Mutating Corona Virus

[citizenB]

2 recent articles which are quite interesting. 

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/uk/uk-coronavirus-response-boris-johnson-intl-gbr/index.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/coronavirus-safer-shopping-travel-trains-buses

[citizenB]

On 05/03/2020 at 12:36, tobyjugg2 said:

"Prime Minister Boris Johnson said measures such as closing schools and banning big events "don't work as well perhaps as people think".

He told ITV's This Morning programme another way of responding to the virus would be to "take it on the chin" and allow it to "move through the population without really taking as many draconian measures".

Mr Johnson said it would be "business as usual" for the "overwhelming majority" of people in the UK"

 

as:

"Downing Street has confirmed that Boris Johnson is in talks with the parliamentary authorities about a possible shutdown if the outbreak continues to get worse."

 

and:

""Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has been holding talks with medical experts and officials about the prospect of suspending Parliament until the worst of the virus blows over"

 

IMHO, they should return Nadine Dorries to Parliament and lock all of the MPs inside.. Food and booze can be delivered to them there.  If they are so confident that the herd mentality will resolve the problem.. then perhaps it might make them consider what their constituents are likely to be facing.

[citizenB]

On 14/03/2020 at 16:52, honeybee13 said:

How sad, Americans won't be able to travel to Trump's golf resort in Scotland. Will it be his Irish resort next?

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[citizenB]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8116793/Shoppers-queue-buy-CANNABIS-Holland.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ico=taboola_feed_desktop_news

 

This one is priceless.. Forget loo rolls, shoppers queue for Cannabis as the stores are ordered to be closed 

[citizenB]

I guess there is one good thing to come out of this virus disaster.. no one seems to be bothering about Brexit anymore !. 

[citizenB]

It must be very strange for those who live in flight paths to be able to speak to a neighbour, even from 2 metres away and be heard !.  

 

I have just read that the Derbyshire Police are using Drones over the Peak District to ensure people are doing as they are advised.. sadly there are still many who are ignoring the rules to stay inside... 

 

https://www.commercialdroneprofessional.com/derbyshire-police-tweet-drone-footage-to-shame-locals-into-staying-home/

 

Sadly they have been criticised for doing this.. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-52055201

[citizenB]

5 hours ago, honeybee13 said:

I've read enough on herd immunity to get confused, but I believe that no 10's strategy of letting everyone get ill at the same time, without initially protecting the vulnerable, would have completely overwhelmed the NHS and caused an unspeakable number of deaths.

 

A number of commentators are saying that 'herd immunity' was another way of dressing up doing nothing.

 

 

So why did they not just insist all the MPs be in lockdown in the Houses of Parliament for a couple of days ?  Then they could all be unwell together. 

 

[citizenB]

2 hours ago, maroondevo52 said:

https://www.royalmail.com/priority-postboxes

My Grand-daughter knows nothing about this.  She is a Senior Nurse in a Group Practice   I have emailed her the link. 

 

 

[citizenB]

4 hours ago, citizenB said:

My Grand-daughter knows nothing about this.  She is a Senior Nurse in a Group Practice   I have emailed her the link. 

 

 

She is being tested on Monday..  

 

[citizenB]

will do. 

 

[citizenB]

8 minutes ago, maroondevo52 said:

 

The depot we share with Parcelforce was packed with boxes of masks ect ready to be delivered.

Whilst I appreciate the post office is working incredibly hard.. I hope they manage to get those masks to where they need to go and fast !. 

 

My Postman's wife, who is a District Nurse has been confirmed as having Covid 19, so sadly as he now has to be isolated.. there is going to be one less postman to help deliver these. 

 

 

[citizenB]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-52329741

 

Coronavirus - Another 24 hours in lockdown.  Some rather interesting photographs how people are coping with the lockdown. 

 

 

[citizenB]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52634759

 

Furloughing scheme extended until October. 

 

[citizenB]

Certainly is. 

[citizenB]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-52530518

 

Apparently this explains what we can and cannot do from today.. Scotland and Wales have different ideas and rules. 

 

Ryan Air does not seem to care and will be stuffing passengers in all of its seats on 40% of its planes !! 

 

 

[citizenB]

2 hours ago, maroondevo52 said:

Portobello Beach in Edinburgh yesterday and we are still in Lockdown !!!

And here is another one.. in Essex this time.. ? 

 

 

[citizenB]

With Schools usually breaking up for the Summer Holidays in July, I do not see the point of sending youngsters back before September.  Government might just have managed to improve on their safety procedures for staff and youngsters alike. 

 

 

[citizenB]

23 minutes ago, honeybee13 said:

Dual standards is exactly it.

 

The police and crime commissioner for Durham is writing to the chief constable to ask for an investigation into Demonic's movements. Does that mean they can look at his sat nav record?

 

ETA link.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/25/durham-police-chief-calls-for-investigation-into-dominic-cummings

From the link above.. " The couple say they feared they may be incapacitated by coronavirus and thus struggle to look after their child."

 

I imagine that many parents, even more so single parents  'Feared they may be incapacitated by the virus'  However, this statement is weird.. did they both have the virus or not.. or simply were afraid they 'might' get it ? 

 

Why also was DC's Father enquiring about security for his Son.. surely that is something that should have been done by government or DC himself ?

[citizenB]

27 minutes ago, honeybee13 said:

Dual standards is exactly it.

 

The police and crime commissioner for Durham is writing to the chief constable to ask for an investigation into Demonic's movements. Does that mean they can look at his sat nav record?

 

ETA link.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/25/durham-police-chief-calls-for-investigation-into-dominic-cummings

I rather suspect that any investigation will favour Demonic's version of events and let him off scott free. 

[citizenB]

On 28/05/2020 at 12:19, tobyjugg2 said:

It seems handcock is now threatening to force the citizen tracking app on people if they dont do it willingly ..

 

You have a choice .. as long as yo make the one I want you to make.

 

 

Lead on handcock, johnson, cummings and Gove

Give us a report on how its working on your phones, and I'll consider it.

 

 

 

Wonder why sales of windows and symbian phones have boomed?

 

 

What if you are like me and have a basic phone where you only make calls/texts and send images.. and not able to download apps !! 

[citizenB]

4 hours ago, honeybee13 said:

Maybe you won't have large amounts of your data retained by various organisations for the next 20 years, CB.

  That's the plan HB

 

[citizenB]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-dominic-cummings-petition-163511204.html://uk.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-dominic-cummings-petition-163511204.html

 

Over 1 million people have signed petition for Cummings to be sacked

 

[citizenB]

15 hours ago, hightail said:

A less drastic example is when some supermarkets brought in a rule stopping couples shopping together.  Not part of any existing regulation, their own restriction.  

 

 

 

 

I think this was more to reduce the footfall.  Local stores were only allowing 10 people in at a time.. by allowing only single shoppers, they kept their queues down. 

[citizenB]

2 hours ago, honeybee13 said:

There's at least one discussion going on Twitter about the mortality figures for Covid being 'massaged'. Someone worked out that since the government put in a cut off of 28 days after being tested positive, the figures have gone down by just under 30%.

 

The ONS have some fairly recent statistics.

 

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/weekending7august2020

It was inevitable that the figures would be massaged one way or another, no way could government allow figures such as 50,000 + deaths be allowed to hit the headlines !  

[citizenB]

On 26/08/2020 at 11:00, honeybee13 said:

The early cases are interesting, aren't they?

 

Did you see this one about a doctor in France who retested a sample from December that proved to be Covid positive?

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52526554

Yes, I had seen this and also the first person to die in the UK (Nottinghamshire) apparently was tested on February 21, 2020.  Interesting that government did beggar all until almost the end of March !! 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-53907629