Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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BlueToff said:
It's also the middle of winter. You know, when it's easier for viruses to spread and people's immune systems are generally weaker...

If you're in a Tier 3/4 area, you can't 'go out' anyway. You can go on walks, to the supermarkets/shops and to the gym (and with how strict they are on rules there's no evidence that they're hotspots for it), that's about it.

It was always going to get worse at this time of year.

Also, it looks like it's mainly London and the south east where the hospitals are filling up - the ICU ward at Sheffield Northern isn't full, and neither is Leeds (as of yesterday, they had 12 covid patients).

Hopefully it stays that way, but the risk of all of this would have been minimised/lowered had London and the SE been placed into stricter lockdown at the start of this month.
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If you’re in Tier 3 what you do is apparently get in a cab and travel to your nearest major city that’s in a lower tier.
 
nsno-chris said:
If you’re in Tier 3 what you do is apparently get in a cab and travel to your nearest major city that’s in a lower tier.
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Probably the best way to combat that is to allow things like restaurants and cafes, which are under strict regulations and can easily put social distancing measures in place, to open everywhere.

Can keep bars and pubs shut, but then at least there is some form of something for people to be able to do that is safe because it can be controlled easily.

You then stop people travelling on mass. You keep people in their local areas, and there's no evidence that someone going to have a coffee (when the only time they can't have a mask on is when they're sat down) is going to massively increase the spread. Just do it like it was before the Tier system - if you walk in, you have a mask on, everything is sanitised etc, you have to pre-book. It's not hard.

Or, you shut everything everywhere (which is what will happen) and just leave everyone on their arses.
 
BlueToff said:
Probably the best way to do that is to allow things like restaurants and cafes, which are under strict regulations and can easily put social distancing measures in place, to open everywhere.

Can keep bars and pubs shut, but then at least there is some form of something for people to be able to do that is safe because it can be controlled easily.

Or, you shut everything everywhere (which is what will happen) and just leave everyone on their arses.
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Oh they came to Liverpool shopping, from greater Manchester area, for shopping. Council went mad and now the fallout is a massive, spike in cases which will probably see Liverpool city region go into tighter lockdown
 
nsno-chris said:
Oh they came to Liverpool shopping, from greater Manchester area, for shopping. Council went mad and now the fallout is a massive, spike in cases which will probably see Liverpool city region go into tighter lockdown
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Thing is, the Trafford Centre is open, everywhere in T3 there's non-essential shops open - so why were they travelling?

I haven't been to a shop in the last few months - or anywhere to eat or for a coffee (other than dropping for a takeout on a walk). What's the point. Never been to the Trafford Centre anyway, not gonna break that duck in the middle of a pandemic during January sales.
 
BlueToff said:
Thing is, the Trafford Centre is open, everywhere in T3 there's non-essential shops open - so why were they travelling?

I haven't been to a shop in the last few months - or anywhere to eat or for a coffee (other than dropping for a takeout on a walk). What's the point. Never been to the Trafford Centre anyway, not gonna break that duck in the middle of a pandemic during January sales.
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Exactly, why were they travelling?? They did, that’s all that matters, to the point that the motorway police were actually involved and the council deployed almost their entire licensing enforcement team on cabs that had dropped off and then trying to operate.

But it’s Christmas, and rules don’t matter
 
I tested positive for it today. I'm not quite sure where or how I've caught the virus. I've been working from home since March and have kept contacts to within the household bubble only and tried to be as sensible as possible with it all really. I'd been going for a weekly lateral flow test, so it was picked up via that, I wasn't expecting to test positive. I then had to do a 4 mile round trip on foot for a second test at Walton Hall park which also confirmed it. I had a phlemy cough early last week, so doubted it was corona - but here we are. Symptoms now have developed into loss of taste and smell.
 
Sweeneytoad said:
I tested positive for it today. I'm not quite sure where or how I've caught the virus. I've been working from home since March and have kept contacts to within the household bubble only and tried to be as sensible as possible with it all really. I'd been going for a weekly lateral flow test, so it was picked up via that, I wasn't expecting to test positive. I then had to do a 4 mile round trip on foot for a second test at Walton Hall park which also confirmed it. I had a phlemy cough early last week, so doubted it was corona - but here we are. Symptoms now have developed into loss of taste and smell.
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stay safe bud, a member of my team developed the loss of taste thing, she said it was horrific. Hopefully it’s just mild for you
 
Sweeneytoad said:
I tested positive for it today. I'm not quite sure where or how I've caught the virus. I've been working from home since March and have kept contacts to within the household bubble only and tried to be as sensible as possible with it all really. I'd been going for a weekly lateral flow test, so it was picked up via that, I wasn't expecting to test positive. I then had to do a 4 mile round trip on foot for a second test at Walton Hall park which also confirmed it. I had a phlemy cough early last week, so doubted it was corona - but here we are. Symptoms now have developed into loss of taste and smell.
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Hope you have a swift recovery x
 
Sweeneytoad said:
I tested positive for it today. I'm not quite sure where or how I've caught the virus. I've been working from home since March and have kept contacts to within the household bubble only and tried to be as sensible as possible with it all really. I'd been going for a weekly lateral flow test, so it was picked up via that, I wasn't expecting to test positive. I then had to do a 4 mile round trip on foot for a second test at Walton Hall park which also confirmed it. I had a phlemy cough early last week, so doubted it was corona - but here we are. Symptoms now have developed into loss of taste and smell.
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hope you get well asap mate
 
Sweeneytoad said:
I tested positive for it today. I'm not quite sure where or how I've caught the virus. I've been working from home since March and have kept contacts to within the household bubble only and tried to be as sensible as possible with it all really. I'd been going for a weekly lateral flow test, so it was picked up via that, I wasn't expecting to test positive. I then had to do a 4 mile round trip on foot for a second test at Walton Hall park which also confirmed it. I had a phlemy cough early last week, so doubted it was corona - but here we are. Symptoms now have developed into loss of taste and smell.
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Get well soon fella - fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.

Mad (and quite scary!) how you've contracted the thing with how careful and safe it seems you have been.
 
Deckard2049 said:
Right now the known known is that lockdowns will reduce the spread of the virus. This will help our health service greatly and it will save lives.

The unknown known is how much damage the measures we take will do in the future. I don’t think it’s crazy however to say that people will die because of these measures through a variety of reasons. Some people already have.

Whole thing is just really depressing tbh.
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So true. Unfortunately. Some take these horrible lockdowns as if they are 'netflix and chill" period, I say 'get a life'...
 
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