COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Eds said:
What on earth does that have to do with it?
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You can close borders very easily as an island.

Germany borders nine countries with multiple roads coming in from all of them. Very difficult to close their borders, especially with them being in the EU.
 
Healdplace said:
GM scoreboard total cases 2474 (v 2165 last Saturday and 2386 yesterday):

Manchester 400 - up from 392. Total cases 20, 412. Weekly 2886. Pop score up 72 to 3692. Weekly Pop down to 522.

Wigan 352 - up from 332. Total cases 10, 914, Weekly 2435. Never been so close to Manchester in weekly total. Pop score up 107 to enter the 3300 club at 3321. Weekly Pop up to 741.

Oldham 272 - up from 262.Total cases 9672. Weekly 1791. Pop score up UK highest today of 115 to be the first GM borough into the 4000 club (an elite of 3 in UK so far) at 4079. Though well behind leader Blackburn. Weekly Pop up to 755. Highest any GM borough has ever been.

Salford 260 - down from 284. Total cases 8871. Weekly 1794. Pop score up 100 to enter 3400 club at 3427. Weekly Pop up to 693.

Bolton 252 - up from 223. Total cases 10, 484. Weekly 1713. Pop score up 88 to enter 3600 club at 3646. Weekly Pop up to 596.

Rochdale 206 - up from 190. Total cases 8385. Weekly 1469. Pop score up 93 to enter the 3700 club at 3770. Weekly Pop up to 660.

Tameside 198 - up from 195. Total cases 7154. Weekly 1309. Pop score up 86 to enter the 3100 club at 3157. Weekly Pop up to 576.

Stockport 196 - down from 202. Total cases 7243. Weekly 1449. Pop score up 66 - lowest in GM today - to 2468. Weekly Pop up to 491.

Bury 178 - up from 157. Total cases 6504. Weekly 1167. Pop score up 93 to enter the 3400 club at 3405. Weekly Pop 611. Rising fast.

Trafford 160 - up from 149 but lowest in GM again. Total cases 6285. Weekly 1056. Best weekly total in GM quite comfortably now. Pop score up 67 to enter the 2600 club at 2648. Weekly Pop DOWN to 445. Well clear as best in GM this week and likely to be only one in the 400s tomorrow. But in the overall Pop Score they lost ground by 1 on Stockport today - first in the week. The gap is now 180.
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Just a point of clarification (not with your data, but just in general) but they’re not actually ’cases’ are they? They’re positive tests using a diagnostic tool that isn’t really fit for purpose. They only become ‘cases’ when they actually need treatment and, on that basis we’ve had 1444 new cases today.
 
kevin horlocks wand said:
he did that’s why he stood for election . I wouldnt .
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And it’s a total shit-sandwich of a job at the minute.. damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t..

I wouldn’t criticise anybody trying to handle this situation where a large chunk of the UK population are acting like cnuts with no consequences (apart from actually contracting covid) so he’s on to a loser whatever he does

but if it makes you feel better then you continue to complain about him...it’s easy to do that on the outside.. ask Captain Hindsight
 
roubaixtuesday said:
Seems unclear atm.

According to Guardian

The situation is also a little unclear for kids’ sport. I am told there will be no exemption for under-18 indoor sport, but sport for under-18 team sport is undecided.

Wait and see methinks
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It’s another joke,grassroots sport will have 22 lads or girls plus if lucky another 20 on the sidelines, and in the weather we’re getting they’ll be lucky if there’s that many, where as elite clubs will have hundreds together, 4th officials will show us how not to wear a mask correctly and they’ll all be high fiving each other as usual. Then they’ll wonder why people tony follow the rules.
 
Fred_Quimby said:
Boris said you should remain in your local area. Anyone any idea what that means? We collect our Grandson from school for our daughter and she lives 16 miles away.
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I think that means you’ll be getting a £50k fine, doing national service and going to prison.
Mind you, some on here would have you shot, so think yourself lucky....
 
Bluemanc100 said:
And it’s a total shit-sandwich of a job at the minute.. damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t..

I wouldn’t criticise anybody trying to handle this situation where a large chunk of the UK population are acting like cnuts with no consequences (apart from actually contracting covid) so he’s on to a loser whatever he does

but if it makes you feel better then you continue to complain about him...it’s easy to do that on the outside.. ask Captain Hindsight
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We can criticise him (or his cabinet) for some things he definitely got wrong, like hospital PPE back at the start, or not closing our borders in March and September.

But even places we think of as well run with a good PM and who we think have done the right things at the right times (who have similar population densities or culture of population) are seeing the same rises in cases and deaths as us.

This is a virus, it’s not as straightforward as people think it is.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
You can close borders very easily as an island.

Germany borders nine countries with multiple roads coming in from all of them. Very difficult to close their borders, especially with them being in the EU.
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So we are comparing an over populated island like the UK with a population of 66m with one in the middle of nowhere with just under 5m population. That seems a sensible thing to do. My point was countries similar in size in Europe in terms of population or substantially smaller are all going through lockdowns. Comparing us the NZ was pointless
 
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