Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[WA Toffee]

And confusion still reigns in Australia in general and NSW in particular.
Under the proposed stages of relaxation 'Freedom Regulations', aka, slightly less restrictions amendments...
Who thinks these things up and what do they base their thought process on.

You can go to a Casino or Massage Parlour 2 weeks before the kids can go back to school.
Vaxxed and Unvaxxed can sit next to somebody in a 'Faith Situation' - (church to most of us) a month before Vaxxed and Unvaxxed can share adjacent bar stools
Oh but the Covid Passport will still be a thing - how will that work?
Obvs - it can't, but they - the various Govts - will try and keep it going
Control, they love the control.

What do the actual people think?

QLD - Lab
NSW - Lib Coalition (tory-lite)
VIC - Lab
The personal approval for the 3 leaders are all about 62-65%
Strange days Indeed

No confusion in WA mate - everyone can just bugger off and leave us alone

 

[degsy]

No confusion in WA mate - everyone can just bugger off and leave us alone

...except for sending your share of the GST (VAT for the poms) money to you

 

[tsubaki]

To be fair twitter is brilliant for football and music for me - I don't think I could get away from it fully

But one thing people should remember is your own feed is different to the feed given to you on the news/trending parts. You get to choose who to follow, and can unfollow things you don't like. The steady stream of football articles and music recommendations or gig reviews on my feed make me happy so there are benefits

It is precisely that which causes the problem though - that people can end up only getting the reports the system thinks they want, which results in them getting fed an endless diet of disinformation.

 

[Billy Dean]

It is precisely that which causes the problem though - that people can end up only getting the reports the system thinks they want, which results in them getting fed an endless diet of disinformation.

This. Took me a while to realise too. But it becomes an echo chamber. But as @efcfanwirral says it's useful for certain things. I got rid of Twitter, FB and Insta from my phone recently. I find it frustrating not having anything to look at on my phone any more lol

 

[BlueStevie35]

Hospital figures - 34 deaths were announced today, no data to compare to from yesterday but it is down 15 on last Monday. 14 deaths were in English hospitals, again no data to compare to from yesterday but it is down 11 on last week. The 7 day rolling average falls to 126.57

All settings - for the 28 day cut off, 40 deaths were announced today, down 18 on yesterday and down 9 on last Monday. The 7 day rolling average falls to 136.57

There was no data reported today for the 60 day cut off

 

[SteveSC]

The UK (and most of Europe) reopening approach now seems to be looking like the right decision.

The USA is a weird mix. Some states are trying to mask 2 year olds and others have vaccinated about 30% of their population. Somewhere inbetween is the right answer. No child in primary school should have to wear a mask for example but all adults and possibly teens should be vaccinated.

2 to 4 year olds largely have no issue wearing masks here in the US. The parents suggesting they won't are the ones against it.

They are not trying anything. Two to five year old have been the most compliant with masks. Anyone that says they haven't see above as to why.

Two of my 3 year olds friends have been hospitalized because of covid. The rest of his class mates have been lucky so far not to have got it despite being in the same class room as the two that contracted it. They wear masks most of the day with no issues.

Because of selfish liars who refuse to get vaccinated kids are at risk. Especially the youngest.

Cases of toddlers getting seriously ill is gradually rising.

 

[grandjoeblue]

2 to 4 year olds largely have no issue wearing masks here in the US. The parents suggesting they won't are the ones against it.

They are not trying anything. Two to five year old have been the most compliant with masks. Anyone that says they haven't see above as to why.

Two of my 3 year olds friends have been hospitalized because of covid. The rest of his class mates have been lucky so far not to have got it despite being in the same class room as the two that contracted it. They wear masks most of the day with no issues.

Because of selfish liars who refuse to get vaccinated kids are at risk. Especially the youngest.

Cases of toddlers getting seriously ill is gradually rising.

3 hospitalisations in one class seems very unlucky. Only 7000 between ages 0-18 were hospitalised in the UK in the first 12 months of the pandemic.

I'm surprised that 2 year olds are good at masking. Nursery age children typically aren't great at hygiene etc.

 

[COYBL25]

2 to 4 year olds largely have no issue wearing masks here in the US. The parents suggesting they won't are the ones against it.

They are not trying anything. Two to five year old have been the most compliant with masks. Anyone that says they haven't see above as to why.

Two of my 3 year olds friends have been hospitalized because of covid. The rest of his class mates have been lucky so far not to have got it despite being in the same class room as the two that contracted it. They wear masks most of the day with no issues.

Because of selfish liars who refuse to get vaccinated kids are at risk. Especially the youngest.

Cases of toddlers getting seriously ill is gradually rising.

I can`t get my head around this mate.

In my lads primary and junior school, which is one of the biggest in Liverpool, not one kid has caught it since the start of it all. Even when it was raging here in the UK.

Teachers and support staff yes. but not one child.

 

[Groucho]

Had my 3rd COVID vaccination along with the flu jab this afternoon.

 

[SteveSC]

3 hospitalisations in one class seems very unlucky. Only 7000 between ages 0-18 were hospitalised in the UK in the first 12 months of the pandemic.

I'm surprised that 2 year olds are good at masking. Nursery age children typically aren't great at hygiene etc.

Hygiene has nothing to do with it. Kids at that age are sponges so if you teach them and explain to them whats going on and then they see others do it they will wear a mask

 

[grandjoeblue]

I can`t get my head around this mate.

In my lads primary and junior school, which is one of the biggest in Liverpool, not one kid has caught it since the start of it all. Even when it was raging here in the UK.

Teachers and support staff yes. but not one child.

Kids under the age of 11 haven't worn masks for a lot of the pandemic in the UK and the number of hospitalisations is low.

Everyone over 18 should be vaccinated. Adults and secondary school kids maybe should wear masks but toddlers? Not for me.

 

[SteveSC]

I can`t get my head around this mate.

In my lads primary and junior school, which is one of the biggest in Liverpool, not one kid has caught it since the start of it all. Even when it was raging here in the UK.

Teachers and support staff yes. but not one child.

I don't know either all I know is the cases of unvaccinated children contracting it is on the rise here. Possibly the delta variant or another strain who knows. Because of dishonest folk not getting vaccinated and blending in cases have spiked again especially among kids.

 

[SteveSC]

Kids under the age of 11 haven't worn masks for a lot of the pandemic in the UK and the number of hospitalisations is low.

Everyone over 18 should be vaccinated. Adults and secondary school kids maybe should wear masks but toddlers? Not for me.

See that's just it. You keep saying the UK. Not every country is the same when it comes to stats and how it's been dealt with. Using the UK as a benchmark for the US a strange and complicated country on a good day is not going to get you an answer as to why.

 

[Zezti]

Might have been posted already:


Covididiots sending fake consent forms to schools to scare people off the vaccines

 

[WA Toffee]

...except for sending your share of the GST (VAT for the poms) money to you

We'd be even more loaded if we kept our GST