[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[wehatepalace]

UK weekly death totals have been dropping by about 20% per week consistently since the end of April. We have had around 2100 deaths in the last week. If you extrapolate that then in 10 weeks time (Aug 3rd) we would be down to around 200 deaths per week.

So many factors at play of course, so there's no guarantee that's what will happen, but the signs are promising given that other countries have not experienced second surges after easing lockdown restrictions.

I saw a report the other day (it may even have been on here) that the predictions are we’ll be covid free by September, I’m optimistically hopeful !

 

[nwgull]

I saw a report the other day (it may even have been on here) that the predictions are we’ll be covid free by September, I’m optimistically hopeful !

Sorry to put a dampener on the good news thread, but that’s just not going to happen without a vaccine.

 

[dazzer6666]

Sorry to put a dampener on the good news thread, but that’s just not going to happen without a vaccine.

Good news only on here please.......

 

[wehatepalace]

Sorry to put a dampener on the good news thread, but that’s just not going to happen without a vaccine.

If it goes the same way as sars it’s a very real possibility in my opinion.

I also think you’ll be waiting a long time for your jab, even if they found a vaccine today, realistically it will take years to vaccinate the entire population.

 

[Weststander]

If it goes the same way as sars it’s a very real possibility in my opinion.

I also think you’ll be waiting a long time for your jab, even if they found a vaccine today, realistically it will take years to vaccinate the entire population.

Not a miserable post ... some will refuse the vaccine anyway, allied to the 5G masts baloney.

Faux ‘offgridders’ from wilderness areas such as Patcham

 

[swindonseagull]

Sorry to put a dampener on the good news thread, but that’s just not going to happen without a vaccine.

and your medical qualifications?

 

[clapham_gull]

and your medical qualifications?

Don't think you need one to make that statement, only read the view of others who have.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Don't think you need one to make that statement, only read the view of others who have.

Alternatively read/listen to the views of those that say this virus might just peter out....its a debate not for this thread but the main covid19 one

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Cummings has now made it official that we can use our judgement to interpret our versions of the lockdown rules. Whoopee! Party time!

And we can all still choose to be the bigger citizen than Cummings.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Just 300 new infections too. In a population of 60 million - that’s 0.0005%, or 1 in 200,000 people. Even factoring non-serious and asymptomatic cases it seems that the virus has virtually been eradicated in Italy - a country that seemed to be facing the apocalypse just two months ago.

If this trend continues, and it certainly looks like it’s going to, life could be practically back to normal by the beginning of August. I know that sounds optimistic, but you only have to look at the numbers.

We'll still need to limit Superspreader Events for a while yet, but even they will get the green light at some point.

 

[clapham_gull]

Alternatively read/listen to the views of those that say this virus might just peter out....its a debate not for this thread but the main covid19 one

Not sure anyone is having a debate, but let's not round on a poster who pointed out that a post on a "Good News" may be "too good to be true" because it devalues it.

 

[nwgull]

Not a miserable post ... some will refuse the vaccine anyway, allied to the 5G masts baloney.

Faux ‘offgridders’ from wilderness areas such as Patcham

There’ll be a fair number of people that aren’t registered with GPS and a few anti-vax nutters that’ll refuse on the basis that it’s a way Bill Gates Tracking us all by putting a microchip in their bodies. However, on he basis that the natural R is 3, it’ll only require 68% of the population to be vaccinated to get it to <1. Reality is that it’s going to be well over 90% that do get the jab if/when it’s rolled out.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Sorry to put a dampener on the good news thread, but that’s just not going to happen without a vaccine.

Previous Coronavirus’s have lost their potency over a period of time, none have kept there potency for years on end. The concern is flare ups a number of years down the line.
There are no vaccines for SARS or MERS.


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[LamieRobertson]

Alternatively read/listen to the views of those that say this virus might just peter out....its a debate not for this thread but the main covid19 one

Not sure anyone is having a debate, but let's not round on a poster who pointed out that a post on a "Good News" may be "too good to be true" because it devalues it.

Hardly

 

[LamieRobertson]

Ten million UK adults have been volunteering in their community during the coronavirus crisis, and most say they will carry on after the lockdown ends, according to new research.

The study also found that Britons have been extending a financial helping hand to local businesses. More than £1bn was spent on services and goods that people knew they would never be able to use during the pandemic, including payments to home cleaners and gardeners.

Has to be good news

 

[Weststander]

There’ll be a fair number of people that aren’t registered with GPS and a few anti-vax nutters that’ll refuse on the basis that it’s a way Bill Gates Tracking us all by putting a microchip in their bodies. However, on he basis that the natural R is 3, it’ll only require 68% of the population to be vaccinated to get it to <1. Reality is that it’s going to be well over 90% that do get the jab if/when it’s rolled out.

I agree with everything you say.

Although there's a reckless facet to their behaviour as they still spread the virus, the idiots will fail to learn the lesson from Andrew Wakefield bullsh*t work on the MMR jab.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Previous Coronavirus’s have lost their potency over a period of time, none have kept there potency for years on end. The concern is flare ups a number of years down the line.
There are no vaccines for SARS or MERS.


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It’s interesting because that is the main reason no vaccine for SARS and MERS as I understand it - no money or funding in it given their numbers just disappeared. I’ve seen people quote that we’re unlikely to find a Covid19 vaccine because we didn’t find one previously, but previously by all accounts we didn’t really try.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

GOOD NEWS: Tests on #coronavirus-infected healthworkers in two French hospitals show 98% of them maintained strong immunity a month later, sign that immunity might be durable

159 of 160 infected healthworkers at two Strasbourg hospitals, all with mild symptoms, had antibodies

 

[LamieRobertson]

Latest tweet from The Prof

“Really encouraging to read Dr María Neira, the WHO Director for Public Health, say their models are showing a second wave being increasingly ruled out.

Caution required, but she thinks that the virus will have a hard time surviving.

The most optimistic the WHO have been!“

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

https://twitter.com/hotspurrelated/status/1265234687808737282?s=21