Coronavirus (2021) thread

[True_Blue69]

Funeral today for my old man, very somber affair and upsetting, hopefully my family is done with this fucking nightmare and life might not be dominated by covid. Good luck blues to you and yours, see you on the other side.

Sorry to hear that, proper shit news.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Funeral today for my old man, very somber affair and upsetting, hopefully my family is done with this fucking nightmare and life might not be dominated by covid. Good luck blues to you and yours, see you on the other side.

Thoughts with you and your family mate. RIP.

 

[Pince]

Funeral today for my old man, very somber affair and upsetting, hopefully my family is done with this fucking nightmare and life might not be dominated by covid. Good luck blues to you and yours, see you on the other side.

Absolutely awful, please stay strong, Blue. Condolences to you, your family and friends.

 

[worsleyweb]

25 percent of my lads year of 200 kids sent home today after one full day back!

 

[Chippy_boy]

BBC northwest news pushing a waste of money narrative into the Nightingale hospitals. Surely it was a case of having them and not needing them being better than needing them and not having them.

The fact they are being dismantled is a positive sign for me.

What utter shite journalism. Would they have been happier if we had to use them FFS???

On a different topic however, a salutary reminder of just how utterly shit our handling of this has been here in the UK:

South Korea: population 51m; average age 43.7; COVID deaths 1,645; Deaths per 1m of population 32

UK: population 68m; average age 40.5; COVID deaths 124,797; Deaths per 1m of population 1,832

We are comparable countries in terms of population size and demographics and just look at the bloody difference! Even compared to western countries, our performance has been abjectly awful. We have the highest death toll per capita of any major country on planet earth. Absolutely woeful performance.

We have put peoples' freedoms and a desire to disrupt peoples' lives, too high up the agenda and as a result we have consistently locked down too late, too lightly, with too little deterent and punishments, and come out of lock downs too soon. And we have done so repeatedly, learning nothing from the previous mistakes. And the results speak for themselves. We score an F for Fail and our only redemption is the speed with which we are (thank God) rolling out the vaccines or else our performance would continue to be bottom of the class.

 

[Eds]

25 percent of my lads year of 200 kids sent home today after one full day back!

If they were sent home because they have tested positive or been in close contact with someone that has to have happened before they went back. Didn’t they all have tests last week before returning

 

[worsleyweb]

If they were sent home because they have tested positive or been in close contact with someone that has to have happened before they went back. Didn’t they all have tests last week before returning

all negative Friday ready to go back. Many positive today and a number of close contacts sent home.

 

[Eds]

all negative Friday ready to go back. Many positive today and a number of close contacts sent home.

Sounds like they were all mixing last week rather than picking it up at school.

 

[Manchester1894]

Don't get the fuss over kids self isolating. It happens, doesn't matter if first week or in 4 weeks. The measures are there, and in the whole of the last school term my lad was off for 1 week only. I get it's hard, but better times are ahead.

 

[Rammy Blue]

all negative Friday ready to go back. Many positive today and a number of close contacts sent home.

Surely they couldn’t have contracted it at school though, too quick for positive results. Be interested to hear why this has happened, doesn’t make sense to me.