Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[john jako]

I missed the daily brief today; can anyone summarise anything key from it please?

If everyone washes their hands, balls and wizards sleeves this will all be over in 12 weeks.

 

[john jako]

lol

See the replies are great. Photoshopping piers head on Pablo Escobars body hahaha

 

[widnesblue]

There is a silver lining though, as it looks like their exams will be being awarded on their " expected " grades.

So, if they`ve been pulling their tripe out, they`ll be okay.

Head of education in the councils(St. Helens, at least) have told us today that grades will be given out on there expected grades if schools are still shut.

I work with vulnerable kids and they’ve been told they’ve gotta go into education. Not every kid I work with are vulnerable in that sense, they just need strong discipline and a good hiding. We was due in 24 kids today and two turned up.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[PhilM]

Glad to see the Royal Family are ready to stand with us and play their part.
Nice footage too of the Queen leaving Buckingham Palace to go to one of her castles with a moat.

She’s 93 and her husband isn’t far off being a centurion, with an elderly son to boot, so in reality she’s following the guidelines by the government.

 

[PhilM]

Head of education in the councils(St. Helens, at least) have told us today that grades will be given out on there expected grades if schools are still shut.

I work with vulnerable kids and they’ve been told they’ve gotta go into education. Not every kid I work with are vulnerable in that sense, they just need strong discipline and a good hiding. We was due in 24 kids today and two turned up.

Errrrr...

 

[Harryflashman]

lol

What a self important blert

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Seanjd]

Head of education in the councils(St. Helens, at least) have told us today that grades will be given out on there expected grades if schools are still shut.

I work with vulnerable kids and they’ve been told they’ve gotta go into education. Not every kid I work with are vulnerable in that sense, they just need strong discipline and a good hiding. We was due in 24 kids today and two turned up.

Sounds like you’re working in the wrong profession.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

One of the early cases in California had dozens of healthcare workers going into isolation because it took a week for the test results to come back so many were exposed and no testing available. Combine those quarantining just in case with those who have symptoms and add in much higher than normal workloads I dread to think what the staffing figures look like

You'd imagine it's a major concern, especially as the areas that are highest intensity in terms of staffing (such as ICU) are also the areas where you're at most risk of catching something. I could easily see a scenario whereby the majority of healthcare workers have caught it before too long.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Head of education in the councils(St. Helens, at least) have told us today that grades will be given out on there expected grades if schools are still shut.

I work with vulnerable kids and they’ve been told they’ve gotta go into education. Not every kid I work with are vulnerable in that sense, they just need strong discipline and a good hiding. We was due in 24 kids today and two turned up.

A good hiding?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

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[Brisan123]

I do understand this . My only struggle with it is that without a vaccine then ,to use a Brexit phrase , aren’t we just kicking the can down the road ? Unless lockdown is for actual months if not years then isn’t there a real danger of it simply starting again once The lockdown is lifted ? Once people go back to work or you open the pubs ? Or is this the new normal , In which case whose producing the things we need for everyday society ? If we were looking at a lockdown and vigorous testing it’d make significantly more sense if I’m honest .

Like I say it’s probably a stupid question and I can see the time can be utilised to become more prepared by producing ventilators or PPE so that does make sense .

Basically if everybody stayed in lockdown for 14 days then anybody that had the virus would either die or recover
They would then no longer be infectious and could not pass the disease on ,so it would die out

 

[peteblue]

Head of education in the councils(St. Helens, at least) have told us today that grades will be given out on there expected grades if schools are still shut.

I work with vulnerable kids and they’ve been told they’ve gotta go into education. Not every kid I work with are vulnerable in that sense, they just need strong discipline and a good hiding. We was due in 24 kids today and two turned up.

At last...teachers that inspire...

 

[Brisan123]

The inability of Johnson to command confidence. He had the stage he had the nation attention and he has failed. If you need a reference point on being the statesman and how to address a nation, see here-

Covid-19 emergency to continue beyond March - Varadkar

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said the coronavirus emergency is likely to go on well beyond 29 March and could go on for months into the summer.

www.rte.ie