Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

Under Starmer I just feel more upbeat and confident that he can convince those voters to vote for us that Corbyn couldn't convince.

In 2017 Corbyn gave Labour is biggest share of the vote since Blair's landslide in 2001...the second biggest swing to Labour since Atlee's landslide in 1945.

It was nothing to do with Corbyn and everything to do with Brexit, the 2019 election.

 

[The binman chronicles]

If you think about it the kids are seated at desks in the classroom. The normal seating means that they will probably be at least 4 feet from the nearest other child.

Unless they have swapped out everything in the classroom this won't be the case. The kids use tables where there is 4/6 on one. Thinking back to my time in school I can barely remember sitting on a solo desk.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

In 2017 Corbyn gave Labour is biggest share of the vote since Blair's landslide in 2001...the second biggest swing to Labour since Atlee's landslide in 1945.

It was nothing to do with Corbyn and everything to do with Brexit, the 2019 election.

Uh - oh...who is paying you to say this?

 

[ramacca]

Apples and oranges isn't it? Private schools seem to have migrated the majority of their tuition online, so pupils haven't been too badly affected. That's very far from the case with state school pupils.

Not apples and oranges, they wouldn't send their children into an environment where there is any chance they'd catch the virus and pass it on. As soon as Gove's daughter had 'symptoms' she was given a test. Whereas, people can go into A and E with chest complaints, going hot and cold and not get a test. Nothing to do with fruit, but their priorities and considerations and it's not with the concern about the poor and disadvantaged. As the rise in poverty through the vicious penalising of their parents with austerity. Isn't there a connection between poverty- risen substantially under 10 years of Tory rule -and educational achievement? They weren't that concerned when pulling the rug from underneath their parents and carers feet..

 

[Bruce Wayne]

What persuaded you to get out again after so long?

The data in London seemed to be pretty good in terms of caseload/capacity utilisation and all that. I made sure I had everything on me to fix all but the bike snapping in half. Of course, it's quite probable that all of the above is simply rationalising a lack of willpower.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Economic impact - News & insight - Cambridge Judge Business School

The GDP@Risk over 5 years from COVID-19 could range from $3.3 trillion to $82 trillion, says the Centre for Risk Studies.

insight.jbs.cam.ac.uk

 

[blue1948]

The kid must have had it before going back to school. He didn't catch it there.

Does that matter? It was transferred so that is the point .

 

[blue1948]

Hopefully none of those in quarantine catch it as it will be further evidence thatthe risk of spreading in schools low, which is good news. Isn't it?

Why do you think they have quarantined them ? To keep them out of the sun? I don't understand the reasoning here sorry !

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Be interested to see how he copes with the braying pack of bullying tories behind bozo when the HOC returns to full capacity. lol

The entire reason why the Tories want a full parliament, they know their blond pillock is on the ropes, so they need those timed interruptions and braying over questions, to break the flow...

 

[Brennan]

The changes to restrictions resulted in a modest increase in movement over the weekend in Manchester/Birmingham/London. From 12% before to 15% after.

Compare this to Paris which is currently at 31% or Berlin at 24%.

 

[orly]

The changes to restrictions resulted in a modest increase in movement over the weekend in Manchester/Birmingham/London. From 12% before to 15% after.

Compare this to Paris which is currently at 31% or Berlin at 24%.

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Really interesting that. I wonder what sits behind the disparity?

 

[Brennan]

Really interesting that. I wonder what sits behind the disparity?

In Berlin all shops and cafes are now open. Not sure about Paris.

 

[Neiler]

EU may give green light to sale of Covid-19 treatment
The European Union may give an initial green light in the coming days for sale of the drug remdesivir as a Covid-19 treatment, the head of its medicines agency has said on Monday, fast-tracking the drug to market amid tight global competition for resources.

The US, which has angered the EU with aggressive tactics in a procurement race during the global pandemic, has yet to issue a similar approval for the drug, made by the US pharmaceutical company Gilead.

Demand for remdesivir has been growing as there are currently no approved treatments or vaccines for Covid-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
“It might be that a conditional market(ing) authorisation can be issued in the coming days,” the head of the European Union’s medicines agency, Guido Rasi, told a hearing in the EU Parliament in Brussels.

An EU conditional marketing authorisation allows a drug to be sold for a year in the 27-nation bloc before all necessary data are available on its efficacy and side effects, Reuters reports.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has already recommended the compassionate use of remdesivir, which allows a drug to be administered to patients even before its sale has been authorised.

EMA’s recommendation on compassionate use matched an emergency authorisation granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier in May, after Gilead provided data showing the drug had helped Covid-19 patients. But the EU is now moving rapidly to the next step in the authorisation procedure

 

[tsubaki]

Really interesting that. I wonder what sits behind the disparity?

don’t know about Berlin, but the Paris lockdown was more severe than ours, and it was enforced by the police

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Says it all really. Don't do as I do, do as I say.

Ouch that puts that to bed, the stench of do as we say not what we do is ripe. We are being led by people who have no experience of being us... Also find it ridiculous the years of cut backs and raming classes full to the rafters with pupils, and now this social distancing and back to school for June, mouth breathing ideology.