true_rover Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Can't imagine why Sweden is pulling ahead of the rest of the Nordics tbh.Especially when its population density is considerably lighter than that of Denmark next door... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, 101 said: Does anyone else know why there is a clamour still for temperature checking at airports, just about every expert has said it's a waste of time and can give false positive results, yet just about everyday at the moment I see some "commentator" almost screaming that this is something the government should be doing urgently. I hope the slight decline in new cases continues in Scotland but we really need to get testing ramping up False positives aren't a problem though. No one should be flying now anyway unless absolutely necessary and I'd say every single person entering the UK should be getting 14 days in a hotel room on the government tab. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 22 minutes ago, Marshmallo said: Can't imagine why Sweden is pulling ahead of the rest of the Nordics tbh. It's a turn up for the books. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The DA Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 4 minutes ago, 101 said: Does anyone else know why there is a clamour still for temperature checking at airports, just about every expert has said it's a waste of time and can give false positive results, yet just about everyday at the moment I see some "commentator" almost screaming that this is something the government should be doing urgently. I hope the slight decline in new cases continues in Scotland but we really need to get testing ramping up Isn't the slight decline due to the fact that Tuesday's figures were artificially high because one lab didn't work over the weekend and reported 3 days' worth of figures in one go? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 3 minutes ago, Detournement said: False positives aren't a problem though. No one should be flying now anyway unless absolutely necessary and I'd say every single person entering the UK should be getting 14 days in a hotel room on the government tab. I would agree with that forced isolation would be about the only logical step. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 1 minute ago, The DA said: Isn't the slight decline due to the fact that Tuesday's figures were artificially high because one lab didn't work over the weekend and reported 3 days' worth of figures in one go? Very true forgot about that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Glad to see the media beginning to turn from "blitz spirit" nonsense to actually highlighting the state of the conditions the NHS are still having to work in and the empty testing centres. Things could turn quite nasty with this if Bojo and pals dont get it sorted out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 The lead singer from Fountains of Wayne had died of Coronavirus. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/01/adam-schlesinger-fountains-of-wayne-dead-coronavirusBut Rachel Hunter is ok yes? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Bairnardo said: Glad to see the media beginning to turn from "blitz spirit" nonsense to actually highlighting the state of the conditions the NHS are still having to work in and the empty testing centres. Things could turn quite nasty with this if Bojo and pals dont get it sorted out. Johnson's cabinet stooges are really struggling now that they can't just pull out the same 'stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives' answer to every single question. Johnson will be desperate to continue to dodge the 5pm press conferences once he is released from his quarantine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 8 minutes ago, throbber said: The lead singer from Fountains of Wayne had died of Coronavirus. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/01/adam-schlesinger-fountains-of-wayne-dead-coronavirus So what? 5 singers of novelty songs die from flu every year and the all of the Fast Food Rockers were wiped out by e-coli. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Snafu said: There won't be enough of the right masks to go round and for the population to use them properly. They will be made and given to every household. China has a massive producing line and stock ready to sell. ETA A new study in Massachusetts saying that coughs can travel up to 6m & sneezes 8m. How they never new that before f**k knows. Edited April 2, 2020 by SlipperyP 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Cheltenham was Tuesday to Friday not the weekend and all uk and European football went ahead that week too as Hearts fans will lament. So Cheltenham was no more likely to be a hotspot than any football match that week. It's becoming an urban myth it went ahead after all other sport was stopped ! Interesting that the actions of these bams are coming back to bite them, including Camila PB's ex husband who now has the corona virus which she believes he caught it at the Cheltenham Festival, why did the Cheltenham Festive go ahead while nearly every other major sporting event that weekend was cancelled? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Apparently only 2000 tests have been done on front line staff. That is clearly policy to avoid absence. To me it looks like herd immunity has always been the plan but the government had to pretend it's not due to the ridiculous reaction to the initial announcement. Herd immunity is the only plan with a viable exit strategy and the only one which takes into account that poorer countries will likely never eradicate this so getting down to zero infections domestically doesn't mean much. The Guardian today have an article up about places to visit when lock down is over and the first one is Greece and the second one is fucking Christchurch! The idea that international travel is going to spring back into action is ridiculous. No one is going to be going on a foreign holiday for years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Just now, Billy Jean King said: Cheltenham was Tuesday to Friday not the weekend and all uk and European football went ahead that week too as Hearts fans will lament. So Cheltenham was no more likely to be a hotspot than any football match that week. It's becoming an urban myth it went ahead after all other sport was stopped ! Crowds at Cheltenham are bigger, in closer contact, last far longer and move in ways which are more likely to spread the virus than football crowds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Johnson's cabinet stooges are really struggling now that they can't just pull out the same 'stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives' answer to every single question. Johnson will be desperate to continue to dodge the 5pm press conferences once he is released from his quarantine.Patience with our current situation will run out quickly, as is the way with patience these days, there wont be much of it. The overriding narrative will be that we have done our bit, but you still havent sorted it, and degenerating from there. This period of waiting, where there arent really much more measures they can take, and the results wont be seen for another week (sick of the rolling 2 week statements so I am calling it a week) was always going to be where the media focus shifted and the government faced real scrutiny. Glad to see that of course, but cant help feeling that it will come hand in hand with the media acting in a predictably irresponsible manner. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 I was there Tuesday and Wednesday as I do every year. The proximity of people is way less than sitting at a football match bar pinch points within what is a vast site. A lot of the inside facilities were shut too. Twats like Parker-Bowles will have been holed up in a hospitality box which I would agree probably put them at slightly higher risk. There were as many people at Annfield than at Cheltenham on the Wednesday yet it never gets mentioned ! Crowds at Cheltenham are bigger, in closer contact, last far longer and move in ways which are more likely to spread the virus than football crowds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Why does the west export so many arseholes? https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1891695?fbclid=IwAR2S5ZQBPx2EWZtsOoxvhbN6A-DeUjLvGWJt3CXMj24btUbdN8PXvib279Q 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 6 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: I was there Tuesday and Wednesday as I do every year. The proximity of people is way less than sitting at a football match bar pinch points within what is a vast site. A lot of the inside facilities were shut too. Twats like Parker-Bowles will have been holed up in a hospitality box which I would agree probably put them at slightly higher risk. There were as many people at Annfield than at Cheltenham on the Wednesday yet it never gets mentioned ! At football you are in proximity to a few hundred people sitting around you plus exiting and entering is one way traffic. People move about all day at Cheltenham to watch races, bet, eat, drink and use toilets. There are far more contacts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 27 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: Glad to see the media beginning to turn from "blitz spirit" nonsense to actually highlighting the state of the conditions the NHS are still having to work in and the empty testing centres. Things could turn quite nasty with this if Bojo and pals dont get it sorted out. More than 500 folk in the UK died yesterday. I think it's already "quite nasty". -4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pub car king Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 There is no mass testing the government are lying about all kinds of stuff. There's a chemical shortage. Chemical companies "erm no there isn't, you can have anything you neeed". Oh there's not enough labs. Private lab owners "please use our labs we're desperate to help" Then there is the ventilator fiasco, government line is they can't get any and Dyson has been commissioned to build something they have never built before which might be ready at some point in the future. Ventilator manufacturers " we've got loads but government haven't even phoned us" There is only so long you can keep a country on "lockdown" while actually doing f**k all to tackle the problem. People will just say f**k this and we'll be back to square one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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