Coronavirus **support** thread
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Aug 2020
11:22pm, 13 Aug 2020
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Serendippily
And I’m quite keen that both me and mine carry on living
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Aug 2020
11:29pm, 13 Aug 2020
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jda
Food bank usage was already massively up over the past few years. Tory MPs celebrate their opening. People voted for food banks.
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Aug 2020
11:31pm, 13 Aug 2020
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Tim of Fife
Guess it depends on everyone's definition of "living". Some will be quite content with the 'new normal'. For many though, it is a half-life at best (especially the millions who are doing so on the breadline). |
Aug 2020
11:33pm, 13 Aug 2020
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rf_fozzy
That is true JDA, but the Trussell Trust have said that the lockdown *did* increase demand. Particularly from low waged individuals who were furloughed. The reason being that if you're struggling on 100% of your wage, being on 80% is impossible. But this belongs on the Politics thread. |
Aug 2020
11:53pm, 13 Aug 2020
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run free
JR perhaps we are looking at different datasets cos during end of March - end of May the death rates have been significantly higher than the last 4 years including 2018 in that same period. It took 2 months to get the beast back under control. So now we are back in control with many mitigating measures in place, are you saying that we should not bother since fewer are dying from Covid, and most governments globally are just paranoid? I am genuinely interested in your views as have seen others float similar views within groups in FB who do not want to wear masks. |
Aug 2020
12:02am, 14 Aug 2020
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simbil
Also struggling to understand the interpretation of ONS data that says other years have been worse. Full fact made this easy to read graph: They talk about the figures here: fullfact.org |
Aug 2020
12:38am, 14 Aug 2020
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Johnny Blaze
I'd also query what people who are unhappy with life now (which is considerably more normal than life immediately after full lockdown) would have done in March, with infections doubling every 3 days, no testing, no TTI, porous borders, no PPE? Our lack of preparedness made lockdown an inevitability.
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Aug 2020
1:15am, 14 Aug 2020
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run free
JB Am confused on that one as well. UCL has been conducting studies and found those that had mental issues were no different during lockdown and also more people had better well being. This is from their sample of 90 thousand. Could be a bias sample I guess and others could also say it is an insignificant sample.
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Aug 2020
7:03am, 14 Aug 2020
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Little Miss Happy
I am not enjoying the way that I feel we need to live at the minute and there are undoubtedly people with far more problems because of it than I have but those living the 'half life' now are still here and things will hopefully improve for them (and all of us). If Covid had been allowed to continue unchecked far fewer of us would have had that hope.
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Aug 2020
7:24am, 14 Aug 2020
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Tim of Fife
I have loathed the last few months, but the rational (as opposed to emotional) side of me 'gets' why its has been done. What I would struggle with massively is if it became a permanent state of affairs. |
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