Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Shevin Keedy]

No.

Italy looked like they may have done a few days back, but it's proved otherwise.

What about Germany? Have they not started to recede?

 

[blue61]

I'm in exactly the same boat as this mate. People at our work with chronic ashtma being instructed to come in as well. Some people are gonna look back at themselves in a few weeks and be totally shamed

A colleague of mine gave our boss exactly that viewpoint yesterday, he couldn't give a flying one, but there again, he's working from home.

 

[Brennan]

The lockdown was not announced until the Monday. The government said pubs could stay open until normal closing time on the Friday......

Boris clearly implored them to close as soon as possible on the Friday and also clearly asked the public not to go out on that night.

Doing so was reckless arsehole behaviour.

 

[royalblue66]

Is putting the clocks forward an onerous task?

It was a joke mate.

 

[Paris]

 

[tsubaki]

That's not the same as some posters trying to score polictical points etc as I stated there is a political thread for this subject put it in there ok if its a general comment, but polictical point scoring on this thread is not on imo - hence a thread has been put on by @COYBL25 for anything really politically critical -
Simply just use that - if its just a mild comment no problem, but if it gets to political use the thread that's there for anyone to vent their anger .... Staying alive is more important imo as it's a killer pandemic we are discussing on this thread .....

Scoring points isn’t on, but some on the right here have been really quick to try and shut down any discussion by saying it’s political and therefore disrespectful.

Look at the frankly bizarre bit earlier where suggesting Farage was wrong was politicising it, whereas saying he was right wasn’t.

 

[Tubey]

What about Germany? Have they not started to recede?

No. All that's happened in Germany is that they've tested massively and therefore caught in their net a lot of mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic people. Their death rate is spiking over the last few days.

All that happened with Germany was they were a week or so behind us in terms of infection rate and/or it hit a different portion of their populace first.

That said, the German figures are more likely to be an actual reflection of what this virus is - the death rate is indeed nowhere near 8% of whatever it is in Italy; it's actually going to be 0.5-1% but a lot of people aren't being tested for it in the likes of the UK because we're only testing those severe enough to be hospitalised with it.

 

[ToffeeTim]

The lockdown was not announced until the Monday. The government said pubs could stay open until normal closing time on the Friday......

Johnson gave the press conference on the friday at about a quarter past 5.

He said pubs should close as soon as they could. And that anyone thinking about heading out should stay inside.

Anyone who went out that night was daft and any bar who milked it by staying open until 11.59pm was reckless IMO.

 

[Joey66]

Sorry mate but with respect to you, I disagree.

Well use the other thread then mate....imo this should be mainly non party politics..... I don't agree with some of the scenarios that have occurred politically, by this government, but surely its about the virus pandemic is what should be posted

 

[Tubey]

Boris clearly implored them to close as soon as possible on the Friday and also clearly asked the public not to go out on that night.

Doing so was reckless arsehole behaviour.

100% spot on.

Anyone who went out that night, as said, needs punching.

And to be honest any landlord that opened that night needs punching too.

Disgusting behaviour that would have cost thousands upon thousands of lives.

 

[navidson]

Where are Spain at mate ?
Are they ahead or behind Italy as they seem to be really bad.

How are you feeling today Toast? You and the family OK?

 

[peteblue]

Italy and Spain have both peaked. The absolute number of new daily cases may seem large but that is because the existing number is also large. In terms of geometric growth they are both seem to be past the peak and the percentage growth per day is slowing.

Just looked at the graphs, you may be right....

 

[Nymzee]

The lockdown was not announced until the Monday. The government said pubs could stay open until normal closing time on the Friday......

I can have a wank in my backstreet if I want to but doesn’t mean I should.

 

[sbbefc]

Partly true, but you'd be a bit of a knobhead if you ignored it.

The "staying at home" link is backed up by



though.

I mean yeah you would be, but the police can only enforce the regs.

 

[Joey66]

Scoring points isn’t on, but some on the right here have been really quick to try and shut down any discussion by saying it’s political and therefore disrespectful.

Look at the frankly bizarre bit earlier where suggesting Farage was wrong was politicising it, whereas saying he was right wasn’t.

I notice its the same old old who answer my post.....