Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Nymzee]

I’m trying get to the top of league mate

More likely to just get punted.

 

[The binman chronicles]

650 people were murdered in the UK last year

There is around 35-40k deaths from stroke annually

CHD causes around 65000 deaths annually

The official Covid19 death toll is around 42000.

And we have to remember that is in just over half a year and the only reason it's that low is because we went through a huge lockdown and the upsurge started happening mid-March. If it had been December-January then the hospitals would have been even less able to deal with the fallout due to the increased sneezing/coughing that goes on.

 

[davek]

What a great idea to allow students to start the academic year at university.

Hats off to Johnson, Williamson, HanCOCK and all those university chancellors who had their tongues up the Tory's arses.

 

[JLW]

Covid19 is more contagious and not responsive to the medicines flu can be dealt with. If we let the vulnerable population unshielded from it it'd take tens and tens of thousands, not the usual 10,000 or so that the seasonal flu takes.

We can’t value a death from Covid more serious as death from say the flu.
And is it more contagious than the flu? I mean we have a vaccine for it yet it still takes 10,000 lives per year maybe more .

 

[YoboCopter]

I’m trying get to the top of league mate

Ey thats my spot

 

[The binman chronicles]

We can’t value a death from Covid more serious as death from say the flu.
And is it more contagious than the flu? I mean we have a vaccine for it yet it still takes 10,000 lives per year maybe more .

Flu usually just finishes off the very weakest. This is killing people that are much more robust than that.

 

[BlueToff]

Starmer wont step up and back tighter restrictions, as the health experts are advising. Hed's like a lap dog for the Tories, desperate not to appear like the LP under him aren't 'wreckers'.

An utter walloper of a man. "New Leadership"...yeah, that's one way of putting cowardice.

There should be no need for tighter restrictions, is my general point. We should have a way out of this without them.

I have no idea why people want to live under curfew and stuck in their homes.

Is this some kind of commy wet dream?

 

[JLW]

Flu usually just finishes off the very weakest. This is killing people that are much more robust than that.

Yes possibly but the old and the weak are the very high percentage of the deaths for Covid

 

[zzr45]

There should be no need for tighter restrictions.

I have no idea why people want to live under curfew and stuck in their homes.

Is this some kind of commy wet dream?

Yes.

 

[Dan Tanner]

I was in my local the other night and they`ve implemented the change of rules early - to get people used to it.

Here`s a " new " evening in the pub.

Enter wearing a mask.
Hand sanitise.
Provide details for track and trace.
Find a table.
Take your mask off.
Wait for table service.
Have a drink.
Put your mask back on to go to the toilet.
Toilet, hand sanitise, back to your table.
Order another drink.
Rinse and repeat.
Put your mask back on and go home at 10 pm.

The net effect will be that people will just stop going out, as it`s too much hassle and not really very relaxing.

Yep plus last orders at 10 past 9 is just so weird to hear.. Finish service at 9.30 no one in the pub by 10 and staff have one hour to clean up and must be out by 11 and locked up lights out.
Must be akin to WW1 when they originally introduced licensing restrictions, but nil desperandum, we'll no doubt get used to it

 

[zzr45]

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of Christmas being cancelled. All the fake bonhomme gone. The fake traditions gone. All the fake ’wonder’ gone, the naff adverts.

Everyone needs to stop wearing masks right now. Screw social distancing.

 

[spectateur]

Yes possibly but the old and the weak are the very high percentage of the deaths for Covid

As they are with the flu. However they need not die of flu because a very effective vaccine against it is available.

 

[Walken]

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.

Think expert advice has been fairly consistant in that regard, been a massive consensus that re-opening is only possible with an approprite test and trace system.

 

[JLW]

As they are with the flu. However they need not die of flu because a very effective vaccine against it is available.

Do you think that out of the 10,000 or so that die none have had the flu jab

 

[gonetomorrow]

I've been trying to get info on the pneumonia vaccine which the NHS advises folk with long term conditions to get. My GP is constantly engaged and the NHS info line is only handling Corona queries.
No joy!