Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueToff]

The Tier 3 areas - as crap as it is - it does work.

This useless government have to start rolling out mass, rapid testing in those areas as seen in Liverpool. That's the next step. Not another national lockdown for no reason.

 

[Toast]

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I’m sure it’s been posted, but if not, it’s a very good video.

 

[Barnfred 55]

sometime between June and September for me lol

Have they cleared any vaccines over there yet?

 

[Billy Dean]

Have they cleared any vaccines over there yet?

Not yet. I think they're scheduled to clear it on Monday. Then they start vaccinating on the 27th.

 

[Nymzee]

Just close them and lock everything down.

Or let everyone go about their daily routines with guidelines in place instead of rules.

This 'inbetween' approach from the government is doing nothing.

I don't see how the bold works personally. Infection rates and deaths still rising in places even with rules.

 

[COYBL25]

Email off kids school just now about staggered starts and learning from home next term along with a testing policy.
The info given to the Head teacher yesterday.
They finished school half an hour ago.
Absolute shambles yet again.

Just had the same email, they were officially informed at 6.30pm when the school was closed

The head pulls no punches in his email either.

 

[Tubey]

I don't see how the bold works personally. Infection rates and deaths still rising in places even with rules.

Me neither, but that's my point - if the rules are not working, why tank the economy pretending it does?

Lockdown or don't IMO.

 

[Tubey]

The Tier 3 areas - as crap as it is - it does work.

This useless government have to start rolling out mass, rapid testing in those areas as seen in Liverpool. That's the next step. Not another national lockdown for no reason.

I really doubt it does. The Liverpool "success" was with everyone ignoring everything. I live here, I saw it.

What we're seeing is natural waves of the virus ebbing and flowing IMO.

 

[Nymzee]

I really doubt it does. The Liverpool "success" was with everyone ignoring everything. I live here, I saw it.

What we're seeing is natural waves of the virus ebbing and flowing IMO.

Well I mean it does work to a degree. You can still get people ignoring things but you can't break into restaurants and pubs etc. at weekends where spreading occurs.

 

[Tubey]

Well I mean it does work to a degree. You can still get people ignoring things but you can't break into restaurants and pubs etc. at weekends where spreading occurs.

People just went each others houses and drank instead, which is arguably worse.

 

[COYBL25]

The Tier 3 areas - as crap as it is - it does work.

This useless government have to start rolling out mass, rapid testing in those areas as seen in Liverpool. That's the next step. Not another national lockdown for no reason.

There appears to be no way out of it for the majority of the country though for the foreseeable, so as @Tubey says surely it’s better to lockdown properly again and just get it over and done with, rather than the utter pointlessness of the half baked tier system.

Which is slowly but surely heading to an inevitable lockdown again anyway.

 

[COYBL25]

People just went each others houses and drank instead, which is arguably worse.

Which is exactly what happened and still happening in Scotland, hence why even “ Gold Standard Krankie “ can’t things under control there.

 

[whiteshadow]

According to the woman on the door in my local Asda they’re not even allowed to challenge those not wearing masks, so good luck with that idea. I went in the other day for a few items (max 5 minutes), counted 7 adults without masks and none of them wearing exemption lanyards. It’s happening more and more imo.

Many of the people with exemption lanyards are fakes. They don't need to supply any medical evidence in order to get them.

 

[BlueToff]

I really doubt it does. The Liverpool "success" was with everyone ignoring everything. I live here, I saw it.

What we're seeing is natural waves of the virus ebbing and flowing IMO.

Well like many on here said - some got shouted down for - it's clear it moves in waves. It moved south to north in March, and then in October it moved north to south.

But in Yorkshire, the cases have halved in the last two weeks it has been in T3.

 

[BlueToff]

There appears to be no way out of it for the majority of the country though for the foreseeable, so as @Tubey says surely it’s better to lockdown properly again and just get it over and done with, rather than the utter pointlessness of the half baked tier system.

Which is slowly but surely heading to an inevitable lockdown again anyway.

We said similar in October/September didn't we. Might as well do it early and get it done.

It's just all a load of tosh, though.

Apparently the flu numbers just happen to be completely down this year compared to last December... wonder why that is