COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[kaz7]

Medical

5 rules

Transport and movement of people,enormous restraints still on public transport,car usage going up

Daily tests,much higher than at the start

New cases,several thousand new per day

Patients in hospital,solid decline in all reasons

R less than 1 overall

Critical care beds,plenty of capacity,in patients numbers in decline

Deaths,since mid April steady fall

Global deaths,well over France and Italy

 

[blueparrot]

Serious question without wanting to make light of the current situation but how will you feel if the lock down is extended by a further 3 weeks with minimal lifting of the restrictions? There has been a lot of speculation about what might be lifted but I suspect most of it will be bullshit. I can't see anything significant changing other than trying to get some sectors back to work.

I admit that I am struggling mentally the longer this goes on, not seeing family is the main problem for me but being unable to partake in sports and go to the Gym is taking it's toll as well.

I tend to have quite a structured approach to my life, not OCD in any way but I like a schedule. I am fortunate in the fact that i have been back at work for pretty much the whole lock down to date and so i'm not stuck in the house.

I can see a real breakdown in these measures the longer the lock down continues and the fear is it puts us back by weeks if not months.

Ours in Scotland already has been extended so far with no changes though the odd change may come next week, most people seem fairly accepting of it.

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

Unfortunately, I feel the government has completely lost its collective nerve and they are happy to see the economy annihilated for a generation rather than make any substantive decisions.

 

[BigOscar]

Worst part is we are neither locking down in a way that will actually end the problem, nor keeping business going. We are half arsing it and ending up failing on both counts, meaning it will continue for a lot longer

 

[twosips]

Worst part is we are neither locking down in a way that will actually end the problem, nor keeping business going. We are half arsing it and ending up failing on both counts, meaning it will continue for a lot longer

It's a slow release herd immunity approach. A drip feed of deaths is the only way they can get herd immunity through without public outrage.

 

[sir baconface]

I think we are due to see a sharp rise after this hot weather and the VE celebrations. Neighbours here were sitting in their own spaces but as the drink flowed lots of crossovers happened, adults and kids. Today I see the family who kept their son in, who's about five, have now allowed him out to play with the two kids who have been out everyday since the lockdown. If this behaviour was repeated around the country I see cases rising again by a fair bit.

Followed by a drop after a week of cold northerly winds.

 

[sir baconface]

And 40 of todays reported 207 English hospital deaths were in the North West. The worst region. Now the epicentre of the UK.

No surprise there. Judging by this forum, every fcuker in the NW is out partying or cycling.

 

[paulchapo]

Followed by a drop after a week of cold northerly winds.

I agree. It is bizarre the weather appeared to side with the virus by being glorious almost since the lockdown began.

 

[BigOscar]

It's a slow release herd immunity approach. A drip feed of deaths is the only way they can get herd immunity through without public outrage.

Yeah, after spending weeks locked inside, with tens of thousands of deaths, are we realistically any better off than when lockdown started? Genuinely don't think so, it only took a handful, maybe more, infected people coming here to start this spiral and we still have far, far more than that still around, so if things lifted, we'd be back on that exponential growth that we were before, as it's not as if a significant amount of people are now immune

 

[blueish swede]

Thanks for posting, you guys have played a blinder. Imperial College’s credibility is zero. Any news on the percentage of the population that have had the virus?

Been a few days, but they are predicing herd immunity for Stockholm by mid June with 40% having been infected. Thats in a population of 2.3M. At the moment 9500 have been hospitalized. It will be interesting to see what that number is in mid June because it might give an indication of the size of a second peak in other countries as they come out of lockdown.

More importantly they are getting the situation in care homes under control. That's been the difference between Stockholm and the rest of Sweden. Even though they locked down the care homes early, it still got in.

Nationally deaths down to about 40% of the peak, now. Less than 500 people in ICU, the first time in over a month.