Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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kenada_blue said:
The rates were dropping in Manchester etc and in the North East for them to be classified as Tier 2. Manchester were going to Tier 1 but saw a fall from 500+ a day to 300 and they argued that point, so were dropped. Liverpool is still around 500.

To be fair, I think that will be the case for Liverpool that in a few weeks cases will drop off just like in Manchester when the new rules were brought in.

I'd be surprised if it was anywhere near a month in a Tier 1 status.
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Well here's hoping.

Do it in a month and maybe businesses can still come back from closure again.
 
Nymzee said:
Why would you blanket the whole NW (massive area of the country) when some spots have things miles more under control?
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Because without doing that all that will happen is people will go to places that aren't locked down and will spread this even more.

I bet the Merseyrail train to Chester gets busier from Wednesday, for example.
 
grandjoeblue said:
Its purely down to money, they knew what would happen in the halls but allowed it due to the money involved. You don't need to be an expert to know that university halls aren't the ideal place to be during a pandemic.
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I'm not sure when ’Fresher Flu’ is a well-documented phenomenon within the return to uni that it was thought this would be any different
 
kenada_blue said:
The rates were dropping in Manchester etc and in the North East for them to be classified as Tier 2. Manchester were going to Tier 1 but saw a fall from 500+ a day to 300 and they argued that point, so were dropped. Merseyside is still around 500.

To be fair, I think that will be the case for Liverpool that in a few weeks cases will drop off just like in Manchester when the new rules were brought in.

I'd be surprised if it was anywhere near a month in a Tier 1 status.
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The positivity rate (percentage of tests that are positive) for Merseyside is 15% over the last week - sounds massive tbh :(

Over 5% is meant to signify things are getting out of hand.
 
tsubaki said:
Because without doing that all that will happen is people will go to places that aren't locked down and will spread this even more.

I bet the Merseyrail train to Chester gets busier from Wednesday, for example.
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Yeh I'm just saying the NW of England is enormous. Like why would you stick Carlisle under very high just because Liverpool is?

(I haven't checked stats, don't know if Carlisle is good/bad just using it as a distance example).
 
Black Belt Jones said:
The positivity rate (percentage of tests that are positive) for Merseyside is 15% over the last week - sounds massive tbh :(

Over 5% is meant to signify things are getting out of hand.
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Was only a week or so ago that Manchester were at those levels and above Merseyside hitting 500+ a day.

3 weeks ago they were around 200. Last week 500+. They've dropped to 400+ and now according to what Andy Burnham has said, is about 300. So over 1 month cases have shot up then shot down.

The fact Merseyside will have stricter restrictions, you can assume the rate will drop considerably quicker compared to what happened in Manchester IMO.

So this scare tactic of "6 month lock down" isnt going to be at this level
 
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