Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[navidson]

Have you got stats to show what the numbers would have been without lockdown?

No - but i'm struggling to understand how people (outside of key workers) are contracting this thing when they aren't (in the main) leaving their own house

 

[Nymzee]

No - but i'm struggling to understand how people (outside of key workers) are contracting this thing when they aren't (in the main) leaving their own house

Because it's been around before lockdown and people are still working, using some public transport, visiting supermarkets etc.

 

[mill]

I assume you aren't just saying we wait and see, because realistically not analysing data means you can't make informed decisions about the best course of action. Wait and see might be sensible from a statistical accuracy perspective, but it's not as a response strategy.

Ah yes. Not from a response perspective.
I’m saying it from a ‘best way to analyse the virus impact’.

 

[Goat]

No - but i'm struggling to understand how people (outside of key workers) are contracting this thing when they aren't (in the main) leaving their own house

You are quite insane if you think nobody is leaving the house my friend.

 

[Bungle]

Our KFC drive-through opened again today my Lord the queue looks insane for it.

I remember the McDonalds near work when they announced they'd be closing, I was stuck trying to get out of the car park because the queue blocked the exit and went about half a mile back down onto the main road.

It confirmed my suspicions that huge numbers of people are dickheads with very skewed priorities.

 

[roydo]

Nearly 500 people died from this yesterday (we know that's not true but that's the way we're publishing it) - 7 weeks after lockdown

Is it safe to say the format of lockdown has been a complete failure?

I dont know mate. The base figures dont tell enough of the story, and until we, or they, get a handle on how folk are getting infected, and where, we wont ever know if the lock down has been good, bad, a success or failure.

My pea sized brain tells me I am unlikely to get it at home. And if I social distance when I do go out, dont talk to anyone, and wash my hands when I get home, its unlikely I will catch it then neither.

So how folk do get it still, is a mystery to me.

 

[Goat]

I remember the McDonalds near work when they announced they'd be closing, I was stuck trying to get out of the car park because the queue blocked the exit and went about half a mile back down onto the main road.

It confirmed my suspicions that huge numbers of people are dickheads with very skewed priorities.

*remembers back to people fighting over toilet roll

 

[Nymzee]

I remember the McDonalds near work when they announced they'd be closing, I was stuck trying to get out of the car park because the queue blocked the exit and went about half a mile back down onto the main road.

It confirmed my suspicions that huge numbers of people are dickheads with very skewed priorities.

It's okay, you can name him @MarcelsGoat

 

[navidson]

You are quite insane if you think nobody is leaving the house my friend.

So it's more dangerous going to the supermarket then we've been told?

 

[Goat]

I dont know mate. The base figures dont tell enough of the story, and until we, or they, get a handle on how folk are getting infected, and where, we wont ever know if the lock down has been good, bad, a success or failure.

My pea sized brain tells me I am unlikely to get it at home. And if I social distance when I do go out, dont talk to anyone, and wash my hands when I get home, its unlikely I will catch it then neither.

So how folk do get it still, is a mystery to me.

But you are very, very much in a minority mate.

 

[Nymzee]

I dont know mate. The base figures dont tell enough of the story, and until we, or they, get a handle on how folk are getting infected, and where, we wont ever know if the lock down has been good, bad, a success or failure.

My pea sized brain tells me I am unlikely to get it at home. And if I social distance when I do go out, dont talk to anyone, and wash my hands when I get home, its unlikely I will catch it then neither.

So how folk do get it still, is a mystery to me.

Why's it a mystery? There are still lots of people working in close proximities, lots don't wear gloves in supermarkets, lots are passed around hospitals and care homes etc.

 

[Bungle]

*remembers back to people fighting over toilet roll

I remember walking into Aldi and the security guard was stood on the crates where the toilet rolls were fending people off and trying to ration them, he was swamped.

 

[Goat]

So it's more dangerous going to the supermarket then we've been told?

I read a report that said supermarkets are potentially the most dangerous of places currently.

Its inside, people on the main tend to ignore social distancing, lots of metal to touch.

 

[roydo]

Why's it a mystery? There are still lots of people working in close proximities, lots don't wear gloves in supermarkets, lots are passed around hospitals and care homes etc.

Thats why I said I dont know if its been a success or failure until we know how folk catch it, and where.

 

[Nymzee]

I remember walking into Aldi and the security guard was stood on the crates where the toilet rolls were fending people off and trying to ration them, he was swamped.

Was this him?