Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[roydo]

Agreed For sure.
For a couple of mates who work in service sector, generally doing 60-70 hour weeks, gave them the chance to spend some proper time with their family mind you. Think they were sick by the end though lol

Haha. I fully expected a surge in births a few months after lockdown #1, (may have happened for all I know), but reckon many folk got sick of the sight of each other instead!

 

[COYBL25]

May last year there were still restrictions wernt there? Not lockdown, but SD etc etc.

This year.

Last year Drakeford didn’t allow any organised running events at all, even if they were on the side of a mountain, in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

For the first 7 weeks of lockdown, I was very nervous, I think most people were, but then once Cummings was allowed to get away with breaking the rules, it became clear straight away that it was going to be a case of one rule for us and one rule for them for the duration of the restrictions. From that moment on, the community spirit of all of us being in it together was broken. For me personally, after a few months of experiencing the restrictions, I started to feel like a cross between a 6 year old child at school, waiting for for the teacher to tell me what I was allowed to do next and a zombie, walking round unable to think for myself and waiting for the Government to give me my next instruction. Being from Wales, I also had to endure the extra rules that Mark Drakeford imposed, a lot of which were only imposed for political reasons just to be seen to be different to Westminster, such as having to be escorted by a member of staff around my local Tesco to buy some new pairs of underpants, just to make sure that I wasn’t trying to sneak into one of the taped off aisles that sold items that were deemed non essential. I don’t think anyone who has lived through these last 2 years will ever forget the experience of living under such overbearing restrictions on our daily lives and it seems now that the whole time, the very same Government who imposed them on us, didn’t believe in any of it themselves. As I said, the Cummings incident set the precedent for what was to come. I’m glad that Boris Johnson has finally been forced to step down, but I’m still angry that he wasn’t removed when he revived a fine for party gate. To impose restrictions of such magnitude on people’s lives for 2 years, including even imposing restrictions on people on their death beds, by not allowing them their most basic right of a final goodbye to their loved ones before they passed away, all whilst breaking the same rules that he spent the last 2 years coercing the nation to follow and using the threat of legal action to back him up, is simply unforgivable.

well said. lest we forget.

 

[roydo]

This year.

Last year Drakeford didn’t allow any organised running events at all, even if they were on the side of a mountain, in the middle of nowhere.

lol

My bad. I honestly forgot it is July!

My local, also rural, seems to be fully back in the swing of things. Once they were allowed, they had a band in their garden, like in the olden days pre covid, and when the music drifted along to our cottage, me and Nik sat on the terrace listening, and it was quite a moment for us. Cos, y'know.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of people around the world.[1][2] The pandemic has caused widespread anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.[3][4] The pandemic has damaged social relationships, trust in institutions and in other people, has caused changes in work and income, and has imposed a substantial burden of anxiety and worry on the population.[5] Women and young people face the greatest risk of depression and anxiety.[2][4]

COVID-19 exacerbated problems caused by substance use disorders (SUDs). The pandemic disproportionately affects people with SUD.[6] The health consequences of SUDs (for example, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, type 2 diabetes, immunosuppression and central nervous system depression, and psychiatric disorders), and the associated environmental challenges (such as housing instability, unemployment, and criminal justice involvement), are associated with an increased risk for contracting COVID-19. Confinement rules, as well as unemployment and fiscal austerity measures during and following the pandemic period, can also affect the illicit drug market and patterns of use among consumers of illicit drugs.

Mitigation measures (i.e. physical distancing, quarantine, and isolation) worsened loneliness, mental health symptoms, withdrawal symptoms, and psychological trauma.

Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[cronullasharks]

Managed to dodge this in our house till now but our son who's 6 has just tested positive to it so most likely we've all got it.

@COYBL25 every time there's a mention now of Dave riding around on his bike with the homemade PPE on sends me into an actual fit of laughter lol

 

[COYBL25]

Managed to dodge this in our house till now but our son who's 6 has just tested positive to it so most likely we've all got it.

@COYBL25 every time there's a mention now of Dave riding around on his bike with the homemade PPE on sends me into an actual fit of laughter lol

Hopefully it’s not too serious mate and it’ll be over in a few days.

For what it’s worth, I don’t know anyone at all, who’s had it this year, who’ve had anything more than a really heavy cold

 

[cronullasharks]

Hopefully it’s not too serious mate and it’ll be over in a few days.

For what it’s worth, I don’t know anyone at all, who’s had it this year, who’ve had anything more than a really heavy cold

Yeah not bothered by it, more just a pain that I'll have to waste sick leave at work. I work in local government and we had some special covid leave that didn't come out of your own leave last year where you got paid if you had to take time off if you had it or in isolation but pretty sure that's not a thing anymore.

 

[maccavennie]

Managed to dodge this in our house till now but our son who's 6 has just tested positive to it so most likely we've all got it.

@COYBL25 every time there's a mention now of Dave riding around on his bike with the homemade PPE on sends me into an actual fit of laughter lol

Hope he's feeling better soon mate

 

[cronullasharks]

Hope he's feeling better soon mate

Bar a bit of a cough he's fine. Running around like a lunatic most of the day lol

 

[spectateur]

Hopefully it’s not too serious mate and it’ll be over in a few days.

For what it’s worth, I don’t know anyone at all, who’s had it this year, who’ve had anything more than a really heavy cold

Don't trivialise it too much, it's still making some people very ill. We have a friend who hospitalised now despite having all the jabs.
Must continue to be very careful about this virus in all its forms.

 

[Prevenger17]

Anyone read the start of this thread recently, timeline of history.
Some picked up on the crisis very quickly, others didn't.
Amazing really, my boss in work was paranoid from February and we all thought he'd lost the plot. Isolation rooms, walked around with a measure marked out 2m all around our building and warehouse, took chairs out of canteen. Threw cups etc cutlery away, Only one allowed in toilets at a time.
All kinds of restrictions, you couldn't share stationary, one person allowed on fork lifts per day, then a total wipedown,but we operated every day , never shut. He might have been crazy,but he got us through it ,so far anyway.

My favourite champagne call came from Debunkology early on

Seems like one thing you can be sure of in every new decade. A new overhyped "super bug" , and a new country in the middle-east to topple.

To be clear, the overhyped superbug in question has killed an estimated 15 million plus people

 

[Deleted member 48881]

COVID pandemic is ‘nowhere near over’: WHO chief

WHO chief warns case numbers are continuing to rise, putting further pressure on stretched health systems and workers.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Debunkology]

To be clear, the overhyped superbug in question has killed an estimated 15 million plus people

A quick google search shows links that estimate 3 to 6 million deaths worldwide in 2.5 years since i posted that.

Which is less than 1% of who actually contracted Covid and 0.07% of the world's population.

In comparison, 7 million die each year to illnesses caused by Microscopic pollutants in the air.

 

[Prevenger17]

A quick google search shows links that estimate 3 to 6 million deaths worldwide in 2.5 years since i posted that.

Which is less than 1% of who actually contracted Covid and 0.07% of the world's population.

In comparison, 7 million die each year to illnesses caused by Microscopic pollutants in the air.

WHO, among other institutes, estimate that its closer to 15 million, and possibly above.

15 million people have died in the pandemic, WHO says

The World Health Organization’s long-awaited estimate of excess COVID deaths is in line with other studies.

www.nature.com

Regardless, seeing you stand by your original comment that it was an overhyped superbug despite the intervening 2 years is laughably predictable and why nobody takes you seriously