Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[ForeverBlue92]

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Mate....every time there is a photo or mention of a female you have to state whether you'd consider her acceptable for sex.
We get it...you are a creepy perv...bordering on sexist.


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Please stay on topic.

I just appreciate a woman in all her beauty.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Well...I was being nice saying bordering

 

[Catfish Blues]

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I believe @ForeverBlue92 likes it when women take things off. Be careful what you start !

 

[Tipp blue]

Not great management from the school.

It's so hard for schools to get it right, there has been little to no guidance from the government, but I have to say our principal has done a very good job. There has been New entrances put in so each year has a different entrance and exit. Every room will have doors and windows opened at all times, there's been shelters built outside for lockers to go in to, 50 I pads have been purchased so if there is a class that is bigger than what the classroom can handle them the overflow of students will go to the socially distanced hall and take the class on zoom or google classroom.
I guess all this is great in theory but we'll know better on Monday week which is the first day all students are to be at school so 900 odd students will put measures to the test. The principal has given us a good chance of getting it right, that said I do think the landscape will be much changed by the end of September I reckon some years will be told to stay home a day or 2 a week to minimize the amount of students in school at any time.

 

[Tipp blue]

My friend is an ICU nurse and she say's they have no COVID patients in her hospital, and that's in Blackburn a COVID hotspot

I've heard the term casedemic being mentioned lately it's beginning to become more and more relevant. In Ireland we've had 13 deaths in the last 30 days but cases are gone up 150+ most days, cases are rising but deaths aren't and hospitals are empty, 6 people in intensive care and 28 in hospital with Covid.. that's not in 1 hospital that's the whole country yet the government are still mentioning locking down the country if cases continue to rise.

 

[Cool_Blue]

Yea, and that should have been made much clearer when travel restrictions were initially lifted, but instead we had Boris blustering about getting away on holiday.

I feel a bit for anyone that booked a foreign holiday pre-pandemic or when things were initially opened up, but anyone who's booked since restrictions were imposed on Spain, pretty much have only themselves to blame. You'd have to be incredibly dense not to realise that if restrictions could be imposed on travel to Spain then it could happen anywhere.

If someone books anything now without being able to handle the possibility of a two week quarantine, then they're nuts, and that includes people making new bookings ( as opposed to moving cancellations ) for next year in the hope that a vaccine will be rolled out in the meantime.

This is our situation, we booked flights to/from Crete in January! Two of us are not in work and two are, so they have a tricky decision to make if Greece is added to the quarantine list before next week

 

[Catfish Blues]

This is our situation, we booked flights to/from Crete in January! Two of us are not in work and two are, so they have a tricky decision to make if Greece is added to the quarantine list before next week

It's one of those things you can do nothing about, but, if you want to, you should be able to tell what the situation is by keeping an eye on https://www.atoz-guides.com/coronavirus-in-greece-update/

Population of Greece is about 10.5 million, so for them to breach the point were you might have to quarantine, I reckon they'd need to be hitting between 2,100 and 2,200 cases a week. At the moment, they're getting sort of 1600 to 1700 a week, but it's rising.

If it starts being consistently over 350 new cases a day, then I think you'll likely be quarantining. If you're going for a week, you might get away with it, but it's a real knife edge situation. Most of the cases are round Thessaloniki and in the Attica region ( so round Athena ) and the hope probably is that as mainland Greece gets back to work in September, then cases will start to drop, but that's hope and conjecture really.

Despite that, I'm well envious of you, I've been in Greece at some time each year for the last twenty years, mostly pleasure, but sometimes working, and it looks like I ain't going to make it this year.

 

[COYBL25]

My friend is an ICU nurse and she say's they have no COVID patients in her hospital, and that's in Blackburn a COVID hotspot

Yet some of the papers and some sections of the media would have us believe that it`s out of control in some areas.

I`ve reached the point now, where I`ve stopped believing a single word they say and the government say and base things on my own judgement and what I`m seeing in front of my eyes.

 

[jonnyboy316]

Yet some of the papers and some sections of the media would have us believe that it`s out of control in some areas.

I`ve reached the point now, where I`ve stopped believing a single word they say and the government say and base things on my own judgement and what I`m seeing in front of my eyes.

Is this just because young people are being infected or could the virus have lost done potency. Strange

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This is our situation, we booked flights to/from Crete in January! Two of us are not in work and two are, so they have a tricky decision to make if Greece is added to the quarantine list before next week

Could you just bribe an official? I mean they know who you are, right?

 

[COYBL25]

Is this just because young people are being infected or could the virus have lost done potency. Strange

Only time will tell mate, but I know one thing, but the impression given by some of the media is that they are almost willing things to kick off again.

 

[Kenshin]

I'd disagree. The number of new cases was very low between May-July while we were in the midst of lockdown and social distancing. Unfortunately the last 8 weeks the cumulative effect of more interactions with other people has seen new cases resurgent.

I have no scientific insight into the disease, but just looking at the relative numbers it seems that survival rate is much higher now - maybe the virus has mutated into less deadly version and/or we know better how to treat patients. Maybe survival rates are better in the summer (higher vitamin D?) and will peak again in late winter.

What we don't get told is how many people are actually getting sick.

There is a difference between testing positive and getting sick from the virus. We know hospital cases aren't significantly rising or even many cases at all. But if majority of people aren't getting sick from it anymore, it paints a completely different picture.

Perhaps this idea of a less dangerous version may be true. If so then it may just lose any effectiveness by itself and potentially be no worse than the common cold by the end of it. But then that is just guess work , who knows what it will do.

 

[Cool_Blue]

It's one of those things you can do nothing about, but, if you want to, you should be able to tell what the situation is by keeping an eye on https://www.atoz-guides.com/coronavirus-in-greece-update/

Population of Greece is about 10.5 million, so for them to breach the point were you might have to quarantine, I reckon they'd need to be hitting between 2,100 and 2,200 cases a week. At the moment, they're getting sort of 1600 to 1700 a week, but it's rising.

If it starts being consistently over 350 new cases a day, then I think you'll likely be quarantining. If you're going for a week, you might get away with it, but it's a real knife edge situation. Most of the cases are round Thessaloniki and in the Attica region ( so round Athena ) and the hope probably is that as mainland Greece gets back to work in September, then cases will start to drop, but that's hope and conjecture really.

Despite that, I'm well envious of you, I've been in Greece at some time each year for the last twenty years, mostly pleasure, but sometimes working, and it looks like I ain't going to make it this year.

Yeah that’s where I copied/pasted an earlier quote from (see post 50,584). It’s an excellent site, with precise daily figures for the country

 

[Catfish Blues]

A couple of things from this weeks Public Health England Surveillance Report.
Firstly, proof that younger people are currently driving transmission in England



... and secondly, and more importantly, it's good to see that the majority of the geographical areas being focused on have improved recently




The second lot of numbers and icons are the important ones, and show cases per 100k of population, with most of them going down, and so showing as green. The data's about a week old, but even so, it's a pleasant surprise to see so much success in lowering transmission rates.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Apologies for doing this late, been one of those days in work

Hospital figures - 11 is the announced total, one up on yesterday and 6 up on last Friday. 10 were in English hospitals, up 3 on yesterday and up 5 on last week with 8 occurring in the past 10 days. The 7 day rolling average is up to 8.57

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, the announced total is 9, down 3 on yesterday but up 7 on last Friday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 11.57

For the 60 day cut off, the announced total is 18, the same figure as yesterday’s delayed total and up 5 on last Friday. The 7 day rolling average rises slightly to 20.71

For the Legacy, the announced total is 92, up 42 on yesterday’s delayed total of 50 and the exact same total as last Friday. The 7 day rolling average sits at 54.71