Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Bruce Wayne]

That's not true.
Hancock stated the government are putting place legislation to stop large gatherings of over 100. And maybe even arrest people who are out and about with symptoms.

Police set for new powers to arrest virus patients not self-isolating

Read our live coronavirus updates HERE Coronavirus: The symptoms

www.standard.co.uk

*sigh

That's not to stop the spread of the virus, it's so that emergency services aren't consumed monitoring such events. And yes, if people do have symptoms and aren't self-isolating, they need to give their head a wobble. It's the governments job to ensure that the financial support is in place to help ensure that happens. Time will tell how effective they prove to be on that front, but that's something the Home Office need to be right on top of.

 

[Paris]

Agreed with this.

 

[Tea_drinker]

*sigh

That's not to stop the spread of the virus, it's so that emergency services aren't consumed monitoring such events. And yes, if people do have symptoms and aren't self-isolating, they need to give their head a wobble. It's the governments job to ensure that the financial support is in place to help ensure that happens. Time will tell how effective they prove to be on that front, but that's something the Home Office need to be right on top of.

Will they still be required to monitor events of 99 people?

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

*sigh

That's not to stop the spread of the virus, it's so that financially starved emergency services aren't consumed monitoring such events. And yes, if people do have symptoms and aren't self-isolating, they need to give their head a wobble. It's the governments job to ensure that the financial support is in place to help ensure that happens. Time will tell how effective they prove to be on that front, but that's something the Home Office need to be right on top of.

Fixed for you.

 

[nsno-chris]

Now both our countries are de-facto in a state of emergency. Which by all assessments is a complete lack off government preparation and responsibility to their populace. Cases are rising which if you were paying attention was obvious since the data was two weeks out of date. Emergency services will cope but they will be heavily burdened as I'm sure your wife has already informed you.

This isn’t true in the U.K. the preparations for this is down the regional resilience forums (made up of emergency services, local authorities etc) to ensure business continuity of service. For the Merseyside region the implementation of the influenza pandemic plan was, and has been, the means for preparedness. Ensuring essential services are maintained.

Also sitting on our forums are the NHS, North West Ambulance Services, Senior Hospital staff, Public Health England

so whilst the media report on mass panic, at local levels there’s an immense amount of preparation going on.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

After what @Paris exposed about the killing fields of our road if you are sick and need an ambulance you'd doing yourself a kindness and putting less strain on tge NHS to just throw yourself under the wheels when it arrives.

 

[tsubaki]

Agreed with this.

I do, but Nawaz is one of the very last people who should make that point. The commentariat of which he is a part thrives on exclusive access like that, its why none of them have proper jobs and why (like Peston) they forever try to interpret things for us.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Maybe a better use of this thread would be to ensure that @Joey66 @Barnfred 55 @Old Blue 2 and the various other older members of the community have the support they need?

 

[Nymzee]

You are aware that you can go about your daily life without contracting COVID, you can be on public transport with infected people and if you follow basic hygienic rules will not contract it

What if someone coughs or sneezes next to you?

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Maybe a better use of this thread would be to ensure that @Joey66 @Barnfred 55 @Old Blue 2 and the various other older members of the community have the support they need?

Follow protocol and isolate them in the oldies thread.

 

[nsno-chris]

That's not true. You reduce risk is all.
Hancock stated the government are putting place legislation to stop large gatherings of over 100. And maybe even arrest people who are out and about with symptoms.

Police set for new powers to arrest virus patients not self-isolating

Read our live coronavirus updates HERE Coronavirus: The symptoms

www.standard.co.uk

Unfortunately mate it is true. The decision to stop mass gatherings is, like you said, to mitigate the risk and reduce the spread of the virus.

However, whether you like it or not, you can still be in a large crowd and not contract it. The virus is spread via droplets, so standing 2 metres away and washing your hands after touching anything, as all the guidance says, will almost prevent contraction.

This step by the government is the next step in continuity planning because, as expected, people will simply not follow basic advice. Instead they think it’s a superbug that will turn you into a zombie and they all run to buy big roll

I even had a conversation with a stakeholder on Friday who thought, because advice says not to shake hands, that the virus can enter your body through your pores

 

[nsno-chris]

What if someone coughs or sneezes next to you?

depends on how far away you are from them. 2 meters you’ll be fine, anything closer there’s a chance you can contract

but it comes down to the guidance which states standing 2 meters from people

 

[Nymzee]

depends on how far away you are from them. 2 meters you’ll be fine, anything closer there’s a chance you can contract

but it comes down to the guidance which states standing 2 meters from people

It's a bit hard to do that on buses unless you restrict how many can get on and where they sit.

 

[Walken]

After what @Paris exposed about the killing fields of our road if you are sick and need an ambulance you'd doing yourself a kindness and putting less strain on tge NHS to just throw yourself under the wheels when it arrives.

It's raining outside here and I'm busy building giant salt walls to protect mefrom the snails

 

[Amw79]

I like the way that we‘re all so knowledgable and rational, that individually we are all having the precisely appropriate response to the pandemic, and everyone else is either over-reacting and panicking, or not taking it seriously enough.

It’s like how anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone driving faster is a maniac.