Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (20 Viewers)

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Yes it wasn’t as strict as spain or Italy but it was still a proper lockdown, we were allowed to do one form of exercise for weeks and weeks.... stop going on like we all could still go out and mix

Those slight differences allow the virus to get out and spread. You'd be amazed how even that small amount can increase the chances of transmission. Look at the rates in places like Italy and Spain compared to us - we're still a lot higher because we had these minor differences that kept the R rate that little bit higher.

Also see you ignored the part of the post about being able to provide evidence it was being done safely. Largely because there isn't any.

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Why not, if that was what the science said?

They seem quite happy to release us back into the wild anyway, and that's at odds with what you're saying here. What you're actually flagging up is a disconnect between perceptions, actions, and realities.

Hardly releasing us back into the wild is it, it’s slow and safe measures to get the country moving again

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Those slight differences allow the virus to get out and spread. You'd be amazed how even that small amount can increase the chances of transmission. Look at the rates in places like Italy and Spain compared to us - we're still a lot higher because we had these minor differences that kept the R rate that little bit higher.

But they have reopened most things now and haven’t had a second spike at all, I don’t understand why most are convinced it’s going to happen here when it’s likely it wont

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Hardly releasing us back into the wild is it, it’s slow and safe measures to get the country moving again

But... it's flying in the face of their own science or rather, their own presented science.

Even you must surely see the contradictions!

 

[fernandopartridge]

Yes it wasn’t as strict as spain or Italy but it was still a proper lockdown, we were allowed to do one form of exercise for weeks and weeks.... stop going on like we all could still go out and mix

I posted up the legislation which was really permissive and basically unenforceable. There was nothing in there about one form of exercise.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Great news that the lockdown is being safely eased today! Got a feeling things are going to get a lot better this month

Or the start of operation kill off the ones ones that have been in isolation.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Genuine question then, is it worth the entire effort to find a vaccine, if the probability is it blows itself out about as quickly as properly testing the vaccine will take?

I honestly don't know. But I guess it would be remiss not to try.

 

[fernandopartridge]

But they have reopened most things now and haven’t had a second spike at all, I don’t understand why most are convinced it’s going to happen here when it’s likely it wont

Are you really that stupid?

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Are you really that stupid?

The fuck are you talking about? They have reopened most things and haven’t seen a surge

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I posted up the legislation which was really permissive and basically unenforceable. There was nothing in there about one form of exercise.

I did wonder that as they were 'guidelines' how could the police issue fines? If it's a guideline it's not law, it's just a suggestion of something they think it would be advisable to do. It was the one part of Cumming's farce that I actually agreed with - he hadn't done anything illegal because it had no legal authority.

 

[Ian1779]

Hardly releasing us back into the wild is it, it’s slow and safe measures to get the country moving again

Again - you using that word safe. Where is the evidence to justify that??
Just one piece would be a start.

 

[fernandopartridge]

The fuck are you talking about? They have reopened most things and haven’t seen a surge

What else is comparable?

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Or the start of operation kill off the ones ones that have been in isolation.

They got it into the care homes, now time to start phase 2 for those who weren't.

 

[shmmeee]

Genuine question then, is it worth the entire effort to find a vaccine, if the probability is it blows itself out about as quickly as properly testing the vaccine will take?

Better to have a vaccine and not need it than need one and not have it I guess.

Don’t know if the relatively long incubation period affects mutation though. If you’re going around passing it on asymptomatically for a while, what difference if you die or not? Interesting question.

I’d guess you look at hospitalisation rates (hard to do without knowing who has had it) and then survival rates in hospital to see if more people are surviving. Data will be messy though as we’ve been making rapid progress on treating it since day one, so how much any improvement in survival is down to our advances and how much is mutation would be hard to disentangle I guess.

 

[PVA]

Hardly releasing us back into the wild is it, it’s slow and safe measures to get the country moving again

It's not slow and safe.

It's making things up as they go along.

It's ignoring the science that they were apparently being led by, just to get Dominic Cummings off the front page.

They value one man's job over public health guidance.

 

[fernandopartridge]

I did wonder that as they were 'guidelines' how could the police issue fines? If it's a guideline it's not law, it's just a suggestion of something they think it would be advisable to do. It was the one part of Cumming's farce that I actually agreed with - he hadn't done anything illegal because it had no legal authority.

No, it was legislated it wasn't guidelines. I was responding to the specific point about exercise.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

No, it was legislated it wasn't guidelines. I was responding to the specific point about exercise.

So why did they keep saying 'follow the guidelines' rather than 'follow the law'?

EDIT: Can probably answer than myself. Johnson not wanting to seem unpopular and telling people what to do.

 

[fernandopartridge]

So why did they keep saying 'follow the guidelines' rather than 'follow the law'?

EDIT: Can probably answer than myself. Johnson not wanting to seem unpopular and telling people what to do.

Exactly

 

[David O'Day]

Of course you’d be disappointed people can safely actually see family and friends after 11 weeks of lockdown

You actually followed the news?

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[clint van damme]

coincidentally after what we were discussing earlier, this has jut popped up on my timeline:

Could Covid-19 have reached the UK earlier than thought?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Hardly releasing us back into the wild is it, it’s slow and safe measures to get the country moving again

Letting everyone crowd into a beach but not to get onto a train

 

[clint van damme]

so we're not transitioning from level 4 to 3 after all.

No10 admits coronavirus alert level is still 4 - despite easing lockdown

 

[Grendel]

So why did they keep saying 'follow the guidelines' rather than 'follow the law'?

EDIT: Can probably answer than myself. Johnson not wanting to seem unpopular and telling people what to do.

France has a strict lockdown and despite Astute droning on I know a couple of people on France and its been ignored by a large percentage of People

Poland has a 2 week quarantine - I know a polish national whose gone back for a bit and had to take a photograph of his isolated flat - he has then proceeded to go to his parents house and bring his mates round and get pisssed - now he’s on the way back - he ignored all the rules

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

They got it into the care homes, now time to start phase 2 for those who weren't.

It is sort of how this feels

 

[chiefdave]

The fuck are you talking about? They have reopened most things and haven’t seen a surge

Question for you Dom. There's 2 rooms, both with 100 people in. In the first room is 1 person with Covid-19, in the second room there's 10 people with Covid-19.

Which room do you think is safer for you to enter?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

so we're not transitioning from level 4 to 3 after all.

No10 admits coronavirus alert level is still 4 - despite easing lockdown

It never was a lockdown really was it

 

[fernandopartridge]

France has a strict lockdown and despite Astute droning on I know a couple of people on France and its been ignored by a large percentage of People

Poland has a 2 week quarantine - I know a polish national whose gone back for a bit and had to take a photograph of his isolated flat - he has then proceeded to go to his parents house and bring his mates round and get pisssed - now he’s on the way back - he ignored all the rules

Bloody hell G, that's Astute level evidence there. Poland has had 22k cases in total so I highly doubt that your friend's experience is necessarily reflective. That said, they seized on the early cases and took decisive action, traced where they'd come from (one of their first cases was from a person returning from that dreadful european hotspot Italy the UK)

 

[The coventrian]

I’m more disappointed that people will never be able to see some of their friends and family again due to the 'Chinese' government totally incompetent handling of this pandemic. At least some people can now go have a piss up in the park with their mates though, not like we’re still recording higher daily numbers than anyone else in Europe or anything like that.

Edited that for you.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

France has a strict lockdown and despite Astute droning on I know a couple of people on France and its been ignored by a large percentage of People

Poland has a 2 week quarantine - I know a polish national whose gone back for a bit and had to take a photograph of his isolated flat - he has then proceeded to go to his parents house and bring his mates round and get pisssed - now he’s on the way back - he ignored all the rules

There'll be bellends in every country, a government is judged on how it manages the bellends.

Now I am sympathetic to the non-draconian approach, and overall I'd say this country started off lockdown pretty well. But it's got more and more muddled.

 

[shmmeee]

Edited that for you.

Never your fault on the right is it?

Always Europe, or Muslims, or refugees, or single mothers, or the Chinese.

Party of personal responsibility my arse.

 

[The coventrian]

Never your fault on the right is it?

Always Europe, or Muslims, or refugees, or single mothers, or the Chinese.

Party of personal responsibility my arse.

The right? What are you on about?
This started in china. They tried to cover it up and its spread throughout the world. The Chinese government are guilty of mass murder.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The right? What are you on about?
This started in china. They tried to cover it up and its spread throughout the world. The Chinese government are guilty of mass murder.

If anybody is it's those who knowingly sent Covid patients back into care homes

 

[shmmeee]

The right? What are you on about?
This started in china. They tried to cover it up and its spread throughout the world. The Chinese government are guilty of mass murder.

So our handling of the pandemic is the fault of the Chinese? That’s why we’re so much worse than comparable nations? Nothing to do with us?

Loads of countries have handled this without killing tens of thousands of their own citizens. The spread may have come from Chinese obscurity at the start, but once the cats out the bag every country had a chance to react appropriately and we fluffed it.

And yes, the right. You know how you waffle on about lefties? That’s because you’re a rightie. The right are supposed to be the party of personal responsibility yet spend all their time excusing their failures as the fault of refugees/Muslims/foreigners.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

So our handling of the pandemic is the fault of the Chinese? That’s why we’re so much worse than comparable nations? Nothing to do with us?

Loads of countries have handled this without killing tens of thousands of their own citizens. The spread may have come from Chinese obscurity at the start, but once the cats out the bag every country had a chance to react appropriately and we fluffed it.

And yes, the right. You know how you waffle on about lefties? That’s because you’re a rightie. The right are supposed to be the party of personal responsibility yet spend all their time excusing their failures as the fault of refugees/Muslims/foreigners.

And pearl clutching if the country is ever criticised while calling everyone else a snowflake

 

[The coventrian]

So our handling of the pandemic is the fault of the Chinese? That’s why we’re so much worse than comparable nations? Nothing to do with us?

Loads of countries have handled this without killing tens of thousands of their own citizens. The spread may have come from Chinese obscurity at the start, but once the cats out the bag every country had a chance to react appropriately and we fluffed it.

And yes, the right. You know how you waffle on about lefties? That’s because you’re a rightie. The right are supposed to be the party of personal responsibility yet spend all their time excusing their failures as the fault of refugees/Muslims/foreigners.

So our handling of the pandemic is the fault of the Chinese? That’s why we’re so much worse than comparable nations? Nothing to do with us?

Loads of countries have handled this without killing tens of thousands of their own citizens. The spread may have come from Chinese obscurity at the start, but once the cats out the bag every country had a chance to react appropriately and we fluffed it.

And yes, the right. You know how you waffle on about lefties? That’s because you’re a rightie. The right are supposed to be the party of personal responsibility yet spend all their time excusing their failures as the fault of refugees/Muslims/foreigners.

Did the Chinese start this? Yes or no?
The Chinese are guilty of mass murder. What is it about criticism of another country you hate? Weird as fuck.