Coronavirus (2021) thread

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richardtheref said:
A guy 4 doors down from us posted on Facebook he had tested positive on Saturday and was self isolating for the next 11 days. Here we are 3 days later and I am resting as I have broken 3 ribs. So whilst I have been sitting I saw him leave his house on 3 occasions. About tea time he landed back and started to unload his shopping out of the back of the car. About an hour later there he was carrying a pizza which he had obviously collected. No wonder this virus is going nowhere when you have nobs like him. Just wondering if anyone would consider reporting them??
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Why didn't you? All well and good moaning about people like this, but you should do something about it
 
Kirkstall Blue said:
Schools need sorting as the rules affecting teachers are strange. If a child has a family member who may have symptoms of Covid then the children and teacher in the bubble have to self isolate.

why are teachers not being vaccinated it’s surely. a big problem?
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Teachers in the vulnerable group are being vaccinated. Vaccination does not stop need to isolate.
 
richardtheref said:
A guy 4 doors down from us posted on Facebook he had tested positive on Saturday and was self isolating for the next 11 days. Here we are 3 days later and I am resting as I have broken 3 ribs. So whilst I have been sitting I saw him leave his house on 3 occasions. About tea time he landed back and started to unload his shopping out of the back of the car. About an hour later there he was carrying a pizza which he had obviously collected. No wonder this virus is going nowhere when you have nobs like him. Just wondering if anyone would consider reporting them??
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Why are you posting on here asking a question you already know the answer to I guess you have a smart phone take a picture of him and report it, alternatively get a bat and beat the fucker either way he will get the message
 
marco said:
they will never enforce that 10 year jail term infact it stinks of being desperate to make you raise an eybrow, its all bullshit, anyone who ends up in jail will be unlucky to do 10 months
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Let’s see what happens in this case. So far he hasn’t paid the fine.

www.bbc.com

Covid: Nottingham student to stand trial over '50-person party'

Bailey Stancer was previously fined £10,000 after officers were called to an address in September.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
 
Blue Maverick said:
Of course I am, nobody is using these hotels at the moment why is it £175 a night, stick them in travelodges fucking hundreds near airports, don’t see what your problem is?
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I assume his point is that if it is cheap enough, it will encourage more people to do it. By making the price so high, it should hopefully discourage people. I might be wrong though.
 
If the variants come about through lots of transmission howcome we haven't seen a Swedish variant yet? And surely they should have been one of the first variants to come about because they perused herd immunity for most of the pandemic?
 
ell said:
If the variants come about through lots of transmission howcome we haven't seen a Swedish variant yet? And surely they should have been one of the first variants to come about because they perused herd immunity for most of the pandemic?
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I assume it’s because they won’t have had so many people coming through their country from abroad with slightly different strains.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Okey dokely, questions and musings for the more knowledgable among the bluemoonerati...

Bear with me as I’m not always the best at getting my thoughts written down:

Non political answers please!

Why is it that we’ve had this bigger spike than most countries across the world who’ve also had this 3rd wave? We saw the graphs posted from earlier today, including European countries who have also had variants. I watch the Americans in a stadium watching the Super Bowl etc.

Is it because our borders have been so lax that we‘ve had more variants which eventually have caused ones that have been so much more transmissible? I expected other countries to be suffering the same way we have been yet we seem to be the worst.

I speak to my brother in Stockholm nearly every day, and after the news a few weeks ago about their hospitals getting full it hasn’t really changed and they seem to be over their peak too, and bear in mind they’ve had ZERO lockdown, my brother who is a hairdresser hasn’t ever been had the shop closed, and restaurants and bars still open etc, they’ve just had to be a bit more careful.

Thoughts?
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yes this has been troubling me for a little while - how the fuck is the UK in the position it is in? has the UK-variant really been so exclusive to the UK? no i really doubt it.

we now have a deaths per million of 1600, higher than the US (1400) and Brazil (1100), i thought these were countries that presidents who didnt even believe covid was a thing and just let shit carry on? ok there were restrictions of sorts, but no where near the level of here, particularly Brazil.

then people pull out population density, like these countries dont have a huge percentage of urban population as well - Brazil have 87% of population in cities, the UK 84% (US 83%). Then i read on here that the British 'mingle', well ive spent a lot of time in the Eu and let me tell you we aint got a patch on the southern european countries. even during the autumn lockdowns those countries were allowed into each others houses, while we werent (that was removed in some for short periods)

so what the utter fuck is going on in this country? the only things i can think of are obesity levels and the very particular damp climate. But seriously, i feel like im clutching a bit.
 
I don't mind it being prohibitive to come into the country during the pandemic. I think our best hope is to restrict new variants during vaccination, allow our scientists to sequence and update the vaccines for the variants across the globe and release update jabs which hopefully, using the data from the first run, are improved and more effective across variants and then open up to the world.

In the meantime, having more freedom domestically over the summer I think is a fair trade-off.
 
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