Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Chippy_boy]

Pretty shit reading this, isn't it, out of 220 countries listed we are in the top 3 worst in terms of daily deaths.

When you consider we only have a population of 68m, whereas Mexico, Brazil, USA etc are multiples of that. Our death rates are absolutely apalling.

 

[CTID Chris]

Asda near me in Sheff have no touch sanitizer; Mrs and me won't touch one of the santizing machines in the big Morrisons.

But your hands are sanitised after touching it, so can’t be much chance of any harm.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Greater Manchester Summary

Sadly it is GM for the second day running that is now becoming the problem.

Cases have risen more in GM than anywhere else in the region and only 53 of the 515 fall in NW numbers (itself a lower than average regional fall today) were from GM

As a result the GM % of the NW total rose to 31% - a ten day high. And the fourth daily increase on the run from 22%.

Lowest score anywhere 146, Five boroughs over 200 again. Manchester down but in the 400s.

The same really struggling boroughs are the problem as I have been noting in the more detailed reports each evening.

Wigan - another huge score. Trafford another record score even worse proportionately than Stockport that also stayed over 200.

Why what long were the three lowest GM boroughs that have always been the three that were considered for exclusion when the rest of GM were put into higher tiers and in the case of Wigan and Stockport actually were excluded briefly have now become the three big problems when the previous places that were driving the peaks in the autumn - such as Oldham and Rochdale - have become the best performers - is a question someone needs to be investigating if we are to get this under control.

Is it that they just have more people to infect there having been low over the pandemic? Maybe but that is not so of Wigan for sure.

Is it that the new variant is most widespread there?

Is it a Christmas shopping factor?

Whatever - unless we get a grip on this GM is heading only one way right now.

To becoming where Merseyside has been for past few weeks.

And that will be very disturbing as they are also still up there with even bigger numbers than GM - just not rising any more and at a plateau GM really does not want to get up to as it will be a very long way down.

And the sequel to it will be many more GM deaths in February.

To be honest, I’m not sure individual borough stats mean that much any more. Not to say don’t stop posting the updates, but I just don’t think borough specific analysis makes much difference now. We’ve seen the whole of Merseyside get twatted because of being in lower tiers, now we are seeing GM catch up because lockdown is not strict enough with the new variant.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

It's gone so badly wrong here so my question is what has gone even further badly wrong in Ireland for them to get to where they are now? A bad, bad way.

 

[give it to gordon]

I agree. Our local railway station, a 11 minute journey into manchester, used to be dangerously busy on the platform between 7.30 and 8.30 am. No one there now.

I was thinking it just seems to be the big Cities that are empty. That seems to be the image on the news, yet the town I work in is just as busy as normal, with people and cars

 

[blue b4 the moon]

It's gone so badly wrong here so my question is what has gone even further badly wrong in Ireland for them to get to where they are now? A bad, bad way.

Jesus

 

[M18CTID]

I agree. Our local railway station, a 11 minute journey into manchester, used to be dangerously busy on the platform between 7.30 and 8.30 am. No one there now.

I used public transport once last week when coming home from work in Trafford Park. The tram into town was virtually empty and the subsequent train from Piccadilly to Gorton was the same. There was some footfall at Piccadilly station but it was still easy enough to social distance. While from my own observations it seems like there’s more traffic on the roads compared to the lockdown last spring, public transport is still pretty much deserted.

 

[twosips]

The more I think about the more I'm convinced that the only thing that would at least make some of the idiots notice things are worse is if we stopped football.

 

[cleavers]

I was thinking it just seems to be the big Cities that are empty. That seems to be the image on the news, yet the town I work in is just as busy as normal, with people and cars

I'm in a relatively small town outside London, there are more cars about than first lockdown, but the town centre is deserted of people when I've been in it, and after 6pm the roads are pretty much deserted, and as I said above public transport is also deserted.

 

[Rammy Blue]

It's gone so badly wrong here so my question is what has gone even further badly wrong in Ireland for them to get to where they are now? A bad, bad way.

Must have been a new variant over there, or the London one got there earlier than they thought, and consequently before anyone started thinking anything was too bad it had already spread like wildfire?