It feels like satire at times. 'Brasseye's new 3hour feature-length special episode. Segments such as the PM (who looks like Matt Lucas in character) telling the nation to sing Happy Birthday while washing their hands. It's almost surreal.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
- Thread starter Don't Kill Bill
- Start date
It feels like satire at times. 'Brasseye's new 3hour feature-length special episode. Segments such as the PM (who looks like Matt Lucas in character) telling the nation to sing Happy Birthday while washing their hands. It's almost surreal.
"It's corona virus! People are bursting with corona virus"
Ta chap. To be honest in my situation im ok. Gives me a spell to concentrate on my passion of running (adhering to the rules of course!)
Interesting insight into the differences. I suppose on top of that people in China are more used to being dictated to as well. Communist type countries etc. ( won't go too deep totally out of my knowledge zone here!)
I got the impression that the transport graph was a pat on the back to show how well we are doing at the lockdown, as quite understandably public transport must have been a great way of spreading it, and the drop off on the graph is quite a dramatic visual to display, but to show it every time, and to then follow it up with the all important hospital admissions graph seems odd.
I think if they did these briefings every 4-5 days they'd be really worth watching, and would stop people getting jaded with them, which quite possibly means missing some important new information, I'd also stop them asking the media if they 'want to follow up'.
I got shot down in the first week after my other half (NHS worker) said she'd rather have PPE than people's claps. Now we're past the romance phase, we're now starting to see the signs of people questioning approach. Which is only a good thing. The care home sector is quite frankly a scandal waiting to be uncovered, but hopefully people clapping put the energy into getting the right policy sorted/government held to account.
Clapping for the queen is laughable though, i'd probably prefer clapping for that 99 year old who managed to raise £15m with a bit of creativity.
We are starting to lift restrictions in Poland!
It's phased:
It's phased:
- Monday 20th April: 4 people per cashier in stores (now 3), for larger markets 1 person per 15 sqm, you will be able to go for walks, parks and forests will open, people between 13-18 will be able to leave home without an adult
- Monday 27th April: hotels, libraries and museums will reopen
- Monday 4th May: restaurants to reopen with limited capacity, hair saloons and beauty parlors will reopen, shopping centers will open, sporting events with up to 50 participants to be allowed (behind closed doors only)
- Monday 11th May: gyms, cinemas and theaters to reopen with limited capacity
Interesting to read this, especially the priority given to hotels, libraries and museums.
I'm not close to the data, but is Poland seeing a reduction in cases/deaths now?
Well stuff like Cheltenham and Liverpool-Atletico Madrid mass gatherings won't be happening anytime soon or indeed perhaps not early next year either although I hope we'd have had some sort of medical breakthrough by then.
I can only go by my experience but mass gathering hotspot is between 5-6pm at Birmingham new Street and you can factor in the same at Manc Piccadilly/Victoria, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol and all the London terminals (and the tube).
Once you ease lockdown you need to come up with some sort of action plan which will continue to stop unneccesary trips into the office if you can do the work at home. If you are in the office then perhaps more flexible start and finish times. Add in general less trips into major cities for leisure given many restuarants and pubs could well be closed and we should be getting somewhere if they trial that through June.
Not sure what the plan is for Winter though, that's going to be a big problem.
Ah, thanks!
That's promising. Interesting on the masks. If you go without one, will you be fined or just warned. I'm struggling to understand why U.K is being so dismissive of them apart from of course not having many of them to distribute!
Anyway you staying indoors until 2021 just to make sure Sarni?
No it's true, basically. It's the perfect storm for their government because they've got a very manageable population in terms of they live in these singular buildings plus those same people have been more or less indoctrinated since birth to obey everything they are told without question. Very easy population to manage which to be honest, in a situation like this it's probably for the best.
Nope it’s rising every day.
That's promising. Interesting on the masks. If you go without one, will you be fined or just warned. I'm struggling to understand why U.K is being so dismissive of them apart from of course not having many of them to distribute!
Anyway you staying indoors until 2021 just to make sure Sarni?
I plan to work from home for the next 3 months anyway, let’s see after that. I’m actually spending at least 2 hours outside everyday even now.
How many people are they testing now per day?
Of course, as is to be expected.
But this is brilliant news man. Love seeing other countries around us getting light at the end of the tunnel and planning ahead. Go on Poland.
As a Police officer in a large town of over one hundred and fifty thousand people in the UK, I have started work on the morning where there were 4 officers. Me, a pregnant lady who was desk bound, and two new starters, who weren't allowed to drive. We couldn't have locked down a single street in the worse areas, especially with the softly softly approach we have been instructed to take.
Yes at first the follow up thing seemed refreshing from Raab.
Now it just makes him look weak and having to answer the same question again.
That sounds like the opening scene of a zombie movie.
It means something to people that matter to people.
Don’t get jaded. NHS staff are buoyed by it.
Remove the politics. Make a noise. Be a good person. That’s it.
The queen can Fcuk off though.
Someone from the U.S. knows if the 22 million people that lost their employment are still covered in case they get COVID-19? or the white house/states have nothing planned on that?
Half the cnuts clapping are Tory voters, meaning they have supported the decimation of the NHS over a prolonged period. It’s tokenism at its finest. Just pay the poor feckers more, give them basic PPE and fund the surgeries and hospitals they work in. No one does this nonsense quite like the Brits. Are the Germans doing the same thing every Thursday, or are they gearing up to get back to normal because they had sensible policy in the first place?
What happens to airlines? Holiday companies? Surely many will go bust, mainly the latter.
Masks will be obligatory until 2021 at least?
Makes sense to me. If they’re deemed important now what would change that stance between now and a vaccine being rolled out?
Clapping, praying, painting your ringpiece into a rainbow are just token gestures to help the practitioners feel better about themselves.
It's tiresome.
It’s not either/or you daftie.
I don’t applaud the people that are applauding. I applaud the people that are doing.
Objecting to that because some people that are clapping have different politics to you... hints at something broken in you.
#Prayfor... fecks me off no end as well. Literally what will praying achieve in a time of strife like, for instance, a mass shooting? People flood social media with this sort of nonsense but don’t actually do anything meaningful to support.
I don’t object to them clapping, they are free to do as they wish. Just as I am free to call it token bollocks. It’s not a massive data sample, but I have three mates who work in the NHS in different capacities and they think it’s all well and good but are more concerned with the dire state of the conditions they are working in. It’s like the nonsense pin badges created for care workers. Just give the poor buggers the proper kit instead.
You have 3 friends that think it’s good. Go outside. Clap. Not all tokens are negative.
If you want to do something more, fcuking do it and stop complaining.
I’m a useless piece of shit for the most part but I’ve done more direct social good in the last month than I have in my entire life.
I voted labour. I wouldn’t have cared if Boris had passed. Hancock is a twat. Patel is evil. If I saw Raab walking down a flight of stairs I’d want to kick him. The queen can disappear.
You arguing to be a slightly worse person. Why?
The thing is that the man identified himself as a journalist. He was filming an indecent that he saw when walking through the park.
The idea that the police are allowed to stop a journalist from filming what they are doing is scary.
I'm forcing myself to believe that this clapping is going to be exchangeable in the future for real financial backing for the NHS, both in terms of treatments and workers pay, including the backing of strikes and resistance to political vandalism and sell offs.
So clap, clap away to your heart's content but know that when it comes to cashing that in, the cheques had better be legit.
So clap, clap away to your heart's content but know that when it comes to cashing that in, the cheques had better be legit.
Clapping don't procure any PPE.
feck yo' claps.
feck yo' claps.
If the curb reaches R0 in a country which is very likely after successful lock down, and there are no imported cases what with the summer ahead and most viruses being seasonal I thought that might not be necessary.
Slovenia will be lifting some restrictions starting next week. Technical stores and services open on Monday, while the next batch, which includes hairdressers, cosmetic salons, non-essential stores (excluding ones located in shopping centres), and outside non-contact sport centres, open up on May 4th. No word on restaurants, bars or public transport yet.
So that's something.
So that's something.
It seems to be linked to to cases in retirement homes and some hospitals that weren't previously reported for whatever reason. So I don't think that's a "true" number of the last 24 hours. Not necessarily linked to a big increase in testing either, just reporting.
Actually he said he expects two years so 2022.
I dont know if this has been posted about the wuhan virology lab where the virus might have originated from, but this covering up / non transparency from China is very shady. Even Macron is out to say something fishy is going on
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/
You’re expected to file for (very expensive) continued coverage under your old plan via COBRA, or use the special enrollment period to apply for coverage via the healthcare exchange or Medicaid. Failing that: a negotiated long term payment plan or bankruptcy.
As far as plans from the government to change that, eh...I don’t know how that would work.