Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[PhilM]

It's getting bad again in hospitals. Like "can't do emergency cases because all your anaesthetists are stuck in A&E intubating people" bad- hope it's just a bad weekend. If not, Boris has already said there'll be no second lockdown and that could be catastrophic...

Reportedly, the local COVID wards are 2/3 full and ICU is now over 50%, so capacity is dwindling again, but it will with a rate of over 350 per 100,000.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

It'll be the day after we get a cure for cancer

8 years is the average vaccine takes to get to mass market, many people chuckled in health and social care when Johnson announced by Christmas 2020 earlier this springtime. Then factor in flu vaccination which is round average 43% effective. The sooner we live with this better... And to be honest money and the will won't really be looking into the curing vaccination, it will be in management of the illness, that's where the smart investors will be, always are.

 

[coollino]

Reportedly, the local COVID wards are 2/3 full and ICU is now over 50%, so capacity is dwindling again, but it will with a rate of over 350 per 100,000.

A friends gf is a nurse and she said hospital admissions are rising fast. All ages too.

 

[davek]

Yeah, shut them down

Then in a month's time when daily cases are still the same - You might actually realise that it's happening in Schools and Universities

Shut them down too.

 

[davek]

Reportedly, the local COVID wards are 2/3 full and ICU is now over 50%, so capacity is dwindling again, but it will with a rate of over 350 per 100,000.

A friends gf is a nurse and she said hospital admissions are rising fast. All ages too.

It's ok though. The pubs and restaurants HAVE to make their profits; and kids and university students HAVE to be in attendance even though it threatens the population as a whole and they could be catered to by remote learning.

"It's only 80 or so dead per day at the moment" after all. We need to be at 500+ before we need to address these issues.

 

[coollino]

It's ok though. The pubs and restaurants HAVE to make their profits; and kids and university students HAVE to be in attendance even though it threatens the population as a whole and they could be catered to by remote learning.

"It's only 80 or so dead per day at the moment" after all. We need to be at 500+ before we need to address these issues.

One of the reasons they are staying open is because the government has yet to, or is unwilling to, come up with a viable alternative for them imo

The universities will not give up their fees seeing as how much they are losing through lack of overseas students.

 

[davek]

One of the reasons they are staying open is because the government has yet to, or is unwilling to, come up with a viable alternative for them imo

The universities will not give up their fees seeing as how much they are losing through lack of overseas students.

Furlough wise?

They'll extend handouts to that sector but not use the 'f' word for it.

The fact they're slow to do that and late to lock down again for ideological reasons (AGAIN) is a scandal.

 

[Brennan]

Cineworld reportedly closing all of their UK cinemas, employing 5,500 people.

Going to be a bumpy few months.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Cineworld reportedly closing all of their UK cinemas, employing 5,500 people.

Going to be a bumpy few months.

Many wont reopen either - the film industry has taken a hammering.

I went the cinema a few weeks and there is barely anything showing and was dead anyway.

 

[Brennan]

Many wont reopen either - the film industry has taken a hammering.

I went the cinema a few weeks and there is barely anything showing and was dead anyway.

Yeah to be honest I was really struggling to see how they would make it.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

woke up with the phrase "shut them down, keep them shut" thanks to dave

 

[davek]

Cineworld reportedly closing all of their UK cinemas, employing 5,500 people.

Going to be a bumpy few months.

Its almost like there's a second wave.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Johnson coming out with mixed messages again, live your life fearless but with common sense. The common sense tells you to act with extreme caution...

 

[coollino]

Furlough wise?

They'll extend handouts to that sector but not use the 'f' word for it.

The fact they're slow to do that and late to lock down again for ideological reasons (AGAIN) is a scandal.

The terms for the newly evolved one aren't great though, are they? I haven't looked in detail but I don't think they are able to support a sector.

 

[davek]

woke up with the phrase "shut them down, keep them shut" thanks to dave