COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[kevin horlocks wand]

You can’t stop British people returning home, they have a right to be here, and they will be going into immediate lockdown. These people aren’t tourists.

they don’t. Literally 5 weeks ago the government gave a clear announcement that all uk citizens of the uk should return home immediately . If people have not followed that advice 5 weeks later then they can’t expect to just breeze into the country.

if there are uk citizens who decided not to return to the uk when they were expressly told to do so then The least they can expect on their return is 14 days In Quarantine before being allowed into the country.

We are all making sacrifices during this time which is hard. . We are bound to be pissed off if we are forced to do this to prevent the spread , whereas people can just waltz into the country with no checks every single day .

it’s not just that the uk government have continued to allow these flights. It’s also the fact that anyone coming in has no health checks. Not even their temperature taken. It’s been like that throughout.

The border and flight policy of the UK government during this crisis has been the single biggest disgrace of all their Covid actions and they should be called out on it.

 

[Phil1]

You can’t stop British people returning home, they have a right to be here, and they will be going into immediate lockdown. These people aren’t tourists.

How do you know they will go into immediate lockdown? They should of course but as its kinda self policed there's no guarantees that they will. Plus, it's the fucking flimsiest lockdown in the first place. Herd immunity without admitting it.

 

[kaz7]

There were more than 1,600 coronavirus-linked deaths outside of hospitals in England and Wales in March, new Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggest.

In new figures published on Thursday, the ONS said there were 3,912 deaths involving coronavirus in England and Wales last month.

Of those, 3,372 (86%) had COVID-19 assigned as the underlying cause of death

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...pitals-in-england-and-wales-in-march-11974052

 

[kaz7]

You can’t stop British people returning home, they have a right to be here, and they will be going into immediate lockdown. These people aren’t tourists.

How about 2,000 AM fans from the hot spot in spain for a football game?

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

How about 2,000 AM fans from the hot spot in spain for a football game?

to be fair that gets highlighted because it’s football, but just imagine how many flights landed in the uk that day from all over the world and thousands of people breezed off their plane showed their passport and wandered into the community.

 

[SilverFox2]

And yet the UK has a burgeoning biotech sector. They simply aren't seeking to fully suppress the virus, and have said so.

We have to look to outside the UK for hope and then hope the UK gets bounced into action. There are 5 and 10 minute tests now. The UK even has its own private pharmaceutical companies producing these products. Can you imagine the effect they would have in the care homes. Emirates does a 10 minute blood test on its passengers. The UK government claims to care about its old.

It does seem strange as you say almost deliberate reluctance to act sensibly if lives are to be saved.
Perhaps Mr Cummins is taking the opportunity to save as much state pension money as possible.

 

[kaz7]

The move follows calls for the government to investigate the number of deaths of people from the BAME community and those working for the NHS, during the coronavirus pandemic

Sky News analysis found that out of the 54 frontline health and social care workers in England and Wales that have died because of COVID-19, 70% of them were black or from an ethnic minority

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...nic-minorities-worst-hit-by-covid-19-11974116

The americans are finding the same

 

[mexico1970]

How do you know they will go into immediate lockdown? They should of course but as its kinda self policed there's no guarantees that they will. Plus, it's the fucking flimsiest lockdown in the first place. Herd immunity without admitting it.

It's the strangest lockdown ever isn't it? Flights coming in and leaving, the streets full of people enjoying the weather.

 

[SWP's back]

there isn't one. they are still researching it,

I’d read these before I answered and they both said there was one.

https://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/infectious/sars-vaccine.htm

https://www.discovermagazine.com/he...gap-measure-against-the-new-coronavirus-study

 

[kaz7]

80 more deaths in hospitals in Scotland, total now 779 - Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Says lockdown must be in place for "at least another three weeks
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The death rate for men with coronavirus was twice as high as that of women in England and Wales in March, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The mortality rate for men was 97.5 deaths per 100,000 population, while for women it was 46.6 deaths.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...unce-another-three-weeks-of-lockdown-11973956

So men and black or ethnic minority are two things we are learning about this virus

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Spain's death toll rises 551 - from 18,579 to 19,130.
Wednesday's death figure was 523, and 567 on Tuesday. Thst's well below a peak of 950 reached on 2 April

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"In the past 10 days, the number of cases reported in Europe has nearly doubled to close to 1 million," Hans Kluge told reporters in an online briefing.
It means about 50% of the global burden of COVID-19 is in Europe, Mr Kluge said, adding that 84,000 people in Europe had died.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...unce-another-three-weeks-of-lockdown-11973956