COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[roubaixtuesday]

Is it only the Queen who can step in and override the Government, or tell them to get their shit together?

She could start by telling her son to apologise for fucking off to Scotland with his retinue when he was symptomatic...

 

[Ban-jani]

No specific answer.

It builds an immunity over about 3 weeks, with (I would guess) very little at all for the first week. "How immune" is going to vary from person to person.

"Does it stop you spreading it" - nobody knows. There's no evidence that it stops transmission, but there's no evidence that it doesn't. Too soon to tell basically.

Ok thanks mate, hopefully it doesn’t build at least a solid base and works to somewhat stop it/protect.

 

[Ban-jani]

She could start by telling her son to apologise for fucking off to Scotland with his retinue when he was symptomatic...

Or her other son to admit to his crimes in the US.

Although I do love the Queen.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Yep. Its a tough one. Also a different era.
I know without school/swimming/brownies/martial arts/footy etc my 2 little ones struggled.

Fair point but kids have been mixing in small numbers on the Avenue where I live.

 

[blueparrot]

Problem is even if you get 90% compliance you still have 6 million people ignoring it. I think compliance is probably high overall but not that high, particularly amongst younger people. I still see loads of Teens hanging around shops, no masks when in shops etc. I know some people who have caught it off their teen kids. I would assume that is one of the biggest causes of the spread.

Don’t think you can blame one age group for non compliance, loads of middle aged people have broken rules from meeting in households, holding parties, going to non compliant pubs. Older people are pretty much the worst as far as I can tell for none or wrong wearing of masks. Never had a problem in my shop with teens or young not wearing a mask.
So yes overall compliance is probably good, but the non compliance spreads all ages.

 

[mosssideblue]

She could start by telling her son to apologise for fucking off to Scotland with his retinue when he was symptomatic...

Im just thinking someone has got to get the government to switch on and start acting responsibly. Appreciate that damage has been done, but more is forthcoming and can be avoided

 

[cleavers]

Up to 27 Dec there were 786,000 vaccinated in England and 524, 439 of them were over 80.

BBC reporting that it's 944,539 in total across the UK to 27th, so @worsleyweb is probably right about passing the million mark by now.

 

[artfuldodger]

I understand what you are saying, but it’s only natural to become desensitised to it. I don’t think it’s healthy to be shocked and upset about it all the time - as bad as that sounds. Similar with things like terrorist attacks - people become less shocked.

it’s not a good thing to say and I agree it will lead to more people being relaxed and inevitably more deaths. Hopefully the vaccine takes effect this year

I agree. The numbers are upsetting, but so would the number of cancer deaths every day, or road deaths, or victims of domestic violence, or still births. But we don’t hear about those on a daily basis. If we did we would become desensitised to those too. Personally I think the huge and rapid rise in deaths has jolted people a little. Maybe not made them any more caring about others, but maybe more frightened for themselves.

 

[Ban-jani]

Im just thinking someone has got to get the government to switch on and start acting responsibly. Appreciate that damage has been done, but more is forthcoming and can be avoided

Her job is to do it in private.

Doing so publicly would affect democracy and the monarchy is finished.

 

[Tim of the Oak]