COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[denislawsbackheel]

I don’t know of any teachers not working.
I know dozens.
And their names.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

As SARS-CoV-2 isn't affected much by higher natural summer UV light levels, like flu is, I'm not sure 1918-1920 will play out anything like Spanish Flu.
We artificially stopped the virus infecting 80% of the population by locking down and from here on in will be playing whack-a-mole chasing it down and eliminating local outbreaks.
Though transmission is higher in enclosed spaces and we are likely to be in enclosed spaces more in the autumn and winter, 2nd and subsequent spikes are only really likely if the virus mutates to a form that is more infectious.
Life won't return to anything like normality though till a vaccine is available to give us herd immunity.

A lot of good replies to this and I guess this makes sense. Cheers. I wasn't posting for the sake of fear mongering btw. I saw the graph by chance when browsing twitter this morning and, like probably a significant number of the population on seeing something like that, it put a bit of fear in me at the same time as doubting that's entirely how it's likely to play out. It's a bit reassuring even reading the replies on somewhere like here to learn that's an unlikely scenario for a few different reasons.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

What fun it is to think up the most inane, obtuse question and then laugh like a drain when it catches the government out.

“No can do” suits so many people.

Good job the frontline health workers didn’t spend time conjuring up obstacles.

it pisses me off people going mad at the government at asking them to go back to work as if somehow they are so special when millions have carried on working throughout this crisis

care workers
Nhs workers
Supermarket staff
Journalists
Politicians
Scientists
Some Teaching staff
Bus drivers
Tube drivers
Delivery drivers
Food producers
The armed forces
The entire logistics process that gets food into your cupboards each day.

many of whom cannot work from home. You cannot drive a bus or train from your study waiting for your sourdough loaf to cook.

 

[ganganvince]

it pisses me off people going mad at the government at asking them to go back to work as if somehow they are so special when millions have carried on working throughout this crisis

care workers
Nhs workers
Supermarket staff
Journalists
Politicians
Scientists
Some Teaching staff
Bus drivers
Tube drivers
Delivery drivers
Food producers
The armed forces
The entire logistics process that gets food into your cupboards each day.

many of whom cannot work from home. You cannot drive a bus or train from your study waiting for your sourdough loaf to cook.

Absolutely spot on

 

[grunge]

Let's be honest, there's a big fucking bill coming our way that has to be paid for stopping economic activity to fight the virus so to minimise the bill economies have to start opening up.
It's a balancing act of risk between opening up and letting the virus go again so I'd rather wait a week or so to open up - i.e. till the track-and-trace app is working and the track-and-trace teams are deployed. But we are where we are.
Personally I think the equivalent of war bonds with guaranteed returns over 5-20 years is the way to pay for it. Savings give people fuck all return so lots of people will buy them. Additional money to that lost should be borrowed to boost UK investment and grow the economy to pay the bond bill's or we really will be fucked.

And when you then look at Austrailia in comparison with us. there is no doubting it will spread there but there is far less of it there to spread

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/...million-7-day-average?country=AUS+ITA+ESP+GBR

 

[grunge]

Seeing as there seems to be a lot of Aus vs Us conversations going on, this is the reason Aus didn't close schools etc etc.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Too risky, people may not buy them.
I see a wealth tax on all assets coming, or abolishing capital gains tax relief on principle private residences.

Savings are useless at the moment. A guaranteed return will be very attractive.

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

3 of the 4 pictures are outside where its possible to social distance.

People will happily return to work when it is safe to do so and when employers have put plans in place for social distancing, flexible working hours etc.

 

[johnnytapia]

No, I think everyone does understand them.

Some are pretending not to understand them to try and make the governments position look stupid when it simply has the effect of making the poster look stupid instead.

The message could not be clearer:
Stay at Home. Go to Work.

 

[SWP's back]

Saw this chart this morning and it gave me a bit of a fright. What's our thoughts on this? A reality or an unlikely scenario? It paints a scary picture.

It’s what a few people have been saying for a good while mate.