Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

I had a haircut on the weekend.

Was it an illegal haircut, or your partner with a bowl and scissors?

 

[orchard]

Lol:


Local outbreaks of Covid-19 could grow undetected because the government is failing to share crucial testing data, council leaders and scientists have warned.

More than a month after being promised full details of who has caught the disease in their areas, local health chiefs are still desperately lobbying the government’s testing chief, Lady Harding, to break the deadlock and share the data.


The situation was described by one director of public health as a “shambles”, while a scientist on the government’s own advisory committee said it was “astonishing” that public health teams are unable to access the information.

The prime minister said on Friday the country was moving from “a huge one-size-fits-all national lockdown programme to one in which we’re able to do more localised responses”, and ministers have told councils and their public health directors to take the lead.

They will be responsible for monitoring the spread of Covid-19 in local areas and deciding when to close schools, offices, care homes and if necessary impose lockdowns on whole towns. As they race to produce outbreak management plans by the end of June, public health directors warn they lack crucial data flowing from Whitehall.




“It can’t be stressed enough how important this data is to us,” said Ian Hudspeth, the Conservative leader of Oxfordshire county council, who speaks on health matters for the Local Government Association. “We’ve been pressing for this since the test-and-trace system was announced.”

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Was it an illegal haircut, or your partner with a bowl and scissors?

Is that the much cavorted common sense approach...

 

[Barnfred 55]

Have you just called me a paedo?

 

[Goat]

Oh look, cowards running away.

 

[COYBL25]

Have you just called me a paedo?

Not at all x

 

[ForeverBlue92]

We all know it's impossible to stop it. But it's very possible to mitigate it.

It's why we have 50,000+ deaths now instead of 500,000.

Problem is it sounds like we are very very skint.

I honestly dont think we can keep places in lockdown for too much longer and now need to rely on people having common sense.

 

[Billy Dean]

Warendorf, a district not far away from Gutersloh that has just gone into lockdown, is now registering over the limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 people. So theoretically should now go into lockdown too. The regional government was quite slow in locking down Gutersloh (they did it at 260 per 100,000) so will be interesting to see what they do here. Not hard to imagine that people working at that meat plant had plenty of time to travel to nearby districts and infect others.

Edit: just checked. Warendorf locked down too.

 

[Goat]

Problem is it sounds like we are very very skint.

I honestly dont think we can keep places in lockdown for too much longer and now need to rely on people having common sense.

Common sense? People?

LOL

 

[nsno-chris]

I dont see many of the 'danger zone' type people in the gym.

You approach the problem from the traditional western medicine view. Eg. Find cures and make money. Prevention is ALWAYS better than cure. In this case prevention is being healthy in the first place.

you are utterly clueless

 

[spectateur]

Tubey these are all good points, but they also apply to arcades who are all opening July 4th.

Not many people sweating and puffing and panting in arcades I would think.

 

[Goat]

you are utterly clueless

Mans thinks everyone who goes the gym is healthy.

If everybody was healthy, they wouldn't need the bloody gym.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Is that the much cavorted common sense approach...

My honest answer is I’m not sure.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Warendorf, a district not far away from Gutersloh that has just gone into lockdown, is now registering over the limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 people. So theoretically should now go into lockdown too. The regional government was quite slow in locking down Gutersloh (they did it at 260 per 100,000) so will be interesting to see what they do here. Not hard to imagine that people working at that meat plant had plenty of time to travel to nearby districts and infect others.

Edit: just checked. Warendorf locked down too.

We need something similar here. An actual numeric figure that is measurable rather than just an R rating. 50 per 100,000 is actually quite a high benchmark

How big are the regions population wise? Are they like our cities or more like counties?

 

[Barnfred 55]

Not many people sweating and puffing and panting in arcades I would think.

I get backache bending down to get all my 2p's out of the slot.

Hand cleaners would be very welcome too. Your fingers get filthy with handling the coins