Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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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...
Do you work in a hospital mate?
 
Czech overtook Spain as the worst performing nation in Europe yesterday. They recorded a whopping 5,300 or so cases and have been hitting around 35 deaths per day for a while now. Several areas of the country are over 250 cases per 100,000, with the worst up around 350. The death toll is still low compared to the levels seen in spring around Europe, but the hospitals are getting worryingly full.

The sales of pasties and lager are still booming then ?
 
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The sales of pasties and lager are still booming then ?

It's fascinating really as the country has flipped completely, and a lot now don't even think masks are a good thing, having previously been full on "look at us, we're sewing our own..." kinda thing. The government are being a bit slow in responding as well, as they're due to introduce tougher measures on Friday, which won't be actually in place until Monday. Quite why they're hanging about for I've no idea.
 
Yeah don't be so sure about that mate, where i live in Chichester the pandemic has destroyed the town centre. There has always been an issue with high rents around here (it's that type of town) and covid has just killed like a 1/3 of the shops. It's like a ghost town on one of the streets you walk down, even the local Starbucks has'nt survived.
This is the direct result of the reliance on the service economy, launched 40 years ago with the free market economic system.
Most of the economy that's suffering due to the covid restrictions consists of non essentials, many of which people happily lived without 40/50 ago.
 
This is the direct result of the reliance on the service economy, launched 40 years ago with the free market economic system.
Most of the economy that's suffering due to the covid restrictions consists of non essentials, many of which people happily lived without 40/50 ago.

To be fair, I think the aspect of the service economy that the government focused on back then is still doing fine as most of it can be done from home. There wasn't a big push to develop restaurants and bars, but rather financial services, legal firms, consultancies, and so on.
 
It's fascinating really as the country has flipped completely, and a lot now don't even think masks are a good thing, having previously been full on "look at us, we're sewing our own..." kinda thing. The government are being a bit slow in responding as well, as they're due to introduce tougher measures on Friday, which won't be actually in place until Monday. Quite why they're hanging about for I've no idea.
In theory it's normally time for communications messages to be prepared, statutory agencies to fulfill their obligations and to give time to resource accordingly.
 
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...
The reports I'm getting is that it's 'getting hot again'. One worry for me, I'd be interested to get your take, is that the focus has again shifted to acute assurance rather than community and PC. Without prevention in other areas, you'll see increased admission into hospitals or deferred treatment stored up until 'things are back to normal'.
 
To be fair, I think the aspect of the service economy that the government focused on back then is still doing fine as most of it can be done from home. There wasn't a big push to develop restaurants and bars, but rather financial services, legal firms, consultancies, and so on.
Yes, but the big hit is on pubs, cocktail bars, nail bars, gyms restuarents and particularly hotels, airports and the holiday sector in general.
Office folk who spend their time in front of a screen can well do it from home (if they have a good Internet link and some peace and quiet).
 
@Kenshin can we get your critique on this one please?


Simple.

How many of the covid deaths had pneumonia?

Given that a death within 28 days is classed as a covid death and not another illness then even if the pneumonia was what killed them it would make it on your bar chart as covid. So the covid death rate would therefore be much higher.

Additionally general respiratory deaths (non covid) are down by hundreds for the first time in years each week. Which suggests many of those missing figures are actually included in the covid figures because despite the cause of death, also tested positive within those 28 days.

Right?
 
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