Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[4737carlin]

The tier movement thing, how often does it get reviewed, once a month?

 

[Ivo]

The tier movement thing, how often does it get reviewed, once a month?

Whenever the govt feel like it.

 

[Wizard]

The tier movement thing, how often does it get reviewed, once a month?

They have to review every 2 weeks at a minimum. Obviously as we've seen things can be shifted in less time than that if the situation requires it. Next scheduled review will be January 13th.

 

[bullybeef]

Worrying reports now surfacing that more and more children are being admitted to hospital with this new strain of Covid.

 

[Goat]

Worrying reports now surfacing that more and more children are being admitted to hospital with this new strain of Covid.

If true I think its time to go full China.

 

[Goat]

But thankfully it appears as tho Bully is blagging.

 

[Deckard2049]

But thankfully it appears as tho Bully is blagging.

 

[Tubey]

If London are shutting primary schools, so should the rest of the country.

The reason they aren't doing isn't evidence led; it's political.

 

[Goat]

I looked at the headlines and they were about Ant and Dec.

 

[Tubey]

I know it seems counter-intuitive, but those closest to it are prone to exaggeration about severity.

I remember an Echo article in November going on about "wards of patients in their 30s dying" - it was a total fabrication, not borne out by factual statistics.

It's a common phenomenon on battlefields/natural disasters - "thousands dead" when in reality it's no more than a hundred etc.

EDIT: Found article, my mistake, I exaggerated it in my mind from recollection - it was going on about healthy middle-aged people dying, not in their 30s.

I watched as a huge team of staff worked tirelessly to 'prone' or turn a middle-aged, otherwise healthy man onto his front in a desperate attempt to keep him alive.

Which yeah, would have happened, but that was what the journalist decided to focus the article on to scaremonger; a relatively rare occurrence. We know from stats that the common victim in this is 80+.

 

[bullybeef]

Hopeful thinking there @Tubey

I think the way this has gone in the past week or so tells us that this second wave is not to be messed with.

 

[4737carlin]

It's crazy the amount of kids without masks on in groups, of course they are spreading it.

My local asda wont allow kids kn school uniform in with a mask, more shops need to.do the same

 

[Tubey]

Hopeful thinking there @Tubey

I think the way this has gone in the past week or so tells us that this second wave is not to be messed with.

It's not killing kids though. The statistics aren't bearing that out.

This has been in circulation since September and there's been no statistical increase in mortality to children, or any deviation from the normal mortality rate by age.

 

[PhilM]

If London are shutting primary schools, so should the rest of the country.

The reason they aren't doing isn't evidence led; it's political.

My wife suggests that there’ll be a move to all primary schools in Tier 4 being closed by midday Sunday; with pressure, they’ll capitulate.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 499 deaths were announced today, 144 down on yesterday and 44 up on last Friday. 420 deaths were in English hospitals, down 109 on yesterday and up 19 on last week. The 7 day rolling average rises to 419.71

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 613 deaths were announced today, down 351 on yesterday and is the exact same figure as last Friday. The 7 day rolling average remains the same at 553.71

For the 60 day cut off, 698 deaths were announced today, down 388 on yesterday and up 30 on last Friday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 621.86