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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

road2ruin said:
Again, purely anecdotal so no idea if this is the same in other parts but I know of parents in our daughters school that have turned off the 'Contact Tracing' part of their NHS app to avoid getting pinged. With things getting back to normal on the social front they don't want to have to spend 10 days isolating because they may have come into contact who later tests positive.
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I know loads that aren’t bothering to scan when they enter places - we had our Capts day this weekend and I know many people didn’t bother to scan in.
 
road2ruin said:
Again, purely anecdotal so no idea if this is the same in other parts but I know of parents in our daughters school that have turned off the 'Contact Tracing' part of their NHS app to avoid getting pinged. With things getting back to normal on the social front they don't want to have to spend 10 days isolating because they may have come into contact who later tests positive.
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I was contacted by phone from NHS Track and Trace, still nothing showing on the app, other than an alert to say I must self isolate, but that was off the back of me entering my positive test result.
 
DanFST said:
25 cases per 100k in Suffolk.
0 deaths in the last 2 weeks.


Very high vaccine take-up amongst all ages. Ready to open. (y)
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Open everything, but with two relatively non-intrusive requirements on us - when indoor or in tight crowds wear a mask and when outside try a keep distancing. And if an indoor venue chooses to require a negative test of you then just accept that with grace given that that is their prerogative and if they then choose to allow masks to not be worn. I don’t know about you but I don’t live my life in a ‘me-bubble’.

A public information ad on commercial radio at the moment has two guys talking, one has a bad cough and is dismissing it as hay fever, the other tells him to consider that it might be covid, and also seems to imply that he might spread infection, and so go and get checked. Rather helps make the case for continued wearing of masks - vaccinated we can prick up the virus and it can make us ill, and we can still spread it. I’ll listen out for it again just to check that I haven’t misheard.
 
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SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Open everything, but with two relatively non-intrusive requirements on us - when indoor or in tight crowds wear a mask and when outside try a keep distancing.
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2 Weeks ago the North West had the Top Ten areas in cases in England, now it is the North East with 7 of the Top Ten areas with Newcastle having 616 per 100K.

Were next? Suggesting “Open Everything” is ridiculous!

“While the North East is now the new COVID regional hotspot, a handful of areas in other parts of England are also seeing a sharp jump in cases.

Tamworth in Staffordshire currently has the second highest rate in England at 657.1 cases per 100,000 people, up from 202.1 the week before.

Oxford has the fifth highest rate at 589.7, up from 114.8.

North East Lincolnshire, at number 12, has seen its rate jump from 260.1 to 518.9.

Overall, England's national rate now stands at 223.2 per 100,000 people - the highest since the start of February.

Out of the 315 local authority areas in England, 312 saw a week-on-week rise in coronavirus rates in the seven days to June 30 - with only three seeing a fall.

Some 264 areas (84%) are now recording rates above 100 per 100,000 people, the highest proportion since the second week of February.”
 
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pauldj42 said:
2 Weeks ago the North West had the Top Ten areas in cases in England, now it is the North East with 7 of the Top Ten areas with Newcastle having 616 per 100K.

Were next? Suggesting “Open Everything” is ridiculous!

“While the North East is now the new COVID regional hotspot, a handful of areas in other parts of England are also seeing a sharp jump in cases.

Tamworth in Staffordshire currently has the second highest rate in England at 657.1 cases per 100,000 people, up from 202.1 the week before.

Oxford has the fifth highest rate at 589.7, up from 114.8.

North East Lincolnshire, at number 12, has seen its rate jump from 260.1 to 518.9.

Overall, England's national rate now stands at 223.2 per 100,000 people - the highest since the start of February.

Out of the 315 local authority areas in England, 312 saw a week-on-week rise in coronavirus rates in the seven days to June 30 - with only three seeing a fall.

Some 264 areas (84%) are now recording rates above 100 per 100,000 people, the highest proportion since the second week of February.”
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We’re seeing numbers creeping up but not significantly so locally. However, Malaga had 500 new cases last Thursday alone… holiday time started 2 weeks ago when the schools closed. Lots of pink Northern Europeans and northern Spaniards. A couple of bars down on the playa have closed due to staff testing positive.
 
Hobbit said:
We’re seeing numbers creeping up but not significantly so locally. However, Malaga had 500 new cases last Thursday alone… holiday time started 2 weeks ago when the schools closed. Lots of pink Northern Europeans and northern Spaniards. A couple of bars down on the playa have closed due to staff testing positive.
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Something going wrong somewhere.:mad:
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I don't know if they're available but to be able to compare countries we need % of tests that are coming back positive. If we're testing a million a day and getting 25000 positives we're at 2.5% positive results. Another country might only have 5000 positive results but if they're only doing 100k tests they're at 5%.
 
pauldj42 said:
2 Weeks ago the North West had the Top Ten areas in cases in England, now it is the North East with 7 of the Top Ten areas with Newcastle having 616 per 100K.

Were next? Suggesting “Open Everything” is ridiculous!

“While the North East is now the new COVID regional hotspot, a handful of areas in other parts of England are also seeing a sharp jump in cases.

Tamworth in Staffordshire currently has the second highest rate in England at 657.1 cases per 100,000 people, up from 202.1 the week before.

Oxford has the fifth highest rate at 589.7, up from 114.8.

North East Lincolnshire, at number 12, has seen its rate jump from 260.1 to 518.9.

Overall, England's national rate now stands at 223.2 per 100,000 people - the highest since the start of February.

Out of the 315 local authority areas in England, 312 saw a week-on-week rise in coronavirus rates in the seven days to June 30 - with only three seeing a fall.

Some 264 areas (84%) are now recording rates above 100 per 100,000 people, the highest proportion since the second week of February.”
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So what would you not have opened? And how would you wish the government to compensate those self-employed who have worked booked for the weeks after the 19th on the assumption that that work is going to happen but failure to reopen fully that income will be completely lost - given that for many there is currently nothing in place to assess and compensate for that loss.
 
SaintHacker said:
So that's 50k at Wembley. Silverstone is way way bigger than 3 Wembley stadiums so in theory it should be safer?
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In theory yes, but it’s also 70,000 more travelling, 70,000 needing more security, feeding, etc.
 
Paperboy said:
But what about hospitalizations? Surely that is now one of the key factors. How much are the rest of Europe now testing?
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Fade and Die said:
Is it not explained by the small print ?
“ the number of confirmed cases is lower than the number of actual cases. The main reason for that is limited testing”
I don’t have the figures to hand but I bet the U.K. is doing far more testing than the rest of the world.
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No argument from me, but if we are worse off now than what we were when the full lift was delayed, how can it be unlocked.

Imo, we are either not getting the full facts or the information used for making the decision is being changed.

Whether another Nation is doing more testing or not, our figures are still climbing and at an alarming rate.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
So what would you not have opened? And how would you wish the government to compensate those self-employed who have worked booked for the weeks after the 19th on the assumption that that work is going to happen but failure to reopen fully that income will be completely lost - given that for many there is currently nothing in place to assess and compensate for that loss.
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So it’s back to be about your Son and not the bigger picture.:rolleyes:
 
pauldj42 said:
So it’s back to be about your Son and not the bigger picture.:rolleyes:
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To be fair, his son is the bigger picture now. There are a few industries that have been massively hit throughout this and continue to be hit. Semi relaxation of rules etc is not going to help them. So what do we do now. 64% of the sdult population have had 2 jabs, over 80% had had one jab. That is pretty much as protected as we can be. A time has to come when we have to try and return to some form of normality. and better now in the summer than in the harder conditions of the winter months.

It would be easy for me to profess the benefits of keeping restrictions. I have not lost anything during lockdown, I have worked every day and had a garden to sit in when stuck at home and, to be honest, the thought of normality makes me nervous as hell but I am in a very privileged position and so I have to look at it from the other side. If I had lost everything during lockdown and been struck at home with no money and not a days work in 18 months then suspect my outlook would be very different.

Maybe this is the time to come back out of our shells.
 
SaintHacker said:
So that's 50k at Wembley. Silverstone is way way bigger than 3 Wembley stadiums so in theory it should be safer?
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None of it is “safe” - it’s a false statement , there are going to be spikes from the football because of the crowding going in and out , and there will be spikes from the F1 and the Tennis.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
None of it is “safe” - it’s a false statement , there are going to be spikes from the football because of the crowding going in and out , and there will be spikes from the F1 and the Tennis.
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I didnt say safe, I said safer. Imo its as safe as it can be, everyone has to either have been jabbed twice or produce a negative test, two over the weekend if you're doing the whole weekend.
 
Schools - there must be something going on, hardly anybody has been parking in our close lately and a definite decline in the numbers walking past my house.

So there are some positives:ROFLMAO:
 
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