The UK response to Covid-19 [MOD WARNING 1ST POST]

Seth Brundle

Tim Martin shows his concern for his profits the public (but at least transmission levels in pubs are very low)...

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1241001618675585025

Seth Brundle

another tweet but this one is more serious...

https://twitter.com/LawrenceDunhill/status/1241015122858070018

Seth Brundle

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Tim Martin shows his concern for his profits the public (but at least transmission levels in pubs are very low)...

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1241001618675585025

Tim Martin is a cock. This only goes to further prove that.

Joe_ Public

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Tim Martin shows his concern for his profits the public...

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1241001618675585025

Astonishing expertise to be able to claim no one has contracted the virus in a pub. Guy should be on the frontline. But curious no government source has stepped forward to contradict this obvious and dangerous twaddle. That i am aware of at least.

threeball

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Astonishing expertise to be able to claim no one has contracted the virus in a pub. Guy should be on the frontline. But curious no government source has stepped forward to contradict this obvious and dangerous twaddle. That i am aware of at least.

You don't confront your benefactors, hes an ardent Brexiteer.

Harry Palmr

EDit wrote: »

TBH, people all over the world aren’t getting it. On the BBC website this morning under a story about how the Australian government are tightening “social distancing rules - people in small gatherings should now be separated by at least 4 sq m” was the picture below in which no-one (including the cops) are even 1m apart

This was posted by the guardian to illustrate an article on WHAT TO DO yesterday! :eek:

Aegir wrote: »

Tim Martin is a cock. This only goes to further prove that.

Brexiteer mentality.

otnomart

"A major London hospital has declared a “critical incident” due to a surge in patients with coronavirus, with one senior director in the capital calling the development “petrifying”.

In a message to staff, Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow said it has no critical care capacity left and has contacted neighbouring hospitals about transferring patients who need critical care to other sites."

source: Health Service Journal
https://www.hsj.co.uk/news/hospitals-critical-care-unit-overwhelmed-by-coronavirus-patients/7027189.article

threeball

otnomart wrote: »

"A major London hospital has declared a “critical incident” due to a surge in patients with coronavirus, with one senior director in the capital calling the development “petrifying”.

In a message to staff, Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow said it has no critical care capacity left and has contacted neighbouring hospitals about transferring patients who need critical care to other sites."

source: Health Service Journal
https://www.hsj.co.uk/news/hospitals-critical-care-unit-overwhelmed-by-coronavirus-patients/7027189.article

The UK are a week away from meltdown. They have a surge in deaths. Most of their cases are concentrated round London and are running out of PPE and beds already. Patients complaining about arriving to hospital with all the tell tale symptoms and being told no tests are available.

Be right back

Aegir wrote: »

Tim Martin is a cock. This only goes to further prove that.

And appears to be a pal of Boris. The UK are in for a tough time of it.

Be right back

177 people have now died in the UK.

CelticRambler

There's a lovely bit of satire on the Guardian today, including this snippet:

His ... area of expertise is disguising rather basic points with needlessly obscure language. Once this made him a highly overrated prose stylist; now it could make him accomplice to the death of your relatives and friends. “The key message,” Johnson key-messaged on Tuesday, is that people follow the advice “sedulously”. Ah, sedulously. Sedulously. The signal for 10 million hardworking families to draw down the leather-bound thesaurus from their shelves and browse synonyms for the word “twat”.

Baseball72

Darc19 wrote: »

Look, it's blatantly obvious you have a utter hatred of FG / hse.

So fuc off.

LANGUAGE!! but I understand your sentiment!

RobMc59

Slightly off thread title but could people of latin european race and ethnicity be more susceptible to the virus? (only exception being Portugal to date)Infection rate seems considerably higher in Italy,Spain and France.

threeball

RobMc59 wrote: »

Slightly off thread title but could people of latin european race and ethnicity be more susceptible to the virus? (only exception being Portugal to date)Infection rate seems considerably higher in Italy,Spain and France.

They're saying Type A blood is more susceptible. Don't know if thats more prevalent there.

threeball

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Be right back wrote: »

177 people have now died in the UK.

184 according to worldometers

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

LoughNeagh2017

I'm just disappointed that Tesco stopped their half price easter egg deal, I ate 3 last weekend.

lawred2

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Tim Martin shows his concern for his profits the public (but at least transmission levels in pubs are very low)...

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1241001618675585025

He's a massive sh!t stirring gobshoite

Harry Palmr

They've fired the big bazooka of finance at this.

AllForIt

Yeah that's why this thread has gone a bit quiet since.

4068ac1elhodqr

threeball wrote: »

They're saying Type A blood is more susceptible. Don't know if thats more prevalent there.

The 'blue bloods aka royal bloodlines' of O- (RhNeg) (according to one early, non-peer reviewd study), have it the handiest.

But this was study was taken when figures were lower in Chinaland, small 1k circa sample group.

Would be interesting to see if it still holds water, with the current larger data sets available 265k. Might be very hard to get hold of that data, assuming it's even collected.

Asia would have lower percentages of RhN 0.3%, compared to 15% in euroland.

One for the C'Theroy section...
...But most of you folks 85% come from the auld Rhesus monkey (explains a lot), us Negatives are a bit more special, and come from 'out there' somehwere, descended from the Gods, or somesuch.

threeball

Catalina Inexpensive Piano wrote: »

The 'blue bloods aka royal bloodlines' of O- (RhNeg) (according to one early, non-peer reviewd study), have it the handiest.

But this was study was taken when figures were lower in Chinaland, small 1k circa sample group.

Would be interesting to see if it still holds water, with the current larger data sets available 265k. Might be very hard to get hold of that data, assuming it's even collected.

Asia would have lower percentages of RhN 0.3%, compared to 15% in euroland.

One for the C'Theroy section...
...But most of you folks 85% come from the auld Rhesus monkey (explains a lot), us Negatives are a bit more special, and come from 'out there' somehwere, descended from the Gods, or somesuch.

https://www.sciencealert.com/paper-suggests-certain-blood-types-might-be-slightly-more-susceptible-to-covid-19

splinter65

Where’s everyone gone ???

mags1962

AB- here, think I'll go on the lash wherever I can find the biggest crowd and safe in the knowledge that it looks like I'm all good.

Water John

Very difficult to compare postives in diff countries as it's all down to testing. For example we're testing everyone with any symptoms, yes a few days wait for a testing appointment. In the UK, incl NI they won't test you unless you're seriously ill in hospital. So you cannot compare the positives in ROI and NI. Sadly, the only rate that can be compared is the mortality number per population.

threeball

splinter65 wrote: »

Where’s everyone gone ???

All our UK posters have come down with something, completely out of the blue.

splinter65

threeball wrote: »

All our UK posters have come down with something, completely out of the blue.

Dumbfounded is what they are.

splinter65

Rishi Sunak is a legend.

No matter what the Brits are politics first over everything. I’m so glad it’s one of the few things we didn’t carry over from them and we actually have a sense of community.

gmisk

splinter65 wrote: »

Rishi Sunak is a legend.

How so?

RobMc59

threeball wrote: »

All our UK posters have come down with something, completely out of the blue.

I`ve reduced posting on this as in all available online statistics the UK infection rate is unremarkable and confirmed cases are actually less than all similar sized European countries but that has`nt stopped continual unsupported posts claiming that the UK is much worse than it is.