Coronavirus discussion thread

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LindsD Oct 2020 7:00pm, 30 Oct 2020 42,012 posts	0 LindsD Agree
swittle Oct 2020 7:15pm, 30 Oct 2020 69,317 posts	0 swittle +2
Dvorak Oct 2020 7:17pm, 30 Oct 2020 21,176 posts	0 Dvorak To the comment a couple of pages back about Germany not resting on its laurels. Germany is closing down all bars, restaurants etc, all internal tourism, all organised amateur sport, all non-essential shops and discouraging all meetings of any groups of more then a few for the whole of November. Schools, nurseries/ children's day care and, broadly, food shops will remain open. Professional sport will continue, but without crowds.
Too Much Water Oct 2020 7:58pm, 30 Oct 2020 7,738 posts	0 Too Much Water So often it's the simple things done wrong that cause the most problems. I see this every day in the company I work at.
jda Oct 2020 8:02pm, 30 Oct 2020 8,725 posts	0 jda SAGE have finally realised that this second wave is coming quicker than they expected. I think I first explicitly pointed that out nearly three months ago at the start of August. Being wrong is bad enough. Being consistently wrong and showing themselves unable to learn from their failures for months on end.....baffling.
geordiegirl Oct 2020 11:36pm, 30 Oct 2020 12,084 posts	0 geordiegirl Brief & not and not an in-depth read back. I no doubt started the debate on Australia by mentioning it. But I wasn’t intending to compare Oz with UK as it is very different but it was that they were asked to do things which they did. The closed internal borders and they put in place different controls to us, based on what I understand from my friend and family members. They have schools they haven’t constantly kicked out whole year group’s for one positive case - I don’t believe their schools are bigger per population but they’ve managed it better. I just think we could have learnt from other counties who’ve had successes - yes it may need adapting but why is ours & Europe’s cases rising when other countries aren’t. I suspect a lot is to do with compliance and not jumping on the it’s against my human rights band wagon.
run free Oct 2020 11:39pm, 30 Oct 2020 4,456 posts	0 run free Rumours that a national lockdown will be announced on Wednesday
geordiegirl Oct 2020 11:46pm, 30 Oct 2020 12,085 posts	0 geordiegirl 😩😩😩 where was that rumour from rf? Although with euros going into lockdown it’s not surprising.
Too Much Water Oct 2020 11:54pm, 30 Oct 2020 7,739 posts	0 Too Much Water The Times are leading with it, other papers reporting it. It’s been on the cards given the shifting language used by politicians in the latter half of the week. Lockdown for my birthday!
Little Miss Happy Oct 2020 6:51am, 31 Oct 2020 3,704 posts	0 Little Miss Happy It's on the BBC website too. It's the only thing that makes any sense really. Joy