Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[Bozza]

I was ambivalent about this treating in my usual manner.

But it would seem I need to reevaluate:-

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Funking idiot.

We've still got at least one person on here claiming it's just a media frenzy.

 

[atomised]

No mass gatherings from next week. Details to come on monday. What shape will this take and will it stretch the current football suspension for a further period

 

[Bozza]

No mass gatherings from next week. Details to come on monday. What shape will this take and will it stretch the current football suspension for a further period

There was no way football was coming back on April 3rd unfortunately - that was effectively a holding notice to give the PL some breathing space to formulate WTF happens next.

 

[Beach Hut]

No mass gatherings from next week. Details to come on monday. What shape will this take and will it stretch the current football suspension for a further period

Interesting one as surely travel at peak times is effectively a mass gathering by train

 

[atomised]

There was no way football was coming back on April 3rd unfortunately - that was effectively a holding notice to give the PL some breathing space to formulate WTF happens next.

That was fairly obvious anyway. All about time to make contingency plans. This time next week things will look massively different again. All of this is so fluid right now.

I took vague amusement from the reporter on bbc news saying the brighton marathon would go ahead just as my email arrived saying the opposite.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

George is the man

 

[BN41Albion]

No mass gatherings from next week. Details to come on monday. What shape will this take and will it stretch the current football suspension for a further period

Only a matter of time before schools close too surely

 

[Notters]

Interesting one as surely travel at peak times is effectively a mass gathering by train

Noticeably quieter by the day.

 

[Bozza]

Interesting one as surely travel at peak times is effectively a mass gathering by train

I guess it's where the line is drawn as to what is considered "mass", 500 people? 250? 100? 50?

Regardless, most of society now appreciate this is serious shit and are acting responsibly.

I wonder what this means for cinemas and theatres - forced to close, or very restricted capacities with audiences forcibly spaced out?

 

[atomised]

Only a matter of time before schools close too surely

Theres a telegraph article out there regarding mass gatherings that I believe also mentions a week either end of school easter break. Would imagine that would extend by the time they were due to return

 

[Bodian]

Bang goes the EU's open border policy for member states. I'm pretty sure the suits in Brussels will be pretty pissed.

You mean we had the ability to 'control our borders' all along?!

 

[AZ Gull]

I guess it's where the line is drawn as to what is considered "mass", 500 people? 250? 100? 50?

Regardless, most of society now appreciate this is serious shit and are acting responsibly.

I wonder what this means for cinemas and theatres - forced to close, or very restricted capacities with audiences forcibly spaced out?

Broadway turned the lights out on Wednesday(?), although that wasn't by Government decree of course.

 

[atomised]

I am going to guess that next friday kids will break up for easter. I just cant see them keeping schools open longer than that. All the senior teachers were In a meeting when i picked mine up earlier and the school have sent test emails the last 2 days "to check they have correct email addresses"

 

[Hugo Rune]

Does anyone else think that Bojo the Clown was presented with a number of options but has chosen the wrong one? (Flattening the curve by exposing the UK to the virus early and attaining 60% herd immunity for next year)?

I can’t help thinking of a hunched man obsessed with Churchill and his ‘Coventry’ decision where hundreds died because Winston chose ‘keeping the Enigma code secret’ over human life. He didn’t tell the people of Coventry they were about to be bombed because he knew better, so many died. He was drunk and unfit for office for most of WW2. Was he right?

I will never ever except this ‘get behind the government’ scream as a default, I think that they are god-awful and need calling out at every opportunity. Boris has tried to rid himself of responsibility but I’ll hold him personally to account for every death that a well run country such as Germany has saved against our pitiful and horrific total. He is sending our older generation to the slaughter for his herd immunity when Hong Kong will have less than 200 cases and protect everyone next year with a vaccine. 80% is a target not a worst case scenario and all those 3,000 Spaniards coughing Covid-19 all over his hated Liverpool bear witness to that.

 

[SK1NT]

Divorce rate spikes across China after 'couples spend too much time together during coronavirus home quarantine', officials claim

 

[beorhthelm]

I will never ever except this ‘get behind the government’ scream as a default, I think that they are god-awful and need calling out at every opportunity. Boris has tried to rid himself of responsibility but I’ll hold him personally to account for every death that a well run country such as Germany has saved against our pitiful and horrific total. He is sending our older generation to the slaughter for his herd immunity when Hong Kong will have less than 200 cases and protect everyone next year with a vaccine. 80% is a target not a worst case scenario and all those 3,000 Spaniards coughing Covid-19 all over his hated Liverpool bear witness to that.

is that the same Germany with ad hoc response by region? you want schools closed and football cancelled in the south while continuing open in the north?

 

[peterward]

No mass gatherings from next week. Details to come on monday. What shape will this take and will it stretch the current football suspension for a further period

Guardian saying government forced into it after organisations like PL and London Marathon takes matters into own hands?

How the hell can you suddenly change, what was yesterday our 'top scientific advice' just because others are cancelling mass events.

I suspect, the rest of the world's top scientific advisors who all seem to suggest mass closures were right, and the annoying public health fart on question time was also right, our governments advisor nerds are ballsing this up.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/uk-to-ban-mass-gatherings-in-coronavirus-u-turn

 

[Hugo Rune]

is that the same Germany with ad hoc response by region? you want schools closed and football cancelled in the south while continuing open in the north?

I just don’t know to be honest. It’s their death rate vs infection rate I want for my country. 8 perished from 3,675.

 

[peterward]

I just don’t know to be honest. It’s their death rate vs infection rate I want for my country. 8 perished from 3,675.

It's not possible HR, no country has such a death rate Vs infection rate. The Germans are fiddling or misrepresenting the true numbers

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

is that the same Germany with ad hoc response by region? you want schools closed and football cancelled in the south while continuing open in the north?

Rubbish. It’s not an “adhoc response”. All the senates are in communication, daily, and addressing things on local level with national knowledge. From what I understand you will see more alignment early next week.