Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[ForeverBlue92]

Send me your bank details and I will happily lob a tenner in it for you.

Only if you promise you are not a Nigerian Prince lol

 

[Harryflashman]

"Remain at least 1m apart while taking mitigating action to reduce the risk of transmission."

WTF does that even mean in the context of a pub? Get a face mask on every time spomeone comes within a metre?

Daft murderous Tory gets.

i’ve genuinely no Real idea what it means But ive felt much the same for a couple of months .

 

[roydo]

I am a bit concerned now. By stopping these pressers, it gives the impression its all fine and dandy. And it certainly isnt.

Feels a bit like being left to our own devices.

 

[Deckard2049]

You work at a gym?

You should just be thankful you're not faced with an army of huffing puffing Covid19 carriers breathing all over you.

Personal trainer, trying for an MA in kinesiology.

Never thought the gyms should be open anytime soon, but when I see Johnson opening the pub and restaurant floodgates I can see why a lot of people are a bit gutted.

This notion that pubs can safely be opened, especially now football is on tv non-stop, is just so ludicrous that it could only have come from this bunch of idiots.

 

[Nymzee]

I am a bit concerned now. By stopping these pressers, it gives the impression its all fine and dandy. And it certainly isnt.

Feels a bit like being left to our own devices.

Every man for themselves now; welcome to the Fury Road.

 

[davek]

121 people killed by this virus announced for today...and these scumbags are about to reopen Covidq19 laboratories AKA pubs, bars and restaurants. It is still carnage out there with this virus.

What 'kin world do these scumbags live ion? And what sort of people accept what they say as rational and supportable?

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Whitty saying we’re in this till at least next spring.

So very depressed right now.

 

[Deckard2049]

 

[roydo]

Every man for themselves now; welcome to the Fury Road.

Feels a bit like that.

 

[Harryflashman]

I am a bit concerned now. By stopping these pressers, it gives the impression its all fine and dandy. And it certainly isnt.

Feels a bit like being left to our own devices.

got to say between that and the slightly vague politician type answers of the scientists i’m feeling the same as you .

 

[Amw79]

Every man for themselves now; welcome to the Fury Road.

Confident I can survive the post-apocalypse after coming out victorious in the March bog-roll battle royale. That little old lady stood no chance, after I incapacitated her wheelchair.

There can be only one.

 

[roydo]

got to say between that and the slightly vague politician type answers of the scientists i’m feeling the same as you .

It may be nothing other than a placebo, but I was always reassured by the medical and science folk, even when it was really grim.

Now the prompts for behaviour will be newspaper headlines. The Mail had one I noticed the other day, along the lines of Britain is ready for a holiday. We really are not.

 

[Catfish Blues]

50 per 100,000 is actually quite a high benchmark

To put it into context ...

The last ONS estimate of infections in the UK is 1 in 1700.
That's equivalent to 59 per 100,000, so, by German standards, large parts of the UK should be in lockdown.

It's not quite that simple because the Germans criteria is for new infections per week, which will be less than the total number of people infected, but, even so, there will almost certainly be quite a few areas in the UK which would currently meet the German criteria for being locked down.

A balance needs to be struck, but we're treading a risky path. Hopefully we'll get away with it.

 

[Nymzee]

Confident I can survive the post-apocalypse after coming out victorious in the March bog-roll battle royale. That little old lady stood no chance, after I incapacitated her wheelchair.

There can be only one.

I’ve seen too many films to not be any good in a post-apocalyptic world.

 

[roydo]

To put it into context ...

The last ONS estimate of infections in the UK is 1 in 1700.
That's equivalent to 59 per 100,000, so, by German standards, large parts of the UK should be in lockdown.

It's not quite that simple because the Germans criteria is for new infections per week, which will be less than the total number of people infected, but, even so, there will almost certainly be quite a few areas in the UK which would meet the German criteria for being locked down.

A balance needs to be struck, but we're treading a risky path. Hopefully we'll get away with it.

I guess the German figure is hugely localised following their outbreak, whereas ours is UK, or England, wide.