Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[NilSatisOptimum]

That has been dolphins, a seel and what looked like a platypus in the River Mersey over the past few weeks. Lots more wild flowers around too!


From my house to Ambleside, you can do it in less than two hours. Snowdonia is an hour and a bit, with Moel Famu easily reachable within an hour.

They're not particularly long-distances if you have a car or motorbike, so they're easily reachable; whatever Boris says, I still see it as pretty darn needless.

Nevertheless, I do agree that the real problem is people meeting up and socialising, which is happening more and more often - it has been for the past two weeks.

However, if you combine the two together then the added risk of the r0 rate reaching and going above the infamous 1 is increasing a lot.

A platypus in the Mersey is surely a sign of the apocalypse. Or an exotic pet habit gone badly wrong.

Just can't get away from fake news these days...

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think this is the appropriate song for our friend @Bruce Wayne

Especially as Florian sadly passed away at the end of April.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

I think this is the appropriate song for our friend @Bruce Wayne

Ha ha cos he likes bikes

 

[PhilM]

Just can't get away from fake news these days...

Porpoise and seals have been seen in the past few weeks and is more common than you can think - go and google it.

The platypus is less likely, but again there are a few reported sightings.

 

[Brisan123]

Found out Thursday that my employer is ensuring that our office, 1 of 5 (can accommodate 3000 people) cant assure us of social distancing rules and are arranging for 66% of its staff to have laptop and work from home until at least end of year, most of us have been off for 5-6 weeks and of course there "shielders" etc within this number!

The remainder are all choosing to go into office. We currently employ over 16 thousand across the UK, so looks like the plan is to see out this year, make adjustments that can be made while actively encouraging Work From Home.

Not a massive surprise but as one of the UK leaders in financial sector, its indicative of how this will change the "office landscape" for many and pretty much permanently as companies evaluate the need for large costly offices etc.

Personally I am ok with Work from Home but will definitely miss the social interaction that we as "human beings" need!

It's a long haul ahead for so many and I count my blessings that for now I have an income, my thoughts are with those that have lost loved ones or are starting to feel the financial pinch!

My son worked for a large financial and worked from home during lockdown .
He had applied for a new job before all this and was successful
He started the new job last week
Done his induction virtually and is now working from home for the new company
When lockdown is over they want him in the office no more than one day a week
Its a tech company so no biggie for them
Although he is in HR so I would have thought face to face was important
It's the NEW NORMAL and we will all have to get used to it
Buses and trains as well as schools are going to be awkward to get around though

 

[Brisan123]

Found out Thursday that my employer is ensuring that our office, 1 of 5 (can accommodate 3000 people) cant assure us of social distancing rules and are arranging for 66% of its staff to have laptop and work from home until at least end of year, most of us have been off for 5-6 weeks and of course there "shielders" etc within this number!

The remainder are all choosing to go into office. We currently employ over 16 thousand across the UK, so looks like the plan is to see out this year, make adjustments that can be made while actively encouraging Work From Home.

Not a massive surprise but as one of the UK leaders in financial sector, its indicative of how this will change the "office landscape" for many and pretty much permanently as companies evaluate the need for large costly offices etc.

Personally I am ok with Work from Home but will definitely miss the social interaction that we as "human beings" need!

It's a long haul ahead for so many and I count my blessings that for now I have an income, my thoughts are with those that have lost loved ones or are starting to feel the financial pinch!

A lot of folk miss this and the 2 or 3 pints with workmates on a friday after work

 

[tsubaki]

A platypus in the Mersey is surely a sign of the apocalypse. Or an exotic pet habit gone badly wrong.

that it’s wearing slippers and a onesie is also worrying

 

[Walken]

Just been tested, it's not as invasive as I thought it might be, a bit tickly up the nostrils but very fast and very easy (for the pro's at least)

 

[Barnfred 55]

There is no way you can’t consider that address woolly it makes no sense to me not to have released the document simultaneously.

I’m not a raab fan but of the ministers he’s seemed more capable and he’s been all over the show this morning so as you say it’s a worry . I’ll do my best to read it , I’ve just watched his interview then contrasted it by listening to his today one . I’m anxious to find out where we are , I assume you’re the same but let’s not kid ourselves because many just aren’t and that address was the PM’s chance to speak to the nation and even many of his supporters agreed it was a muddle .

The contradictions are already flying and even if the report comprehensive and fulsome in content it’ll have a job to do to steady the ship . As I say I listened to a SAGE scientist and she was articulate and relatively clear so if the PM had given us a little more of that we’d have probably been in a much better place already .

I never said it wasn't woolly. In fact it was always going to be woolly as there was no way you can get to address such a complex issue in a 15m speech

I've already said in another post he should have left it until the Commons today.

All I've asked for is a.bit of calm until the detail this morning. If you think that is unreasonable then I'm glad we're not married

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Just been tested, it's not as invasive as I thought it might be, a bit tickly up the nostrils but very fast and very easy (for the pro's at least)

 

[Harryflashman]

I never said it wasn't woolly. In fact it was always going to be woolly as there was no way you can get to address such a complex issue in a 15m speech

I've already said in another post he should have left it until the Commons today.

All I've asked for is a.bit of calm until the detail this morning. If you think that is unreasonable then I'm glad we're not married

ok sorry .

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Porpoise and seals have been seen in the past few weeks and is more common than you can think - go and google it.

The platypus is less likely, but again there are a few reported sightings.

I will go and consult my Kurdaitcha...

 

[Brisan123]

Interesting article in the Belfast Telegraph - the people of Derry and Strabane ignored Johnson and Hancock and the results were ...

Coronavirus: Early move to lockdown cited for low rate in Derry and Strabane
Community: Dr Tom Black
By Donna Deeney
May 08 2020 12:00 AM
The disproportionately low numbers of people who have contracted coronavirus or died from it in the Derry and Strabane council area has been attributed to an early lockdown by a leading doctor.
According to the latest official figures, Derry and Strabane has the second lowest number of deaths (20) and cases (155) despite having the fourth highest population (150,680).
Only in Fermanagh and Omagh, with a population of almost 117,000, have there been fewer deaths (10) or cases (74).
In Newry and Mourne, with a population of 99,480 - the smallest in Northern Ireland - there have been 29 deaths and 237 cases.
While the number of cases in the Causeway Coast and Glens district, where the population is over 144,000, was initially below that of Derry and Strabane, in recent weeks its figures climbed to 29 deaths and 169 cases.

Meanwhile, in Antrim and Newtownabbey, a council area with a population fairly similar to that of Derry and Strabane, the number of people who died from coronavirus is 38 while 335 people test positive.
Similarly in Lisburn and Castlereagh, with a population of 144,381, the number of deaths is 37 while 380 have been diagnosed with the virus.
The chair of the British Medical Association in NI, Derry doctor Dr Tom Black, said: "We probably shut down two weeks earlier than England and that was a huge factor.
"In Derry there was also an incredible community buy-in and it became very clear that nobody was actually paying attention to Boris Johnston, they were paying attention to their neighbours in Donegal.
"There was a feeling in Derry that we have to shut down early to save the old folk in our community and there was a lot of pressure from the community in Derry towards businesses who were still open which resulted in everyone closing down and doing the social distancing, and that worked."

Belfast Telegraph

Seems like the 2 governments in Ireland are working together on this and will do things in tandem

 

[davek]

We could exercise anyway. Given we've had lovely weather for spring and it may even continue, it might be nice for those people who live in big urban areas / high-rise flats etc to be able to know they can sit in a park for an hour or so and - as long as they use common sense - do so without knowing they are breaking a rule.

This is what everything should all be about isn't it? Common sense? We have to get out of it somehow so it has to be about just being sensible.

Before you start, I don't think people doing congas to celebrate VE day is sensible - but then again that's not what the government said to do, is it.

It's not safe to do so. Take a look at the death toll.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It's not safe to do so. Take a look at the death toll.

Got Raab waffling on now that it's actually Wednesday that the lower classes go back to work not today.. Astounding a pre planned address to the nation cannot even convey a simple message of when.