Coronavirus Thread

[Ian Nacho]

Pretty pointless in my eyes. Will encourage more day drinking or finishing off a drinking session round someone’s house. It’s should be either pub or no pub. Not something in between. 

[Guest Mickyblueeyes]

I don’t get what they think will happen my enforcing a curfew on pubs etc. People will still be in there until ten. It’s like the virus wakes up at 10:30. Granted a few less younger people out in clubs but is it really going to have a fundamental influence on the spread ? 

[Pliskin]

Just now, foxile5 said:

Boozers closing at ten then. 

 

 

That’ll do it..... bloody Covid popping in for a late tinny. 

[Ian Nacho]

Does these people not know how pubs work? If a pub closes at 10, people will still be in there for a good half hour. 

[Pliskin]

It is a bit daft.... it’s not like Covid isn’t out after ten, if there’s people in a pub, there is people in a pub..... it being after ten means nothing.... 

Edited 21 September 2020 by Pliskin

[yorkie1999]

6 minutes ago, Corky said:

Which is also going to cause problems further down the line if there is a drop in cases, people see it and are then told the testing has issues.

 

People need things to cling to, restrictions are almost seen as a trade-off for something better in the future.

Thing is, all the uncertainty stems from no one knowing what to believe. It’s all very confusing. We read numbers of parts per 100000 and 1000000 instead of a more understanding parts per 100, we no longer talk about how many people have died from a disease , we talk about how many have caught it but then have to start talking about 2000 from 4000 false positives. To start chucking exponential growth rates, variables and algorithms at people is only asking for one response and that’s wtf is everyone on about, I’m going down the pub.

[yorkie1999]

7 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

Boozers closing at ten then. 

 

 

I can’t see what the problem is, if you can’t get pissed by 10, you’re not trying hard enough.

[yorkie1999]

4 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

It is a bit daft.... it’s not like Covid isn’t out after ten, if there’s people in a pub, there is people in a pub..... it being after ten means nothing.... 

It’s not, but 5 hours of exposure is better than 6

[Dan]

Another absolutely pointless measure for the sake of it. I can't believe people legitimise this to themselves.

[CosbehFox]

There has to be some data behind it from the track and trace. It appears nonsense otherwise

[Pliskin]

17 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

It’s not, but 5 hours of exposure is better than 6

I hope this is sarcasm....

[Guest Harrydc]

It's all bloody pathetic now. 

[foxile5]

Seems a bit of cake eating going on. 

 

Line our coffers but don't have too much freedom. 

 

With lockdown measures its an either or, surely. Either pubs are unsafe or safe. You can't really put a scale on time. Or maybe I'm being thick. 

 

 

[dsr-burnley]

5 hours ago, String fellow said:

Earlier this year, we were told that Italy was suffering badly, due to its high proportion of older people and because of extended families living together. However, fast forward six months, and Italy is showing few signs of a second wave, whilst in Spain, France and the UK, cases are rocketing back up. What's Italy doing right that the other three are doing wrong?  

My guess would be that Italy were first to get it and were slowest to enforce lockdown.  As a result more people got it.

 

To which the conclusion could be that they (and Sweden) have had enough people catch the disease to achieve herd immunity.  It's what all countries are aiming for, though they would rather get there by vaccination; but perhaps, by accident in Italy's case and deliberately in Sweden's case, they have done it.

[Nod.E]

42 minutes ago, dsr-burnley said:

My guess would be that Italy were first to get it and were slowest to enforce lockdown.  As a result more people got it.

 

To which the conclusion could be that they (and Sweden) have had enough people catch the disease to achieve herd immunity.  It's what all countries are aiming for, though they would rather get there by vaccination; but perhaps, by accident in Italy's case and deliberately in Sweden's case, they have done it.

The curious case of London supports this theory. Epicentre of cases at the height of it and since then London has not been a problem area.

 

Which also puts paid to the theory that it's 'selfish bast*rds' to blame.

 

Are selfish b*stards not present in London?

[Leicester_Loyal]

Closing the pubs at 10pm seems pretty pointless to me. Rather than going out at midday on Saturday now, I'll go out at 9-10am instead. Surely most others will do the same? The ones who come out later will end up at someone elses house no doubt.

[Guest Col city fan]

 

[CosbehFox]

8 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

Does these people not know how pubs work? If a pub closes at 10, people will still be in there for a good half hour. 

Not what I saw/witnessed recently in a pub closing at 10. Last orders around 9.40 and was the most persistent I’ve seen trying to get people out 

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, Col city fan said:

 

[Nuge]

1 hour ago, Col city fan said:

 

Why does this guy get airtime?! He’s so desperate to stay relevant. 

[Guest Col city fan]

5 minutes ago, Nuge said:

Why does this guy get airtime?! He’s so desperate to stay relevant. 

Which part isn’t relevant?

Edited 22 September 2020 by Col city fan

[Lionator]

10 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Which part isn’t relevant?

The first two minutes were actually good, then he started going off on one about BLM, completely irrelevant. And then telling people to ignore restrictions is completely reckless considering his stature and the amount of older people who like him.

[Nick]

12 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Which part isn’t relevant?

Anything that involves Farage?

[CosbehFox]

If it’s true that they are going to advise working from home but not enforce it, we will see exactly why Sweden have done better than the UK.
 

Within Swedish society, the relationship between employer and employee is far more understanding.
 

Alongside they have less metropolitan areas with office concentrations. 

 

We’ve seen in London how the closure of workplaces and home working has assisted in control 

[UniFox21]