Coronavirus discussion thread

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DocM Oct 2020 2:01pm, 31 Oct 2020 37,814 posts	0 DocM press conference now 5pm
Too Much Water Oct 2020 2:11pm, 31 Oct 2020 7,742 posts	0 Too Much Water During the rugby. Oh well I will find out afterwards
DocM Oct 2020 2:16pm, 31 Oct 2020 37,816 posts	0 DocM i imagined Boris would be the sort who watches rugby...ive misjudged him
geordiegirl Oct 2020 2:37pm, 31 Oct 2020 12,089 posts	0 geordiegirl I’m in a lodge at a yoga/run retreat no TVs and I only access my phone when we’re not together as a group I’ll not be back online until 8ish but I can’t change it influence anything. Sad days. I fear more for the people who will lose jobs and businesses they can’t be saved. We are going to face huge beyond belief repercussions of this and I doubt the government is looking to how to help this area of life. We have to learn to live with it we cannot keep locking down opening up beating the crap out of people and pointing blame. I still so t understand how it suddenly spiked again across the globe at the same time - people were socialising indoors in July pubs and restaurants opened but end September it spiked - how??? Where did this virulent infection come back from? (& I know it didn’t go away but it levelled out and was contained to a certain degree) my chilled out sen head has again exploded. 😢
WA Oct 2020 3:03pm, 31 Oct 2020 7,705 posts	0 WA Someone will know better than I do gg, but I can't help but think schools/unis etc have had something to do with the current spike in the UK. Not sure about the rest of the world tho
Too Much Water Oct 2020 3:18pm, 31 Oct 2020 7,744 posts	0 Too Much Water Nothing wrong with watching rugby DocM. I played for a club in London as a kid and it be certainly was not a red trouser situation!
simbil Oct 2020 4:03pm, 31 Oct 2020 8,946 posts	0 simbil It’s not really a surprise that we will have some kind of lockdown, it’s the default when control slips and has been on the cards since cases were ticking up in August without any serious attempt to slow them. People move around too much to make regional measures effective enough, plus the measures are unclear/ ignored/ etc. To exit the open up / lock down seesaw requires a different strategy. But western democracies are trapped by the trade offs of life, liberty and livelihoods so this is probably our new normal whilst we wait for a game changer. Particularly bad in the U.K. as we seem to do everything too late which means it will have to be a longer/ harder lockdown than if it is done early. At least the Pfizer vaccine looks like it could be ready in small numbers before the year ends. It will help a bit and the Oxford vaccine may come through early next year which should help some more.
BexleyKev Oct 2020 4:10pm, 31 Oct 2020 780 posts	0 BexleyKev GG - the weather is different and we spend more time inside. Makes ideal conditions for any virus to spread which was forecast but not acted on in time.
jda Oct 2020 4:13pm, 31 Oct 2020 8,731 posts	0 jda It hasn’t come from nowhere at all GG, anyone paying proper attention saw it coming from early August or even sooner. Which sadly doesn’t include SAGE or the govt.
EvilPixie Oct 2020 4:15pm, 31 Oct 2020 19,819 posts	0 EvilPixie So predictions for what will be said