Coronavirus

[Isegrim 9717]

On 29/10/2020 at 13:46, Meenzer said:

 

Interestingly the French and German "lockdown light" variants they've just brought in still have the schools staying open. Aside from the benefit to the kids, as much as anything I imagine the feeling is it's better to have parents who can actually be productive at work rather than having to juggle it with home schooling. Either that or, like here, they've had time to come up with a more viable blended schooling concept in the meantime and just haven't bothered.  

There has been too much pressure to keep schools and kindergardens open for the well-being of the kids and the parents.

[Kid Dynamite 6985]

8 hours ago, Dr Gloom said:

in case anyone fancies some escapism 

 

Who thought that was a good idea man  

 

[Monkeys Fist 42004]

8 hours ago, Dr Gloom said:

in case anyone fancies some escapism 

 

There’s got to be a Batman joke in there somewhere. 

[trooper 940]

Well my sister, brother in law & nephew all got their test results back today & they've all come back positive. Fuck off Coronavirus.

[PaddockLad 17067]

Sorry to hear that Troops. My mates missus is a hairdresser, she got infected then passed it on to my mate and their two boys. They’re all fine and out of isolation. Hope all your folks are ok. 

[Isegrim 9717]

All the best Trooper.

[trooper 940]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

National Lockdown to be announced next week 

[Meenzer 15371]

Could we stop trying to save Christmas please? I'll be delighted to not have to see anyone for once  

[Monkeys Fist 42004]

4 minutes ago, Meenzer said:

Could we stop trying to save Christmas please? I'll be delighted to not have to see anyone for once  

You’ve got to take the take the positives when you can. 
 

… couldn’t resist. 

[Isegrim 9717]

Without Cambridge Analytica he isn’t that good at manipulating stats...

[ewerk 30221]

Sounds like there could be a new national lockdown soon. Better late than never.

[Ugly Mackems 133]

58 minutes ago, trooper said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

National Lockdown to be announced next week 

A month with my feet up....how will I manage?

 

It needs to happen. 

[Dr Gloom 21801]

As long as they keep the schools open, fine

[Gemmill 44265]

6 hours ago, Dr Gloom said:

As long as they keep the schools open, fine

 

Mental how much lot hate your kids.

[ewerk 30221]

Nice of them to give us a weekend’s notice to get to the pub again.

[ewerk 30221]

Prof Gabriel Scally, a Sage member, told BBC's Newsnight that a national lockdown was inevitable.

"The R number is still far too high. Everyone knows that these tiers are not working and they're not going to work.

"We could have got away with a shorter circuit-breaker if it had been done earlier but now I think the numbers are accelerating so fast that there is nothing left in the armoury anymore except really quite a serious lockdown."

 

As @trooper has been saying for weeks now.

[ewerk 30221]

 

[Rayvin 5164]

Sorry but how have we gone from 100 deaths to 4000 in the space of a week or so?

 

Have these individuals saying this simply been ignored by both media and government, or has something happened to change the state of play?

[Billy Whitehurst 885]

2 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

Mental how much lot hate your kids.

 

We love them, just in small doses.

[Dr Gloom 21801]

Aye, that completely. Love them after work and at weeekends. Absolutely hated trying to juggle work with being their maths teacher. Also feel really sorry for the children having to tolerate being trapped at home with us. It’s shit for everyone 

[ewerk 30221]

56 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

Sorry but how have we gone from 100 deaths to 4000 in the space of a week or so?

 

Have these individuals saying this simply been ignored by both media and government, or has something happened to change the state of play?

Uh, I’m not sure those figures are accurate.

[Sonatine 11304]

 

[Kid Dynamite 6985]

1 hour ago, Rayvin said:

Sorry but how have we gone from 100 deaths to 4000 in the space of a week or so?

 

Have these individuals saying this simply been ignored by both media and government, or has something happened to change the state of play?

[Kid Dynamite 6985]

And the scary thing is there usually a 3 week ish lag between catching COVID and dying. So in another 3 weeks you can double that death rate to 7-800 a day going on how quickly the cases are rising 

Which is exactly why SAGE/Labour asked for a lockdown 2 weeks ago. If you wait until the cases get too high then it's already too late. We most have the most reactive government in the western world 

 

Edited October 31, 2020 by Kid Dynamite

[Kid Dynamite 6985]

3 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

And the scary thing is there usually a 3 week ish lag between catching COVID and dying. So in another 3 weeks you can double that death rate to 7-800 a day going on how quickly the cases are rising.
 

Which is exactly why SAGE/Labour asked for a lockdown 2 weeks ago. If you wait until the cases get too high then it's already too late. We most have the most reactive government in the western world 

 

 

Edited October 31, 2020 by Kid Dynamite