Coronavirus Thread

[Guest Col city fan]

10 minutes ago, The People's Hero said:

Two can play this game; we just need to also mutate in response. I want a third arm.

Wait around 50 yrs or so.

How things are going you may well get one...

Edited 14 January 2021 by Col city fan

[Buce]

So, to be clear, any lives lost because of delaying testing until Monday are less important than 'business':

 

Covid: UK travel testing delay 'to help out business'

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/covid-uk-travel-testing-delay-to-help-out-business

[Guest Col city fan]

1 minute ago, Buce said:

So, to be clear, any lives lost because of delaying testing until Monday are less important than 'business':

 

Covid: UK travel testing delay 'to help out business'

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/covid-uk-travel-testing-delay-to-help-out-business

Have to agree with this

Makes zero sense...

[whoareyaaa]

9 hours ago, bovril said:

To be fair there are lots of Brazilians who work in the UK and I guess Brits who live in Brazil. An outright flight ban is a pretty extreme measure and we're supposed to be requiring negative tests (finally) for people to enter the country so that should help at least.

if the govt had treated this virus with those measures back in febuary/march/april then we might not be in the situation we are in now.

 

So its okay to let a few business men to travel back and fourth but all the local business we can just forget about them... these few people entering and leaving must be a lot more important right

Edited 14 January 2021 by whoareyaaa

[The People's Hero]

All PL Brazilians should be sent home immediately.

[StanSP]

23 minutes ago, Buce said:

So, to be clear, any lives lost because of delaying testing until Monday are less important than 'business':

 

Covid: UK travel testing delay 'to help out business'

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/covid-uk-travel-testing-delay-to-help-out-business

Please stop finding faults @Buce. It's a very hard call to make and the people in charge are trying their utmost, in a very difficult position.

[Dahnsouff]

2 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Please stop finding faults @Buce. It's a very hard call to make and the people in charge are trying their utmost, in a very difficult position.

 

That's you that is...  

[String fellow]

It was good to see Harry Kane discouraging his team-mates from getting too close last night after he scored. Imo, the FA should immediately introduce measures against players who are still ignoring the social distancing rule during goal celebrations. Yellow cards for everyone involved would seem to me to be a step in the right direction.

[OrielCaziado]

2 minutes ago, String fellow said:

It was good to see Harry Kane discouraging his team-mates from getting too close last night after he scored. Imo, the FA should immediately introduce measures against players who are still ignoring the social distancing rule during goal celebrations. Yellow cards for everyone involved would seem to me to be a step in the right direction.

Never happen as such measures would favour West Brom and Sheffield Utd and not Man Utd and Liverpool  😜

[Guest Col city fan]

50 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Please stop finding faults @Buce. It's a very hard call to make and the people in charge are trying their utmost, in a very difficult position.

This did make me laff Stan, gotta admit

👌

[Bellend Sebastian]

Interesting conversation with member of public this morning.

 

"Absolutely no way" she is going to take the vaccine unless she's forced to.  She's the mother of a paramedic who despite having taken loads of COVID sufferers to hospital, isn't interested in taking the vaccine either, partly as they have been regularly tested and have apparently "had COVID 3 times"

[Guest Col city fan]

7 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Interesting conversation with member of public this morning.

 

"Absolutely no way" she is going to take the vaccine unless she's forced to.  She's the mother of a paramedic who despite having taken loads of COVID sufferers to hospital, isn't interested in taking the vaccine either, partly as they have been regularly tested and have apparently "had COVID 3 times"

We live in bizarre times and their ain’t half some bizarre people around 

[UniFox21]

2 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

We live in bizarre times and their ain’t half some bizarre people around 

You've hit the nail on the head there. An absolutely bizarre time in human history has really brought out some bizarre people. 

[Guest Harrydc]

9 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

You've hit the nail on the head there. An absolutely bizarre time in human history has really brought out some bizarre people. 

Have to agree with you there. 

[UniFox21]

1 minute ago, Harrydc said:

Have to agree with you there. 

For me, the biggest thing highlighted is how either incompetent the people in power seem to be and how poor certain areas of our infrastructure is. 

[Dahnsouff]

21 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Interesting conversation with member of public this morning.

 

"Absolutely no way" she is going to take the vaccine unless she's forced to.  She's the mother of a paramedic who despite having taken loads of COVID sufferers to hospital, isn't interested in taking the vaccine either, partly as they have been regularly tested and have apparently "had COVID 3 times"

Not sure I find it bizarre from a personal point of view 

 

If they truly have had it, and it had very little effect on them, then from a selfish point of view, why would they feel at risk?

 

Of course (And this is key, they should take it for the greater good of society as they can still transmit it.

 

[yorkie1999]

28 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Interesting conversation with member of public this morning.

 

"Absolutely no way" she is going to take the vaccine unless she's forced to.  She's the mother of a paramedic who despite having taken loads of COVID sufferers to hospital, isn't interested in taking the vaccine either, partly as they have been regularly tested and have apparently "had COVID 3 times"

Good,  the more people who refuse to take it, the more sunbeds will be available to the rest of us when we go abroad on holiday, cos without a jab, they ain't letting you into disneyland.

 

Although, that's a bit of a lie, because at the moment, Disneyland is going to be used as a mass vaccination site.

Edited 14 January 2021 by yorkie1999

[Guest Col city fan]

40 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

You've hit the nail on the head there. An absolutely bizarre time in human history has really brought out some bizarre people. 

At no time during any of this have I felt a sense of ‘we’re all in it together’. Despite the government trying to make out we are.

’The public’ (and some fookin politicians!) have argued, pushed ‘the rules’ and in many cases simply ignored them. There are STILL some offering conspiracy theories at the same time as we watch footage of thousands of people on ventilators, clutching for air like fish out of water. We lead Europe in terms of deaths and have TWICE as many as Germany, for example.

My hope lies in Science and the local people/staff who are putting themselves at risk every day by trying to get as many people vaccinated as possible.

I have zero faith in the public per se regarding Covid 19 and as you rightly say, I’ve had many ‘wtf!’ moments this last 12 months.

Edited 14 January 2021 by Col city fan

[dsr-burnley]

10 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Not sure I find it bizarre from a personal point of view 

 

If they truly have had it, and it had very little effect on them, then from a selfish point of view, why would they feel at risk?

 

Of course (And this is key, they should take it for the greater good of society as they can still transmit it.

 

If (and it's a very big if) you can still transmit the virus after having had it, then you will almost certainly be able to transmit it after vaccination too.  They both work by antibody production.

[Dahnsouff]

4 minutes ago, dsr-burnley said:

If (and it's a very big if) you can still transmit the virus after having had it, then you will almost certainly be able to transmit it after vaccination too.  They both work by antibody production.

Ok, did I say something to contradict this ?   

[dsr-burnley]

6 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Ok, did I say something to contradict this ?   

I thought you were taking it on trust that she had actually had coronavirus.  My mistake.  My point was that if you have had coronavirus then taking the vaccine won't make any difference to whether you can spread it or not; but of course if you haven't had it (and if the lady concerned thinks she has had it 3 times, she is probably wrong on all 3 occasions) then clearly you're right, taking the vaccine does make all the difference.

[The People's Hero]

A couple of days ago in Tesco (other supermarkets are available) a woman in a checkout queue (who I was about 3 metres from and there were even marks on the floor) started shouting at me, and then took off her mask and marched up to me shouting 'two metres! two metres! ****ing two metres you idiot!)" it was very bizarre.

 

I got to the checkout and started talking to the cashier who told me that the customer was known to them and does this sort of thing often. 

 

I did 2 x shops; one being for a foodbank and I heard someone remark 'bloody panic buyers! Stockpiling' or something like that. At this point I had 6 cans of soup in my trolley. If I was panic buying, I probably wouldn't go for 6 cans of chicken soup and call that a day. You want to see me panic shop when I've got the company credit card in hand and I'll show you bloody panic shopping.

 

Also security guards of sorts at the door and didn't see a single person without a mask.

[UniFox21]

30 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

At no time during any of this have I felt a sense of ‘we’re all in it together’. Despite the government trying to make out we are.

’The public’ (and some fookin politicians!) have argued, pushed ‘the rules’ and in many cases simply ignored them. There are STILL some offering conspiracy theories at the same time as we watch footage of thousands of people on ventilators, clutching for air like fish out of water. We lead Europe in terms of deaths and have TWICE as many as Germany, for example.

My hope lies in Science and the local people/staff who are putting themselves at risk every day by trying to get as many people vaccinated as possible.

I have zero faith in the public per se regarding Covid 19 and as you rightly say, I’ve had many ‘wtf!’ moments this last 12 months.

You've summed up my thoughts on this pretty perfectly. 

 

Only time I've ever felt we were all pulling together was in the initial lockdown, where everyone pretty much followed the rules. 

But since then, too many have tried to push that line a touch further and too many then follow suit. We've been reactive, rather than proactive on too many occassions. To the point where people are involving the science in political discussions/political weapons. 

 

I'm actually moving into a test and trace job in the coming weeks, and I'm excited to be able to push to help the fight against covid. 

[SpacedX]

22 minutes ago, The People's Hero said:

You want to see me panic shop when I've got the company credit card in hand and I'll show you bloody panic shopping.

Absolutely. When second national lockdown was announced I emerged from Aldi with two trolley loads of pizza, potato waffle and chicken kiev. 

[StanSP]

1 hour ago, Dahnsouff said:

Of course (And this is key, they should take it for the greater good of society as they can still transmit it.

Sorry but whenever I see this phrase this comes to mind and has to be posted.