[COVID-19] General Discussion

[Which Tyler]

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Gotta laugh. Love Piers Morgan or hate him he doesn't take any cr*p from politicians. The second he leaves the country for a few weeks the government break their GMB boycott with Hancock being interviewed by that savage political inquisitor Lorraine Kelly.

Apart from BBC breakfast are there any programs the Govt aren't boycotting?

 

[Al Bangor]

Even though it's 5 1/2 months away, the 2021 Rose Parade in Pasadena, California has been cancelled for the first time in 75 years.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...he-coronavirus

 

[Al Bangor]

LIVE sports online for free right now (as of the time of this post). World Team Tennis - New York vs Philadelphia in West Virginia. If you're on lock down it will help pass the time.

Live Event

Watch live on CBSSports.com

www.cbssports.com

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Walmart is going to start requiring all shoppers to wear masks - so at least we'll get some good brawl videos out of it to keep us all entertained

 

[Blackbeard]

Walmart is going to start requiring all shoppers to wear masks - so at least we'll get some good brawl videos out of it to keep us all entertained

I'm hoping that won't happen.

 

[Kiwiwomble]

I'm hoping that won't happen.

the masks or the brawls?

 

[Blackbeard]

the masks or the brawls?

The brawls.

 

[McTallshort]

Why was there a weeks debate about wearing masks then another week to implement it?

Shouldn't it just be: right everyone wear masks!

 

[ncurd]

Why was there a weeks debate about wearing masks then another week to implement it?

Shouldn't it just be: right everyone wear masks!

TBH people need to have time to acquire them so you have to phase enforcement. But the government don't actually care on this one.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Aye, it should've been "Masks mandatory from today, fines will start to be implemented on X date."

All through this pandemic the government has liked to announce (or leak) info early to gauge the public response to it and make adjustments if they feel it neccesary.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

At least there will be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of the pandemic.

Quite how independent and when remain to be seen.

If undertaken properly I can't see that it can be anything other than hyper critical and will hopefully cost Johnson his job.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

I read it will not be Public enquiry though where they can call witnesses.

 

[McTallshort]

TBH people need to have time to acquire them so you have to phase enforcement. But the government don't actually care on this one.

Well you can get away with a scarf so I don't see it as relevant. We seem to be doing everything backwards. Face covering after it's peaked?

 

[Groundhog]

Walmart is going to start requiring all shoppers to wear masks - so at least we'll get some good brawl videos out of it to keep us all entertained

Kroger is too. Picturing the 'meats back on the menu boys!' scene from the Two Towers happening in the backdrop of a Mid Western supermarket. Couldn't pay me enough to police Ford Ka sized idiots refusing to wear masks.

 

[ncurd]

Vallance has started to break ranks this afternoon

The outcome of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK "has not been good", the government's chief scientific adviser has said.

Sir Patrick Vallance told the Science and Technology Committee there will be "many factors" that determine how well countries respond to the outbreak.

He said: "As (England's chief medical officer) Chris Whitty has said before, it's very difficult to know where we stand at the moment.

"It's clear that the outcome has not been good in the UK - I think you can be absolutely clear about that.

"It is clear you can see a band of countries that have done less well in the temperate zone.

"Countries that are very well connected internationally, countries that have got population structures of a certain type.

"There are many factors that are going to play in this as we look and say, 'what is it that makes some countries having done worse than others?', and there will be decisions made that will turn out not to have been the right decisions at the time."

He also said it would have been "absolutely preferable" to have much greater testing capacity earlier in the pandemic.

The UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, has said he thinks there is no reason to change the government's advice on working from home.
Speaking this afternoon to the Commons Science and Technology Committee, Sir Patrick said current social distancing measures were "important" and that working from home remained "a perfectly good option".
He added he did not think working from home was detrimental to productivity and finished by saying he saw "no reason to change it."
It comes amid reports Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to scrap home working guidance during a press conference on Friday, in a bid to encourage people back into offices and further open up the economy.

 

[ncurd]

Hes also revealed SAGE advised a full lockdown a week before it happened.

 

[McTallshort]

Hes also revealed SAGE advised a full lockdown a week before it happened.

Yes but that would have meant cancelling the Cheltenham festival

 

[ncurd]

Yes but that would have meant cancelling the Cheltenham festival

Apparently it's 14th March after the festival they reccomended it when we had the light touch lockdown loads of people ignored before Mother's Day. Cheltenham finished on the 13th.

 

[stus768]

Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England – a statistical anomaly - The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine

Yoon K Loke, Carl Heneghan People living in England have become increasingly concerned in the face of Public Health England’s

www.cebm.net

This is a bit of a mess. Basically PHE class anyone who's tested positive and subsequently died as having died of COVID. No matter how long ago they were tested.