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- Thread starter GingerBeerMan
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I swear more people are avoiding to use to avoid attention.
giveusfalmerplease
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was just putting my heavy bags of rubbish in the communal bin when this young prat was coming towards me , head down in phone, not a care in the world. Normally would just step aside but felt the need to shout out "Look where you are F***ing going you as*h*le". It did the trick, he stopped!.
Marshy
Well-known member
I work at the Hospital and our numbers of patients is still not going down, probably at peak now is the thought, I would be staggered if lockdown does not get shifted to end of may early june at least.
How about the number of admissions though, that is surely key?
BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
- 13,058
Resigned to believing it'll be more like July / August.
I don't think it'll be a "right, panic over, everyone as you were". They'll take some sort of staggered approach like, people who have had it and survived can go out and certain businesses can reopen before others. Do that for a bit and then, if a second wave doesn't hit, release the next bunch of people. If they do it that way reckon it'll be the oldest and the 1.5m most at risk who'll be in lockdown the longest.
I dunno, could be wrong.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Which hospital? I understand if you don't wish to say.
I wondered similar as I've seen others saying on here that hospitals locally have spare capacity currently
This is a bit weird isnt it
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ents-unable-to-shed-coronavirus-idUSKCN2240HI
"Chinese doctors in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December, say a growing number of cases in which people recover from the virus, but continue to test positive without showing symptoms, is one of their biggest challenges as the country moves into a new phase of its containment battle.
Those patients all tested negative for the virus at some point after recovering, but then tested positive again, some up to 70 days later, the doctors said. Many have done so over 50-60 days."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ents-unable-to-shed-coronavirus-idUSKCN2240HI
"Chinese doctors in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December, say a growing number of cases in which people recover from the virus, but continue to test positive without showing symptoms, is one of their biggest challenges as the country moves into a new phase of its containment battle.
Those patients all tested negative for the virus at some point after recovering, but then tested positive again, some up to 70 days later, the doctors said. Many have done so over 50-60 days."
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
This is an interesting thread re how many people may have already had covid:
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- Jul 10, 2003
- 27,778
I think that could well be true and explains why it's more of a plateau than a peak nationally, as different areas have slightly differing peaks.
However, I believe that here the reporting lag works to our benefit and I think we may be past the worst of the first wave as, even though the daily numbers haven't dropped much, the trend is downwards.
Where the reporting lag works against us is that the total numbers announced today will be 30%-40% less than the true numbers.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 27,778
I would expect that as more information becomes available on random testing over the next few days or weeks, these various reports on the numbers who have already had Covid should stop swinging wildly from one extreme to the other and start to centralise on a consistent set of figures. (Hopefully at the higher end).
Kalimantan Gull
Well-known member
Yeah, still quite a small number isn't it. If 4-7% getting infected means our hospitals are completely at capacity, imagine what 40-70% infection rate would have looked like.
So if we can somehow balance this out with 5% infected every month, running our hospitals close to capacity but not over, it will take 16 months of some kind of social distancing-measures to get us to the magic 80% 'herd immunity' figure.
I'm sure my maths is dodgy. Sake, I HOPE my maths is dodgy......
ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
I'm just back from my walk. Some further observations in addition to those from shopping earlier:
I don't think the air is as clean as it has been of late.
There is far more traffic noise and traffic itself than there has been.
Vans are definitely about more. Either more people in a trade are just out randomly driving today or more of them are going back to doing jobs and people are wanting them to do work for them again.
A bus went past with more people on board than I've seen on a bus for a while.
More people about. Definitely more people about on the ground.
I don't think the air is as clean as it has been of late.
There is far more traffic noise and traffic itself than there has been.
Vans are definitely about more. Either more people in a trade are just out randomly driving today or more of them are going back to doing jobs and people are wanting them to do work for them again.
A bus went past with more people on board than I've seen on a bus for a while.
More people about. Definitely more people about on the ground.
Press conf underway......................I'm kind of hoping one of the journos asks General Carter a particularly stupid question, and he goes all 'army' on them rather than 'politician' 
Weststander
Well-known member
This.
It’s totally changed from a fortnight ago, when it was often minutes between seeing each car. Not just vans, loads of cars up at the Dyke, spread over various car parks and verges, on the road the odd car hitting big speeds for an hilarious laugh. Some police forces catching people doing 3 or 4 times over limits. We saw many extended families out today, grandads carrying their grandkids, a two fingers to social distancing.
Weststander
Well-known member
Press conf underway......................I'm kind of hoping one of the journos asks General Carter a particularly stupid question, and he goes all 'army' on them rather than 'politician'
He’s a great orator, Eton and Sandhurst taught him well.
He won't be invited back....just highlights what windbags the politicians are and makes them look even worse.
Weststander
Well-known member
He won't be invited back....just highlights what windbags the politicians are and makes them look even worse.
I wish Sky’s charmless Beth Rigby had aggressively questioned him with an anti army angle, just to see him brusquely swat her aside.