COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Lancet Fluke]

Classic bluemoon, when lockdown happened

people started off slagging off cyclists.

once that was done it was joggers .

now it’s kids.

can we not just stick with scousers and the rags!!!

Imagine a 10 year old Liverpool fan riding a bike. Basically public enemy number one.

 

[SilverFox2]

I didn't watch the UK briefing but I read the summary on the BBC. One notable point I thought was a comment that R is thought to be lowest in London. That suggests we're now seeing significant immunity because London with its population density and heightened economic activity would at the outset naturally be higher.

Hi Marvin, sorry to be medically ill educated but are the people in London you describe as immune capable of infecting others or are they not carrying the CV anymore?

 

[Nellies left peg]

Imagine a 10 year old Liverpool fan riding a bike. Basically public enemy number one.

That is obvious as the bike is most definitely stolen

 

[Bazzmand Show]

If we’d been in a pub I’d have nutted him.

There was a time that I’d take each idiotically incorrect sentence apart, piece by piece but these conspiracy fucks are so far down the rabbit hole that they’d claim the sky was zebra striped if they’d watch a YT video telling them so.

Where I live has the right approach, a post such as that can be reported and the poster would receive a 3 year prison sentence. Mouth breathing nut jobs.

 

[Marvin]

We are fucking useless mate.

More likely strategy and political decision-making. UK unis and Research institutions were knocking on Govt's door for months and turned away. Only relatively recently has the UK ramped up its testing capacity and that was when they brought the universities, and pharmaceutical companies like GSK and Astrazeneca onboard.

The UK is playing the long game and a conservative game. It may look bad now, but that's because in my opinion their priority is to avoid at all costs a 2nd wave in the Autumn / Winter. You can do that through immunity but maybe South Korea and Germany can hold it off through testing.

1 strategy involves deaths. The other doesn't in the short term but does it ever see you through?

On the positive side there's lots of activity going on with immunetherapy (not sure if that's a word) and vaccines (one got approved for a Phase II trial today)

 

[twosips]

More likely strategy and political decision-making. UK unis and Research institutions were knocking on Govt's door for months and turned away. Only relatively recently has the UK ramped up its testing capacity and that was when they brought the universities, and pharmaceutical companies like GSK and Astrazeneca onboard.

The UK is playing the long game and a conservative game. It may look bad now, but that's because in my opinion their priority is to avoid at all costs a 2nd wave in the Autumn / Winter. You can do that through immunity but maybe South Korea and Germany can hold it off through testing.

1 strategy involves deaths. The other doesn't in the short term but does it ever see you through?

On the positive side there's lots of activity going on with immunetherapy (not sure if that's a word) and vaccines (one got approved for a Phase II trial today)

Link to the immunetherapy stuff please mate?

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Must admit I'm confused with what I'm reading today.
Some suggestions that small businesses that have been open during lockdown may reopen on Monday.
I work in a small office so is the suggestion I can go back on Monday or not?

 

[quiet_riot]

And factor in that kids are basically super spreaders of everything. Even if you can get them to wash their hands, you can't get them to reduce touching their faces, not jump all over each other on the play ground, not pick their noses etc. Schools are essentially a petri dish for viruses.

Yep.

Why they should remain closed IMHO. I am scared to death of going back in, if I'm forced to go back in so we can "kickstart" the economy, it means I can't see my parents, whom I have not seen since February other than to drop off shopping.

 

[blueparrot]

Must admit I'm confused with what I'm reading today.
Some suggestions that small businesses that have been open during lockdown may reopen on Monday.
I work in a small office so is the suggestion I can go back on Monday or not?

No, nothing has changed. We find out on Sunday what changes when, a road map with milestones and what conditions need to be met by each milestone for that milestones restrictions to be lifted, doubt anything much will change before 18th May, and then very little.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

No, nothing has changed. We find out on Sunday what changes when, a road map with milestones and what conditions need to be met by each milestone for that milestones restrictions to be lifted, doubt anything much will change before 18th May, and then very little.

Ok thanks