Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[peteblue]

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I‘ve said it before, whoever is writing this guff has never been anywhere near a pub......

 

[Jebus_lives]

66,000 he's murdered.

A) no he hasn't
B) who do you think we are at war with?

 

[Jebus_lives]

China.

They haven't either.

 

[Billy Dean]

Interesting what they say about masks. It does contradict @Tea_drinker 's view though so I'm not quite sure who to believe on this one.

 

[roydo]

They haven't either.

Murdered anyone? Well, not by Covid.

But lets be frank, if they hadnt unleashed it on the world, well, y'know.

 

[Tipp blue]

I'm lost for words, I was watching the news and they mentioned that college students in America were having coronavirus parties where they invite infected people and bet on who'll be next to catch it.. I was telling my wife about it and I actually felt stupid as the words were coming out of my mouth.. anyone caught doing that should be chemically sterilized so the can't reproduce.

'COVID parties' compete to see who gets sick, Alabama officials say

www.google.com

 

[Goat]

China.

The Chinese government has never and will never be elected to make sure that the citizens of the United Kingdom are safe from harm.

But I'm almost certain they would have done a better job than the murderers we have.

 

[roydo]

I'm lost for words, I was watching the news and they mentioned that college students in America were having coronavirus parties where they invite infected people and bet on who'll be next to catch it.. I was telling my wife about it and I actually felt stupid as the words were coming out of my mouth.. anyone caught doing that should be chemically sterilized so the can't reproduce.

'COVID parties' compete to see who gets sick, Alabama officials say

www.google.com

Excuse my ignorance, but isnt Alabama the sort of state that believes stuff Trump says?

Ergo, a bit, well, very thick?

 

[roydo]

The Chinese government has never and will never be elected to make sure that the citizens of the United Kingdom are safe from harm.

But I'm almost certain they would have done a better job than the murderers we have.

Not sure if piss taking if I am honest.

But elected or not. This thing has Made in China on it. Yeah, Johnson et al have made a horlicks of it, but the thing wasnt made here.

 

[Goat]

Excuse my ignorance, but isnt Alabama the sort of state that believes stuff Trump says?

Ergo, a bit, well, very thick?

Not sure if piss taking if I am honest.

But elected or not. This thing has Made in China on it. Yeah, Johnson et al have made a horlicks of it, but the thing wasnt made here.

You cant make these 2 posts after each other surely?

It wasn't made anywhere mate, its a process of nature.

 

[roydo]

You cant make these 2 posts after each other surely?

It wasn't made anywhere mate, its a process of nature.

they

Why not? Merica/Trump have had a mare.

Ok, not "made" in China, originated there, and the ROTW were in blissful ignorance cos they and the WHO were a bit coy about it.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

If your happy and you know it vote Tory... Don't clap for us stick a finger up your sphincter instead!

Full list of the 331 Tory MPs who voted against weekly testing of NHS and care staff

The London Economic | RCN director said "testing of health and care workers and the people they are caring for has to be a priority" | Politics

www.thelondoneconomic.com

 

[Goat]

they

Why not? Merica/Trump have had a mare.

Ok, not "made" in China, originated there, and the ROTW were in blissful ignorance cos they and the WHO were a bit coy about it.

I just mean Trump is pushing the China angle almost as hard as you are.

 

[roydo]

I just mean Trump is pushing the China angle almost as hard as you are.

Nah. I am not ignoring it. In fact, the exact opposite.

What grinds my gears is some on here who launch into diatribes about what we should and shouldnt do, call them murders, but give a free pass to where it came from.

Its mankinds problem, not one persons.

 

[Catfish Blues]

Adjusted for double counting, which was known about, but that's why there is such a dramatic reduction.

The time series has been revised though, so there is now data on cases going back to February.

I have been saying for some time 'don't trust the data too much'.

I expect it's more likely due to checking the accuracy of the data (double testing) than bureaucracy.

It's been a while since I dealt professionally with the likes of PHE and the Dept of Health, but one of the things I remember is that, like most govt departments and quangos, they were overly obsessed with accuracy.

Sometimes the trend is the important thing, so it doesn't matter so much if the absolute answer is right or not. So long as the inaccuracy is relatively constant across time and geography, then it should have been possible to spot trends occuring.

They might not want to share that info with the public, but local public health officials would have understood the limitations of the data and been able to work with it, caveated with the understanding that the absolute numbers would need to be adjusted downwards once the duplicates had been removed.

Plainly if the ( percentage ) inaccuracies were wildly different over time, or more important, geography, then it would be impossible to trust the numbers at all, but my gut reaction would be that, at national level, there was likely to be too much angst associated with accuracy, and a more pragmatic viewpoint may well have been beneficial.