[News] The Coronavirus Good News thread

[nwgull]

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

It’s one of the front page stories on bbc news and sky news web sites.

Everyone just chill out a bit.

 

[nickbrighton]

It’s one of the front page stories on bbc news and sky news web sites.

Everyone just chill out a bit.

I think we are all chilled, my post was to illustrate why I feel you had got the point of the thread wrong. Yes its now on the BBC Website, as is right, but I would say had it been a 40% rise the news alerts and banner headlines would have been sent out within minutes of the figures, not an hour and a half or so later.

 

[Chicken Run]

Fantastic news


Coronavirus infections continue to fall in UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57962995


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[Pevenseagull]

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

Have we hit herd immunity

Yes it is

No we haven't


Good news though


If in a month's time the number of daily hospital admissions with it are lower than now ... THAT will be great news.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Covid don't like hot.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Covid don't like hot.

Good news thread but that is untrue. India, Mexico Africa etc.

 

[LamieRobertson]

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?

You Tarting yourself out a bit

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Good news thread but that is untrue. India, Mexico Africa etc.

Covid doesn't like us being outside is probably more accurate

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Covid doesn't like us being outside is probably more accurate

That may well prove true. [emoji106]

 

[Pevenseagull]

Good news thread but that is untrue. India, Mexico Africa etc.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.554964/full


Conclusions .. ish

It would all be fascinating if it didn't have a death toll.

More on this https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.10.145086v2

 

[Albion Dan]

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

This has been reported but the media are still insistent on mostly pushing bad news and fear even in the face of hugely encouraging information and even this is caveated. I have no idea why anyone bothers with mainstream outlets anymore unless they are actively seeking mental health problems. They are hugely complicit in the utter shit show that is society today even taking covid out of the equation.

 

[Albion Dan]

Good news thread but that is untrue. India, Mexico Africa etc.

One of my good friends lives in Cancun and has said life has pretty much been normal throughout the whole thing.

 

[Eeyore]

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

It's the first item on the BBC page.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

This has been reported but the media are still insistent on mostly pushing bad news and fear even in the face of hugely encouraging information and even this is caveated. I have no idea why anyone bothers with mainstream outlets anymore unless they are actively seeking mental health problems. They are hugely complicit in the utter shit show that is society today even taking covid out of the equation.

It's the first item on the BBC page.

 

[studio150]

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

The reality is in fact these figures are under reported given that people who catch covid more than once, their subsequent illness(es) are not counted only the first occasion of going down with covid. Also don't forget the 28 day cut off for death.

So really the BBC and other news outlets are in fact just going with the understatement that Johnson wants to put out.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

You Tarting yourself out a bit

Might be

 

[wehatepalace]

The reality is in fact these figures are under reported given that people who catch covid more than once, their subsequent illness(es) are not counted only the first occasion of going down with covid. Also don't forget the 28 day cut off for death.

So really the BBC and other news outlets are in fact just going with the understatement that Johnson wants to put out.

Reinfection accounts for less than 0.5% so will barely make a difference to the official figures, Robert Pestons tweet earlier has already been debunked as utter bullshit !

 

[dsr-burnley]

The reality is in fact ...

The good news is that both of your "facts" are essentially false. Firstly, the number of people suspected of possibly having covid twice is 23,000 total over the whole pandemic. They are the people tested twice 90 days apart and found to have covid both times. It is not known how many of them have caught it twice and how many caught it just the once and haven't shaken it off completely.

Secondly, the number of people dying of covid 29+ days after their last positive test is negligible. You must be reckoning either that they catch covid and go more than 28 days without needing treatment before suddenly dying of covid - it doesn't work that way - or else they are going to hospital, getting tested, treated for 29+ days, and no-one thinks to test them again. That doesn't happen either.

So in reality you aren't just posting bad news on the good news thread, you are posting lies pretending to be bad news on the good news thread.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

The good news is that both of your "facts" are essentially false. Firstly, the number of people suspected of possibly having covid twice is 23,000 total over the whole pandemic. They are the people tested twice 90 days apart and found to have covid both times. It is not known how many of them have caught it twice and how many caught it just the once and haven't shaken it off completely.

Secondly, the number of people dying of covid 29+ days after their last positive test is negligible. You must be reckoning either that they catch covid and go more than 28 days without needing treatment before suddenly dying of covid - it doesn't work that way - or else they are going to hospital, getting tested, treated for 29+ days, and no-one thinks to test them again. That doesn't happen either.

So in reality you aren't just posting bad news on the good news thread, you are posting lies pretending to be bad news on the good news thread.

Also good news, we found the one person that takes Peston seriously so we can block them

 

[Billy the Fish]

The reality is in fact these figures are under reported given that people who catch covid more than once, their subsequent illness(es) are not counted only the first occasion of going down with covid. Also don't forget the 28 day cut off for death.

So really the BBC and other news outlets are in fact just going with the understatement that Johnson wants to put out.

Stupid boy!