davek
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...and yet they reopen gyms, leave open schools, colleges, universities and restaurants, and encourage pubs to transform into restaurants.
What great governance.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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What great governance.
Catfish Blues
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Their positivity rate is close to 15% as well, so they must be missing a hell of a lot. The UK's is poor at about 7% , so we'll be missing many cases too, but those French figures are scary.
Vatican doing well...
Bit of critical thinking here guys:
Are prayers better than masks?
The T&T seem to still be hitting fewer than 50% of positive case close contacts.
Toast
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Wales lockdown: Supermarkets told to sell only essential items
Retailers will be barred from selling items like clothes when Wales goes into a two-week lockdown.
www.bbc.co.uk
Go on then, what’s essential ?
Saying clothes isn’t essential ?
Ridiculous.
"There's no reason you can't walk barefoot to the shops for your bananas"Wales lockdown: Supermarkets told to sell only essential items
Retailers will be barred from selling items like clothes when Wales goes into a two-week lockdown.
Go on then, what’s essential ?
Saying clothes isn’t essential ?
Ridiculous.
Catfish Blues
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Ours is [Poor language removed], the French equivalent is [Poor language removed], Spain's is [Poor language removed], up to a couple of weeks ago, Italy's looked good, but is beginning to look a bit [Poor language removed]. Of the countries in Western Europe with sizable populations, the only country looking OK is Germany, and they're beginning to look a bit ordinary as well.
Once infections start to take off, it's very hard to bring it back under control just with test, trace and isolate without using very strong measures which would normally deemed illegal.
To be fair to all the above countries, the pace of change has surprised many people. The consensus was that infections would rise as older children and young adults returned to FTE and the weather got colder, forcing people indoors, so that other things would have to be squeezed to accomodate that, but R rising to ~1.5 rather than 1.1 to 1.2 seems to have been at the higher range of expectations, and many countries have been overly slow to respond.
Providing you are in your Pyjamas
This is quite an important point and one of the reasons why I have consistently urged caution in respect of the data as, as I'm sure you will be aware with your background, daily news reporting of new cases/tests/deaths when they are not truly representative of a single day's sample is deeply unhelpful to tracking the trajectory of the pandemic course.
It's still quite disconcerting to see people discussing the trajectory as a steady increase without realizing that growth is not linear, it's exponential. So often the suggestion to 'act' comes after the point that control has been lost.
I read a good article earlier about possible methods to control the spread. Worth a read: https://amp.theguardian.com/comment...=Share_iOSApp_Other&__twitter_impression=true
Birthday suit
A different type of lockdown that one.
Do you buy clothing every two weeks or something?Wales lockdown: Supermarkets told to sell only essential items
Retailers will be barred from selling items like clothes when Wales goes into a two-week lockdown.
Go on then, what’s essential ?
Saying clothes isn’t essential ?
Ridiculous.
I think they are going of the basis of the average person has a decent size amount of clothing that will last them two weeks.
Clothes are necessary in your daily life sure but an essential purchase?
Sure if anything people may spend more before the lock down begins might be a win win for stores. Panic buys. Like us Irish and buying alcohol the Thursday before good Friday.
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