Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[summerisle]

Is he doing another press conference today? Is there any chance of additional lockdowns before christmas or is it more likely to be 27th/28th?

5.00 pm, expect :

 

[grandjoeblue]

5.00 pm, expect :

Yeh I was thinking this one will be just talking about tier 4. Usually its leaked to the media if there are additional measures.

 

[BlueDraka]

Yeh I was thinking this one will be just talking about tier 4. Usually its leaked to the media if there are additional measures.

I'm assuming, but I could be wrong it might be to do with the travel.restictions and especially the French one affecting Dover. They had a COBRA meeting about it today

 

[Bungle]

LOCK THIS COUNTRY DOWN. NOW

I'm sure if he gets word that you've gone full caps it'll make all the difference in his thought process.

 

[PhilM]

5.00 pm, expect :

By 5pm, do you mean there’ll be a delay about five minutes before hand, while Boris and his mates try to concoct a new plan over some caviar?

 

[The binman chronicles]

LOCK THIS COUNTRY DOWN. NOW

Usually I wouldn't agree but I think we've got to this stage now. Christmas is basically just with your own household, kids are at home, most people have holidays, haulers can't get out of the country, practically every country has pulled up the drawbridge to stop us travelling abroad. Shut everything for 2 and a half weeks and see what things look like after that.

The longer we wait the more pain we'll take on the other side when we will be forced to lockdown and the more people will have needlessly died. So let's get it over with while it will cause least disruption.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Thurrock in Essex has the highest weekly case rate in England, with 1,841 new cases recorded in seven days, the equivalent of 1,056 cases per 100,000 people.

 

[Bungle]

Thurrock in Essex has the highest weekly case rate in England, with 1,841 new cases recorded in seven days, the equivalent of 1,056 cases per 100,000 people.

We can do without Essex

 

[roydo]

Thurrock in Essex has the highest weekly case rate in England, with 1,841 new cases recorded in seven days, the equivalent of 1,056 cases per 100,000 people.

Unless my maths has gone wonky, thats circa 1% of the population there. Trouble is I guess, 1% of 50 million is a lot of people.

 

[Eggs]

....protecting South East economy at the expense of protecting its health looking like its backfired and will impact us all.

What a Horlicks they have made of this whole situation.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Unless my maths has gone wonky, thats circa 1% of the population there. Trouble is I guess, 1% of 50 million is a lot of people.

It is, but I think it's more the point that once you get to that many it's like a tipping point where infection rates surge.

 

[Blues Harp]

5.00 pm, expect :

"Have yourselves...a very tiny Christmas"

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[tsubaki]

....protecting South East economy at the expense of protecting its health looking like its backfired and will impact us all.

What a Horlicks they have made of this whole situation.

TBF they weren’t trying to protect the SE or any other region. They were trying to pretend that people didn’t move around the country and so tiers would work.

 

[coollino]

Wow, this is awful isn't it. What an embarrassment.

Did the Tories get so excited about getting a vaccine that they forgot about everything?