COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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hammocity said:
In the early 70's my School closed down due to the Miners strike (no fuel for the heating boiler), we had 7 weeks off, it was early new year so similar to now. We played football every day, found things to do and lived every moment of our "free" holidays. When we were told the school was reopening me and my mates were gutted, so much so, we cracked on we hadn't heard the news and only went back once a letter arrived at our parents houses.

Different times but I don't buy into the mental health problem for most of the kids. Send them back in March and let them have a shorter summer break in August.
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You don' t think kids' mental health has suffered?

When schools are closed, it is often the case that households cannot mix and they cannot go anywhere too. Of course, plenty are suffering.
 
I am afraid the cases data from the three nations also are huge. And there will almost certainly be a big number tonight for the UK. I would not rule out 60,000.

60,000 cases and 1000 deaths - both likely at or near tonight now - will send shockwaves around the world and be the darkest day in this entire pandemic for this country.

And I bet the one question everyone will ask is WHY the UK is not in full national lockdown and/or let Christmas go ahead with a variant raging they knew would bring these consequences.
 
Gabriel said:
Think there are fewer than 2,000, and some would be elsewhere/serving the service, but I agree they could be deployed.
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Nowhere near enough and they have to be trained in ICU, there were 400 beds alone in Manchester they say it’s 2 staff per bed at least
 
Feel like we're sleepwalking into disaster with this half-dose now only regime. Reading more and more virologists saying its absolutely insane to take this risk and if anything we're potentially creating a perfect petri dish scenario to allow the mutation of a vaccine-escaping variant due to the minimal data on the one dose effect when combined with the ridiculous spread across the UK and a semi-immunised population. Ffs.
 
Tonster said:
Couldn’t agree more. Exactly the same here.
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Yes, same situation for me. I was getting quite concerned about the social anxiety my 6 year old seemed to be displaying as a result of the initial lockdown. Thankfully after a few weeks back at school he was much better. If the schools end up closed for a long period I'll fully understand it but would be dreading it at the same time.
 
twosips said:
Feel like we're sleepwalking into disaster with this half-dose now only regime. Reading more and more virologists saying its absolutely insane to take this risk and if anything we're potentially creating a perfect petri dish scenario to allow the breeding of a vaccine-escaping variant due to the minimal data on the one dose effect when combined with the ridiculous spread across the UK. Ffs.
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Starting to think some brave renowned politician should be trying to create a war government as I fear we need one. In fact should have had one from the start. This virus has been consistently not taken seriously enough and conflicting policies between protecting lives and the economy has ended up hurting both to the maximum extent.

If ever there was a scenario where we need unity this is it. And we will not get it from a single party in charge. Whoever they are.

With Brexit done they should launch this now as a priority imo.

This is a national crisis and it needs to be handled with all the best minds involved not party politics driving what we do.

But as we all know they will not do such a thing. Too afraid of looking weak.
 
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