Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tramps_mate]

Listening to talk radio on Thursday, there was a guy who was saying that 1/4 of new cases come from care homes and also 1/4 of new cases are people catching it in hospitals.

Why on earth are we not doing something about this? It would half new infections if correct. But then again hospitals show a lack of capability in stopping viruses or infections as proven by MRSA..

 

[grandjoeblue]

I don't get it.. it's a pathetic rate. Turn all the testing centres in to vaccination centres. Sorted.

Its the quantity of vaccines available thats the issue rather than the staff I think. Loads of GPs still haven't even had any.

Its very very worrying how slow its going. 2m a week seems so far away.

 

[Woolverhampton_Blue]

Its Ok. I think I have worked out he is dealing drugs? Absolute scum bag if that is true. In the middle of an epidemic. Moronic does not begin to describe it if true.

He probably doesn’t qualify for government aid of any type so it’s perfectly understandable really.

 

[davmaher]

Listening to talk radio on Thursday, there was a guy who was saying that 1/4 of new cases come from care homes and also 1/4 of new cases are people catching it in hospitals.

Why on earth are we not doing something about this? It would half new infections if correct. But then again hospitals show a lack of capability in stopping viruses or infections as proven by MRSA..

I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but hospitals and care homes are at the top of the priority list for vaccination. You can only hope the government get their act together for once and actually start to achieve the 2 million vaccinations a week they say they will.

 

[Methuselah]

Can I ask. Are you contacted by your gp surgery or is it from a national place. Just that we block numbers we don't know

It was from our GP surgery.

 

[Methuselah]

My Aunt is 83 and she’s already had her first jab this week.

I know quite a few people who had the first jab three weeks before Christmas.

 

[summerisle]

I know quite a few people who had the first jab three weeks before Christmas.

Both my parents had their second inoculation today.

 

[PhilM]

I know quite a few people who had the first jab three weeks before Christmas.

Both my parents had their second inoculation today.

Exactly. So a ninety-nine year old and a ninety-four year old weren't at the front of the line.

 

[Brennan]

Listening to talk radio on Thursday, there was a guy who was saying that 1/4 of new cases come from care homes and also 1/4 of new cases are people catching it in hospitals.

Why on earth are we not doing something about this? It would half new infections if correct. But then again hospitals show a lack of capability in stopping viruses or infections as proven by MRSA..

There’s your problem.

 

[grandjoeblue]

There’s your problem.

Since the start hospitals and care homes have had huge case transmission. Its difficult to stop it but its a fact. Talkradio has some right wingers on there but its still a fact.

 

[PhilM]

Since the start hospitals and care homes have had huge case transmission. Its difficult to stop it but its a fact. Talkradio has some right wingers on there but its still a fact.

For a long-time, this was potentially the greatest individual source.

 

[Brennan]

Since the start hospitals and care homes have had huge case transmission. Its difficult to stop it but its a fact. Talkradio has some right wingers on there but its still a fact.

Talk Radio’s issue is not having “some right wingers”.

They’re a disgrace and have been pushing anti lockdown propaganda for months.

 

[ClausThomsen]

I was honestly stunned.

The God damn florists and the blinds shop was open for Gods sake.

Apparently, and I've not seen it myself so can't confirm, but one florist in Prescot stuck a crate of fruit on the front and bought a load of dry noodles from the wholesaler. Now an essential retailer.

 

[Amw79]

This goes a long way to explain why we are where we are. The promoting of rent-a-gobs with an opinion they come up with, for money, to a deadline, as if they had any value more than a bloke in the pub telling you what he thinks.



These are the voices that get amplified in the ‘mainstream’ media due to their social media presence, and when they’re proven wrong, they simply move on to the next ‘hot button’ issue, rinse and repeat.

For all the grief that experts and scientists have got over the last year, and no doubt they’ve got stuff wrong, it’s better to be wrong for the right reason (I.e. followed a scientific method, then new data becomes available) than be wrong for the wrong reason. But we, as a society, want to hear the strong opinion from the woefully uninformed.

 

[peteblue]

It was from our GP surgery.

Glad to hear that. I was worried that this government would cock it all up, but I think that like the flu jab my GP will get it sorted....