Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Ban-jani]

Who buys these rags?
Was on a job and someone left The Star lying around.
Utter fuckin drivel in it.

I wouldn’t wipe my arse with the Mail, Sun, Mirror, Star etc.

Sensationalism to buy clicks, nothing more.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Who buys these rags?
Was on a job and someone left The Star lying around.
Utter fuckin drivel in it.

Did page 3 have a decent rack?

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital data

Summary

Patients and ventilators both well down again.

Patients down today 637 to 17, 093 - was 22, 067 last week - down 4974 in 7 days.

34, 336 on 18 Jan was second wave peak - so this is under half that level.

18, 974 on 12 April was the first wave peak. So it is below that too and has been for several days now.



Ventilators down today 93 to 2484 - was 2911 last week - down 427 in 7 days.

Down from peak of 3736 on 24 January.

First wave peak was 2881 on 12 April which England fell below 6 days ago.


All regions down in both patients and ventilators today:

North West patients down 108 to 2513 - was 3108 last week. And ventilators down 3 to 296 - was 343 last week.

Both numbers well below the first wave peak.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Did page 3 have a decent rack?

Yeah in fairness it did

 

[Bluesince1979]

I wouldn’t wipe my arse with the Mail, Sun, Mirror, Star etc.

Sensationalism to buy clicks, nothing more.

Much more up to date news outlets than any paper

 

[Manc in London]

what concerns me marvin is the knock on effect this will have on domestic council tax, 'the money has to come from somewhere' were in wyre and thats going up another 3% on top of last years hike which was for social care

Council Tax will inevitably go up for various reasons in addition to reductions in business rates:
Council Tax collections are down
Council Tax Support claims are increasing
Increased pressure on social care (eg increase in those requiring occupational therapy)
Increase in homelessness
Reduced revenues from commercial activities (rentals, cafes, theatres etc...)
Shortfall in Govt funding for dealing with coronavirus

Financially, local govt is in a mess.

 

[Manc in London]

What's really depressing is that when Councils do start looking for savings it's going to be the vulnerable groups that cop it again when it comes to the cuts. This story from the Evening News about the defecit that Oldham Council have and the first places they are looking to save money will be being repeated up and down the country right now and read through the list of things that they are looking to cut and it's all the things that have basically kept people going in the past 12 months.

Cuts proposed in Oldham including axing funding for charities

A public consultation on the budget proposals has been launched

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

To be fair, cuts generally come from services for the vulnerable as other services have been cut to the bone, with some universal services operating at the statutory minimum. Most of council spend is still focused on the vulnerable.

I know of one individual with learning difficulties who costs the council over £300k resources per year. The council only saved c£750k for changing residual waste bin collection frequency from one week to two.

Meanwhile, we have over c200 elderly people living in multi million pound properties paying only 26% council tax.

 

[Marvin]

Another week, another tabloid article saying a variant “could be” resistant to vaccines, just to destroy people’s mental health, with it being proven to be total bollocks in another 2 weeks time.

The tabloid are reporting the findings of a scientist. Who are you to challenge their opinion?

 

[worsleyweb]

I wouldn’t wipe my arse with the Mail, Sun, Mirror, Star etc.

Sensationalism to buy clicks, nothing more.

the sun is a very positive paper

 

[Nellies left peg]

The tabloid are reporting the findings of a scientist. Who are you to challenge their opinion?

With absolutely no proof that it can evade the vaccine. Pure shithouse scaremongery. No wonder people are disregarding advice