Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[COYBL25]

*raw nerve touched*

Proper tin foil hat stuff Dave.

All those hours self flagellating with copies of the Socialist Worker have taken their toll.

 

[roydo]

You can do whatever you like... Papers have said so and the government aren't telling people to stay at home. We've beaten this foren invader and all it took was a few weeks of lockdown a VE afternoon tea, a piss up and a conga.

We deffo told them.

 

[roydo]

An 6 week baby died yesterday.....-

Coronavirus: Six-week-old baby dies with COVID-19 as UK deaths pass 31,000

The number of coronavirus deaths recorded in the UK has increased by 626 in the past 24 hours.

news.sky.com

The baby, tragically, was already very poorly mate.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Still haven’t hit the 100,000 daily testing target I see

 

[Paris]

Proper tin foil hat stuff Dave.

All those hours self flagellating with copies of the Socialist Worker have taken their toll.

Dave may have gotten comprehensively trounced but at least he's won the argument.

 

[roydo]

Still haven’t hit the 100,000 daily testing target I see

Everyone has been in the park to be fair. That or riding their bike.

 

[COYBL25]

Oh. And we have one on here then?

Pretty sure we dont.

You may need to introduce some kind of member vetting system just to make sure that the forum hasn’t been infiltrated by some sinister New World Order lol

 

[Joey66]

The baby, tragically, was already very poorly mate.

Ashame but this virus takes no prisoners ..... this age thing etc is sometimes flawed the young nurses working on the coal face of the ITCU etc mid age end up dying - yes the OAP,s are more vulnerable, but it seems to affect any age if exposure is passed on...

 

[davek]

Daily figures have never been any use and that also applied when record high levels were recorded and posted everywhere, it was never the daily figure but always the trend that mattered. The R figure is now around 0.7 or less - the trend is therefore definitely lower.

Keeping that R figure at or below 1 is key to managing without getting a second peak.

There does need to be some perspective on this virus though imo - as the amount of coverage is giving the impression it's the worst thing anyone can get when for the vast majority it just isn't, for them its not cancer and almost always not a killer. It is massively and disproportionally more virulent on the elderly and more vulnerable members of our society - those with underlying conditions including it seems those very overweight.

You can look at different vulnerabilities and see the risk varies quite dramatically with age. While nationally we're comfortably past the peak, it's far from clear with the very vulnerable and exposed - the rate of deaths in care homes for example - has even reached it's peak at all.

At the other end of the scale there are 10 million people under 15 - out of the 30,000 with Covid on their death certificates, only two are from this age group - two from 10,000,000.

It's nevsr this straightforward but generally, the younger you are, if not in an especially vulnerable group, then the chances of dying from this virus are staggeringly low.

The vaccine is the only real long-term cure but that's a hope it's not a certainty, personally I'm optimistic within two years, but we may have to manage this for years and years there are no guarantees.

Steps to go back to work have to be and need to be managed and planned with the new changed circumstances with a constant eye on potential dangers, but we can't just ignore the misery, suffering and deaths that could occur from an economy so wrecked it has no hope of recovery for decades - we can't have governments pouring money out while businesses produce nothing and risk collapsing, risking terminal decline is not the answer.

So it's just 12 million people over 65 that need to worry?

That's ok then, I thought there was a lot of people in the UK facing death and extreme ill health from Covid19.


Thank goodness for perspective.

 

[roydo]

You may need to introduce some kind of member vetting system just to make sure that the forum hasn’t been infiltrated by some sinister New World Order lol

Just check the IPS, and as long as they dont swear, or have a user name like StevieG or CarraLad, we are like the testing at Heathrow basically.

We could all be infected.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

An 6 week baby died yesterday.....-

Coronavirus: Six-week-old baby dies with COVID-19 as UK deaths pass 31,000

The number of coronavirus deaths recorded in the UK has increased by 626 in the past 24 hours.

news.sky.com

I dont mean to sound awful but how many newborns / very young die on a daily basis that isnt reported mate? And its also worth noting that the baby was ill regardless of COVID-19.

At some point we have to start easing measures otherwise plenty of other babies wont have milk in their bellies or a roof over their head if the economy collapses.

 

[Joey66]

I dont mean to sound awful but how many newborns / very young die on a daily basis that isnt reported mate? And its also worth noting that the baby was ill regardless of COVID-19.

At some point we have to start easing measures otherwise plenty of other babies wont have milk in their bellies or a roof over their head if the economy collapses.

Its parents won't feel like that though .......

 

[davek]

Proper tin foil hat stuff Dave.

All those hours self flagellating with copies of the Socialist Worker have taken their toll.

I do hope you haven't inadvertently positioned yourself as one of the shills.

That would be....unfortunate....

 

[Paris]

You may need to introduce some kind of member vetting system just to make sure that the forum hasn’t been infiltrated by some sinister New World Order lol

Anyone who is even slightly sceptical of an authoritarian government that is committing genocide is quite clearly a right-wing fascist...

 

[davek]

Hmmm.

That little intervention shook the usual suspects up.