Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Goat]

It's not the whole story as the report stated (I left that part out). Over and above more testing there's an underlying upward trend.

I did say it was a concern David.

Sadly my daughter has now changed her mind about taking the vaccine. It seems as tho she listens to bellends on Facebook over me.

If I had 1 wish, it would be to be left in a room with all the deniers. With a hammer and blowtorch.

 

[davek]

I did say it was a concern David.

Sadly my daughter has now changed her mind about taking the vaccine. It seems as tho she listens to bellends on Facebook over me.

If I had 1 wish, it would be to be left in a room with all the deniers. With a hammer and blowtorch.

Ha Ha Ha.

 

[Connor]

Looks it’s going to get worse again around town after a really positive few weeks of numbers going down

Wools everywhere pouring in because we’re Tier 2 and have some freedoms

 

[Cool_Blue]

Some are open.

Hardly any are open here in Conwy county, what’s the point of opening a pub and not serving alcohol? Absolute joke rules from Drakeford. Less than 80 per 100,000 here, but over 1000 in Merthyr. What a shambles.

 

[jaycee]

 

[Cool_Blue]

Germany’s lockdown strategy has failed. Germany has plunged into a crisis.

Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf says coronavirus approach 'has failed'. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said he agreed with the king's remarks.​

I’m sure I remember someone on here telling us these countries were the gold standard compared to our banana republic. What could possibly have gone wrong?

 

[Alan Whittle]

It gets better.

The Mall, the largest, and very popular out of town shopping centre near Bristol, is still in Tier 3. So anyone in most of Bristol, and every area around it, other than S Glos, have been told they shouldnt go there.

Sound.

It’s been open all the time. I went there (from a Tier 2 location) last week. Was not anything like it usually is this time of year.

 

[COYBL25]

Germany’s lockdown strategy has failed. Germany has plunged into a crisis.

Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf says coronavirus approach 'has failed'. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said he agreed with the king's remarks.​

I’m sure I remember someone on here telling us these countries were the gold standard compared to our banana republic. What could possibly have gone wrong?

SHUT EUROPE DOWN.

 

[Billy Dean]

SHUT EUROPE DOWN.

That's actually a fair shout TBH lol

 

[grandjoeblue]

The UK will be in full lockdown from around the 30th December until April.

 

[Leylo]

Hardly any are open here in Conwy county, what’s the point of opening a pub and not serving alcohol? Absolute joke rules from Drakeford. Less than 80 per 100,000 here, but over 1000 in Merthyr. What a shambles.

Just get the train to liverpool everyone else is.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 438 deaths were announced today, up 9 on yesterday and up 65 on last Thursday. 340 deaths were in English hospitals, down 29 on yesterday and up 51 on last week. The 7 day rolling average rises to 336.29

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 532 deaths were announced today, down 80 on yesterday and up 16 on last Thursday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 424.29

For the 60 day cut off, 590 deaths were announced today, down 132 on yesterday and up 13 on last Thursday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 485.14

 

[Barnfred 55]

What has the english government done thats so great that other countries should follow them?

In fairness none of them have done very well in managing this virus. If they had any sense they would just have followed Westminster and blamed them for everything. But they don't, have gone on their own and made just as bad a fist of it as England, worse In Wales' case. And yes, the different restrictions have certainly confused matters more whilst adding nothing from a positive perspective.

 

[grandjoeblue]

An article in the Mirror is discussing a study by the University of Massachusetts. The study states that if you use a mask more than once the filtration reduces massively. A reused mask often has a 30% filtration efficiency which often results in similar performance to wearing no mask at all.

There should be some more information from the government on this. You have to be wearing a mask washed in an industrial washing machine at 90 degrees or a single use mask once. When you see people in the supermarket etc it is very obvious that these people are reusing masks.

One big finding from the study: the filtration efficiency of a three layer surgical mask varies from 65% when first used, down to use 25% on reuse.

Is there any way that supermarkets can check that these masks are clean prior to allowing entry into the building?

 

[tsubaki]

In fairness none of them have done very well in managing this virus. If they had any sense they would just have followed Westminster and blamed them for everything. But they don't, have gone on their own and made just as bad a fist of it as England, worse In Wales' case. And yes, the different restrictions have certainly confused matters more whilst adding nothing from a positive perspective.

Wales hasn’t done a worse job of it than England has; no one in Europe has.