Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[roydo]

Shows that despite this stuff about the death of physical retail, there is still normally a massive amount of business being done through shops versus online.

Absolutely massive levels mate. I had my ex boss on the phone a few weeks ago asking if I would go back. Not a chance. How they are getting it all out, every day, is witch craft, but they are.
Heavens only knows what the levels at Amazon are.

 

[davek]

It's a stampede to return to normality - which is what most people are craving

If we'd actually have locked down we'd be properly back to normal by now - instead of this garbage 'half-life' we'll be living for the next year

I look at Spain, Italy and France and that - at the very least - should have been where we are now: half the number of deaths we have and a planned and safe emergence from lockdown.

 

[roydo]

They've kept a lot of people shielding safe. If they get 1500 pw - good luck to them. Government Ministers get 1500 per hour for killing 66,000 people.

Worked out my mate would have coined circa £24000 since lock down. Gross. (ish, y'know)

 

[BlueStevie35]

Just 163 people dying per day on average?

Oh, that's not bad then. Open the bars and restaurants and scrap the 2 metre rule.

163 per week rolling, 82 a week rolling in hospitals. Changes daily as the average falls but as of right now it’s 23 a day in all settings and about 11 in hospitals

 

[davek]

This is not as black and white as a lot of people make out. Lives and health will also be impacted by the economic and psychological damage of lockdown. the earlier and stricter the lockdown the larger the impact on the economy and mental health. The virus itself is not the only factor. Although to be clear I am not suggesting the government got the balance right

All the medical scientists (even the ones advising this government) have said it's a risk to open up shops etc.

Yes, the material and mental side of lockdown is important to address, but we are not even out of the first wave of this and the second wave wont be too far off.

 

[paultheblue]

Well yeah, I was talking from a purely personal (selfish) point of view. Me and Mrs R are 100% not going to a pub, gig, or restaurant any time soon, but we know plenty involved in the catering/pub trade, and its not great for them.

But all you can do is live through this in your own personal bubble. Other wise you will go mad, or madder. I dont get it, she doesnt get it. That is our bubble.

Same here mate, my misses has nurses out every day and the other day the nurse was telling her she was knackered so my misses asks if she was out late last night.
She hasn't been over the door for months and has know idea what it's like out there pubs, shops, cinema's not open.
As you say living in a bubble

 

[roydo]

Same here mate, my misses has nurses out every day and the other day the nurse was telling her she was knackered so my misses asks if she was out late last night.
She hasn't been over the door for months and has know idea what it's like out there pubs, shops, cinema's not open.
As you say living in a bubble

Know exactly what you mean. We havnt needed nursing, once the occy heath and physios were happy with the house and me not being a tit, but Mrs R hasnt been out of PJs since a few days after Christmas. (Not the same ones, obvs!)

She has a glimmer of the world as we now know it from the news, but the thought of engaging with it, other than a supported walk up the drive, is way off. And weirdly, we are not arsed.

Like we say. A bubble.

My heart sinks thinking of younger folk, in a flat with some kids, scared by all this, not knowing if they will have a job, or petrified by having to go to work, mind. But it cannot consume me.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Portugal - 1,500 deaths
Banana Republic - 67,000 deaths

Yes. Their government protected them. Pity ours didn't protect us.

With a very large elderly population and a land border with Spain also.

 

[orchard]

All the medical scientists (even the ones advising this government) have said it's a risk to open up shops etc.

Yes, the material and mental side of lockdown is important to address, but we are not even out of the first wave of this and the second wave wont be too far off.

Prediction time mate.

Paint the picture of the UK 12 weeks hence.

 

[paultheblue]

Know exactly what you mean. We havnt needed nursing, once the occy heath and physios were happy with the house and me not being a tit, but Mrs R hasnt been out of PJs since a few days after Christmas. (Not the same ones, obvs!)

She has a glimmer of the world as we now know it from the news, but the thought of engaging with it, other than a supported walk up the drive, is way off. And weirdly, we are not arsed.

Like we say. A bubble.

My heart sinks thinking of younger folk, in a flat with some kids, scared by all this, not knowing if they will have a job, or petrified by having to go to work, mind. But it cannot consume me.

I have just retired so being at home all day is still a novelty to me.As you say all the young ones are going to be paying for this for years the tax man's not getting any more off me.

 

[davek]

Prediction time mate.

Paint the picture of the UK 12 weeks hence.

We'll be a month or so into a second wave of infections and deaths.

 

[orchard]

We'll be a month or so into a second wave of infections and deaths.

Nothing more descriptive?

 

[davek]

With a very large elderly population and a land border with Spain also.

Yep.

Remarkable.

If they had the government we have they'd be throwing themselves into the Atlantic to survive.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Good way to poison yourself.....Maccies? And folk are worried about chlorinated chicken?
lol lol lol

Have a day off lad Big Macs are the food of Kings.

I'll rather die than swap my chlorinated meat for some arl fella toad n the hole

 

[Chewbacca]

Worked out my mate would have coined circa £24000 since lock down. Gross. (ish, y'know)

So £24000 nett if he’s self employed?