Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[summerisle]

The ridiculous thing is that Johnson at the beginning of the crisis after lockdown used graphs that underlined the way the virus would be approached and best defeated: a series of major lockdowns after periods of reopening the economy. Then the second quarter economic figures came in and the plan was thrown out of the window and it's been an article of faith ever since that full lockdowns = economic death.

Yep, whatever happened to this ?

 

[summerisle]

We could lock down and support people if they wanted, furlough cost £250 million, bailing out the banks which was universally agreed cost £850 million...

Coronavirus bill has cost UK government £210bn, spending watchdog says

NAO forecast for costs of 190 pandemic measures over half year finds furlough outlay of £35.4bn so far most expensive

www.theguardian.com

2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

44 billion quid and counting for Trident.

Trident damned as 'deadly farce' after costs rise £1bn

The cost of UK programmes to replace Trident and nuclear submarines on the Clyde increased by over £1 billion in a year, according to data released by the Ministry of Defence.

theferret.scot

 

[Jebus_lives]

Yikes who wants to go into hospital electively...



And of course excess deaths are on the up...

If you read the IMF report, it talks about voluntary distancing being as important as lockdown measures in reducing a countries economy. Local/national evidence seems to suggest that the voluntary distancing extends to all aspects of life where people are committed to it, unsurprisingly, fatally in some respects.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Found his balls for once.

Reckon he has gone and got your lockdown as we approach autmn half term...

 

[BlueToff]

curfew and rule of 6 also in place in Madrid, apparently? I know they're having restrictions in Germany, too. Think the numbers are like 10 or something?

 

[summerisle]

 

[Prevenger17]

And of course excess deaths are on the up...

I think they were all car crashes

 

[Neiler]

Barclays Bank predicting 3 vaccines will be approved by the end of the year, another 5 by mid 21.

 

[Neiler]

Yale Immunologist Akiko Iwasaki on reinfection and why going for natural herd immunity won’t work: ‘this strategy...lethal for many but also it is not effective. Herd immunity requires safe and effective vaccines’. With the reinfection of 25 year old male in the US.

DEFINE_ME

www.thelancet.com

 

[Jebus_lives]

Barclays Bank predicting 3 vaccines will be approved by the end of the year, another 5 by mid 21.
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This side of Christmas is the suggestion, with vaccination around March-April 21

 

[Kenshin]

*ahem*

Liverpool hospitals cut back on operations to cope with Covid-19 rise

Three main NHS acute hospitals deferring non-urgent surgeries after reaching ‘critical point’

www.theguardian.com

That is what drawing back elective care is!

They are reporting the same information.

 

[4737carlin]

These people are the reason this virus is such a disaster in the UK, it's more on them then the government, with idiots like this we have no chance for another 8 or 9 months of normal life.

 

[Papa Shango]

These people are the reason this virus is such a disaster in the UK, it's more on them then the government, with idiots like this we have no chance for another 8 or 9 months of normal life.

Water cannon the lot of them.

I love a good water cannoning.

Many humans are just abhorrent narcissistic people. It's freezing out too!

 

[Seathestars]

Absolute scum in Concert square last night. They don't give a toss for you, me, your parents, your kids or anyone, not even their own family's.
This virus would have been on it's last legs by now if it wasn't for these vermin and vermin like them

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

None. It's the yearly punch and Judy show from the NHS. ’We’re at Critical Capacity! We only have time for 3 hours at lunch In our offices!’

This comment is so Tory it could be called Rupert and be donned in Tweed.

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