Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[ToffeeTim]

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

All I've been told is WFH for the "foreseeable future". Who knows how long that is.

I'm definitely missing the office though, will be very glad to go back soon

 

[Chris O'Connor]

Sweden always thought to be easily the worst performing country in Europe when all factors are included, now has had it confirmed - overtaking the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest number of deaths per capita in the world.

 

[davek]

Sweden always thought to be easily the worst performing country in Europe when all factors are included, now has had it confirmed - overtaking the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest number of deaths per capita in the world.

Sweden are adopting Johnson's preferred way of dealing with the virus. Just imagine how much more 'successful' with that he'd have been than the Swedes. We could have been on the way to half a million deaths by now.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Sweden always thought to be easily the worst performing country in Europe when all factors are included, now has had it confirmed - overtaking the UK, Italy and Belgium to have the highest number of deaths per capita in the world.

For now. They have said from the off that they expect more pain in the short term, but in the long term they will be much the same as everyone else, but their economy won't be as foobarred.

 

[tsubaki]

‘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.

It is interesting, though I wish that it would have mentioned that a lot of high profile Government supporters and media (and leaks from within government) have been very critical of the lockdown too.

After all, that is going to have damaging effects on trust, especially for the hordes who still read those rags.

 

[mill]

‘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.

Ha. Why did I put my bit in quotes and not the article. Idiot.

 

[ClausThomsen]

I know people are annoyed with the Lockdown and just want to get back to something resembling normality, but would you actually join a que for a McDonald's drive tru? A few of them opened today and there was chaos, the cops had to be called because the que went around the carpark out the entrance to the carpark down the road and out onto a dual carriageway. Some people are just pure idiots.

Bit late to the party on this thread but I saw something very similar when the Starbucks drive-thru on the East Lancs / Windle Island junction reopened last week. Huge queue that the idiots had formed on the wrong side of the road backing out of the Starbucks and petrol station and causing issues on the big junction between the East Lancs and Rainford there.

And people could see this but were still attempting to join the queue.

 

[COYBL25]

Bit late to the party on this thread but I saw something very similar when the Starbucks drive-thru on the East Lancs / Windle Island junction reopened last week. Huge queue that the idiots had formed on the wrong side of the road backing out of the Starbucks and petrol station and causing issues on the big junction between the East Lancs and Rainford there.

And people could see this but were still attempting to join the queue.

I saw that myself, but was completely unaware of what it was, I thought there`d been an accident !

Why on earth would you spend hours in a queue just to get a cup of coffee, when you could probably make a better one at home lol

 

[Papa Shango]

Is it just me who has the urge to punch people like that in the face?

They will be first against the wall when I am ruler of the world.

People like that are dangerous. I can cope with stupid people who are genuinely thick. These people look and sound like normal people but are incredibly stupid yet also worryingly self righteous. Basically the worst kind of people.

 

[zzr45]

I saw that myself, but was completely unaware of what it was, I thought there`d been an accident !

Why on earth would you spend hours in a queue just to get a cup of coffee, when you could probably make a better one at home lol

They are that committed to getting the economy restarted.

 

[Papa Shango]

Bit late to the party on this thread but I saw something very similar when the Starbucks drive-thru on the East Lancs / Windle Island junction reopened last week. Huge queue that the idiots had formed on the wrong side of the road backing out of the Starbucks and petrol station and causing issues on the big junction between the East Lancs and Rainford there.

And people could see this but were still attempting to join the queue.

I quite like a Caramel Machiato and have missed getting one every couple of days/weeks.

That said how stupid must you be to join a drive through queue of over say, 2 cars, for a cup of coffee?

 

[COYBL25]

Bit late to the party on this thread but I saw something very similar when the Starbucks drive-thru on the East Lancs / Windle Island junction reopened last week. Huge queue that the idiots had formed on the wrong side of the road backing out of the Starbucks and petrol station and causing issues on the big junction between the East Lancs and Rainford there.

And people could see this but were still attempting to join the queue.

And then they lash the empty cups out of the window on the way home.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Ha. Why did I put my bit in quotes and not the article. Idiot.

Do feel free to accidentally send me a few million quid this morning.

 

[mill]

Do feel free to accidentally send me a few million quid this morning.

Sure. Just post your bank account details in here and I’ll send it through.

 

[PhilM]

I saw that myself, but was completely unaware of what it was, I thought there`d been an accident !

Why on earth would you spend hours in a queue just to get a cup of coffee, when you could probably make a better one at home lol

Madness.

They will be first against the wall when I am ruler of the world.

People like that are dangerous. I can cope with stupid people who are genuinely thick. These people look and sound like normal people but are incredibly stupid yet also worryingly self righteous. Basically the worst kind of people.

Social media is awash with photographs of busy beaches yesterday. Most will probably have socially distanced, but I'd get guess that a fair few won't have.

Each to their own, however I know that I would choose to take that risk unless I was obliged to.