Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Healdplace said:
There seem to be growing calls from SAGE scientists to tighten restrictions to be more strict than March as the new strain will be much harder to contain than the first wave proved. Especially in mid winter versus early Spring.

They seem to think we are unlikely to see any downturn in cases and deaths for most of this month regardless.

Any thoughts on what day in January we will finally be told by government that harsher measures are required?
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February .....going by past experience
 
Healdplace said:
There seem to be growing calls from SAGE scientists to tighten restrictions to be more strict than March as the new strain will be much harder to contain than the first wave proved. Especially in mid winter versus early Spring.

They seem to think we are unlikely to see any downturn in cases and deaths for most of this month regardless.

Any thoughts on what day in January we will finally be told by government that harsher measures are required?
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what more can they do , what other restrictions can there be ?

given we were placed on lockdown only less than a week ago we have to surely see what affect it has .

I am hoping come February given the lockdown and the vaccines this will start to have an affect On the numbers.

the weather in January helps with people staying in anyway and everything being shut also helps !!!
 
kevin horlocks wand said:
what more can they do , what other restrictions can there be ?

given we were placed on lockdown only less than a week ago we have to surely see what affect it has .

I am hoping come February given the lockdown and the vaccines this will start to have an affect On the numbers.

the weather in January helps with people staying in anyway and everything being shut also helps !!!
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Millions of people still have to interact every day for work in non-essential roles as their employers won’t allow them to work from home or furlough. Thousands of kids have to go to school at the moment who didn’t have to in the first lockdown - more unnecessary mixing.

I’ve stopped working (self employed), not because I have to, but because otherwise my 6 yr old daughter would have to be on Netflix all day by herself as her mum (the bigger earner in our household) wouldn’t get a moment away from her laptop to parent. If I hadn’t cancelled my work, I do get the impression I could have tried to get daughter in school if I pushed and mixing with lots of kids. School is at capacity and they’ve asked some parents to reconsider.
 
The question is what more can they do?
Peoples mental health is shot and I had a nervous breakdown last year and thought long about ending it.

I see my girlfriend on Saturdays and we have formed a bubble.
If I was told not to see here for weeks I wouldn't be able to cope on my own.
Others are the same and need a support network.
Not everyone in the country is married or has family, there is a big duty of care to people who live alone.
Sometimes I dont think people realise how bad isolation is.
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
The question is what more can they do?
Peoples mental health is shot and I had a nervous breakdown last year and thought long about ending it.

I see my girlfriend on Saturdays and we have formed a bubble.
If I was told not to see here for weeks I wouldn't be able to cope on my own.
Others are the same and need a support network.
Not everyone in the country is married or has family, there is a big duty of care to people who live alone.
Sometimes I dont think people realise how bad isolation is.
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I don’t think seeing one, two or three people regularly is the problem. In my work I would have been interacting with 12+ people everyday, and I’m sure that’s a similar story for millions in the country. So work environments, and supermarkets (bring back limits on shoppers, social distancing), are the problems I see.
 
Healdplace said:
There seem to be growing calls from SAGE scientists to tighten restrictions to be more strict than March as the new strain will be much harder to contain than the first wave proved. Especially in mid winter versus early Spring.

They seem to think we are unlikely to see any downturn in cases and deaths for most of this month regardless.

Any thoughts on what day in January we will finally be told by government that harsher measures are required?
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This is a never ending nightmare that is just getting worse and worse.
 
CTID Chris said:
Millions of people still have to interact every day for work in non-essential roles as their employers won’t allow them to work from home or furlough. Thousands of kids have to go to school at the moment who didn’t have to in the first lockdown - more unnecessary mixing.

I’ve stopped working (self employed), not because I have to, but because otherwise my 6 yr old daughter would have to be on Netflix all day by herself as her mum (the bigger earner in our household) wouldn’t get a moment away from her laptop to parent. If I hadn’t cancelled my work, I do get the impression I could have tried to get daughter in school if I pushed and mixing with lots of kids. School is at capacity and they’ve asked some parents to reconsider.
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it’s the same isnt it, schools are closed other than to key workers?

is going to school optional? I can send my son to school if I want to even though not a key worker ?
 
Rammy Blue said:
Yes mate, I stocked up on a big load of multivitamins with everything added, from Costco, and also some high strength vit d tablets.
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Are the vitamins for the families and children you'll be coughing over on you daily ablution, or in true Rammy style are you going to keep hold of them and gobble them all up yourself? I sent an email to the parks commission this morning remonstrating on your behalf and they said they see no reason they can't keep the children and families away during lock-down as kids being kids ,they can get quite excitable and boisterous when in open space. They wish you well in your current fitness regime, but have requested you are not to cough as you approach as this can cause them alarm harassment and distress especially with the record numbers of deaths being so critically high. They have asked me to pass on an alternative resolution in that you could simply say Excuse Me or jog around them without getting proper Leary.

Anyway some good news Oh Selfish One and that is before today, exercise was to be local and did not incorporate a 5 mile treck to your happy wobbling grounds, but it's now been reevaluated in Derbyshire.

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Derbyshire Police to review penalty notices issued during new lockdown

Derbyshire Police has said all fixed penalty notices issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed after it received clarification about the coronavirus regulations. The decision follows the force being branded "bonkers"
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I am unsure if this applies with Bury council so do check with the local authority as I have no penchant to see you fined lad. Take care and Adios Amigo.

#Imalrightjack
 
I think there’s likely something they haven’t figured out about this strain that’s causing the spread even while in lockdown, increased time it survives on surfaces or in the air maybe.

Yes there are more takeaways open and more people are at work, but there’s alot more immunity in the population this time round and masks were actively discouraged in lockdown 1, now they are mandatory.

Maybe it’s as simple as it was warm weather last time so everyone was outside more.
 
aguero93:20 said:
That's sugar not fat you dozey ****. Sugar bad fat good
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It’s a minefield out there, so no running no grass no fags no donuts no semi’s

It’s full fat milk and lard for breakfast dinner and tea. Gotcha.

Thank god whiskey has barley in it and you can use it as substitute for water.

Pick us up a Bottle of Johnnie Walker please Inchy.
 
I do sense Boris is finally realising how serious a hole we are in. Though probably knows that short of a time machine to go back and act faster - as I am sure he has already realised was the wrong call - then he just has to hope the vaccine works as well as anticipated.

Because if that goes pear shaped as is unlikely but not impossible or the virus mutates to avoid it we will probably emerge from this worse than much of the world because of our slowness to lockdown.

Like all of us I suspect he knows we are in the hands of fate right now and these are the crucial 3 or 4 weeks of the pandemic during which the vaccines and the restrictions will visibly start to slowly turn the tide back in favour of humanity or we will face a crisis unparalleled in all our lives.

The BBC last night showed Spielberg's modern take on the HG Wells War of the World story which kept fairly true to its century old narrative.

In that humans faced being wiped out by alien invaders but a form of coronavirus that they had no immunity to rapidly KOd the invaders and saved Earth.

Quite odd watching that film a decade after it was made where we are now in a far more similar scenario for real than I suspect anybody ever dreamt when it was in the (all now closed) cinemas.

Let us all hope we come out of this like the humans did in that story and not the Martians.

And at least as yet Covid has not mutated to create a death ray! Though given its cunning you do wonder.
 
hilts said:
It’s a minefield out there, so no running no grass no fags no donuts no semi’s

It’s full fat milk and lard for breakfast dinner and tea. Gotcha.

Thank god whiskey has barley in it and you can use it as substitute for water.

Pick us up a Bottle of Johnnie Walker please Inchy.
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as you get older you will find you have to get used to a semi more and more
 
Two Gun Bob said:
Are the vitamins for the families and children you'll be coughing over on you daily ablution, or in true Rammy style are you going to keep hold of them and gobble them all up yourself? I sent an email to the parks commission this morning remonstrating on your behalf and they said they see no reason they can't keep the children and families away during lock-down as kids being kids ,they can get quite excitable and boisterous when in open space. They wish you well in your current fitness regime, but have requested you are not to cough as you approach as this can cause them alarm harassment and distress especially with the record numbers of deaths being so critically high. They have asked me to pass on an alternative resolution in that you could simply say Excuse Me or jog around them without getting proper Leary.

Anyway some good news Oh Selfish One and that is before today, exercise was to be local and did not incorporate a 5 mile treck to your happy wobbling grounds, but it's now been reevaluated in Derbyshire.

www.aol.co.uk

Derbyshire Police to review penalty notices issued during new lockdown

Derbyshire Police has said all fixed penalty notices issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed after it received clarification about the coronavirus regulations. The decision follows the force being branded "bonkers"
www.aol.co.uk www.aol.co.uk

I am unsure if this applies with Bury council so do check with the local authority as I have no penchant to see you fined lad. Take care and Adios Amigo.

#Imalrightjack
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You’re just too funny.
 
BLUEMATT23 said:
The question is what more can they do?
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Best wishes Blue. Hang in there.

What more can we do?

1. Better support and pay for those self isolating or sick.

2. Restrict key worker definition to limit numbers in schools.

3. Better support for home learning, so parents keep children at home.

4. Test, trace, isolate system improvement.

4. Better communication with consistent messaging. Stay home blues!

5. Engage private business. Get McDonalds etc to shut except delivery - not essential.

6. Enforcement. Last resort.

7. Place Julia Hartley Brewer on a small offshore island and remove her Internet.

[Edit: 8. Learn to number lists!]
 
The old fella is 88 today, best birthday present he got was an invitation to the jab centre, very surprised, logged on to the site and got 17:01 Thursday coming at the Hyde Active Centre. Lots of negativity about the handling of the process but I can't fault the expediency here, Biontech/Pfizer version, I'm so relieved.

Chinese (I know) takeaway and a few drinks with the old man and Mrs H tonight in our bubble.
 
hilts said:
It’s a minefield out there, so no running no grass no fags no donuts no semi’s

It’s full fat milk and lard for breakfast dinner and tea. Gotcha.

Thank god whiskey has barley in it and you can use it as substitute for water.

Pick us up a Bottle of Johnnie Walker please Inchy.
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Fucks sake, scotch can't even spell whiskey
 
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