Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Nymzee]

I was referring to anywhere but Liverpool

As sky news had the info wrong on the first place

Well that's probably because you, for some reason, read Sky News.

 

[Moomin]

I had a look at them earlier. Its stuff like you cant meet in a garden but a forest is ok that does my nut.

I'm meant to be going away next friday, no idea if thats still going to be the case if we do a circuit break.

 

[roydo]

Restaurants and bars and cafes etc being closed then has a massive knock on effect to the suppliers of the produce. They then don't require anything from their farmers, growers, brewers etc.

The economy is a cycle. When one industry is shut, there is a bit of a vicious circle effect. You can't just turn the economy on and off like a tap, it doesn't work like that.

Yeah, I get that.

But this "full lock down" stuff, isnt quite "full" is it?

 

[Nymzee]

I had a look at them earlier. Its stuff like you cant meet in a garden but a forest is ok that does my nut.

I think it's maybe looking at it in a way where we (gov) don't want to stick you on full lockdown and isolate you off from society, but we also don't want you having garden parties where you'll likely ignore social distancing and continue the spread etc.

So here, we'll (gov) throw you a bone, you can go for a walk in the countryside with your mates.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

All these different rules are like a crap board game.

It would be launched out the window now in frustation.

Reminds me of the Calder book, Myth of the blitz.

Today the blitz is pictured as one for all and all for one knees up around the piano singing my old mans dustmen...

When in fact Churchill and the Royal family were roundly booed by Londoners for their indifference to victims of the blitz, and the state made it illegal to seek refuge in the London underground. This only changed and state assistance lent its cap when they concluded rioting was not far off...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2853967-the-myth-of-the-blitz

 

[roydo]

I'm meant to be going away next friday, no idea if thats still going to be the case if we do a circuit break.

Covid: What is the guidance across the UK now?

Almost all of the UK's Covid rules have ended, two years after they were introduced.

www.bbc.co.uk

Pick the bones out of that.

Me? Staying home.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Yeah, I get that.

But this "full lock down" stuff, isnt quite "full" is it?

I don't think it is in parts of England. There's far more places closing here where I am from 6pm today, and it's inevitable that there will now be huge job losses.

I can't even get my hair cut tomorrow morning now! Almost all these businesses are small businesses, and they can't cope with another shutdown. They say it will be only 4 weeks, but I just don't see that. We never expected the first lockdown to run for over 3 months.

 

[Kenshin]

Well that's probably because you, for some reason, read Sky News.

Is there a better place to read the news that I don't have to pay for?

By all means share and I'll start reading it

 

[roydo]

I don't think it is in parts of England. There's far more places closing here where I am from 6pm today, and it's inevitable that there will now be huge job losses.

I can't even get my hair cut tomorrow morning now! Almost all these businesses are small businesses, and they can't cope with another shutdown. They say it will be only 4 weeks, but I just don't see that. We never expected the first lockdown to run for over 3 months.

Forgot you were in NI.

 

[davek]

We all know now where we're headed: complete national lockdown.

 

[Jebus_lives]

They also 100% lied about their stats too.

I'm not sure there is much good evidence to state that as fact.

Very early into the course of the pandemic, there were reports about the level of restrictions that China had imposed, the speed by which they were addressing it as a public health crisis and effectively suspending any individual freedoms to do so.

 

[Charro]

People are still listening to the rules?

They’re not coming from a place of science or knowledge so why take notice of them.

Wash your hands, wear a mask, don’t be a bell end.

 

[Jebus_lives]

Sky news is terrible then, it said that applied to the entire country .

For a poster who bangs on about those following 'media buzzwords', being fed by the media and proclaiming to use 'literal' official information...that's a bit embarrassing.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

I'm not sure there is much good evidence to state that as fact.

Very early into the course of the pandemic, there were reports about the level of restrictions that China had imposed, the speed by which they were addressing it as a public health crisis and effectively suspending any individual freedoms to do so.

Whether it’s a fact or not, it hardly justified the rest of the conspiracy theory he was putting out there with regards to China.

 

[Nymzee]

Is there a better place to read the news that I don't have to pay for?

By all means share and I'll start reading it

The BBC, The Guardian... literally anything.