Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Average Brian and Brianna Britain:

"'koff, I'm not wearin' dat. Itz my right to infekt anywon I like...and I'll look 'kin daft. I dont care about some arl one's dyin' ".

WHO have now officially backed what we all knew.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Global Deaths Due to Various Causes and COVID-19

A Flourish data visualisation by Panos Kaissaratos

public.flourish.studio

The lack of attention to eradicating malaria is truly heartbreaking - so many lives lost and impacted. The US defunding WHO is likely to make things worse.

 

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Less then 4% of Chinese in a big study, have antibody immunity, essentially we are miles of natural herd immunity.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZxgFWbWAAAhFYZ?format=jpg&name=large

 

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[LinekersLegs]

Would be helpful if rather than a generic “blame China” distraction game, there was more political pressure to achieve this bit in the discussion section
“ The close proximity of animals of different species in a wet market setting may increase the potential for cross-species spillover infections, by enabling recombination between more distant coronaviruses and the emergence of recombinants with novel phenotypes. While the direct reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is still being sought, one thing is clear: reducing or eliminating direct human contact with wild animals is critical to preventing new coronavirus zoonosis in the future”

 

[BlueStevie35]

How long exactly should we be locked down for? We've had 11 weeks already, arguably should have been 12/13 if Dumbass was wiser to it. Are we talking an extra month, 3 months, a year? Do you go completely totalitarianistic and close essential places too? Have famillies already struggling as is suffer further, have millions lose jobs because every business is shut bar the health sector?

 

[adi dassler]

Daughters school was due to go back next Monday, though it hadn’t been officially confirmed by the school. We finally got a text off the school at 4pm today to confirm the arrangements for coming in on Monday morning, swiftly followed by another text at 4.45pm to say they’re no longer opening as the R rate in Merseyside is now above 1.

I’m glad they’re taking no notice of this useless government

 

[YoboCopter]

Barbers
Gym
Nandos
Macdonalds

Todays been a good day!

The good times are coming back thick and fast it seems!

Glad the goverment dont listen to some of the doom and gloom merchants in here

 

[LinekersLegs]

It “has been like nothing else on Earth,” said Paul Garner, who has previously endured dengue fever and malaria, and is currently on day 77 of COVID-19. Garner, an infectious-diseases professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, leads a renowned organization that reviews scientific evidence on preventing and treating infections. He tested negative on day 63. He had waited to get a COVID-19 test partly to preserve them for health-care workers, and partly because, at one point, he thought he was going to die. “I knew I had the disease; it couldn’t have been anything else,” he told me. I asked him why he thought his symptoms had persisted. “I honestly don’t know,” he said. “I don’t understand what’s happening in my body.”

 

[PeregrineT]

Would be helpful if rather than a generic “blame China” distraction game, there was more political pressure to achieve this bit in the discussion section
“ The close proximity of animals of different species in a wet market setting may increase the potential for cross-species spillover infections, by enabling recombination between more distant coronaviruses and the emergence of recombinants with novel phenotypes. While the direct reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 is still being sought, one thing is clear: reducing or eliminating direct human contact with wild animals is critical to preventing new coronavirus zoonosis in the future”

Um....the Chinese CDC has already come out and said it didnt come from the wet market. It originated in humans somewhere else.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

More do as we say not what we do from the and mighty...

Tory MP attended lockdown barbecue with journalists

Bob Seely was at gathering when guidance said you could only meet one other person

www.theguardian.com

 

[zzr45]

Less than 100 people dying a day at the minute but the slacker jawed on here would have you believe its 10,000

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Less than 100 people dying a day at the minute but the slacker jawed on here would have you believe its 10,000

20,000 deaths was going to be a good result the Government stated at the beginning of their daily virus briefings, as of yesterday we have 40,261 deaths. Its not remotely positive.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Private care home sector looking after itself during the pandemic.

Coronavirus: Care home residents face steep hike in fees

Fee rises of more than £100 a week add "insult to injury" after the wave of infections, says Age UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Barnfred 55]

I definitely dont have all the answers but I feel we have lowered the risk now. There is a risk still out there of course, but can we ever truly reduce the risk to nil or completely negligible until we get a vaccine?

There will come a point down the line where we will have to weigh up the long term risk of our kids education, or people's livelihoods, versus the risk of the virus. I dont think we can wait till the risk has completely gone because that could be another year, maybe more.

Apart from some primary school children going back, what have England done so far that NI haven't. I lose track with everyone having different guidelines