Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Kenshin]

We knew this 8months ago you complete ferret.

I know 5 people over the age of 65 that I would care if they died.

This idea that I should forget they exist is what you struggle with.

What's the point?

I say protect them , you say that's pretending they don't exist.

So keeping them safe over everyone else apparantly means lock them in a big room somewhere and coming back for them when it all blows over right?

 

[Goat]

What's the point?

I say protect them , you say that's pretending they don't exist.

So keeping them safe over everyone else apparantly means lock them in a big room somewhere and coming back for them when it all blows over right?

Do you kill small animals?

 

[Goat]

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[roydo]

Screw them RayRay.

Let them fall.

Just looking after Mrs R by making sure I dont get it. I truly get that many dont have that "luxury" of being able to ignore the world and stay at home, shopping/meds notwithstanding, but the premise is the same.

I dont get it. She wont get it. X 60 million.

 

[Goat]

Just looking after Mrs R by making sure I dont get it. I truly get that many dont have that "luxury" of being able to ignore the world and stay at home, shopping/meds notwithstanding, but the premise is the same.

I dont get it. She wont get it. X 60 million.

Sadly you have been selected as a sacrifice worth making so people can go the pub.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I mean, only a few types of places are currently shut. Restrictions are rather light compared to April don't you think.

We are in the middle of a 4 week circuit break. It's not as bad as April at all, but there is still an awful lot of things closed.

We can't compare everything back to April really either. In April it was the right thing to do, and probably the only option we had. It's continuing to put restrictions in place 7 months later that is the problem. We should have other solutions by now.

 

[Nymzee]

We are in the middle of a 4 week circuit break. It's not as bad as April at all, but there is still an awful lot of things closed.

We can't compare everything back to April really either. In April it was the right thing to do, and probably the only option we had. It's continuing to put restrictions in place 7 months later that is the problem. We should have other solutions by now.

I'm in England, not talking about Ireland.

 

[roydo]

Sadly you have been selected as a sacrifice worth making so people can go the pub.

Oh I was fully dialled into a personal 12 month lock down from last Feb mate. Otherwise she would most likely still be in hospital/social care. Which sounds a bit dramatic, but it actually isnt.

Covid has just lobbed another factor into life. NHS basically banned me from doing anything even slightly dangerous, (decorating, hard core gardening etc) to absolutely minimise the risk to me being unable to look after her, so wearing a mask, SD, etc, is fine by me. If folk want a pint, go for it. But be sensible.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I'm in England, not talking about Ireland.

I've lost track of what's happening in England, it's far too complicated. I know Liverpool is in tier 3, but other than that I'm lost. And I don't even know the difference between tier 2 and 3.

 

[Kenshin]

We are shutting hardly anything down.

Where there are localised spikes, (which are worryingly spreading), more restrictions are introduced to slow down wider infections.

Cos more infections amongst your fit and healthy mob, WILL transmit to the more vulnerable.

So why not protect them above all else?

This is what I don't get that people are so against me suggesting, protect those proven now to be at risk?

Instead of paying for a pub to be shut, pay for those who have to stay at home to be able to do so and protect them. Instead of trying to shut different places , put measures in place that protect those in care homes and allow elderly to be able to get food for ex some without having to go out.

Instead we have thousands of job losses each and every time we shut places down. We have people struggling for rent / food if their job suddenly doesn't exist for a while.

I just don't get why protecting the ones proven to be at risk should come at a cost of [Poor language removed] everyone else. Because this isn't wear a mask sort of thinking , this is not caring people are out of work and struggling to get by. They seem to be an afterthought.

Thankfully I'm in a job that is deemed essential in all of this. But there are those who are on their arse each and every time we shut down, including my mum. Anyone who is financially sound in all of this play it off to 'protect the vunerable'. When I'm having to send money to my own mum so she can have the leccy on or make sure she has food to eat because she is on less than full time furlough money.

So why do people like my mum not matter In the bigger picture ? Statistically is has very little chance of dying from covid, same as everyone else she works with. So why , given the information we do have are people fine to struggle to get by?

I chat so much wham yet I see it personally happen. That is one place , nearly all the staff if they live alone would be struggling financially . And their hours got cut when they returned , so even when opened they were struggling.

So why don't they matter?

 

[Jebus_lives]

I'm fit & healthy and have asthma too.

The Liverpool team are high risk.

 

[roydo]

So why not protect them above all else?

This is what I don't get that people are so against me suggesting, protect those proven now to be at risk?

Instead of paying for a pub to be shut, pay for those who have to stay at home to be able to do so and protect them.

You seem to think that "The vulnerable" are a small number of unfortunates.

Its probably 25% of the population, maybe more. The first lock down was to preserve the NHS. Now, we need to live with this thing, minimise infections, and if that means closing a few places for a week or two, so be it. Just be sensible.

And FWIW, I am being paid to look after a (proper) vulnerable person at home. Since mid Feb. My first payment hit my bank account on Tuesday.

 

[Nymzee]

I've lost track of what's happening in England, it's far too complicated. I know Liverpool is in tier 3, but other than that I'm lost. And I don't even know the difference between tier 2 and 3.

Well basically - nothing is shut except pubs and casinos really.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Well basically - nothing is shut except pubs and casinos really.

Well I'm only occasionally in one and never in the other

I just want 5 a side back lol

 

[roydo]

Well basically - nothing is shut except pubs and casinos really.

Unless said pub sells substantial meals? Or has that changed.

Oh, and bookies as well isnt it?