Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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Nymzee said:
Yeh not saying what US or UK have done was the right thing and even with hindsight we’ll never know now either.
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We will - eventually.
There is always an enquiry and report after the fact and all the recommendation may be hidden in dull civil service prose but it will be there.
But what happens is the report...usually named after some high court judge or other...gets filed away as a historical footnote.
All lessons learned, forgotten over time.

e.g.The results of the 1975-76 drought enquiry stated (gist) 'there is no actual water shortage, we have plenty of rain, it just falls in the wrong places. What we need is a national water grid like the power grid to take water from where it is to where it is needed'

Fast forward to the last big drought, the one before the recent one. 'there is no actual water shortage, we have plenty of rain, etc, etc, etc.

Much the same happened in the 1956 Asian (couldn't mention the chinese by name even then) 'Flu, all the lessons learned from the 1918 outbreak, forgotten as people, retire, die. All had to be re learned and then applied.

My bet is not much will change, reports will be filed, emergency stock piles manufactured and stored, time will pass, people forget, stock will deteriorate / go out of date, get binned, experienced people retire, die and off we go again.
 
BlueToff said:
Oh I agree there.

But it's seemingly getting ignored when it comes to mainstream reports.

Honestly think too many people have said they've had symptoms that are spot on like the ones of COVID-19 over the course of Dec/Jan for it to be purely a coincidence, is all.

Dunno, all just strange. I'm not saying we have any other option now though other than to do what we're doing.

If we start to see a decline in cases in 2-3 weeks' time (so after 3-4 weeks of lockdown) then hopefully over the course of May we can gradually return to some form of normality, though keep the public gatherings etc cancelled until June at the earliest.

This is going to come back around again but there is going to have to come a point where life simply has to go on. The world can't keep stopping. It'll all crash and people's lives will be ruined for years to come - a lot more people will be impacted by that than the virus itself.

We just have to hope that we can do enough in these next few months to ensure when it does come around we can manage it.
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This ain’t happening as it’ll just undo the good work we might have done. Large gatherings or not this will cause a second wave.

Until a vaccine is openly available life is just going to be a little bit more complicated for all.
 
degsy said:
We will - eventually.
There is always an enquiry and report after the fact and all the recommendation may be hidden in dull civil service prose but it will be there.
But what happens is the report...usually named after some high court judge or other...gets filed away as a historical footnote.
All lessons learned, forgotten over time.

e.g.The results of the 1975-76 drought enquiry stated (gist) 'there is no actual water shortage, we have plenty of rain, it just falls in the wrong places. What we need is a national water grid like the power grid to take water from where it is to where it is needed'

Fast forward to the last big drought, the one before the recent one. 'there is no actual water shortage, we have plenty of rain, etc, etc, etc.

Much the same happened in the 1956 Asian (couldn't mention the chinese by name even then) 'Flu, all the lessons learned from the 1918 outbreak, forgotten as people, retire, die. All had to be re learned and then applied.

My bet is not much will change, reports will be filed, emergency stock piles manufactured and stored, time will pass, people forget, stock will deteriorate / go out of date, get binned, experienced people retire, die and off we go again.
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I agree with the sentiment but I was more meaning we can’t ever look back and say “we shouldn’t have been locked down, we should have gone the aggressive testing route” as there’ll be no data in the UK to back that up. We can’t use data gained from other countries either because, of course, they’re other countries.
 
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