Coronavirus - UK
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@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Update: Was in ASDA this morning and plenty of people weren't wearing masks nor social distancing. Seemed to be a mix of locals and holiday-makers. Unsure if the likes of Waitrose or Tesco are the same.
Also my dentist has relaxed procedures a bit in their reception area. Pretty much the same PPE for the dentist himself though.
You do realise that this is a public forum don't you?
They do great pizza flavours like "Cheeseburger and BBQ Sauce" and a wide selection of cheap whiskies - as well you know.
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@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Update: Was in ASDA this morning and plenty of people weren't wearing masks nor social distancing. Seemed to be a mix of locals and holiday-makers. Unsure if the likes of Waitrose or Tesco are the same.
Also my dentist has relaxed procedures a bit in their reception area. Pretty much the same PPE for the dentist himself though.
You do realise that this is a public forum don't you?
They do great pizza flavours like "Cheeseburger and BBQ Sauce" and a wide selection of cheap whiskies - as well you know.
Now I'm conflicted. I'm sitting somewhere between <shudder> and <ooh, cheap whiskies>
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Covid cases fell by 38% week on week - 24,950 cases in todays figures. Hospital admissions rising
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@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Covid cases fell by 38% week on week - 24,950 cases in todays figures. Hospital admissions rising
Hospital going up by about 150 per day. Should peak early this week then decline given 2 week delay.
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Covid cases fell by 38% week on week - 24,950 cases in todays figures. Hospital admissions rising
Hospital going up by about 150 per day. Should peak early this week then decline given 2 week delay.
ONS & SAGE saying impact of July 19th relaxation should be visible later this week
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@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Covid cases fell by 38% week on week - 24,950 cases in todays figures. Hospital admissions rising
Hospital going up by about 150 per day. Should peak early this week then decline given 2 week delay.
ONS & SAGE saying impact of July 19th relaxation should be visible later this week
Maybe sage will be right for the first time ever.
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@victor-meldrew most people at Tesco here in sarf landan wearing masks. About half n half at the mall in Bromley.
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@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
@catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:
@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
Update: Was in ASDA this morning and plenty of people weren't wearing masks nor social distancing. Seemed to be a mix of locals and holiday-makers. Unsure if the likes of Waitrose or Tesco are the same.
Also my dentist has relaxed procedures a bit in their reception area. Pretty much the same PPE for the dentist himself though.
You do realise that this is a public forum don't you?
They do great pizza flavours like "Cheeseburger and BBQ Sauce" and a wide selection of cheap whiskies - as well you know.
Now I'm conflicted. I'm sitting somewhere between <shudder> and <ooh, cheap whiskies>
<shudder, cheap whiskies>
I just had a flashback to riding halfway across Georgia, the day after discovering the delightfully named "Hankey Bannister" at the Turkey/Georgia border duty-free - stocking up on it, and then consuming it that night to free up luggage space. -
@taniwharugby Good news thus far!
I'm still going with a layman's view of vaccines and summer, which was always going to be the best time to give it a go.
Plus consumer behaviour - both the health scientists and 'save the economy' proponents sometimes forget that consumer behaviour is not just a switch that turns fully on or off the instant that alert levels change.
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@donsteppa maybe the virus is like a teenager now and cant be arsed doing anything?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
Lucky combination of circumstances? But may be self reinforcing.
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@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
Lucky combination of circumstances? But may be self reinforcing.
The modellers have been wrong at every juncture
Why stop now?
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I read an interesting article in Guardian on this a few days ago, but didn't link it, assume this is not really a 'too-much-of-the-guardian' kind of place.
But anyway. Explored some ideas. Most interesting I thought, was that the sharp decline was similar to the lockdown effect of the other 2 or 3 waves. Which was not expected during the exit phase.
One hint that falling cases is not solely down to immunity is the shape of the decline. Cases in the UK have plummeted in the past week. Lockdowns are known to bring about sharp falls in cases, because social contacts are swiftly severed, but an immunity-driven peak was expected to be more drawn out, lasting weeks rather than days. “This may yet happen, of course, if what we are seeing is a short-term downturn, followed by another rise then fall,” says Prof Rowland Kao, an epidemiologist at Edinburgh University.
Anyway, worth a read.
Discusses school holidays, testing, pingdemic and Euros. The Scotland and England comparison re: Euros is interesting and worth a read.
Interesting times in UK, and quite optimistic so far IMO, but worth following for many other countries slightly behind.
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@kruse said in Coronavirus - UK:
@victor-meldrew said in Coronavirus - UK:
I'm just staggered that over 30% want permanent social distancing in Pubs, Restaurants, checking-in and nearly 20% want a 10pm curfew.
I do wonder if it was a rogue poll, but it's been commissioned by a from pretty reputable organisations.
I am 100% behind social distancing everywhere, all the time.
when i last lived in the UK pubs still closed at 11-12...so there was a semi curfew, people just went out earlier
I'm happy enough with masks on public transport and lower capacities in bars a restaurants, they do take the piss a bt cramming people in
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@mikethesnow said in Coronavirus - UK:
@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
Lucky combination of circumstances? But may be self reinforcing.
The modellers have been wrong at every juncture
Why stop now?
Pity they don’t give investment advice?
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
The next week will be very very interesting for the longer team results on how things will pan out.
IF cases go up again significantly, then the very single last shred of respect that the modellers / SAGE / Professors have will remain intact. I cannot over estimate how small that shred is though. If it plateaus / goes up slightly, continues to tank, then that will be it. Nothing that comes out of their research will ever be taken seriously again. Literally nothing. They have been wildly off at just about every single juncture on what will happen with opening up. The country is so sick of it.
Professor Neil Ferguson should never ever be allowed near a publication again. The guy is a fear spreading doom sayer whose estimates have done nothing other than destroy the mental health of the population and the credibility of scientific research.
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@majorrage said in Coronavirus - UK:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - UK:
The next week will be very very interesting for the longer team results on how things will pan out.
IF cases go up again significantly, then the very single last shred of respect that the modellers / SAGE / Professors have will remain intact. I cannot over estimate how small that shred is though. If it plateaus / goes up slightly, continues to tank, then that will be it. Nothing that comes out of their research will ever be taken seriously again. Literally nothing. They have been wildly off at just about every single juncture on what will happen with opening up. The country is so sick of it.
Professor Neil Ferguson should never ever be allowed near a publication again. The guy is a fear spreading doom sayer whose estimates have done nothing other than destroy the mental health of the population and the credibility of scientific research.
1 million %
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@majorrage it’s the nature of forecasts, in particular in the natural world. What didn’t seem to be grasped by the Government is that the turning points are notoriously hard to pick. And the predictions of what happens when restrictions are removed was always no more than informed speculation. Arguably less reliable than the two week weather forecast.