Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[NilSatisOptimum]

Looking like this app epitomises our entire response to this virus... Big on promise's delivers very little, however, great at causing further uncertainty.

Coronavirus: why has the UK contact-tracing app been delayed?

Government forced to push back launch of ‘lockdown ending’ smartphone tool

www.theweek.co.uk

 

[ramacca]

Looking like this app epitomises our entire response to this virus... Big on promise's delivers very little, however, great at causing further uncertainty.

Coronavirus: why has the UK contact-tracing app been delayed?

Government forced to push back launch of ‘lockdown ending’ smartphone tool

www.theweek.co.uk

Ten years of Tory announcement politics/policy that is floundering. What I don't get, is why didn't they just ask South Korea is they could use theirs.

 

[OGG]

This is a really difficult post to reply to - but yes, it really is 40000 above normal.

Institute of Actuaries estimate of excess deaths since mid-March is now at 61,000.

 

[Prevenger17]

I'm not sure how you can sit there and type the above when the reality is plain to see on the ONS website.

From the graph below, all deaths peaked at 3000 a day, compared to an average less than half that for the time of year

View attachment 87547


From https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...englandandwalesprovisional/weekending8may2020

Have to say, the "maybe it's nothing and those people were going to die anyway" crew seem to grow even more obtuse with each each depressing statistic

 

[Prevenger17]

The excess deaths statistics are fact. You can't spin it away.

From March 14 to May 08, nearly 55000 people more than the 5 year average for that timeframe have died.

Maybe it was just a coincidence?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Rutgers Pediatricians Decry Decline of Child Immunizations Due to COVID-19

www.rutgers.edu

 

[The binman chronicles]

Well this is a bit different.

Trying to give the patients seizures now...

‘Hot’ nurse disciplined for wearing bra and panties under see-through PPE gown

This naughty nurse is going viral.

nypost.com

This should be made compulsory across the board. Keep the patients peckers up. Ahem.

Sorry if your nurse happens to look like Hattie Jacques.

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Over 35,000 people have lost their lives to Covid 19

UK Public:

If brains were dynamite these idiot wouldn't have enough power to blow their own nose.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Lars Rebien Sørensen: It makes no sense for countries to develop vaccines individually - LSE Business Review

Although it can be difficult to predict exactly how the next health crisis will impact us, there are valuable lessons to be learned from the current one. Lessons which should be brought to the table in future political discussions across the world. Because it is clear that politicians and other...

blogs.lse.ac.uk

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Well this is a bit different.

Trying to give the patients seizures now...

‘Hot’ nurse disciplined for wearing bra and panties under see-through PPE gown

This naughty nurse is going viral.

nypost.com

Look at that dirty arl fella just aching for a tug

 

[Billy Dean]

I had 3 colds between December 2018 and January 2020. Hopefully there was a corona virus or 2 in amongst that lot

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Complying with lockdown does become harder over time – here’s why

Was the government correct to think that adherence would fall over time? Perhaps.

theconversation.com

 

[Charro]

6-12 months before I’m back in the office

 

[mill]

Complying with lockdown does become harder over time – here’s why

Was the government correct to think that adherence would fall over time? Perhaps.

theconversation.com

‘This is really interesting.’


Overall, the UK government was right in thinking that lockdown compliance would reduce over time. But the critical error it made was thinking that this would be because of people getting tired of the rules. This prompted the government to delay the lockdown, most likely further lowering the perceived risk and so making it less likely that people would stick with the guidelines once they were implemented, as well as yielding a further erosion of trust.

Perhaps this decision was taken due to trust levels already being low. According to the World Governance Indicators, perceptions of UK government effectiveness have been declining since 2015, and since 2017 have been at the lowest levels ever since the first year of reporting – 1996. But whatever the reason, it seems that an incomplete understanding of human behaviour has informed the UK’s pandemic response.

 

[brieverton]

6-12 months before I’m back in the office

I'm thinking the same, certainly can't see a return this year. I'm able to work from home fortunately but I have vulnerable family.