Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Deckard2049]

'Scarred for life': Sage experts warn of impact of Covid policies on the young

Government accused of failing to protect Generation Z from harm caused by pandemic response

www.theguardian.com

Sage are just protecting themselves now right? The government is a shambles but SAGE seem to want to cover their own backs in relation to all aspects of this crisis. Too many deaths? We said to lockdown weeks ago! Young people are suffering due to the measures taken? We warned you about the consequences of nationwide lockdowns, job losses and school closures!

 

[Goat]

 

[Jebus_lives]

'Scarred for life': Sage experts warn of impact of Covid policies on the young

Government accused of failing to protect Generation Z from harm caused by pandemic response

www.theguardian.com

Sage are just protecting themselves now right? The government is a shambles but SAGE seem to want to cover their own backs in relation to all aspects of this crisis. Too many deaths? We said to lockdown weeks ago! Young people are suffering due to the measures taken? We warned you about the consequences of nationwide lockdowns, job losses and school closures!

There will be people lazily trying to paint this as 'see we're damned if we do and damned if we dont' which isn't really the case. Of course Lockdown will be harmful, just as 'Herd Immunity' is harmful; SAGE are flagging up the dangers of both.

The key is, if you lockdown then you need to offer proportional resource to prevent livelihoods and businesses from folding and if you favour less restrictions, you need to do it from a point where transmission is low and you can manage outbreaks effectively.

I'm not sure the UK is in a position to do either at the moment, so it's a halfway house of localised harsh restrictions vs nationalised lesser restrictions. It's not going to end well.

 

[Goat]

Jesus christ.

 

[orly]

Jesus christ.

Uh oh, this is going really bad again

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Uh oh, this is going really bad again

Time to get a hair cut again isn't it?

 

[Goat]

Uh oh, this is going really bad again

*steps over Uncle Alberts body to lift weights in the gym

 

[orchard]

Jesus christ.

That's only the under 28days number, right?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

*steps over Uncle Alberts body to lift weights in the gym

Critical Bill had the right idea

 

[zzr45]

If we start subtracting the elderly from the figures then we actually end up at -118 for the day. 118 lives saved thanks to COVID.

 

[Goat]

That's only the under 28days number, right?

I have no idea how they get their figures mate.

 

[orly]

Van-Tam 's presentation is a bit scary

 

[davek]

It's in the hundreds for the UK today. We're back there again and with no lockdown in England worthy of the name. People waltzing in and out of pubs (still) and restaurants spending hours in them; schools open when half of them have recorded Covid19 cases already since the restart.

The Tories are going to address this too late for the second time and kill another 60,000.

 

[Goat]

It's in the hundreds for the UK today. We're back there again and with no lockdown in England worthy of the name. People waltzing in and out of pubs (still) and restaurants spending hours in them; schools open when half of them have recorded Covid19 cases already since the restart.

The Tories are going to address this too late for the second time and kill another 60,000.

You fool, they wont address anything Dave.

They simply do not care anymore.

 

[davek]

You fool, they wont address anything Dave.

They simply do not care anymore.

Oh, yeah. That's taken as read.

They are murderer's (remember those quaint people on here pulling us up over the use of that description?!).

If I ruled the world these people in government would not be around for very long.