Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tubey]

Hindsight is going to be a very very heavy club to beat folk with soon.

I think anyone with a functioning brain realised that packing thousands of people into venues in the midst of a highly virulent pandemic wasn't exactly a great idea. But of course the early intent was to let everyone catch it and develop "herd immunity" and let the old die, so it was in their interests to lie... until they realised that way around 500-600,000 people would die and politically it was too much to allow.

 

[peteblue]

This ^

Remember when "cancelling mass gatherings wasn't needed because the evidence suggests it's not much of a risk"?

Useless, the lot of them.

So, come on then brain of Britain, what is your advice......

 

[Kenshin]

Very uplifting.

That's boss. .
They even did the karaoke version

 

[peteblue]

Didn't realise it was her who did the Cheltenham "advice" Ooooopppps!!

But now ask how many people who went to Cheltenham have caught or died from the virus. Similarly how many supporters who packed into Anfield with the Italians have caught or died from the virus....

 

[Deleted member 48881]

838 deaths in Spain, 756 deaths in Italy, today. Bleak, bleak days.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Italy and Spain have been in lockdown for weeks and still hundreds are dying there every day. I'm not convinced it works. Surely the blunt truth is that the virus is gonna kill who its gonna kill until theres a vaccine.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Italy and Spain have been in lockdown for weeks and still hundreds are dying there every day. I'm not convinced it works. Surely the blunt truth is that the virus is gonna kill who its gonna kill until theres a vaccine.

With hindsight it makes you wonder if the better thing to have done was instead of doing full scale lockdown was to keep the economy open (minus large gatherings and still some restrictions like amount allowed in a pub/place per anytime or something) and just have the elderly and high risk vulnerable in lockdown and have everyone else go about their business until immunity is achieved/ the virus dies off/weakens.

The £400+ odd billion in trying to save the economy going towards building a few COVID-19 facilities to treat any with severe cases with other building projects halted in the meantime.

I dont know just feels like it'll spread regardless of what is done so may aswell keep life as normal as possible and not cripple the economy and our childrens futures with it in the process.

But saying that cases may soon drop and the lockdowns prove success we just dont know yet in fairness.

 

[Dutch Toffee]

838 deaths in Spain, 756 deaths in Italy, today. Bleak, bleak days.

Deaths in The Netherlands up to 132 in the last 24 hours, as opposed to 93 yesterday

 

[Rook]

FYI: when the world's largest economy and home to 300+ million people is doing this, you aren't get ahold of killer virus no matter what you do. this tweet is not satire

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Harsh/Fair

 

[evilwebby]

Today's number of new cases from Italy, Spain, France & Germany are all on the right side of the flattening curve. We will get through this.

 

[evilwebby]

Go to 3:10.

We're making this crap up as we go along.

yes, we are, but that is because the evidence is changing all the time. Perfect knowledge is only perfect in hindsight.

As John Maynard Keynes retorted, "when the facts change, I change my mind.. what do you do?"

 

[evilwebby]

Why is it 'headline' news that it could take 6 or more months for things to get back to normal?

Did people actually think that this would all quickly blow over and we'll be in the Lisbon by the end of April?

My optimistic hope is that it will be 6 months but a more realistic hope is longer than that.

The scars of this will last for years, not just 6 month, but we will be back on the path to normal within 6 months.

 

[Barnfred 55]

If you arnt a scruffy c*** after a lockdown then you've not done it right, I'm going to give up shaving and all.

My missus hates beards

 

[dublinbluenose]

This is encouraging



Hopefully the arrival of PPE order starts making a difference to the spread among health workers.