Coronavirus

[tans]

‘Support bubbles’ to be able to be created

Good news for the casual shaggers

[Abrahammer]

I’m off to the Zoo to fuck a Lion

[ron dodgers]

Roaaaaaarrrr!

[RobertT]

At least the UK Govt pretends like it is trying to gain control, they've just given up any messaging at the Federal level and here is the guy supposedly running the show:

https://keyt.com/politics/2020/06/10/pence-deletes-tweet-showing-trump-campaign-staff-not-wearing-face-masks-or-social-distancing/

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

Looks like the suggested 2m distancing advice is going to be dropped soon. Could that be the starting gun for fans back in attendance come September?

[Bob's Orange]

At least the UK Govt pretends like it is trying to gain control, they've just given up any messaging at the Federal level and here is the guy supposedly running the show:

https://keyt.com/politics/2020/06/10/pence-deletes-tweet-showing-trump-campaign-staff-not-wearing-face-masks-or-social-distancing/

I see Trump is also expecting to start his rallies very soon. Actually this just popped up on the BBC news. Is the date pure coincidence?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53004628

[suttonred]

Looks like the suggested 2m distancing advice is going to be dropped soon. Could that be the starting gun for fans back in attendance come September?

I hope they dont , as people think 3 foot is 2 metres already. Some idiot gets within that next to me they'll regret it.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

What about those lap dancers, though?

[suttonred]

No lap dancers living here more's the pity

[horlock07]

I hope they dont , as people think 3 foot is 2 metres already. Some idiot gets within that next to me they'll regret it.

I think the whole point is that they say 2m as people cannot judge it so probably actually stay about 1m apart.

Had to pop to the chemists this morning, hell the elderly don't do social distancing do they.

[Reg Smeeton]

Looks like the suggested 2m distancing advice is going to be dropped soon. Could that be the starting gun for fans back in attendance come September?

This will be to get kids back to school.... when a school is built there's a formula, that allocates something like 4 sq metres per kid, for a class room (It may be fewer) You count the kids to be catered for and build accordingly.  Social distancing by my calcs needs 8 sq metres, in other words to get all kids back you need either to halve the numbers, or provide twice the space, through new huts etc.

[horlock07]

So lockdown was being advised to government at least 2 weeks before it happened. https://www.channel4.com/news/uk-government-advised-to-have-lockdown-two-weeks-before-announcement-made

If we had locked down even a week earlier studies suggesting that with the rate of infections at that time c.20,000 deaths could have been avoided.

Jesus its a mess.

[pauld]

So lockdown was being advised to government at least 2 weeks before it happened. https://www.channel4.com/news/uk-government-advised-to-have-lockdown-two-weeks-before-announcement-made

If we had locked down even a week earlier studies suggesting that with the rate of infections at that time c.20,000 deaths could have been avoided.

It's more than that. The estimate was 50% of deaths. Which the BBC reported as 20,000 on the basis of the govt's "official" deaths total of 40,000. But we know that's wrong, it's actually more than 60,000 so 50% is around 30,000 avoidable deaths. This chimes with the Telegraph report I posted a few weeks back saying we could have avoided 75% of deaths if we'd locked down 10 days earlier. Worth noting as well, that we would also by now be much further along the process of being able to release lockdown safely instead of pretending it's OK to ease lockdown when we still have a 7 day average of hundreds of deaths a day. We locked down at less than 100 a day.

The vaccilation and faffing in March has cost 10s of thousands of lives and will also be a major root cause of the coming economic carnage (because we could have had a shorter and more effective lockdown if we had some actual leaders in govt)

[Flashheart]

A vaccine is already in production, such is the confidence that testing will be succesful. It could even be with us by September. Fingers crossed.

There's also a lot of confidence over a treatment.

I know this does not mean it WILL happen, just to pre-empt the inevitable 'ackshuallys'.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-oxford-scientists-working-on-covid-19-vaccine-near-breakthrough-on-antibody-treatment-12002160

[pauld]

A vaccine is already in production, such is the confidence that testing will be succesful. It could even be with us by September. Fingers crossed.

There's also a lot of confidence over a treatment.

I know this does not mean it WILL happen, just to pre-empt the inevitable 'ackshuallys'.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-oxford-scientists-working-on-covid-19-vaccine-near-breakthrough-on-antibody-treatment-12002160

FWIW, I think there will be multiple successful vaccines and treatments. Purely because of the amount of resource being flung at it and it's apparent similarity to existing conditions that can be treated successfully. Bloody hope so anyway