Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

We're counting the hours now until all hell breaks loose again.

Please - if you do go to beer gardens etc - act responsibly.

Let's not screw this up and be back in lockdown by mid-summer.

 

[Goat]

@Neiler

Article here about vaccine makers having their cake and eating it too.

Big Pharma did not save the day​

Yes, they did.

 

[Goat]

We're counting the hours now until all hell breaks loose again.

Please - if you do go to beer gardens etc - act responsibly.

Let's not screw this up and be back in lockdown by mid-summer.

I honestly think you have been living in a bubble if you think we have been in lockdown for the last 6 or 7 weeks.

The roads are full of cars, the shops that are open have been rammed.

I doubt very much a few beer gardens does anything at all.

 

[BlueStevie35]

We're counting the hours now until all hell breaks loose again.

Please - if you do go to beer gardens etc - act responsibly.

Let's not screw this up and be back in lockdown by mid-summer.

This, if shops or what not are busy tomorrow then don’t go, they’ll still be there later in the week, at the weekend, next week and so forth

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Goat]

The whole map went black in October.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Remember this conversation we had Dave just before the schools went back last month.

Infections are staying stubbornly high after 2 months of lockdown.

They will spike up even more when the schools return. That is no situation to be in.

It's a gradual reduction of around 25% week on week. If it continues in that vein for the next month until the next phase of opening up in mid April, we could be down to around 1000 infections per week. That is a similar level as last summer when we were only testing around 15% of what we are now.

In my view there won't be a spike when schools return, just a potential slow down in the reduction to the infection rate. But even this I expect to be offset by the effects of the vaccination process on infections.

Let's wait a month and see which one of us is correct.

We'll see a spike up, for sure. Just how great the upward tick is we dont know. Itls likely to result in a stubborn plateauing out of communal infection rate though.

As I said. Let's give it a month and see which one of us is right. You predict a spike. I predict a slowdown in the reduction to the infections

Well it's 5 weeks since schools returned, so plenty of time to see the spike in infections that you were so adamant was going to happen. IIRC the daily infection rate immediately prior to schools reopening was hovering around the 5.5k/6k mark. Yesterday we saw 1730 new infections, with an average of 2629 over the last 7 days.

So I think it's fair to say that infection rates have continued to fall despite schools reopening, albeit it at a slightly slower rate than we were seeing earlier.

 

[Barnfred 55]

To answer @Neiler question, I’m both anticipating and dreading tomorrow, as I’m expecting the store to be busy but also full of self serving bellends with no care or patience

What does your store sell?. What type of produce?

 

[roydo]

What does your store sell?. What type of produce?

iirc, its a Top Shop, or similar.

 

[Deckard2049]

Not long now. Got a haircut booked in the morning. Will follow that up with a big session in the gym and then some swimming. Got a session booked in with my favourite brass and then it’s off for a meal with some friends. Really need it.

 

[BlueStevie35]

What does your store sell?. What type of produce?

Men’s, women’s and kid’s clothing/footwear/accessories, beauty products, home goods and electronic accessories

 

[Barnfred 55]

Really puts things into perspective.

But I can't believe there's 68 people hit by lightning in the UK each year lol

 

[Barnfred 55]

Men’s, women’s and kid’s clothing/footwear/accessories, beauty products, home goods and electronic accessories

Yeah, I recall you saying now.

Was it your shop where people were getting changed in the store because the changing room were closed? lol

 

[Barnfred 55]

We're counting the hours now until all hell breaks loose again.

Please - if you do go to beer gardens etc - act responsibly.

Let's not screw this up and be back in lockdown by mid-summer.

Half expecting to be the only people at our local tomorrow. Hope not because the whole idea is to socially engage with people again, socially distanced of course.

But, whilst the forecast is sunny, it'll be too cold for most of the residents in our village, most of who will probably be too frightened to come out anyway.

 

[Barnfred 55]

The thing most telling there was the initial outbreak in North Italy. We all thought it was absolutely horrific when, in reality, the infection rates were nothing in comparison with what came later.