Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[davek]

We have been in uncharted waters for 14 months. Its plain as day that the lab folk modelled this slow unlocking, the test events, the massive testing, the vax roll out, everything.

Like I said, so far, the results have been what they hoped for.

Lets go with them. I fully expect a major booster jab roll out later this year, and next come to that.

I hope you're right on all counts.

 

[roydo]

No I didn't. I said there'd be a rise in infections. There was.

Was there?

 

[davek]

The thought of 000s of people enjoying themselves must be keeping you up at night.

No, the thought of them helping spread a virus around does though.

 

[Goat]

No I didn't. I said there'd be a rise in infections. There was.

No there wasnt.

 

[Goat]

No, the thought of them helping spread a virus around does though.

What virus?

Its done, stick a fork in it.

 

[davek]

Was there?

Yes.

I linked an article about this at the time.

 

[roydo]

I hope you're right on all counts.

Its not me making the call, thankfully

But to the lab folk, they know how this works. They know how to make vax's. And they have said repeatedly that there isnt One way out of this. Its a cocktail. But they are seeing real world data that the vax's reduce spread, and reduce illness and death. Like the annual flu jab does.

You will never have a virus free world I am afraid.

 

[davek]

What virus?

Its done, stick a fork in it.

Yeah, I just watched the news. India is celebrating the end of Covid19.

2.5k cases here today - 18 deaths.

Stop talking about this being over. It isn't. And it can surge once more. Take notice of the scientific community.

 

[Goat]

Yes.

I linked an article about this at the time.

No mate.

 

[roydo]

Yes.

I linked an article about this at the time.

So why are UK infections falling off a cliff?

 

[Goat]

Yeah, I just watched the news. India is celebrating the end of Covid19.

2.5k cases here today - 18 deaths.

Stop talking about this being over. It isn't. And it can surge once more. Take notice of the scientific community.

I dont live in India.

I reckon more than 18 people die daily from falling over toys their children have left out.

 

[roydo]

No, the thought of them helping spread a virus around does though.

Its a controlled test event mate. The 6.00pm on an a Friday evening might show that.

 

[Goat]

 

[Deckard2049]

If we were truly following "data and not dates" these places would be open by now. I don't particularly have an issue with the roadmap as caution is fine and in the grand scheme of time it's not long, but at this point that's all it is now- caution.

 

[Goat]

Around 22million people are living in areas across the UK where there have been no coronavirus deaths so far in April, official figures revealed today.

Data from the Government's Covid dashboard suggests the threat of the virus has almost been eradicated in a third of the country, despite everyone still being subjected to harsh lockdown restrictions.

It marks a seismic shift from the UK's dire situation in January at the height of the second wave, when fewer than 50,000 Britons were in places with zero coronavirus victims during that month.

Analysis by BBC News shows some areas have gone even longer than a month without reporting a Covid death — Plymouth last recorded one 57 days ago and Oxford and Maidstone, in Kent, have gone two months.

The statistics, which go up to April 29, shows fewer than 600 deaths within 28 days of a positive test have been reported this month, compared with more than 30,000 throughout the same period in January.


So no deaths in Kent for 2 months, despite it being an area in which a VOC* was first spotted.

*VOC = Bellend speak for "OMG WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE"