Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[roydo]

The thing that doesnt seem to have been mentioned in the Metre Wars is the issue of time span.

Folk generally dont stay in a pub for a few minutes; even with a 2 metre distance, sitting at a table with folk for a hour or so is way more significant than passing someone within 1 metre in a supermarket.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

My point is that they are certainly going to get closer than 1m. It will be impossible to enforce the distance rule in pubs.

It's practically impossible to enforce now anyway. Just needs some common sense from people.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Can I or can I not wee in the swimming pool?

Only in Spain and only if you've had a full English. If you've had any other food or anything short of a full English (no bacon for example) then it is not permissable.

One exception to the rule is if you've had cocopops, then you may make a one time only wee into the pool, but you must do it only if the water is above waist height and on completion of the wee, you must immediately leave the pool and return home.

 

[Billy Dean]

In the 70s and 80s this sentence would have meant the situation was much much worse than the one we currently have.

How do you mean?

 

[YoboCopter]

At 1m distance you are 10 x more likely to catch an infection than at 2m distance.

That is the only consideration that should be made here. That is the medical view. All the rest arguing for 1m is purely commercial. The latter distance will definitley lead to more infections and more deaths.

Espcially with the woman i pick up on sheil road

 

[Charro]

Idiot.

Ok mate.

As soon as there’s a rise in cases, which is expected with an easing of lockdown you’ll be on here like Nostradamus revelling in it.

 

[davek]

So you’re saying the German disease centre are wrong and you know better because ?

Strange as you’ve held Germany up as a bastion of Covid control until now.

Do you mean the Robert Koch Institute?

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said on Saturday the R number jumped to 1.79 on Saturday and 2.88 on Sunday, far higher than what is needed to contain the outbreak over a longer period of time.
The institute attributed the rise to a number of local outbreaks that have been traced back to places with large numbers of people, such as meatpacking plants and logistics centres, as well as refugee shelters. Outbreaks have also been linked to church services and family parties.
“Since case numbers in Germany are generally low, these outbreaks have a relatively strong influence on the value of the reproduction number,” said the institute. “Further developments need to be monitored closely during the upcoming days, especially in regard to whether case numbers are increasing outside of outbreak contexts.”

Yeah, very reassuring.

Stop misrepresenting them.

 

[tsubaki]

How do you mean?

That there were actual blowing-up, either accidentally or by the Red Army (the real one not kopites)

 

[Jebus_lives]

1m in most people's minds means simply: there is no distancing rule. Simple as that.

That's presicely the point I just made Dave.

 

[COYBL25]

So you’re saying the German disease centre are wrong and you know better because ?

Strange as you’ve held Germany up as a bastion of Covid control until now.

Funny you should mention Germany, as it would appear that the residents of a housing estate in Gottingen in Germany are non too happy at being forcibly locked down due to an outbreak and have been lobbing stuff at the Police.

With that and the riots in one of the cities over the weekend, it looks like the Germans can be quite naughty when they want to be too.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Funny you should mention Germany, as it would appear that the residents of a housing estate in Gottingen in Germany are non to happy at being forcibly locked down due to an outbreak and have been lobbing stuff at the Police.

With that and the riots in one of the cities over the weekend, it looks like the Germans can be quite naughty when they want to be too.

Who knew?

 

[Billy Dean]

That there were actual blowing-up, either accidentally or by the Red Army (the real one not kopites)

Haha yes the town of Gutersloh is not actually blowing up. Just the number of cases

 

[Billy Dean]

Funny you should mention Germany, as it would appear that the residents of a housing estate in Gottingen in Germany are non too happy at being forcibly locked down due to an outbreak and have been lobbing stuff at the Police.

With that and the riots in one of the cities over the weekend, it looks like the Germans can be quite naughty when they want to be too.

I think lockdown is getting to people. Stuttgart is normally the last place you'd expect to see riots in Germany. Or one of them at least.

 

[brieverton]

The issue is the drip-drip easing of restrictions faster than the science and statistics would permit, on economic grounds.

That simply cannot engender public confidence in measures taken being compliant with public health interests.

As for the proposed and imminent 1m social distancing, It isn't safer because the government says it is, all that's happening is that people are being told to live with a proportionately higher (and in this case, far higher), level of risk.

 

[Hickson9]

Ok mate.

As soon as there’s a rise in cases, which is expected with an easing of lockdown you’ll be on here like Nostradamus revelling in it.

Revelling is an interesting choice if word. I certainly don't think he will be enjoying a rise in cases, to be fair.