Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (11 Viewers)

[skybluetony176]

Japan seemed to have done ok

Famously obedient society.

 

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[David O'Day]

This bit is very scary " In Blaenau Gwent, the rate is up from 698.5 to 1,006.3"

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

This bit is very scary " In Blaenau Gwent, the rate is up from 698.5 to 1,006.3"

Yep.....apart from Derry I can't think of any other UK region that has exceeded 1000/100k......

Sadly that won't be the case for long.....

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Yep.....apart from Derry I can't think of any other UK region that has exceeded 1000/100k......

Sadly that won't be the case for long.....

Rugby's doubled in the past week, say the Coventry Telegraph.

Mind you, they also say it's in North Warwickshire...

 

[jimmyhillsfanclub]

Theres quite a few London Boroughs hurtling toward & above 500/100k now too.....

 

[skybluetony176]

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[Sky Blue Pete]

Indeed and yet lockdown wise have been relatively light

Yep

 

[chiefdave]

Boris press conference at 5. Bound to be good news...

Seems a bit of a non event:

Playing down any problems at ports but then saying not to travel to ports.
500K have had their first jab, new variant will not change vaccine priority groups.
Any changes to tiers will be evidence based.
Social distancing more important than ever and people must follow the rules.
Schools to go back as planned with a staggered start.
And having previously said 'back to normal' by summer and then Christmas Johnson, is now saying Easter.

 

[SBT]

Vallance says it's likely that restrictions will need to be increased in some places

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Seems a bit of a non event:

Playing down any problems at ports but then saying not to travel to ports.
500K have had their first jab, new variant will not change vaccine priority groups.
Any changes to tiers will be evidence based.
Social distancing more important than ever and people must follow the rules.
Schools to go back as planned with a staggered start.
And having previously said 'back to normal' by summer and then Christmas Johnson, is now saying Easter.

The difference is now we know how many vaccines we have and need to administer to those in vulnerable and essential categories. Simply do them as quickly as humanly possible until you cover enough people to nearly eliminate hospitalisations. So in theory they should have a much better idea of when that threshold will be met

 

[fernandopartridge]

Talk about diluting your own messaging "Social Distancing now more important than ever"

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Hope we can agree that journalists have the easiest jobs and can’t do them very well

 

[chiefdave]

 

[Ian1779]

I wonder if they’ll televise the charity event for the third world plague infested island floating off the coast of France. Will Bono release a charity single for us?

So many questions....

 

[fernandopartridge]

I wonder if they’ll televise the charity event for the third world plague infested island floating off the coast of France. Will Bono release a charity single for us?

So many questions....

I've heard a group of Ethiopian musicians are doing a charity single

 

[Ian1779]

I've heard a group of Ethiopian musicians are doing a charity single

Ironic titled... ‘do they know it’s Christmas time’

 

[David O'Day]

I've heard a group of Ethiopian musicians are doing a charity single

And there won't be snow in Lincolnshire this Christmas time

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

And there won't be snow in Lincolnshire this Christmas time

Or thanks to climate change, any time

 

[David O'Day]

No ICU beds available in the whole of Southern California

 

[fernandopartridge]

No ICU beds available in the whole of Southern California

30m population. You wonder how far away we're going to get from using all capacity here?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

No ICU beds available in the whole of Southern California

It's alright they approved a $600 one off payment about 7 months after the first one

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I wonder if they’ll televise the charity event for the third world plague infested island floating off the coast of France. Will Bono release a charity single for us?

So many questions....

He was going to but JRM thinks it's outrageous and appaling and we don't need help, so he's Banned Aid.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Because we're not south Korea maybe?

Do you understand what benchmarking is?

You take someone else's position who has expertise and success at what you want to achieve and use it as a baseline for your own efforts, then look to improve on it.

 

[Skybluefaz]

 

[Skybluefaz]

 

[BodicoteSkyBlue]

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I need to go on a diet anyway, just starting it a bit earlier than planned.

 

[David O'Day]

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wow

 

[clint van damme]

They still get my respect for admitting publicly they're wrong and a few people resigning.
Over here they'd just get their mates in the media to try and put a positive spin on what a great job they'd done and send Farage and a daily mail photographer down to Dover to get some pictures of him pointing at dinghies

 

[chiefdave]

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Speaking of test and trace I see they're now reaching 92% of contacts. Not at all related to changing the counting method.

Test and Trace suddenly hits 92% of contacts after big change to counting method.

The privatised Test and Trace system is suddenly reaching 92% of coronavirus contacts after a major change to how the figures are counted.

The service, run by outsourcing giants Serco and Sitel, claimed to reach 92.7% of close contacts of people with coronavirus in the week to December 9.

 

[Skybluefaz]

They still get my respect for admitting publicly they're wrong and a few people resigning.
Over here they'd just get their mates in the media to try and put a positive spin on what a great job they'd done and send Farage and a daily mail photographer down to Dover to get some pictures of him pointing at dinghies

Yeah at least they own it

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Always thought at the beginning of this there was no right answer, so our approach can't really be criticised either. What we haven't done is learned, or planned, or adapted...

Anyway, got a Tesco order(!) turning up today. Wonder how much of it will actually turn up...

 

[Macca]

The situation will improve almost miraculously one the Brexit deadline is extended another year

 

[Kieranp96]

Do you understand what benchmarking is?

You take someone else's position who has expertise and success at what you want to achieve and use it as a baseline for your own efforts, then look to improve on it.

You can't drill into someone's head ideas if they think there stupid, us and the US are the least obedient people in the world, we like to moan at everything rebel at everything, the one and only thing we could of took from them would of been track and trace but why when ours is fine?

 

[SBAndy]

You can't drill into someone's head ideas if they think there stupid

As you continue to prove. You don’t even understand what’s being written.

 

[chiefdave]

the one and only thing we could of took from them would of been track and trace but why when ours is fine?

Are you being serious?