Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[WA Toffee]

What are the main issues? A quick look on twitter and some are suggesting an even harsher lockdown. The current measures look pretty harsh.

She is starting to do now what she should have done 6 weeks ago.
She has spent the last year slamming other states for locking down when they have 2 or 3 cases, so as soon as NSW got some cases, she avoided lockdowns and basically just asked people nicely if they wouldn't mind social distancing, especially since it started in the more affluent Eastern suburbs. Of course it got out of hand, over 100 new cases every day for the past couple of weeks, so she is starting to do lockdown properly now.

If she had not been so stubborn and followed what Vic and WA do at the very start, they would have been out of lockdown 3 weeks ago

 

[LinekersLegs]

Thought this article was very thought provoking

 

[maccavennie]

Thought this article was very thought provoking

I have a neighbour who can't get the vaccine for medical reasons and it's very stressful for her. She has her own business and was telling me how mentally tough it's been.

 

[PhilM]

I think this is very similar to what was seen in Scotland. There were spikes, especially after the England Scotland game which saw thousands come to London and have zero respect for social distancing. The rates since then have dropped loads after the got knocked out of the tournament

I'd also surmise that with most schools in England breaking up between a week and eleven days ago a reduction in cases may have been predictable.

While children will still socialise with others outside of school, there's a big difference between 30+ in a classroom* and outside or in their friends' houses.

*more with rotation in high schools

 

[The binman chronicles]

The uninsured under 65 category surprises me. Even though it probably wouldn’t be astronomically expensive if people were asked to pay out of pocket for it, this vaccine may literally be the only truly free health care most Americans will ever have access to. Seems like people would want to take advantage.

Especially given what happens if they get it and then need hospitalisation.

How can anyone who is uninsured afford what could be weeks there with ventilator treatment.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

lol dafuq like..

 

[Mrk]

lol dafuq like..

If you removed all the bots from Twitter I'm almost certain you'd be left with about 3,000 real people. It's crazy.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

If you removed all the bots from Twitter I'm almost certain you'd be left with about 3,000 real people. It's crazy.

SBT

 

[MikeH72]

If you removed all the bots from Twitter I'm almost certain you'd be left with about 3,000 real people. It's crazy.

Absolute cesspit. Blow it up.

 

[Groucho]

You should have to have had two injections of the cream they use to fill Krispy Kreme doughnuts before entering anywhere.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Do think masks should be in use until next year in fairness. I went the cinema on Tuesday and was the only one who walked in wearing one no one else or the staff had them on so took mine off as felt a bit daft.

 

[JLW]

If you removed all the bots from Twitter I'm almost certain you'd be left with about 3,000 real people. It's crazy.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Do think masks should be in use until next year in fairness. I went the cinema on Tuesday and was the only one who walked in wearing one no one else or the staff had them on so took mine off as felt a bit daft.

Yeah I also take it off, watching a good film while masking is like a torture, many followed suit in the cinema. People do not blame each other if they fall sick anymore, its the nature of our life. [Poor language removed] happens.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Testing centre on Stanley Park has been removed

That must have been quick because my mum was just there on Tuesday to get a PCR test

 

[grandjoeblue]

Do think masks should be in use until next year in fairness. I went the cinema on Tuesday and was the only one who walked in wearing one no one else or the staff had them on so took mine off as felt a bit daft.

Nobody wears them in the screens and they haven't since they reopened earlier this year. Up until recently you'd get most people wearing them in the lobby but thats dropped to pretty much zero.