Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (289 Viewers)

[Sky Blue Pete]

Dunno, maybe Boris could issue some guidelines on this, he's been locked away for a while now with his laptop running the trials

And fiancée elsewhere

 

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[clint van damme]

More than once a day and Google will be monitoring

per hand?

 

[wingy]

More than once a day and Google will be monitoring

Think I'll ask Alexa.

 

[Nick]

Think I'll ask Alexa.

She won't do it for you.

 

[hill83]

Which of course no one said and I’m still waiting on answers I may hacevtk start a separate thread on the points you are refusing to answer

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

@Sick Boy Whats the Italy numbers mate? Think i seen it on twitter but wasn't sure if it was confirmed

 

[Sick Boy]

@Sick Boy Whats the Italy numbers mate? Think i seen it on twitter but wasn't sure if it was confirmed

Not been announced yet mate, will post as they come through.

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Not been announced yet mate, will post as they come through.

Think the cases are down but the deaths are slightly up from a few accounts on twitter

 

[CCFCSteve]

per hand?

I think so, as long as you wash them both after whilst singing happy birthday (or sing happy birthday before If you’d prefer)

 

[Nick]

Anybody got today's scores on the doors so we can all discuss a line on a graph nobody knows anything about?

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Anybody got today's scores on the doors so we can all discuss a line on a graph nobody knows anything about?

I'll be ready with the graphs but that will be a while yet, the fake numbers are being manipulated to fit the desired narrative to plot onto the incorrect scale as we speak.

 

[Nick]

I'll be ready with the graphs but that will be a while yet, the fake numbers are being manipulated to fit the desired narrative to plot onto the incorrect scale as we speak.

Happy days, we should be following (INSERT RANDOM COUNTRY HERE)'s approach, they have very smooth lines.

 

[Sick Boy]

Think the cases are down but the deaths are slightly up from a few accounts on twitter

On the Lombardy ones have been announced so far

 

[Ring Of Steel]

Happy days, we should be following (INSERT RANDOM COUNTRY HERE)'s approach, they have very smooth lines.

You're the boss, I'll make some calls.

 

[ccfcricoh]

Italy are 766 i believe so not much of a movement over last couple of days in either direction

 

[wingy]

Canada numbers up by 12k
Don't know if they're testing heavily or collating numbers en bloc , but that's a significant number.

 

[Sick Boy]

Italy are 766 i believe so not much of a movement over last couple of days in either direction

Will post up confirmed numbers when they decide to bother starting.
I think the peak is happening now, hopefully next week it’ll look a bit better.

 

[Skybluefaz]

Anybody got today's scores on the doors so we can all discuss a line on a graph nobody knows anything about?

Gotta know in graph form who to send prayers to

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

4585 new cases and 766 new deaths in Italy[source]

Cases down but deaths up by 6... would you say the curve is flattening? @Sick Boy

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

We are lucky that we do have some world class universities here. I can't really explain how the alumni that we end up with as MPs don't show much of that.

Cos all the ones that are actually good at anything go on to something other than politics.

 

[Sick Boy]

New positives: 2339 - but a lot more testing going on now
Deaths: 766

 

[wingy]

It's been hard to make sense around China today .
The latest seems to suggest that it's a different area with 'several' cases going into restrictions.
I suppose that's what we.will be up against when we finally lift things here.

Edit:- they also still suggest that 10's of cases are being reported among returning nationals.
I wouldn't think there would be many of those left doing this.

 

[Sick Boy]

4585 new cases and 766 new deaths in Italy[source]

Cases down but deaths up by 6... would you say the curve is flattening? @Sick Boy

The new confirmed cases is 2339 but loads more testing is happening. I think next week it’ll start to go down

 

[wingy]

New positives: 2339 - but a lot more testing going on now
Deaths: 766

Going the right way then!!

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Very informative briefing tonight, lots of info in regards to treatments etc....

 

[ccfcricoh]

Very informative briefing tonight, lots of info in regards to treatments etc....

I've missed it... is this sarcastic or not?! Genuine question ha!

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I need to fix a fence. But my div of a neighbour keeps trying to stand near me to talk whenever I go in the back garden so I’m currently hiding.

You are Boris Johnson and I claim my £5.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Just read the following online from an article taken from the Guardian...

For much of the week, it’s been as if the government has gone out of its way to appear wilfully clueless. First, the psychotically unstable Dominic Raab, then the pathologically untrustworthy Michael Gove, culminating with the shambolically underprepared Alok Sharma.

Every time someone mentions the bias of the 'tory press' they need to remember there is bias the other way too!

Bizarrely the article went on to say 'Thank God for Matt Hancock'

When you're grateful that Hancock is the best available you know things are bad.

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

I've missed it... is this sarcastic or not?! Genuine question ha!

Genuine mate, the deputy medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam is really clear and to the point with info

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Just found we might be getting furloughed in the next few weeks

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Well with today's figures lets hope Spain is on the other side now and hopefully Italy will have lower figures later

You do seem obsessed with the daily figures and extrapolating stuff from them. You really can't do so - things could fluctuate quite significantly day to day.. Best thing to do is check them weekly and look for a trend in that data.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Well thats fair enough, however what I can and am telling you is that HMRC will be using "every tool in their arsenal" to audit and check somewhere down the line. And those boys have some pretty serious tools in their box, speaking from bitter experience they use GCHQ to get hold of any emails they like and you'd never know it was happening (that was a much more serious issue than furlough tbf, but you don't fuck with HMRC!)

If I were you I'd have added an extra bit on the end of "unless you're a multi-billion dollar individual/corporation able to 'sweet-talk' your way out of it"

 

[shmmeee]

Clearly when you have a dataset as big as this you can use trends to very good effect. Individual differences would only render comparison meaningless if the sample size was much smaller.

There’s undoubtedly a lot of noise, that’s why rolling averages are used in most of the graphs.

 

[wingy]

You are Boris Johnson and I claim my £5.

No.
That's his neighbour.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

What else have they done wrong? We locked down..... No Government could have predicted this happening

They have been warned that a pandemic was one of the most likely 'worst case scenarios' to occur and that the health service was woefully under-funded and under-prepared in terms of equipment for that scenario. They chose to ignore it and implemented austerity cuts resulting in real-term funding cuts.

So yes, they could have predicted this because they were warned.

Not that I'm saying any other party would've done much, if any, better