other than mass vaccination programmes across the developing world, the WHO have been hopeless.
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other than mass vaccination programmes across the developing world, the WHO have been hopeless.
They’re good at things that they’ve been doing for ages. They’re shit at adapting to new situations. They’re incredibly slow to decide anything (see the whole mask thing) to the point they’re still anti-vaping etc.
The whole thing is a giant bureaucracy at this point so they’re good at distribution of vaccines etc., logistical stuff but not the rest of it.
The problem is that ninety-nine per cent of the time there isn't a pandemic on, so you get a load of whammers in a room with nothing to do and they end up defining their mission as complaining about the lack of effective tobacco control in Syria. Then when the actual public health crisis does come you find out far too late that you've been spending billions on a jumped-up bunch of nonces recruited for their lobbying and bullshitting capabilities.
That’ll go down well...
Half the country not accepting cash is fucking nuts.
That can't be good.
If the exert in the tweet is anything to go by, then the study doesn't say what the headline claims it does.
An increased amount of virus in the nasopharynx might logically feel like it would increase transmission but that doesn't necessarily mean it actually does.
Keeping outdoor events at 200 is a pain in the hole. No chance of going to any matches.
I think this is the study:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...rticle/2768952
Yeah it basically says:
Under 5s have a lot of viral nucleic acid in their nasopharynx, which might mean they have a lot of transmissible virus in their nasopharynx which might mean they are important transmitters. Under 5s is barely touching the school age bracket as well.
lol at getting medical advice off the transfer dweeb.
I don't think I've said anything that warrants being taken the piss out of by Quincy but I also can't imagine anyone ever calling someone 'impressive' seriously.
:harold:
Bold of you to be throwing out :harold:s without dealing with that devastation Spikey dealt you
He did deal with. He's been crying for hours.
We are going backwards.
⛔ QUEENSLAND BORDERS CLOSING AGAIN ⛔
#BREAKING: Queensland borders will CLOSE to NSW and the ACT from 1am this Saturday, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk just announced.
"The Premier has said all visitors will be denied entry unless they have an exemption, and returning Queenslanders will be required to quarantine for 14 days in a hotel, at their own expense."
https://i.ibb.co/gSKvQhM/FB-IMG-1596582557064.jpg
Woke up feeling like shit. RIP
There’s going to be some carnage when the schools reopen.
I honestly can't see how it's meant to work. They're germ factories at the best of times and the symptoms are so generic to start with.
The thought of all the older champagne socialist parents dying after their long haired freakishly clever children give them it. :drool:
The thought of you losing out on your day because the ex's household all has it. :drool:
Aberdeen back in lockdown :lol:
Apparently a French oil worker went to a pub whilst awaiting a test and it’s stemmed from there
I bailed out of there as soon as she started announcing it.
The highlands is pure. :drool:
I'll start shitting myself it tears through the Borders.
EDIT: So the BBC ticker the other day mentioned we'd tested 2.6m people in the last 8 weeks. That equates to 46,428 people a day, on average. Means the positive rate is around 2% at the moment.
It takes 1 hour and 45 minutes to cross the NSW/QLD border...
I never thought I'd long for Shinners to go back to his work story posts but here we are.
https://www.ft.com/content/cb56dd74-...c-0680435ad3bf
Hope it all burns down, if only because of pure jealousy.
Rubbish link
Ah balls. FT article on "could coronavirus spell the end for trendy East London?"
Thank you
.Quote:
Antonia Cundy YESTERDAY
Last weekend, streets in some of the fashionable parts of east London seemed as busy as ever. But back in March, when the UK went into lockdown to combat the
spread of coronavirus, locals say there was something of an exodus.
“Everyone who lives here and goes on about how great it is, as soon as it locked down and as soon as they could, they got out,” says Hannah, while queueing for
falafel on Broadway Market, a street just south of London Fields in Hackney.
Hannah, who did not want to give her last name, was among them. She decamped from her flat in Whitechapel to go and stay with her boyfriend Alex in Bristol,
where there was more space to work from home and Clifton Down’s vast greenery on the doorstep. Now she is back in London, with Alex in tow. “If people could get
back to their parents’ house, they did,” he says.
At the peak of the outbreak, demand for properties in Hackney dwindled. During the first 10 weeks of lockdown, searches on Zoopla for homes in the suburbs
increased sharply, while Hackney Wick, Haggerston and Hoxton were all among the 10 least-searched-for locations in London.
Local rents have also slumped. New data from Hamptons International shows that across Hackney, the average rental price is now £1,740 a month, nearly 10 per cent
lower than what it was last year.
Hamptons says this is due to renters leaving when the pandemic hit, and to a flood of properties that would normally be let through holiday rental sites such as Airbnb
going on to the long-term rental market when lockdown brought tourism to a sudden halt.
So what does the future hold for Hackney’s gentrified neighbourhoods? Will normality return as restrictions ease — or will the pandemic spell the end for
trendy east London?
Unrecognisable places, unrecognisable prices
Haema Sundram, a family lawyer who lives on the border of Clapton and Stoke Newington in north-east Hackney, first bought a property in the borough in the
1990s. She has bought and sold a few times since and, she says, the change in the market has been striking.
“It was sort of a no-go area 30 years ago, but now it’s lots of media types and their families that tend to live here.”
Wedged between two parks and close to Stoke Newington’s villagey Church Street — an area it is hard to picture as once being “no-go” — a neat Victorian fourbedroom family home is on sale with Hunters for £1.17m.
The price tag reflects how much demand has leapt in recent years: at £1,092 per square foot, it is more expensive than a similar home in the long-established,
affluent south-west suburb of Putney. There, buyers could also live close to a common and quaint high street, but for £780 per square foot. According to
Hamptons International, average house prices in Hackney have risen by 97 per cent in the past decade.
The area’s popularity has also been fuelled by young professionals, many of whom work in the technology sector that has clustered since 2008 around Old Street
roundabout — also known as east London Tech City or Silicon Roundabout.
Just north-east of there, towards Hoxton Overground Station, a two-bedroom penthouse with double-height ceilings and exposed steel supports is on sale
through The Modern House for £1.3m.
As the offices sprang up, others followed: in 2018, Hackney had 55 per cent more businesses than it did in 2014, according to official statistics. In the five years up to
2017, nearly 250 cafés and restaurants opened in Shoreditch, in the southern tip of the borough next to the City of London.
A quieter future?
While workers still avoid the office and social-distancing guidelines limit the number of customers, many of the cafés, restaurants and bars that have become
one of Hackney’s main selling points are under threat. Hackney’s club and performance venues, meanwhile, still do not know when they might reopen.
“We really needed to open when we did,” says Anne, who works at a café near London Fields. “We’ve been busy since it’s opened but it’s really weather
dependent.”
If the night-time economy were to shrink, it would not have much effect on demand, says Tommaso Gabrieli, a professor in real estate at University College
London. “Even if the next two years are described as a very negative scenario, I’m pretty sure that there will be other renters and buyers interested in that area,” he
says.
But where the interest comes from might change.
Hackney’s population is already predicted to become proportionately older by 2050, partly because of its increasing expense. That, coupled with the fact that
young people are likely to be disproportionately affected by the economic fallout of the crisis at the end of the furlough scheme in October, means Hackney’s afterhours scene could become quieter, attracting an older crowd to the neighbourhood.
“It may not be the young start-up person, it could be a banker,” says Gabrieli. “It wouldn’t be the story of a collapse of those areas but a story maybe of change in the
type of buyer or renter.”
Youthful resilience
For now, the liveliest areas in the borough will be pinning their hopes on the young population wanting to restart their social lives in bars and restaurants. If Broadway
Market last Saturday is anything to go by, the desire is there.
“Hackney Wick last [Friday] was chaos, it was absolutely mobbed,” says Alex of the buzzy but less-developed area near the site of the 2012 London Olympics, where
there are numerous canal-side bars.
There, in a modern high-rise development overlooking the water, a two-bedroom unfurnished flat is being let for £1,733 a month through Hurford Salvi Carr. Across
the canal, a four-storey Victorian house with a home cinema and Koi carp pond overlooking Victoria Park — an 86-hectare space bordering the boroughs of
Hackney and Tower Hamlets — can be rented through Dexters for £5,499 a month.
As people like Hannah and Alex flock back to the Hackney heartlands, the areas are back on homebuyers’ minds as well. The number of searches on Zoopla for
Haggerston, London Fields and Dalston has been more than 30 per cent higher in the past 10 weeks compared with the 10 weeks before lockdown. Searches for Stoke
Newington and Hackney in general have risen by about 50 per cent.
And for some young people, certain hotspots in Hackney never lost their appeal. While Hannah says the pain of lockdown was evident in Whitechapel, which was
quiet throughout the period, and Sundram describes Stoke Newington as having been “ghostly”, Kieran, a graphic designer who has lived in the area for seven years, says
that in Broadway Market he noticed little change.
“This street was pretty much the same, it was always rammed,” he says. “A lot of the places did takeaway as soon as you could get takeaway beers.” At the top of the
road in London Fields, multiple illegal raves took place until alcohol was banned temporarily at the beginning of July.
“People don’t care around here, they were just thinking it was the holidays,” says Ali Asad, who works at Bradbury’s Ironmongers, a small hardware store on
Broadway Market. “It was crazy. I think there was no lockdown, that’s what I say.”
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Hmmm that wasnt for me
Hmm well they don't test kids here really. The idea being that they aren't very contagious (no idea if that's true or not). But pre-schools and schools do have strict routines about staying home even with the smallest symptoms, which s a pain for the parents mostly (have some friends who have had to stay home for weeks with the kids during spring, but I mean most people are home during the days working from home anyway).
Are Sweden still lolling this off?
and 503k total cases in the state.
i'm gonna be real i think it's only a matter of time tbh. maybe United will win the Europa league or some shit before i go tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sJlnTMOpGM
You'll have herd immunity, fuck all cases and be celebrating majestic displaced mortality figures about 6 months before the erratic useless cunts elsewhere. Drink it in.
Everything is on the up here again and we still have a load of cunts moaning about the pub not being open.
Preston lockdown but I'm in South Ribble, lording it over those plebs.