123 said:
HAVE you any idea how long it would take to take and process 65 million tests
A few years would be my guess
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They perhaps wouldn't need to check every single person (you'll be suprised how many people are not even registered at a GP service anyway) but this is the sort of thing they have to be doing if we are to get on top of it.

The amount of money wasted on cheap tat home testing kits could have helped with this sort of scheme.
 
JEBUS_LIVES said:
Can I just point out that the discussion in the thread this morning about 'how do we manage coming out of lockdown; it's a massive risk that people will become reckless or demob happy, will do things unknowingly that are harmful, it'll be difficult to go back to lockdown if we have to because people won't comply' are all considerations as to why countries may have been reluctant to enforce lockdown in the first place.
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I don't think it will be much different too now mate, there will be those who have adhered to the lockdown and will still be vigilant if the government ease the lockdown, and then there will be those who haven't give a toss during the lockdown, so easing of the lockdown will make no difference to them because they'll just carry on doing what they've done anyway.
 
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