Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[BlueStevie35]

The drops seem massive week on week at the moment. Hopefully in 10 days time the average will be down to 400 or so. If it keeps going it might be around 100 by 8th March when schools reopen.

One of the keys is getting the 28 and 60 day figures below 1000 on the catch up days, if that happens we’ll be on the right track

 

[davek]

I literally haven't said that

You said that track and trace was for the future because it isn't feasible now.

 

[BlueStevie35]

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I mentioned gigs getting planned in the other week in here.
Another email today advertising gigs in May and June.
The Little Mix one is at the O2 so that’s a lot of people they are planning to have in a venue in just a few weeks.
Sold out as well so the demand is clearly there for it.

Over ambitious ??

Might be a tad, I’ve got tickets to a convention at the Arena that was originally scheduled to take place on my birthday weekend last April, was rescheduled for Halloween weekend then got and is still currently rescheduled to take place in May. The company running it still has intentions to do so unless told otherwise nearer the time, they have already moved their main Comic Con here from its traditional March date to November

 

[BlueToff]

You said that track and trace was for the future because it isn't feasible now.

No, I didn't.

I said I have had debates with @tsubaki over the best way for it to be implemented. Which I have had. I agree with their point that it needs to come in as a way of protecting us for the future, but we also need it in place. I just don't know what the best way is for to be done, and I don't think the scheme they have suggested would work practically as it does in theory.

You asked me the other day how I'd put a 20k event on at Goodison. Well, the answer is testing - for people to have to do something, they need to get that negative test. You have that while bringing things back gradually and allowing limited-capacity events. Everyone who goes has to have tested negative. That's testing, and if they test positive, they have to isolate - and that's where the support needs to be in place. You then ensure there is a system which allows you to get another test within days (can be delivered to your home - they're already doing that). Perhaps you have to do a 5-day isolation period then you can test yourself and if you're negative, you're ok, if you're positive, you have to do another 5 days or whatever.

There's workable solutions, because the vaccines are proven to work against serious illness, so it's just going to become another illness which we deal with just fine. The answer isn't to keep everything shut for another 2 years.

 

[davek]

No, I didn't.

I said I have had debates with @tsubaki over the best way for it to be implemented. Which I have had. I agree with their point that it needs to come in as a way of protecting us for the future, but we also need it in place. I just don't know what the best way is for to be done, and I don't think the scheme they have suggested would work practically as it does in theory.

You asked me the other day how I'd put a 20k event on at Goodison. Well, the answer is testing - for people to have to do something, they need to get that negative test. You have that while bringing things back gradually and allowing limited-capacity events. Everyone who goes has to have tested negative. That's testing, and if they test positive, they have to isolate - and that's where the support needs to be in place. You then ensure there is a system which allows you to get another test within days (can be delivered to your home - they're already doing that). Perhaps you have to do a 5-day isolation period then you can test yourself and if you're negative, you're ok, if you're positive, you have to do another 5 days or whatever.

There's workable solutions, because the vaccines are proven to work against serious illness, so it's just going to become another illness which we deal with just fine. The answer isn't to keep everything shut for another 2 years.

All that to put a game of footy on x 20,000? And it relies on the honesty of every one of those attending.

It's pie in the sky.

 

[Toast]

Might be a tad, I’ve got tickets to a convention at the Arena that was originally scheduled to take place on my birthday weekend last April, was rescheduled for Halloween weekend then got and is still currently rescheduled to take place in May. The company running it still has intentions to do so unless told otherwise nearer the time, they have already moved their main Comic Con here from its traditional March date to November

I’ve got my rearranged tickets for the world snooker in just a few weeks.
Even if they do allow people in, I’m going to swerve it.
I couldn’t even think about going to a footy match until I’ve had a vaccine.

 

[roydo]

All that to put a game of footy on x 20,000? And it relies on the honesty of every one of those attending.

It's pie in the sky.

I get your point re folk being honest.

But if everyone is vaxed, and therefore their immune system had been boosted, over time, (god knows how long mind), covid will become, health and society wise, little different to the normal coughs and sneezes we all get every winter.

Hope so anyrate, and thats kinda what the scientists said a few days ago.

 

[peteblue]

U.K. Vaccines.....455K jabs given yesterday.....total jabs given... 14,033,555....still progressing nicely....probably get another million and a half or so over Friday and the weekend......

 

[roydo]

U.K. Vaccines.....455K jabs given yesterday.....total jabs given... 14,033,555....still progressing nicely....probably get another million and a half or so over Friday and the weekend......

Mad innit?

 

[peteblue]

Mad innit?

It seems to be going really well and according to plan....

 

[navidson]

It seems to be going really well and according to plan....

Amazing what happens when you give the job to the NHS rather some dodgy Tory stooge

 

[PhilM]

I’ve got my rearranged tickets for the world snooker in just a few weeks.
Even if they do allow people in, I’m going to swerve it.
I couldn’t even think about going to a footy match until I’ve had a vaccine.

I went to the United League Cup game, and it was a great setup and well socially distanced, but I still felt uneasy. However, it really wasn’t the same!

 

[peteblue]

Amazing what happens when you give the job to the NHS rather some dodgy Tory stooge

Why would it not go to the NHS, that’s what they do every year...that’s part of why they exist.....

 

[navidson]

Why would it not go to the NHS, that’s what they do every year...that’s part of why they exist.....

Im praising the NHS Pete - Shame the government didn't utilise them for other parts of the process

 

[BlueToff]

All that to put a game of footy on x 20,000? And it relies on the honesty of every one of those attending.

It's pie in the sky.

How does it rely on honesty?

They weren't letting anybody in without proof of a negative test in December. It's basically your ticket in. Without it, you can't go.

And this is in September or August I'm talking about. Not next bloody week. By then, every person in groups 1-9 will have been offered their second dose, so they'll be fully vaccinated. The rest of the population won't be far off either. They'll definitely all have had their first jab. The virus by then, all being well, will be of little note because, barring the vaccines not working - which they're showing no sign of - it will have been reduced to being an illness which hardly sends anybody to hospital. Just like any other illness, so the NHS won't be anywhere close to being overwhelmed by it.