Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Layne said:

Phew, at least priviledge and birthright aren't in jeopardy.
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Maybe regular students parents could pay for all their kids to be tested by private companies then?

Stupid comparison really, Eton’s a business that needs people coming in through its doors to justify charging. If they need to make an outlay on testing to make sure they get it, then they will. State schools are not businesses.
 
zzr45 said:
Maybe regular students parents could pay for all their kids to be tested by private companies then?

Stupid comparison really, Eton’s a business that needs people coming in through its doors to justify charging. If they need to make an outlay on testing to make sure they get it, then they will. State schools are not businesses.
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I agree with the business point and if Eton has the opportunity and resources to have such testing then I see no issue in that. Still, I can understand the wider issue.

When you have the select few being able to access private tasks and continue while the majority are enduring a creaking system, people will feel resentment.
 
arminisgod said:
Not really. Pubs can prove they can do social distancing you and your family can't. With all places having to be table service and 10pm curfew what your describing isn't that likely you'd think.

Not all pubs are like that
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It's not what and how things go on in we'll managed pubs, it's how the people with alcohol in their systems behave after the pub.
 
spectateur said:
It's not what and how things go on in we'll managed pubs, it's how the people with alcohol in their systems behave after the pub.
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Even in well-managed pubs, it can be an issue. I was speaking to a licensee, who runs their pub very well, and they've had quite a few issues as of late.

It has a mixed demographic (locals and students), and she's finding that people are congregating in large groups and lying about signing in on the app.

It's more the latter than the former, but it's causing mayhem to the point they're refusing to serve quite a few groups. Alcohol is not helpful for conformity.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
To be fair though, the Netherlands is, and they've taken a pretty similar approach to the Swedes. As with much of Europe, they're seeing a significant spike in case numbers, but deaths remain very low. Their economy is largely open I believe.
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The Dutch have had a gung-ho attitude all along. I recall tourists laughing at the proprioter of our local auberge when he asked them to put on masks.
They told him (in English) that the virus only affected old or fat people. They were neither so it wasn't their problem.
 
spectateur said:
The Dutch have had a gung-ho attitude all along. I recall tourists laughing at the proprioter of our local auberge when he asked them to put on masks.
They told him (in English) that the virus only affected old or fat people. They were neither so it wasn't their problem.
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And yet, despite case numbers rising significantly there since the beginning of August, that hasn't really translated into deaths, which remain a handful, compared to 1-200 per day in spring. That's hopefully a positive sign, as you would imagine with those numbers of cases that deaths would start to be moving upwards by now as there have been well over a month of higher case numbers now in many European countries.
 
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