Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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davek said:
But theirs shot up in summer in lockdown and have just subsided, and lockdown restrictions are being loosened from today. November is start of summer there.

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I reckon some country's "benefit" from their geography and basically, size/population density. As such, transmission like we have seen all too often in the UK, from region to region, just doesnt happen.

I flew from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, and its like a 4 hour flight, with not a lot in between. So the outbreaks become localised, and stay where they started. Like if there was an outbreak in the shanty town outside of JoBerg, its reasonable to conclude that it wont spread to say Port Elizabeth.
 
tsubaki said:
Not having a go at you here, and I can see his point but people like him need to understand that there isn't the amount of capacity within the NHS to do anything but manage this. When this is all over, what NHS staff have had to do because of the shortage of space and resources should be acknowledged and those to blame for that (over a couple of decades) held to account.
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Tbh I saw it more of a critique by him of the government that allowed for the virus to get so out of control that all the NHS had the capacity to do was firefight COVID than anything against the NHS itself.
 
roydo said:
I reckon some country's "benefit" from their geography and basically, size/population density. As such, transmission like we have seen all too often in the UK, from region to region, just doesnt happen.

I flew from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, and its like a 4 hour flight, with not a lot in between. So the outbreaks become localised, and stay where they started. Like if there was an outbreak in the shanty town outside of JoBerg, its reasonable to conclude that it wont spread to say Port Elizabeth.
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This is an interesting topic (pop density). But how does that explain an equally urban and evem more densely populated nation as Japan having (in comparison to here) minimal cases and deaths?
 
davek said:
This is an interesting topic (pop density). But how does that explain an equally urban and evem more densely populated nation as Japan having (in comparison to here) minimal cases and deaths?
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Sadly, they, and plenty of other nations in that part of the world are used to them.

They also dont believe a word that comes out of China. At the merest hint that sommet is afoot there, lock down. They dont wait for confirmation/WHO.

Not one person in our region of the world has ever had a lock down, nor worn a mask while shopping in their life as a contrast.
 
davek said:
The reason we're seeing its use here is because of its ready availablity. It's a viable vaccine for younger groups it seems, but older groups not so much. The various EU nations are correct in following the data.
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Tbf Dave it is an absence of complete data that is the issue, not the current data itself.

I may have missed it but still haven’t seen anything based on the existing incomplete trials that raised a red flag that when all the data is in that the AZ vaccine won’t eventually be expanded to over 65s even for those countries that aren’t recommending it now.
 
The xenophobia around at the moment is wild. Just blaming whole countries for finding a strain of the virus.

It's getting to the point where the countries won't bother looking into the strains.
 
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