Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Walken]

What’s the difference?

The Flu never required a nationwide lockdown to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths in the space of a couple of months. For a start.

yeah but apart from that....

 

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[Catfish Blues]

But how do I know if a womans smiling over at me Billy lad?

Bit weird if I just approach without a positive physical signal

Women wearing masks have started flashing their boobs at me, which is either a positive signal, or an indication they think I'm a tit, it's not always clear which.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Women wearing masks have started flashing their boobs at me, which is either a positive signal, or an indication they think I'm a tit, it's not always clear which.

Fellow mask wearer love

 

[Catfish Blues]

Latest ONS death stats came out today.



Overall deaths for w/e 10th July were 560, or 6.1% below the five year average, which is good. But, before the "they were all going to die soon anyway" brigade chip in, at that rate it would take ~100 weeks for the overall deaths to balance out.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Colleges Are Getting Ready to Blame Their Students

As campuses reopen without adequate testing, universities fault young people for a lack of personal responsibility.

www.theatlantic.com

Americans are making decisions every day about coronavirus risk and social contact, but people’s calculations are not all the same. Risk taking typically peaks during young adulthood, when people are most responsive to the rewards of a risky choice. During the pandemic, young people face different risks from older adults: Although the former may transmit the virus to others, they are at substantially lower risk of complications from coronavirus infection than older people—but at far greater risk of psychiatric disordersthat can be triggered or worsened by social isolation. People feel lonely when they experience a mismatch between the relationships they want and those they have. In a pandemic, that discrepancy may be greatest for college students, who are experiencing the yawning gap between dorm life and quarantine life. “A lot of people are calling attention to coronavirus because it’s right in front of us,” an 18-year-old named Audrey told NPR earlier this month. “But at the same time, teens’ depression rate—it’s a silent threat.” The issue isn’t that young people are universally unconcerned about the pandemic; it’s that they realize it’s not the only—or even the greatest—risk they face.

Nor is socializing the only route by which the coronavirus spreads. The recent rise in cases among young adults was predictable based on labor-force statistics alone. In the bars, restaurants, and retail establishments that have resumed service as part of most states’ reopening plans, the majority of employees are 34 or younger. But rather than taking responsibility for reopening high-risk environments prematurely, officials have again shiftedthe blame to the young people who keep those industries running. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently described those under 35 as “the age cohort that believes in many cases that they are invincible, and they are somehow immune from the impacts of COVID-19.” New York City’s official Twitter feed recently circulated a chart showing that rates of coronavirus infection had plateaued or were increasing in younger age groups. The accompanying message, complete with a wide-eye emoji, declared, “Looking at you, millennials and Gen X. Do better.” From statements such as these, one might conclude that saving the country from the coronavirus isn’t up to those who decide which establishments are open or closed; rather, it’s the personal responsibility of young people—and never mind that, for them, exposure isn’t always a choice.

 

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[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 15 the announced total, 9 up on yesterday and 15 down on last Tuesday. All 15 were in English hospitals, again up 9 on yesterday and down 11 on last week with 10 of the 15 coming in the past 10 days

 

[RAFUH]

yeah but apart from that....

We are discharging our COVID patients on Eliquis...anti blood clotting medication because the virus and/or the resulting physiological response are cause clotting disorders leading to strokes...even in young healthy patients.

So just like the flu

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It's official well maybe, social distancing it's over it's not over, hell where is my Latin when I need it.

 

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[Death]

Milky from Me, Myself and Irene is defending well for Watford.

 

[Grinch]

Not to shabby! Lets open up finally and fully