I think it is a bit insulting to assume people dont know it is not a true 24 hr death toll after all this time , it is a way of reporting used by gov and media a likeDown playing the headline number is the right thing to do, because the highest single day daily death toll since the start of the pandemic is still April 8th at 1073 (the only date it was over 1000 in the first wave), the next highest (currently) is 1064 on Jan 11th, but there are now 4 dates in this wave over 1000.
Nobody is down playing deaths, every one is a tragic for their family and friends, and those that have tried to help them survive it.
I was on it taking the wife to work on icu as she doesn’t drive, she’s risking her life for some of them twats that can work from home but choose not toBut you know that 90% of them aren’t choosing to. Half of them aren’t being allowed to work from home, half of them can’t.
Wonder how many people were furloughed last March and haven’t been this time.
Ffs
Newbury Racecourse which is hosting a COVID vaccination hub that provides up to 1,500 jabs daily is temporarily halting the service to enable its horse racing to continue.
The Berkshire site opened its vaccination hub on Thursday last week as part of the UK's drive to inoculate against the virus.
But less than a week later, the centre will shut for a day on Wednesday for a scheduled race day.
Horse racing is able to continue under lockdown rules because it is seen as an elite sport
These deaths were baked in from the case figures 3 weeks ago. Sad but true.I don’t understand how we can be getting so many cases/deaths. There is no mass gatherings, everything is shut almost. I don’t believe people are catching covid from walking outside
What makes you think it might be off topic:)Off topic I know, but we've still got 2 different Geraniums (pink and red) flowering profusely on our balcony, and the first of our Ipheion (light blue star like flower), and a couple of new bright yellow Cape Daisy flowers out, so it already feels a bit more spring like, pity about the weather.
As I said earlier this is the problem of misperception the media do not help with.
Yes these numbers today are shocking but they come from just before Christmas when people were seeing their old folks and exchanging presents.
Not what has happened since we locked down.
They should be pointing this out and the dire consequences of little decisions made by families around then to see loved ones because they would want me to. ~
There are two numbers that really matter today as they tell us about now not a month ago.
The big fall off in cases in past week or so. Showing restrictions are working and possibly hinting at other things too maybe. Though as yet too early to be joyful.
And the positivity number at 6.2% that the media will never even mention as the England government seem to nit care at all about it.
But it was more than double that recently. It is now not very far off the 5% number that WHO ask countries to aim for to be considered as having an outbreak under control.
If journalists were not egomaniacs out to become celebs and beam on TV but instead did their jobs and sold the real news to the public and the consequences of actions and the optimism within the dire story of the raw numbers they would earn the MBEs half of them are gunning for by setting the nation on the right path seeing the results of misguided acts and the positives emerging from those who are doing the right thing now.
Sadly not really expecting to see that happen any time soon.
This though is personal responsibility.I noticed that as folk left a table nobody cleaned the table before the next lot of folk arrived so it could be spreading in ways like this or even touching a door handle or the buttons on a card reader after an infected person has touched them.
Don’t think that’s right I would say the vast majority of people only watch the news or see the media once a day if that, they won’t watch the press conferences , and most will be under the impression the daily figure is the figure for one day. They won’t see the pattern and won’t appreciate that restriction today save lives in a month not tomorrow or this week even.I think it is a bit insulting to assume people dont know it is not a true 24 hr death toll after all this time , it is a way of reporting used by gov and media a like
I dont really care if it is not exact to the day , every death is one death regardless
Regional Scoreboard highlights.
Everywhere was down pretty uniformly today - more or less by a few hundred or so.
Only Yorkshire went up. But by just 89 and as the second lowest number to start with in England barely altered at just 2087.
North West fell by 655 to 4011 - the lowest total since 28 December.
London and the South East fell to lowest numbers here since the week before Christmas.
London at 6237 is its lowest for about 4 or 5 weeks and is nearly 10,000 behind its peak around Christmas
Even the South West is nearly half where it was a week ago at 2108.
And the smallest region of all - North East is half where it was around Christmas and its last 3 totals have been very consistent at 1077, 1087 and 1066 today.