Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tubey]

Nah, you're alright you odd fish. I'm sure you can pay someone to call you a racist if that's your thing?

You have no proof for Asian people spreading Covid but there you were saying you think it might be.

You s hithouse.

 

[dead_soft]

Be careful lad - you're arguing with a bot.

Dangerous game to be playing

Mwah. God I love you.

 

[Nymzee]

Just need to be careful that people don't overcompensate for fear of being labelled as racially biased.

I know for a fact that Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science have modelled likely COVID peaks associated with an overall slowly rising transmission risk, and their models use, among other things, deprivation, population density and ethnicity to predict movements. So, under many circumstances, when they ran those models, it predicted that deprived Asian areas got hit harder than deprived White areas.

That sort of information will get fed through to government at both national, and local areas, and might even mean they'd act slightly sooner in predominately Asian areas than elsewhere. To ignore that, or not want to talk about it in a grown up way, serves no purpose.

Yep I’m under no illusion that their culture, living arrangements and possible poverty will not help them one bit with COVID & I have no issues discussing that.

I just have an issue people assuming it’s one communities fault somewhere gets locked down without actual factual evidence.

I’ve said my bit and will leave it at that.

 

[dead_soft]

You s hithouse.

He's absolutely lost his head

 

[arminisgod]

Nah, you're alright you odd fish. I'm sure you can pay someone to call you a racist if that's your thing?

You have no proof for Asian people spreading Covid but there you were saying you think it might be.

apart from the list of areas under new restrictions, apart from the GOV announcing it on the eve of EID.

Sherlock Holmes I need not be

by the way... Burnley has had 4 new cases... yes 4 since June 26th
*** apologises July 26th ***

 

[Tubey]

He's absolutely lost his head

I don't take being called a racist lightly.

I've reported your post and I sincerely hope something is done about it.

 

[dead_soft]

I don't take being called a racist lightly.

I've reported your post and I sincerely hope something is done about it.

I have not called you a racist but if reporting helps you not have to actually think about what you put go for your life.

 

[dead_soft]

apart from the list of areas under new restrictions, apart from the GOV announcing it on the eve of EID.

Sherlock Holmes I need not be

Predominantly white areas, mind.

 

[Tubey]

apart from the list of areas under new restrictions, apart from the GOV announcing it on the eve of EID.

Sherlock Holmes I need not be

The irony of course is that he's just labelled me a racist with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

I even stated that Asian communities shouldn't be blamed for this spike, but as per usual he doesn't read what people actually bloody say.

 

[Prevenger17]

I think you need to stop being so wet. I've hardly said ethnic minorities deserve to get Covid etc, but they have to take some serious blame for the spikes in my area.

Do you reckon it could also have been something to do with bigoted coneheads hopping from pub to pub?

all the pubs I went in were fine, distancing happened and people just calm, enjoying it. Hasn't been any cases or deaths in my village though

Bore off. I went in 3 pubs. I went in 3 as difc people in the village go in them

Because I wanted to. Just because these aren't normal times it doesn't mean people should lock themselves up

 

[arminisgod]

Do you reckon it could also have been something to do with bigoted coneheads hopping from pub to pub? Any blame there pal?

well done for pointing out that everywhere i went practised social distancing

 

[arminisgod]

Predominantly white areas, mind.

with very large asian populations in comparision.

Either accept it and try and solve it or just keep calling people racists for saying it.

 

[Tubey]

I have not called you a racist but if reporting helps you not have to actually think about what you put go for your life.

The issue for me isn't speculation; it's when it spills over into blame. For me, it could easily be a spike in those populations but for pretty much unavoidable cultural reasons alone. In that instance it'd be like blaming black peope for sickle cell anemia - wouldn't make sense.

There's no evidence really that Asian communities have ignored the rules. So blame shouldn't be apportioned. However, if it is those communities, it's very important that lockdown measures are in place to stop the spread at root, without fear of racism.

That's what I "put". Yeah, racist me.

Learn to read.

 

[dead_soft]

The irony of course is that he's just labelled me a racist with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

I even stated that Asian communities shouldn't be blamed for this spike, but as per usual he doesn't read what people actually bloody say.

You said, 'For me, if I had to guess and my life depended on it, I'd say this spike has been in those communities.'

No one said your life depended on it but you hazarded an uneducated guess for no reason except perhaps your own in built prejudices, we all have them, maybe yours came to the surface here?

and then said 'I don't necessarily blame them for it though as I think it's the result of the way they live, and they act as a bellwether for the virus resurging generally.'
You didn't say you didn't blame them you said you don't necessarily blame them, quite a big equivocation.

 

[Tubey]

You said, 'For me, if I had to guess and my life depended on it, I'd say this spike has been in those communities.'

No one said your life depended on it but you hazarded an uneducated guess for no reason except perhaps your own in built prejudices, we all have them, maybe yours came to the surface here?

and then said 'I don't necessarily blame them for it though as I think it's the result of the way they live, and they act as a bellwether for the virus resurging generally.'
You didn't say you didn't blame them you said you don't necessarily blame them, quite a big equivocation.

Again.

The issue for me isn't speculation; it's when it spills over into blame. For me, it could easily be a spike in those populations but for pretty much unavoidable cultural reasons alone. In that instance it'd be like blaming black peope for sickle cell anemia - wouldn't make sense.

There's no evidence really that Asian communities have ignored the rules. So blame shouldn't be apportioned. However, if it is those communities, it's very important that lockdown measures are in place to stop the spread at root, without fear of racism.

Learn to read.