Coronavirus (2021) thread

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johnnymarrsbarres said:
Hang on, that daft app is still a thing?!?
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Not really. Weeks ago it was reported that 95% of users had deleted it. Who actually checks in anywhere either currently?

People will be choosing to isolate or not if they know they have been in contact with someone with Covid. I suspect many won't bother if they don't have any symptoms.
 
grunge said:
While as a general rule, alone = lonely. I think his point is that some people are fine, and even thrive being alone while others will feel lonely in a crowd.
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I don’t know a single person who is on their own and not lonely. I was a friend of an old guy called Joe a good few years ago, he was in his 70’s when I was in my 40’s. We’d have a pint and a chat about horse racing and football. He had a son who lived in Chester, saw him a couple of times a year and a Daughter he was very proud of as she became a well respected Lawyer in the USA but she never visited. Joe had a best mate, Arthur, they had a beer together, went to as many Racecourses as possible and were almost inseparable. Arthur died, Joe tried to carry on but his heart wasn’t in life anymore and he died a few months later, there was nothing physically wrong with him, I think he died from loneliness.

As I posted previous the Doctor on the Whitehouse/Mortimer fishing show said loneliness is as bad on your health as smoking 15 cigarette a day, we’re not wired to be on our own. I accept there’s people who like their own company (I sometimes don’t have much contact during my working day) but older people who are effectively house bound will no way enjoy or mentally cope with that lifestyle without contact.
 
blueinsa said:
This “pingdemic” is now busy crippling the country.

What’s next politicians?
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Allow the country to remain slightly injured for the next four weeks but all the time easing certain restrictions until a sense of normalcy can be achieved in February. It might be prudent for the government to issue a provisional timeline in the next days so that the public knows its intentions and what to expect and when.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I’m not sure but there are still people about saying theres’s pengdemics and casedemics
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Either that or 24000 NHS staff just felt like not going to work the last week?

Let me guess? We have people who think they all had symptoms and really where Ill?
 
blueinsa said:
Either that or 24000 NHS staff just felt like not going to work the last week?

Let me guess? We have people who think they all had symptoms and really where Ill?
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Out of a workforce of 1.4million.

People need to get used to lots of trains getting cancelled for the next month or two and kids sent home from school. Then, fingers crossed, we will have seen the back of the pandemic and the extremely minimal restrictions are a thing of the past / or personal choice.

Life is pretty good if you allow yourself to enjoy it. A packed City end at the Emirates singing, “Tearing Cockneys apart”, pubs and restaurants open, some scientists and health workers being rewarded for keeping the vast majority of us safe. It’s a wonderful life for most.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Out of a workforce of 1.4million.

People need to get used to lots of trains getting cancelled for the next month or two and kids sent home from school. Then, fingers crossed, we will have seen the back of the pandemic and the extremely minimal restrictions are a thing of the past / or personal choice.

Life is pretty good if you allow yourself to enjoy it. A packed City end at the Emirates singing, “Tearing Cockneys apart”, pubs and restaurants open, some scientists and health workers being rewarded for keeping the vast majority of us safe. It’s a wonderful life for most.
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Everyone should fuck the rules off and get in to work, the pubs and life in general again.

I’ve spent an hour this morning sorting out shifts because I’ve lost 3 drivers until the 10th and not a single one of them has any symptoms or feels sick.

Fucking joke what we are doing.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
Out of a workforce of 1.4million.

People need to get used to lots of trains getting cancelled for the next month or two and kids sent home from school. Then, fingers crossed, we will have seen the back of the pandemic and the extremely minimal restrictions are a thing of the past / or personal choice.

Life is pretty good if you allow yourself to enjoy it. A packed City end at the Emirates singing, “Tearing Cockneys apart”, pubs and restaurants open, some scientists and health workers being rewarded for keeping the vast majority of us safe. It’s a wonderful life for most.
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They are all things we’ll just have to put up with and we will put up with through January. The only thing we can’t really just put up with is thousands of hospital stall being off when the hospitals are full , that’s really the only issue that needs managing. How we do that is the tricky part.
By February though I think we’ll be through this and we can get on with the rest of the year in a better place, I’m looking forward to the next year.
 
blueparrot said:
They are all things we’ll just have to put up with and we will put up with through January. The only thing we can’t really just put up with is thousands of hospital stall being off when the hospitals are full , that’s really the only issue that needs managing. How we do that is the tricky part.
By February though I think we’ll be through this and we can get on with the rest of the year in a better place, I’m looking forward to the next year.
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At this stage the only people we are ‘protecting’ are those who are both vulnerable AND chosen not to have a vaccine.

Just refuse to treat them and let the thick wankers die, that’ll free up the burden on the NHS and clean up the gene pool a bit.

It’s really not hard.
 
blueparrot said:
They are all things we’ll just have to put up with and we will put up with through January. The only thing we can’t really just put up with is thousands of hospital stall being off when the hospitals are full , that’s really the only issue that needs managing. How we do that is the tricky part.
By February though I think we’ll be through this and we can get on with the rest of the year in a better place, I’m looking forward to the next year.
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I think we can all echo that, let’s hope so, you get a clap (not the old one) from me.
 
johnnymarrsbarres said:
At this stage the only people we are ‘protecting’ are those who are both vulnerable AND chosen not to have a vaccine.

Just refuse to treat them and let the thick wankers die, that’ll free up the burden on the NHS and clean up the gene pool a bit.

It’s really not hard.
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No it isn't, as has been explained many times.We are protecting hospital capacity You won't listen because it doesn't suit you. We are protecting mainly, those that need hospital capacity, for treatments other than covid. The person going in with a stroke, or a heart attack.
The old it's just the un vaccinated let them die is a stupid smoke screen.
 
Invisible Man's Bandage said:
Not really. Weeks ago it was reported that 95% of users had deleted it. Who actually checks in anywhere either currently?

People will be choosing to isolate or not if they know they have been in contact with someone with Covid. I suspect many won't bother if they don't have any symptoms.
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I deleted it last Spring and haven’t ‘checked in’ anywhere since they binned off the legal requirement to do so.

Like masks in shops etc it’s all just theatre and lip service now, it all needs sacking off completely.
 
blueparrot said:
They are all things we’ll just have to put up with and we will put up with through January. The only thing we can’t really just put up with is thousands of hospital stall being off when the hospitals are full , that’s really the only issue that needs managing. How we do that is the tricky part.
By February though I think we’ll be through this and we can get on with the rest of the year in a better place, I’m looking forward to the next year.
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Come may watch city win back to back title and covid well and truly fucked off
 
blueparrot said:
They are all things we’ll just have to put up with and we will put up with through January. The only thing we can’t really just put up with is thousands of hospital stall being off when the hospitals are full , that’s really the only issue that needs managing. How we do that is the tricky part.
By February though I think we’ll be through this and we can get on with the rest of the year in a better place, I’m looking forward to the next year.
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It should be better as we are already in a better place then we were two years ago. We now know more about what we are up against, we have vaccines that work, antiviral meds on the way, people have adapted to coexisting with the virus.

Still some way to go before we can relegate Covid to background noise that barely registers, but I’m optimistic we will get there given the progress made since 2020.
 
blueparrot said:
No it isn't, as has been explained many times.We are protecting hospital capacity You won't listen because it doesn't suit you. We are protecting mainly, those that need hospital capacity, for treatments other than covid. The person going in with a stroke, or a heart attack.
The old it's just the un vaccinated let them die is a stupid smoke screen.
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And what's the main issue effecting hospital capacity?
 
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