Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Barnfred 55 said:
I was going to say who would go on a City break to Birmingham. but I've never done it myself so if you haven't tried it don't knock it. I'm always telling people that about Liverpool so fairs fair.

But seriously, why has nobody else picked up on the the 7 day thing? He started feeling ill on his first day back, which is only 3 days even if he caught it on his first day there. Statistically he is far more likely to have caught it before he left home. Surely. Or am I missing something.
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I read the article this morning and that leaped out at me, I feel sorry for his family (and all families affected) but I don’t understand who from the paper decided to run with it when it seems obvious to us.
 
JimmyJeffers said:
Not really the thread for this, but the Guardian is full of powder puff pieces like this these days catered for an indignant middle class liberal to get angry about on their antique leather chairs. As soon as anything ‘proper left’ comes along they soil their pants.
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they'll never top this one - its five years old now, but is still the peak of Grauniad:

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Why do you never see a Lego mini-figure with a disability? | Rebecca Atkinson

The world’s largest toy company is excluding 150 million disabled children by failing to positively represent them in its products
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TommyDavo said:
Like you’re gonna travel 70 miles to save a tenner, no doubt it happened but nothing to do with the scheme in question IMO.
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Yeah agreed. Personally think it’s shameful journalism to use his death to further an agenda. The government should be called out on tonnes of stuff but this is just plain stupid and undermines valid criticisms.
 
JimmyJeffers said:
Yeah agreed. Personally think it’s shameful journalism to use his death to further an agenda. The government should be called out on tonnes of stuff but this is just plain stupid and undermines valid criticisms.
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It was the same thing with the family they dug out over Christmas, where five of them had met up in the same house for Christmas dinner and two of them tragically later died, blaming the government for not " stopping " them.

Completely ignoring the fact that people had been strongly advised not to travel to family members outside of their immediate family and also the fact that the rules stated no more than four could meet up on Christmas Day !!!
 
blulouie said:
Or the variants can also dissipate like most of them have done.

On the subject of the vaccines , they are the overiding factor to a way out of this.
But keep poo pooing them & we can all lock ourselves away and hope it goes away.
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Not even close. That's a euro-centric view of this. In other words, in a basket case consumer-led society we need vaccine because there's no stomach for the fight: suppressing the virus by compelling individuals to bow to the greater good.

The vaccines should be there to aid that fight, not lead it. And I doubt there's a leading health spokesnam in SAGE who'd disagree with that.
 
davek said:
Not even close. That's a euro-centric view of this. In other words, in a basket case consumer-led society we need vaccine because there's no stomach for the fight: suppressing the virus by compelling individuals to bow to the greater good.

The vaccines should be there to aid that fight, not lead it. And I doubt there's a leading health spokesnam in SAGE who'd disagree with that.
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You still dont really understand the full picture on vaccines do you?
 
COYBL25 said:
It was the same thing with the family they dug out over Christmas, where five of them had met up in the same house for Christmas dinner and two of them tragically later died, blaming the government for not " stopping " them.

Completely ignoring the fact that people had been strongly advised not to travel to family members outside of their immediate family and also the fact that the rules stated no more than four could meet up on Christmas Day !!!
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TBF that was something else the government really should have been done over for - the messaging was really focused on "yes, you can meet up for Christmas" and was only withdrawn at very short notice. There wasn't much (or any) compensation either for those who had bought tickets / got food in / made plans, nor was there any enforcement of the measures anyway so I am not surprised people died as the result of it.
 
davek said:
Not even close. That's a euro-centric view of this. In other words, in a basket case consumer-led society we need vaccine because there's no stomach for the fight: suppressing the virus by compelling individuals to bow to the greater good.

The vaccines should be there to aid that fight, not lead it. And I doubt there's a leading health spokesnam in SAGE who'd disagree with that.
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Really ?

Every measure aids the fight , but none come close to the vaccine's if we want to get some semblance of a life back.
The world & his dog know's that.
 
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