Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

What have I said about replying to my posts?

Why do you keep replying to my posts, please stop it....

 

[Death]

Not sure why people are arguing about buying bottled water really.

You shut your tap water face. Less I give you an attitude adjuster.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Although the majority of grandparents providing care are probably less than 70, it still leaves a lot who are >= 70.

In the interim, that caregiving has to change, but it'll need a lot of joined up thinking from government ( which seems unlikely ) and flexibility from employers to make it happen. Hopefully an increase in working from home will help, but it'll still leave a lot of incredibly hard decisions to be made by individual families

I know most people will think I may be talking about care for actual children, but I really meant the adult children of the over seventies. Adults with physical and mental conditions that require care.

 

[peteblue]

Very unlikely that scenario mate.

If those bugs going round ( and I had a kin awful cough for over two weeks from one of them ) were COVID-19, we'd have expected to see a corresponding rise in hospitalisations and deaths as a result - which, despite the headlines over the winter, didn't really happen.

But without being aware of it, and we weren’t, the numbers will have just gone into the mixer.....

 

[LinekersLegs]

The Spanish flu had three effective outbreaks, the second was the most deadly after the initial outbreak had died. No one knows if this doesn’t follow a similar path, which would mean China having further outbreaks.....that’s why this herd immunity could be crucial......

It could...or it could be completely unnecessary. To choose to go down the path before you have even seen any 2nd wave in China let alone how they handle it having learnt from the first wave seems very experimental.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Not quite. Close down secondary schools by all means, as the kids can stay at home and look after themselves, but primary schools must stay open to allow mums and dads to remain in key jobs. The Children’s education is irrelevant, we just move everything back by half a year......

Pestons article for ITV talks about some sort of skeleton staff staying in schools to look after the children of hospital staff, police etc.

I dont know the ins and outs. The government probably dont know exactly themselves. But it was an interesting and slightly alarming article if it's all accurate.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Go figure Tory Conservative Government takes high risk strategy that risks the lives of the most vulnerable. Prefer it when they are just selling off my Grandpa's shirt.

Maybe mate, but if they call this wrong, they'll not only get punished at the ballot box next time out, they'll also go down in history as the government which caused possibly hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths.

As much as I despise the thinking and politics of your average tory, I doubt very much Johnson and his cabinet will be comfortable with that scenario, so, I think they think they're doing the right thing, but whether or not they're right, I have absolutely no idea.

One thing's for sure though, if someone fast tracks a vaccine, and manages to mass produce it some time this year ( which is pretty unlikely tbh ) then the government will have called this very wrong.

 

[peteblue]

It could...or it could be completely unnecessary. To choose to go down the path before you have even seen any 2nd wave in China let alone how they handle it having learnt from the first wave seems very experimental.

I know, it’s scary, but the second wave was the one that killed the millions......

 

[Billy Dean]

Pestons article for ITV talks about some sort of skeleton staff staying in schools to look after the children of hospital staff, police etc.

I dont know the ins and outs. The government probably dont know exactly themselves. But it was an interesting and slightly alarming article if it's all accurate.

This is what's happening in Germany, at least in my region.

Meanwhile, just heard of someone from work testing positive. Looks like my week of telework next week will be extended, and if not I might just refuse to go back in.

 

[Tubey]

It could...or it could be completely unnecessary. To choose to go down the path before you have even seen any 2nd wave in China let alone how they handle it having learnt from the first wave seems very experimental.

I can't see how a second wave in China won't happen. I'm actually amazed it (apparently) hasn't yet.

 

[Death]

What difference does that make?

It makes noooone

 

[ToffeeTim]

This is what's happening in Germany, at least in my region.

Meanwhile, just heard of someone from work testing positive. Looks like my week of telework next week will be extended, and if not I might just refuse to go back in.

Got to look after yourself mate. I wouldn't go in my work if there were cases

 

[Catfish Blues]

But without being aware of it, and we weren’t, the numbers will have just gone into the mixer.....

... and, if they were significant, would have produced a statistical anomaly which hasn't been seen. I can say that, because I've had a look at the numbers for seasonal flu and general respiratory problems and there's no such anomaly.

 

[peteblue]

I can't see how a second wave in China won't happen. I'm actually amazed it (apparently) hasn't yet.

I doubt they will let us know anyway......

 

[Shevin Keedy]

I can't see how a second wave in China won't happen. I'm actually amazed it (apparently) hasn't yet.

Have they ceased lockdown?