Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[NilSatisOptimum]

Madness.

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.

Calm down dear, they were applying that world renowned British English common sense and stayed alert to dangers, just as Johnson has instructed, use common sense and stay alert, people need great leaders like him...

 

[peteblue]

If you don't know what's the best, then preservation of life should be the very first thing you go for. Aiming for herd immunity in a virus like this was always going to an excuse for valuing money over lives. We catch corona virus 'colds' all the time, with minimal evidence of generating a long lasting immunity.
Plus-best way to manage it? Look at Korea, Singapore, New Zealand ect. Lockdown early, track and trace. The same mantra I said right at the start of this.

You may be right, but at this moment in time we simply do not know. Sweden may have saved its economy and they may also save lives if the second wave comes. No one knows at this time, unless of course you do......

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I would get food delivered if there were any slots free over the next few weeks so no alternative but to go.

Have found Morrisons click and collect good! Also as suggested after 6pm, the ones I use get rid of the silly sheeple barriers, for us more sensible types...

 

[Jebus_lives]

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.

You need to pick 1 of 2 stances if you're a right wing media hack:

Either lockdown is a just the lesson needed for entitled, precious, millennial metropolitan snowflake Remainers.

Or you need to be writing about how wearing a mask shopping, the pubs being closed and not being able to conga during VE day celebrations* is basically living under Stalin.

*No celebration of Eid though.

 

[Catfish Blues]

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.

Nah, that's not right, they've had the highest death rate per capita in the last week, but their overall death rate per capita is still way less than the UK's.

 

[davek]

Doctor warns not to wear gloves at supermarket to protect from coronavirus

An NHS surgeon, posting on TikTok as Dr Karan Raj, told those wearing gloves to protect against COVID-19 that they would be better off regularly washing their hands instead

www.mirror.co.uk

Suppose you'd call that doctor an idiot too.

Or your favourite, the Irish:

HSE warn people not to wear gloves when shopping in supermarkets

A HSE official has said it is much better to clean your hands properly and regularly instead

www.corkbeo.ie

Why wearing gloves to the grocery store isn’t fighting coronavirus

For the last time: Just don't do it!

nypost.com

I could go on.

You really are a clueless jeb end.

I wasn't suggesting people going into a supermarket with gloves on then wear them all day 'kin long.

Your usual ploy of setting up a straw man when cornered is duly noted.

You and your edgy ideas will get a second spike in no time if enough people followed your daft advice. Thankfully most can read what you suggest and just dismiss it as nonsense.

 

[Jebus_lives]

You may be right, but at this moment in time we simply do not know. Sweden may have saved its economy and they may also save lives if the second wave comes. No one knows at this time, unless of course you do......

It's always interesting to see the cautious 'lets wait and see' approach applied to human life vs the confident 'we must act now' approach when applied to the economy.

 

[Charro]

Interesting titbit I heard in a meeting this morning that where I work are putting things in place to prepare for a second spike in October.

Also got told I likely won't be back in the office this year and even if I am it might only be 1-2 days per week.

Same

6-12 months for me but may have go in every now and then.

 

[Brennan]

I wasn't suggesting people going into a supermarket with gloves on then wear them all day 'kin long.

Your usual ploy of setting up a straw man when cornered is duly noted.

You and your edgy ideas will get a second spike in no time if enough people followed your daft advice. Thankfully most can read what you suggest and just dismiss it as nonsense.

I can only assume you didn’t bother to read the articles.

Here’s a direct quote for you from the Irish HSE, whom of course you will listen to as the Irish are performing so much better in their response:

Prof Cormican said earlier today: "A lot of people are using disposable gloves in everyday life. So, one of our key messages this year for hand hygiene day is that we do not recommend using gloves while doing your shopping or when you are out and about.

“If there are bugs on your gloves those bugs often end up on your hands when you take the gloves off and from there they can very easily end up in your mouth, nose and eyes.

Literally nobody said anything about wearing them all day. It is not advisable to wear them for shopping at all.

And when you say edgy ideas, is that like when you told everybody the virus was being exaggerated to scare the public ?

That kind of edgy ?

 

[COYBL25]

I can only assume you didn’t bother to read the articles.

Here’s a direct quote for you from the Irish HSE, whom of course you will listen to as the Irish are performing so much better in their response:



Literally nobody said anything about wearing them all day. It is not advisable to wear them for shopping at all.

And when you say edgy ideas, is that like when you told everybody the virus was being exaggerated to scare the public ?

That kind of edgy ?

Txt book flip flopping.

That was then, this is now lol

 

[orly]

It's always interesting to see the cautious 'lets wait and see' approach applied to human life vs the confident 'we must act now' approach when applied to the economy.

Very clever way of putting it, this.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I wasn't suggesting people going into a supermarket with gloves on then wear them all day 'kin long.

Your usual ploy of setting up a straw man when cornered is duly noted.

You and your edgy ideas will get a second spike in no time if enough people followed your daft advice. Thankfully most can read what you suggest and just dismiss it as nonsense.

I thought most epidemiologists had been predicting two (or more) spikes from the outset of this. Were you operating under the belief that we'd lockdown once and that'd be that?

 

[Brennan]

Txt book flip flopping.

That was then, this is now lol

Give it a few weeks he'll be calling people scum for wearing gloves.

 

[peteblue]

It's always interesting to see the cautious 'lets wait and see' approach applied to human life vs the confident 'we must act now' approach when applied to the economy.

You may have misinterpreted my comments. My ‘wait and see’ comment is regarding the understanding of the final outcome, and has nothing to do with acting to save life or the economy.....

 

[COYBL25]

Give it a few weeks he'll be calling people scum for wearing gloves.

He’s become a parody account now, it’s tremendous.