Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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What changes were going to happen on the 21st June re pubs? As per my discussion with @Tubey I get very confused as to what is due to happen where and when!

The plan was No Covid. Everything back to pre Covid days.

Yeah, I know. Seemed daft at the time. As Pro JVT said months ago, early days, "we may have to find a way of living with this".
 
I’m pretty bemused that people seem to think everybody has gone back to normal already to be honest.

I went to a wedding last week and there were only a handful of people there, then there was an outdoor party.

That is not what would have happened on June 22nd under the original plan.

Pubs and restaurants now are a totally different experience to what they would have been, never mind clubs.

Dunno, perhaps I don’t know enough nobheads in real life.
 
Did it ever get explained why this decision below was taken? Know surge testing was eventually done but seemed all a bit odd at the time.
Surge testing is not being carried out in England for coronavirus variants first detected in India, despite the government claiming it would be, the Guardian has learned.

The coronavirus variant known as B.1.617 is a “variant under investigation” in the UK, together with its close relatives B.1.617.2 and B.1.617.3. All three are worrying scientists because they contain either one or two mutations in their spike protein that may help them evade the body’s immune responses and be more transmissible.

Should such worries be borne out, they may be designated “variants of concern”. The Guardian understands Public Health England will not surge test – where people within particular postcodes are asked to take a test – until the variants are given that designation. This is despite the health secretary, Matt Hancock, stating on 19 April that surge testing would be carried out for the India variant.
 
I’m pretty bemused that people seem to think everybody has gone back to normal already to be honest.

I went to a wedding last week and there were only a handful of people there, then there was an outdoor party.

That is not what would have happened on June 22nd under the original plan.

Pubs and restaurants now are a totally different experience to what they would have been, never mind clubs.

Dunno, perhaps I don’t know enough nobheads in real life.
Fwiw on surveys seems like still quite a few avoiding indoor socializing


Not sure what those figures were pre covid though
 
It’s not as simple as that.

Pubs / restaurants / cafes etc have had to remove tables to comply with the rules on numbers and at the same time employ more staff due to table service. So most are barely breaking even at the mo.

An example :

We were in the Lakes at the weekend ( glorious weather ) and the very nice remote pub we were staying in, had to make a choice on Saturday, between shutting the beer garden or the restaurant, as they didn’t have enough staff on to serve the people at the tables in the beer garden and the restaurant.

They shut the beer garden for the evening and lost all the customers who went there for a drink and not to eat. Which is a lot of people, as loads of walkers head there after a day on the fells.
But that's their fault for not having enough staff. Surely they run the beer garden and restaurant at the same time year round anyway?
 
Hospital figures - 10 deaths were announced today, up 2 on yesterday and the exact same total as last Friday. 9 deaths were in English hospitals, up 3 on yesterday and up 4 on last week. The 7 day rolling average remains the same at 6.71

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 17 deaths were announced today, up 10 on yesterday and up 6 on last Friday. The 7 day rolling average rises to 8.71

For the 60 day cut off, 24 deaths were announced today, up 12 on yesterday and up 2 on last Friday. The 7 day rolling average rises slightly to 15.71
 
I'm calling it now. Restrictions will remain until next summer, just in case..

Meanwhile the world looks on wondering just wtf we're playing at and why we're so sh-t scared.
Nar, the world knows whats going on.

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