Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Shevin Keedy]

What if you’re ridiculously good looking, should you still wear a mask?

Yes, I suppose I should really.

 

[LinekersLegs]

RIP

 

[degsy]

Coronavirus: how countries aim to get the vaccine first by cutting opaque supply deals

Instead of a global response to the pandemic, we’re seeing an outbreak of vaccine nationalism.

theconversation.com

Memo to self ; buy shares in AstraZenica @ 56.58
I presume thats pounds or US$ not pence.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[WA Toffee]

Funny you say that because a lot of what they 'say' has been proven wrong or never gone anywhere.

I love this attitude , just because they are scientists that they are right.

The chief scientist was right when he broke his OWN rules and was sacked.

The list of susceptible conditions has increased from old and sick to bald and just being male.

The government themselves are launching an urgent enquiry because they may have over exagerated the numbers

Maybe not everything you read about is right? Maybe not everything is correct just because a doctor or scientist has said it?

After all there is plenty of stories out there that these scientists gave the wrong advice before lockdown.

Maybe just maybe stop believing everything you hear and start actually using your own mind to think.

So if we shouldn't believe or trust the people who have experience and qualifications in this field, where do you suggest we get our information from instead in order to make that informed decision?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Presumably there were people in the car without a mask that did get infected, or people in the car that just washed their hands, and so on? I'm generally okay with masks as it's such a low effort thing, but that study seems a little bit flimsy.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

In Estimating COVID-19 Infection Risk, Frequency of an Activity Is Key

With proper precautions, the risk of a day at work, a ride on the bus, or a workout at the gym may be acceptable, write Yale SOM’s Arthur J. Swersey and his co-authors. But that risk compounds dramatically when an activity is repeated day after day.

insights.som.yale.edu

 

[Billy Dean]

That's it then, if your workmate said it.
Does he say anything about where we will finish in the league next year?

Good one! He thinks we’re getting relegated mate.

 

[YoboCopter]

He very suprisrd at another full lock down, the damage done to the economy and mental health would be too big, probably never ever recover

 

[orchard]

He very suprisrd at another full lock down, the damage done to the economy and mental health would be too big, probably never ever recover

And overwhelmed hospitals won't?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

And overwhelmed hospitals won't?

I'm inclined to think the NHS has had time to get itself sorted now. The situation with PPE, ventilators and all that is much better than it was, and I vaguely recall reading that hospitals have become better at treating the virus than they were at the start of the pandemic, which eases the pressure somewhat.

 

[zzr45]

I'm inclined to think the NHS has had time to get itself sorted now. The situation with PPE, ventilators and all that is much better than it was, and I vaguely recall reading that hospitals have become better at treating the virus than they were at the start of the pandemic, which eases the pressure somewhat.

It’s an interesting point but isn’t there now a move away from the use of ventilators in treating COVID?

 

[Nymzee]

I'm inclined to think the NHS has had time to get itself sorted now. The situation with PPE, ventilators and all that is much better than it was, and I vaguely recall reading that hospitals have become better at treating the virus than they were at the start of the pandemic, which eases the pressure somewhat.

Were the hospitals even overwhelmed to begin with regarding COVID? Nurses I spoke to round here said they weren't.

 

[Kenshin]

So if we shouldn't believe or trust the people who have experience and qualifications in this field, where do you suggest we get our information from instead in order to make that informed decision?

Perhaps take more than one source of information in rather than just regurgitate the official line over and over?

Otherwise we are believing everything even when it's wrong.

 

[orchard]

I'm inclined to think the NHS has had time to get itself sorted now. The situation with PPE, ventilators and all that is much better than it was, and I vaguely recall reading that hospitals have become better at treating the virus than they were at the start of the pandemic, which eases the pressure somewhat.

Quite, but obviously there is a point, hypothetically, where they could be overwhelmed, and what I'm trying to say is that whilst lockdown may be detrimental to the psychological state of some, the virus itself can be too, and the op ought to have a bit more empathy.

Stuck in a bedsit vs working in the leisure industry whilst sharing home with someone who's high risk.