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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Lilyhawk said:
Just got a call from my mum in Sweden confirming my stepdad (70+, smoker and needing help care several times per day) has tested positive for corona. So most likely my mum has it as well but not allowed to be tested as she’s not in a “risk group”. She’s not showing any symptoms either, so the advice in Sweden is - go to work as usual. Mind boggling advice imo.
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I'm sure that Swedish academics and politicians are the equal of ours. What's the general mood amongst the population?
 
bluewolf said:
Just broke the habit of a lifetime and rung the Police to break up a Party down the street. Half a dozen non family members walked past with crates of beer and BBQ necessities.

Let’s see what happens next....

Just call me Dan the Grass ?
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Just call you a pain in the ass never mind a grass!

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pendodave said:
I'm sure that Swedish academics and politicians are the equal of ours. What's the general mood amongst the population?
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Not at all. Sweden has taken the complete opposite approach to pretty much all other European countries. People are flocking at pubs and restaurants who has a license to be serving alcohol outside, no social distancing, sports (on amateur level) keep on training and playing friendlies, schools are open and as I said in my first post - my stepdad has just been confirmed positive with corona, and the advice my mum is getting, who lives with him, is to go to work as usual if she doesn’t have any symptoms. It’s quite clear at this point that people may be asymptomatic and still spread it. Unbelievable. But I may be wrong. Perhaps Sweden way of handling it is the correct way. Time will tell.
 
JustOne said:
Something that FINALLY need saying......


Downing Street has been forced to warn police officers against 'heavy-handed' lockdown tactics after officers admitted to prowling through supermarket aisles in a bid to catch shoppers buying 'non-essential' items.
Police forces across the country have been accused of being over-zealous in their Easter weekend crackdown as they threatened to check through people's shopping, causing #policestateUK to trend on Twitter.
The warning saw Downing Street warn police today that 'if a shop is open then it will sell whatever it has in stock', while Home Secretary Priti Patel called on officers not to be 'heavy-handed' during the coronavirus lockdown.
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Given the crass stupidity and downright recklessness of so many, I can assure you the police have been anything but heavy handed.

There have been a few stories reported in the press (The Daily Mail, if you believe a word that rag prints), which have painted the police in an appalling light. But that is what the Mail do, and what it’s readership whips itself into a frenzy over. The majority of those stories are, quite simply, click-bait rubbish.

I have seen the national briefings which are encouraging the police how to deal with this crisis and, to a huge extent, the response is what has been encouraged. Far from heavy handed, and they certainly haven’t been encouraged to search shopping trolleys. That is press inspired codswallop.

The response has been anything but over zealous. But over zealous is precisely what a lot of our great British public need, because they are too stupid to see what’s staring them in the face.
 
So today (according to Sky - didn't see any of the briefing as I was on way home - https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...9-in-england-bringing-total-to-8-114-11971619) we surpassed Italy and Spain for a daily death toll. It doesn't tie in with anything I am seeing at a local level. No new admissions today and one death (with a number of co-morbidities) yesterday

Given what I've seen as a snapshot on the way home this weekend is going to be farcical in terms of people going out and flouting the rules and so if the death toll was bad today, I can see it hitting four figures per day in about 12-21 days after Easter when the virus gets passed around. It's going to get a lot worse before any sign of any changes to the rules
 
HomerJSimpson said:
So today (according to Sky - didn't see any of the briefing as I was on way home - https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...9-in-england-bringing-total-to-8-114-11971619) we surpassed Italy and Spain for a daily death toll. It doesn't tie in with anything I am seeing at a local level. No new admissions today and one death (with a number of co-morbidities) yesterday

Given what I've seen as a snapshot on the way home this weekend is going to be farcical in terms of people going out and flouting the rules and so if the death toll was bad today, I can see it hitting four figures per day in about 12-21 days after Easter when the virus gets passed around. It's going to get a lot worse before any sign of any changes to the rules
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I’m more concerned about the 9000 new cases, but am hoping that is a by product of an increase in testing.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
So today (according to Sky - didn't see any of the briefing as I was on way home - https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...9-in-england-bringing-total-to-8-114-11971619) we surpassed Italy and Spain for a daily death toll. It doesn't tie in with anything I am seeing at a local level. No new admissions today and one death (with a number of co-morbidities) yesterday

Given what I've seen as a snapshot on the way home this weekend is going to be farcical in terms of people going out and flouting the rules and so if the death toll was bad today, I can see it hitting four figures per day in about 12-21 days after Easter when the virus gets passed around. It's going to get a lot worse before any sign of any changes to the rules
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Have a look at the breakdown of the deaths:
Of the 866 recorded in England only 117 were recorded as happening yesterday, the remainder were from across the last week and a few from March.

Still very shocking, but also why looking at 1 day in isolation can be confusing.
 
Billysboots said:
I’m more concerned about the 9000 new cases, but am hoping that is a by product of an increase in testing.
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Today's figures for positive tests have been adjusted to include positive case results from swab testing key workers and their households. These will be included in the daily figures from today. If these results were excluded from the figures the daily increase would have been 5195.
From Worldometers website..
 
pauldj42 said:
Have a look at the breakdown of the deaths:
Of the 866 recorded in England only 117 were recorded as happening yesterday, the remainder were from across the last week and a few from March.

Still very shocking, but also why looking at 1 day in isolation can be confusing.
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The thing is though it isn't one day. No admissions yesterday or today and only a couple in the days before that. Think we've had 2-3 deaths max in the last few days.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
The thing is though it isn't one day. No admissions yesterday or today and only a couple in the days before that. Think we've had 2-3 deaths max in the last few days.
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There’s clearly a lot of lag in the daily numbers. I prefer to read comments from the coal face, such as yours, as they put meat on the bones.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
The thing is though it isn't one day. No admissions yesterday or today and only a couple in the days before that. Think we've had 2-3 deaths max in the last few days.
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The figures announced were one day, not what you are saying(y)
I believe everyday is similar and the figures are on catch up.
The overall deaths is still sadly frightening, regardless of when they occurred.
 
harpo_72 said:
Next door dropped around some kit for making masks. Left it for a period of time and spent this afternoon assembling some. Got a few more to do tomorrow so will crack on with it again.
Hopefully they will be helpful.
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I have a mate who is producing face masks, he and some colleagues have 3D printers and are making the frames then fitting the screens.
 
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