Coronavirus discussion thread
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Jul 2021
7:08pm, 19 Jul 2021
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LindsD
Hope she feels better soon, JR
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Jul 2021
7:22pm, 19 Jul 2021
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Bob!
Nightclubs and venues where large crowds gather theguardian.com So, concerts? , football? What will it apply to? |
Jul 2021
8:14pm, 19 Jul 2021
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Ocelot Spleens
Outside makes a HUGE difference.
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Jul 2021
8:33pm, 19 Jul 2021
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MsG
I got the duff bit of the tube then my third train of the afternoon was a bit better but I was more interested that there was air con finally! The early morning train was very well behaved still. |
Jul 2021
10:46pm, 19 Jul 2021
48,536 posts
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LindsD
Sorry
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Jul 2021
11:22pm, 19 Jul 2021
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Johnny Blaze
"On 13 October, with Covid deaths having risen to more than 100 a day, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called for a "circuit-breaker" lockdown of two to three weeks, but the government decided against this. In a WhatsApp message sent on 15 October, shared with the BBC, Mr Johnson appears to have described himself as "slightly rocked by some of the data on Covid fatalities". The "median age" for those dying was between 81 and 82 for men and 85 for women, the prime minister allegedly wrote, adding: "That is above life expectancy. So get Covid and Live longer. "Hardly anyone under 60 goes into hospital... and of those virtually all survive. And I no longer buy all this NHS overwhelmed stuff. Folks I think we may need to recalibrate... There are max 3m in this country aged over 80." He reportedly went on to write: "It shows we don't go for nationwide lockdown." But the prime minister announced a four-week lockdown for England on 31 October, saying this was needed to protect the NHS as figures suggested deaths could reach "several thousand a day" without "tough action"." From the BBC website. He has never cared - only inasmuch as it may keep him in his job for a day longer. |
Jul 2021
6:36am, 20 Jul 2021
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Little Miss Happy
I hope she recovers well JR. If it's true it's appalling JB but I'm not sure I believe a word that comes out of Cummings mouth. |
Jul 2021
7:29am, 20 Jul 2021
15,225 posts
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geordiegirl
I did t watch it but caught some of it. It’s no food whistleblowing after the effect if all he says is true they should have stood up to BJ at the time. A leak of that alleged conversion at the time could have changed things but it can’t now, now it just damages abJs reputation and makes him look like the victim. I can’t believe a word out of any of them and with our media playing dangerous games too we have no way of getting any truths. |
Jul 2021
8:34am, 20 Jul 2021
2,801 posts
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B Rubble
Is this really true: Boris: "Right I'm off to see the Queen" Cummings: "But you might give her COVID and she could die." Boris: "But I go to see her every Wednesday." Cummings: "What would all of the Mail reading pensioners think if you killed the Queen?" Boris: "Oh... err... um... I suppose I better hadn't go then Dom." |
Jul 2021
8:35am, 20 Jul 2021
2,802 posts
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B Rubble
Sorry, should have been on the Politics thread.
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Useful Links
FE accepts no responsibility for external links. Or anything, really.- BBC Radio 4 series "How to vaccinate the world", by Tim Harford
- BMJ (British Medical Journal) coronavirus hub: research and clinical guidance
- The Lancet's COVID-19 resource centre
- Covid-19 vaccine FAQ from the New England Journal of Medicine
- FAQs from the Royal Statistical Society - context around all the data on Covid-19
- UK vaccine tracker: up to date visualisations on the progress of the UK programme. Data from PHE.
- Daily summary from the UK Government
- Vaccine Knowledge Project - Covid-19 vaccines
- ONS data on Covid-19 with age and geographic breakdowns
- A guide to Covid-19 tests from the Royal College of Pathologists
- Vaccinaid: a chance to help Unicef vaccinate other nations
- Long Covid treatments: why the world is still waiting (Aug 2022)
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