Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[navidson]

International borders might not open even if whole country is vaccinated: Greg Hunt

The Health Minister suggested Australia’s international border closures could stay in place even if the entire population had been vaccinated against COVID-19.

www.smh.com.au

Back to the Penal Colony days

 

[Goat]

Gibraltar are now living their lives, so here’s hoping proper life resumes, eventually. There will always be vigilance now though.

I expect riots if everyone being vaccinated means we cannot do anything.

I mean we have a date when things return to normal, 21st June, why are people assuming there will be any restrictions?

 

[TaffyToffee85]

I mean we have a date when things return to normal, 21st June, why are people assuming there will be any restrictions?

Apparently “limits on social contact” being reduced is a different meaning to SD ending.

I hope for one June 21st goes ahead and SD becomes advisory, like in Sweden.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I see why it was being given away at Lidl this morning now

Just like Lidl and Aldi, Oxford AZ is pitched at low to middle income nations, be in the special bucket at B&M by years end.

 

[Goat]

Apparently “limits on social contact” being reduced is a different meaning to SD ending.

I hope for one June 21st goes ahead and SD becomes advisory, like in Sweden.

You want to hug strangers?

 

[TaffyToffee85]

You want to hug strangers?

Only when the Toffees ever win the Premier League during my lifetime!

 

[Barnfred 55]

I mean we have a date when things return to normal, 21st June, why are people assuming there will be any restrictions?

I don't think normal will be exactly the same as normal pre covid. But yeah.

I actually wouldn't be completely surprised if that date was pushed back to end of July. Depends on the infection levels leading upto 21 June.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Just like Lidl and Aldi, Oxford AZ is pitched at low to middle income nations, be

That's good isn't it?

You make it sound like a bad thing.

 

[COYBL25]

You want to hug strangers?

First thing to do, is organise a mass piley on, with Dave at the bottom of the pile.

 

[Goat]

I don't think normal will be exactly the same as normal pre covid. But yeah.

I actually wouldn't be completely surprised if that date was pushed back to end of July. Depends on the infection levels leading upto 21 June.

As you say, all depends on the digits at this point.

 

[peteblue]

U.K. vaccines....389K yesterday (with 312K second doses) ....total first doses 32,326,604....total second doses 8,170,081....giving a total of 40,496,685......

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

That's good isn't it?

You make it sound like a bad thing.

Depends if your under 30. They do exist out side forums. There are better safer vaccines. Just they cost more.

 

[PaulPowersTash]

I don't think normal will be exactly the same as normal pre covid. But yeah.

I actually wouldn't be completely surprised if that date was pushed back to end of July. Depends on the infection levels leading upto 21 June.

I don't disagree but I think people's patience is starting to wear very thin now.
If they do push it back to July then I think we will just have to accept that a lot of people will
simply ignore the restrictions. We will be in mid summer so BBQ's, parties the lot will happen.
I've stuck with it pretty strictly so far but I've had enough of it now. Not saying thats right
but I think a lot of people feel the same. The idea of the vaccines was 'to save the NHS'. That
for all intents and purposes has been done. Either vaccines are the route out of this or they are not?
If they are not - then what do we do next?

 

[blulouie]

‘A tsunami of cases’: desperation as Covid second wave batters India

Doctors speak of a new variant of the virus that appears to be spreading faster than ever before

www.theguardian.com

Nightmare scenes of a country struggling to cope have begun to emerge as doctors speak of a new variant of the virus that appears to be spreading faster than ever before, affecting young people and even children this time around and pushing India’s healthcare system to the brink of collapse. States such as Maharashtra have imposed a weekend lockdown in an attempt to curb infections, while Delhi has introduced a night curfew, with a total lockdown still not ruled out.

Over the weekend bodies piled up outside the government hospital in Raipur, in the state of Chhattisgarh, because the hospital had “not expected so many people to die at once” from coronavirus and could not cremate them fast enough. In Surat, in the state of Gujarat, crematoriums became so overwhelmed with coronavirus victims that families began burning their dead on open ground.

Yet theres still plenty of flights to and from India to the UK.

Havent we learnt anything.

 

[davek]

As you say, all depends on the digits at this point.

I can see the May 17th date being pushed back, tbh.