COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[BlueHammer85]

How are folk catching the virus at this accelerating rate following six long weeks of lock-down?
Is it from the high street, because it's certainly not our hospitality sectors that have been effectively nullified.

loads i know are going to each others houses, loada my mates watched Joshua fight last week to the early hours. (we're in tier 3)

 

[Ric]

Seems the school didn’t know.
L just had a message that year 11 are back in January and Y7 to Y10 are online learning only.

Just had to pour her another glass of wine!
Her mate, who does the IT, has just lost his Christmas as he’ll have to set it all up again.

Oof, not what you want to hear on the last day of term. She'll be needing that wine. If it's any consolation, knowing the government there's every chance there will be a U-turn before January.

 

[Ban-jani]

loads i know are going to each others houses, loada my mates watched Joshua fight last week to the early hours. (we're in tier 3)

There’s more of this creeping in.

I know of a few doing it.

The vaccines cannot come soon enough.

 

[Healdplace]

Regional scoreboard:

Most places down but NW still second highest numbers in three weeks and highest region outside the south.

 

[Two Gun Bob]

loads i know are going to each others houses, loada my mates watched Joshua fight last week to the early hours. (we're in tier 3)

Its the overall acceleration in a recent lock down and the fact that so many are catching it daily. It's like pissing in the wind.

 

[meltonblue]

How are folk catching the virus at this accelerating rate following six long weeks of lock-down?
Is it from the high street, because it's certainly not our hospitality sectors that have been effectively nullified.

Time of year coupled with schools remaining open mainly.

 

[wattle]

I’d like to know how they think headteachers and schools can organise this when they have just finished for Christmas this afternoon.

We had been told to set up for online learning 6 weeks ago but were also told this would only be used when years were closed or our students had to self isolate. To spring this on us at this late stage is disgraceful. We were given no prior warning of a mass online curriculum needing to be set up. This costs huge amounts of money in software and training, not to mention the time setting it up. The schools should have been shut as in the summer or at least all students should be part time so that social distancing was realistic. It’s sweeping through my school now. 3 teachers have it, one is seriously ill on a ventilator and I know 2 teachers who have died in the last month. This isn’t reported in the press as it would cause panic and force the gov to close schools. My lad has had SIX periods of isolation in 2 months and is expected to do an exam in January. It’s one holy fuck up of a mess

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

There’s more of this creeping in.

I know of a few doing it.

The vaccines cannot come soon enough.

but by closing restaurants you are taking people out of a controlled environment which is policed and cleaned and people distance and placing them in an uncontrolled environment like a mates house where people let their guard down, order a pizza share it and pass each other beers .
you can’t police every household.

I understand the pubs decision people will go bonkers , but cafes and restaurants which have been passed as Covid secure ?

over xmas all that will happen is people from south Manchester who want to go out will either

go to wilmslow, alderley or wherever in Cheshire,

or go to their mates house because they think it’s safe.

it’s daft these decisions have unintended consequences and unfortunately you have to think of the nobs as we have a lot of them.

nobs will be nobs

it’s like the first real lockdown

everyone at home bored.
cleans their house and have a clear out
they stop the bin collections
they then close the tips.

fly tipping increases. No shit Sherlock!

 

[SWP's back]

I’m sure it’s probably been posted

 

[Silvercloud]

loads i know are going to each others houses, loada my mates watched Joshua fight last week to the early hours. (we're in tier 3)

Same here. I know a dozen or so lads who take it in turns to "host" the rest for City matches. They all pop round to the house and spend a few hours there. Last week they all watched the Joshua fight as well.
If the boozers were open, they'd all be sat, socially distanced, being waited on, watching the match & chatting.

 

[Healdplace]

Regional Scoreboard:

London 5762 - down from 6777

East 3879 - UP from 3345 - biggest riser of the day

South East 4384 - down from 4757.

So the three regions fall to 14,025 from 14, 879.

Others:

Midlands 1752 - down from 1935

North East 590 - down from 801.

Yorkshire 1120 - down from 1368 Yorkshire is the ONLY region in England where numbers fell in the past wk versus last week.


And North West 1848 - down from 2164.

So the biggest fall is the good news. Less good is still highest of these 4 and this is the second highest total behind yesterday for 3 weeks.

 

[Craig]

Actually, for some people, it will.

Yes but the infection rates from hospitality were minimal from the government’s own data.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

I’m sure it’s probably been posted

Yeah and fair play, the thread's now been inundated with all the people claiming herd immunity in Sweden earlier in the year acknowledging their error.

 

[Summerbuzz]

How are folk catching the virus at this accelerating rate following six long weeks of lock-down?
Is it from the high street, because it's certainly not our hospitality sectors that have been effectively nullified.

Weather is surely one factor. That cold spell had most of the country hovering around or below 4C, which is thought to be perfect temperature for the virus to spread.

 

[Ban-jani]

I’m sure it’s probably been posted

I’ll hold my hands up.

I was it’s biggest supporter in July/August but it became clear in September/October here that it wasn’t going to work and many people will undoubtedly unfortunately die.

I wasn’t a conspiracy whack, more that I thought herd immunity was the only way to move forward.

 

[Ban-jani]

Yeah and fair play, the thread's now been inundated with all the people claiming herd immunity in Sweden earlier in the year acknowledging their error.

Yep, I was one of them, I was very wrong.

Thankfully I don’t work for SAGE.

 

[Healdplace]

GM summary today Total cases 679 - down 115 on yesterday. This is a fall again to a new low of the percentage of the NW total - just over 36%.

So ironic that GM has without question been doing better than the rest of the NW over the past week.

Liverpool and Wirral are both down on yesterday but at 97 that is Liverpool's second worst numbers in a few weeks.

Within GM - only Manchester over 100. Only two boroughs rise (Tameside and Rochdale - neither by much). Trafford still not doing as well as it was. Stockport better today. But we now have NO boroughs with weekly Pop scores under 100 again for the first time in a while showing cases have indeed generally been edging up in recent weeks.

The best numbers in GM today are from a surprise source btw. Leave you guessing until full report later.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Yep, I was one of them, I was very wrong.

Thankfully I don’t work for SAGE.

Kudos

 

[Healdplace]

For Andyhinch. Cheshire East a little better but still second worst whilst tracking it for you.

Cases 96 - down from 114. Total cases 10, 108. Pop score up 25 to 2631.

Weekly pop up from 134 to 143. Big increases here as numbers have risen week to week quite a bit.

Will not mention again why I think they have but happy to see a scientist just now on the BBC agree that the tier system is not working as well as they had hoped.

 

[somapop]

And cases/deaths aside I don’t suppose their economy fared any better either?
I know kits had pinned hope on their strategy