[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[nickbrighton]

Apologies all. I sometimes forget that this is the can't-handle-the-reality thread.

i think you fundamentally have misunderstood the purpose of this thread. It isn't about denying the reality of the situation at all, its simply to highlight that in the torrent of bad news, and doom mongering by the national press, and social media, which have gone out of the way to put a negative spin on everything, there is in fact other news that is worth highlighting AS WELL,

An example of this would be that for 4 or 5 days the number of infections is falling, that its quite possible that the exit and third waves (effectively concurrent) may not be as bad as feared they may be, or that at a similar point in the second wave, deaths were running into high triple figures a day, rather than the comparatively very small numbers we are seeing, or that similarly instead of hospitals full of covid patients, and ICUs full, these numbers are also a fraction of previous waves. The list is quite long, however if you were to look at main stream media, most of it is burried away.

All this thread does, and has ever tried to do, is provide a bit of balance. Had the "media" presented a balanced view, rather than constantly deliberately confusing issues, presenting the facts and figures, scientific and medical opinion in the most alarming way possible, and treating the whole thing as a way to frighten the population and score political points then the thread would not be needed.

I doubt a single poster and regular reader of this thread thinks for a second there isnt still a massive issue, and isnt aware that there is a long long way to go and that things could go very wrong, very quickly. Similarly they also realise that there are some encouraging signs, and that it is actually quite ok to look at them and discuss them on here.

 

[Mellotron]

We’re at over 8,000 posts in this thread and some people still don’t get it.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Apologies all. I sometimes forget that this is the can't-handle-the-reality thread.

The clue is in the name of the thread.

 

[dazzer6666]

36,389 infections reported today…..51,870 last Saturday

 

[Yoda]

36,389 infections reported today…..51,870 last Saturday

That figure was yesterday's. There was a delay in today's figures being announced and they are even better:

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[Weststander]

We’re at over 8,000 posts in this thread and some people still don’t get it.

They do, but can’t bear wily others not suckered into the media spin of ignoring positive news and trends,

 

[Chicken Run]

Apologies all. I sometimes forget that this is the can't-handle-the-reality thread.

And I sometimes forget it’s rude to call people *****, stay away from this thread if you can’t find anything to be positive about!


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[Hugo Rune]

34 year old Anti-Vaxxer dies of Covid:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57958358

Whilst a sad tragedy in itself, this might convince younger people around the globe to get the jab, hopefully in this country.

 

[Uncle C]

Apologies all. I sometimes forget that this is the can't-handle-the-reality thread.

Yeh, sod off and start your own 'bad news thread'

 

[nwgull]

34 year old Anti-Vaxxer dies of Covid:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57958358

Whilst a sad tragedy in itself, this might convince younger people around the globe to get the jab, hopefully in this country.

Stuff like this is genuine good news. Everytime one of these prominent and influential Covid deniers or anti-vax nutters ends up in a bad way or worse, it saves far more lives than the one lost.

 

[Uncle C]

Stuff like this is genuine good news. Everytime one of these prominent and influential Covid deniers or anti-vax nutters ends up in a bad way or worse, it saves far more lives than the one lost.

Although it doesn't feel right to celebrate any death, its a classic case of the Darwin theory of natural selection.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

A week of lower cases in Scotland.

 

[The Lemming Stomper]

A week of lower cased in Scotland.

aberdeen, glasgow, edinburgh ok?

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Another big drop today!

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[Yoda]

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[dazzer6666]

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Was 48,161 last Sunday. Remarkable.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Was 48,161 last Sunday. Remarkable.

Whataaat that is a crazy drop, about 39% down in a week.

Have we hit herd immunity

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Whataaat that is a crazy drop, about 39% down in a week.

Have we hit herd immunity

Pretty likely that the Euro 2020 spike has just worked it's way through the case numbers.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Pretty likely that the Euro 2020 spike has just worked it's way through the case numbers.

Maybe, but I would have thought it would filter down slower than that, because of family members catching it and all the NON-self isolators spraying it around.

Unleash french kissing again?

 

[nickbrighton]

Apologies all. I sometimes forget that this is the can't-handle-the-reality thread.

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here is a perfect example of why this thread is needed. Todays figures have been public for about an hour. There is (if my maths is right) a massive FORTY % drop since in new cases since last Sunday. Had this been a 40% rise you can bet it would have been all over the news web pages and BBC alerts sent out. As it is, there is NOTHING on the BBC News website page at all.

This is NOT the "can't handle reality thread" its the "lets see the actual reality" thread