Coronavirus (2021) thread

[ell]

Popped into my workplace office block at lunchtime to get stuff to work from home and pick up post.

First lockdown it was empty.

Today, as busy as it is on any normal day, full of people mingling in communal areas.

Also noticed the roads are no different than any other time.

This will go on longer than March as no one appears to be listening to the current restrictions.

Everybody knows there is no enforcement. First lockdown march-june working from home worked fine. Now its "Not possible"

Same with everything else, wearing masks, house parties, driving to other counties for a walk, going abroad for "essential travel" yet no marks on instagram putting up pictures of the pool in Dubai, if there is no punishment there is no deterrent.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Everybody knows there is no enforcement. First lockdown march-june working from home worked fine. Now its "Not possible"

Same with everything else, wearing masks, house parties, driving to other counties for a walk, going abroad for "essential travel" yet no marks on instagram putting up pictures of the pool in Dubai, if there is no punishment there is no deterrent.

Yeah been alot of social media influencers spending weeks in dubai.

Very annoying

 

[BlueAnorak]

Johnson has only now decided to use the Army to help roll out the vaccine? It was obvious to many on here that this was likely to be needed, hes just making it up as he goes along.

They clearly had few viable plans in place to vaccinate millions, yet they have known for months this day was coming. Shambolic!

Not necessarily. Its more a case of getting the NHS / PHE / DHSC to do what they can and then supplement it with army logistics.
That said the army should have been put in charge of team comms and logistics from day one.I said wouldn't work well the management of our beuaracracy is incompetent.

 

[inchy14]

I don't know why they didn't say by middle of March, would still be an outstanding achievement, why do they put so much pressure on themselves with these targets

Said middle of Feb so kids can go back to school after half term holidays.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Interesting to know the number has fallen considerably closer to the numbers died within 28 days of a test or admittance. Quite a lot must have died slightly early than they would have.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Stepped on scales today and not exactly shocked to learn I lost 29 pounds in four weeks.

Gonna take a while to get that back.

I've lost something more, not sure what.

Probably a sense of my own mortality for the first time in my 46 years.

Glad to know your on the way back Tolm.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Not necessarily. Its more a case of getting the NHS / PHE / DHSC to do what they can and then supplement it with army logistics.
That said the army should have been put in charge of team comms and logistics from day one.I said wouldn't work well the management of our beuaracracy is incompetent.

I agree entirely, which means they hadnt anticipated the problems or planned according to my mind.

But Johnson is a politician so like the rest he wont say look weve made a mistake. He will just avoid the question.

That said the only time i have seen a politician say they had made a mistake over Covid was Sturgeon about care homes. So fair play to her for that.

 

[Nightmare Walking]

Has anyone received their clinically vulnerable letter yet? Last time I did not get it till 2 weeks after it was dated.

 

[Healdplace]

The England hospital deaths in past week allocated to the actual day of death is starting to show the consequences of those worryingly fast rising ventilator numbers I have been posting in recent days.

These are the last 3 weeks by date and number of England hospital deaths on the ACTUAL day. They paint a very disturbing upward track.


17 Dec 332

18 Dec 308

19 Dec 286

20 Dec 319

21 Dec 358

22 Dec 368

23 Dec 343

24 Dec 331

25 Dec 398

26 Dec 416

27 Dec 420

28 Dec 406

29 Dec 415

30 Dec 432

31 Dec 431

1 Jan 423

2 Jan 408 This is the first 5 day total over 400 (wk to wk before 5 day totals were 354 v 267 v 261 v 224)

3 Jan 391 (at 4 days only) Highest 4 day total since 22 April (two weeks after wave 1 peak)

4 Jan 426 (at 3 days only) Highest 3 day total since 20 April (ten days after wave 1 peak)

5 Jan 347 (at two days only) Highest 2 day total 22 April.

6 Jan (yesterday) is at 88 after just 1 day. This is the highest day one number since 24 April.

We are going to have 500 on the day England hospital days soon and unless we turn things round soon it may not stop there.

We reached 800 + a few days at the peak of wave 1 in April for context. Were we not saving many more lives now we would be past there already

Because hospital numbers are already in many places well above the wave 1 peak. So if these keep rising even with a lower death rate we are heading up towards matching those numbers day by day.

Hopefully the vaccine plus lockdown will slow that down but it is likely a week or two yet before we see that and this new variant is very much more infective than the one we had in April.

Recall these are England only and hospital only - so around a half to two thirds of the daily reported deaths.

 

[Healdplace]

@Healdplace when you say "696 care home outbreaks" do you mean cases in care homes or care homes with cases?

Care homes with cases. Same for the 133 in Northern Ireland.

Care homes with at least one proven case. Which is often soon more than one, of course.