Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

Excuse me David but that's racist. Please cease naming viruses after their place of origin.

I will allow you to name it the Boris Flu, because I'll use that myself.

The Covid19 virus is now known throughout the world as the UK variant, because it's the dominant strain and it originated here because we have seen our government encourage gatherings in a period of high infection in order to make short term profits and that allowed the environment for mutations to appear.

 

[dead_soft]

No mate, they’re portraying the variations as like something from a horror film. With the only intention being sensitisation.

Who is? How exactly should they report it?

 

[dead_soft]

There is an element of the press thriving off this 'story'. As much as they have a duty to report the facts impartially for the good of society's health they also have a stake and obligation to society's mental health. There is a balance to be struck.

So what should they do differently?

 

[dead_soft]

What? Nobody is saying go out and break lockdowns. Some people are hopeful that more things become viable in the summer months but others seemingly want the current measures to continue forever.

I don't think wanting a return to normality makes you a selfish covid denying nutter..

I'm not sure the view is that people can't go on holidays if things are back to normal so I'm not sure what you're upset about

 

[davek]

If that was pointed at me I was only commenting that the previous comment reminded me of that famous Einstein quote.

That said, if you look at the lockdown and release strategy, keeping the borders open and not monitored, among other failures it has been a bit of a merry-go-round. Hopefully, the reality has finally dawned on those in power, and the new focus on better management of the borders, attempts to isolate the SA variant and the benefits of the vaccination programme will see us get a better grip on the situation.

I doubt that the lesson has sunk in yet. This government dont think like that. They see their performance in this crisis as being measured in history not in terms of lives saved, but in how the economy was able to perform.

We will see an exact repeat of last summer...and perhaps even worse given that the excuse abounds now that "The vaccines will save everyone. Just get out and eat, drink, shop, holiday, and wax your back crack and sack to help out".

 

[COYBL25]

The Covid19 virus is now known throughout the world as the UK variant, because it's the dominant strain and it originated here because we have seen our government encourage gatherings in a period of high infection in order to make short term profits and that allowed the environment for mutations to appear.

So by using that analogy, you’re fine with Trump calling it the China Virus, as that’s where it all started ?????

 

[tsubaki]

So by using that analogy, you’re fine with Trump calling it the China Virus, as that’s where it all started ?????

TBF I listened to him say that several times, and he always called it the Chiner virus

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Humans are culpable of so many bad things happening to our planet. At some point we are going have to take responsibility from our actions and try to modify our path otherwise we are doomed as species. Our relationship with our planet is unhealthy and we are going have to pay for the consequences of our exploitation.

 

[davek]

So by using that analogy, you’re fine with Trump calling it the China Virus, as that’s where it all started ?????

It was only Trump that insisted using that as a pejorative. The whole world uses 'the UK Variant' as that's how it's been described by scientists.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

It was only Trump that insisted using that as a pejorative. The whole world uses 'the UK Variant' as that's how it's been described by scientists.

Dave, just suck it up, it is a Chinese virus, from Chyna.

 

[Goat]

Lady in my wifes work sadly passed away, she was 52, no age.

 

[peteblue]

It was only Trump that insisted using that as a pejorative. The whole world uses 'the UK Variant' as that's how it's been described by scientists.

Any minute now you will be telling us that it all started in the U.K.. At that point you can receive your CCP PR medal....

 

[LinekersLegs]

Apparently its quite common in USA to wear 2 masks. Is this a thing here as I haven't noticed anyone doing that?

The CDC is now advising it to help control the B1.1.7 variant

COVID-19 and Your Health

Symptoms, testing, what to do if sick, daily activities, and more.

www.cdc.gov

 

[LinekersLegs]

US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies

The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries

www.theguardian.com

The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancetcommission tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record.

Almost 470,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus so far, with the number widely expected to go above half a million in the next few weeks. At the same time some 27 million people in the US have been infected. Both figures are by far the highest in the world.

In seeking to respond to the pandemic, Trump has been widely condemned for not taking the pandemic seriously enough soon enough, spreading conspiracy theories, not encouraging mask wearing and undermining scientists and others seeking to combat the virus’ spread.

Dr Mary T Bassett, a commission member and director of Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, told the Guardian: “The US has fared so badly with this pandemic, but the bungling can’t be attributed only to Mr Trump, it also has to do with these societal failures … That’s not going to be solved by a vaccine.”

 

[LinekersLegs]

The RECOVERY trial has produced some wonderful results/data