Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[COYBL25]

So vaccinating is a really good thing now.

I'm Confused dot com

Much to his disgust the vaccines seem to be working, so he`s moved on from them now and his new hobby horses are track and trace and social distancing, although that is subject to change dependant on the weather.

Oh, and Chris Whitty has gone from a genocidal, Tory Poodle, who should be lynched, to some kind of vaccine Guru, all due to the fact that Dave now believes that Whitty is dropping coded messages into his briefings about the impending mass extinction of the planet.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

She does mate.

12hour shifts for as you say minimum wage, she never complains tho, she loves helping people.

Pay rates are a disgrace in that sector. Would personally really struggle to do the job she does.

 

[Goat]

Pay rates are a disgrace in that sector. Would personally really struggle to do the job she does.

Same mate, don't think I could do that job for 20 notes an hour, nevermind for the 8 quid she does it for.

 

[Barnfred 55]

I believe both the USA & China haven't signed either.
Hardly a global effort without them doing it unfortunately.

I honestly thought this was all going to change when Trump went

 

[Barnfred 55]

Pay rates are a disgrace in that sector. Would personally really struggle to do the job she does.

Same with hospices. I remember the girls in Marie Currie were paid pittance and that was before minimum wage existed

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Bad News Bias

The U.S. media is offering a different picture of Covid-19 from science journals or the international media, a study finds.

www.nytimes.com

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Same with hospices. I remember the girls in Marie Currie were paid pittance and that was before minimum wage existed

Yeah have worked alongside Macmillan workers who helped people claim benefits who’d been diagnosed as terminal. Again paid peanuts. We have everything the wrong way round.
Soz for off topic.
What’s Dave got everyone raging about now?

 

[PaulPowersTash]

Same with hospices. I remember the girls in Marie Currie were paid pittance and that was before minimum wage existed

It still a genuine disgrace that hospices are funded by charitable donations.

 

[PaulPowersTash]

I honestly thought this was all going to change when Trump went

The USA is the USA.

 

[tsubaki]

I think once everybody is vaccinated, we need to stop with all this daily stats business being announced and reported on. We're going to have to live with this thing, the same as we do with flu, cancer, heart disease, and dementia. But we don't tell people how many died of those illnesses on a daily basis.

The vaccine and boosters will help keep hospitalisation and deaths down. So even if there is an increase in infections the situation hopefully won't be any worse than a bad flu season, and maybe some sort of temporary social distancing measures can help with this during the worst times.

But we need to get away from his daily reporting lark, and I'd start once everybody has had their first jab.

I disagree quite a bit with this; if anything I think there is more of an argument in favour now of allowing the public to see what people are dying of (and how old they are).

All those diseases - flu and heart disease especially - are with a bit of effort (many times less of an effort than we've seen here) preventable to a large degree, as are conditions relating to pollution / air quality (which may have a link with dementia). We should really be encouraging the tackling of those things as well, not going back to just shrugging our national shoulders. To do that means people are going to have to have easy access to honest figures about the scale of the problem.

 

[summerisle]

Eat out and die.

 

[Tubey]

Eat out and die.

There's no doubt it did.

But at the same time, it wasn't a terrible initiative. It was just terribly timed and overly-optimistic.

For some inexplicable reason, loads in government didn't seem to think the completely inevitable second wave was coming, including idiot-in-chief Dido Harding.

 

[davek]

So vaccinating is a really good thing now.

I'm Confused dot com

Ilve never said vaccine's aren't good. My point has always been: use them but dont get a rigorous track and trace system and keep socilaly distancing and it's a matter of time before variants will happen.

 

[davek]

Eat out and die.

Did eat out to help out end up killing people?

GOT Covid Recovery Group: "No. It was a roaring success and no one has ever been infected in a restaurant and died from Covid19"

@COYBL25
@Brennan
@navidson

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Eat out and die.

I read this article earlier and thought it was horrible, gutter journalism to be honest. Real agenda driven and patronising.