Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Wat Tyler]

Meant to be going to NYC on Saturday, just gonna have to monitor it each day. A mate is meant to be flying out on Wednesday so hopefully get an idea of how things are in the states.

Was looking at booking a trip there for April but now I don’t know what to do, whether to wait or bite the bullet

 

[efcfanwirral]

Was looking at booking a trip there for April but now I don’t know what to do, whether to wait or bite the bullet

I wouldn't book anything- it's got February 2020 vibes right now.

To put it into perspective- I'm not even booking a gig ticket for next Monday, I'll be getting one on the day if it's still possible

 

[grandjoeblue]

I wouldn't book anything- it's got February 2020 vibes right now.

To put it into perspective- I'm not even booking a gig ticket for next Monday, I'll be getting one on the day if it's still possible

Can't see it being quite that bad. The vaccine will still work it might just be slightly less effective. Obviously that will sadly result in more deaths but the vaccine won't be completely ineffective. Natural immunity also is a factor.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

I wouldn't book anything- it's got February 2020 vibes right now.

To put it into perspective- I'm not even booking a gig ticket for next Monday, I'll be getting one on the day if it's still possible

Yup. Same here. I will not make the same mistake again, I got heavily disappointed back then, now I will never think about things going back to normal, until IT IS. Do not plan, just go day by day. Mad world.

 

[BlueToff]

Can't see it being quite that bad. The vaccine will still work it might just be slightly less effective. Obviously that will sadly result in more deaths but the vaccine won't be completely ineffective. Natural immunity also is a factor.

Aye, but they're now using this to say anybody over 18 get the booster - even though this variant might evade the immune response

 

[BlueToff]

It probably arrived a week / a couple of weeks ago, and because we’ve still not got a comprehensive surveillance system for these sorts of things we probably didn’t even know it was here.

And that is almost certainly the case yet it seems to have had very little impact on the case rates....

 

[BlueToff]

Needing to wear a mask on the train to Goodison on Wednesday but not once you are in the ale house and then the ground seems a bit daft..

Wear one if you want then mate.

Of course it seems daft, the whole thing is daft.

The point is an ale house can't operate normally under social distancing measures. Supermarkets, shops, transport etc can do. That's the logic - even if I agree the logic is daft.

 

[tsubaki]

And that is almost certainly the case yet it seems to have had very little impact on the case rates....

It won’t have had, yet - people would probably just be developing symptoms

 

[BlueToff]

Sadly you are correct; some people are now so invested in this “getting back to normal” idiocy that they would probably be damaged by being physically challenged over it.

You are quite boring on this.

Hide away all your life, insist people should be getting the STATE (like some commy wet dream) coming round to their houses, tracking everyone they've been with and everywhere they've been, for the rest of time. Because this virus will still be here and mutating in a year's time. It'll still be here the year after that, and so on and so on.

Calling people 'idiots' for wanting to get on with their lives is a new low. I was 24 when this thing started, I'll be 27 by the time I might get to do something like go on holiday without fear of having to isolate for 2 weeks. That's a big chunk of our lives all gone as it is.

 

[BlueToff]

It won’t have had, yet - people would probably just be developing symptoms

Aye, which so far seem to be a mild cold and cough so very, very hard to track given we're in winter.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Aye, but they're now using this to say anybody over 18 get the booster - even though this variant might evade the immune response

If it makes the vaccine say 20% less effective getting a booster is a very good idea.

 

[BlueToff]

If it makes the vaccine say 20% less effective getting a booster is a very good idea.

Depends. They're saying the vaccines need to be re-engineered to tackle this new variant, which they're already working on.

So surely getting a booster of the re-engineered vaccine would be the place to start?

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I was in a Waitrose today and mask wearing was fairly high actually

Tory

 

[coollino]

Tory

sad to be the blue family fractured by supermarkets

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You are quite boring on this.

Hide away all your life, insist people should be getting the STATE (like some commy wet dream) coming round to their houses, tracking everyone they've been with and everywhere they've been, for the rest of time. Because this virus will still be here and mutating in a year's time. It'll still be here the year after that, and so on and so on.

Calling people 'idiots' for wanting to get on with their lives is a new low. I was 24 when this thing started, I'll be 27 by the time I might get to do something like go on holiday without fear of having to isolate for 2 weeks. That's a big chunk of our lives all gone as it is.

Does wearing a mask mean your life is ruined?