Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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The Penalty Box Dancer said:
I'm not much of a drinker but do the pubs tend to quieten down at this of year with the build up to christmas?
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No mate, the busiest time of the year in the hospitality trade full stop is from mid-October through to Christmas.

September always a quieter month.

Then it's a down turn after Christmas and usually picks up again March through to May/June time.
 
BlueToff said:
I mean I'm in Wakefield, mate, so I don't know. I mean, London seems to be the main issue with most things in this country tbf, but there was obviously localised lockdowns near me earlier in the summer - namely in areas with a high muslim population around the time of Eid. It's no coincidence that areas where big families or generations of families tend to live together saw a higher percentage of cases. And I imagine Liverpool and Leeds will suffer as a consequence of those daft title celebrations 7 or 8 weeks ago.

I think there's just people everywhere who don't want to follow the rules.

But then again the rules have been so haphazard since we came out of lockdown, who knows.

There's little proof masks do anything, but if there's a chance they help, and we all wear them, then fine. But how long for? Cos this is never going away.

This is the issue. Scientists are saying this will be around for years, decades maybe.

You know what? Sound. Let's get a grip then. Let's get a way to ensure the rest of people's lives aren't spent in fear of someone coughing near them.

My main issue all along with this in terms of the political side of it has been people - like the tweet I posted earlier - who are so one way or the other on the political spectrum that they can't see the wood for the trees, so to speak.

There's no way you can separate the economic impact of this with the social impact as it all = the same thing. People's lives.
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I've said it before but at some point you have to look at who is dying and then make a decision on that front and move on. Protect rather than prevent as it were.

You know how you get people not adhering to rules? By not telling them the true picture. Right now it's fine to put these extreme measures in place but all it takes is for one person on social media to notice who is affected and it to go viral and suddenly you lose control of the preventative measures you have tried to enforce for so long.

If we are curbing a rise in cases now then fine. All the experts are peddling doom and gloom again as they did back in June which never happened until apparantly now. So now it's the predictions being used to give us the worse case scenario and asking the ones in charge to adapt to that.

Eventually we have to realise who the virus is killing and work with that information instead. Otherwise this will keep going around in a circle over and over which as you know, has a much bigger impact than a virus will long term.
 
Kenshin said:
I've said it before but at some point you have to look at who is dying and then make a decision on that front and move on. Protect rather than prevent as it were.

You know how you get people not adhering to rules? By not telling them the true picture. Right now it's fine to put these extreme measures in place but all it takes is for one person on social media to notice who is affected and it to go viral and suddenly you lose control of the preventative measures you have tried to enforce for so long.

If we are curbing a rise in cases now then fine. All the experts are peddling doom and gloom again as they did back in June which never happened until apparantly now. So now it's the predictions being used to give us the worse case scenario and asking the ones in charge to adapt to that.

Eventually we have to realise who the virus is killing and work with that information instead. Otherwise this will keep going around in a circle over and over which as you know, has a much bigger impact than a virus will long term.
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Agree. I believe I read that we're estimated to be 3-4 weeks behind Spain, where there's local lockdowns again, especially in Madrid.

If, this time, we use that to get ahead of ourselves, then fine.

To me we're just gonna be molly-coddled through winter. It'll be crap, life's boring enough as it is but it is what it is.

After that, though, this should all be put to bed. There's been enough time and money spent - globally - to ensure that we can get back to normality without living in fear. As you say, it should be about protecting those vulnerable groups. And that doesn't mean locking them in their homes, but they should be the priorities for vaccines etc.
 
Megatron said:
One of the things that makes me uncomfortable while in work, the amount of customers (and colleagues for that matter) that either don’t wear at all or wear masks incorrectly. I’ll openly admit that I hate wearing them, largely because my floor barely gets any of the store air con piping through so it gets uncomfortably hot to the point I have to spend 10-15 min periods of pulling it down just to breath (I’ve suffered from a controllable form of asthma since I was a baby)
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That's not a great environment for asthma mate.
 
He 'forgot'. It's not like its been on the news or anything.

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davek said:
That's not a great environment for asthma mate.
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It isn't but it's something that's been brought up countless times by staff and managers on our floor, summer is the worst for it but it's usually better in winter. I'm luck in the fact my asthma doesn't trigger majorly unless I get a cold or chest infection which is only like once maybe twice a year
 
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