Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[ForeverBlue92]

Grim

Get it down ya son

 

[Lelouch]

Grim

that quote lol

 

[Barnfred 55]

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All seems perfectly reasonable apart from going to a beach at 5. You may have had the odd occasion like Bournemouth a week or so ago, but I've been to a beach about 8 times since shutdown, and you have always been able to socially distance, the busiest I've seen people were still able to give 3/4m but often family groups were spaced at least 10/15m apart, and people were respecting each others spaces, even kids.

Compare that to grocery shopping at risk level 3. I know where I feel safer

 

[orchard]

Just read the Sky list of permitted activities, can anyone help with the following please?

The two-metre social distancing rule will be relaxed to "one-metre plus"

Has the 'plus' been defined, in law or regulation?

All reopened premises will have to introduce a range of safety measures to ensure they are "COVID secure"

Is this true?

 

[davek]

Grim

Quality reporting there from the Manchester Evening News. Pulitzer on its way.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Not a chance going to a bar is higher risk than a lot of stuff on there.

I assumed they were talking about bars/nightclubs with no social distancing in place. Not the way most pubs are opening in the UK with table service etc. Think it's been proven that the nightclub scene is high risk.

 

[davek]

Just read the Sky list of permitted activities, can anyone help with the following please?

The two-metre social distancing rule will be relaxed to "one-metre plus"

Has the 'plus' been defined, in law or regulation?

All reopened premises will have to introduce a range of safety measures to ensure they are "COVID secure"

Is this true?

The "+" part is nonsense - a way of avoiding 1.5M and a definite distance...its basically saying to the sheeple "pack tight as you want in shops, pubs and restaurants and get spending".

The 'range of safety measures' = a hand sanitizer (optional use) and one of those 'social distancing is required' posters on the window.

More utter bollocks.

The name of the game here is to get some sort of economic activity in the early part of Q3 before the inevitable 2nd wave smashes into the economy again by the late summer / early autumn.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Not sure myself, they have Hepa filters on planes, i think the airport is riskier.

The last category strikes me as risky because you are eating and drinking and ingesting into your system. Take a bar, you have close proximity in an enclosed place, a lot of aerosol, no face coverings, impaired judgement and probably drinking from a glass about 20 - 50 other people have been in the last 24 hours.

To counter that they have social distancing, table service, staff wearing visors and undertaking extreme cleansing guidelines, hand sanitizers everywhere for customer use, all the glasses will go through dishwashers. I would say going to most pubs here would be as risky as eating at inside restaurants.

My view is that 9 rating refers to nightclubs and bars that don't follow strict SD rules.

 

[davek]

Part of Catalonia placed back into lockdown.

 

[davek]

BBC:

"It is a high-stakes gamble and the government will be watching nervously to see how the public responds and behaves. That will ultimately determine whether we are getting a sufficient economic bang for the health risk buck that medical experts say we are inevitably spending this weekend."

What a 'kin country.

 

[Charro]

I assumed they were talking about bars/nightclubs with no social distancing in place. Not the way most pubs are opening in the UK with table service etc. Think it's been proven that the nightclub scene is high risk.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Will be a while before nightclubs are open.

 

[toffeejack]

Grim

the weirdo needs to try some nicer larger's - carling has got to be the worst there is and he's describing it like that.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Saw it earlier. Busier than the new normal, but 30% of an old normal summers Friday

What's the M5 looking like today mate?

I imagine it will be a lot busier than last night.

 

[roydo]

What's the M5 looking like today mate?

I imagine it will be a lot busier than last night.

Havnt needed to cross it today mate, but the traffic map shows it as fine. The pub in our lane opens soon, so I will imagine that will be busier than the M5, relatively, soon ffs.

 

[orchard]

The "+" part is nonsense - a way of avoiding 1.5M and a definite distance...its basically saying to the sheeple "pack tight as you want in shops, pubs and restaurants and get spending".

The 'range of safety measures' = a hand sanitizer (optional use) and one of those 'social distancing is required' posters on the window.

More utter bollocks.

The name of the game here is to get some sort of economic activity in the early part of Q3 before the inevitable 2nd wave smashes into the economy again by the late summer / early autumn.

Haha. Well, yes, but the 'plus' was supposed to be defined formally by the HSE(?), Has it been?

And surely, saying that establishments will have adopted measures in order to be covid secure is far too strong, bordering on misleading the public by suggesting there will be no risk?