COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[ganganvince]

Not much use.
The kids aren’t in school...

Depends if parents are key workers

 

[denislawsbackheel]

But they did close pubs, maybe late but they did
They closed restaurants
They told people to stay at home
And loads ignored it
I won’t blame the government that three doors down from me are ignoring the rules
I blame them selfish idiots

It’s those FFS, not them.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Depends if parents are key workers

Whoooosh...

 

[Tb1981]

It’s those FFS, not them.

You wasted as much time replying as I just did

 

[Nellies left peg]

This is the same line of thinking people were peddling weeks ago when we arguing about the guidance not being clear enough "oh well I understand it so those who don't are thick." Ironically we're still arguing about it now given our government has performed a massive u turn on everything it told us all along.

Now it's, "well if people change their habits now they were going to anyway and they're selfish".

We know thick people exist and we know selfish people exist. Unfortunately those are the people most likely to spread the virus and harm the rest of us, so there's still a need for the government to acknowledge that and minimise the risk they pose to the rest of us.

If thick people exist then make the guidance understandable to thick people. Don't make it deliberately vague and then say "haha well you're thick if you don't understand it".

If behavioural scientists warn you that guidance had to be seen to be observed from the top down, or else you'll lose public buy in, then you observe it from the top down. You dont undermine it all just to protect one person.

Managing the virus involves managing people and their behaviour. That includes thick people and selfish people.

I agree. Make the guidelines so the thickest can understand. It's like at school in my day the teacher went at the pace of the slowest. It may be shit for the brighter ones but everyone got the message

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

World-beating

Reading this thread, it appears most of those people have only died to make Boris look bad, the selfish bastards........

 

[grunge]

It is
It was 2500 per day a week a go
3250 a day the week before that,
4000 the week before that.

in graph form.

3 day rolling average

this site is excellent, you can and and compare what ever countries you like from loads of graph options
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/...y-average?country=FRA~ITA~NLD~KOR~ESP~GBR~USA




Adding for context.... we need to realise this isn't petering out. its still increasing globally.

 

[jonmcity]

Our April does not look good, stays high, while others drop fast.

 

[Uwe`s Grandad]

Department of Health and Social Care
@DHSCgovuk
As of 9am 28 May, there have been 3,918,079 tests, with 119,587 tests on 27 May.

269,127 people have tested positive.

As of 5pm on 27 May, of those tested positive for coronavirus, across all settings, 37,837 have sadly died.



4:35 PM · May 28, 2020

 

[Gabriel]

South Koreans seem to be drawing connections, albeit inconclusive, between the new ‘spike’ and the earlier one involving a nightclub.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...ight-trouble-surge-cases-200528041458518.html

Do sense that large buildings with poor ventilation are not going to be allowed to reopen soon, which must be worrying for the pub industry in the UK.