Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[maccavennie]

Rather than trying to shut more things why don't the government try to make people stay home when they get a positive test? Only about 45% of people actually stay at home for the required period. I'd imagine thats more of an issue than pet shops.

This Joe is very much a very very very big reason why the whole system falls apart.

You need each person to isolate if you have symptoms, tell those they've been in contact to do the same, bunker in and hope not to share it.

 

[Charro]

In bulk here.

Great responses to a call that states the bleedin' obvious: that this pandemic is biting hard and we need a tighter lockdown (something most scientists would endorse).

The country is the site of a major heath disaster, but carry on with your "comical" quips - they're really impressive.

You are seriously unwell mate.

 

[grandjoeblue]

This Joe is very much a very very very big reason why the whole system falls apart.

You need each person to isolate if you have symptoms, tell those they've been in contact to do the same, bunker in and hope not to share it.

Exactly, being a world leader in testing means absolutely nothing if you don't ensure that the people who are positive isolate.

Apparently you're lucky if you even get a phone call over the 2 week or so period following a positive test.

 

[maccavennie]

Exactly, being a world leader in testing means absolutely nothing if you don't ensure that the people who are positive isolate.

Apparently you're lucky if you even get a phone call over the 2 week or so period following a positive test.

Yeah the track and trace I got left a lot to be desired tbh Joe. They said I'd be called quite a bit to check on my family and ensure we were isolating. Got one call if I remember correctly and then another 3 days after my date had already ended where I told them I was continuing to isolate.

The dates are bit vague in my mind but it was something like that anyway

 

[davek]

You are seriously unwell mate.

I'm concerned about people dying, you make light of it, and I'M unwell?

Take a look in the mirror.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Yeah the track and trace I got left a lot to be desired tbh Joe. They said I'd be called quite a bit to check on my family and ensure we were isolating. Got one call if I remember correctly and then another 3 days after my date had already ended where I told them I was continuing to isolate.

The dates are bit vague in my mind but it was something like that anyway

In Singapore they give positive people tracking devices to make sure they stay indoors and they actually visit their home address regularly to check they are in. Huge fines if you don't comply.

That wouldn't work here with the cases being so high but when the cases were low in the summer they could have implemented something similar.

 

[COYBL25]

In bulk here.

Great responses to a call that states the bleedin' obvious: that this pandemic is biting hard and we need a tighter lockdown (something most scientists would endorse).

The country is the site of a major heath disaster, but carry on with your "comical" quips - they're really impressive.

So, first of all you laid the blame on pubs, restaurants, gyms, hairdressers / beauty salons. The places that you hate the most.

Once they shut, you moved onto, schools, colleges and universities.

Now that they’re all shut, you’ve moved onto, takeaways, construction sites, supermarkets, public transport and bizarrely even by your standards, pet shops and the likes of B&Q.

I’m struggling to think of anything other than hospitals that you don’t want to shut down.

May I suggest that once travel restrictions are lifted, that you enquire about emigrating to North Korea, as I believe you’ll find it very much to your liking. I’m sure you’d be received with open arms.

 

[BlueStevie35]

I'm concerned about people dying, you make light of it, and I'M unwell?

Take a look in the mirror.

Thing is Dave, everyone is worried about people dying, but the majority don’t want the country to be locked in like hermits, struggling to pay bills because they are barred from earning an honest living until the entire country is vaccinated which won’t be possible till September once they go through the tier blocks

 

[maccavennie]

In Singapore they give positive people tracking devices to make sure they stay indoors and they actually visit their home address regularly to check they are in. Huge fines if you don't comply.

That wouldn't work here with the cases being so high but when the cases were low in the summer they could have implemented something similar.

I've always liked to think that we can take this into our own hands and be responsible mate. But I even had a family member over the summer saying they didn't think they need to isolate when it was blatantly obvious they did.

The government have made a right mess of this Joe but I wont go pretending that we have played our part with selfish choices and stupid decisions, choices we could have avoided. Short term pain for long term gain.

It's too late for that now unfortunately for a lot of people have always lost their lives. But it still isn't too late to make a positive difference now and get ourselves to the spring where it is a little more manageable compared to the winter months.

 

[davek]

So, first of all you laid the blame on pubs, restaurants, gyms, hairdressers / beauty salons. The places that you hate the most.

Once they shut, you moved onto, schools, colleges and universities.

Now that they’re all shut, you’ve moved onto, takeaways, construction sites, supermarkets, public transport and bizarrely even by your standards, pet shops and the likes of B&Q.

I’m struggling to think of anything other than hospitals that you don’t want to shut down.

May I suggest that once travel restrictions are lifted, that you enquire about emigrating to North Korea, as I believe you’ll find it very much to your liking. I’m sure you’d be received with open arms.

Any place transmitting that virus to the public in volume. yes.

Mad isn't it?

 

[davek]

Thing is Dave, everyone is worried about people dying, but the majority don’t want the country to be locked in like hermits, struggling to pay bills because they are barred from earning an honest living until the entire country is vaccinated which won’t be possible till September once they go through the tier blocks

They're political decisions. Blame the politicians.

The overwhelming need is for health decions to take precedence, because of it isn't pretty soon hopsitals will be treating patients in car parks and other people will be left in their homes to die.

 

[Billy Dean]

 

[maccavennie]

Just the flu!

 

[Billy Dean]

Just the flu!

There was a health expert on TV saying in the Far East they’ve been a lot more careful because they see COVID as SARS. Whilst in the west it’s viewed as a flu.

 

[maccavennie]

There was a health expert on TV saying in the Far East they’ve been a lot more careful because they see COVID as SARS. Whilst in the west it’s viewed as a flu.

I've had the misfortune of being in hospital with it mate and on a ward with patients. The difference and variety of how it attacks the human body is absolutely off the scale. It's been the most frightening of experiences and its just the sheer difference in each person....you really wouldn't know that two people with completely different symptoms would be suffering with the same thing.

Opened my eyes up for sure mate.