Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Catfish Blues]

You’d have thought that there’d be localised spikes though ?

Maybe the warm weather had something to do with it ?

On localised spikes - it depends how prevalent the virus is, on which we'll get another indication tomorrow ( or Friday ) from the ONS surveillance report. If it's still prevalent as we open up, and the effective R is a bit above 1, we won't get a noticeable spike, we'll get a gradual increase in quite a few large geographical areas. That might just settle down on it's own, because, if the majority ignore the opening up, the virus may well burn out a bit as it chomps through a predominately younger part of the population. But it probably wouldn't, so any areas where the infection rate is still relatively high, could well suffer.

So you could, theoretically anyway, end up with infections increasing in the more built up areas around Liverpool, so quite a big area, and population, to control

On warm weather - Yea, but more indirectly than directly is my guess. Warm, dry weather means people meet outdoors, and most of the virus being exhaled gets blown away. However, when the pubs are open, and it's warm, but showery, then, although there'll be less people out and about, those people are more likely to move indoors, so the risk goes up.

 

[paultheblue]

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[RAFUH]

They opened up the childrens hospital to adult COVID patients

 

[RAFUH]

 

[BlueTX]

Thanks for the share and the concern. It's not just major metro areas of Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, etc. Several rural areas of the state are being clobbered. Still, Governor Abbott refuses to order businesses closed and left it to cities to narrowly craft mask requirements lest he override them.

Shameful. People have died for his and Lt. Governor Patrick's ineptitude and concern for the economy over the lives of human beings.

 

[longers]

sensational stuff

 

[YoboCopter]

Pointless then, as in busy city centre bars it’ll be nothing more than lip service.

Na i wouldnt be giving my details to every boozer i golol cant do a runner then can ya

 

[nsno-chris]

sensational stuff

the irony of her referring to them has being crazy

America is boss

 

[tsubaki]

sensational stuff

Still would though

 

[davek]

On localised spikes - it depends how prevalent the virus is, on which we'll get another indication tomorrow ( or Friday ) from the ONS surveillance report. If it's still prevalent as we open up, and the effective R is a bit above 1, we won't get a noticeable spike, we'll get a gradual increase in quite a few large geographical areas. That might just settle down on it's own, because, if the majority ignore the opening up, the virus may well burn out a bit as it chomps through a predominately younger part of the population. But it probably wouldn't, so any areas where the infection rate is still relatively high, could well suffer.

So you could, theoretically anyway, end up with infections increasing in the more built up areas around Liverpool, so quite a big area, and population, to control

On warm weather - Yea, but more indirectly than directly is my guess. Warm, dry weather means people meet outdoors, and most of the virus being exhaled gets blown away. However, when the pubs are open, and it's warm, but showery, then, although there'll be less people out and about, those people are more likely to move indoors, so the risk goes up.

This "localised" spike stuff: they've got people using this terminology now and its exactly what they wanted. They want to avoid another lockdown at all costs. By using the myth that it's local they seek to keep the economy open. It's BS. The first wave was full of "localised" outbreaks. First London; then the North West; then the North East. Scotland early on too. It's just sophistry to use the word localised. This is the UK. We aren't a vast country. This isn't the US where some states are relatively Covid19 free and others are a mess with it.

We will head into a national second wave. It'll be exactly like the first wave and possibly more deadly.

 

[Prevenger17]

An unfortunate consequence of the federal policy of clueless bumbling and silence. It has to be the most dramatic failure of US leadership since the Iraq war, except even more lethal

 

[brieverton]

This "localised" spike stuff: they've got people using this terminology now and its exactly what they wanted. They want to avoid another lockdown at all costs. By using the myth that it's local they seek to keep the economy open. It's BS. The first wave was full of "localised" outbreaks. First London; then the North West; then the North East. Scotland early on too. It's just sophistry to use the word localised. This is the UK. We aren't a vast country. This isn't the US where some states are relatively Covid19 free and others are a mess with it.

We will head into a national second wave. It'll be exactly like the first wave and possibly more deadly.

Localised lockdowns and "personal responsibility" Its like 1984 in reverse.

 

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Shoppers claim there is a new covid-19 shop in Preston - there isn't

Fishergate Shopping Centre has denied the existence of the 'pop up shop'

www.lancs.live

Sorry but its a hoax... the message still stands though I guess.

 

[YoboCopter]

This "localised" spike stuff: they've got people using this terminology now and its exactly what they wanted. They want to avoid another lockdown at all costs. By using the myth that it's local they seek to keep the economy open. It's BS. The first wave was full of "localised" outbreaks. First London; then the North West; then the North East. Scotland early on too. It's just sophistry to use the word localised. This is the UK. We aren't a vast country. This isn't the US where some states are relatively Covid19 free and others are a mess with it.

We will head into a national second wave. It'll be exactly like the first wave and possibly more deadly.

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