Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[navidson]

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.

Sounds like a 'Juan Sheet' advert

 

[Nymzee]

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

To me we can never know if it's been a success or failure. The only way you'd know is if we had a parallel universe where all this happened and we never went into lockdown.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Even after 7 weeks, I still dont really understand how they count them, well, present them.

Still, if a trend is down, thats the main thing. I think.

It gets on my nerves as well how they present them.

 

[ToffeeTim]

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

I think it's because people are leaving the house all the time and have been since about the fifth week of the restrictions.

The last 2 weeks have been when more and more have stopped following the rules. Yet people are absolutely incensed the government stopped using the stay at home slogan. It boggles my mind a bit.

 

[Goat]

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

The lockdown only works if people follow the lockdown rules.

You have, my mother has, my father in law has, both of those are late 60s with underlying issues, both are currently not working, both have followed the lockdown rules to the letter, it was my mothers birthday Monday, she wouldnt let me even drop her presents on the doorstep.

The missus is off work, when she goes back she has to take public transport and then deal with 20-30 customers a day.

The lockdown has defo benefitted the above people, which in turn has helped our entire household.

The lockdown, whilst late, has certainly saved 000s of people IMHO.

 

[Bungle]

Was this him?

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Stick a crap security uniform on him and it pretty much mirrored this.

 

[Nymzee]

Stick a crap security uniform on him and it pretty much mirrored this.

That's just asking for a photoshop.

 

[Bungle]

That's just asking for a photoshop.

I can't be arsed

 

[navidson]

I wasn't suggesting that the lockdown wasn't necessary BTW - of course it was

I was more interested in the fact that - if you ascribe to the notion that we're 2 weeks behind France/Spain - 2 weeks ago they were seeing considerably lower numbers of daily deaths than we are, and both were subject to much stricter lockdown measures

 

[Blue 1]

Just been to the post office, had some guy practically breathing down my neck in the queue. Asked him politely to please respect social distancing rules only to be told by the mental cripple that "lockdown's over, prick".

The government really don't grasp how mentally deficient swathes of the population are. The "Darwin spike" is coming. Nothing surer.

 

[Jebus_lives]

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

Didn't think you were. But yes, the current data is not conclusive enough to give a complete picture.

 

[Goat]

Just been to the post office, had some guy practically breathing down my neck in the queue. Asked him politely to please respect social distancing rules only to be told by the mental cripple that "lockdown's over, prick".

The government really don't grasp how mentally deficient swathes of the population are. The "Darwin spike" is coming. Nothing surer.

Baffled how I havent murdered somebody during this whole thing me.

So many people are lucky I dont want to touch them.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Just been to the post office, had some guy practically breathing down my neck in the queue. Asked him politely to please respect social distancing rules only to be told by the mental cripple that "lockdown's over, prick".

The government really don't grasp how mentally deficient swathes of the population are. The "Darwin spike" is coming. Nothing surer.

They do. It's precisely the reason they started talking about 'common sense'. It's a good way to deflect the blame from an inadequate response.

 

[Nymzee]

I wasn't suggesting that the lockdown wasn't necessary BTW - of course it was

I was more interested in the fact that - if you ascribe to the notion that we're 2 weeks behind France/Spain - 2 weeks ago they were seeing considerably lower numbers of daily deaths than we are, and both were subject to much stricter lockdown measures

I don't see the relevance in comparing different countries, different societies and different types of lockdown myself.

 

[roydo]

I don't see the relevance in comparing different countries, different societies and different types of lockdwon myself.

Nor me. Proves little, solves nothing.