Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Liverpoolphil said:
So the positive cases continue to fall

Jan 08 the number of positive cases was at 70k

Today’s number at 33k

The lockdown is working - we are punching back against this

Just need to vaccine to take affect to help bring the daily deaths down
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Lockdown works. The virus needs to move to survive. If people don't move, it doesn't move. Not rocket science. The numbers are going in the right direction, and deaths should follow, but there is still plenty of Covid around and any slippage will see this good progress turning around. I think it will take a while for vacc to have an effect. The people currently getting vacc'd are not those driving infection rates.
 
Ethan said:
Lockdown works. The virus needs to move to survive. If people don't move, it doesn't move. Not rocket science. The numbers are going in the right direction, and deaths should follow, but there is still plenty of Covid around and any slippage will see this good progress turning around. I think it will take a while for vacc to have an effect. The people currently getting vacc'd are not those driving infection rates.
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It must a very hard balance act to understand when to start to ease things

Was listening to some on the radio who says at the current rate we will have the positive cases below 10k by the end of Jan and then half again by middle of Feb and then half term will hit and then they deaths will also be down - plus all the at risk groups and over 70’s will have the vaccine

It’s fingers crossed ? that it goes that way which will allow A tier system to be brought back in

That imo allows them the flexibility instead
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Not here. Cases continue to come into the hospital at an alarming rate. Since 1/11 we've had approx 237 ICU cases (on a normal 19 bed unit - 21 at a push) with 17 deaths. That is just in ICU so the most sick.

I also suggest looking at the BBC report from the Royal London. That is the daily reality being faced. I'm afraid on the frontline lockdown isn't working
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I mentioned the other day about listening to the drs and nurses re what they have to deal with to hammer the message home. The last two days seeing the BBC at Royal London was truly heartbreaking. Some of them poor sods are going to be scared for life.

Staysafe Homer me man.
 
On a slight downer...its rapidly approaching the day when I will have lost 200 working days since the first lockdown last year...
Fortunately I've been getting the Govt grants but the bigger concern for me is the massive backlog of tests for the kids.
If we don't get going again until March the system will be about 6/7 months behind and some of the kids will have been waiting for over a year to take their driving test.
It'll take years to get back to normal.
 
Imurg said:
On a slight downer...its rapidly approaching the day when I will have lost 200 working days since the first lockdown last year...
Fortunately I've been getting the Govt grants but the bigger concern for me is the massive backlog of tests for the kids.
If we don't get going again until March the system will be about 6/7 months behind and some of the kids will have been waiting for over a year to take their driving test.
It'll take years to get back to normal.
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And you still haven’t got to scratch ?
 
Imurg said:
On a slight downer...its rapidly approaching the day when I will have lost 200 working days since the first lockdown last year...
Fortunately I've been getting the Govt grants but the bigger concern for me is the massive backlog of tests for the kids.
If we don't get going again until March the system will be about 6/7 months behind and some of the kids will have been waiting for over a year to take their driving test.
It'll take years to get back to normal.
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It will be eye opening when” normality” returns. I saw a stat earlier on re how many crown court cases Have been cancelled. I should imagine Chuck in magistrates courts, backlog in the NHS. I think normality is a few years away.
 
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