Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Paris]

Old people are going to force us back into lockdown again aren’t they, the stupid tw*ts.

 

[Toast]

Just had a face to face appointment with a doctor !
She said it’s still absolutely rife and loads more are seriously ill than people realise.
No reason for her to lie, so maybe that’s just round here.

 

[LinekersLegs]

What would you vote for GOT?

 

[grandjoeblue]

What would you vote for GOT?

Bring it back until March then see where we are at.

 

[tsubaki]

That's fine. It's based on vaccine passports, which were going to be in place here, but people kicked off about it?

they kicked off based on worst case scenarios though

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Do you not remember all the uproar in the summer when it was announced mate? And Starmer saying in Parliament that it wasn't on?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56598413 - just one article I found from a quick search.

I am behind it because I think it's the best of a bad bunch of options, and that was my position all along. But there were people screaming that it was inhumane.

I can scarcely remember last week tbh.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

What would you vote for GOT?

I didn't know it had stopped tbh. I always wear a mask in an indoor public place.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Russia has low vaccination rates and a nasty outbreak atm

 

[Billy Dean]

England just let go of all restrictions in July on the back on the over promised vaccine "game changer" and the gullible lapped it up. Its important to get vaccinated but its by no way near end of anyone with an ounce of responsibility during this pandemic, that has never been clear with Boris and chums since vaccination came in.

Westminster Government should have continued with mask wearing and building ventilation. Life could continue pretty normal.

We are already having to ask individuals to consider isolation because of this and getting the booster into the most vulnerable its death sentence having to go into NHS with this illness again they just cant cope with it all. And more people are going to die unnecessarily.

Lots of people round my way had volunteered at the vaccine centers marshaling who were on furlough, all gone now and desperate for replacements.

To have gotten into such a situation with such a high vaccination rate is incompetence of the highest order.

 

[LinekersLegs]

@The binman chronicles as expected unfortunately


Some will likely be retests or asymptotic people checking given the news but when a koad of people are given false negatives not surprising if the outbreak gets worse.

 

[coollino]

What would you vote for GOT?

the issue is; do you really think people who have stopped would start wearing them again? i think only a low percentage would. it's too late.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Russia has low vaccination rates and a nasty outbreak atm

I see loads of Russian tourists where I live, they never I mean never wear a mask, they hate the thing, when locals ask them to do it, they look in them with disgust before putting it on. I'm not surprised with the cases...

but when I ask friends from there, they tell me 'we are a big country, it's ok 800 people 900 people die everyday because of some virus, pandemics come and pandemics go, we will live normally no matter what' this is their approach.

you agree or not but Russia is very weird.

 

[LinekersLegs]

the issue is; do you really think people who have stopped would start wearing them again? i think only a low percentage would. it's too late.

Fwiw here in Bay area we dropped the indoor mask mandate in June as California fully opened up. When cases in August started to rise back to winter levels (despite high vax rates) the indoor mandates came back and I’ve seen very little non compliance.

Thankfully cases/hospitalizations have dropped and it looks like in my area the mandates will be removed in a couple of weeks as long as that improvement is maintained.

 

[LinekersLegs]

the issue is; do you really think people who have stopped would start wearing them again? i think only a low percentage would. it's too late.

Key bit I guess would be if people would walk the talk but at least in theory a high percentage claim to support mask mandates (if it stops the pubs from closing!)

 

[LinekersLegs]

Highlights need to get case rate in over 65s down by going faster on boosters.