Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Interesting thread

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Tubey]

I know the reason why by the way. It's people being tested before Christmas and New Year so they can break the rules and mix with family with a bit of extra peace of mind.

It's not because we're model, dutiful citizens.

 

[Brennan]

Yes, based on the evidence of the first wave.

On the basis of this exchange, you'd say to someone who talked up a football team in the first half of the season when they were playing very well that they were wrong about that because that team didn't go on to win the title. Rather than just accept that the Czechs were doing well in the first wave and then didn't sustain it, you chase me around this forum looking in the bowels of the vaults for incriminating evidence.

You're ridiculous.

You can’t stand being vaulted on this issue because you look a right tit, just like when you declared Covid was a conspiracy. This thread has been a disaster for you from day one.

As for me “chasing you”, you randomly tagged me in a thread about Boris Johnson’s first name the other day which I hadn’t posted in for over a year.

Pot Kettle.

 

[Bungle]

Starting a COVID fantasy league. DM @Bungle for an entry form.

Had a few forms back where under the 'efficacy' question they've put 'White British'

I'm going to ignore those people.

 

[Tommy.]

I know the reason why by the way. It's people being tested before Christmas and New Year so they can break the rules and mix with family with a bit of extra peace of mind.

It's not because we're model, dutiful citizens.

If your supposition is true, at least it shows a modicum of compassion/decency.
I'll wager the vast majority never bothered their arses like.

 

[Tubey]

If your supposition is true, at least it shows a modicum of compassion/decency.
I'll wager the vast majority never bothered their arses like.

Oh yeah I'm not blaming them for doing that at all.

Mainly because I was one of those that did it.

 

[Billy Dean]

Christ alive, what’s happened there?!

This sums it up quite well. Basically a mixture of bad management by the regional governments and public non-compliance

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-virus-lockdown-cases/2020/12/04/c1df070a-34bd-11eb-9699-00d311f13d2d_story.html

 

[LinekersLegs]

If your supposition is true, at least it shows a modicum of compassion/decency.
I'll wager the vast majority never bothered their arses like.

It would also still have hopefully stopped most of them going ahead with their plans when they tested positive - overall still a win for public health.

 

[Tommy.]

It would also still have hopefully stopped most of them going ahead with their plans when they tested positive - overall still a win for public health.

Exactly mate, I'll be honest, I've quarantined for exactly 11 days of this thing so I'm not going to pretend that I know the pressures that a lot of people are under. However, what I've seen since I've been back is a total lack of care and compassion to those who are at risk and making the effort! I flew back into Heathrow the other week, tubed it and rail to home, absolutely rammed and masks were few and far between, I must have seen hundreds without. You see some of the best and a lot of the worst of humanity in times like this.

 

[Tubey]

It would also still have hopefully stopped most of them going ahead with their plans when they tested positive - overall still a win for public health.

To be blunt, if they'd have treated the population like adults and asked them to do it before Christmas, it'd have stopped most of any spike resulting from mixing IMO.

 

[BlueToff]

Hahahahahha he's finally cracked.

Jesus wept. @tsubaki you seen this?

 

[BlueToff]

Imagine thinking China have actually had 4,000 deaths

 

[LinekersLegs]

I know the reason why by the way. It's people being tested before Christmas and New Year so they can break the rules and mix with family with a bit of extra peace of mind.

It's not because we're model, dutiful citizens.

Was listening the other day to someone who had worked a lot with HIV patients and what messaging worked to stop the spread.

Public shaming or even rules were not that effective - just drove things underground and people were fearful when they did get diagnosed. Far more effective was to give people clear data on risks and the best way to reduce the risks for them and their partners and made it easy to access those ways to reduce risk.

She was saying there are some parallels now - no matter how much you say don’t meet with your family inside there are going to be some people who do go ahead - either because they don’t think the risk is great or because they think the upside outweighs it. At least the rapid tests mean that some of the spread is stopped and it is another chance to try and say encourage mask use.