Maybe slightly, but if it was as fucked as they say it would still be brutal. It isn't, so let's move on.
Ah, the 'kill the pensioners' route. Apologies, I forgot you were a psychopath for a moment there.
Thank god I live in a country that actually locked down when it should have. And then again when the second wave hit.
Precautionary measures ("rule of six", tightening restrictions or partial lockdowns at a lower level) need to be taken now while we assess whether the recent increase in cases translates to more hospital admissions and more deaths. If deaths remain reasonably low in a couple of weeks time, then we can ease the restrictions again and start the slow process of returning to normal.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...t-ons-covid-19
Mon a lockdown ffs
The halcyon days of April when I was practising for the Hatzenbach down Chertsey Bridge Road each 8am are sadly no longer.
The longer we piss about with the lockdown-cokey the more obvious it becomes.
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
It was perfectly possible to lock down earlier than we did and still not go overboard now, which I don't think we have just yet.
What the fuck.
Not related to the content at all, but it seems almost compulsory to include the obligatory "close up of young persons hand holding old persons hand" picture when reporting anything to do with care homes now. Just something I've noticed over the last couple of months.
And not a black hand in sight. Have we not learnt anything. #BLM
It's an NHS nurse pinching their jewellery.
Okay, so the council bloke mentioned pubs and sports were bringing the cases up. So ... is closing pubs at 10pm going to .... make a difference?
Nope.
I'm a twit
White NHS nurses, good one Lewis.
They're shutting every restaurant and food pub down in Dublin because of all the clusters that have came because of house parties
Two weeks into term and they’ve decided parents and should wear masks during the school drop off, as should any staff out meeting the kids. I suggested this on day one and was told it wasn’t necessary.
BBC News are doing a piece on French intensive care units in 5 or so minutes. Be nice to put a blurred out dying fatty's face to the graph.
Brav, BBC just said Sweden ain't taking any measures, not wearing masks and holding regular swinger parties in their saunas and no waves whatsoever there. Get the fucking clubs open.
The Swedes constitutionally couldn't lockdown. Instead, the sensible Swedish people social distance on a voluntary basis. Sweden are a bunch of good boys and girls.
Listen, mate, I'm not having those rehashed lines. Having said that, this all seems like a re-run of wave 1 so they'll probs hit a higher than average death rate again in a few weeks.
First 25 minutes of news was on coronavirus. Led to me having one of those 'is this really happening?' moments of reflection.
There's some paedo-looking geezer on QT reading out Yev's posts.
Sweden has done exactly what we were doing until we BOTTLED IT, and they're going to lol through the next year whilst we cower inside waiting for a vaccine.
Sweden has a population of 10 million. London has 9 millions on it's own. Let's not embarras ourselves.
Yeah, and more people would have died. But I think they should be about ninety thousand deaths into it by now according to the models that made our government change course, which they obviously aren't.
You think that based on what?
Our excess death numbers have always weirded me out. It's a huge chunk that hasn't gone down as covid deaths. Did the other 20,000 pull a Jonestown between January and March?
Swedish attempts at replicating it:
We employed an individual agent-based model based on work by Ferguson et al. Individual-based models are increasingly used to model epidemic spread with explicit representation of demographic and spatial factors such as population distribution, workplace data, school data, and mobility... This individual-based modelling project predicts that with the current mitigation approach approximately 96,000 deaths (95% CI 52,000 to 183,000) can be expected before 1 July, 2020.
There were a few people questioning him at the time but then he got sacked and people stopped caring.
Queensland has opened the borders up to . . . the ACT...
Are we about to seize power? Can we rely on Vietnam in these uncertain times?
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To contain this you either need to be a sparsely populated country (or with polarised population centres like Australia), or you need to have a state-society relationship that gives consent to extreme restrictions on individual liberty, or both. Britain, France, Spain, northern Italy, America... absolutely no chance, let alone the likes of Brazil, Peru and Mexico. In fact, most of South America seems to have gone past Europe now in terms of deaths per pop.
Germany have probably got away with it due to having an unbelievably well-organised testing system and the fact that they are hard wired to follow rules. Neighbouring Belgium is a shitshow.
The Swedes are also turning on air travel so they probably don't import as many cases as the rest of Europe.
I saw we had more testing than the EU big boys (Germany included). I presume processing by 50 year old Janes and 25 year old Marks is where we're falling down.
The general consensus seems to be that we're falling down because they're counting the 3(?) swabs that make up 1 test as 3 separate tests.
But I don't know if that's actually true, because the test they sent me only had 1 swab. Perhaps the ones they do at the test sites are different?