Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Leylo said:
Ask the people who are sick mate! Got to parents in hospital who I can't see but ye finances first eh.
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Ask people who are getting sick who have lost their jobs can no longer financially support themselves or their family, so yes financial support... And maybe if our NHS had sufficient ICU beds or at least in line with other G8 countries then all our elderly parents vulnerable family and friends would have better outcomes!
 
Degsy's twitter account has been great value over the last few days - getting stuck into the local civic leaders and the Echo.
 
'Prof Sir John Bell, who has advised the government on its coronavirus testing programme, says a "circuit-breaker" - a short, limited lockdown - is now needed as cases soar to "eye-watering" levels in some parts of the UK.

He warned there were signs compliance with rules and regulations was reducing and that it is hard to get on top of outbreaks while "just biting around the edges".

Sir John told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Things look pretty grave at the moment and the numbers are going up pretty rapidly.

"The other phenomenon you're seeing is that people are pretty unhappy, they are tired, this has been going on too long, they can't go about their business, they can't do the normal things they would expect to do. Hospital staff are exhausted from the last go."

He added: "I can see very little way of getting on top of this without some kind of a circuit-breaker, because the numbers are actually pretty eye-watering in some bits of the country and I think it's going to be pretty hard to get on top of this just biting around the edges."

Sir John says he thinks "there will be every effort to keep schools open".

"This is not a good place to be so if in the end we have to take kids out for two weeks, calm it all down and then embed it in a much more rigorous testing regime then that's maybe what we may have to do."'
 
NilSatisOptimum said:
Ask people who are getting sick who have lost their jobs can no longer financially support themselves or their family, so yes financial support... And maybe if our NHS had sufficient ICU beds or at least in line with other G8 countries then all our elderly parents vulnerable family and friends would have better outcomes!
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Fair comment can't argue with that the whole thing is a shambles
 
davek said:
Prof Sir John Bell, who has advised the government on its coronavirus testing programme, says a "circuit-breaker" - a short, limited lockdown - is now needed as cases soar to "eye-watering" levels in some parts of the UK.
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It's all very convenient our test trace begins buckle so testing drops and the government scurry out and start comparing other countries results as some kind winner winner chicken dinner these other countries who really do world beating test and trace systems!
 
NilSatisOptimum said:
Ask people who are getting sick who have lost their jobs can no longer financially support themselves or their family, so yes financial support... And maybe if our NHS had sufficient ICU beds or at least in line with other G8 countries then all our elderly parents vulnerable family and friends would have better outcomes!
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Just hope this nightmare ends soon, you didn't have to give me the middle finger tho lol
 
Catfish Blues said:
nor do I believe that that level of honesty would be accepted.
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Excellent post mate.

The highlighted bit is the most important bit though. It seems to me that the longer this goes on the more the Government seem to be reacting to what they believe to be popular conception, but what in reality is what the media want us to believe, which in itself is whatever is most newsworthy.

Basically this government has become more an more spineless and is being led a merry dance by the media.
 
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