Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[ClausThomsen]

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

Was always going to be a skew in 20-29 year olds.

It's the age group that I see working in the service industry or on shop floors the most. Also the ones who are most likely to have to get out and about for jobs you can't perform at home and the least likely of adults to own their own car so are further exposed on public transport etc.

There are also issues with socialising in groups but again, that's the age where most people tend to do that. My local isn't a hotspot for the younger crowd but I do see 90% of the pre-lockdown crowd back out again so there aren't really age groups as a whole who are massively altering their behaviour when it comes to socialising.

 

[summerisle]

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

What's the Legacy ?

 

[COYBL25]

Was always going to be a skew in 20-29 year olds.

It's the age group that I see working in the service industry or on shop floors the most. Also the ones who are most likely to have to get out and about for jobs you can't perform at home and the least likely of adults to own their own car so are further exposed on public transport etc.

There are also issues with socialising in groups but again, that's the age where most people tend to do that. My local isn't a hotspot for the younger crowd but I do see 90% of the pre-lockdown crowd back out again so there aren't really age groups as a whole who are massively altering their behaviour when it comes to socialising.

The difference I`m seeing everywhere is that the youth don`t keep their distance from each other, where as the older age groups are.

 

[Prevenger17]

The difference I`m seeing everywhere is that the youth don`t keep their distance from each other, where as the older age groups are.

Cos they all smell like piss

 

[ClausThomsen]

The difference I`m seeing everywhere is that the youth don`t keep their distance from each other, where as the older age groups are.

I'm not seeing the same when I'm out and about. But I'm a Sunday afternoon/evening drinker - I'd imagine it's less than regimented on a Friday & Saturday night.

 

[BlueStevie35]

What's the Legacy ?

It's basically the old way they reported the all settings deaths, everything accumulated. Since the enquiry they've streamlined it to 3 measures to give a more accurate reporting

 

[summerisle]

It's basically the old way they reported the all settings deaths, everything accumulated. Since the enquiry they've streamlined it to 3 measures to give a more accurate reporting

So, in old money, 92 deaths yesterday ?

 

[Paris]

Not really, no. In 'Legacy' you could have died in a freak bungee jumping accident, but if you had tested positive for the virus then your cause of death was recorded as Covid-19.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Wow, you don't say... Let Coronavirus parties begin!

Coronavirus: Children's role in spread puzzles scientists

A study from South Korea gives among the clearest pictures yet of children as carriers of the virus.

www.bbc.co.uk

Not really, no. In 'Legacy' you could have died in a freak bungee jumping accident, but if you had tested positive for the virus then your cause of death was recorded as Covid-19.

Considering the NHS was basically shut down to anything but Coronavirus in the UK was probably a fair measure for a time.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Can someone help me out, Hancock is talking about how we are going to have extensive lockdowns but they want people to return en masse to work places. So is all fine now or not?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Can someone help me out, Hancock is talking about how we are going to have extensive lockdowns but they want people to return en masse to work places. So is all fine now or not?

Similarly, schools are reopening, but the chances seem reasonably high that at some point, and at short notice, children will be required to work from home again, so having parents also able to work from home would seem a sensible hedge.

 

[Kenshin]

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

Or that the virus isn't as dangerous as it's made out to be thus far.

It's extremely dangerous to groups of the population and in that respect we need to protect them at all costs in current times. But the fact less people are seriously ill with the virus which may or may not match up with the age group has its own narrative as well.

Which has its own impact on the school discussion but then that's a different conversation.

 

[COYBL25]

Or that the virus isn't as dangerous as it's made out to be thus far.

It's extremely dangerous to groups of the population and in that respect we need to protect them at all costs in current times. But the fact less people are seriously ill with the virus which may or may not match up with the age group has its own narrative as well.

Which has its own impact on the school discussion but then that's a different conversation.

I was reading an article today which was questioning why people are still getting it, but hardly any of them are being hospitalised and even less are dying.

The premise of the article was that maybe it`s blowing itself out and losing it`s potency.

Only time will tell.

 

[Catfish Blues]

I was reading an article today which was questioning why people are still getting it, but hardly any of them are being hospitalised and even less are dying.

The premise of the article was that maybe it`s blowing itself out and losing it`s potency.

Only time will tell.

One of the talking head UK scientists has suggested that a combination of

• It being mainly younger people that's catching it and
• That, because of the 2 metre thing and masks, the older people that are catching it, are getting less virus initially, so their immune systems are better equipped to cope

... which sounds plausible.

I've not heard one respected scientist agree that the virus is itself, becoming less potent. Apart from the odd outlier, they all seem to agree that, in itself, it's pretty much as it was in March /April, and it's secondary factors like the above which explain why we're not seeing increasing hospitalisations.

Incidentally, hospitalisations are on the up in Spain. Nowhere near as bad as the first time round though.

 

[zukai12_]

All our Best and Brightest giving thier views at Trafalgar square right now