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not even checked his feed. Clicked through to the link to have a quick look at where the info had come from

Didn’t quite believe this when I was sent it yesterday but seeing as the WHO are suggesting overall fatality rate is between 0.5 and 1, would makes sense (will leave to the science bods to comment) ps guessing this will probably be why it will be tricky to get students to tow the lockdown line

Think you’re spot on Tony. The concern around the app has always been around data corruption/maintaining its accuracy and also providing the data centrally so it can be analysed (I might be wrong but I think that was the problem with the standard ‘off the shelf’ tracing app - data retained on...

Of course the outbreaks won’t remain with just students. The virus is out there in the wider world (it’s a pandemic). All I’m saying is can we realistically expect students to do more than be mindful of the higher risk people around them ?!

Presume they’ll be wearing face masks

Id struggle to knock the kids at uni. They’re low risk and mixing with others who are low risk. As long as they are considerate when mixing with high risk/heading back home (and wear masks at supermarkets etc) then It will be difficult to ask for much more.

Not really at all. I’m not saying it’s anything to do with justifying elements of our response (which I’ve already indicated has been lacking in areas), I’m saying let’s not just accept/condone China’s behaviour. My original comment was due to language Shmmeee used to play down their conduct...

hmmm, I know they might have been ‘helpful’, I should think so ! i see their conduct as a little bit more serious I guess

‘Slow to admit’ is a bit of an understatement shmmeee. The cover up was disgraceful and has led to a worldwide issue that may (nobody will know for sure) have been containable. We have fucked up various things during the outbreak (as have a number of countries), but China’s behaviour is on a...

The furlough scheme was set up so businesses would retain staff to ensure a quick bounce back from the lockdown. There isn’t currently a lockdown so for example pubs and restaurants can operate, albeit under certain measures. There will be a lot of redundancies, no doubt about it, I suppose the...

Pretty disgraceful really. I was less than impressed when Johnson talked about people not following rules this week (as I think as a country we have followed measures pretty well overall, especially during lockdown) but guessing this is what he was talking about. Two caveats. I can’t imagine...

I won’t get into the whole testing discussion again. We should have a bit more capacity by now and I believe the government should be working on a referral system online or through 111 again (those with obvious Covid symptoms and/or that have been in close contact with someone who has Covid) not...

Appreciate what you’re saying but again this is where the governments messaging has been poor....it’s not that it’s suddenly dangerous to go to work (although for some jobs ie high/close public interaction ie supermarkets it is obviously a higher risk of contageon than others) unless you/your...

Sorry, missed the posts Fernando. What’s the reasoning ?

Im not a fan of sticking stuff on here without proper evidence/being able to back it up, so do take this with a pinch of salt/in the spirit it is being shared. It appears to be similar to what I think was SBD (or was it Pete’s) mate and BSB were saying regarding a vaccine. Interesting read none...

Spot on. I don’t think there can be any reliable data on actual transmission, although maybe reasonable guesstimates. All they can say is due to close proximity it’s riskier in some locations that others. For example even if there was an outbreak at work an infected individual might have caught...

I’m talking about the WFH/curfew stuff.

To be fair, this ‘U turn’ stuff is nonsense. The virus has spiked, measures need to be taken. When it dips, relax the measures. It’s happening all over the world.

Agreed. Having said that I think the recent spike infection seemed to also coincide/start with some not so good weather 2-3 weeks back (and then bank hols) whereby I’m guessing more people were inside than in beer gardens/outside for bbqs etc (for full disclose purposes I’m saying this as...

I don’t think there’s epidemiological evidence for a fair few of the decisions made to date by ours and a lot of other countries. Let’s see, if people follow the rules (in particular the piling back to the house one) it might work but the country will be divided on this point. My ex is saying...