COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[117 M34]

Someone from my work died in Thursday evening. I've been going in as normal up until then. I'm off next week but will be saying I'm working from home after that.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Too many people on Brighton sea-front according to the BBC's text updates, social distancing "impossible". Lemmings spring to mind.

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-kingdom/england/brighton/brighton-pier.html

Not heaving but too busy.

 

[kaz7]

Too many people on Brighton sea-front according to the BBC's text updates, social distancing "impossible". Lemmings spring to mind.

This weekend with the first bit of warm sun was always going to get the idiots out,hope the police round them up,twats

 

[BlueAnorak]

Not particularly, no.

There was no great furore when they got the flu vaccine wrong in 2017 and we saw an excess Winter death rate of 50,100 (that’s 414 excess deaths a day, every day, for four months) over the 2017-18 Winter in Britain.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....level-40-years-experts-blame-ineffective/amp/

On average, 1,400 people die every day in Britain.

While COVID-19 is an exceptional novel virus, we aren’t yet seeing exceptional numbers of deaths in the country compared to any other normal day.

Totally agree. However if we hadn't locked down the rise in figures would be stratospheric.

 

[BlueMedic]

I don't think the last bit is correct. Anyone who is showing severe symptoms is tested.
From what I read the other day only 40% of those go onto ICU.

Just to clarify a bit, at least as of last week, we are only currently testing those admitted to hospital who are showing symptoms.

On a side note worth noting the test is only 60-80% sensitive, there are plenty who are clearly positive who come back negative. And the results take days to come back, so numbers will always lag.

 

[mexico1970]

this is what i have been saying all along

They have care staff who probably have children who bring the virus to work with them (Not their fault) and bring death to the care home. Whilst we are telling vulnerable people to completely isolate outside of these places.

I know I have heard of waiting to die but this is disgraceful. They should have hired staff with the intention of locking them in with the residents with contact only for serious reasons.

 

[lancs blue]

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-kingdom/england/brighton/brighton-pier.html

Not heaving but too busy.

The council may have got the cops out to move people on, the council's tweet was 2 hours ago apparently.

 

[Summerbuzz]

https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/united-kingdom/england/brighton/brighton-pier.html

Not heaving but too busy.

I had a look at Madrid and Venice. One road in my small town has more people and vehicles than all of the webcams I looked at together.

This just reaffirms what the google GPS tracker data suggested; we are much more likely to be out and about in public places, than France, Spain, Italy or Germany - but much less so than the US.

 

[MCFC1993]

A 5 year old has died, youngest person to have died in this country.

 

[mancityvstoke]

More grim figures out