Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[navidson]

I don’t think I’d noticed that as it’s “we advise that you should not “ rather than “you must not “.

It's because they've half arsed it like every single other step of this thing

Don't advise us - just tell us we can't do it

Bellends love a loophole

 

[BlueToff]

These the same ones telling us earlier in the year that Sweden had completely gone the wrong way?

Note: I'm not saying the UK taking Sweden's approach would have worked. Apples and oranges, I know. Just shows, nobody knows the best way to sort this and lockdown can't actually be proved to 100% work until we come out of it completely and return to normal life.

Obviously, rates need to be low for that to happen but it has to happen at some point soon.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

My GP is impossible to see face to face.
His reception staff are like peak 80’s AC Milan at the best of times to get through, but now it’s impossible.
The GP failure is what will cause loads of cases of other medical issues.
How many women and men with ‘lumps’ where they shouldn’t be have not been seen at the first point of contact ?

Pretty disgusting many have taken full advantage of the circumstances. Not just GP surgeries, many services including the one I work in. Have seen the opportunity to pull services away for good. And getting medications from community pharmacies is increasingly time consuming and late, not good for titration in mental health...

 

[Charro]

These the same ones telling us earlier in the year that Sweden had completely gone the wrong way?

Note: I'm not saying the UK taking Sweden's approach would have worked. Apples and oranges, I know. Just shows, nobody knows the best way to sort this and lockdown can't actually be proved to 100% work until we come out of it completely and return to normal life.

Obviously, rates need to be low for that to happen but it has to happen at some point soon.

Mate, you are quoting a terrible source there.

That radio show is essentially our version of Fox News.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Ok cool

So more than one set of people in a pub break that then? If they socialise with each other? If they are not in the same bubble?

I'm talking hypothetical here

Because socialising can still happen 2 metres apart with a facemask

You can see where I am going with this.

It appears like where you're going with this is to deliberately pick holes in regulations that will never be able to cover every eventuality, to excuse people being absolute knobbers when given a bit of responsibility to behave sensibly so that the economy and our way of life isn't too heavily disrupted during what is still a global pandemic. I mean ffs people. Never heard such whining shithousery as in the last few days. It's not that blooming hard and these new regulations are incredibly lax (indeed so lax that I'm almost certain that they will be severely expanded as we get into winter - and that will happen precisely because of people like you trying to pick fecking holes in them rather than just acting sensibly).

 

[gonetomorrow]

My GP is impossible to see face to face.
His reception staff are like peak 80’s AC Milan at the best of times to get through, but now it’s impossible.
The GP failure is what will cause loads of cases of other medical issues.
How many women and men with ‘lumps’ where they shouldn’t be have not been seen at the first point of contact ?

Nothing I hate more than receptionists who try to persuade you not to speak to your doc. Some of them reckon they're doctors themselves!

 

[YoboCopter]

Hopefully we get told to stay in incase we get murdererd

roughly the same chance

 

[zzr45]

It appears like where you're going with this is to deliberately pick holes in regulations that will never be able to cover every eventuality, to excuse people being absolute knobbers when given a bit of responsibility to behave sensibly so that the economy and our way of life isn't too heavily disrupted during what is still a global pandemic. I mean ffs people. Never heard such whining shithousery as in the last few days. It's not that blooming hard and these new regulations are incredibly lax (indeed so lax that I'm almost certain that they will be severely expanded as we get into winter - and that will happen precisely because of people like you trying to pick fecking holes in them rather than just acting sensibly).

There's been plenty of that, hasn’t there? It's like people get off on outsmarting a dimwitted government. The whole ’I'll have a funeral for the Turkey at Christmas’ is just cringe.

 

[neil999]

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Hopefully we get told to stay in incase we get murdererd

roughly the same chance

As per usual on this it's oversimplified, just because the easy answer helps you understand it doesn't mean your right, it's about what happens in the future and overwhelming nhs

 

[Nymzee]

Outbreak at the Greggs's factory forces shutdown.

Noooo my sausage rolls!

 

[Nymzee]

Wouldn't it be massively useful to find out just how people are catching this bloody thing?

Is it picking up a can of mushy peas that another person placed back on the shelf in Tesco 12 minutes earlier?

Is it from hugging fat Terry in The Royal Oak when that fourth goal went in?

Is it that impromptu Kareoke contest you held for your daughters 12th birthday party?

Is it from that illegal sex rave party your neighbours had last weekend?

How could they even tell us that without track & trace working? To me it’s Point 2.

 

[Nymzee]

It's because they've half arsed it like every single other step of this thing

Don't advise us - just tell us we can't do it

Bellends love a loophole

Advising or telling doesn’t really make a difference considering it’s not policed anyway.

 

[Kenshin]

It appears like where you're going with this is to deliberately pick holes in regulations that will never be able to cover every eventuality, to excuse people being absolute knobbers when given a bit of responsibility to behave sensibly so that the economy and our way of life isn't too heavily disrupted during what is still a global pandemic. I mean ffs people. Never heard such whining shithousery as in the last few days. It's not that blooming hard and these new regulations are incredibly lax (indeed so lax that I'm almost certain that they will be severely expanded as we get into winter - and that will happen precisely because of people like you trying to pick fecking holes in them rather than just acting sensibly).

But isn't the problem that people aren't following the rules?

So if the rules are so easily circumnavigated then that means they are open for abuse.

I love this line , people like me. Why people like me Bruce? The fella sat at home following rules but pointing it out on the internet.

If the problem is people not following guidelines but the guidelines are flawed then that's the bigger problem . You expect everyone to follow the rules blindly yet there are people having illegal raves in lockdown measures for a random silly example.

Perhaps if the government want people following the rules to the letter, they actually do their job and not litter them with loopholes.

 

[Nymzee]

But isn't the problem that people aren't following the rules?

So if the rules are so easily circumnavigated then that means they are open for abuse.

I love this line , people like me. Why people like me Bruce? The fella sat at home following rules but pointing it out on the internet.

If the problem is people not following guidelines but the guidelines are flawed then that's the bigger problem . You expect everyone to follow the rules blindly yet there are people having illegal raves in lockdown measures for a random silly example.

Perhaps if the government want people following the rules to the letter, they actually do their job and not litter them with loopholes.

But why would you try circumvent them is the point he’s getting at? They’re very simple to follow and just because you might be able to find a loophole it doesn’t mean you should. There’s no pot of gold at the end of this for trying to game the regulations is there. In fact there’s the exact opposite of a pot of gold at the end.

It’s not rocket science: follow the rules as they’re laid out.

 

[tsubaki]

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Hopefully we get told to stay in incase we get murdererd

roughly the same chance

those statistics are almost certainly made up btw