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

wingy · Jan 4, 2021

Here's a question.
If countries that suppressed the outbreak to zero or thereabouts had hoped to wait it out and vaccinate a way back to normality at risk of losing that option if enough time elapses for more significant mutations?

clint van damme · Jan 4, 2021

BodicoteSkyBlue said:
I’ve become a statistic, been isolating because I’d been in contact with a plague carrier. Had myself a test yesterday 11.30am as I’d lost my sense of taste&smell.
The Covid Stasi have been bombarding me with texts & emails since lunchtime. Positive, another stint of isolation for me.

hope you don't get it too bad mate.

wingy · Jan 4, 2021

SBT said:
What's stopping people coming into the country going to do? The variant's already here.

Unless it's going to be a NZ-style total travel ban with mandatory, government-enforced quarantines for all exceptions (dream on) then it won't do much. That ship has long since sailed.

Did it import ?
The SA one did, where's the next coming from?
IDK.

Ian1779 · Jan 4, 2021

Terry Gibson's perm said:
May as well just put in on the screen and get any old body to read it we don’t need to see his ugly face

They should just fit our Sky remotes with a ‘next slide please’ button.

Brighton Sky Blue · Jan 4, 2021

Ian1779 said:
They should just fit our Sky remotes with a ‘next slide please’ button.

School kids can put better slides together than them

Ian1779 · Jan 4, 2021

Brighton Sky Blue said:
School kids can put better slides together than them

£12b spunked on a test and trace system that doesn’t work and no one thought to buy a clicker.

SBT · Jan 4, 2021

wingy said:
Did it import ?
The SA one did, where's the next coming from?
IDK.

Travel bans are rarely as strict as they're made out to be. There are always exceptions for UK nationals returning from overseas, so unless you quarantine them all at the point of entry then it won't stop foreign strains from coming here. And just the act of announcing travel bans encourages people to travel while they still can (look at Christmas at King's Cross etc), or even worse, bend the rules to reach the country in ways that aren't so easy to monitor. So while a NZ-style ban can be effective, a US/UK-style ban won't help much, especially after this much time. If they really wanted to make it better, they would start enforcing quarantines, or at least insist on negative test results to enter the country.

wingy · Jan 4, 2021

clint van damme said:
hope you don't get it too bad mate.

Oh missed this.
Echo this Bodicote keep well.

Brighton Sky Blue · Jan 4, 2021

Ian1779 said:
£12b spunked on a test and trace system that doesn’t work and no one thought to buy a clicker.

I wish they could announce the nuts and bolts of these addresses so people wouldn’t be left guessing

David O'Day · Jan 4, 2021

BodicoteSkyBlue said:
I’ve become a statistic, been isolating because I’d been in contact with a plague carrier. Had myself a test yesterday 11.30am as I’d lost my sense of taste&smell.
The Covid Stasi have been bombarding me with texts & emails since lunchtime. Positive, another stint of isolation for me.

hope you stay ok

Evo1883 · Jan 4, 2021

My best mate tested positive, says his legs are aching and his head is like its going to explode

Tommo1993 · Jan 4, 2021

Full national lockdown, starting midnight on Friday?

Mcbean · Jan 4, 2021

Does the AZ jab need the 15 min wait - its a different type of material ? - for my Flu jab it couldnt have taken more than 10 seconds - not sure i stopped moving

Sky Blue Pete · Jan 4, 2021

Tommo1993 said:
Full national lockdown, starting midnight on Friday?

Why Friday

David O'Day · Jan 4, 2021

Apart from closing schools what extra restrictions can they bring n south of a full on Wuhan lock in you in your house don't care if you die style lockdown?

Sky Blue Pete · Jan 4, 2021

58784 infections. Where are all those needing hospital treatment going to go in 2 weeks

Tommo1993 · Jan 4, 2021

Sky Blue Pete said:
Why Friday

Like all the other lockdowns. Weird, unnecessary delays.

Philosoraptor · Jan 4, 2021

chiefdave · Jan 4, 2021

Philosorapter said:

The Nando's scale is back! That's not been mentioned for months.

Ian1779 · Jan 4, 2021

Tommo1993 said:
Full national lockdown, starting midnight on Friday?

If he’s thick enough to say Friday - it gives Starmer a massive fucking stick to beat Johnson with.... don’t fucking miss Kier.

chiefdave · Jan 4, 2021

They had tiers 1-3, which were the second set of tiers they were keen to stress weren't the same as the original tiers 1-3, added a tier 4, now they've got back to levels 1-5 which we had to start off with but they abandoned when they couldn't keep to their own rules on what each level meant and when it would change. And they wonder why people are confused.

derbyskyblue · Jan 4, 2021

Ian1779 said:
If he’s thick enough to say Friday - it gives Starmer a massive fucking stick to beat Johnson with.... don’t fucking miss Kier.

He is....

Brylowes · Jan 4, 2021

Nadhim Zahawi was appointed and announced as a new health minister in mid November.
his role was to mastermind and supervise the rollout of the Covid19 vaccine.
I don’t think I’ve seen him anywhere since

Jamesimus · Jan 4, 2021

Strangely, reading this thread is actually keeping me sane.

Sky Blue Pete · Jan 4, 2021

Brylowes said:
Nadhim Zahawi was appointed and announced as a new health minister in mid November.
his role was to mastermind and supervise the rollout of the Covid19 vaccine.
I don’t think I’ve seen him anywhere since
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Maybe he’s been doing his job

Brylowes · Jan 4, 2021

Sky Blue Pete said:
Maybe he’s been doing his job

Well something somewhere is going very wrong with the vaccine rollout So yeah, you’re probably right.

hill83 · Jan 4, 2021

Sky Blue Pete said:
Maybe he’s been doing his job

Yeah, I’m doing my job but still have the decency to log in here everyday.

covcity4life · Jan 4, 2021

clint van damme said:
Good luck to the Oxford vaccine today - do your stuff!
You're our only hope!!

No

There is another

Sbarcher · Jan 4, 2021

Brighton Sky Blue said:
In Greece they made people text a hotline if they went anywhere!

I have friends in South Africa, during their lockdown, police shot 4 people for breaking cufew!

skybluejelly · Jan 4, 2021

Pretty sure the majority want to send their kids to school , my wife is a headteacher and sent out an email today asking for a list of critical workers .. last lockdown they had 12 kids at most .. so far today 80+ replies and growing saying that that are critical workers and that their children need to attend school if there is a lockdown

Sbarcher · Jan 4, 2021

Parliament recalled on Wednesday to debate Boris's statement so will be later in the week to put in place.

CCFCSteve · Jan 4, 2021

David O'Day said:
Apart from closing schools what extra restrictions can they bring n south of a full on Wuhan lock in you in your house don't care if you die style lockdown?

Thats what I don't quite get...talk of more restrictions ?! T4 is pretty much everything locked down and cases are still rising rapidly. Are they taking any behaviour science advice anymore ?! They need people to buy into the restrictions already in place as well as close schools (T3), tell employers that people have got to WFH unless totally unable to do so and keep elderly off the streets/out of shops - the last two should’ve been pushed far more aggressively a lot earlier (with assistance put in place for food deliveries for elderly).

AOM · Jan 4, 2021

Sbarcher said:
I have friends in South Africa, during their lockdown, police shot 4 people for breaking cufew!

Mad.
Heard they also banned alcohol in South Africa during lockdown.
Would be civil war if they tried that here

chiefdave · Jan 4, 2021

Assuming this is going to be an increased lockdown, although I'm not sure how much more locked down I can be when we're already at 'don't leave the house' level, they really need to give details of what is going on with vaccinations. How many doses we have now and what deliveries we are expecting along with what number we can currently get done a week and clear details and how and when that will be ramped up.

More chance of people sticking to any rules if they have a clear idea of when things are likely to improve.

hill83 · Jan 4, 2021

It’s got to be shops that are doing it. Are people really just ignoring stuff and popping round peoples houses that much? I went to Aldi today by Cov airport and it was complete and utter carnage.

Edit: Fully appreciate me being there is part of the problem. But I needed eggs*

*beer

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