Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[glorydaze]

Can we open a separate thread on Cummings please. This thread used to be informative with some great posters giving info and news on the actual virus.

 

[Tin-Tin]

He claims he is anti elitist, meanwhile his father in law is a resisent old Eugenicist and racist

 

[cooperman]

That Matt Hancock interview this morning was an embarrassment. Laughing as if he's high on poppers.

For anyone wanting to see it for themselves

 

[JimmyJeffers]

He claims he is anti elitist, meanwhile his father in law is a resisent old Eugenicist and racist

There is some incredible countryside round that castle. Also a heard of Stone Age wild cattle. Really nice part of the world.
Back on topic: Bum Cummings!

 

[Jebus_lives]

Here is the full statement issued by Durham Police to say Dominic Cummings will not face further action.



'Retrospectively take no action'. They should have taken action at the time like they did with these two people. Most people have been fined under the guidance and not the regulations and that is why their convictions have bee quashed.

Coronavirus: Durham police lockdown travel fines revealed
By Sebastien Ash & Daniel KraemerBBC Political Research Unit

• 27 May 2020

Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Durham police issued fines to two people - from different households - who travelled together from London to County Durham during lockdown.
The force is currently considering whether to take action against the prime minister's chief aide Dominic Cummings over a similar journey.
Mr Cummings made the 260-mile trip from London to Durham with his wife and four-year-old son.
The two individuals fined by the force travelled to nearby Peterlee.

One rule for Cummings another for the rest of us is the new motto for Durham police. Cover up.

So the police think it was and would've told him to go back had they caught him. In the police eyes he did breach the rules in spite of saying he didn't.

 

[LinekersLegs]

i don’t think it’s anything to do with capacity personally . If you look at the private labs involved , certainly an email I’ve seen they aren’t being co-opted to do nhs/government antibody testing and at present I don’t Anyone is doing the antibody tests . Feels weird it’s ok to do several thousand premier league tests a week , different tests , but these aren’t allowed . I’m not sure on the reasons but I’m not convinced it to create test capacity .

ANOTHER testing shambles: Health chiefs ban public from buying the same antibody test they are rolling out for NHS workers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...TOP-finger-prick-Covid-19-antibody-tests.html

Health officials have banned people from buying at-home coronavirus antibody tests that use finger-prick blood samples because they fear the results are so unreliable. The ban affects Superdrug, which is offering to test people for past infection with Covid-19 using the same equipment that are now being used for NHS staff. The equipment is being used wrongly, officials say, because it only has Government approval when used with blood taken directly from someone's veins, not their finger. Using the wrong type of blood sample makes it less reliable.
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Sources say officials only became aware of the antibody tests being used this way in the past few days - even though private firms across Britain have been selling blood kits for weeks online, some for more than £100 a time.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[maccavennie]

ANOTHER testing shambles: Health chiefs ban public from buying the same antibody test they are rolling out for NHS workers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...TOP-finger-prick-Covid-19-antibody-tests.html

Health officials have banned people from buying at-home coronavirus antibody tests that use finger-prick blood samples because they fear the results are so unreliable. The ban affects Superdrug, which is offering to test people for past infection with Covid-19 using the same equipment that are now being used for NHS staff. The equipment is being used wrongly, officials say, because it only has Government approval when used with blood taken directly from someone's veins, not their finger. Using the wrong type of blood sample makes it less reliable.
...
Sources say officials only became aware of the antibody tests being used this way in the past few days - even though private firms across Britain have been selling blood kits for weeks online, some for more than £100 a time.

More mess to go on top of the big pile of mess they had on top of the other big pile of mess they created from the start.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Must admit I am not this public spirited, glad that some are less selfish.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Definitely not going to go away anytime soon.

Think we all need to just get back to it as best we can once lockdown is up.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Definitely not going to go away anytime soon.

Think we all need to just get back to it as best we can once lockdown is up.

By that I assume you mean a S Korea trace program? Because otherwise the spike in cases would likely become unmanageable for the health service not to mention the overall mortality.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

By that I assume you mean a S Korea trace program? Because otherwise the spike in cases would likely become unmanageable for the health service not to mention the overall mortality.

I honestly cant see it working in places like the UK & USA.

those smaller asian countries that have stricter governments and years of experience with this sort of thing may be able to pull it off by I doubt we will.

I'll be shocked if the majority even wear face masks when out and about.

 

[Jebus_lives]

By that I assume you mean a S Korea trace program? Because otherwise the spike in cases would likely become unmanageable for the health service not to mention the overall mortality.

It's largely the issue with introducing a track and trace model that isn't ready. If we open up without effective systems to track and trace were no different to where we were in March.

 

[Kenshin]

Here is the full statement issued by Durham Police to say Dominic Cummings will not face further action.



'Retrospectively take no action'. They should have taken action at the time like they did with these two people. Most people have been fined under the guidance and not the regulations and that is why their convictions have bee quashed.

Coronavirus: Durham police lockdown travel fines revealed
By Sebastien Ash & Daniel KraemerBBC Political Research Unit

• 27 May 2020

Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Durham police issued fines to two people - from different households - who travelled together from London to County Durham during lockdown.
The force is currently considering whether to take action against the prime minister's chief aide Dominic Cummings over a similar journey.
Mr Cummings made the 260-mile trip from London to Durham with his wife and four-year-old son.
The two individuals fined by the force travelled to nearby Peterlee.

One rule for Cummings another for the rest of us is the new motto for Durham police. Cover up.

And now not a single fine requires to be paid.

Not a single court in the land can force someone to pay a fine anymore because the police have chosen to not fine a politican despite admitting he broke the rules.

Well done Tories, that's the end of lockdown

 

[tsubaki]

I honestly cant see it working in places like the UK & USA.

those smaller asian countries that have stricter governments and years of experience with this sort of thing may be able to pull it off by I doubt we will.

I'll be shocked if the majority even wear face masks when out and about.

It works here, we actually do this for smaller things (Legionnaires Disease, salmonella outbreaks at shops etc). It will work here too if it’s done properly, and will save thousands of lives.