COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Len Rum]

My sister lives in Gatley and is in tier three but two miles down the road is in tier two. All down to postcodes. It's madness.

Welcome to the House of Fun.

 

[paulchapo]

The only way to prevent that would be to have the whole country at the same level, which would be worse would it not?

Well the country is already split into England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. This tier thing is ridiculous. I just watched the local news and because three areas of Lancashire are higher, the whole of Lancashire is in tier three instead of the three regions who's rate are higher. I thought that was the whole point of the system, to restrict higher areas not just lump the whole county into lockdown.

To be honest I'm losing the will to live with it, to me it looks like it was rolled out to deliberately be confusing and misleading, not to mention manipulated. The country can't go on like this indefinitely.

 

[Len Rum]

England hospital data news is good today:

Patients down 13, 587 to 13, 337 and this is DOWN from last Thursday when it was 13, 565. First nationwide wk to wk drop in many weeks.

Ventilators also down from 1306 to 1300 (was 1228 a wk ago)

Mr Blue Sky.
Keep up your optimism mate when need it!
But keep your pencil sharpened for January (as the actress said).

 

[mosssideblue]

Well the country is already split into England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. This tier thing is ridiculous. I just watched the local news and because three areas of Lancashire are higher, the whole of Lancashire is in tier three instead of the three regions who's rate are higher. I thought that was the whole point of the system, to restrict higher areas not just lump the whole county into lockdown.

To be honest I'm losing the will to live with it, to me it looks like it was rolled out to deliberately be confusing and misleading, not to mention manipulated. The country can't go on like this indefinitely.

I cannot see anything but a catastrophe for the NHS is Jan/Feb.

The Gov haven't been great at all, but irrespective of that, we could do a lot more to help ourselves as it is the public at large that determine the rate of infection, and I simply see people throwing the towel in at this time of year and not picking it up again until after the NY celebrations are concluded.

Whilst understandable that people are at the end of their tethers, with Vaccines looking likely in weeks, sacrificing these next few weeks could make a huge difference.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital regions:

LONDON Patients down 11 to 1478 (last wk 1403) Ventilators up 8 to 261 (last wk 248)

MIDLANDS Patients down 20 to 3122 (last wk 3039) Ventilators stay at 313 (last wk 281)

NE/YORKS Patients down 112 to 3006 (last wk 3344) Ventilators down 17 to 230 (last wk 247)

And NORTH WEST

Patients down 110 to 2632. Last wk was 2983 . Last time less than 2632 in hospital was 30 October.

Ventilators down 1 to 228. Last wk 254.

Hard to spin this data any way but positive.

 

[paulchapo]

I cannot see anything but a catastrophe for the NHS is Jan/Feb.

The Gov haven't been great at all, but irrespective of that, we could do a lot more to help ourselves as it is the public at large that determine the rate of infection, and I simply see people throwing the towel in at this time of year and not picking it up again until after the NY celebrations are concluded.

Whilst understandable that people are at the end of their tethers, with Vaccines looking likely in weeks, sacrificing these next few weeks could make a huge difference.

It's depressing for sure. I look at the Isle of Man, no messing there and no covid. They got on top of it from the start, hard and strict lockdown, if you broke quarantine you went straight to prison.

 

[Healdplace]

Mr Blue Sky.
Keep up your optimism mate when need it!
But keep your pencil sharpened for January (as the actress said).

Mrs, but thank you.

I just report what I see.

If its good I say so. If not I say that too,

I started collecting the data because I was tired of spin making things look whatever way someone wanted to on the news so just accessed the numbers to decide on back of these.

 

[Eds]

My sister lives in Gatley and is in tier three but two miles down the road is in tier two. All down to postcodes. It's madness.

There will always be bordering places in different tiers but where is two miles away from Gatley in tier 2

 

[mosssideblue]

It's depressing for sure. I look at the Isle of Man, no messing there and no covid. They got on top of it from the start, hard and strict lockdown, if you broke quarantine you went straight to prison.

Son and daughter in law live on IOM and said exactly the same. As it is so small I guess it is a lot easier to identify any culprits

 

[paulchapo]

There will always be bordering places in different tiers but where is two miles away from Gatley in tier 2

I have no idea mate she looked it up online and was putting postcodes in. I try to avoid the news and all the hysteria because otherwise it drives me nuts. Every so often I have a wobble today is one of those days.