Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Deleted member 48881]

Delaying England’s Covid reopening ‘could keep thousands out of hospital’

Research backs four-week delay on lifting restrictions to allow more people to get jabs

www.theguardian.com

 

[grandjoeblue]

4 week delay, has to be done, blame the idiots still not taking it seriously

COVID-19: Boris Johnson set to delay lockdown easing by four weeks - as fears expressed about 'devastating' Freedom Day postponement

Concerns over the Delta variant means remaining restrictions are expected to stay in place until the middle of July.

news.sky.com

I blame the people who decided to allow flights to continue from India for weeks whilst they had extremely high case numbers. Works well the red list..

 

[COYBL25]

Just waiting for the media to do a complete U turn and start wringing their hands together, about how dreadful the non lifting of restrictions is.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Oh well... Like no one thought the date had to moved weeks ago.

The stupidity of announcing data not dates is the way out and then in the next sentence announcing date of June 21st as end of restriction "freedom day" alright.

 

[Paris]

Just waiting for the media to do a complete U turn and start wringing their hands together, about how dreadful the non lifting of restrictions is.

That'll never happen. At the moment the media have people needlessly scared and that's how they like it.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Just waiting for the media to do a complete U turn and start wringing their hands together, about how dreadful the non lifting of restrictions is.

Once the G7 has finished I wouldn't be surprised if another super variant is identified somewhere. Thats a newsworthy story for the media.

 

[tsubaki]

That'll never happen. At the moment the media have people needlessly scared and that's how they like it.

“needlessly scared” as if the pandemic doesn’t exist

 

[tsubaki]

I blame the people who decided to allow flights to continue from India for weeks whilst they had extremely high case numbers. Works well the red list..

Indeed, and they should really be hauled over the coals as to why India was treated differently than Pakistan and Bangladesh - though given we *still* lack a working detection and suppression system it was properly always going to get in here and spread.

 

[MikeH72]

“needlessly scared” as if the pandemic doesn’t exist

I don’t think anyone that isn’t glued to BBC News is scared anymore tbh.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Indeed, and they should really be hauled over the coals as to why India was treated differently than Pakistan and Bangladesh - though given we *still* lack a working detection and suppression system it was properly always going to get in here and spread.

Which country with a reasonably high number of cases has a good track and trace system? Other than countries with almost zero covid none of the others seem to have a system that different to the UK system.

 

[Paris]

“needlessly scared” as if the pandemic doesn’t exist

Vaccines and their effectiveness also exist.

I've benefited a lot from the ability to WFH but I am aware of the 'I'm alright Jack' attitude because I am seeing it a lot on here and other social media. People don't care about the suffering of other people, in this case the working class who predominantly work in hospitality and have been the most severely impacted, as long they can continue to get out of bed 5 minutes before they're due to start work, so they'll regurgitate any sort of news they can to maintain this. It's not surprising but it is sad.

 

[bluelife]

The whole point of locking down is to keep hospitals functioning and below a breaking point - the scientists can approximate numbers that will end up in hospital in the coming wave. At the minute, if restrictions are lifted, the situation risks reaching this breaking point. The fundamentals aren’t scaremongering or agenda fitting.... sure criticise some individuals or news corps... but please don’t forget the real point of it, and how you can help.

 

[tsubaki]

I don’t think anyone that isn’t glued to BBC News is scared anymore tbh.

they should be, if not scared then cautious - this is going to be with us for years

 

[Brennan]

Vaccines and their effectiveness also exist.

I've benefited a lot from the ability to WFH but I am aware of the 'I'm alright Jack' attitude because I am seeing it a lot on here and other social media. People don't care about the suffering of other people, in this case the working class who predominantly work in hospitality and have been the most severely impacted, as long they can continue to get out of bed 5 minutes before they're due to start work, so they'll regurgitate any sort of news they can to maintain this. It's not surprising but it is sad.

COVID is also killing the working class at twice the rate of the well off.

 

[Mrk]

People on both extremes will lose their heads over this, as usual. But I think (and hope) most people will shrug and accept it. It seems a pretty reasonable precaution.