COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[BlueAnorak]

i came home this afternoon from my 8 hour shift.
my mrs very upset and distraught
her friend ,workmate and nurse had died overnight with covid,
took only three weeks from contracting covid on ITU to dying on ITU
42 years old and 2 children

God bless and rest in peace Mirri

Horrible.
Sadly far too frequent.
My thoughts and prayers are with you and yours.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

apparently Trafford were offered tier two and said no??

I think that was during the first lockdown mate when Trafford was under a lot of pressure from Burnham not to accept. I might be wrong.

 

[hammocity]

I think that was during the first lockdown mate when Trafford was under a lot of pressure from Burnham not to accept. I might be wrong.

The loss of Blue44's wife's friend/colleague and mother of 2 at the age of 42 brings it home. I'm up for an extended lockdown until the numbers are right down and the vaccine is available, not a big family so Christmas on the back burner won't hurt me but surely just leave it this year to avoid any unnecessary deaths especially those like the aforementioned who put her life on the line and lost it trying to help others, heartbreakingly sad.

 

[FantasyIreland]

i came home this afternoon from my 8 hour shift.
my mrs very upset and distraught
her friend ,workmate and nurse had died overnight with covid,
took only three weeks from contracting covid on ITU to dying on ITU
42 years old and 2 children

God bless and rest in peace Mirri

So very sad x

I saw yesterday a lady state her husband,a Paramedic (and a Blue),was also fighting for his life on ICU.

Those who still think this virus isn't very,very real need a fucking big head wobble.

Do your bit and don't be a dick,people.

 

[M18CTID]

And the **** of the day award goes to:

 

[East Level 2]

And the **** of the day award goes to:

Are the authorities paying him a visit?

 

[blue b4 the moon]

First reply on that^^ Why can't they just open everything up and if the hospitals can't cope, build more hospitals? I'd rather see the nightingale hospitals open than everyone locked down.

FFS

 

[M18CTID]

Are the authorities paying him a visit?

You’d hope so. It’s not like they won’t have to do much investigative work to find out where he lives. Should be an easy slam dunk for them

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

apparently Trafford were offered tier two and said no??

If true then at least they are consistent as when Wigan and Stockport went from 3 to 2 Trafford said no then and stayed in 3

 

[blue44]

And the **** of the day award goes to:

Just an utter utter disgrace
advocating that
i hope karma pays him a visit
arsehole

 

[blue44]

First reply on that^^ Why can't they just open everything up and if the hospitals can't cope, build more hospitals? I'd rather see the nightingale hospitals open than everyone locked down.

FFS

like my wife says and most people know
they cant open nightingale hospitals or build more
who is going to staff them ?
its that simple.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

And the **** of the day award goes to:

Shane MaGowan has him sussed.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

First reply on that^^ Why can't they just open everything up and if the hospitals can't cope, build more hospitals? I'd rather see the nightingale hospitals open than everyone locked down.

FFS

Yeah. Next up, "what's the problem, just build more crematoria"

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Do not give cunts like Fox the publicity which he craves. Another take out merchant.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Shane MaGowan has him sussed.

Piers Morgan did a good rant at that twat aswell

 

[Ban-jani]

Piers Morgan did a good rant at that twat aswell

Pot calling kettle black though.

Morgan is one of the biggest wankers on tele.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Pot calling kettle black though.

Morgan is one of the biggest wankers on tele.

true, but he's got it right on this subject

 

[Ban-jani]

true, but he's got it right on this subject

I don’t like Fox, he’s a complete moron but a lot of stuff is massively exaggerated about him.

I reckon you could find a dozen blokes in the pub more politically astute than him, why he’s going to run a party I’ll never know.

but I don’t think he’s a racist, he’s just a plank.

 

[Healdplace]

If true then at least they are consistent as when Wigan and Stockport went from 3 to 2 Trafford said no then and stayed in 3

I think he might have just misunderstood my post last night referring to Trafford rejecting the offer last time round and why it benefited Trafford to say no and Stockport who said yes quickly ended up back in and got overtaken by Trafford as top borough in GM. I may well not have clarified that.

Though if you look at the GM Pop scores as of yesterday below half of them are now under the 200 cases per 100,000 limit usually applied to define tier 2 or 3. And the rest not far above it.

See below - with the current numbers v the ones used by the government to declare GM in tier 3. I show the ones from about 14 days ago to remove the impact of the student reallocation that increased numbers in GM artificially for a few days. No idea if the government took that into account. But a fairer comparison removes that impact. But they always used finalised case data nearly a week old so its a fair comparison.

Last Night:

TRAFFORD 122, STOCKPORT 150, TAMESIDE 158, SALFORD 164, MANCHESTER 194, BURY 223, WIGAN 224, BOLTON 225, OLDHAM 256, ROCHDALE 287

14 days ago:

STOCKPORT 347, TRAFFORD 372, MANCHESTER 403, TAMESIDE 421, BOLTON 470, WIGAN 470, SALFORD 479,
BURY 512, ROCHDALE 516, OLDHAM 619

As you can see there was a HUGE change between the data when they based the decisions and right now.

So just taking Trafford out now would be unreasonable and lead to anger elsewhere.

More importantly, Trafford and GM is where they are now because the recent lockdown has got it there. Opening up one or more areas in GM would reverse that and by Christmas when most restrictions go for five days it could result in a third wave that will lock down GM for the rest of the Winter.

I think coming out of tier 3 would be a serious mistake for any borough.

But I understand the temptation as it might be the difference between survival of a livelihood or not.

What it must NOT be is a politically motivated decision.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

The loss of Blue44's wife's friend/colleague and mother of 2 at the age of 42 brings it home. I'm up for an extended lockdown until the numbers are right down and the vaccine is available, not a big family so Christmas on the back burner won't hurt me but surely just leave it this year to avoid any unnecessary deaths especially those like the aforementioned who put her life on the line and lost it trying to help others, heartbreakingly sad.

I could take or leave Xmas most years mate. The highlight for me is the Boxing Day football but that’s pretty irrelevant because we won’t be allowed into grounds.

As the Sasha guy who works for Andy Burnham has said, a decision on Covid Tiers (going into 2) on 17 December gives hospitality hardly any time to reopen before Xmas anyway. The hospitality businesses do need proper support and it now looks like Boris is going to make a Uturn on helping higher tier businesses.