Coronavirus (2021) thread

[inchy14]

Few mentions of Glasto in here today.

Whilst it's a bit of a blow to the festival/events/entertainment industry to see it cancelled, it was pretty much inevitable.

It's one of the earlier festivals in the summer calendar, and by all accounts its a 6 month logistical operation to get it all ready. Which basically means they had to decide this month whether to go for it or not. I imagine it would've been a financial disaster to crack on in the unlikely event it could happen, to only then have to call it off in April/May.

Some of the smaller festivals might have a chance of going ahead, though time will tell.

Really feel for everyone connected to the live music industry, them and travel have been absolutely battered and there is no end in sight.

Cannot wait to go to a gig again when the time is right.

Got Keane and the Doves in Delamere forest in July to look forward to plus New Order in September in Heaton park.. hope these go ahead.

 

[Healdplace]

England hospital numbers for today: (not yet on Gov UK)

Patients 33, 235 - down 651. Fallen now for 4 days.

Ventilators 3607 - up 4 Only up 37 in four days. It was going up much more every day only a week ago.


Regions:-

East

Patients up 10 to 4078.

Ventilators up 20 to 354


London

Patients down 256 to 7332 and a fall of 600 in past 4 days

Ventilators up 9 to 1217 - but only 11 in past 5 days much slower than it was.

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Midlands

Patients up 30 to 6580

Ventilators up 8 to 627


NE/Yorkshire

Patients up 4 to 3814.

Ventilators down 6 to 322


North West

Patients down 31 to 4287

Ventilators up 15 to 402 - highest ever and first time ever over 400. Maybe why deaths are rising here?


South East

Patients down 364 to 5033. Big falls in patient numbers in past few days in London and South East. But many deaths here too.

Ventilators down 41 to 478. Down 53 in 3 days.


South West

Patients down 36 to 2311 - first fall in a while

Ventilators down 5 to 207

 

[squirtyflower]

Funnily enough, was reading about this earlier. Ordered one off Amazon for delivery tomorrow which will be day 5 since my symptoms started so hopefully will give me a bit of an edge if things get worse

Hope everything works out for you blue

 

[feedthegoat27]

Got Keane and the Doves in Delamere forest in July to look forward to plus New Order in September in Heaton park.. hope these go ahead.

Fingers crossed for you buddy.

You'd assume events like that can make a relatively late decision on the feasibility of it going ahead, something larger festivals can't really do.

Maybe our 2021 summer festival season will merge into smaller one off events over just a day or an afternoon/evening that can be organised and arranged with little notice?

At the moment it's hard to see something like Leeds/Reading weekend fest happening, but come Spring, and assuming a successful continuation of the vaccine rollout, then there could be hope for some summer pop up events and limited one day festivals maybe?

Come summer I'd love nothing more than being shafted for 7 quid for a pint of warm lager whilst awaiting a band to come on stage.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

20.12.20 on this graph represents the start of the vaccination process.

 

[Healdplace]

Watch Areas

Cheshire East

Cases 158. Down 71. Total 16, 667

Pop score up 41 to 4339.

Weekly Pop down 22 to 302.



Swansea

Cases 43 - down from 69. Total 15, 803

Pop score up 17 to 6398 - one of the lowest recent rises.

Weekly Pop down 12 to 173. Really out of any trouble now,


Kent

Dartford

Cases 103 up from 93. Total 8981.

Pop score up 92 to 7976.

Weekly Pop down 25 to 656.


Medway

Cases 181 up from 179. Total 23, 228

Pop score up 65 to 8339

Weekly Pop down 6 to 530

 

[squirtyflower]

All a show. Schools were told by DfE this week they would lose all funding for nursery children if they weren’t seen to be encouraging their attendance. And they massively widened the key worker criteria. And some parents are selfish arseholes. We had SEVEN kids in during 1st lockdown all children of NHS or care home staff. We have 72 in next week with more to follow. This will kill people. Parents brothers sisters, teachers TAs caretakers, it will help overload the hospitals so forgive me but their shouting is all a facade ( and yes, I do know it should have a cedilla!). They are utterly fucking inept and downright lethal

Why are you a teacher if you hate teaching children so much?
Why, as a deputy head, can you not show some leadership to those around you?

You should be celebrating the fact that you have children in school as you are providing an essential service as well as educating them beyond what they would have at home.

Tell me how many nurseries have had to isolate because of Covid?
How many 3-10 year olds have passed on the virus to your litany of people who you feel have been wronged?

From my experience the people passing Covid around in schools are the staff themselves who are unable/unwilling to follow the rules and not inform us when they have the symptoms.

Surely you should be praising and thanking the staff at your school for the commitment they are showing to the children they work with for providing an environment where 72 of the parents are confident to send their children to you, unlike before where they didn’t trust schools.

As a public servant isn’t your primary duty to serve the public? Thank goodness NHS staff aren’t as quick to hide as you are.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Thankfully I’m not on either of those. Full of total crackpots!

My mate reckons you only go on Facebook if you're a young girl or a groomer. I'm not on social media at all and never will be

 

[Ric]

My mate reckons you only go on Facebook if you're a young girl or a groomer. I'm not on social media at all and never will be

Forums are a form of social media.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Forums are a form of social

Forums are a form of social media.

Not where the general public can come on here and spout bollocks. I like to think we are all like minded barring the odd few