Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Toast]

So Boris has said we can't have crowds at any of the pilot sporting events......

....... While a crowd are currently sat watching the snooker in Sheffield.

Shambolic

Crowd been told to go home this afternoon.

Utter shambles, and love him or hate him Barry Hearne just gave a boss interview live on bbc about it.

 

[Catfish Blues]

5,000 allowed at the racing tmrw. This is getting more and more bizarre, confusing, nonsensical and blurred.

It'll be alright they will all pack into the nearest alehouse before and after the racing then go in and sit a metre apart, what can possibly go wrong?

It's not happening, the trial with 5000 spectators has been cancelled.

 

[Toast]

So Blackburn is locked down, yet Sky News decide to take a crew and do the news report live from there ?

What’s wrong with people ?

 

[Neiler]

Oxford researchers say new artificial intelligence test could identify coronavirus within one hour

Researchers said the tool accurately predicted a patient’s Covid-19 status in more than 90% of cases.

www.thejournal.ie

 

[Jeff Jones]

That's what's been reported, and it sounds about right.

Heathrow CEO says airport testing plan would cost passengers 150 stg

The cost of having a coronavirus test at the airport would be about 150 pounds ($195) per person and the passenger would be expected to pay, said Heathrow Airport chief executive John Holland-Kaye.

uk.reuters.com

So, and it's only in the planning stage at the moment, you wouldn't have to take a test, but if you did, and tested negative, and test negative again anywhere from 5 days and upwards later, then you can come out of quarantine early.

If you choose not to be tested, then you're in quarantine for 14 days.

Costs include the test kits, the machines to carry out the tests on and the people to carry out the process. Realistically, it's hard to see those costs coming down below £100 / person.

I still can't see it costing that much. I'd like to see an itemised invoice if I was paying for it.. It wouldn't be being set up up for a few people and if there
were, say, 3000 tests done how could it cost 450,000 pounds?

 

[paultheblue]

It's not happening, the trial with 5000 spectators has been cancelled.

Didn't realise mate it was still on this morning

 

[Tea_drinker]

By my reckoning we're on the 3rd wave of silly slogans now.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

So Blackburn is locked down, yet Sky News decide to take a crew and do the news report live from there ?

What’s wrong with people ?

You can't get down on to the south coast... So send them north and rattle coloureds up...

Beach crowds descend on Bournemouth, Brighton and Poole

Gridlocked roads, packed trains and crowded beaches are reported as temperatures soar.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Blues Harp]

Overheard in the Carlton club.. "Get the cannon fodder back to work Johnson, we're losing money....lazy feckers"
Official tory twitter feed...."We care about you"
Haven't got a clue what they are doing

 

[Toast]

You can't get down on to the south coast... So send them north and rattle coloureds up...

Beach crowds descend on Bournemouth, Brighton and Poole

Gridlocked roads, packed trains and crowded beaches are reported as temperatures soar.

www.bbc.co.uk

Got a message from a mate earlier who lives on Hayling Island, beach is absolutely rammed today, no social distancing at all.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Overheard in the Carlton club.. "Get the cannon fodder back to work Johnson, we're losing money....lazy feckers"
Official tory twitter feed...."We care about you"
Haven't got a clue what they are doing

Johnson is not mature enough to handle this. Hancock doesnt want to lose face or his job. The rest have gone on holiday.

 

[Billy Dean]

Ignoring the numbers as I don't know how accurate they are this image shows why I, personally, feel safer walking round Asda for 20 minutes than I do at a house party for a few hours.

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You're not likely to have much prolonged face to face contact with someone at a supermarket either.

 

[spectateur]

That's what's been reported, and it sounds about right.

Heathrow CEO says airport testing plan would cost passengers 150 stg

The cost of having a coronavirus test at the airport would be about 150 pounds ($195) per person and the passenger would be expected to pay, said Heathrow Airport chief executive John Holland-Kaye.

uk.reuters.com

So, and it's only in the planning stage at the moment, you wouldn't have to take a test, but if you did, and tested negative, and test negative again anywhere from 5 days and upwards later, then you can come out of quarantine early.

If you choose not to be tested, then you're in quarantine for 14 days.

Costs include the test kits, the machines to carry out the tests on and the people to carry out the process. Realistically, it's hard to see those costs coming down below £100 / person.

One of the problems with the UK - NHS system is that it has made the population unaware of the true cost of medical procedures.
For example,how much does it cost for a blood test for diabetes or for PSA?
With a free to patient system you'll never know.
You'll find out only if you go private but even then the BUPA will pick up the bill and you may not know.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 13 is the announced total, 1 down on yesterday and 3 down on last Friday. 9 were in English hospitals, 3 down on yesterday and 7 down on last week with 8 occurring in the past 10 days

 

[Deleted member 48881]

hate these people