Coronavirus (2021) thread

[inchy14]

Few mentions of Glasto in here today.

Whilst it's a bit of a blow to the festival/events/entertainment industry to see it cancelled, it was pretty much inevitable.

It's one of the earlier festivals in the summer calendar, and by all accounts its a 6 month logistical operation to get it all ready. Which basically means they had to decide this month whether to go for it or not. I imagine it would've been a financial disaster to crack on in the unlikely event it could happen, to only then have to call it off in April/May.

Some of the smaller festivals might have a chance of going ahead, though time will tell.

Really feel for everyone connected to the live music industry, them and travel have been absolutely battered and there is no end in sight.

Cannot wait to go to a gig again when the time is right.

Got Keane and the Doves in Delamere forest in July to look forward to plus New Order in September in Heaton park.. hope these go ahead.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital numbers for today: (not yet on Gov UK)

Patients 33, 235 - down 651. Fallen now for 4 days.

Ventilators 3607 - up 4 Only up 37 in four days. It was going up much more every day only a week ago.


Regions:-

East

Patients up 10 to 4078.

Ventilators up 20 to 354


London

Patients down 256 to 7332 and a fall of 600 in past 4 days

Ventilators up 9 to 1217 - but only 11 in past 5 days much slower than it was.

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Midlands

Patients up 30 to 6580

Ventilators up 8 to 627


NE/Yorkshire

Patients up 4 to 3814.

Ventilators down 6 to 322


North West

Patients down 31 to 4287

Ventilators up 15 to 402 - highest ever and first time ever over 400. Maybe why deaths are rising here?


South East

Patients down 364 to 5033. Big falls in patient numbers in past few days in London and South East. But many deaths here too.

Ventilators down 41 to 478. Down 53 in 3 days.


South West

Patients down 36 to 2311 - first fall in a while

Ventilators down 5 to 207

 

[squirtyflower]

Funnily enough, was reading about this earlier. Ordered one off Amazon for delivery tomorrow which will be day 5 since my symptoms started so hopefully will give me a bit of an edge if things get worse

Hope everything works out for you blue

 

[feedthegoat27]

Got Keane and the Doves in Delamere forest in July to look forward to plus New Order in September in Heaton park.. hope these go ahead.

Fingers crossed for you buddy.

You'd assume events like that can make a relatively late decision on the feasibility of it going ahead, something larger festivals can't really do.

Maybe our 2021 summer festival season will merge into smaller one off events over just a day or an afternoon/evening that can be organised and arranged with little notice?

At the moment it's hard to see something like Leeds/Reading weekend fest happening, but come Spring, and assuming a successful continuation of the vaccine rollout, then there could be hope for some summer pop up events and limited one day festivals maybe?

Come summer I'd love nothing more than being shafted for 7 quid for a pint of warm lager whilst awaiting a band to come on stage.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

20.12.20 on this graph represents the start of the vaccination process.

 

[Healdplace]

Watch Areas

Cheshire East

Cases 158. Down 71. Total 16, 667

Pop score up 41 to 4339.

Weekly Pop down 22 to 302.



Swansea

Cases 43 - down from 69. Total 15, 803

Pop score up 17 to 6398 - one of the lowest recent rises.

Weekly Pop down 12 to 173. Really out of any trouble now,


Kent

Dartford

Cases 103 up from 93. Total 8981.

Pop score up 92 to 7976.

Weekly Pop down 25 to 656.


Medway

Cases 181 up from 179. Total 23, 228

Pop score up 65 to 8339

Weekly Pop down 6 to 530

 

[squirtyflower]

All a show. Schools were told by DfE this week they would lose all funding for nursery children if they weren’t seen to be encouraging their attendance. And they massively widened the key worker criteria. And some parents are selfish arseholes. We had SEVEN kids in during 1st lockdown all children of NHS or care home staff. We have 72 in next week with more to follow. This will kill people. Parents brothers sisters, teachers TAs caretakers, it will help overload the hospitals so forgive me but their shouting is all a facade ( and yes, I do know it should have a cedilla!). They are utterly fucking inept and downright lethal

Why are you a teacher if you hate teaching children so much?
Why, as a deputy head, can you not show some leadership to those around you?

You should be celebrating the fact that you have children in school as you are providing an essential service as well as educating them beyond what they would have at home.

Tell me how many nurseries have had to isolate because of Covid?
How many 3-10 year olds have passed on the virus to your litany of people who you feel have been wronged?

From my experience the people passing Covid around in schools are the staff themselves who are unable/unwilling to follow the rules and not inform us when they have the symptoms.

Surely you should be praising and thanking the staff at your school for the commitment they are showing to the children they work with for providing an environment where 72 of the parents are confident to send their children to you, unlike before where they didn’t trust schools.

As a public servant isn’t your primary duty to serve the public? Thank goodness NHS staff aren’t as quick to hide as you are.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Thankfully I’m not on either of those. Full of total crackpots!

My mate reckons you only go on Facebook if you're a young girl or a groomer. I'm not on social media at all and never will be

 

[Ric]

My mate reckons you only go on Facebook if you're a young girl or a groomer. I'm not on social media at all and never will be

Forums are a form of social media.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Forums are a form of social

Forums are a form of social media.

Not where the general public can come on here and spout bollocks. I like to think we are all like minded barring the odd few

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Not where the general public can come on here and spout bollocks.

I think you have just summed up Bluemoon to perfection...

 

[Manc in London]

It’s on North West Tonight now. A Youth Worker from Moss Side is saying he’s had a lot of youth and young adult black people coming to him with conspiracy theories about Covid.

In a recent survey:
72% of black people say they won’t have the vaccine.
Compared to 42% of Asian and 15% of white people.

The youth worker said there needs to be some black doctors and role models coming forward to promote the vaccine to black people.

It’s alarming though! Where are these 72% 42% and 15% spending their time? Where are they getting their information? What are they reading? Who’s influencing them?

I came across an article on this a few days ago. One of the suggestions was a lack of trust in research due to perceived (or actual?) under representation of BAME individuals in the research sample.

I would think there also concerns about contents of the vaccine. Some think it contains traces of pork, and I think I heard, some think it contains traces of egg.

 

[i8rags]

Well Patel is doing it
A patronising bully.

But I would, and pay for the privilege

 

[Healdplace]

GM Scoreboard:

1337 - down 242 from 1579. 30.2% of the 849 NW fall to take the North West Total to 5431. Rise of 0.3% on yesterday

3 wks v 2 wks v last wk v Today:- 1365 v 1777 v 1917 v 1337. Lowest yet after steady rises.


Pop Score is cases across whole pandemic v 100,000 people - rises daily but lower the better.

Weekly Pop is same measure across last 7 days only. Can rise or fall depending on if more cases or less occur today v the same day last week.


Either way Up is bad, down is good.



Manchester 257 – down from 332. Total 43, 080. Weekly 2251. Big drop week to week. Pop score up 646 to 7792. Weekly Pop down 30 to 407.

Bolton 166 - up from 164. Total cases 20, 403. Weekly 1043. Pop score up 58 to 7096. Weekly Pop down 9 to 363.

Wigan 148- down from 213. Total cases 23, 564. Weekly 1213. Pop score up 45 to 7170. Weekly Pop down 32 to 369.

Salford 139- down from 142. Total cases 18, 549. Weekly 932. Pop score up 53 to 7166. Weekly Pop down 18 to 360.

Stockport 128 – down from 156. Total cases 16, 252. Weekly 1051. Pop score up 44 to 5539. Weekly Pop down 12 to 358.

Tameside 125 – same as yesterday . Total cases 14, 318. Weekly 774. Pop score up 56 to 6322. Weekly Pop down 18 to 342.

Trafford 113 - down from 125. Total cases 13, 473. Weekly 786. Pop score up 47 to 5676. Stockport's Pop Score lead stretches to 137. Weekly Pop down 25 to 331.

Rochdale 103 - same as yesterday. Total cases 17, 300. Weekly 755. Pop score up 46 to 7778.Weekly Pop down 7 to 339.

Oldham 81 - down from 114. Total cases 19, 126. Weekly 664. Pop score 34 to 8066. Lowest rise in GM today. Weekly Pop down 16 to 280.

Bury 77- down from 105. Total cases 14, 062. Weekly 655. Snatches best weekly total from Oldham, Pop score up 41 to 7363. Weekly Pop down 27 to 343.

A lot of big falls again from numbers last week show in the Weekly Pop score falls. Now only Manchester outside the 300s where eight boroughs now sit and Manchester only just above as 407. With Oldham at 280 the best asnd only one in the 200s.

 

[TINY]

How old is he tiny good luck in his recovery

Thank you. He’s 45 but has a lot of heart issues in his family, he’s been tested to the hilt and seemingly doesn’t suffer.

He had blood taken abs xrays, xrays were clear abs blood tests show a bacterial infection. Suggestion is that because his body is fighting Covid and Bacterial he’s really suffered.

Docs weren’t too concerned with his heart rate and were happy with his lungs following the initial paramedic view. He’s been prescribed some antibiotics and he’s home now thankfully. Super scary and my sister is now a nervous wreck so will no doubt not sleep for checking on him.

 

[Indaparkside]

Thank you. He’s 45 but has a lot of heart issues in his family, he’s been tested to the hilt and seemingly doesn’t suffer.

He had blood taken abs xrays, xrays were clear abs blood tests show a bacterial infection. Suggestion is that because his body is fighting Covid and Bacterial he’s really suffered.

Docs weren’t too concerned with his heart rate and were happy with his lungs following the initial paramedic view. He’s been prescribed some antibiotics and he’s home now thankfully. Super scary and my sister is now a nervous wreck so will no doubt not sleep for checking on him.

Thanks for the update good luck to your family, you’ve been through enough lately mate

 

[Ric]

Government are considering giving out £500 payments to anyone testing positive, according to tomorrow’s papers.

 

[N1985]

Government are considering giving out £500 payments to anyone testing positive, according to tomorrow’s papers.

Fuck me that's every Scouser down the local testing centre then.

Ereee yaaa laaaa, cough on us.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Good luck to your brother in law @TINY hope he makes a full recovery.

How you doing today @somapop ?

 

[Nellies left peg]

Thank you. He’s 45 but has a lot of heart issues in his family, he’s been tested to the hilt and seemingly doesn’t suffer.

He had blood taken abs xrays, xrays were clear abs blood tests show a bacterial infection. Suggestion is that because his body is fighting Covid and Bacterial he’s really suffered.

Docs weren’t too concerned with his heart rate and were happy with his lungs following the initial paramedic view. He’s been prescribed some antibiotics and he’s home now thankfully. Super scary and my sister is now a nervous wreck so will no doubt not sleep for checking on him.

Sit him up in bed and let him watch thr Dipper /Burnley game on repeat, that should cheer him up and revive his spirits. All the best to you all