COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[blueparrot]

My feeling is that with Johnson incapacitated the government has gone into a risk averse shell and it is prepared to completely crash the economy for fear of critical headlines.

No, was expecting 3 weeks, not sure if it’s from today until the 7th or up until the 11th monday. Think it was always factored into the economy with the 3 months payments covering March , April ,May.
Any further extensions will become a problem though financially and socially .

 

[bert38]

Medical

Transport use still low

Transmission overall is below one

New cases in hospital- flattening,maybe decreasing

Patients in hospital,some areas flat ,some decreasing,london has come down,looking good

Number of deaths- stay up for a while longer,stlil tracking italy

And the last chart showed all deaths for UK on day 18-looked approx 20% higher than solely deaths in hospital at that stage.

 

[jimharri]

Quick reminder folks; political comments to be posted in the relevant thread in the politics sub forum. Thanks.

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

No, was expecting 3 weeks, not sure if it’s from today until the 7th or up until the 11th monday. Think it was always factored into the economy with the 3 months payments covering March , April ,May.
Any further extensions will become a problem though financially and socially .

I too expected three weeks but the tone didn’t fill me with any confidence that it will be eased after this date.

 

[Gabriel]

3 more weeks, we can do this.

Château BlueHammer85?

;-)

 

[i8rags]

Why would this huge military plane keep taking off and landing at Manchester, 3 times in 29 mins
4 times

 

[Deleted member 77198]

First to ask a question yet again. And one that he's obviously not going to answer as he even said it in his opening speech.

Indeed. And she asks the same question all the time.

 

[abu13]

Why would this huge military plane keep taking off and landing at Manchester, 3 times in 29 mins

Everytime it takes off it heads over to Merseyside, takes one look and turns right back around.

 

[quiet_riot]

Why would this huge military plane keep taking off and landing at Manchester, 3 times in 29 mins

https://planefinder.net/flight/RRR818

 

[Coatigan]

Are England Scotland and wales numbers fairly similar per million?

interesting question. i wouldnt say so, in scotland the deaths are 141 per million.

I can't seem to find figures for england only, but given the uk overall is higher, i imagine itl be somewhat higher.

Also worth noting Scotland's figures include non hospital deaths, where as i beleive some say England's don't, so not a direct comparison.

At the end of the day, the UK total is what matters. Scotland is vast and not as densely populated in as many areas. Heck london alone vastly sways the numbers.

 

[lonestay]

Can you imagine being Laura Doomsbergs partner they must get fed up listening to her drone on day in day out !!!

 

[Two Gun Bob]

I can't quite see the relevance of a transport graph whilst we continue to allow 400,000 unchecked travelers into the country monthly. That's some piss poor lock-down statistic so should our air travel be more seriously monitored. I understand the need for repatriation of British nationals but can the other passengers be classed as "essential" in this current climate?

 

[i8rags]

Four times in half hour, massive military plane taking off landing, taking off again, why?

 

[Gabriel]

Why would this huge military plane keep taking off and landing at Manchester, 3 times in 29 mins
4 times

Practicing taking off and landing while the skies are quieter?

 

[Vic]

I’m not so sure you can send that advice to everyone over 70. There’s nothing to suggest that being 70 today puts you at more risk than being 69 yesterday. I know some 40 year olds who need to do the 12 week thing and, conversely, I know a few 70 somethings who are absolutely fine doing the daily exercise and some shopping.

Well yes, I raised the risk of 69 v 70 issue. I just think there is some confusion because the guidance that came out wasn't as strict for over 70s as what was trailed a fortnight before, and it seems to have passed relatively unremarked. Since then of course the extra risk of being male and being BAME (just mentioned by Whitty) have both become clearer.

 

[Cheesy]

Four times in half hour, massive military plane taking off landing, taking off again, why?

It's just training.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I can't quite see the relevance of a transport graph whilst we continue to allow 400,000 unchecked travelers into the country monthly. That's some piss poor lock-down statistic so should our air travel be more seriously monitored. I understand the need for repatriation of British nationals but can the other passengers be classed as "essential" in this current climate?

It’s not even been mentioned at all in this press conference has it?

Nit one journo has asked the question neither.

 

[Len Rum]

Bit worrying that by yesterday we'd only done 18,000 tests per day.
On a linear basis to get from the 10,000 per day at the end of March to the 100,000 per day at the end of April we should have been at 55,000 per day.
So unless we're going to ramp it up dramatically in the next two weeks we will fall well short of the 100k per day.
That's worrying for lots of reasons not least of which is coming out of lockdown ( I.e. is the R factor below 1, who's had the disease and who hasn't etc etc).

 

[i8rags]

It's just training.

Possible but a bit late for that, what’s up with the normally way they do this. Almost looks like a show of strength.

 

[Akpowell]

Hahahahah hahahahah