COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Gelsons Dad]

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

Because the UK was ramping up testing.

 

[jonmcity]

Because the UK was ramping up testing.

Or getting testing started after a miserable effort from the start. Now we start the contact tracing without a working App! we are always ahead of the game with this pandemic containment.

 

[SWP's back]

Very interesting.
I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories obviously this has been a dreadful pandemic which I have lost people that I knew.
That said their has been a lot of odd things happen, for example an unprecedented spell of nice weather for 2 months that hasn't been seen before for years now.
Coincidence or to do with better air quality?
I also think the government is now trying to control us even further and personally I worry that we wont be able to travel abroad ever again, go to football ever again or do a host of other things ever again.
Am I being ridiculous and paranoid?
Maybe but I can foresee some of this happening.

You’re being a fucking idiot.

 

[BlueHammer85]

You’re being a fucking idiot.

Trying to link some sort of conspiracy to the ‘unprecedented’ couple months of nice weather. Moron.

 

[twosips]

Why have they stopped releasing the number of tests they're doing a day? Very suspicious.

 

[SWP's back]

Why have they stopped releasing the number of tests they're doing a day? Very suspicious.

Because it’s probably dropped right down as the number of people contracting the virus has dropped right down. It’s not for lack of capacity.

 

[twosips]

Because it’s probably dropped right down as the number of people contracting the virus has dropped right down. It’s not for lack of capacity.

If that's the case, why not show that and state it?

 

[RandomJ]

I. Fucking. Hate. The. Way. Johnson. Talks. Like. This.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Why have they stopped releasing the number of tests they're doing a day? Very suspicious.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public
It's in here.

 

[True_Blue69]

Why have they stopped releasing the number of tests they're doing a day? Very suspicious.

They said they would have done 200k a day by start of June. Probably hoping people forget.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Why have they stopped releasing the number of tests they're doing a day? Very suspicious.

Because they’ve never actually got to 100,000 tests and the targets seem to be what matters, unfortunately.

 

[True_Blue69]

Trying to link some sort of conspiracy to the ‘unprecedented’ couple months of nice weather. Moron.

I read someone on Facebook say it's not the real sun and you can tell as it's not yellow. Some weird theory that it was some kind of LED light. Nutters.

 

[give it to gordon]

I am surprised how quickly everything is going back to normal, something doesnt add up here.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

I am surprised how quickly everything is going back to normal, something doesnt add up here.

A simple five minute walk outside will tell you why. Apart from the shops being open, people are meeting up with each other. I don’t think the current form of a lockdown can be sustained much longer.

 

[BlueHammer85]

I got pillared on here when i said we'll all be pretty much back to normal by July/August - not ruling out a 'second wave' of some sort but it's looking likely the return to norm is not that far off

 

[somapop]

I’ll not be linking a conspiracy here but this prolonged Mediterranean vibe has added to the fucking weirdness over the past two months. Greatest ’summer’ in years.
Like a childhood Pontins ad nauseum.

how many new cases in South Korea btw? More of a blip that’s being dealt with properly?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I read someone on Facebook say it's not the real sun and you can tell as it's not yellow. Some weird theory that it was some kind of LED light. Nutters.

The world is full of idiots!

 

[RandomJ]

I got pillared on here when i said we'll all be pretty much back to normal by July/August - not ruling out a 'second wave' of some sort but it's looking likely the return to norm is not that far off

July is far too optimistic. As the scientist said we still have a very very high infection rate. August possibly.

 

[BigOscar]

I got pillared on here when i said we'll all be pretty much back to normal by July/August - not ruling out a 'second wave' of some sort but it's looking likely the return to norm is not that far off

I think that's probably because most assumed the government would actually try and stop the virus, not just give a half arsed go at it for 6 weeks and then just let everything go back to normal and pretend they'd fixed it. Hard to imagine why we wouldn't just start all getting infected again like before the lockdown, as nothing really has changed (except maybe 5% are immune and thousands are now dead)

 

[St.Pauli support]

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

In the meantime test numbers are high enough for stats (worldometer numbers).

In the UK 270k from 3.9m tests were positive (6.7%).
In the US 1.75m from 16m test were positive (10.9%).
Worldwide 5.8m from (very roughly) 75m test were positive (7.7%).

Shouldn't we assume in this early phase of the pandemic mostly symptomatic persons should have been tested? The chance must be quite high that we have at least hit the average infection rate.

Why should we have tested an under-average number of positive persons?

If it's true PCR tests are at least 97% accurate the true infection rate shouldn't be higher than the %-ages above, even if not welcome as a message.

No?