Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[summerisle]

 

[bullybeef]

This Xmas lockdown is gonna go down very badly....

What... more badly than the grief and loss that will be experienced when thousands of people get wiped out in the New Year?

 

[neil999]

What... more badly than the grief and loss that will be experienced when thousands of people get wiped out in the New Year?

What are you talking about, I mean it will be received badly by people who have made plans and in the right wing press

 

[Brennan]

The Ketchup is out of the bottle, he’s no chance with this route now.

Should never have agreed to a Christmas loosening to begin with.

 

[RAFUH]

That seems odd. Not sure where you got the figures from, but in a normal year, they offer a vax to sommet like the over 68s, or some random age group. This year its everyone over 50, plus some school ages.

That’s all that get a flu shot?

In the US it is everyone 6 months and up

 

[Brennan]

It's the transparent naked BS of the "new strain" thing that gets me.

Must have an excuse for the spread in precious London.

Tossers.

Doesn’t seem like BS at this point. All four nations are concerned about it.

 

[peteblue]

Just checked our area again on the Government website. Bearing in mind we are about 35 square miles in size, we have 0-2 infections, a N/A rate out of 100,000, and a colour of white meaning Covid suppressed. Still in Tier 3 obviously.....

 

[peteblue]

I’m having the vaccine tomorrow.

 

[roydo]

That’s all that get a flu shot?

In the US it is everyone 6 months and up

Yep. They lowered the ages to 50 plus cos of Covid for this year. Never knew about the school kids, but think thats a one off as well. Dont recall my lads ever having one.

 

[BlueDraka]

You say 80000 dead like it’s nothing - they would have been the people that fought in the wars, that survived the Blitz, who sacrificed so much for the country. Also remember that in that same decade the same government was letting kids die in their school in Wales, had seen nothing wrong with thalidomide and would trash the railways and wrecked the economy anyway.

No where did I say 80000 deaths was nothing! Approx 40000 each year die from flu. My argument was there is no lockdown every year due to the amount of flu deaths. Every death is a tragedy but life must go on. There is nothing wrong with people saying we have approached this situation in th wrong manner. This is my thinking now. But I understand the counter argument and people are entitled to their own opinions without getting shouted down.
The financial cost of these lockdownsis horrendous. I was fully behind the first lockdown but for me we cannot afford to go into continuous lockdown. Hopefully we can get clearance for this Oxford vaccine so we can all get out off this situation

 

[BlueDraka]

My parents been told to get their first CV jab on Tuesday. Means they are being organised by local GP surgeries. Some hope, at last.

They are being done by GP surgeries but it is going slow due to the computer program for taking details of people hascrsshed so it is being done by pen and paper now.

 

[BlueDraka]

Press conference announced for later on.

Can't stand watching that idiot talk. How he ever bluffed his way to the top job in the country I will never know!

 

[Moomin]

No where did I say 80000 deaths was nothing! Approx 40000 each year die from flu. My argument was there is no lockdown every year due to the amount of flu deaths. Every death is a tragedy but life must go on. There is nothing wrong with people saying we have approached this situation in th wrong manner. This is my thinking now. But I understand the counter argument and people are entitled to their own opinions without getting shouted down.
The financial cost of these lockdownsis horrendous. I was fully behind the first lockdown but for me we cannot afford to go into continuous lockdown. Hopefully we can get clearance for this Oxford vaccine so we can all get out off this situation

The average for Flu is 15000 per year.

 

[Tubey]

I don't kni

Doesn’t seem like BS at this point. All four nations are concerned about it.

It still is. Its mutated numerous times before now - for some reason, and while I don't want to buy into conspiracies, there seems to be massive political will to lockdown and destroy the economy.

Whether its to retune the economy ahead of Brexit away from hospitality, or simply to hide the negative effects of Brexit behind COVID, or just plain incompetence, I don't know, but their actions are nonsensical to me.

 

[Wizard]

I don't kni


It still is. Its mutated numerous times before now - for some reason, and while I don't want to buy into conspiracies, there seems to be massive political will to lockdown and destroy the economy.

Whether its to retune the economy ahead of Brexit away from hospitality, or simply to hide the negative effects of Brexit behind COVID, or just plain incompetence, I don't know, but their actions are nonsensical to me.

...I'm going to dive head first into one anyway!!

Weird that Germany, France, Greece, Mexico etc etc are also trying to tank their economies in preparation for Brexit