COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Milionmiles, the care home situation in the UK has been a mess, but as the professor says in many ways those in there are at a point where they are in effect on borrowed time and pretty much any outbreak of a virulent disease will get to them and sadly hasten their end by a few weeks or months from what it might have been.

Society of course should try to protect those people as all human life is precious. And we did not do that at all well. But the sad truth is that it will likely make our care homes less dangerous for those in there now who are not very near the end of life as there will be fewer likely to get very ill with Covid and viral load - as in how ill you are when infectious to others - seems a big factor in ultimate death rates.
 
quiet_riot said:
If only parents took half as much responsibility for their children's education as we do.

During lockdown we HAD to send home the same work they would have done in school, we HAD to perform assessment still, we HAD to perform welfare checks, we HAD to provide meals...the only kids who have come back 'damaged' seem to be the ones where the parents have let them do sweet FA for 6 months.

If there's another school closure, we're even better prepared this time around, so there are few excuses IMHO. The only reason to keep them open if numbers and deaths spiral again is to keep parents in the office and give free childcare - an economic decision, but we already know the Tories value the economy over lives.
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Tories Value economy over lives / what simple drivel and you are a teacher? Scary the indoctrination of our kids by the left in education.
 
True_Blue69 said:
Someone is giving bad advice as there is a tesring centre at the Etihad and also Manchester airport which are both closer than that. They are just 2 I know of.
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I've been hearing a lot of this sort of thing recent, looks like a lot of the test centre have run out of tests ( or slots for doing tests ). distribution issues going on around the country. added onto that the test website keeps crashing. Yesterday ( maybe day before ) pretty much no one in London could book a test.
 
grunge said:
I've been hearing a lot of this sort of thing recent, looks like a lot of the test centre have run out of tests ( or slots for doing tests ). distribution issues going on around the country. added onto that the test website keeps crashing. Yesterday ( maybe day before ) pretty much no one in London could book a test.
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It's fucked. At this rate it won't be long before loads of kids up and down the country are sent home partly becuase of no testing and lab capacity
 
Scotland data is now starting to get more concerning daily.

3 deaths. First time this has happened in ages. (two months in fact).

6 now in icu up again.

267 in hospital (up 11 on yesterday).

And 176 cases (at 2.3%)

For first time cases from every mainland health board area.

No way you can spin that as anything but more evidence things might be turning in the wrong direction.
 
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Last week it was 0 deaths - 154 cases (but from just 1.2% of tests). 264 in hospital - 3 less than today but in of itself up 6 on the day before. And 6 on icu (this has fallen in past week to 2 - last Friday - but has since gone back up over last few days to 6 - thus 4 new ventilated patients in just 3 days).

This is now at a level it has not been at previously for some time. Last time more than 6 were on ventilators in Scotland was mid July. And it was under that from then until about 10 days ago.
 
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Nicola Sturgeon warns they now may well have to cancel the planned easing of restrictions.

I do not think football crowds will be happening any time soon now there or in England.
 
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