Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[blue1948]

Where it was transferred is EXACTLY the matter. The child probably caught it at home.That children can catch the virus is not in question. What is currently unknown is whether they can transmit the disease to others and in a school environment

Am I missing something here ? Kids have gone back to school and infected their classmates and teachers and you seem to think that is a good thing because it proves a point !
Listen I am no doctor but infecting more people was the opposite aim from my side of the fence and the situation I thought the world at large was trying to avoid .
Setting up a situation to infect others " to find an unknown " is better left to Hitler and his crew .

 

[Brisan123]

It's going to take months and months and months to get rid of this. We will not return to 'normal' for atleast 12 months. To be honest I think a lot of people have changed forever. Restaurants, pubs, large public gatherings are all knackered for the foreseeable..

People will have to adjust to the NEW NORMAL

Queueing up in nice fine May weather for the supermarket is OK
Try doing it on a wet windy wednesday night in Stoke though

 

[Tipp blue]

4 New deaths reported in Ireland today, 2 of which are backdated from April.. the day of no new deaths is hopefully coming soon. 88 New cases.

 

[Mozza1987]

Maybe they should study having a 'can do' attitude more?

Don't take this wrong way mate but really getting sick of you slagging off schools on here now acting like teachers have just been sat doing nothing. You can have your opinion and you are entitled to it but with what you have been saying the past week or two you really don't seem to have a clue how a school operates and the difficulties they face. It's a logistical nightmare trying to keep pupils, parents and staff safe. But the way you go on it seems so simple.

 

[ramacca]

Very worrying development.

London care homes report possible fresh outbreaks

"Down also said the lifting of lockdown restrictions more widely posed a threat to care homes, as families and relatives become more mobile and pressure grows for them to be allowed to see their loved ones in care".

 

[Tubey]

Maybe they should study having a 'can do' attitude more?

Probably your worst ever post.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

I’m the same mate with my gag reflex, I would be gagging even before the swab actually went in my mouth!

You aint no wife material lol

 

[Catfish Blues]

New cases in ireland less than 100 for 2 days in a row
So only 1 in 50,000 people a day being diagnosed
A small chance you would meet one in a 2 week period

So that's roughly the equivalent of 1300 a day in the UK, which kind of ties in with the fact that your death rate per 100,000 is about half ours.

What I like about the way you've tackled this is the utter lack of bullshit from your politicians. You've not done brilliantly, like say Denmark has, but you were honest about it and, considering the resources, have done OK.

 

[tsubaki]

BFMTV (France) have had cameras following Macron around during this crisis, and the results are on from now until 9pm. The main breaking news so far is that he rubs hand sanitizer onto his phone.

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Aurelie is also looking very fine this evening.

 

[Brisan123]

So that's roughly the equivalent of 1300 a day in the UK, which kind of ties in with the fact that your death rate per 100,000 is about half ours.

What I like about the way you've tackled this is the utter lack of bullshit from your politicians. You've not done brilliantly, like say Denmark has, but you were honest about it and, considering the resources, have done OK.

I suppose the fact that we had a doctor as PM and another doctor as Health minister helped
Being a caretaker Government (no Government formed due to a split vote after the recent election )they just followed the scientific advice from day 1
If it went right they took the credit,it it went wrong blame the scientists .
Granted they told it as it was and admitted mistakes esp around care homes,but none of the bull crap Johnson put out
Pubs closed before they were ordered to because of a twitter video that went viral of a packed pub in Temple Bar
Cheltenham was a disaster for us and a lot of Irish were in the scumhole for the Athletico match
Our CMO Tony Holohan has become a bit of a cult hero
He says it as it is and pulls no punches.
He says if things don't work out he has no problem re imposing the lockdown and people believe him

 

[LinekersLegs]

So that's roughly the equivalent of 1300 a day in the UK, which kind of ties in with the fact that your death rate per 100,000 is about half ours.

What I like about the way you've tackled this is the utter lack of bullshit from your politicians. You've not done brilliantly, like say Denmark has, but you were honest about it and, considering the resources, have done OK.

The early admission of messing up the nursing home issue was particularly notable - first step in resolving an issue is admitting you have one

 

[davek]

So that's roughly the equivalent of 1300 a day in the UK, which kind of ties in with the fact that your death rate per 100,000 is about half ours.

What I like about the way you've tackled this is the utter lack of bullshit from your politicians. You've not done brilliantly, like say Denmark has, but you were honest about it and, considering the resources, have done OK.

Leader of Ireland rolls his sleeves up and starts treating Covid19 patients...ours goes into hospital for a holiday and tells the world he was at "death's door".

 

[Brisan123]

Have you tried to take 1000 kids temp Bruce?

I will volunteer you for that job!

kids running around the playground kicking ball for 15 mins will have normal temperature

 

[Brisan123]

I'm left and socialist as they come mate but if you refuse to believe things based purely on partisan political reasons then your view is going to be very narrow and probably wrong. Trump is a goon but some of the things he's said recently have been correct, prob as he's being advised by specialists, you can't just discredit things based solely on the reason that it's comes from someone who's not of your political belief system.

Some of the things he's said have also been way wrong and he's been called out on it. If you call people out when they're wrong you've got to have the nuts to say when they're right also.

End of the day the professor is head of medicine in his current post and ex WHO, he's no reason to lie or financial gains to be had from lying. There's other scientists around the world who have been echoing similar words throughout this also.

Just because he's not saying what fits with the media narrative people automatically assume it's tosh or he's a right wing loon. I'd rather believe a scientist over sensationalist stories ran for money and clicks. Bit sad that that's how the world is going.

Anyways believe him or not mate that's entirely your choice, I'd just rather share some good news in here when it's available. The amount of bad news and tosh studies that are shared in here that are always taken as fact and never questioned is astonishing. Yet the good news gets mainly ignored or questioned. Bit mad really, you'd think people would want good news.

The reason I don't believe Trump has nothing to do with his or my political beliefs
The reason I don't believe Trump is because time and time again he has proved himself to be a gobshite and a complete idiot

 

[allezlesbleus]

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. They can't touch each other. They are facing away from other children so will not be breathing over each other. Once lesson ends, they will need to socially distance in the corridors, playground and at lunch.

In secondary school most students are sat next to each other in two person desks, virtually touching shoulder to shoulder. In many rooms they would have three or four two seater tables end on to each other so the students are virtually shoulder to shoulder on the other side too. Not all kids in all rooms in all schools of course, but many classrooms in many schools are pretty cramped and crowded places. And remember 15/16 year olds can be pretty big physically!!!

In primary they are more likely to be seated around two two seater tables meaning virtually shoulder to shoulder on one side at at 90 degrees to a child on the other.
The normal way of organising seating arrangements with normal numbers in the school would make a mockery of social distancing.