COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[blue b4 the moon]

Yeah I know but I don't know how to add the accent on my phone!

Keep your finger on the 'e' then slide to the é.

 

[remember arthur mann]

No wonder they are shipping planeloads of Romanians over.

Plenty of them in Failsworth and Newton upon the Heath with no work to do. Don't need to ship them over.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Touche. I stand corrected

Only pulling your leg mate

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Keep your finger on the 'e' then slide to the é.

Alright DJ Casper

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Just read that apparently 4,591 people died (recorded) in America yesterday. (Wall Street journal)

awful if true. Like a nightmare

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

News just in that the UK is to set up a taskforce to create a vaccine, shouldn't we be doing that anyway? Shouldn't we have been trying to get started with a vaccine from the off?

It's not even bloody news.

Will they be “working night and day“ to “ramp up” the chances of us having 100m vaccines by the “end of April?”

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Alright DJ Casper

Had to Google who he was, would have rather you called me Liam.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

News just in that the UK is to set up a taskforce to create a vaccine, shouldn't we be doing that anyway? Shouldn't we have been trying to get started with a vaccine from the off?

It's not even bloody news.

I thought Oxford University (it is it the University of Oxford?) we’re doing that already?

 

[MCFC_ Phil]

I keep saying that we won't know how we have dealt with this for a long time yet. (compared to other countries)
If we never ran out of ICU beds, it means no person died because of lack of available care.
Therefore people who have died so far will have died whenever they eventually got it.
Locking down earlier will have prevented much more people dying initially. But these same people might have still got it in the subsequent waves that are predicted to come once restrictions are eased.
I do think locking down earlier would have helped care homes prepare better for the on coming onslaught, and that in itself would have saved lives.
Same goes for medics dying from viral overload and lack of proper PPE.

The economy cannot wait for a vaccine. People cannot be in lockdown indefinitely. All you can do is manage the situation, making sure proper medical care is available for anybody who needs it, when they need it.
Mistakes have been made, and i feel further mistakes will be made.
It's the long term results/figures that people will judge the government on.

I would imagine we would do things different and react better if this was to ever happen again.

This is pretty much the case. Going to be a trade off somewhere, other than ensuring the health service can always meet the demand. This makes total sense. Imagine the fallout if people are dying outside hospitals. Personally I think we have got most things right and our scientific advisers are pretty much on the ball. Whether the general populace will listen to them is another matter. For me, I will, it's a matter of life or death.

 

[mexico1970]

I thought Oxford University (it is it the University of Oxford?) we’re doing that already?

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52319956