Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Jay]

Not sure where you live ( the States presumably ? ), but new COVID hospitalisation figures are in the graphs in the daily UK briefings and are running at something like 700 a day in England.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/886865/2020-05-21_COVID-19_Press_Conference_Slides_-_for_publication.pdf

In Lebanon (Middle East), been watching with horror what's happening in Europe and the States for the past 2 months (we closed our borders early on and went to Lock-down and avoided your scenario so far but the virus is here and we simply have no idea what to do next)

 

[Toast]

In Lebanon (Middle East), been watching with horror what's happening in Europe and the States for the past 2 months (we closed our borders early on and went to Lock-down and avoided your scenario so far but the virus is here and we simply have no idea what to do next)

I'm sure you've coped with worse mate.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Which it still is and hopefully will stay that way because we have capacity within our economy that others don't

It is in this point we suffer, because clearly the balance has been in favour of the economy.

 

[tsubaki]

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Good to see, though I still think for the app to work as part of a testing / tracing system it has to breach privacy quite a bit - the government needs to explain to people why it has work like that, and make the rest of it effective (eg: when it says you might have been exposed, it gets you to speak to someone straight away and if needed you get a test within a very short space of time).

 

[Dixieslaces]

Supposedly the government are now mulling over their original June 1st date after receiving a barracking from all over the gaff.

Certainly looks like they have seriously misjudged this!

 

[tsubaki]

Certainly looks like they have seriously misjudged this!

who would ever have thought ignoring advice would lead to this

 

[TommyDavo]

Is it just me who wants to put my boot through the telly when I see Patel’s face on screen?

 

[orly]

Is it just me who wants to put my boot through the telly when I see Patels face on screen?

Isn't cheaper to just turn the TV off

 

[PhilM]

who would ever have thought ignoring advice would lead to this

If they'd even gone for a phased return which spread out over time, I think teachers and schools would have been more supportive of the decision to open more.

Setting an arbitrary date, claiming it was safe but taking a week and a bit (or is it now two?) to come up with the scientific evidence and offering no real flexibility...

... well it's not a way to win the population over. All reports suggest that there wasn't going to be a big uptake either, so it's only been counter-productive.

 

[TommyDavo]

Isn't cheaper to just turn the TV off

Money isn’t everything, the satisfaction might be worth it. The grief I’d get cos Emmerdale wasn’t available might upset the balance

 

[Paris]

Is it just me who wants to put my boot through the telly when I see Patel’s face on screen?

 

[PhilM]

Seven day rolling average (Covid-19 confirmed) still looks to still be slightly below the 400 from the government figures.

 

[Minimeister]

I knew it was the immigrants. Even when we were incompetently killing more than anyone else, I knew it was the immigrants.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

who would ever have thought ignoring advice would lead to this

The problem is it almost looks like the government have just picked a date from a hat and said "That'll do" instead of having proper consultation with all parties concerned before putting a date out there.

 

[tsubaki]

The problem is it almost looks like the government have just picked a date from a hat and said "That'll do" instead of having proper consultation with all parties concerned before putting a date out there.

TBF that is the good possibility; the bad possibility is that they had proper consultation with all parties concerned and then binned it all off and just picked a date from a hat.