Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Goat]

Exactly. The terrified dont want to acknowledge this though. They want us masked up and living some fun-free life for ever.

You really must have nobody you care about.

I find that a bit sad mate.

Cos my biggest fear isn't that I get it and die, my biggest fear is I get it, survive but give it somebody else who dies.

I guess roids take away peoples compassion for others.

 

[Tea_drinker]

You really must have nobody you care about.

I find that a bit sad mate.

Cos my biggest fear isn't that I get it and die, my biggest fear is I get it, survive but give it somebody else who dies.

I guess roids take away peoples compassion for others.

There are fewer people dying now than at the same time for the last 5 years. This in the middle of a terrifying global pandemic? I think you need some perspective.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Still time to get some hastily arranged festivals sorted this summer.

Let's get everyone back to work first

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The Czech minister warned people against travelling to Croatia this week - while he himself was on holiday in Croatia lol

 

[Tea_drinker]

The Czech minister warned people against travelling to Croatia this week - while he himself was on holiday in Croatia lol

Kafkaesque in true Prague style.

 

[Goat]

There are fewer people dying now than at the same time for the last 5 years. This in the middle of a terrifying global pandemic? I think you need some perspective.

I will refrain from telling you what you need.

 

[Tea_drinker]

I will refrain from telling you what you need.

Can you explain those statistics though?

 

[roydo]

There are fewer people dying now than at the same time for the last 5 years. This in the middle of a terrifying global pandemic? I think you need some perspective.

We have lived with this for 6 months. It has rarely been off the front page of papers and web sites.

It has led to a new language and behaviours for millions of people across the planet.

Yet you still show an astonishing ignorance as to why we must still be very very cautious.

 

[brieverton]

Exactly. The terrified dont want to acknowledge this though. They want us masked up and living some fun-free life for ever.

I can't take you seriously. You have been trolling for weeks, in a thread of the utmost seriousness.

I couldn't believe that you are being deliberately callous with many of your posts.

If you are, you have my sympathy. It must be miserable.

 

[Goat]

Can you explain those statistics though?

What do you want me to explain?

I said a while ago that opening up the country at this point is the way to go, people need to work, people in pubs, restaurants, gyms, they all need to earn that paper, please have as much fun as you need, fill your boots.

 

[Tea_drinker]

I can't take you seriously. You have been trolling for weeks, in a thread of the utmost seriousness.

I couldn't believe that you are being deliberately callous with many of your posts.

If you are, you have my sympathy. It must be miserable.

I'm not trolling. I'm critically evaluating the situation.

In 6 months of this I have heard of noone, not a single person, in anyway connected to me or family or friends who has had this let alone died from it. The rules surrounding it are like the sleeve notes for an incomprehensible Edwardian farce. More longterm misery and death will stem from the results of the lockdown than the virus itself. Look at the death stats over 5 years.

They are my views.

 

[davek]

Can you explain those statistics though?

Because vulnerable people are still by and large locked up and away from the rest of society and there's less activity amongst the rest of the population....and that leads to less chance for people to be dying of accidental deaths.

Take the brakes off altogether, encourage the vulnerable out, go for a full return to academic and economic activity and the fatality rate would go through the roof.

 

[roydo]

I'm not trolling. I'm critically evaluating the situation.

In 6 months of this I have heard of noone, not a single person, in anyway connected to me or family or friends who has had this let alone died from it. The rules surrounding it are like the sleeve notes for an incomprehensible Edwardian farce. More longterm misery and death will stem from the results of the lockdown than the virus itself. Look at the death stats over 5 years.

They are my views.

Has everyone you know had a test to prove they havnt had it? Cos unless they have, they dont know.

That, in a nutshell, is why caution is still the only way out of this.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Because vulnerable people are still by and large locked up and away from the rest of society and there's less activity amongst the rest of the population....and that leads to less chance for people to be dying of accidental deaths.

Take the brakes off altogether, encourage the vulnerable out, go for a full return to academic and economic activity and the fatality rate would go through the roof.

I get that view but I also reckon any future rise in deaths will be largely applicable to all the undiagnosed cancers etc due to peoples fear of leaving the house in lockdown.

Even so, for average deaths to be so low in what is termed a terrifying global pandemic is not at all what most of the public would expect and I reckon very few of them even see these stats.

 

[Kenshin]

Contrary to what the rags would have you believe, that wouldn`t appear to be the case though would it ?

The BLM protests and people flocking to the beaches doesn`t seem to have caused spikes.

Having recently been on one of the beaches in Cornwall that the press reported as being "out of control ", I can 100% say that the beach was busy, but everyone was the correct distance apart ( and more ) and that the photographs that were used had been " manipulated " to make it look like people where sat on top of each other.

At no point did I feel uneasy whilst on the beach and my youngest lad falls into the at risk category due to his disability, so there`s no way we`d have gone on the beach if we thought it wasn`t safe.

Top tip, don`t read the Daily Mail.

I think a lot of people who go to the extreme now online don't seem to get the world outside. Reading this thread alone you would think that stepping outside the front door and you are risking your life and it's like the walking dead in trying to survive.

We were talking about it in work today, us sat in the office was almost like normality. Yes we are the required 1 metre apart at our desks but generally we are just getting up and having a normal day. Besides wearing a mask we are shopping as normal, with so much normality back to life even at a restricted basis. Much of which will be in place for quite a while making that the norm.

It's all about taking precautions and using common sense absolutely. I have no fear of catching this virus whatsoever but I still take precautions none the less.

Yet the more you talk about death tolls and infections and spikes and this and that, it's just creating your own personal fear. Even 4/5 months later when the numbers have considerably dropped. Like I've said before, you can't just stop fearing the unknown like that , people are living the statistics and have done for a good while.

Except out the front door, you can have normality again, even if it's behind a face mask.