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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

pauljames87 said:
The press love the drama regardless

Social distancing "killing" the pubs

*Relax it slightly so they can open*

Government risking our health to save the pubs
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I'm not sure it's quite as clear cut as this.
We currently have 8m people furloughed. Plus 1m extra unemployed. 2m distancing will likely condemn many to long term unemployment.
I really don't think there is a good path through this. Only a least bad one for the greatest number of people. For the great majority, that will probably involve less distancing, but that obviously won't be least bad for all.
 
I'd (guessed) that the UK went with 2m instead of the WHO min 1m because so many in the UK don't use metric to measure (likely the elderly too) so it was just safer to double up to 2m
 
garyinderry said:
With 8000 new cases a day in england alone, without adding care homes and hospitals, how can it be safe to begin easing restrictions?

Are we playing with fire here?


The numbers seem huge.
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8000 a day ? I don’t tbink it’s been 8000 a day for a month

It’s 2445 for today
 
Imurg said:
Worldometer website has the UK at 1604 cases today....where are you getting 8k from?
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The ONS report their being 8K new infections daily.

Cut and paste from ONS Site:
COVID-19 Infection Survey
The infection rate for the number of people within England with COVID-19 appears to be stable, according to a pilot study.
An average of 133,000 people in England had the coronavirus (COVID-19) at any given time over the period from 11 May to 24 May 2020.
The change in this compared with our previous estimates for the period 4 May to 17 May is relatively small and indicates that the number of people in England that have COVID-19 is relatively stable.
It is estimated that there was an average of 54,000 new infections per week over the period of the study, which is between 26 April and 24 May, for people living in private-residential households in the community in England. This equates to an incidence rate of 0.10 new cases per 100 people.
The data showed that those who work in patient-facing roles in the health and social care sector were more than four times as likely to test positive for COVID-19; 1.73% as opposed to 0.38%.
 
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Liverpoolphil said:
I don’t know how they get that figure when the official figures show us only once going over 8000 and that was on 10th April ?
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Government figures are probably people who rock up with symptoms and get tested.

Nailed on tests.

Seems the ONS are catching people who aren't even showing symptoms and wouldn't even think about getting tested. Its these people that are the most dangerous.

They are testing and factoring up. Obviously cant be taken as gospel but still food for thought.
 
Its infections and not positive tests....that's why the numbers are off
Bear in mind that the vast majority of infections are very minor...thankfully
 
Imurg said:
No idea
That's why I've virtually given up on worrying about the numbers and reports as they're either, wrong, misleading or completely confusing...to be honest it's a bloody mess..
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One could even go as far as to suggest if someone with minor cough a sniffles which used to be called a summer cold will think they have the virus but can't be bothered to get it checked out.

Every cough and sneezing next winter is going to get people running for extra toilet roll.
 
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